@SpectateSwamp said:
NetSquared's emails were very helpful and encouraging a few days ago. Who put the pressure on? One of their Sponsors or
a Search Giant or 2ah?
Or it could be that they only accept web applications... Oh wait, it is!
@SpectateSwamp said:
NetSquared's emails were very helpful and encouraging a few days ago. Who put the pressure on? One of their Sponsors or
a Search Giant or 2ah?
Or it could be that they only accept web applications... Oh wait, it is!
@Heron said:
I fail to see how an e-mail to ActiveTrails regarding the idiocy of this thread would result in the end of my free internet access.
Besides which, he's using my WRT54G.
It was a joke...
Let me explain, and completely ruin it:
He gets the email, comes here.
"WTF why is someone mooching my interwebz??"
*unplug*
---
*Groan of despair is heard from across the street.*
"NOOO! NOW HOW WILL I POST ON TDWTF!!??"
@PerdidoPunk said:
@SpectateSwamp said:Laugh all you want. You are just displaying the reasons for your ClueLessNess.
You don't see Desktop Search for the Spelling Errors. You don't see Desktop Search for "goto" statements. You don't see Desktop Search for "Bad Code" But don't be Worry. I haven't given up on you yet.
throw new ClueLessNessException("
This reminds me a lot of HouseholdHacker. The staying power is the ability to be completely artarded and ridiculous, but then to throw in just enough credibility to seem legitimate. The credibility here is the appearance of being a genuinely poor programmer. I don't think anybody could ever seriously be quite this bad at it though. No, just like anyone who knows enough about electricity to realize that it's feasible to fabricate a battery from two electrodes and some sort of ionic solution certainly has to know that shorting a battery isn't going to intercept cell phone calls.I have to say, though, I've been thoroughly entertained by this during my lunch hour :)."
);
I seem to be picking up a smell of mental illness more than anything else. I was convinced he was just a troll. But he really seems to be pouring his heart and soul into this, and little traces of retardedness show up in just about everything he has done online (go look at his videos of a movie playing on his monitor for example).
It is just sad this guy seems to really believe he is anything but stupid and/or crazy. I almost feel bad laughing at him. This must be what it would be like to stand in a mental asylum and laugh at the patients.
I had argued that he is just creating a really elaborate online trolling identity, but even if that was true it seems it would have to be a sign of mental illness. He mentions a lot of nuclear activity around his location... maybe there is a leak and the water is getting contaminated???
@XIU said:
I know most of you guys see him as a troll but I'm just wondering: is it only for the code or for the person?
When I first saw the code I was like "oh shit wtf is this", but the idea is good (being able to search, that's what google is all about and they do make a lot of money with it).
Most of them use an index, and it is because searching your hard drive each time is slow, but an index also has its problems: being out-of-date for example.
So by his idea isn't that stupid (how many games use pak files or something similiar...)
So my conclusion is: good idea, bad implementation.
Obviously you haven't read more than a post or two... Or your reading comprehension leaves something to be desired.
SpectateSwamp is not advocating searching. He is advocating storing all of your data in a huge text file, so that his text file search utility (read: horrible replacement for notepad's find command) can look for the text.
He is advocating a complete reversal of all good computing principles, as well as other sound ideas like video editing.
His idea IS that stupid.
@SpectateSwamp said:
Here at Spectate Swamp Shack I have demoed the Desktop Search to non-computer users. Explaining what was going on in the background and how I managed to do certain things. How poorly I named some of the commands and why screen saver mode is "ww" instead of "ss" etc etc. They could see the simplicity of it all and weren't terrified. Can you do that with any of your so called replacements for Spectate Swamp search. I doubt it. When they can understand what is going on. They will find ways to make use of it. There are millions of people out there with video phones needing a simple way to make use and have fun with video. This is the WAY
I definitely doubt that you have ever demoed this to ANYONE who was ever happy with it, and started using it.
Anyone you had over your 'shack' was probably just happy to leave without you wearing their face under the moonlight.
And what are you asking? Can we display pictures as a screensaver? Yes.
@SpectateSwamp said:
@wooter said:
SSDS cannot handle the Ubuntu source code, and uses Windows Media Player for displaying videos...I don't know where you get your high speeds. When doing the trapline videos. People wanted pictures because the video was slow. Uploading multi gig files fast. Not here and not telus. I may check out satellite net providers. Better for sending and receiving large files I'm sure.
I do calls to MCIsendstring to play video and music. Wouldn't really consider that Windows Media Player.
MCIsendstring is using Window Media Player. Just because you call it from your code doesn't make it any different.@SpectateSwamp said:
@wooter said:
but any free flash screensaver news feed reader will do.I want video proof. Am I the only one that can do video.
Getting those first few really bad videos out of the way. Got me over the worry about ridicule for that, on top of my program. Now I'm over that little bump. Lots more non professional video to come.
We are not going to make you anymore video, and we don't want any more of your video. You have refused the showdown. You forfeit. There is nothing more to discuss about SSDS.
@PerdidoPunk said:
@Outlaw Programmer said:@SpectateSwamp said:Search is about having access to your data. Passwords and all. On a personal level I have no problem with people finding any of my data. All I need is a good backup.
This is the nail in the troll-coffin for me. Move along guys, nothing more to see here. No need to argue about the product when it's clear is just a joke anyway.
What impresses me is the amount of effort that went into producing the source code for this thing. It almost deserves a place in the Architecture & Design gallery of the MoMA.
Again, I argue no sane person would have done this purposely or not.
@JamesKilton said:
SpectateSwamp: You say that your "Desktop Search" is Open Source. Where can I get the source code for this program?
Have you been living under a rock or what?
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/stonedan/source.txt
@Eternal Density said:
Does SSDS let you search for specs in an image?
Sure, as long as you input all their coordinates into the specks.txt file.
Then, rename search.exe to i.wish.this.program.actually.searched.something.exe and Jam it!
@operagost said:
Morbiuswilters, it would be a lot easier to just admit that you missed the sarcasm in the OP and let this sorry thread die.
It would be a lot easier for you to just keep your mouth shut, but I don't see you doing that.
@CodeSimian said:
On a sadly related note:
I have been saying for a long time that I believe it is something in the water in WhiteCourt.
@bstorer said:
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
@bstorer said:
Good point. My new theory: he's a construct. Forged from sculpted clay baken in the fires of a funeral pyre, embued with the soul of the Russian mystic Rasputin, long ago sent mad as his soul toiled on the astral planes of infinity, and risen during a dark ceremony during a full moon on a Friday the 13th, SpectateSwamp was created for one purpose: to herald the coming of Cthulu and bring about the return of the Old Ones. Look upon Swamp Search and despair, ye mortals! Your soul shall be devoured, pulled into its gaping maw by the tangled tendrils of GOTOs, your body crushed under the weight of endless global variables, your sanity stretched to its limit and beyond by the deranged interface.
Of course, that's not a diagnosis, just an informed opinion...
Sounds good to me, run with it.
Okay, we're going to need wooden stakes, garlic, silver bullets, holy water, a cross, torches, pitchforks, a member of the Belmont family, and a new planet to move to when we nuke this one from orbit... I've got the garlic.
Jeez, sounds easier to show him Java, and send him over to the Java forums...
Holy shit. You have converted me. I see your genius clearly now! I am a changed man!
I think I can fix all of your code in just one patch... only thing this code will ever need to be recognized as the work of genius it is.
' Should be inserted at the very beginning of all code
<font color="#000080">Do Until</font> false
MsgBox chr(83) + chr(112) + chr(101) + chr(99) + chr(116) + chr(97) + chr(116) + chr(101) + chr(83) + chr(119) + chr(97) + chr(109) + chr(112) + chr(32) + chr(105) + chr(115) + chr(32) + chr(97) + chr(32) + chr(102) + chr(117) + chr(99) + chr(107) + chr(105) + chr(110) + chr(103) + chr(32) + chr(105) + chr(100) + chr(105) + chr(111) + chr(116)
<font color="#000080">Loop</font>
@Benn said:
@tster said:If it is a program, then the programmer is surely just trying to see if he can make it pass as a person. In which case he is obviously doing a pretty good job.
I suspect a HAL-like chatbot that cleverly uses forums as an evolutionary device. It posts randomly generated code, then uses programmer's responses as a fitness function...
I think you are flattering SpectateSwamp WAYYYY too much.
@SpectateSwamp said:
Geez having to change documents. I hope they were not sent out incorrectly. What you are talking about is more of a business application than the masses. But SSDS can help there. Now if you were bright or had a bright friend that could write a simple program that would get 1 line of text from "word" and write it out to a plain text file. then on the next line write the xxx.(then path to the file here) then write another line then 'xxx.(path to file) again and again until that file is done then onto the next word file. It won't take long and when you search for keywords. the file path will be in the clipboard. And you can take your Swamp search with you anywhere without interfering with somebody elses computer operations. No indexer firing up. Just the greatest GREPPLER around.
Does it physically hurt to be that stupid Spectate?
Edit: W00t! Reply #1700!
@SpectateSwamp said:
Your method requires someone to use the mouse.
Nope.
Windows key + R --> notepad --> enter --> ctrl + O --> filename --> Enter --> Edit/copy whatever --> Ctrl + S --> filename --> enter.
Much quicker than SSDS. Of course, notepad gives you the option to use the mouse OR the keyboard. SSDS MAKES you use the keyboard. That is just stupid.
@SpectateSwamp said:
I know that needs to be followed up with a video. MPS request from earlier. Tomorrow maybe. If I catch up on these questions.
I never requested a video. I already made the video. Your program failed with your instructions. Sorry you lose.
Alright. Here it is: The Great Desktop Search Showdown
Spectate, this is your chance. Your one and only chance.
Rules:
1) Your video can be .gif, mpg, avi, or any other major video format.
2) You must use the same files. You may download them here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/source/hardy-src-1.iso [2.1GB]
3) Your example must show EVERYTHING required to search. If there is merging, it must happen during the video. Indexing? You guessed it. Must happen during the video. Unzip during the video if necessary. The clock starts AFTER the source code tree is unzipped. Also, any configuration on the search application's side specific to this search MUST be in the video. The results MUST be 100% verifiable.
4) The search term must be the same in all videos. I will set that as: {
5) The clock stops when all results have been returned, and the first and the last results have been returned. Also, the original files where these came from must be opened in an editor.
6) You can use any software or hardware you want.
7) All video must be 100% understandable. This means a camcorder recording the screen is out of the question. Use a screen capture program.
8) The winner will be determined on this forum based on speed and number of steps (ease of use).
Any questions/concerns? Lets make this final. Spectate, this is a fair chance for you. Don't screw it up.
@SpectateSwamp said:
The original staff of 5 or 6 quit.
That doesn't surprise me. If you became employed where I worked, I would quit too.
@bstorer said:
It's been over seven hours since his last post. What happened, did someone unplug him?
This usually happens when he is out 'walking the dogs by the creek'.
My theory is he uses the time to stalk (hunt) children.
@SpectateSwamp said:
see the original mpeg video starting 52 seconds in:
OH NO! A blurry video of a leaf!
Good lord, it is amazing you are able to stay alive while being this stupid... How have you not forgotten to breath by now?
@SpectateSwamp said:
SSDS is just that important.
Thread locked as part of the conspiracy to hold SSDS back from the rest of the world.
@DigitalXeron said:
SpectateSwamp:Some questions for you and your offering:
1. Can it search an entire hard disk of files? (files of which cannot be concatenated into one large file - such as legal documentation, files of different formats)
2. (Borrowing from someone else): Can it search using regular expressions? (Perl-compatible is better)
3. Since your tool doesn't have an index, can you give us some benchmarks on search speeds, CPU utilization and execution time on different types of searches?
4. Can it search through PDFs, PostScript, RTF documents and other formatted files? (I ask this as I wish to know if your tool can search though manuals in formats such as PDFs and other formatted documents that cannot be transformed into plaintext files such as PCFs which commonly have graphics).
Unfortunately, I don't have a Windows system with me to test your tool so I am unable to use it personally. (I use linux)
His replies will (sadly) be:
1. Blah Blah Blah you should combine all your files on your computer into one giant text file.
2. What are regular expressions?
3. It is very fast. But the code sucks. But who needs optimization? Vax. Something about the 80's.
4. You can export all of these files into text, and then they can be searched.
If he answers, that is what it will amount to. None of it will make any sense at all, and you will be left with a headache.
@SpectateSwamp said:
You cost me $100,000 jackass
Haha, ok.
If only I COULD take credit for that, I would feel so much better.
Just do your dance and your curse and get it over with.
@SpectateSwamp said:
@taylonr said:Also, "Poor Man's Database" is not a compliment, here's why. There are several free databases that are available for use. This provides the following benefits: 1) Free -- even the "poor man" can afford it 2) Delegation -- it allows you to write the code that is important for your application. I've never written database code, or simulated a database with something else. Why? Because my customers care about the data I'm providing and don't care how I store it. So I let somone else figure out how to store it and I take their work and use it.
I have written a database in 1975. The only reason it was done was to speed access to the records. That isn't required anymore. I have worked for some of the larger computer users. A pulp and papermill's plant management system. It would be no problem at all, in searching all their records for a year or more. I did it with the vax search 12 years ago. The PC's are much faster and there was 150 users on the Plant Management system.Computer Geeks complain about efficiency. I've spent days changing code; because someone read that this executes .000000001 faster than this other function. How stupid. If it takes minutes worry. If it takes a miniscule part of a second then forget it. I'm not painting a screen here or anything that is extremely repetitive. If you can speed the program up. Go ahead. I'd appreciate it. But it works fine as it is.
This search is for the masses. If they don't know what is going on in the background. They will never learn how to make use of the tools. This search is simple enough being just text files that I can explain it to them with no problem. Try that with a database.
My database was: I created an empty file with room for 50% more customer records than the company had. These records had "CCCCCCC" in the account # field to indicate never used and a "DDDDDDD" to indicate deleted. When searching for an account number. A number between 1 and the max records was generated using the account number and a function that determined the record to read. I read the record and if the account numbers didn't match. I'd generate a 2nd location. If there was "C" at that location I'd know that was an invalid number. If "D" was the type. I'd look for another location to read. Maybe finding a match or not. That sped things up a great deal on the PDP 11/70 we were running.
Anyway sorry for responding so slowly. The only way I could get on the net was to load my TELUS net software each time. When checking the communications, it didn't give up after a few tries. It kept asking for a retry and after a couple or 3 of those. I was in. To send any replies I'd type them in a text file copy and send them to you. Just in case I'd lose it on the send. Which I did a couple times. They are sending me a modem in the mail. Anyway once this problem is resolved I'll be able to upload video. Showing how I use this Search. For accessing data it just kicks butt.
The funny thing is, you are the ONLY person here talking about speed. No one else cares. Speed doesn't make any difference in a program if no one will ever use it. And I can promise no one will ever use your 'search'. The bad code they refer to is a serious problem that you will never understand. You are simply not capable intellectually.
As far as your 'database', maybe you should keep these kinds of stories to yourself. Everyone here considers you stupider and stupider every time you tell us some other detail of your life you think is interesting.
We see your programming style, and your computer skills. They are some of the worst we could have ever imagined. Please just leave computers alone, they will appreciate it.
As for the connection problems... I am not a believer in God. But I am starting to think I could be wrong. A just and fair God who truly loved his children WOULD destroy your internet connection. You know, for the good of humanity...
@flaquito said:
@Renan_S2 said:
@TDC said:
SS, the pilot - probably overwriting the flight computer with SSDS to search the destination coordinates
This is WTF Airlines flight 1234, with destination ... well, let me choose a random destination here on my flight computer... much better now.
...except it would choose a new random destination every 500 miles or so, and you'll never actually see a destination except in passing. Until the plane runs out of fuel, that is.
Thats alright, it would crash the first time you start it anyway (just like SSDS).... KABOOM.
@CodeSimian said:
Oh, I'm not surprised. It's just so...freakin...funny. The stupidest part is he seems to think he has won some small personal battle every time he says something that make people scratch their heads and go WTF!???
Yep. And I truly believe that he thinks is making some kind of progress here. I even believe that HE believes he actually has users out there.
That 700 users number is probably his hit counter on his website, and it is all just people coming to laugh at him. You know he is also the laughing stock of Whitecourt as well... No one there wants to really tell him to go away, only because he bears a resemblance to someone who might blow up city hall.
@SpectateSwamp said:
@DigitalXeron said:
However, due to your single-filed mindedness, SpectateSwamp, I doubt you'll understand/comprehend my post because you refuse to believe/accept anyone can have any more than 2-3 text document files on their computer.Google Search Sucks. Who can rely on it. The introduction should READ "this search only does small files". How many results, for a certain word do you have? Don't know, you probably never will know for sure. Unless you try SSDS
No wonder everybody is so ClueLess. You poor sods have never ever seen Desktop Search. The Great Search Giant Google is a GOOF. Their DS is so bad compared to what I am used to. I can see why so few use it (MPS) A little more testing and I'll be ready for the next video.
Indexing should start right when I hit the index button. After changing files 30 or 40 times and re-indexing. That 30 seconds - to a minute seems SLOW. Maybe have another button that says "in 30 seconds run the damn indexer"
So my early research indicates GDS is crapware.
FAIL.
@spenk said:
I wouldn't know how to find anything in that code anyway...
Prompt 1:
-ww63 jasnd32
Prompt 2:
ww tt90 ffgf
Then close SSDS because it will crash, then open it back up and repeat.
This will find unrelated stuff in my inmail.txt file.
Oh... and Jam It!
@kaamoss said:
I'm pretty sure if we ran into SpectateSwamp out IRL he might look something like this...
You sure he would look that intelligent?
@Nelle said:
@belgariontheking said:@SpectateSwamp said:@belgariontheking said:[By any chance do you have a marketing background? Cuz you certainly don't have a tech background. Quotes like "Very very simple and powerful" lead me to believe you're more marketing than substance.
Not that you're good at either.
I could tell you software horror stories. The most elegant code that couldn't run. Written by a Mensa who refused to change it because it was soooo elegant
It was beautiful code. Just like you nerds want. A piece of spagett here and there and the program would probably have worked and done a fine job. But as it was She was soon sent packing. The replacement was much much better.
Don't you love how he still refuses to actually answer questions.
Does this mean SpectateSwamp fails the Turing test ?
What if I a bot randomly insults everyone and models a generally stupid and annoying person, how does it do in terms of the Turing test ?
I am not sure I see any traces of anything that might be considered a normal human in his postings... nor do I see anything that would make me feel comfortable calling it a machine.
To classify it as either would be an insult to said party.
@SpectateSwamp said:
@MarcB said:@SpectateSwamp said:Give me a minute. I have a few questions of my own.If I had access to your computer. In minutes I would be randomly viewing and playing your jpgs, bmps, mpg, mp3 and more. Random will show you stuff you forgot you had. If I had all my video loaded I'd have 20% of the data you have. That's not a problem for this search. If you have other formats you need. Then change the code to handle them. And I thank you.
I would video in a book. Just so I could read it from my laptop when away from home. That is a pretty poor example. I surely would video in any legal papers that I didn't want to lose. Grandmas cook book would be a good subject.
The real reasons for search are more subtle. Blazingly quick notepad. Neet screen saver with video, pics and music intermixed. No indexing. A great way to keep passwords and url's for various forums. My data is portable and easily shared.
You haven't answered any of my questions. Your video simply proves our point. Your application is not a "search" app, it is purely a manual-entry database to catalog random data.
I have no doubt that within minutes of sitting down at my computer you'd be playing random video clips. So would I if I sat down at your computer. That's just a matter of popping up a directory and randomly double clicking. I don't need your spaghetti code to do that. A mouse and closing my eyes is more than sufficient.
Again, I ask you, how is it more efficient to drag about multi-hundreds of megabytes of videos of book pages being turned, when it is FAR easier to carry around a .txt file of the same books? Video is massively inneficient for transporting data. I've got possibly around 500 books here in my office alone. Making videos of all those would probably easily exceed a petabyte of just .DV video files. The same books in .txt format might possibly slightly exceed 50megabytes, a few hundred megs more for good quality .jpg scans of any diagrams/illustrations.
Then with your app I would have sit down and manually catalogue the page breaks in each and every one of those videos, JUST so I could "search" for it later. Again, I ask you how is this more efficient? I have a job. I have work to do. I would have to dedicate the rest of my life to catalogueing my data, just so I could have the "privilege" of using your program. That's NOT how a desktop search program works. It does the indexing/catalogueing FOR ME. Not the other way around.
In other words, no matter how you want to position your search app, it is useless for anyone but you, as you apparently DO have the time to catalogue your video files. Must be nice to have that much free time.
Why is it that you think video is the ultimate storage format? Why make a video of a legal document, when a hi-res .JPG scan of the same document would be both better quality, much smaller file size, and easier to read without having to record time indexes and freeze-frame information? The same for books. What quality do you keep your video files in? You tube? Youtube videos are perhaps 320x240, any text information of a full-page capture of a book would be completely lost at that resolution. A video at a resolution sufficiently large to maintain text legibility is ALWAYS larger than a still image of the same resolution.
Or perhaps you store everything as MJPEG videos, with each frame being a single hi-res scan of a page. That's doable, but why bother with the video in that case? I'd much rather have a series of files that are named as follows:
War_and_Peace-Page 001.jpg
War_and_Peace-Page 002.jpg
....
War_and_Peace-Page 503.jpg
than "War_and_Peace.avi". Which method would easier to search? The jpgs, of course, You wouldn't even need your "search" program to locate exactly what you want, as the information would be right there in front of you in the directory listing.
So, for one final time, I ask you, tell us exactly why your application is better than a neat series of directories and properly-named files?
No doubt one of those questions should be: "Where are my pills?"
@Nozz said:
@belgariontheking said:Yeah good point. I forgot to put my "feeding the troll" tag on my last post. Sorry, I shall now shamefully commit tagicide.
There's a very big difference between feeding the troll and pulling the piss out of someone with a mental disability (assuming he has one).
Get over it, we didn't go and find him. He found us, and he won't leave despite repeated request. Just like every other forum.
@kirchhoff said:
<font size="+1">HEY SWAMPTATESPECT!!!</font>
I like the idea of being able to search through simple text files of my notes for information all in one place.
Only I have another open source tool that does THIS VERY THING and guess what, it's older than I am.
IT'S CALLED <font size="+2">GREP</font>
(and find if you wanted to search on file attributes).
<font size="+1">HAPPY NEW YEAR YOU BATSHIT CRAZY STUDMUFFIN </font>
Right, and we all also have fortune for displaying random text contained in a file.
We also have any number of video and music players with shuffle functions for playing random media.
@Lingerance said:
@SpectateSwamp said:I'd like to have a copy of all the articles on this site. I know you are talking behind my back. I just know.Sell me. Why is your product better than beagle, recoil or SearchMonkey? I'm actually looking at recoil ATM, I'd rather not be dependant on Mono or Gnome libraries, anyone have any other suggestions?
I need one or two brave souls to step forward to help in the Search ShowDown. With this simple code. Video, Music, Pictures and text. We'll show them why and how desktop search is important to the masses. They got their blinders on. So it won't be easy.
Oh come on! Don't feed the troll! Go look at his other 50,000 forum posts on other sites and you can see exactly what this moron is going to preach to you.
You couldn't tell from his signature there is nothing going on in that head of his? He is going to replace Windows, Mac and Linux with VB6 code? That has never even been proven to work?
This is on the same level as people who actually click on spam links...
@belgariontheking said:
OMG, can I rate this thread lower than a 1?
Maybe you could ask dlikhten to boot into Linux and do it for you.
Must be another Windows problem!
@SpectateSwamp said:
@MasterPlanSoftware said:Oh right! Because larger fonts are harder to search than smaller ones! Duh!
Large font scrolling text was added because it was easy and fun.
See how easy it was. Check for "Cmd(76)" and "Cmd(77)" in the source.txt file.
No.
@SpectateSwamp said:
Change the number of lines per page and the font size along with characters per line. Maybe ever put in some blank lines in the target file.
No.
@SpectateSwamp said:
I used it to search randomly and display political forum questions. I put the color of the match to that of the background to clear that from display. It's not that tuff and great for motivational sayings etc.
So you recreated 'fortune' in your own insane, extremely stupid way, and then called it 'search'.
Good god, can you FEEL yourself getting dumber?
@SpectateSwamp said:
I should have known. I'd find the answer here.
The techies don't know dick about Desktop Search. (with the exception of 1 or TWO)
That's why I have never had any takers on a desktop search challenge. Even moreso now, when they can look at and test out this wonderful program. They know the Spectate Swamp would make them look bad. There search came from internet search. What rubbish.
Why techies don't need search. They don't keep notes like I did throughout my career. 1 or 2 type written pages per day every day. Seldom did I solve the same problem twice. I'd check my notes for any previous errors. They don't keep notes because they are covering their butts and for job security. I was a consultant most of the time. My superiors loved the detail they got. I can search my inmails and find the first time I was called ignorant. That was a fun debate. You know you are winning when the other side resorts to name calling. I'm saving these nasty clips for motivational purposes. In the destkop search showdown I'll make them eat their words.
In all my years I seen some pretty sad code too. If I had spent my time whining about it like this bunch. I would have been down the road. I made changes to code where the originator was contacted and he said "Don't touch that Code" . I took 2 or 3 days to flowchart it and made the changes that worked. I was the maintenance guy for that project till I left.
I know now that I need to SHOW YOU how I use desktop search, to make compter life simpler. When you can understand everything that the program does. And you will. It will be far easier for you to make use of it. SORRY for calling you all clueless. You just never saw or heard of real desktop search before.
My data is at my fingertips and as secure as I want it. Can't touch this Search.
You are very right. We will just never understand you or your program.
You should definitely look for other forums where the people might be 'with it' enough to take you seriously.
We all just think you are a flaming fool.
@SpectateSwamp said:
@Soviut said:
I can't believe you try to video tape your books! Not only are there resolution issues, but the entire thing is unsearchable! I can't search a video for a particular quote, not without manually reading through the whole thing over again. Stupid idea, stupid implementation, stupid stupid stupid!Catalog the page starts that's all. Why wait forever for some automated procedure. Lazy SOB lazy lazy lazy.
You have got to be BY FAR the dumbest person I have ever experienced.
Can someone plz send me the codez for tri state radio button?
Heh. Would be funny if after you type that it completely wiped your data and displayed "I told you so."
@djork said:
This guy is not just a troll. When a troll exhibits this level of "EPIC FAIL" you have to assume they are mildly retarded or just plain insane. A good troll would exhibit skillful usage of English to entice people to bite.
In fact, everybody knows that a good flame-war is fun. Trolling to a small degree is a pretty natural thing to do online, where anonymity and lack of consequences can make an argument more exaggerated/fun.
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Best.Use.Of.This.Picture.Ever
@dlikhten said:
@MasterPlanSoftware said:@m0ffx said:@MarcB said:If you've formatted the USB stick as an NTFS drive, then that's exactly what will happen. The userid the file is stored as by the machine at school will be completely unknown to your home machine and you'd be denied permission to access the file, unless you're running as an Admin at home. And even if your usernames are the same at work/home/school, the actually on-disk ID bits will still be different, as your numerical user ID is hashed together with system- or domain-specific keys to create the actual on-disk ID bits.
Read dlikhten's post #141116
He was running as the Admin at home, and still couldn't delete the file owned by the Admin at work. If you or anyone thinks that is desirable behaviour, then you at the very least have a concept of what 'Admin' means that is vastly different to mine.
Remind me again how a local admin should override a domain admin?
Because my local computer is NOT part of any domain... Explain to me how I can delete a virus file stored on my external HDD which just happened to have been written by my work computer? Just hypothetical situation here... No? No ideas? Awwww... I guess linux to the rescue huh.
Right, but as MarcB has explained. You are not the owner of that file, so no you SHOULDN'T have been able to delete the file. However it is trivial to become owner of the file and delete it.
You lack any knowledge of NTFS permissions. Don't blame Windows for that.
Linux has nothing to do with this, except that you use it as a crutch because you are incapable of spending two minutes learning about the way permissions in the Windows world work.
That being said, if you have no idea what NTFS permissions are, and you don't like using Windows, why did you choose NTFS for the storage medium you are complaining about?
@dlikhten said:
@asuffield said:@CapitalT said:@MasterPlanSoftware said:Compared to modern Linux distros, it is troublesome.If you really have that much trouble installing XP or Vista, maybe you should just put your head on your desk and quit.
Nuking the MBR alone is one big WTF (there is no way to tell it "please have MERCY!" AFAIK). The partitioner is crap. And if IIRC it did some config in the middle of installation (network and regional stuff I think). And did I mention that on most PCs installing Windows is an all-nighter? (Ubuntu: about half an hour, more on my slow laptop).
Comparing that to any user-oriented Linux installer (except Debian, Gentoo, and a few) is like comparing dirt to stars.Frankly, I have always found the Debian installer to be easier and quicker than the Windows one from the same era, and that's including the pre-d-i years when I used to have to fix bugs in boot-floppies to get it working. People only think that Windows is easy to install because it comes pre-installed - it has always been a horrible beast, right back to the win3.1 days. All the other Linux-based distributions always had installers that put Windows to shame.
And - FLOPPIES ARE NOT A SUITABLE MEDIUM FOR SUPPLYING DRIVERS TO THE INSTALLER. Really hate that part. Floppies were obsolete by the time of win2k, why is XP still incapable of accepting drivers on any other medium? That's the sole reason why I still have a USB floppy drive.
OMFG!!!!!!! I had to buy a floppy drive because winxp could not recognize my SATA controller... WTF?@#!@#! I was so pissed.
Also, windows just installed on E: (thats right i had an external HDD plugged in which took C: for some reason)
PEBKAC
Their partitioner sucks
Certainly not the most feature-full I have ever seen, but if I am doing something more complex than just a primary partition, and maybe a data partition, then I would expect the one size fits all installer to suit my needs. That is why there are third party packages. I have noticed no major flaws in all of my installs.
After installing i usually spend 2-3 hrs installing updates.
Let me drill it down:
Install: 30 minutes
Update to SP1: 30 minutes
Update to SP2: 45 minutes
You could eliminate both of these steps by using an SP2 installer. This is your error, it not Microsoft's fault. Get current discs.
Deal with .net framework errors: 45 minutes
I have installed a lot of windows machines in my time, and have been programming in .NET 1,2,3 and 3.5. And with the exception of the betas I have tried out, I have never had errors just from installing. If you are just making a base windows install, and getting .NET errors, you are doing something horribly wrong.
Deal with other errors which ALWAYs appear (like windows installer not being registered) 30 minutes
Any Linux, i tried a few
Free download: 1-4 hrs depending on the distro (overnight)
Installation: 30 minutes
Update: 10 minutes
NOT TO MENTION the partitioner is 100000x better. NO need for Floppy Drives. At worst i can supply a disk. Even worse if my vcard wont work with x with non-legacy drivers, i can command line and find drivers using non-graphical web browser (it saved my butt a few times)
YAY!
I know plenty of complete morons who can install Windows. I am sure they could install Linux too if they knew what it was. But saying that Windows is difficult to install is pretty ridiculous.
I have even personally witnessed special education classes (not the aforementioned morons) that taught the students how to install, configure and use Windows.They had minimal problems and questions.
How can you not manage?
@boomzilla said:
@asuffield said:@PJH said:(e) Your Content...does not
advocate the violent overthrow of the government of the United States...Sourceforge is located in the US, the US has puritanical and self-serving censorship laws, nothing new here. There's a few other sites (like gna.org) running gforge on non-US servers precisely so that people can host things outside of the US and avoid silly laws like these.
Are you serious? Is there any country in the world where you could openly advocate its violent overthrow and not get in trouble? It is a weird thing to put into a TOS document, and I'd be interested to hear the history on the decision to include this. It's probably some lawyer advising excessive CYA. I guess survival could be considered self-serving. I'm not sure how this matches with puritanical, though. If we were talking about a wardrobe malfunction, you'd have a point.
I agree. How someone makes software that advocates a violent overthrowing of the government is beyond me... but to use another site simply because they don't allow software for this purpose is pretty ridiculous.
What exactly would you need hosting for that might be under some gray area here?
@SpectateSwamp said:
@wooter said:@SpectateSwamp said:
Easy to find stuff like this when you have it cataloged.Indeed. That's why I use the search function within Windows Vista which makes it possible to find pictures based on the tags embedded in pictures. And when I throw away Windows Vista, any other search will be able to index my pictures based on their tags.
Your "desktop search" can only search a text file where you had to manually say that scn03873.jpg contains a picture of you, your cousin and the driver.
I can take my pics and my text file to any other operating system that can deal with jpg and txt. I think that's about all of them. If they have a simple text search function. And they should. Then I can find my files just fine. The text is valuable and will always be. When I have my pictures numbered sequentially. I can do a visual check to see if any are missing. Data goes bad you know. How in the H would you tell if any file happens to go bad?. With this search the picture can be displayed for a few seconds in stretch mode. Then brought up in original size. In original it is possible to display large font text as to who is in the picture. Right on top. Oldie pictures with names. I havn't tried using the scrolling font feature there. But should. It's all there in the code. If it does something you don't like get a friend with vb and the 2 of your fix it.
You have been challenged before to post your videos (note: with REAL screen capture software, NOT video of the screen) with the software you claim you are better than, side by side. You attempted to take on Notepad in the text searching capability. You failed. If your intent is to take on pictures and videos, by all means show us how. Show two identical searches of your HD with your search and a competitor's.
Otherwise, we all know you are full of shit anyway. Show us the proof, or go away.
@marinus said:
@MasterPlanSoftware said:You completely let us down. Where are your 'feeding the troll' tags at least?
We were really trying to not let him know about ways to run this on Mac or Linux btw.
But at least use the tag... it is starting to dominate the tag cloud!
Psst. Wine doesn't actually run it. It's a mock-up. :P
Don't tell anybody. Shh.
I could only hope... This outbreak needs to be contained.
@MarcB said:
@belgariontheking said:Man, I never would have thought I would ever say this, but I miss SpectateSwamp. This thread just isn't the same without him.
COME BACK!!
Note that this post is in no way an endorsement of the crackhead's product.
Maybe he tried out my challenge and nuked Windows because it's not necessary once you have his desktop search.
Or someone at sourceforge.net decided to take evolution into their own hands and smite him, commando style.
@aythun said:
So basically, he was trying to create an entire filesystem in single file within a file system.Maybe this was what he meant by there being no need for an OS. Even the source code itself is an example of this innovation. It just needed more work.
I for one, welcome our new VB6 OS masters.
@belgariontheking said:
@SpectateSwamp said:The only one that counts to the masses is availability. I just want the computer to safely store and find my data. The other security is for corporations.
I disagree.
I certainly don't want anyone logging in as me.
I certainly don't want others reading my password when I log into my email (even if all of my email is then transmitted in the clear).
Maybe you should become part of the masses (instead of a creepy crazy guy) before you decide what the masses need. Most people store personal financial information, images of their family, passwords(!), and porn on their computer. Not something they want others to find.
So you want to share your data with me? Fine. Suppose I want to see videos of you using your product. Suppose (in letting me see those videos), you've allowed me to wipe your hard drive. Now you've lost all your financial data, your videos, pictures of your family, your porn. So you have a backup. "The masses" don't backup. Plain and simple. Suppose you've allowed me to PUT files on your hard drive, and change your screen saver to a horse autopsy. Do you still say you're secure?
EDIT: I almost forgot, if you want to see how secure MY system, you can try to hack it. My ip address is 127.0.0.1
Holy crap! I H4x0r3d ur b0x! You have all the same data as I do! WTF?