Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mladen Gogala Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: dict.org down? Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 20:25:20 +0000 (UTC) Organization: solani.org Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: solani.org 1406751920 11110 eJwFwYEBwCAIA7CXBAvVcwDX/09YEjsth8hIhELlzLqfTQcwWIdTmGeSbb52us+polabL90fIwMRTw== (30 Jul 2014 20:25:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 20:25:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) X-User-ID: eJwFwYEBgDAIA7CXLBsFzgG0/59g4ofgxqXzulyJR9uKGUaquqiv4+1jF520gWG2PHfdDPkDLGcRMw== Cancel-Lock: sha1:pIUhGJjC4+9H0iyt+UMNpcT884E= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwYkBgDAIA8CV+BLqOIjN/iN4h6RzuwgWBE05Ffg8VSbEy7nbSLM8z+SanUvGNLTOrh8PnhBl Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:11692 On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 19:38:35 +0000, Eli the Bearded wrote: > In comp.os.linux.misc, Mladen Gogala wrote: >> Dictionary server for gnome-dictionary is down for the last few days. > > I have observed the same thing. But from command line 'dict' client on > NetBSD. > >> English-to-English, which is what I want. Does anybody know of a publicly >> available dictionary server in the US? I don't want to run one myself. > > I've been running a local one at $WORK on Ubuntu. It was a very simple > apt-get install, uses a modest amount of disk space by modern > standards[*], and does not use any appreciable amount of other > resources. > > It's not like the dictionaries get updates often. There's no > administrative burden after install. You (and many more people) should > run local servers. > > [*] $ du -sh /usr/share/dictd > 45M /usr/share/dictd > I did not install any of the intra-language translation dictionaries. > > Elijah > ------ > the dict server runs on port 2628, so root not needed Thanks! I was able to find another server at dict.tu-chemnitz.de so, dictd is not needed for now. -- Mladen Gogala The Oracle Whisperer http://mgogala.byethost5.com