Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken
> On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:55:36 -0300, Mike Monett wrote: >> I'm hoping a lot of these problems will soon go away. I have >> WinXP SP3 running in VirtualBox 3.0 on Ubuntu 9.04, and it works >> great. >> But it doesn't like running my old DOS programs. The screen >> update is so painfully slow it makes the program unusable. I >> tried VB 2.1, but it was only slightly faster. > Have you tried any of the Linux DOS emulators? I find DOSBox > particularly useful for the odd DOS programs I still use. > http://www.dosbox.com/ > John. Hi John, Thanks for the suggestion. I really need to get Win98 running, since I have about 3 decades of code written in Borland Pascal that works with Win98 to find and load programs. For example, one of the biggest problems with Windows and Linux is you have to load the desired program, then find the file you want to work with. The search function is extremely poor, especially if you have hundreds or thousands of files in a folder to look through. My software generates an index of every file on the hard disk, and assigns a comment field to each file. I put keywords in the comment field, such as "pll", "phase noise", "dmtd", "xtal", etc. Then I use a modified Boyer-Moore search in assembly code to find all files that contain the keywords. It is very fast. For example, searching my hard disk for "timenuts" give the following result (search result list omitted for clarity): Searched 202,362 files in 4,130 directories Found 7 hits in 67.331 ms When I find the file I am looking for, I press a single key and my program loads the appropriate program with the target file. I don't have to remeber all the strange incantations needed to make each program perform the desired task - these are all hard-wired into my code and so takes care of all the details. This program is indespensable. I just don't know how I would survive if I had to work the way everyone else does. I would never be able to find anything. Unfortunately, these programs will not run satisfactorily in WinXP. They are so slow they are unusable. And all the other alternatives so far have one or more huge show stopper problems. For example, I tried QEMU. I can partition the drive, but QEMU doesn't want to save the partition information and it disappears the next time I boot. I'm sure there must be something I'm doing wrong, but I can't find any solution. I tried running Win98 in VirtualBox. This was a waste of time. The VGA screen only gives 640x480 resolution, which is unusable. There are several ways to improve this with external video drivers, but the main problem is there are no Guest Additions for Win98. So there are no shared folders to transfer files. Copying to the clipboard doesn't work, you have to constantly capture and release the mouse to go back and forth to Ubuntu, etc. One solution may be to run Virtual PC 2007 in Win XP. I tried that last night before going to bed, but I suddenly realized I need a much larger partition than the 2GB I was using to make Win XP compatible with the 2GB limit in DOS. So the first thing to try is to install another version of Win XP but with a much larger partition. I understand FAT32 will take 127.5GB, but Win XP can't format anything over 32GB. So I have to try running FDISK from a Win98 boot disk and see if the latest version of Ubuntu will let me read the Win98 floppy in Virtual PC 2007 running under Win XP SP3 running in VirtualBox 3.0. Whew! Thanks, Mike ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken
On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:55:36 -0300, Mike Monett wrote: > I'm hoping a lot of these problems will soon go away. I have WinXP > SP3 running in VirtualBox 3.0 on Ubuntu 9.04, and it works great. > But it doesn't like running my old DOS programs. The screen update > is so painfully slow it makes the program unusable. I tried VB 2.1, > but it was only slightly faster. Have you tried any of the Linux DOS emulators? I find DOSBox particularly useful for the odd DOS programs I still use. http://www.dosbox.com/ -- John. ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken
> Hi, I don't think its a version problem. When you have the patent > displayed (View original document tab) you only see one page at a > time. see > http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?FT=D&date=20040226&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP&CC=US&NR=2004036036A1&KC=A1 > (one of mine ;-) > There is a bar above the view window with a "save full document" > option. If you click on this it will ask you to decode a captcha > before downloading the PDF. > Regards, > Robert Akinson Thanks, I see what you mean now. I didn't notice that link the first time. It works great! That is an interesting patent application. It was in 2004 - I wonder why it hasn't issued yet. Looks like google patents is back online. I must have caught them as they were switching over to captchas. The site looks and works different now, and they require decoding the captcha before downloading. I guess that's OK, since it still is the best site online for US patents. But it means I can no longer link to the pdf file and convert it directly to DjVu. This OCR's the file and makes it text-searchable. The size drops considerably, and the DjVu reader is much faster than any pdf reader I've used. It is often worth the effort for large pdf's or ones you need to study a great deal. Now I have to download the file from google, then upload it to DjVu. This takes time, but the conversion takes much longer, so I guess it doesn't matter. If you'd like to try DjVu, you can start here: http://any2djvu.djvuzone.org/ulinit.php?submit.x=81&submit.y=30 If you don't have a viewer, you can get a free viewer at http://windjview.sourceforge.net/ Thanks, Mike ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken
http://www.uspto.gov has a pretty good search engine for US patents (with images, if you load the AlternaTiff plugin) > > > Try http://ep.espacenet.com/ It's an offical european > site that > > > also searches US and World Patents. Very flexible > search options > > > and no registration required. You do have to type in > the code from > > > a graphic image if you want to > > download a full PDF. That is a > > > small price to pay to keep the bots out. > > > > > Robert G8RPI. > > > > Hi Robert, > > ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken
Hi, I don't think its a version problem. When you have the patent displayed (View original document tab) you only see one page at a time. see http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?FT=D&date=20040226&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP&CC=US&NR=2004036036A1&KC=A1 (one of mine ;-) There is a bar above the view window with a "save full document" option. If you click on this it will ask you to decode a captcha before downloading the PDF. Regards, Robert Akinson --- On Wed, 1/7/09, Mike Monett wrote: > From: Mike Monett > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken > To: time-nuts@febo.com > Date: Wednesday, 1 July, 2009, 2:55 PM > >Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 > 06:24:38 +0000 (GMT) > >From: Robert Atkinson > >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is > Broken > > >Hi Mike, > > > Try http://ep.espacenet.com/ It's an > offical european site that > > also searches US and World Patents. Very > flexible search options > > and no registration required. You do have to > type in the code from > > a graphic image if you want to > download a full PDF. That is a > > small price to pay to keep the bots out. > > > Robert G8RPI. > > Hi Robert, > > Thanks very much for the reply and > the link. That looks like a > useful site, especially for European and Japanese > patents. > > How do you "type in the code from a graphic image"? > I guess you mean > to enter a captcha, but couldn't see any box to > enter a code. > > It found US6134065 with no problem, and all I had to > do was click on > the Acrobat symbol to download the file. But only > shows the text on > the first page. The rest are blank. > > I'm running Win98, which uses old versions of > Acrobat and Foxit. Is > this a version problem, or is there a > way to get the rest of the > document? > > I'm hoping a lot of these problems will soon > go away. I have WinXP > SP3 running in VirtualBox 3.0 on Ubuntu 9.04, > and it works great. > But it doesn't like running my old DOS > programs. The screen update > is so painfully slow it makes the program unusable. > I tried VB 2.1, > but it was only slightly faster. > > I bought a new graphics card, but it was only > marginally faster. It > also overwhelmed the cooling in the computer. The > case got so hot I > couldn't hold my hand on it. I can't upgrade the > motherboard since I > need the parallel and serial IO ports, but they > don't exist on newer > systems. > > I'll try to get Win98 running in QEMU today, > and see if that helps > the slow display problem. If so, I'll transfer all > my files over to > the new box, and that should end these problems with > old, down-level > versions of Acrobat and browsers. The plan is to run > Win98 as usual, > and if there is a problem, bounce over to WinXP. > > If anyone has other suggestions to speed up > the DOS display in XP, > I'd be very happy to hear them. > > Thanks, > > Mike > > ___ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken
>Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 06:24:38 + (GMT) >From: Robert Atkinson >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken >Hi Mike, > Try http://ep.espacenet.com/ It's an offical european site that > also searches US and World Patents. Very flexible search options > and no registration required. You do have to type in the code from > a graphic image if you want to download a full PDF. That is a > small price to pay to keep the bots out. > Robert G8RPI. Hi Robert, Thanks very much for the reply and the link. That looks like a useful site, especially for European and Japanese patents. How do you "type in the code from a graphic image"? I guess you mean to enter a captcha, but couldn't see any box to enter a code. It found US6134065 with no problem, and all I had to do was click on the Acrobat symbol to download the file. But only shows the text on the first page. The rest are blank. I'm running Win98, which uses old versions of Acrobat and Foxit. Is this a version problem, or is there a way to get the rest of the document? I'm hoping a lot of these problems will soon go away. I have WinXP SP3 running in VirtualBox 3.0 on Ubuntu 9.04, and it works great. But it doesn't like running my old DOS programs. The screen update is so painfully slow it makes the program unusable. I tried VB 2.1, but it was only slightly faster. I bought a new graphics card, but it was only marginally faster. It also overwhelmed the cooling in the computer. The case got so hot I couldn't hold my hand on it. I can't upgrade the motherboard since I need the parallel and serial IO ports, but they don't exist on newer systems. I'll try to get Win98 running in QEMU today, and see if that helps the slow display problem. If so, I'll transfer all my files over to the new box, and that should end these problems with old, down-level versions of Acrobat and browsers. The plan is to run Win98 as usual, and if there is a problem, bounce over to WinXP. If anyone has other suggestions to speed up the DOS display in XP, I'd be very happy to hear them. Thanks, Mike ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken
Hi Mike, Try http://ep.espacenet.com/ It's an offical european site that also searches US and World Patents. Very flexible search options and no registration required. You do have to type in the code from a graphic image if you want to download a full PDF. That is a small price to pay to keep the bots out. Robert G8RPI. --- On Wed, 1/7/09, Mike Monett wrote: > From: Mike Monett > Subject: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken > To: time-nuts@febo.com > Date: Wednesday, 1 July, 2009, 2:27 AM > The Google patent > search > is a very > useful for studying GPS > technology, precision > oscillators, etc. It > has been extremely > reliable in the past, but today it started > giving an error message > after downloading only 5 patents. The error message > is: > > Google Error > > Forbidden Your client does not have permission to > get URL > > /patents/download/xxx.pdf?id= from this server. > > Rebooting and clearing the cookies didn't help. I > have a static IP, > so Google knows when I am trying to download a > patent, and it gives > this error message instead. > > There are a few other free patent services, but they > require logging > on, they aren't as easy to use, > and they don't have the search > options that google has. They > also give larger pdf files than > google. For example, here is US patent > #6134065 by an old friend, > Steve Brittenham, who used to work at HP Boisie: > > Service Bytes > > FreePatent : 80,794 > Wikipatent : 543,465 > Google : 66,014 > > The urls are > > http://www.freepatentsonline.com/ > http://www.wikipatents.com/ > > Another service I often use is > www.pat2pdf.org, but it seems to be > offline today. > > So the best option is still google, but how to get > around the static > ip problem? > > The solution is a free proxy. There are many > on the web - this one > works fine: > > http://www.freeproxysite.com/ > > I used the "TOP 10 proxies by clicks", and selected > German-Proxy.de > > From there, I went to > > http://www.google.com/advanced_patent_search?hl=en&num=30 > > entered a patent number, and downloaded it with no > problems. > > I don't know what is causing the problem at google, > but this appears > to solve it. If you run into this and find it starts > giving problems > again, just select another proxy and continue > working! > > Mike > > ___ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
[time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken
The Google patent search is a very useful for studying GPS technology, precision oscillators, etc. It has been extremely reliable in the past, but today it started giving an error message after downloading only 5 patents. The error message is: Google Error Forbidden Your client does not have permission to get URL /patents/download/xxx.pdf?id= from this server. Rebooting and clearing the cookies didn't help. I have a static IP, so Google knows when I am trying to download a patent, and it gives this error message instead. There are a few other free patent services, but they require logging on, they aren't as easy to use, and they don't have the search options that google has. They also give larger pdf files than google. For example, here is US patent #6134065 by an old friend, Steve Brittenham, who used to work at HP Boisie: Service Bytes FreePatent : 80,794 Wikipatent : 543,465 Google : 66,014 The urls are http://www.freepatentsonline.com/ http://www.wikipatents.com/ Another service I often use is www.pat2pdf.org, but it seems to be offline today. So the best option is still google, but how to get around the static ip problem? The solution is a free proxy. There are many on the web - this one works fine: http://www.freeproxysite.com/ I used the "TOP 10 proxies by clicks", and selected German-Proxy.de From there, I went to http://www.google.com/advanced_patent_search?hl=en&num=30 entered a patent number, and downloaded it with no problems. I don't know what is causing the problem at google, but this appears to solve it. If you run into this and find it starts giving problems again, just select another proxy and continue working! Mike ___ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
