Re: new library books

2008-06-06 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jun 6, 2008, at 10:20, Scott Garman wrote: > I have a number of technical and programming books I'd be willing to > donate to the group. Who do I contact about this? I see I posted something to the list about this back in '05, but never bothered to update the webpage. (d'oh!) Rectified:

Re: Offline Search?

2008-06-06 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jun 6, 2008, at 02:59, Brian Chabot wrote: > While Google Desktop would work with some minor tweaking, it's > still not > quite stand-alone. It requires an installation on each system. I'm sure somebody will fire a warning shot my way for suggesting this, but what if you built something o

Re: Security risks of removable media (was: Offline Search?)

2008-06-06 Thread Thomas Charron
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Thomas Charron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Google Desktop isn't an online service. > Um... so what? That doesn't explain what good it would do to have > Google Desktop index data without Goo

Re: Offline Search?

2008-06-06 Thread Thomas Charron
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:59 AM, Brian Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Charron wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Call me crazy, but isn't everything you described Google Desktop itself?!?! >>> I had exactly the same thought. >>

Re: Security risks of removable media (was: Offline Search?)

2008-06-06 Thread VirginSnow
> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 00:27:25 -0400 > From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm starting to feel like I'm talking to ELIZA -- that you're > sending phrases that only sound like they have something to with the > conversation, but are really just context-free text extraction. Are > you sure

Re: Offline Search?

2008-06-06 Thread John Abreau
On Fri, June 6, 2008 2:59 am, Brian Chabot said: > > > I suppose one option would be a stand-alone Apache installation for each > OS and htdig, but that only indexes HTML and TXT files... > You could always add to that additional indexing filters for other formats. I've seen opensource projects

Re: new library books

2008-06-06 Thread Scott Garman
I have a number of technical and programming books I'd be willing to donate to the group. Who do I contact about this? Scott ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

new library books

2008-06-06 Thread Lloyd Kvam
http://www.librarything.com/rsshtml/recent/dlslug We have quite a few Ruby books now. David Berube has been busy. My reaction to "Refactoring HTML" was: that sounds silly. The book actually appears to be pretty good. A how-to about about migrating to XHTML and fixing your web applications. If

Re: Offline Search?

2008-06-06 Thread Tom Buskey
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:43 AM, Brian Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Well, if we assume the computer is offline (which we've been asked > >> to do)... and the software isn't on the drive... what good is having > >> the search engine data going to do? :) > > > > Umm, I don't see that

Re: Offline Search?

2008-06-06 Thread Brian Chabot
Thomas Charron wrote: > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Call me crazy, but isn't everything you described Google Desktop >>> itself?!?! >> I had exactly the same thought. >> Ooh, neat, didn't know Google had yum repos now... > > I think Brian und