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Top of Page Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ I've removed the link to my search page. I used Atomz, and after a while it stopped working for me. (In a fit of pique, I refuse to even link to them here. So there. Ha.) I infer that like Google, it doesn't guarantee to crawl all the pages of your site, so if you try to search your site, you only get results based on pages that the general search engine has crawled recently. So I've tried another search engine, FreeFind, choosing its most basic level, which is supposed to provide a simple search of this site only. No web search, no site map. Let's see how it works. |
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Top of Page Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ This morning my inbox contained an email from FreeFind that said my site had been spidered. On Halloween. Hm. 'Nuff said I guess. So this morning I tried a couple of searches that Atomz hadn't felt up to performing, and got lots of hits. I didn't see quite how the hit list was organized... It didn't seem chronological or by some "per cent relevance" number. And the links just took me to the applicable page, rather than to the specific day that contained the search item. But I guess that's minor. The individual pages are mostly small enough to be manually scanned for the subject in question, or of course one can hit [Ctrl+F] in the browser window and search the page that way. All things taken with all, I guess I'm pleased with FreeFind. And for quick web searches, I put a link to Google under my reference links. Yesterday I burned a copy of the install CD for Redmond Linux. Check out some screenshots from their website. Their goal is to create a Linux distribution that looks and feels like Windows, to ease the transition for curious potential Linuxen. I hope to try installing it today on my work PC (clone PIII-600, 128 MB, 12 GB, all generic). Mandrake's former release installed flawlessly on it, though their current rev doesn't use the sound card, though it SEEMS to detect it. Debian failed to install after three or four attempts, so I gave up on it. I also asked to be emailed when (if) Lindows actually becomes available. Interesting premise there — install one operating system, run both Linux and Windows software. Yeah, I know about Windows emulators, but this vaporware purports to make the whole thing transparent. This is from the Lindows website: About Lindows.com, Inc. It's one of those dreams that we wish somebody would actually make happen. Like a Linux distribution that Aunt Martha could use without constant support. Hey, it could happen. Right? Couldn't it? *Sigh* LATER... OK, I installed Redmond Linux, build 41b. It installed quickly (on the second try) from a single 533 MB CD, and detected my hardware quite well. On the first try, I picked a video resolution and tested it successfully, then chose "Generic 56K Rockwell Chipset" for my internal modem. The setup program, LIZARD, looked and acted like Caldera's Linux setup. But it failed to install any software packages, and ended with an "Install Failed" error message. So I rebooted and didn't mess with the video settings, and told it I had no modem. I told it to use DHCP to get an IP address for my network card, rather than specifying all the various numbers, as I had tried the first time. This time the install went well. I ended up with a clean, reasonably Windows-ish-looking KDE desktop environment, with a small but thoughtfully-selected group of programs. The install included bells and whistles like Acrobat Reader, RealPlayer, the Mozilla browser, and utilities for things like playing music CDs, attaching a digital camera, and so on. I wasn't successful in trying to set up a network printer, but I did get an IP address from my network's DHCP server, so I was able to browse the web. Then I tried to install the Opera 5 web browser, from an RPM package file that I'd stored previously in a Windows FAT32 folder. I found the folder with no problem, and appeared to open the RPM file, but the install failed with "dependency" issues. I assumed that this was because Redmond Linux didn't include all the libraries Opera needed; but for all I know, it may have had something to do with the RPM file being on a Windows FAT32 drive. Alas, I'm not smart enough to know for sure. My basic conclusion was that this revision of Redmond Linux is a nice, clean little distribution, but maybe not powerful enough. I'll admit to a newby-ish preference for Mandrake, with its tons of bells, whistles, and gadgets, and its nice custom configuration utilities. But I'll be the first to admit that I'm not qualified to opine about any Linux distribution on any level beyond "first impressions of a newby." I keep hoping that will change, but apparently that would actually require me to buckle down and spend some time really learning about Linux. Hmph. In real life, there's an appalling lack of magic bullets and cheat codes. |
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Top of Page Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ What's up with Opera? I think this started happening this week; that is, I don't recall ever noticing it before — the Forward and Back buttons no longer work in Opera 5, nor do the keyboard shortcuts, like [Backspace] to go back a page, or [Alt+Left Arrow] and [Alt+Right Arrow] to move backward and forward. Yet all these things work normally in Internet Explorer 5 and Netscape Navigator 6. Can you say frustrating? I uninstalled Opera, and then reinstalled it. Same behavior, and I noticed it picked up my personal settings from the previous install. What gives? Beyond an uninstall routine that's become as casual as Microsoft's, ostensibly removing a program, but leaving all kinds of software droppings on my hard disk. Argh! Ack! Poop! I had been using Opera as my default browser for over a month, and liking it pretty well. I really like its MDI interface, with multiple browser windows all opening up in the same program window. Much more manageable than the Borg's anarchic sprawl of browser windows piled upon more browser windows, lopping over, under, and around yet more browser windows. And I like Opera's better security. <plaintive whine> So can SOMEBODY please tell me who I hafta kill to get it to work right again? </plaintive whine> So I ran the uninstall program, then rebooted and manually edited the registry and removed all other references to Opera. Then I reinstalled. ARRRGGGHHH!!! Still picked up my personal settings — my home page, the Naviscope proxy server, my list of trusted servers... Where did it get them? OK, I guess the next step is to uninstall again, then get a fresh download. I really want this program to work. I've gotten to like it better than IE (for the most part). But this really stinques. Hmmm... Does Opera have actual tech support available for free to end users? Time to go find out, I guess. LATER... I found it! I found it! When in the last extremity of frustration, there comes a moment when even the most hard-core nerd must buckle and Read The Fine(!) Manual. Opera's website offered this: Grayed out previous and next buttons Ummm... Guilty. I did that. So in Opera, "no history" doesn't just mean "clear the History folder" as in IE; it means "no history, period. Loser." Live and learn. As someone smarter than I once put it, "There are those amongst the Daynoters who say they do these stupid things so that you don't have to; I hold out no such high purpose in my maneuverings - I do these stupid things because I'm stupid." And BTW, here's a neat article from la Reg, that talks about Opera being the preferred browser for future "smartphones" from Nokia, Ericsson/Sony, Motorola and Matsushita. It begins with a reference to the way the Borg tried to explicitly bar Opera users from their revamped MSN website. Tsk, tsk. I am simply shocked, shocked! |
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