argh, meant to hit the preview button... the point of the parent post being that I'd like to see more of the searching and search technology moving Open Source.
just as I'm pulling an all-nighter at this moment trying to embed a custom search engine into an app for use on an intranet.
Actually what is more interesting is Nutch and Mozdex, which seems to be based around Lucene (what I am using to build my own search engine embedded into a Horde framework app). Although probably a lot simpler than the industrial grade stuff, for someone who has been used to throwing a word at an input screen and magically getting back results, the insight into the inner workings of search engines is very interesting.
relieved themselves in ESR's coffee this morning to make him this pissy?
on a serious note, yeah he has a valid point but
a) he could put it across in a less-ranty way which would go down with people a lot better
and b) often the primary goal in open source projects is "make it work"... then as a second thought "make it pretty". and often we never get to the second one because of time, money, etc.
now that windows has a built-in (functional) firewall, which should be on by default, and a possibly upcoming anti-virus, what do the companies that are currently selling these solutions think?
i see their market disappearing in one clean windows-update swoop.
well then pretty silly to even bother saying that they are offering a service. plus not as if i was small fry: needed the service for two/three vans to accompany a beverage multinational's country tour. huge pubblicity. but no, it meant nothing to them telling them this.
what is it with satellite providers and their reluctance to reply back to customer sales inquiries? i've had nothing but slow responses, unavailability of sales persons, etc.
last one was satlynx, kept whacking at them for 2months, even calling every person i could get my hands on, just couldn't get a price quote out of them! gave up. what do i have to do? beg them to sell me a service?
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look at mozdex
very interesting, thanks!
argh, meant to hit the preview button... the point of the parent post being that I'd like to see more of the searching and search technology moving Open Source.
just as I'm pulling an all-nighter at this moment trying to embed a custom search engine into an app for use on an intranet.
Actually what is more interesting is Nutch and Mozdex, which seems to be based around Lucene (what I am using to build my own search engine embedded into a Horde framework app). Although probably a lot simpler than the industrial grade stuff, for someone who has been used to throwing a word at an input screen and magically getting back results, the insight into the inner workings of search engines is very interesting.
relieved themselves in ESR's coffee this morning to make him this pissy?
on a serious note, yeah he has a valid point but
a) he could put it across in a less-ranty way which would go down with people a lot better
and b) often the primary goal in open source projects is "make it work"... then as a second thought "make it pretty". and often we never get to the second one because of time, money, etc.
now that windows has a built-in (functional) firewall, which should be on by default, and a possibly upcoming anti-virus, what do the companies that are currently selling these solutions think?
i see their market disappearing in one clean windows-update swoop.
well then pretty silly to even bother saying that they are offering a service. plus not as if i was small fry: needed the service for two/three vans to accompany a beverage multinational's country tour. huge pubblicity. but no, it meant nothing to them telling them this.
what is it with satellite providers and their reluctance to reply back to customer sales inquiries? i've had nothing but slow responses, unavailability of sales persons, etc.
last one was satlynx, kept whacking at them for 2months, even calling every person i could get my hands on, just couldn't get a price quote out of them! gave up. what do i have to do? beg them to sell me a service?