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Happy 7th Birthday Google!
AviN456 writes "On this day, in 1998, Google was born. Seven years later, and it has not only become the most popular search engine on the internet, but it has also become an integral part of many people's online life. From Google search to Google mail, Google Earth to Google Moon. It has even made its way into language as a common word.It is quite undeniable. Google is an amazing achievement. Happy birthday Google, and here's to many many more!"
I wish I would apply the concept of labels to files on my harddisk.
It has been suggested that WinFS will offer this sort of feature. Of course, will you be willing to use Windows Vista for that feature, however?
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
Seriously, thanks for gmail though. I wish I would apply the concept of labels to files on my harddisk.
:-)
Woah, seriously your OS doesn't have that? Time to upgrade perhaps.
It's not a feature I use (especially since having Spotlight), though I used to rely on it quite a bit when I was using Mac OS Classic. Nautilus allows you to label files though, and KDE seem to have something interesting in the works.
It has been suggested that WinFS will offer this sort of feature. Of course, will you be willing to use Windows Vista for that feature, however? Well, initial versions of Vista apparently wont have WinFS (its been moved backwards), so potentailly, WinFS wont be with us until EVEN LONGER. Thank fuck.
look what I found
I wouldn't shed too many tears over it. Altavista was just advertising for the Alpha.
DEC did try to spin Altavista products off but it wasn't a serious effort, and people weren't running DEC operating systems on the internet anyway.
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Maybe they have a birthday every year.
Google's official birthday is September 7th.... (Link is to Google Cache. Otherwise, first hit for "google birthday" and check the cache.....)
When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi. (Larry Wall)
The day Altavista died. It's amazing how fast and how hard Google crushed all the other search engines.
Didn't Yahoo eclipse Altavista long before Google became dominant?
I remember using Altavista when I first discovered the web 11 or so years ago, and it was (*very* relatively, given the penetration of the Internet back then) one of the most well-known "search engines". This seems ages ago when I think about it; people maintained simple *lists* of interesting websites for general use, and the web was small enough for this not to be an entirely risible or unworkable concept). I'm pretty sure I'd heard of Yahoo back then, even.
By 1998, when I was seriously back online again, Yahoo was already dominant. I used Yahoo, but switched to Google after getting one too many X-10 popunder ads.
So; perhaps it would be more accurate to say that Yahoo crushed Altavista (or perhaps that Yahoo expanded and Altavista didn't, really).... and that Google crushed Yahoo; or rather dented them out of shape quite a bit when they knocked them off their pedestal.
But yeah... it did happen so fast. I mean, Google *started* in 1998... the web (and Yahoo) were already pretty established by that time.
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WinFS is available as an add-on to Windows XP.
What is humor if not pain tempered by time?
a 1 followed by one hundred zeros is a googol. a 1 followed by a googol zeros is a googolplex.
I prefer PNG, for a few reasons.
First, GIF can only handle 8-bit (256 color) pallettes. Granted, each line can have it's own pallette, but it's still fairly restrictive, compared to PNG's 24-bit color.
Then, GIF can have one of the 256 colors set to transparent. PNG has an extra 8 bits on each pixel for transparency. So, it can be applied to various colors at various levels, rather than GIF needing it on one color, and at one level.
Also, at a color depth that GIF and PNG share, PNG is typically smaller when it comes to filesize.
I will recommend you Scirus for scientific papers/information. It is really helpful and has nice refining features, I will try teoma anyway.
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
File labelling was around back in the DOS days. An awesome command shell replacement called 4DOS write a descript.ion file in each directory you described files. When you copied files around, the descriptions were copied around, too.
I just made a search on Teoma... from what I saw, Scirus is better at constraining the search on scientific papers/information. Teoma is more like a web search engine.
Also the Scirus.com refining proposals are better and more (in the specific query I did) than those in Teoma.
Anyway, nice to know there exists 3 of them (google scholar... although I do not tend to use it)
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Correction, it WILL be available as an add-on to Windows XP. It is currently still in MSDN beta testing phase.
My sig beat up your sig.
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I've had to alter the formatting slightly to get it past Slashdot's spam filter.
And here it is
There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of animals Chuck Norris allows to live.
4dos rules. When I found I needed more and more to use Windows, I started using Take Command as my shell, rather than Program Manager.
Anyway, descript.ion, and the labels discussed here which I assume are in fact similar to 4dos's use of descript.ion, seem rather obsolete now. Modern filesystems let you use long filenames with spaces and other odd characters, along with CLI filename completion to make it easier to type them. If you're naming your files in 8.3 (or similar) and wishing you could label them...why not just give them long, descriptive filenames?
For example, if I download the latest version of Opera and it's filename is ow32enen50.exe, in the download "save as" dialog, I'll change it to "Opera 8.5 ow32enen50.exe", thereby saving the original name (in case I ever need it) and giving it a useful description too. If I use a serial number to register a shareware program (like Opera used to be), I'll put that in the filename too, like "Opera 8.01 asdf-jhkl-12345-qwerty ow32enen801.exe".
Another example would be a file containing notes. I might name it "Notes about the broken copier.txt".
If a file is required by the system to have a specific name, I'm likely to put in a 0 byte file with a description named the same + some notes, so it is sorted alphabetically behind, so:
"/usr/local/bin/joe"
"/usr/local/bin/joe is a good text editor"
or
"c:\windows\system32\dllcache\ctfmon.exe"
"c:\windows\system32\dllcache\ctfmon.exe is an annoying feature that wont go away no matter how much you delete it remove it from the registry turn it off in the control panel and so on so I put in a zero byte file that causes random errors when windows trys and fails to run it"
It's not perfect, but it's good enough for somebody who says "I wish I had this feature" to use until the feature shows up.
Procrastination -- because good things come to those who wait.
via the way back machine
No, we don't. Every school child knows countless more would have died if we hadn't dropped the bomb.
Every school child only "knows" this because it was taught to them. There's plenty of disagreement on the subject.