Re: Offline Search?

2008-06-06 Thread Brian Chabot
Well, if we assume the computer is offline (which we've been asked to do)... and the software isn't on the drive... what good is having the search engine data going to do? :) Umm, I don't see that requirement anywhere in the thread. Did I miss something? I probably should have been

Re: Offline Search?

2008-06-06 Thread Brian Chabot
Thomas Charron wrote: On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Call me crazy, but isn't everything you described Google Desktop itself?!?! I had exactly the same thought. Ooh, neat, didn't know Google had yum repos now... I think Brian underestimated

Re: Offline Search?

2008-06-06 Thread Tom Buskey
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:43 AM, Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if we assume the computer is offline (which we've been asked to do)... and the software isn't on the drive... what good is having the search engine data going to do? :) Umm, I don't see that requirement

new library books

2008-06-06 Thread Lloyd Kvam
http://www.librarything.com/rsshtml/recent/dlslug We have quite a few Ruby books now. David Berube has been busy. My reaction to Refactoring HTML was: that sounds silly. The book actually appears to be pretty good. A how-to about about migrating to XHTML and fixing your web applications. If

Re: new library books

2008-06-06 Thread Scott Garman
I have a number of technical and programming books I'd be willing to donate to the group. Who do I contact about this? Scott ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Offline Search?

2008-06-06 Thread John Abreau
On Fri, June 6, 2008 2:59 am, Brian Chabot said: I suppose one option would be a stand-alone Apache installation for each OS and htdig, but that only indexes HTML and TXT files... You could always add to that additional indexing filters for other formats. I've seen opensource projects that

Re: Security risks of removable media (was: Offline Search?)

2008-06-06 Thread VirginSnow
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 00:27:25 -0400 From: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm starting to feel like I'm talking to ELIZA -- that you're sending phrases that only sound like they have something to with the conversation, but are really just context-free text extraction. Are you sure you're