Re: tlug: Sobering WWWJDIC Stats

[Jonathan Byrne - 3Web <jq@example.com>]

On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>People who don't install edict locally because they can't hack pkunzip
>are not using Linux.  And given disk prices these days, 5MB of edict + 
>enamdict + kanjidic is tiny; heck, a full Unicode database is about
>40MB and nowhere near as useful ;-)  I can't imagine any other reason
>for not installing it.

I can :-)  Top two reasons why Jonathan hasn't installed it:

1) He's lazy, and figures he can easily access the most up-to-date edict by
using Jim's site, and never have to upgrade it on his local machine;

2) This thing only has a 2 GB disk, dual-boots Windows 95 and TurboLinux, and
it's over 95% percent full.  I'm always fighting a battle to keep some free
space on here and keep pitching out more and more stuff that I don't need to
have (it's getting to be about time to take another stroll through there,
uninstalling RPMs).  There is no way I'm going to buy a disk for my work
machine, which is about the only way I'd ever get a larger one (2 GB should be
enough for anyone?), so I save a little space by using Jim's site or the Tokyo
mirror of Jeffrey's Dictionary Server.

Cheers,

Jonathan Byrne
Media and Content Section
3Web - Your Internet Solution! <URL:http://www.threeweb.ad.jp/index.en.html>
3Web Channel <URL: http://www.3web.co.jp/index.en.html>

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