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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 16 September 2008 05:14:26 Dale wrote: |
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>> Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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>>> Dale wrote: |
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>>>> Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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>>>>> Are they monthly charges? Wow, that's about $150 per year. With those |
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>>>>> savings you could afford a domain and someone to host it! If you don't |
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>>>>> want a full blown web host, many places will just store your email and |
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>>>>> manage the dns for you. Then you could have |
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>>>>> dale@×××××××××××××××××××.com as your email address! |
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>>>> I have thought of having my own site and stuff but being on dial-up just |
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>>>> takes ALL the fun out of it. The dial-up out here sucks even on dial-up |
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>>>> standards. I get 24Kb which is about 3KBs/sec. |
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>>> you don't need to have your own site just to have a domain name and an |
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>>> email address... |
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>> True, if I was going to do all that tho, may as well go all the way. |
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>> ;-) I also like to keep it simple. Simple is good for me most days. |
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> Or, you could game the system: |
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> Get yourself employed with the most decent ISP in your area, the one with the |
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> biggest infrastructure. Make sure you work in the back end services team. As |
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> an experienced Gentoo user, you probably know more than 90% of the techies |
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> they currently employ so that shouldn't be too hard. A little tweak of a |
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> config here, and little vi of a file there and hey presto! own domain all set |
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> up and working |
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> :-) |
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And with my luck, some free jewelry. That would be hand cuffs. :-( |
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This ISP search is crap. They all say unlimited then limit it in the |
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fine print. That sucks. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |