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And the Streambox guys did it by reverse-engineering the protocol.

A more interesting read is in The Inklings. There are many web sites about the group as well.

TeleRead and ODP and Books of the Future are also good reviews.

Okay, and who is going to pay for the hardware, bandwidth, and infrastructure to run a 'Free' (or 'free) search engine?

Maybe these guys will. Oh wait -- they already do.

esperanto's been indubitably dead since the '50s.

These folks might disagree.

(No, I'm not an Esperantist.)

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Note: I think I had to use Catalog 1.01 because 1.02 didn't work.

There are numerous utilities to put it into a database for you.

There are numerous utilities to put it into a database for you.

Some folks have used the dmoz data. It is in RDF, so should be fairly flexible enough to get into most databases using most languages and an RDF library.

• The Yahoo Directory
• The Open Directory project

Also Small.
Lisp.
Scheme.
Actually just pick one ;)

The traditional U.S. school subject "algebra" can be mastered in two years, yes. Similarly, the traditional U.S. school course of "chemistry" can be mastered in one year. But algebra, proper, refers to a huge set of related mathematical concepts that can no more be mastered in a mere two years than the entire scientific field of chemistry can be mastered in one.

There is accordingly absolutely no justification for your assumption that an Algebra III class covers the material that should have been mastered in an ordinary two-year algebra course, unless and until you've read this student's course material.

• Apple's OpenFirmware home page
• An overview of OF
• The Official homepage
• Firmworks, the OF folks (Linux info)
• TinyBoot
• The Open Directory Project category for OpenFirmware

"Public Payphone"

Except that the number of payphones has been declining for the past several years and nothing's going to stop that anytime soon.

Not to mention in rural and suburban areas, where the nearest payphone can be a good walk or even further away...

Besides, wasn't there a movie recently about the last payphone in Manhattan? :)

On the other hand I haven't found a way to read newsgroups with mozilla. Maybe that;s because I don't know what to fill the server field with...

There's a list of public servers.

and if a group I'm interested in is on that server.

Once you've retrieved the group list from the server your newsreader lets you inspect it. Or use Newzbot to search for the availability of a specific group.

Then you should go read some history. Most of the textbooks which cover this are not online, but you could start here.

Yeah, it's a lot to read...but there's a surprising amount of information in those links.

SB

Ah. I'm not a dmoz.org editor. Thanks for the link, but most people will want to try this link.

>Since when is the search engine responsible for the content they generate by just following links on the web (forgive me if I'm unfamiliar with how Google crawls the web)?

Since the DMCA. It's now illegal to link to illegal material. Read the article or see the past cases for more information.

Dmoz.org is about as close to a not for profit alternative to google.

The truth is though, all that bandwidth costs money. Programmers typically want paid. Hardware breaks and electricity is most often not free. I know a non-profit organization still makes money to cover these costs but I don't see the need for anything more than dmoz if that's what you want.

yeah, it's called dmoz

Start here: open proxies

If you really like Plan9, then put forth a little more effort to come up with a convincing argument instead of just stamping "Plan9 rules" everywhere. There are probably 50 floppy OS's and I'm sure every OS marketing department would want to call themselves a "Network OS". Little snippets like that don't help you* and they don't help the reader.

(* unless you're just trying to spam)

There are dozens of Cricket strategy games, including plenty of PBEM ones. Also, "fantasy cricket leagues" are quite popular.

Indeed there are. Here is a good place to start looking.

As for fantasy cricket, here are some links:
- http://www.fantasycricket.telegraph.co.uk/
- http://www.fiso.co.uk/cricket.htm
- http://www.cricketweb.net/fantasycricket/
- http://www.fantasycricketclub.com/
- http://www.ggiddings.freeserve.co.uk/fcm.htm
- http://www.cricketinc.com/
- http://www.dreamcricket.com/dreamcricket/home.asp

And there are many more

The comp.* and sci.* hierarchies, from my experience, have been good. e.g. comp.text.xml, comp.protocols.kerberos, etc.

Many of the big players would like Usenet to go away as it is decentralized and distributed which makes it hard to censor and control. ISP what a bottleneck though which users must pass and view ads while doing so.

The BBC article brings up a good point, but perhaps it is more practical to look to Usenet again. It is the only decentralized, distributed service I have seen. Mozilla, Opera and other web browsers include news readers so there is no need to install extra software, though dedicated news readers do have advantages. (Ask your ISP for details on how to connect) I prefer when mailing lists have SMTP/NTTP gateways so that I can check the list with a threaded news reader.

Maybe it's time to look at a new version of the NNTP protocol, and/or to the message format to make up for shortcomings. RSS is trying to do something with the web, which is perhaps more suited to NNTP or its successor.

Froogle bumped Directory off the front page. This is a major blow to DMOZ, the second after Netscape more or less abandoned it.

> Care to explain or justify any of that?

Check David McGoveran, Chris(topher) J Date, Fabian Pascal, Hugh Darwen, and BTW Eduard F 'Ted' Codd. Start at DMoz, then Google around...

> I thought that SQL was the embodiment of the relational calculus?

The Third Manifesto, DBDebunk, DMoz.

1. Open Directory: Freeware - Lists hundreds of sites offering freeware.
2. Nonags - Better that tucows for Windows stuff because it doesn't list nagware.

> Can you (or someone else more clueful than I) explain it again in a manner assuming less cluefulness on the part of the reader?

I really haven't the time. About data I'd point you to some reading materials: the books mentioned on The Third Manifesto, DBDebunk, some articles at DMoz and an implementation with documentation; about OSs, the GNU Hurd site seems to be unreachable now.

Two suggestions: Open Directory Cooking category, which comprises some 17,961 websites, carefully catalogued, described and maintained by editors indianpipe, patcwilson and suzy1212; or

Google's Cooking directory, which is Google's version of the Open Directory's data plus whatever they've added.

Personally, I'm guided by a total lack of culinary inhibitions and the pantry inventory. WFM.

• The job of ensuring validity and accuracy of the information would be distributed among the experts, said experts themselves validated by the wiki maintainers.
• Linking to the primary sources would lend some integrity to the project. For instance, I would be more likely to trust content posted on a site hosted by the software author rather than by a third-party.

Not recommending anything in particular, but you can chain together different tools to filter more completely than a single line of defense both against viruses and against spam.

IIRC, at MyCorp, Exchange servers are insulated from the outside by both PerlMX and Tumbleweed.

Not sure I'd consider it better. A single site can monopolize the results. For example, if you search for "xyzzy", 80% of the results returned are from the same site (xyzzynews.com) and the "hits" are finding the search term in the URL (e.g. http://www.xyzzynews.com/xyzzy.1f.html##grc). Google, on the other hand, doesn't count URL matches as a "hit", and doesn't spew fifty hits for the same site. It did require me to specify english, though, because apparently "xyzzy" is very popular among the Japanese. To me, a strong aspect of being "better" is the engine's ability to give me results where my search term shows up on the page, rather than just in the URL; and, failing that, I'd like it if one site couldn't show up more than once as a hit so I can skip it.

It's not perfect, but the Open Directory Project is a better Web directory. It powers the Google Directory as well.

> there isn't a database I've seen that fully implements the relational model.

At this list there are some. Not all of them are mature or fully relational, but all are better than SQL was at their own time. Some are available, and at least one used in production systems.

> why don't the RDBMS vendors change their products?

First, they are not RDBMS vendors. They are SQL (or quasi-SQL, as with Oracle and MySQL) DBMS (or quasi-DBMS, as with MySQL again) vendors.

Now, answers are easy. You might as well ask why it took Apple 20 years to have a real OS, or why MS don't have security at all. Do you want it spelled out? Ignorance, they are too rich, lazyness, and shoot-the-messenger, NIH mentalities.

> why hasn't any newly developed RDBMS, ever since the advent of the relational model in the 1970's, chosen to implement the "proper" relational model

Just take a look at my own Relational DBMS implementations list at DMoz. Not all listed there are truly relational, but the best approximations at their own time. You can even get free downloads. None is SQL compliant.

It's just dmoz, so these people:

ettore, ffabris, gigi, hotpink, hudson, jezebel, peterrobson, seepatrick, susies, wilky

Although they don't get paid ;-)

Well of course light duty magnetic fields can directly effect the health of your body or all these would would be of little practical use at all.

While indeed sites like monster and dice have been no help at all, having a resume online and making sure it can be found through search engines worked out well for me.

What I did was this: Put a version of my resume online. Not on one of the job-sites, but on my own website. Make it available in several formats: Word, HTML, plain text and maybe PDF. Then I submitted the url to a number of search-engines, including Google and the Open Directory Project.

What I found is that sites specializing in tech-resumes often copy the content of the ODP resume section. Many hits for my resume come from such sites.

The rest come from keyword search-engines, so it's a good idea to put the right keywords in your resume: Try to think of which terms a recruiter (NOT the tech-manager) would search for when looking for a candidate in your field. Remember, this is a non-technical person, so "buzz-words" (annoying as they are) tend to work best.

The result is that even 7 months after I found a job, my resume gets 50-60 hits a month and every once in a while I get an email from a serious recruiter.

Would that be morse-over-morse, or maybe metamorse?

Quick! Somebody call Hofstadter!

Well, many pianos already take quite a bit of electricity (and regular watering) to run, as they are outfitted with a Humidty Control System; often this works by having two heating elements, one in the piano, and one below, in a tank of water.
Too much humidty, and the top heating rod gets warm, helping dry the piano. Too little, and the water tank gets heated to help evaporate the water.
The automated piano tuner that works with heat could work in conjunction with a dehumidier system, too.
--
HUMANS do it better

And just in time for Fred Anderson's Retirement from the position of Apple's CFO on June 1.

HUMANS do it better

1. Please tell us what specific information you were seeking. Also tell us why you were dissatisfied with the search results.
2. Were you looking for a specific URL that wasn't listed in the search results? If so, please enter the URL here..

Your description comes from the Google Directory, which comes from DMOZ.

The question you ask is really relevant.

As part of my thesis "How to cope with incorrect HTML" (.ps, University site with link to pdf version) I tested 2.4 million sites in the Open Directory Project.

These tests showed that only 0.7% of all the HTML documents were valid. It feels really odd to have a standard that so few documents adhere to. The thesis describes in much more detail the different errors(see pages 81-91).

"It takes two persons to lie,
one to lie,
and one to listen"
-Homer Simpson
(of course if IE and netscape hadn't listened to HTML "programmers'" lies, this problem never would have evolved... but then would the web have grown?)

Also try the ODP OSS categories for good sites to mine &c.

Both are of course directories (not SE's) but IMO that is even better.

Seriously though, birds are particularly prone to hitting glass (and buildings) in areas of high light pollution (like New York) -- many scientific studies have been done on this -- see The Fatal Light Awareness Program and the ODP for general light-pollution info.

So I read that to mean the Mozilla still keeps developing despite anything MS may or may not want to do. Surely that's a good thing?

FACT: Google is still depending on ad revenue to pay for the thousands of servers and fat bandwidth pipes with which they spider and serve the (still rapidly) growing internet.

Yes, but this isn't like the IE vs Netscape fight because Google is already entrenched as a search engine whereas Microsoft would be starting from afresh - during the browser wars, it was all about features and the fact that IE was embedded into Windows.
Besides, if MS come up with a search engine that's better than Google and is free for all to use, I don't see a problem with it. I don't personally like MS one bit but I'm not going to not use an MS product purely because it bears the Microsoft logo. If they start charging for it and/or lock out the Linux users then that's different...

PROBLEM: If Microsoft can cut off Google's ad revenue (say, by providing their own search engine that is preinstalled for their users and good enough to prevent most users from switching), then it won't matter if you can choose Google as your preferred search engine in Mozilla, because although Mozilla will still be around, google.com might not be.

If Google dies through Microsoft pressure then there will be be a free replacement that MS won't be able to touch. The Open Directory Project has a long way to go but it's a foundation stone that'll probably get a lot more attention if Google disappears.

There are also many online tutorials especially written for Gimp. While you can reflect many Photoshop principles onto Gimp, I think that a dedicated tutorial is a bit more fun and ease to deal with.

You will find loads of information in the Gimp section of dmoz.org.