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
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
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.
>>
> 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
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
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
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
>> 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 hav
e (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 some
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?
> Well, the subject line, and the first sentence of the original post,
> both mention "offline
> 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 on
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 be
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,
> j
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 th
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 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 look
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
> > ...
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 des
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 coordin
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.
Y
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 stan
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 int
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 th
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