Definitely confused about Demon now. Our school dial up account with Demon has a dynamically assigned IP address (DAIPA)! Are there other sorts of Demon accounts<<
I think that you will find that most dial-up accounts have DAIPA (via modem at least) (otherwise the range would soon run out!) But you should have a (pair) of IP's for access to the Internet - e.g. for Freeserve, if you search (say) Google for something like 'Freeserve dialup "no cd" ' you will find details of these IP address, you could try similar for Demon - or just call them and speak to their marketing/technical people, most (non-free) ISP's are very helpful and may even give you a free account for your personal use, I have several! :-) Sorry James to hijack your thread...
Agreed, allows you to say a lot with a little.
On my Slackware partition there's a "wtf" program, somewhere in /usr/games/, don't know if it's part of SuSE. If you type "wtf rtfm" from the command line for example, it'll explain to you what that TLA means. Try "wtf wtf" as well :)
I'm all for TLAs, within reason. They carry so much more meaning than the words they represent. For example IANAL strictly means "I am not a lawyer". <snip>
Since I brought it up, I think that I ought to have the last say :-) I don't see any point in getting into an embittered argument over this, it was really an observation, Of course I can see it's merits but surly the point is to de-mistify LINUX and bring it to a wider audience not invent even more gobbledegook. As pointed out, there are glossaries of geek talk, but I've now got to the stage were I rarely reach for my Oxford English Dictionary (OED). I don't really want to start again. Also (and no comments necessary please) not everyone uses LINUX workstations, so I read my mail on a 98 box, LINUX for me is a server and (still) a novelty (I don't have the time to research all the software to turn it into the workhorse that my 98 boxes are (and convert thousands of files) - By the way, Anyone out there who has not tried Star Office by Sun should have a look, it's smooth, non clunky and does most of what I want. I just couldn't use Aplix (or whatever it's called), yesterday I uploaded AbiWord (to a PC)(sure I've seen this on the spectrum?) It's quite nice but rather limited (not to say that I wouldn't be proud to have written it!). - My point being that people should not assume everyone else puts LINUX to the same use as themselves. It's a case of horses for courses. So although meant as a helpful tip (and thank you for it), the above is next to useless to me! So, lets put away the crayons and try to use big words in the year to come :-)~ (I've only just got used to these - me with my tongue out!) PS If anyone knows of good (free?) examples of the following for LINUX, I'd like to know. Drawing CAD 2D/3D/render PCB CAD - With schematic input & Gerber output, 4 copper layers adequate, autoroute, nice but not necessary HTML editors/tools (using DreamWeaver on the PC) Accounting software 'visual' programming language C++ editor/compiler - really must get back into this if I'm to use the LINUX box Desktop Publishers (I use Corel but don't want to pay for another!) 3D Rendering (that's easy to use - again I use Corel) Kind regards Adrian