On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Stephen Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You type in a combination of 3, 4, 5 words to see if anyone can get
> only 1 response from google.
>
> We would do this at the bar during a football game.
Boy, you do know how to have a good time.
--
Ted Roche
Ted Roc
I stink at searches too, I often have a hard time finding what I
want, and yet it seems certain friends of mine can find anything
immediately, so maybe there's something obvious I'm missing..
As for your Linux problem, I may be able to help, so email me off
list with the exact specifics and pro
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Whil Hentzen
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> It IS an art.
>>
>> Ted is the master artist, too.
>>
>
> Thank you. It is an rare talent, I guess. Something about thinking
> boolean or trying
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Whil Hentzen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It IS an art.
>
> Ted is the master artist, too.
>
Thank you. It is an rare talent, I guess. Something about thinking
boolean or trying to guess what keywords others would have
highlighted. Might have been useful if I wa
Gil: I grew up in Chicago and really did ice skate to school but
honestly is was only about a mile and a half. And in college they
didn't have CRT's and we submitted our jobs on punched cards. The Texas
Instrument SR50 came out while I was in college.
Jeff
Jeff Johnson
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On Friday, August 15, 2008 1:47 PM Jeff Johnson wrote:
>David: I am no whipper-snapper. When I was in college I knew what to
do with my card stack if I dropped them on the floor >and they got out
of order and when I was a kid, I ice skated the 10 miles to school!
LOL!
>Google brags about answe
Ed: I understand perfectly. Many things near and dear to my heart are
helped by Google's success and I am in awe at what Google has
accomplished and how successful they have become. And I can't do it
period, let alone better. Having said that, it doesn't help my
frustration. People providi
h, not hardly at all).
Gil
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeff Johnson
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 1:47 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [NF] Search Sucks!
>
>
> David: I am no whipper-snapper.
On Aug 15, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> Google brags about answering your query in .58 seconds but it
> takes
> you five minutes to get past the pay for click croud to get to what
> you
> want.
Sounds like a business plan to me! Now all you have to do is figure
out h
David: I am no whipper-snapper. When I was in college I knew what to
do with my card stack if I dropped them on the floor and they got out of
order and when I was a kid, I ice skated the 10 miles to school!
Google brags about answering your query in .58 seconds but it takes
you five minut
On Friday, August 15, 2008 12:22 PM Jeff Johnson wrote:
>Ricardo: Thank you for your reply. The point of my post is the
increased frustration at finding what I want quickly. You >found the
below information in five minutes and had to put in USA. If I had just
been presented with all teams for
Ricardo: Thank you for your reply. The point of my post is the
increased frustration at finding what I want quickly. You found the
below information in five minutes and had to put in USA. If I had just
been presented with all teams for 2000 I could have selected USA, but I
couldn't even fin
Thanks Steve: I will take you up on that when I get back to that
project next week.
Jeff
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Steve Ellenoff wrote:
> I stink at searches too, I often have a hard time finding wha
Steve Ellenoff wrote:
> I stink at searches too, I often have a hard time finding what I
> want, and yet it seems certain friends of mine can find anything
> immediately, so maybe there's something obvious I'm missing..
>
> As for your Linux problem, I may be able to help, so email me off
> lis
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 Window
I stink at searches too, I often have a hard time finding what I
want, and yet it seems certain friends of mine can find anything
immediately, so maybe there's something obvious I'm missing..
As for your Linux problem, I may be able to help, so email me off
list with the exact specifics and pro
obviously being for a
different Shannon Miller. Amusing in any case. heh-heh
Gil
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeff Johnson
> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 9:09 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [NF] Search
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Jeff Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Paul: Thank you for finding that, but the reason I brought it up is
> that I have been increasingly frustrated with finding answers quickly
> using any of the available search engines. I just happen to have two
> examples.
Paul: Thank you for finding that, but the reason I brought it up is
that I have been increasingly frustrated with finding answers quickly
using any of the available search engines. I just happen to have two
examples.
It is interesting that you all seem to be more interested in the Olympic
sn
Jeff Johnson wrote:
> I'm signing off for the night but when I find out I will let you know.
> She is not on that page.
Ok, not sure how I got there (I admit search sucks in this case) but try
searching with the term 'roster':
http://www2.usa-gymnastics.org/events/2008/olympics/history/pastteam
parents?
>
> http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/news/2000/usteam_gymnastics_women/
>
>
> --- On Thu, 8/14/08, Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> From: Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: [NF] Search Sucks!
>> To: profo
Paul: I tried that and got a blank wikipedia page that said, "Go ahead
and update this page, please!"
Jeff
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Paul McNett wrote:
> Whil Hentzen wrote:
>> Jeff Johnson wrote:
>>>
Whil: I saw that one, too; but it is only four girls. It does not
include the whole team.
Jeff
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Whil Hentzen wrote:
> Jeff Johnson wrote:
>> I have been noticing that when I
OK, who was the girl yelling at her parents?
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/news/2000/usteam_gymnastics_women/
--- On Thu, 8/14/08, Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [NF] Search Sucks!
> To: pr
Whil Hentzen wrote:
> 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.
>
> It
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.
It IS an art.
Ted is the master
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
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
> p
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
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