From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mx5ut-0005FV-CI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:25:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A4515E08A1; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:25:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f174.google.com (mail-yw0-f174.google.com [209.85.211.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80276E08A1 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:25:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh4 with SMTP id 4so3766925ywh.10 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:25:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ntFAwSM/uevemuFc0suT2D6MtmHrX7WUyYP6TtwZ890=; b=lcqLGpNYM6LZhFEXn6s7RwNs1HagHMyw5Qh4YZvLM5xiFnNcoYUyJoWxfRIezl4644 hXhh9SgXT3TT4S52WP7RPMR7aoi9qEY00HGC0bkccqNbJ09zPGJy8orKIkGEURZVpSON 8lJPwp58VVotmNqZVkMm1hInE6uR+VKfYQUbE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=HHLjXMqcfBC7TFO5r0+KCyyYjSkFJGjTGKhlsyEWi6U9yR5MIX2XTMTQcEDq27f1pz /fnZ05R5UJ4kYKmU9yjYM7pVB9/twopFQaTF5kxPxPWzcieP9fB086stVH5GJFZllnHF uQMsO1KDIIjt7ALtqI5sKejQd8dpi2/JR71VQ= Received: by 10.151.4.17 with SMTP id g17mr8767638ybi.269.1255296305264; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:25:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-251-0-24.jan.bellsouth.net [74.251.0.24]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm882031gxk.14.2009.10.11.14.25.03 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:25:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AD24D2E.7080108@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:25:02 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091007 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is a "packet"? Was: Checksum error References: <20091011090443.GE21168@solfire> <4AD2183E.2060905@konstantinhansen.de> <200910112140.31125.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> <200910112321.01576.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200910112321.01576.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 03f1b28b-48e0-4774-8daf-ac416aadc020 X-Archives-Hash: 957b8f3c1b284d0268436168918257ee Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:40:31 Peter Ruskin wrote: > >> On Sunday 11 October 2009, KH wrote: >> >>> KH schrieb: >>> >>>> Peter Humphrey schrieb: >>>> >>>>> The difficulty is in keeping up with the >>>>> idiom. Personally, I prefer to rely on what I've known for the >>>>> last 60 years or so and to hell with the trendies. >>>>> >>>>> Things like "its" = "belonging to it"; "it's" = "it is". >>>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> how old are you? How is the oldest person on the list? But this >>>> is OT, too. >>>> >>>> kh >>>> >>> To correct myself (shame on me). Who is the oldest ... >>> >> I'm 71 ... is that old enough? >> > > Oh dear. I used to call myself an old codger. At a mere sprightly 44, do I now > have to downgrade myself to "still wet behind the ears"? > > I'm 42 so I got your back. lol Dale :-) :-)