Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > Please try out blinkx on your windows machine before > you delete it. www.blinkx.com > A super new way to search - no linux version yet :-(
Yes, some nice ideas there, but it is not open source, and without the source code, no-one can verify that the software does not contain spyware (despite the authors claims to the contrary), perhaps using steganographic methods or subliminal channels to leak information about you and your PC to the outside world. Of course, that is true of any closed source software, but one has to be doubly careful with software from a small start-up company which deliberately dredges and indexes everything on your system. The same is true of Google Desktop Search, although Google has so much at stake (as in a entire multi-billion dollar company) and so many staff reveiewing code that it is much, much less likely that spyware functions would be hidden in it. But a small start-up? Who knows? Tim C >>I am an Endocrinologist in Hagerstown, Maryland who >>has been lurking on >>this list for at least four years now and I finally >>have something >>useful to report after several years of trying: I am >>now successfully >>running Meditech Remote Workstation client version >>3.22 on top of >>CrossOver Office version 4.2 over Debian Unstable >>using VPNC to connect >>to my Hospital's network. I shall post a How To once >>I sort through what >>are the truly essential steps to do this. It >>actually works better than >>under native W2K. I was never able to get >>pass-through printing working >>under Windows. I can finally kiss my native windows >>partition goodbye! >> >> > > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Messenger > Show us what our next emoticon should look like. Join the fun. > http://www.advision.webevents.yahoo.com/emoticontest > >
