Jeff Johnson wrote: > Thanks Leland. I am a complete newbie when it comes to search and I > wonder if there is a class I can take to improve my skills. ;^) > > I will check it out in the morning. My problem is sending commands to a > serial port in Linux. I can read fine in Linux and Windows sends > commands fine. > > Jeff > > Jeff Johnson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > SanDC, Inc. > 623-582-0323 > Fax 623-869-0675 > > Phoenix Python User Group - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: >> Try a search on "Linux serial howto". >> >> Regards, >> >> LelandJ >> >> >> Jeff Johnson wrote: >>> I have been noticing that when I search for something I can't find it >>> and have to wade through 28 pages of unrelated crap. The other day I >>> was trying to get a serial port to work in Linux and after about 20 >>> pages of search I gave up. >>> >>> Here is an example. In the year 2000 I was in the San Diego airport and >>> was literally knocked over by a little girl that was yelling at her >>> parents and I noticed was one of the leading gymnasts on the 2000 >>> Olympic team. I couldn't remember her name so I googled: >>> >>> "who was on the 2000 women's olympic gymnastic team" >>> >>> Forget about it. Alltheweb.com and Ask.com, same thing. >>> >>> I modified the search to give me the names and a few other things, but >>> no success. >>> >>> My observation is that for some things search has become completely >>> worthless because of the business model. >>> >>> Well, I can give you the names of the Canadian women's team and tell you >>> that China won the bronze medal and that CAN Business solutions has a >>> $154 cable that has something to do with serial ports. >>> >>> Oh well. >>> >
Must be you. Just for an exercise it took me 5 minutes to find the info. Just a tip, don't forget to put "USA" in your searches, you are not the 'only' country, in fact you came out sixth in that discipline in 2000. Just 1 search in google for "usa women olympic team gymnastic 2000" fourth entry was : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_at_the_2000_Summer_Olympics and from there to : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_at_the_2000_Summer_Olympics#Gymnastics and look there for the gymnastic women's team : Women's team: * United States - Qualifying: 151.44 (6th place) Women's overall individual competition: * Elise Ray - Qualifying: 38.07, Final: 37.66 (13th place) * Amy Chow - Qualifying: 38.02, Final: 37.59 (14th place) * Kristen Maloney - Qualifying: 37.64, Final: 37.43 (19th place) * Dominique Dawes - Qualifying: 36.76 (did not advance) * Tasha Schwikert Warren - Quailfying: 18.86 (did not advance) * Jamie Dantzscher - Qualifying: 18.31 (did not advance) Women's individual balance beam: * Elise Ray - Qualifying: 9.69, Final: 9.39 (8th place) * Amy Chow - Qualifying 9.62 (did not advance) * Kristen Maloney - Qualifying: 9.31 (did not advance) * Tasha Schwikert - Qualifying: 9.23 (did not advance) * Dominique Dawes - Qualifying: 8.60 (did not advance) Women's individual floor: * Kristen Maloney - Qualifying: 9.53 (did not advance) * Amy Chow - Qualifying: 9.53 (did not advance) * Elise Ray - Qualifying: 9.22 (did not advance) * Dominique Dawes - Qualifying: 9.09 (did not advance) * Jamie Dantzscher - Qualifying: 8.99 (did not advance) Women's individual uneven bars: * Elise Ray - Qualifying: 9.69 (did not advance) * Dominique Dawes - Qualifying: 9.68 (did not advance) * Tasha Schwikert - Qualifying: 9.62 (did not advance) * Kristen Maloney - Qualifying: 9.57 (did not advance) * Amy Chow - Qualifying: 9.40 (did not advance) Women's individual vault: * Amy Chow - Qualifying: 9.47 (did not advance) * Elise Ray - Qualifying: 9.45 (did not advance) * Dominique Dawes - Qualifying: 9.39 (did not advance) * Jamie Dantzscher - Qualifying: 9.32 (did not advance) * Kristen Maloney - Qualifying: 9.22 (did not advance) [edit] Trampoline Women's Olympic Tournament: * Jennifer Parilla - Qualifying Heat 8: 26.90, Qualifying Heat 1: 60.70 (did not advance) _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
