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 requirement anywhere in the thread. Did I
miss something?
I probably should have been
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 underestimated
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 requirement
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 that
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 you're
Hmmm, your Windows requirement probably rules Glimpse out
unless Cygwin can somehow be used, but I'll mention it
anyway: Glimpse (and agrep, the Approximate grep) is a tool
that operates by pre-generating a database from a given file
repository and then allows fast searches using that database.
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know of a decent offline, cross-platform search engine?
What I'm looking for is something like Google Desktop
http://desktop.google.com
...but for offline use.
Google Desktop has an option to coordinate
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know of a decent offline, cross-platform search engine?
What I'm looking for is something like Google Desktop
http://desktop.google.com
...but for offline use.
Call me crazy, but isn't everything you
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 11:01 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know of a decent offline, cross-platform search engine?
What I'm looking for is something like Google Desktop
http://desktop.google.com
...but for
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 11:01 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know of a decent offline, cross-platform search engine?
What I'm looking for is
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think Brian underestimated the actual power of the Google Desktop
widgets.
I think the key requirement Brian has given is the ability for the
offline index to be portable and cross platform (as long as you define
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think Brian underestimated the actual power of the Google Desktop
widgets.
I think the key requirement Brian has given is the ability for the
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The security analyst in me is compelled to point out that this (and
all other portable apps) would be a gigantic malware compromise
vector.
I don't believe he's talking about toting the app itself around,
just the data
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't believe he's talking about toting the app itself around,
just the data files.
Well, if we assume the computer is offline (which we've been asked
in the thread. Did I
miss something?
Well, the subject line, and the first sentence of the original post,
both mention offline search. I finda figured that meant it needed
to work offline. I suppose one could insist on an offline search
despite being online, though that seems somewhat
data going to do? :)
Umm, I don't see that requirement anywhere in the thread. Did I
miss something?
Well, the subject line, and the first sentence of the original post,
both mention offline search. I finda figured that meant it needed
to work offline. I suppose one could insist
is having
the search engine data going to do? :)
Umm, I don't see that requirement anywhere in the thread. Did I
miss something?
Well, the subject line, and the first sentence of the original post,
both mention offline search.
Google Desktop isn't an online service.
Um... so what
Does anyone know of a decent offline, cross-platform search engine?
What I'm looking for is something like Google Desktop
http://desktop.google.com
...but for offline use.
What I want to be able to do is dump a whole bunch of files into a
directory (or sub-directories) and have an application
Hi,
Quoting Brian Chabot [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Does anyone know of a decent offline, cross-platform search engine?
What I'm looking for is something like Google Desktop
http://desktop.google.com
...but for offline use.
What I want to be able to do is dump a whole bunch of files into a
Derek Atkins wrote:
Have you looked at Namazu?
Functionally, it looks good... but it's definitely not a stand-alone
application.
http://www.namazu.org/doc/tutorial.html#prep-make
I don't mind if I have to use a specific computer to index the files,
but the query tool really needs to be
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