On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday 23 Sep 2011 13:58:22 Michael Mol wrote: >> /rant > > This is because Google uses geo-targeting to determine what results you may be > interested in (assuming your geo-location from your IP address), and > > because of the Google data centre that you are getting connected to (updates > of search results and their ranking is not instantaneous across the globe), > and > > because if you are logged in to Google (mail, et al) your search history will > bias the results you may receive, and > > because recent searches (whether logged in or not) are cached and will affect > what you're getting served. > > > People searching for pubs in the UK are bound to get different results to > people searching for pubs in Australia. > > Of course if you want to search for pubs in Australia while you are browsing > from the UK things are going to get tricky ... > > In such cases you want to add: > > The location in the search results: e.g. pubs + Australia (to filter the UK > Google results for Australian pubs), or go to www.google.au and then search > from there for pubs (Australian Google results for pubs). There could be > other more sophisticated ways but can't recall them off hand. > > Now, if someone sends you a non-lmgtfy.com link you can look at the Google TLD > to determine the country the results are from and search accordingly.
All great info, if I'm looking for a physical location. Yeah, when I'm looking for the address of a music, I'll search for "the intersection in Grand Rapids, MI". GeoIP and other details take care of the rest, and it actually comes up with the place I saw JoCo and TMBG last weekend. >> I don't want to build a CD from scratch (and doing so looks like it >> would require setting up a fully "generic" box to build). I just want >> to add two files to an existing ISO. >> >> How would I extract boot_catalog and eltorito_boot_image from an existing >> ISO? > > Mount the ISO with loopback and then navigate into it as a normal fs: > > # mkdir /mnt/iso > # mount -o loop LiveCD.iso /mnt/iso > # ls -la /mnt/iso > # cp /mnt/iso/some_file Loopbacks are easy enough. I wasn't sure that the files in question were going to be on the filesystem, or were somewhere else in the ISO image. I was thinking analogously to boot sectors on floppy disks and hard disks; some data isn't directly visible on a filesystem. > -- > Regards, > Mick > -- :wq
