... recommend this magnificent hardware to me, 'cause you don't know what it is? Hmm. That sounds really stupid to me; one should always have a faint idea of what the hardware is. That way, you can keep clear of bad hardware, and go shopping for good - and recommended - hardware instead.
...is that illegal, too? So. In other words; everything that sounds like something else, is illegal? Well. Ok. But still illegal when the two "things" are connected to each other? I mean, "Lindows" just means that it's got something to do with Windows.
According to one of Norway's most respected computer gurus, Gisle Hannemyr, this isn't correct; Email is older than 30 years. There is an article about this in the Norwegian computer magazine digi.no. I'll try to translate the most important bits of the article to English:
"- When we talk about e-mail being 30 years old (ie. it was invented in October 1971), it might be because Tomlinson also made an e-mail solution called SENDMSG and CPYNET for BBN's proprietary Tenex network in 1971."
Hannemyr further says that this is pretty irrelevant when it comes to e-mail over the ARPAnet (and Internet); "- It is e-mail we send over the today's Internet which is 30 years old. E-mail itself is much older, and have been around since the MIT-developed Compatible Time Sharing System in the sixties."
Whatever is right, I guess we all can conclude that without e-mail, we would have had time to live a normal life. All of us...:-)
Yesterday, I posted a reply telling about a Norwegian company (Fast), which have developed the search engine called AllTheWeb. AllTheWeb seems superior to any other search engine on the net when it comes to the hardware being used, as they are using specially developed hardware for searching through huge amounts of text (and other media).
digitoday.no (Norwegian only) today reported about further enhancements of the AllTheWeb search engine. I have tried to do my best in translating some of the article into English;
- Fast will soon change to a new and improved crawler which will find three times as many web pages. That way, Fast will soon cover the whole Internet. ...
Fast estimates that the web today consists of billions of page, but by removing duplicates and "garbage" the number will decrease dramatically. They estimate that their search engine will cover 1.8 billion web pages before christmas. ...
One of the biggest improvements is the ability to index dynamic pages. Dynamic pages are web pages you can only access by pushing a button, choosing something from a menu, or filling out information in a form. ...
The whole article (in Norwegian) can be read here. I'm not a translator, and my English is pretty bad, so you are warned.:-)
I really like Google. Their search engine is fast, and it covers a lot;
Cache: Means that we are able to visit a site after it's been slashdotted.
Relevance: Google's "relevance technology" is great. Find related sites, and find only pages related to your query.:-)
Not only web pages: Google doesn't only search for web pages, but also PDF files and images. More search engines should have had features like that.
So what's bad about Google? AFAIK, nothing an ordinary user would know of. But their hardware is "wrong". Fast has developed a search engine called AllTheWeb. Their search engine is the best seach engine after Google, but could easily (?) have been the best.
Why? Well. They have developed special hardware to do their search. And it's damn fast (that's where they got the name, I guess). However, the software running on their hardware isn't as good as Google, and I really wonder why...
My conclusion: The software Google is using should have run on AllTheWeb's hardware. That would have been one hell of a search engine.
You're right. Upgrading from 6.0 to 6.1 was one of my biggest mistakes as a Linux user (except for formatting the wrong hard drive once), and I will with no doubt go for the 6.2 as soon as it hits the street officially. It can't be worse than it's predecessor? Or...?
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... recommend this magnificent hardware to me, 'cause you don't know what it is? Hmm. That sounds really stupid to me; one should always have a faint idea of what the hardware is. That way, you can keep clear of bad hardware, and go shopping for good - and recommended - hardware instead.
...is that illegal, too? So. In other words; everything that sounds like something else, is illegal? Well. Ok. But still illegal when the two "things" are connected to each other? I mean, "Lindows" just means that it's got something to do with Windows.
Jeez. Microsoft never stop surprising me.
...think twice before shouting out "stupid parents" in the future, eh?
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No I didn't say it would work. I said it was a good idea. Ideas never work by themselves.
According to one of Norway's most respected computer gurus, Gisle Hannemyr, this isn't correct; Email is older than 30 years. There is an article about this in the Norwegian computer magazine digi.no. I'll try to translate the most important bits of the article to English:
:-)
"- When we talk about e-mail being 30 years old (ie. it was invented in October 1971), it might be because Tomlinson also made an e-mail solution called SENDMSG and CPYNET for BBN's proprietary Tenex network in 1971."
Hannemyr further says that this is pretty irrelevant when it comes to e-mail over the ARPAnet (and Internet); "- It is e-mail we send over the today's Internet which is 30 years old. E-mail itself is much older, and have been around since the MIT-developed Compatible Time Sharing System in the sixties."
Whatever is right, I guess we all can conclude that without e-mail, we would have had time to live a normal life. All of us...
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Yesterday, I posted a reply telling about a Norwegian company (Fast), which have developed the search engine called AllTheWeb. AllTheWeb seems superior to any other search engine on the net when it comes to the hardware being used, as they are using specially developed hardware for searching through huge amounts of text (and other media).
...
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:-)
digitoday.no (Norwegian only) today reported about further enhancements of the AllTheWeb search engine. I have tried to do my best in translating some of the article into English;
- Fast will soon change to a new and improved crawler which will find three times as many web pages. That way, Fast will soon cover the whole Internet.
Fast estimates that the web today consists of billions of page, but by removing duplicates and "garbage" the number will decrease dramatically. They estimate that their search engine will cover 1.8 billion web pages before christmas.
One of the biggest improvements is the ability to index dynamic pages. Dynamic pages are web pages you can only access by pushing a button, choosing something from a menu, or filling out information in a form.
The whole article (in Norwegian) can be read here. I'm not a translator, and my English is pretty bad, so you are warned.
- Cache: Means that we are able to visit a site after it's been slashdotted.
- Relevance: Google's "relevance technology" is great. Find related sites, and find only pages related to your query.
:-)
- Not only web pages: Google doesn't only search for web pages, but also PDF files and images. More search engines should have had features like that.
So what's bad about Google? AFAIK, nothing an ordinary user would know of. But their hardware is "wrong". Fast has developed a search engine called AllTheWeb. Their search engine is the best seach engine after Google, but could easily (?) have been the best.Why? Well. They have developed special hardware to do their search. And it's damn fast (that's where they got the name, I guess). However, the software running on their hardware isn't as good as Google, and I really wonder why...
My conclusion: The software Google is using should have run on AllTheWeb's hardware. That would have been one hell of a search engine.
No I don't like it, either...
You're right. Upgrading from 6.0 to 6.1 was one of my biggest mistakes as a Linux user (except for formatting the wrong hard drive once), and I will with no doubt go for the 6.2 as soon as it hits the street officially. It can't be worse than it's predecessor? Or...?