On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:14:49PM +0100, David O'Callaghan mentioned:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:15:15AM +0100, John P. Looney wrote:
> [...]
> > www.dict.org has a downloadable free dictionary & search thingy too. I
> > use "gdict", a gnome applet that I can bang words into, and it goes off to
> > dict.org, does a search, and then brings up the definitions required in a
> > window on the desktop. Kick ass.
> You could even download the server software and some of the databases
> and run a local server for your office, which would save some bandwidth.
Considering the whole database is 30MB+, and the average use of the
database is a few k, I doubt you'd save *that much* bandwidth.
Kate
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