That look so neat. john wrote: > A project I was on had a similar requirement of being able to search > and read documents offline on the iPhone *snarl*. Anyway, what I did > was port an excellent open source search engine called hyper estraier > [1] over to the iPhone and used that on various kinds of documents. As > a test I indexed over 2000 PDFs from MIT OpenCourseWare. It works > really well [2]. I used lighttpd for the web server. All these > technologies will work fine on the 1973/Freerunner. If there is an > interest in this I could package it up for Openmoko. There is also > potential for developing a native GUI local search tool using hyper > estraier because it comes with a C API and other language bindings. > This would remove the web server dependency. > > John. > > [1] http://hyperestraier.sourceforge.net/ > [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKKlkcZ6vYo > > 2008/7/14 Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hi All, >> >> In the sight of upcoming delivery of our 10-pack, we wanted to get ready >> to do some testing on the spot, ie when we get together and open our >> boxes, to power then up and try to make sure that all of them work in >> the 'similar' fashion (GPS, GSM, etc) so if there is a defective unit, >> we could localize it easily since we will have a few of them and a few >> of SIM cards to try ;-) >> >> But if smth doesn't work, of cause, the best way is to lookup on the >> wiki and we will not have (I think) internet connection on the spot. I >> thought if it is possible to gently (smth not like wget -m >> http://www.openmoko.org) obtain a copy of openmoko.org's mediawiki >> content. >> >> Brief googling lead me to few possible solutions (unfortunately >> not non-intrusive into openmoko's wiki setup) such as >> >> Mediawiki offline (thanks to Google Gears): >> http://wiki.yobi.be/wiki/Mediawiki_LocalServer >> >> But I wonder may be there is simpler/better ones like a dump of DB >> without account information credentials, etc? Something like what >> wikipedia offers >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download >> (which they actually closed and I see the reason with their sizes), but >> they also seems to have a workaround >> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikix >> >> >> -- >> Yaroslav Halchenko >> Research Assistant, Psychology Department, Rutgers-Newark >> Student Ph.D. @ CS Dept. NJIT >> Office: (973) 353-5440x263 | FWD: 82823 | Fax: (973) 353-1171 >> 101 Warren Str, Smith Hall, Rm 4-105, Newark NJ 07102 >> WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > >
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