Re: About free-form database
This is a debian-user question. Learn to use 'apt-cache search' -- there must be at least a hundred packages in Debian for what you describe, from note taking to mind mappming to personal wikis. Don't abuse debian-science because you think of yourself as a scientist. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: About free-form database
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 17:18 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Well, enthusiasm if often momentary. Before embarking with grep and > allies, I wonder whether there is established experience with what I > have described. That would help indeed. I use a small wiki for my journalling. I started out with a tiddlywiki and have since moved up to a moinmoin wiki. Both are light weight wikis (neither requires a webserver or database backend). Moinmoin has better support for embedded content (images, math, etc.). Both can be searched, but only using typical text searches---perhaps not enough horsepower for your application. Cheers. --Ethan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: About free-form database
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 15:29 +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > This is a debian-user question. Learn to use 'apt-cache search' -- > there must be at least a hundred packages in Debian for what you > describe, from note taking to mind mappming to personal wikis. > > Don't abuse debian-science because you think of yourself as a scientist. I don't agree that this constitutes "abuse" of debian-science. This list is for discussion of tools for scientific development, and a couple of long threads have dealt with typesetting tools suited for science. If typesetting is on-topic, why not data management? That said, I'll echo the recommendation to use apt-cache search. -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: About free-form database
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 15:29 +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >> This is a debian-user question. Learn to use 'apt-cache search' -- >> there must be at least a hundred packages in Debian for what you >> describe, from note taking to mind mappming to personal wikis. >> >> Don't abuse debian-science because you think of yourself as a scientist. > > I don't agree that this constitutes "abuse" of debian-science. This > list is for discussion of tools for scientific development, and a couple > of long threads have dealt with typesetting tools suited for science. > If typesetting is on-topic, why not data management? > > That said, I'll echo the recommendation to use apt-cache search. The OP should consider one of the many systems (beagle, tracker, namazu, ...) to maintain an index of a filestore. Many will attempt to extract terms from document formats (.tex. pdf, .doc, html, etc). Also, agrep is designed to improve on grep for searching text stores. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
