I'm biased based on my experiences with these tools. I love them.
I assume Yahoo searches those headers. I just validated that X1 search finds the host.domain in the to header on my system.
Though I haven't actually used the Yahoo search tool, Yahoo recently did an agreement with X1 and I'm a user of X1 Search (http://www.x1.com). The user interface looks very similar. I'm guessing the underlying engine and application is the same. As far as I'm concerned, X1 search stomps all over Google desktop search.
I removed Google desktop search after driving X1 search for several weeks.
I've only got about 400,000 files including email/attachments indexed because I don't do my entire machine.
I use the many additional file types, the more thorough settings/customization and the far better search user interface (I.e. condense more information on one page, search in document contents, then allow filter/search in any of the columns among the hits like path, extension, from, to, cc, bcc, etc).
The problem I see is that the Google brand plus the fact that many people just don't need as much search function to be productive.
Tools like this can really change the way you work. You find ways to optimize your taking and keyword generation in files all over the place on your hard drive. Recovering information becomes trivial. Unfortunately, you also tend to stop studying a little earlier than you normally would. It can be sort of a bad trend as you actually "offload" some of your memory to the machine.
You can set it using the GUI... Its possible that this is an XP service pack 2 thing. Dunno.
Double click on time/date in the launchpad or use control panel date and time applet.
Click on "internet time" tab.
Select automaticaly synchronize with an internet time server, enter time.nist.gov.
As for the credit cards, shielded wallet. You know you'd buy one if they came out anyway, just for the cool factor:)
I thought everyone reading here already had those? How else do you keep the single condom, still unused since your freshman year in high school, protected from gamma rays and nutrino penetration?
Yeah, but also, not everyone wants to carry a blackberry, an ebook reader, an organizer, a digitcal camera and an MP3 player.... Did I forget anything? Oh yeah, the phone.
Its called a market, not a "movement against integration".
"There was some study" ???!?! Its not evil for wanting convergence you know. Some of us get big mileage/savings out of it regardless of the growth pains. There are simpler and small phones available. Buy one. Vote with your money. I'll stick with my smartphone.
No... No... No... Don't worry, you're not dreaming, Microsoft is not trying to help the standard internet user. That's just a by-product.
By now, their legal team is so much more skilled compared with their development team, it just makes more sense to solve the hotmail problem (pissed customers, too much disk/bandwidth wasted on spam, take your pick) by using those hotshots instead of making spam useless with their technical leaders. 8-)
Here's one thing you need to know: You actually should use the crowbar a lot. In my opinion, its by far the best weapon for effectively smashing the face huggers out of the air. Nice.
Not to mention the picture where, at a quick glance, the musical note overlay on Gates looks like old Billy boy is... er... um... Doing what 98.2% of slashdotters call sex. 8-)
I use a PalmOne Treo 600, and I've found http://www.google.com/palm an absolute must have reference when on the go.
The best recent example that comes to mind: I traveled to Las Vegas and looked up rules and statistics about playing craps while I was standing in the casino... 8-).
Clearly, this is just the first step in being able to Google for your car keys or that cute blond you scanned 4 beers ago and can't remember which table she was sitting at.
Actually, since I switched to firefox, the thing I miss most about the Google toolbar is the autofill support.
It works quite well, and when you buy more things online than in the real world, its like the difference between writing a check and using a check card. Much quicker and more convenient.
I'm simply too lazy to try to write a firefox plugin to do the same thing, but probably wouldn't too difficult (once you've actually written a firefox plugin... 8-).
Dude, that's really funny, but more so, because its true.
I really think that technology like this actually has the effect of making us much smarter. Any old complex task or idea that crosses my mind is only a couple of clicks and a query away.
I can spend 1 minute seaching, longer reading and know enough that I can at least follow or participate in a conversation. I know that I can get more information about the topic if I want to. No long trip to the library which is probably closed, plus a dramatic optimization of wading through the bad information to find the good.
I use X1 Search to do the same thing on my files/email/attachment on my PC (Its Windblows based, sorry). Sorry to sound like an Advert, but I just love the tool so much and it is related to the topic.
Though, I have to admit, since Google and good PC search/index software like this came around, I find that I modify my thinking in really strange (but really effective ways).
I'll snatch a web page or PDF document, or bash out a quick summary text file, file it away, and then remember things like basic concepts, hello world level details, keywords, etc.. and then PROMPTLY FORGET ABOUT IT and transition to something new. I can use my problem solving and logic skills and completely relax about the facts. Those sink in quickly enough as I progress through a topic, but at the start, I'm there and making progress.
In my mind, its really sort of a phenomenal change in the way human society works and thinks.
Do you actually use it or did you just google it to get your Karma up?
From PGPFone Home "MIT is no longer distributing PGPfone. Given that the software has not been maintained since 1997, we doubt it would run on most modern systems.".
With a little searching I was able to find a slightly newer version and some pages as new as Jan, 2001. I wouldn't consider this product too interesting based on that, though you never know, I could be wrong.
On the quantum network, a laser separates individual photons, and sends them to a device called a modulator. The modulator pumps them out to other network nodes on fiber optic cable. The photons are encoded by sending them out at different intervals: a long gap indicates one bit of information, and a shorter one a different bit.
On the receiving end, another device accepts the photons and recognizes how they're modulated. If the sequence matches what was originally sent, then the keys are stored and used to unscramble data sent through conventional means between the different network nodes, such as over the Internet.
So let me get this...
Cut the fiber cable (at some 3am nobody is gonna notice), stick in a laptop at the cable break with two modulators connected to each end. The system accepts the incoming keys, stores the keys, then sends the same bit pattern out using the other modulator.
You now have two connections, neither of which are observed. 1) Alice to Eve 2) Eve to Bob
Now, Eve also sniffs the traffic on the conventional network, decrypting easily because Eve's got the keys. What am I not understanding?
Anyone have problems with colorful/printed mousepads?
I've got an MX500 (logitech wired laser mouse). It fails in an interesting fashion on one mouse pad.
It has a 12x18 grid of example colors and their RGB values on it.
When moved at the right angle, the mouse appears to detect the graphics/printing on the surface of the mouse pad and moves in unpredictable directions.
Although the graphics/printing could be raised in some fashion, I can't detect any difference in it except for color.
Replaced it with a mono-chrome mousepad, it works great.
Ok. ok, fine. The new "mousepad" is a fricking square of cardboard with "Damn! You're tricky! No passwords here" written on its underside (for my corporate security weenies)
Yeah, I agree on the search statement. It'll be interesting to how Google and Microsoft compete on this front.
You can really fundamentally change the way you work when you've got good desktop search/indexing support. I've been using Scopeware Vision for over a year, then they croaked. I was really lost for a while.
Kind of frightened me a bit for how incompetent I became when I couldn't search my local index quickly...
I got over it 8-), now I use X1 search. Its the "best" one I've found so far. Its extra simple, lightweight, supports sufficient file formats/email clients and functions exactly as advertised.
I want the quality presentation. eBooks, are not quality presentation
I can't agree with the quality presentation comments. To me its the data. I don't get stuck on the format of a book. Paperpack, hardcover, magazine, doesn't matter to me, its the "bits" of the content that is important.
I read e-books on my Treo. I have about 50, 10 or so are secure formats. Several are secure palm reader, several are secure mobipocket.
Using my Treo, I can read for 2 minutes waiting in line, in the dark on a plane, whatever. Its WAY more convenient than traditional media.
I'll want to make sure that in 10 years, I can still read it
I agree completely with this. To me it becomes a trust thing. I don't trust the system yet.
The site I usually buy ebooks from http://www.fictionwise.com/ provides me download service whenever I want, and continually maintains the keys with which I can download books in, allows me to infrequently change the keys for new books. I tend towards unencrypted books.
Here's are just a few trust/implementation problems
Readers choose different mechanisms for deciding keys. Mobipocket on the Treo picks a new key based on device when REINSTALLED requiring re-download of books. That's just plain stupid.
PalmReader decides they want to use my credit card. That's better, but I'll get a new credit card eventually. How about my SS number or better an ebook key that I choose, is public to them, and represents me and only me (i.e. others can gift ebooks, they can track piracy, its not personally identifying information used by anyone else). Win/win.
If the website goes out of business I'm stuck with my current copy (encrypted as-is) of the books.
I love the format and convenience, but I'm thinking its getting close to the time that my fair use decryption of this stuff is going to have to kick in for me to guarantee that I retain the information I purchased.
I agree. We should all have an opportunity to type in the hex representation of the of the jpeg file containing the Times Roman name of our chosen candidate.
I'm sure that bit twiddling freak "Joey 'jpeg' Smith" will make a good choice because his vote will be the only one that counts.
Seriously though, I agree. We take protecting idiots WAY too far in this country. Could be because EVERY ONE OF IS is an idiot at times and we have some emotional reason to protect them... Dunno.
Open source has a much easier time convincing people to upgrade to the most current release because in most cases it costs nothing but a little time to move to the latest stable release.
That's interesting.
That's about the only thing that keeps me away from using Linux in a day-to-day perspective. That up-front-cost and investment in time.
Yes, I know it will get a bit better (but not completely, OSS community moves fast). Yes, I know that its somewhat interesting. Yes, I know that there are replacement apps for the windows stuff I use....
But I just can't afford the time investment of figuring out where to get linux equivalent of xxxx and how it compares and contrasts with the OTHER linux equivalent of xxxx.
I believe that being raped by purchase/upgrade costs from Microsoft is FAR cheaper for me than those efforts and the time associated with them.
Besides, Cygwin for basics gets me so close on windows gets me at least to the point that I can stay sane. 8-)
Yeah, but ya know. I can't even find the phone numbers of people I work with without being online to the company intranet and this would probably hit there too. Suddenly, 2^12 calls to the main lobby asking for phone numbers. Oh crap, that network just went down to.
Perhaps not, but this paper (posted on/. before) by Ray Kurzeil gives an interesting hypothesis about why it might actually be a 'law' of intelligence http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html
I find that double exponential growth that Kurzeil talks about seems pretty obvious to me, and really gets me psyched up. Also, during the application of that 'limited' amount of computation we'll have after the 600 years to certain human centric problems will probably still leave us enough CPU for some really cool holo-deck programs....
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I assume Yahoo searches those headers. I just validated that X1 search finds the host.domain in the to header on my system.
Though I haven't actually used the Yahoo search tool, Yahoo recently did an agreement with X1 and I'm a user of X1 Search (http://www.x1.com). The user interface looks very similar. I'm guessing the underlying engine and application is the same. As far as I'm concerned, X1 search stomps all over Google desktop search.
I removed Google desktop search after driving X1 search for several weeks.
I've only got about 400,000 files including email/attachments indexed because I don't do my entire machine. I use the many additional file types, the more thorough settings/customization and the far better search user interface (I.e. condense more information on one page, search in document contents, then allow filter/search in any of the columns among the hits like path, extension, from, to, cc, bcc, etc).
The problem I see is that the Google brand plus the fact that many people just don't need as much search function to be productive.
Tools like this can really change the way you work. You find ways to optimize your taking and keyword generation in files all over the place on your hard drive. Recovering information becomes trivial. Unfortunately, you also tend to stop studying a little earlier than you normally would. It can be sort of a bad trend as you actually "offload" some of your memory to the machine.
You can set it using the GUI... Its possible that this is an XP service pack 2 thing. Dunno.
Double click on time/date in the launchpad or use control panel date and time applet.
Click on "internet time" tab.
Select automaticaly synchronize with an internet time server, enter time.nist.gov.
Its called a market, not a "movement against integration".
"There was some study" ???!?! Its not evil for wanting convergence you know. Some of us get big mileage/savings out of it regardless of the growth pains. There are simpler and small phones available. Buy one. Vote with your money. I'll stick with my smartphone.
No... No... No... Don't worry, you're not dreaming, Microsoft is not trying to help the standard internet user. That's just a by-product.
By now, their legal team is so much more skilled compared with their development team, it just makes more sense to solve the hotmail problem (pissed customers, too much disk/bandwidth wasted on spam, take your pick) by using those hotshots instead of making spam useless with their technical leaders. 8-)
Here's one thing you need to know: You actually should use the crowbar a lot. In my opinion, its by far the best weapon for effectively smashing the face huggers out of the air. Nice.
Not to mention the picture where, at a quick glance, the musical note overlay on Gates looks like old Billy boy is... er... um... Doing what 98.2% of slashdotters call sex. 8-)
I use a PalmOne Treo 600, and I've found http://www.google.com/palm an absolute must have reference when on the go.
The best recent example that comes to mind: I traveled to Las Vegas and looked up rules and statistics about playing craps while I was standing in the casino... 8-).
Clearly, this is just the first step in being able to Google for your car keys or that cute blond you scanned 4 beers ago and can't remember which table she was sitting at.
It works quite well, and when you buy more things online than in the real world, its like the difference between writing a check and using a check card. Much quicker and more convenient.
I'm simply too lazy to try to write a firefox plugin to do the same thing, but probably wouldn't too difficult (once you've actually written a firefox plugin... 8-).
I really think that technology like this actually has the effect of making us much smarter. Any old complex task or idea that crosses my mind is only a couple of clicks and a query away.
I can spend 1 minute seaching, longer reading and know enough that I can at least follow or participate in a conversation. I know that I can get more information about the topic if I want to. No long trip to the library which is probably closed, plus a dramatic optimization of wading through the bad information to find the good.
I use X1 Search to do the same thing on my files/email/attachment on my PC (Its Windblows based, sorry). Sorry to sound like an Advert, but I just love the tool so much and it is related to the topic.
Though, I have to admit, since Google and good PC search/index software like this came around, I find that I modify my thinking in really strange (but really effective ways).
I'll snatch a web page or PDF document, or bash out a quick summary text file, file it away, and then remember things like basic concepts, hello world level details, keywords, etc.. and then PROMPTLY FORGET ABOUT IT and transition to something new. I can use my problem solving and logic skills and completely relax about the facts. Those sink in quickly enough as I progress through a topic, but at the start, I'm there and making progress.
In my mind, its really sort of a phenomenal change in the way human society works and thinks.
From PGPFone Home "MIT is no longer distributing PGPfone. Given that the software has not been maintained since 1997, we doubt it would run on most modern systems.".
With a little searching I was able to find a slightly newer version and some pages as new as Jan, 2001. I wouldn't consider this product too interesting based on that, though you never know, I could be wrong.
I.e. Eve is not observing in this case, they're intercepting and resending new data that is indistinguishable from the original.
On the quantum network, a laser separates individual photons, and sends them to a device called a modulator. The modulator pumps them out to other network nodes on fiber optic cable. The photons are encoded by sending them out at different intervals: a long gap indicates one bit of information, and a shorter one a different bit.
On the receiving end, another device accepts the photons and recognizes how they're modulated. If the sequence matches what was originally sent, then the keys are stored and used to unscramble data sent through conventional means between the different network nodes, such as over the Internet.
So let me get this...
Cut the fiber cable (at some 3am nobody is gonna notice), stick in a laptop at the cable break with two modulators connected to each end. The system accepts the incoming keys, stores the keys, then sends the same bit pattern out using the other modulator.
You now have two connections, neither of which are observed. 1) Alice to Eve 2) Eve to Bob
Now, Eve also sniffs the traffic on the conventional network, decrypting easily because Eve's got the keys. What am I not understanding?
I've got an MX500 (logitech wired laser mouse). It fails in an interesting fashion on one mouse pad. It has a 12x18 grid of example colors and their RGB values on it.
When moved at the right angle, the mouse appears to detect the graphics/printing on the surface of the mouse pad and moves in unpredictable directions. Although the graphics/printing could be raised in some fashion, I can't detect any difference in it except for color.
Replaced it with a mono-chrome mousepad, it works great.
Ok. ok, fine. The new "mousepad" is a fricking square of cardboard with "Damn! You're tricky! No passwords here" written on its underside (for my corporate security weenies)
Does this make more sense to you?
Seems right to me...
Ahh.... Grandma's a true geek then.. "damn whipper snappers with their inferior technologies". Nice. 8-)
You can really fundamentally change the way you work when you've got good desktop search/indexing support. I've been using Scopeware Vision for over a year, then they croaked. I was really lost for a while.
Kind of frightened me a bit for how incompetent I became when I couldn't search my local index quickly...
I got over it 8-), now I use X1 search. Its the "best" one I've found so far. Its extra simple, lightweight, supports sufficient file formats/email clients and functions exactly as advertised.
Uh... Looks like a top summary to me.
I can't agree with the quality presentation comments. To me its the data. I don't get stuck on the format of a book. Paperpack, hardcover, magazine, doesn't matter to me, its the "bits" of the content that is important.
I read e-books on my Treo. I have about 50, 10 or so are secure formats. Several are secure palm reader, several are secure mobipocket.
Using my Treo, I can read for 2 minutes waiting in line, in the dark on a plane, whatever. Its WAY more convenient than traditional media.
I'll want to make sure that in 10 years, I can still read it
I agree completely with this. To me it becomes a trust thing. I don't trust the system yet.
The site I usually buy ebooks from http://www.fictionwise.com/ provides me download service whenever I want, and continually maintains the keys with which I can download books in, allows me to infrequently change the keys for new books. I tend towards unencrypted books.
Here's are just a few trust/implementation problems
I love the format and convenience, but I'm thinking its getting close to the time that my fair use decryption of this stuff is going to have to kick in for me to guarantee that I retain the information I purchased.
I'm sure that bit twiddling freak "Joey 'jpeg' Smith" will make a good choice because his vote will be the only one that counts.
Seriously though, I agree. We take protecting idiots WAY too far in this country. Could be because EVERY ONE OF IS is an idiot at times and we have some emotional reason to protect them... Dunno.
Damn, I know what you mean, but that just makes me hear my wife's voice in my head....
"What do you want me to look like tonight honey?"
Karma? What's that?
That's interesting.
That's about the only thing that keeps me away from using Linux in a day-to-day perspective. That up-front-cost and investment in time.
Yes, I know it will get a bit better (but not completely, OSS community moves fast). Yes, I know that its somewhat interesting. Yes, I know that there are replacement apps for the windows stuff I use....
But I just can't afford the time investment of figuring out where to get linux equivalent of xxxx and how it compares and contrasts with the OTHER linux equivalent of xxxx.
I believe that being raped by purchase/upgrade costs from Microsoft is FAR cheaper for me than those efforts and the time associated with them.
Besides, Cygwin for basics gets me so close on windows gets me at least to the point that I can stay sane. 8-)
Yeah, but ya know. I can't even find the phone numbers of people I work with without being online to the company intranet and this would probably hit there too. Suddenly, 2^12 calls to the main lobby asking for phone numbers. Oh crap, that network just went down to.
Perhaps not, but this paper (posted on /. before) by Ray Kurzeil gives an interesting hypothesis about why it might actually be a 'law' of intelligence http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0134.html
I find that double exponential growth that Kurzeil talks about seems pretty obvious to me, and really gets me psyched up. Also, during the application of that 'limited' amount of computation we'll have after the 600 years to certain human centric problems will probably still leave us enough CPU for some really cool holo-deck programs....