Why is Everybody so clueless on the importance of Desktop Search to the Masses?



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    It was pretty weird being YellowHead. I started getting a strange urge...

    Did the voices in your head tell you to do things? Is that why they aren't laughing any more?

    @SpectateSwamp said:
    ...run Yellow lights while driving about my YellowHead riding.

    THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE YOU RETARD

    But regardless, there's nothing wrong with "running" yellow lights.

    @SpectateSwamp said:
    The Kids at Sangudo school cheered my speech and my YellowHead wildly. Lots of horn honking when people spotted YellowHead putting up Election Signage.

    I guarantee you it was only because you amused them.

    @SpectateSwamp said:
    I learned more in 2 weeks running for Federal politics than the rest of my life.

    That's really sad. Had you actually stayed in school above 9th grade, you would have learned heaps more - and maybe your life wouldn't be so worthless.

    @SpectateSwamp said:
    Man they cheat at the forums. Too bad. Thats why I video them. The organizers (usually the chamber of commerce) are the ones that don't want my camera there. Not the candidates.

    Pity no-one will ever watch a single one of those videos. There are starving kids in Africa who could really use the money you waste on media for your camera.



  • Leading and Trailing spaces with Swamp Search

    @dlikhten said:

    In any case I must check out SS's desktop search because I feel like making that software super-stable though good QA testing and after many hrs of SS fixing it realizing that nobody freaken' uses it for anything! Its just too compelling! Anyone care to make a bug-report bot?
    Some of the problems people experience with SSDS is the way I use it. I don't encounter the bugs very often. I do get it to lock up if I search a file I just created without closing out and entering back in. I'm in and out of the search lot of times a day. Spell checking. Mostly. I like checking my spelling when the context is interesting. With Swamp search you can input the beginning " eff/ncy " and end of a word (with spaces) and find words you are not sure of. Swamp search returns "_Efficiency_" You will discover all kinds of words this way. Swamp search allows for Leading and Trailing spaces.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    @dlikhten said:

    In any case I must check out SS's desktop search because I feel like making that software super-stable though good QA testing and after many hrs of SS fixing it realizing that nobody freaken' uses it for anything! Its just too compelling! Anyone care to make a bug-report bot?
    Some of the problems people experience with SSDS is the way I use it. I don't encounter the bugs very often. I do get it to lock up if I search a file I just created without closing out and entering back in. I'm in and out of the search lot of times a day. Spell checking. Mostly. I like checking my spelling when the context is interesting. With Swamp search you can input the beginning " eff/ncy " and end of a word (with spaces) and find words you are not sure of. Swamp search returns "_Efficiency_" You will discover all kinds of words this way. Swamp search allows for Leading and Trailing spaces.

     

    How wonderful for you.  Have you noticed that no one else wants to use SSDS?  Not the common man, not software developers, not corporations, not libraries, NOBODY.

    I don't think you need a Grade 9 education to figure out the pattern.

    BTW, THAT'S NOT WHAT SPELL CHECKING IS YOU RETARD. 



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    With Swamp search you can input the beginning " eff/ncy " and end of a word (with spaces) and find words you are not sure of. Swamp search returns "Efficiency" You will discover all kinds of words this way. Swamp search allows for Leading and Trailing spaces.

    grep -e ' eff.*ncy ' somefile.txt

    Or even *gasp*

    grep -r -e ' eff.*ncy ' *


  • @elgate said:

    @SpectateSwamp said:
    With Swamp search you can input the beginning " eff/ncy " and end of a word (with spaces) and find words you are not sure of. Swamp search returns "_Efficiency_" You will discover all kinds of words this way. Swamp search allows for Leading and Trailing spaces.

     

    grep -e ' eff.*ncy ' somefile.txt

    Or even *gasp*

     

    grep -r -e ' eff.*ncy ' *

     

    Nice try, but he doesn't care.  If you made a SSDS clone which looked and acted 100% like SSDS, but without the bugs, Spectate would complain that you took out all the best features. 



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    StorerSwamp don't let any of the JackA**es and their mean comments, keep you from making more.
     

    I ALREADY EXPLAINED THIS: PEOPLE ARE MEAN TO YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE DELIBERATELY ANNOYING AND PROVOCATIVE.  IS ANY OF THIS GETTING THROUGH TO YOU, YOU SOCIOPATH?



  • @CodeSimian said:

    Nice try, but he doesn't care.  If you made a SSDS clone which looked and acted 100% like SSDS, but without the bugs, Spectate would complain that you took out all the best features.

    I know, I just wanted to point out his so-called feature isn't as unique as he thinks it is.

    His implementation is pretty damn awful, too.



  • The World needs more Grepplers

    @joe17301 said:

    I was even considering rewriting the crapplication myself just to make it go away.

    Keep the hi-lite and line wrap logic intact. Get the rest working then clean the Wrap stuff up if you feel like. Once you have achieved hi-lite & linewrap you are 3/4 the way there. Go for it. The World needs more Grepplers.


  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    @joe17301 said:

    I was even considering rewriting the crapplication myself just to make it go away.

    Keep the hi-lite and line wrap logic intact. Get the rest working then clean the Wrap stuff up if you feel like. Once you have achieved hi-lite & linewrap you are 3/4 the way there. Go for it. The World needs more Grepplers.

     

    GOOD LORD YOU ARE ANNOYING.  Do you realize that if someone here cleaned up your app, it wouldn't even be Spectate Swamp Desktop Search anymore?  They would pretty much have to gut the entire thing, and re-write it from scratch.



  • I will work on your app if you'll make me an admin of the SourceForge project.

    I'm not kidding.



  • Swamp Search does spell finding and spell checking

    @CodeSimian said:

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    @dlikhten said:

    In any case I must check out SS's desktop search because I feel like making that software super-stable though good QA testing and after many hrs of SS fixing it realizing that nobody freaken' uses it for anything! Its just too compelling! Anyone care to make a bug-report bot?
    Some of the problems people experience with SSDS is the way I use it. I don't encounter the bugs very often. I do get it to lock up if I search a file I just created without closing out and entering back in. I'm in and out of the search lot of times a day. Spell checking. Mostly. I like checking my spelling when the context is interesting. With Swamp search you can input the beginning " eff/ncy " and end of a word (with spaces) and find words you are not sure of. Swamp search returns "_Efficiency_" You will discover all kinds of words this way. Swamp search allows for Leading and Trailing spaces.

     

    How wonderful for you.  Have you noticed that no one else wants to use SSDS?  Not the common man, not software developers, not corporations, not libraries, NOBODY.

    I don't think you need a Grade 9 education to figure out the pattern.

    BTW, THAT'S NOT WHAT SPELL CHECKING IS YOU RETARD. 

    More capitalized hurtful words. Maybe you are right. . Swamp search can do spell checking and spell finding.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    More capitalized hurtful words. Maybe you are right. . Swamp search can do spell checking and spell finding.
     

    Sigh.  Okay, I'm going to make a futile attempt to be nice.

    People here are not mean to you because they think you are stupid.  They do think you are stupid, I'm sorry to say, but that's not the primary reason they are mean to you.  If it were just stupidity, people would feel sorry for you and leave you alone.

    Truth is, nobody here can be sure exactly how stupid you are.  A lot of it could be "fake stupidity", designed to annoy people, which is pretty common on the Internet.  But what's pretty plain to see is you are DEFINITELY SMART ENOUGH TO SEE HOW ANNOYING YOU ARE.  You deliberately write stuff that will piss people off.  Just like the Yellowhead '93 speech - you said it yourself: "I don't want to attack anyone, but this is my last chance."

    When you keep writing stuff that provokes people and pisses them off, they don't care about your feelings anymore.  They will write anything and say anything, no matter how hurtful it is.

    Why do you think 90% of your threads have been locked?  There is no anti-SpectateSwamp conspiracy.  People just don't like you - or, at least, the side of you that you choose to present on the Internet,

    You keep making references to friends, co-workers and family in the real world. I'm sure there must be a side of you which is not annoying and provocative.  If you could focus on not pissing people off, maybe people would stop insulting you.

    Does any of that make any sense? 



  • @CodeSimian said:

    Even in the U.S., scientists use metric, idiot.  Or do you really think dividing  multiplying by 12 (converting feet to inches) is easier than dividing  multiplying by 100 (converting metres to centimetres), for example.
     

    Hmm, stupidity must be contagious.  Obviously, in my examples, I should've written "multiplying" instead of "dividing". 



  • ElgateSwamp does SourceForge

    @elgate said:

    I will work on your app if you'll make me an admin of the SourceForge project. I'm not kidding.

     

    You are on. Having people changing and fixing and extending this search would be exactly what I wanted.

    I visited the site recently. I didn't notice the spelling mistake.. It's hard to see ones own mistakes. I haven't done anything with it since. I got a pretty good list of things to do that would be quite easy. Even today. I added one. With spell finding and trailing spaces. I need to replace puncuation with a space. (Right after the app removes extra spaces) then do the change. Changing the ".,;:!?" to a space. Only if the ".;:!?." characters are not in any of the 6 search strings. (That will require a couple more strings of spaghetti code. ie goto's)

    I don't even know if I am an admin. Guess I had better check SourceForge out. Now. Thanks. 

     



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    I got a pretty good list of things to do that would be quite easy. Even today. I added one. With spell finding and trailing spaces.
     

    No definitions were found for spell finding.

    Suggestions:- Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
    - Search the Web for documents that contain "spell finding"

     BTW, another example of annoying behaviour?  Adding "swamp" to the end of people's names.  It is not funny.  There is no "CodeSwamp" or "ElgateSwamp" here.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    Changing the ".,;:!?" to a space. Only if the ".;:!?." characters are not in any of the 6 search strings.
     

    There are ways to do that without SSDS, in both Windows and Linux.  You are re-inventing the wheel with rusty triangles.  Have you never heard of "awk" and "sed"?  They have been around for decades.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    I need to replace puncuation with a space. (Right after the app removes extra spaces) then do the change. Changing the ".,;:!?" to a space. Only if the ".;:!?." characters are not in any of the 6 search strings. (That will require a couple more strings of spaghetti code. ie goto's)
     

    Ready everybody?

     

    All together now...

     

    3...

     

    2...

     

    1...

     

     

    <font size="16">THAT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE YOU RETARD.</font> 



  • Swamp wants Signature change privileges

    @CodeSimian said:

    Why do you think 90% of your threads have been locked?  There is no anti-SpectateSwamp conspiracy.  People just don't like you - or, at least, the side of you that you choose to present on the Internet,
    I have been more careful lately. leaving the forum before they can kick me out. I hadn't made a post at Channel9 for 11 1/2 months (but I kept comming in and changing the signatures) Why can't we do that here. I'd keep posting subliminal Swamp messages.

    And none of that hurtful stuff matters. Or I wouldn't be here.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    @CodeSimian said:

    Why do you think 90% of your threads have been locked?  There is no anti-SpectateSwamp conspiracy.  People just don't like you - or, at least, the side of you that you choose to present on the Internet,
    I have been more careful lately. leaving the forum before they can kick me out. I hadn't made a post at Channel9 for 11 1/2 months (but I kept comming in and changing the signatures) Why can't we do that here. I'd keep posting subliminal Swamp messages.

    And none of that hurtful stuff matters. Or I wouldn't be here.

     

    As usual, you have (intentionally?) missed the point COMPLETELY.  This is why very few people want to be nice to you.

    STOP PISSING PEOPLE OFF AND THEY WILL BE NICER TO YOU. 

     



  • Spell finding more popular than spell checking

    @rc_pinchey said:

    Ready everybody?

     

    All together now...

     

    3...

     

    2...

     

    1...

     

     

    <FONT size=16>THAT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE YOU RETARD.</FONT> 

    Talk to ElgateSwamp he will clue you in. " efficiency." should be found when searching for " eff/ncy " And right now it is not. Easy to fix. And not a major problem for "Spell Finding" Damn I like spell finding more than spell checking.


  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    Spell finding more popular than spell checking

    Yes, if by "popular", you mean NOBODY HAS FUCKING HEARD OF "SPELL FINDING" EXCEPT YOU.



  • "awk" and "sed" can't touch SSDS

    @CodeSimian said:

    You are re-inventing the wheel with rusty triangles.  Have you never heard of "awk" and "sed"?  They have been around for decades.
    Can 'awk' or 'sed' do video. Navigation through video text music pics? Just what else can they do? A couple lines of code will fix what is a trivial problem. Nothing to get upset about. OMG Swamp doesn't do???



  •  Tell you what, Swamp.  If you can get one Fortune 500 corporation to use SSDS on a daily basis for mission-critical applications for one week, without hiring a team of ninjas to assassinate you, I will personally donate 1000 hours of development time to SSDS.  I will be requiring a verifiable testimonial from the CEO of said Fortune 500 corporation.

    You have 2 weeks to meet this challenge: GO. 



  • Everybody will be doing SourceForge

    @CodeSimian said:

     BTW, another example of annoying behaviour?  Adding "swamp" to the end of people's names.  It is not funny.  There is no "CodeSwamp" or "ElgateSwamp" here.

    Name abuse is fair play. I have been called lots here. Even my real name. SimianSwamp (I like that better anyway) People who join the post late and don't read the beginning won't know the difference. So I win that way.

     

     



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    @CodeSimian said:

     BTW, another example of annoying behaviour?  Adding "swamp" to the end of people's names.  It is not funny.  There is no "CodeSwamp" or "ElgateSwamp" here.

    Name abuse is fair play. I have been called lots here. Even my real name. SimianSwamp (I like that better anyway) People who join the post late and don't read the beginning won't know the difference. So I win that way.

     

    You are the one who was stupid enough to post your real name and address on the Internet.  Why not just give people the GPS co-ordinates to your house?

    I already explained to you FIVE THOUSAND TIMES why people are mean to you.  If you were NOT DELIBERATELY ANNOYING, people would treat you with respect. 



  • These are picked from various posts: 

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    More efficient. WhatEver. Efficiency doesn't matter. computers are so fast.
     

    And thus is the whole rationale behind SSDS explained.

    It's hard to see ones own mistakes.

    And thus this thread is explained.

     

    Video of any kind I like. A screen reshoot would be more clear. If you got close close. I haven't done a screen reshoot of Cam Studio yet.

    Actually, the original AVI is just fine.  It's something in the upload to Google Video that did it.  I just couldn't be bothered to put it up on my server. I've never bothered with Google Video before, so I don't know what happened; presumably they compressed it.  Aw, hell, here's the original

    StorerSwamp don't let any of the JackA**es and their mean comments, keep you from making more. You'll just get better and better. Like I did.

    Finally, my life has a purpose. 



  • Swamp Search only got 2 Weeks?

    @CodeSimian said:

     Tell you what, Swamp.  If you can get one Fortune 500 corporation to use SSDS on a daily basis for mission-critical applications for one week, without hiring a team of ninjas to assassinate you, I will personally donate 1000 hours of development time to SSDS.  I will be requiring a verifiable testimonial from the CEO of said Fortune 500 corporation.

    You have 2 weeks to meet this challenge: GO. 

    I've had 8 years to try and do that. I think your challenge is safe. I'm glad to see you are so serious about search. Even if it isn't SSDS.

     



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    @CodeSimian said:

    You are re-inventing the wheel with rusty triangles.  Have you never heard of "awk" and "sed"?  They have been around for decades.
    Can 'awk' or 'sed' do video. Navigation through video text music pics? Just what else can they do? A couple lines of code will fix what is a trivial problem. Nothing to get upset about. OMG Swamp doesn't do???
     

    You keep clinging to the fact that your program is like a really bad Swiss army knife with a dull blade and a broken corkscrew.  It's
    far better to do one thing right than to do a thousand things wrong.



  • Bad Video ain't that bad

    @bstorer said:

    Actually, the original AVI is just fine.  It's something in the upload to Google Video that did it.  I just couldn't be bothered to put it up on my server. I've never bothered with Google Video before, so I don't know what happened; presumably they compressed it.  Aw, hell, here's the original

    Hey I'm fine with the google one. I have worse vid there. I don't even edit out BAD video. I'm an Un-Editor as well. Is it the truth or has it been edited. Maybe that's why the hated me on those video forums. Way way worse than here. Even bad video is better at explaining than smiley faces and ha ha ha.

     



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    I've had 8 years to try and do that. I think your challenge is safe. I'm glad to see you are so serious about search. Even if it isn't SSDS.
     

     Finally, finally, finally, you post something sane and lucid.  Now take that thought to the next logical step: why do you think anyone here would care about SSDS if nobody else does?  We are not as freakish as you think.  We may not be the MASSES, but we know what makes a useful and useable program.

    Use your BS detector - everyone has one - on your own ideas.  You will see that maybe they aren't so hot.

    If you care about search so passionately (I think you really do), try to find out WHAT PEOPLE WANT FROM SEARCH. NOT WHAT YOU WANT TO GIVE THEM.

    Ideally, software is supposed to make people's lives easier - software should work for people, people shouldn't have to work for software.  Making people work for software is a relic of the 70s and 80s, when computers were VERY HARD TO USE.

    You would have a lot better luck trying to figure out what people want, and making a real effort to give it them.

    Seriously.  I am trying to be nice here.   



  • Swamp search eliminates computer knowledge OverLoad

    @CodeSimian said:

    If you care about search so passionately (I think you really do), try to find out WHAT PEOPLE WANT FROM SEARCH. NOT WHAT YOU WANT TO GIVE THEM.

    I did what I wanted in a search. That is why I'm so happy with it. And I'm pissed that the techies don't get it. So much so I'm Anti-Techie

    @CodeSimian said:

    Making people work for software is a relic of the 70s and 80s, when computers were VERY HARD TO USE.
    For the computer workers in the 70's and 80's Computers were much easier to deal with. One night after many drinks, we showed a friend the computer room. He tried to open a spinning disk. The damn thing opened and brought the system down. The boot tape wouldn't read at first. (Had to power off the tape drive to reset it) The manuals were all there. We had to know a fraction of the computer related details and more about the applications back then. Now the reverse seems to be true. Everyone with a computer should know as little as we did back in '75. SSDS addresses that problem of computer knowledge overload.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    @CodeSimian said:

    If you care about search so passionately (I think you really do), try to find out WHAT PEOPLE WANT FROM SEARCH. NOT WHAT YOU WANT TO GIVE THEM.

    I did what I wanted in a search. That is why I'm so happy with it. And I'm pissed that the techies don't get it. So much so I'm Anti-Techie

     

    I am talking about normal people.  Try to find out what normal people want from search and give it to them.

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    @CodeSimian said:
    Making people work for software is a relic of the 70s and 80s, when computers were VERY HARD TO USE.
    For the computer workers in the 70's and 80's Computers were much easier to deal with. One night after many drinks, we showed a friend the computer room. He tried to open a spinning disk. The damn thing opened and brought the system down. The boot tape wouldn't read at first. (Had to power off the tape drive to reset it) The manuals were all there. We had to know a fraction of the computer related details and more about the applications back then. Now the reverse seems to be true. Everyone with a computer should know as little as we did back in '75. SSDS addresses that problem of computer knowledge overload.

    I'm sorry, I really don't understand the relevance or point of that anecdote.  These days nobody would open up their computer, let alone their hard drive, and the whole problem would be avoided.  Look at Apple - their philosophy is everything should be a sealed "black box", so I could argue that people need to know much less about computers now than they did before.

     I tried my best, but obviously nothing anyone can say will discourage you from promoting SSDS.  Good luck - you'll need it.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    I did what I wanted in a search. That is why I'm so happy with it.

    Good.  Leave us alone. 

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    For the computer workers in the 70's and 80's Computers were much easier to deal with. One night after many drinks, we showed a friend the computer room. He tried to open a spinning disk. The damn thing opened and brought the system down. The boot tape wouldn't read at first. (Had to power off the tape drive to reset it) The manuals were all there. We had to know a fraction of the computer related details and more about the applications back then. Now the reverse seems to be true. Everyone with a computer should know as little as we did back in '75. SSDS addresses that problem of computer knowledge overload.

    THAT DOESN'T EVEN fuck it, you know the rest. 



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    Everyone with a computer should know as little as we did back in '75. SSDS addresses that problem of computer knowledge overload.
     

    Then why make SSDS so cryptic?  How daunting is this thing to a new user?  Yes, I know you say you've taught people to use it, but what of the millions of other users you want?  You can't go around to all of them to teach it.  For example, every time I fiddle with your program to search a file, I get this prompt:

    What am I to make of this prompt?  It means nothing to me.  I don't know what it's asking, I don't know what I can answer.  As an ignorant user, I'm already displeased with your software. 



  • @bstorer said:

    Then why make SSDS so cryptic?  How daunting is this thing to a new user?  Yes, I know you say you've taught people to use it, but what of the millions of other users you want?  You can't go around to all of them to teach it. 
     

    He is confusing "ease of use" with "ease of understanding the internals".  The most ironic thing is that nobody would understand or care about SSDS's inner workings, either.

    Spectate, NOBODY CARES HOW COMPLEX SOFTWARE IS ON THE INSIDE.  GDS may be complicated on the inside, but it is very simple on the outside.

    Doctors have spent years learning complex medical facts - many years beyond Grade 9, in fact.  Yet, when you see a doctor, he gives you very simple instructions on staying healthy: Eat the right foods, exercise, floss, etc.  And when you have an operation, you don't have to worry about the complexity - the surgeon takes care of all of it.  You just need to worry about presenting your Health Card to the hospital and following the simple pre-surgery instructions (e.g. don't eat anything after midnight).

    Cars are very complex on the inside - yet a large proportion of the general public is able to drive them, after a little bit of training.  (NO THIS IS NOT THE SAME AS SSDS TRAINING AT THE SWAMPSHACK).

    Your stereo, CD player, MP3 player, laptop, camcorder, and TV are VERY COMPLICATED ON THE INSIDE.  But to operate them, you just need to work a few simple controls.

    Do you understand what I'm getting at here?

    Nobody needs to understand how GDS works.  Nobody wants to understand, except "techies" like us.  For you to say that SSDS is "simple on the inside" is not only incorrect, but also completely irrelevant. 



  • @rc_pinchey said:

    <font size="16">THAT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE YOU RETARD.</font> 
     

     

     Can I put in a claim on the "giant text to get someone's attention" meme?  (Well, not really, I yoinked it from the "HELM, 108!" bit here.)

     



  • Swamp knows hardly anything about his computer - Doesn't care either

    @CodeSimian said:

    I could argue that people need to know much less about computers now than they did before.

    People need to know the basics of computers just like we did back then. Backup. Recovery. and a few software patches. (ie loading internet and Swamp stuff) That's what we teach them in a half day at Swamp Shack. The half day video training is first thing in the morning. I'll show them all the things they should avoid. I have done them and continue to do some of them. Then the serious computer stuff in the afternoon and as long as it takes into the evening.



  • @CodeSimian said:

    @bstorer said:

    Then why make SSDS so cryptic?  How daunting is this thing to a new user?  Yes, I know you say you've taught people to use it, but what of the millions of other users you want?  You can't go around to all of them to teach it. 
     

    He is confusing "ease of use" with "ease of understanding the internals".  The most ironic thing is that nobody would understand or care about SSDS's inner workings, either.

     

    He's confusing something, that much is clear.  I can't divine from his meandering anecdote what exactly he means. Anyway, the bottom line is that the only thing computer illiterate people feel comfortable with on the computer is the mouse, and he completely eschews it in favor of the keyboard.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    @CodeSimian said:

    I could argue that people need to know much less about computers now than they did before.

    People need to know the basics of computers just like we did back then. Backup. Recovery. and a few software patches. (ie loading internet and Swamp stuff) That's what we teach them in a half day at Swamp Shack. The half day video training is first thing in the morning. I'll show them all the things they should avoid. I have done them and continue to do some of them. Then the serious computer stuff in the afternoon and as long as it takes into the evening.

     

    As usual you are completely (purposely???) missing the point.  You said that computers are more complicated today than ever, which is supposed to be some kind of twisted justification for using SSDS (???).  I said people don't need to know about that complexity, because NOBODY HAS TO OPEN UP THEIR COMPUTER CASE OR HARD DRIVE.

    What I said has nothing to do with "the basics of computers" that you are describing.

    Here's another free piece of advice which you will promptly ignore: Stop inviting people on the Internet to your house ("the SwampShack") even if you are kidding.  It is seriously disturbing. 

    Oh, and when you purposely misinterpret people to make some kind of twisted point? THAT IS ANNOYING.  Please stop doing that.  I seriously think you are smarter than that. 



  • @CodeSimian said:

    Stop inviting people on the Internet to your house ("the SwampShack") even if you are kidding.  It is seriously disturbing.

    Maybe we should all send him something in the mail. CDs with grep, WDS, GDS, CDS, YDS on them, perhaps?

    Or anthrax.



  • Stop the post the indexers Cry - But not the Grepplers

    @stolen_username said:

    Good.  Leave us alone. 

    Who's post is this anyway StolenSwamp. And just who is Us. Pretty soon there will be cries of "stop the post" "stop the post" just like on Channel9. When one of the forum pets starts that song. Pretty soon BOOM it's locked or even worse DELETED. Posts aren't forever you know. So make a copy of the ones you like. I can hear a faint hum of that tune here but still pretty faint.


  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    @stolen_username said:

    Good.  Leave us alone. 

    Who's post is this anyway StolenSwamp. And just who is Us. Pretty soon there will be cries of "stop the post" "stop the post" just like on Channel9. When one of the forum pets starts that song. Pretty soon BOOM it's locked or even worse DELETED. Posts aren't forever you know. So make a copy of the ones you like. I can hear a faint hum of that tune here but still pretty faint.

     

    You really are a jerk.  People try to be nice to you, to give you sincere advice that is meant to help you, and what do you do?  Continue to act like a jerk.   This is why nobody wants to help you and nobody wants to be nice to you.  So you can stop whining about "hurtful posts" or "forums pets". 

     YOU BROUGHT ALL OF THIS ONTO YOURSELF.  PEOPLE TREAT YOU WITH EXACTLY AS MUCH RESPECT AS YOU DESERVE - NONE.



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    @CodeSimian said:

    I could argue that people need to know much less about computers now than they did before.

    People need to know the basics of computers just like we did back then.

    This is true.  But your program doesn't help, and arguably hinders this.

    Backup. Recovery.

    Fair enough.

    and a few software patches.

    Yeah, that sounds good, although Windows Update pretty much takes care of --

    (ie loading internet and Swamp stuff)

    Oh, you weren't talking about Windows Update.  In fact, you weren't even talking about patches.

    That's what we teach them in a half day at Swamp Shack.

    Swamp Shack, baby, Swamp Shack!  You're what?  Tiiiiin roof, rusted!

    I've wanted to do that for so long.

    The half day video training is first thing in the morning.

    Perfect.  Nothing gets me going in the morning better than four hours of video of a computer monitor with an incoherent, mumbling narrator.

    I'll show them all the things they should avoid. I have done them and continue to do some of them.

    If experience could be taught, -- instead of, you know, experienced -- life would be much simpler.  But it cannot.  It's far harder to learn from the mistakes of others than from your own.

    Then the serious computer stuff in the afternoon

    Really?  It takes a WHOLE afternoon to teach the serious computer stuff?  Aren't you worried they'll know too much?

    and as long as it takes into the evening.

    Sounds erotic, in a Misery meets Silence of the Lambs sort of way.



  • Swamp lessons 90% Complete

    @bstorer said:

    What am I to make of this prompt?  It means nothing to me.  I don't know what it's asking, I don't know what I can answer.  As an ignorant user, I'm already displeased with your software.

    That's why it needs a skin. The people at swamp shack won't need anything more that what it does right now. The "c" default is after SSDS does a check of the first 10 lines in the file (so you guys were right about ssds times) if it has xxx. type info it switches to "photo" or "video" display options of "ww" or "p". There really isn't that much to learn and you have all your info at your fingertips. MOre video or a Skin. More video is easier. Keep Watching. you'll know all pretty soon. For the most part readers of this thread know more about Desktop Search than about anybody on Earth. How many of you have written one? None probably. Todate we have tested some of the opposition. Found the Indexers limits and the those of the Grepplers. Here you have Desktop Search Source code and somebody who is willing to tell you everything about it. (There isn't much more to tell really) Demo some code changes and explain why the 6 seperate search stings will make it easy for me to add some goto's. It would be more difficult to explain and understand in an array. You'll see that change soon.


  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    Swamp lessons 90% Complete
     

    If your goal was to make the entire Internet hate you, congratulations.  Mission accomplished.  I guess there may have been a few hunters who enjoyed your trapline videos, but other than them....



  • @SpectateSwamp said:

    @stolen_username said:

    Good.  Leave us alone. 

    Who's post is this anyway StolenSwamp. And just who is Us. Pretty soon there will be cries of "stop the post" "stop the post" just like on Channel9. When one of the forum pets starts that song. Pretty soon BOOM it's locked or even worse DELETED. Posts aren't forever you know. So make a copy of the ones you like. I can hear a faint hum of that tune here but still pretty faint.

     

    I'd like to introduce to my friend: ?  His name is Mr. Question Mark.  He can help turn bizarre sentences into readable, readily-comprehended questions!  But he can't do it alone.  Oh, no.  He needs your help.  Only you can put Mr. Question Mark at the end of sentences that you want to be questions.  Won't you please help Mr. Question Mark?  Every time you end a question with a period, he dies a little. 



  • Don't Delete this Post - Mr Post Deleter man

    @CodeSimian said:

    YOU BROUGHT ALL OF THIS ONTO YOURSELF.  PEOPLE TREAT YOU WITH EXACTLY AS MUCH RESPECT AS YOU DESERVE - NONE.
    The deleted posts are the only ones that still bug me.



  •  @SpectateSwamp said:

    @CodeSimian said:

    YOU BROUGHT ALL OF THIS ONTO YOURSELF.  PEOPLE TREAT YOU WITH EXACTLY AS MUCH RESPECT AS YOU DESERVE - NONE.
    The deleted posts are the only ones that still bug me.

    Nobody cares.  Use archive.org or google.com to get them back.  Look them up in your gigantic text file of web clippings. 



  • Entire Internet Sucks. - Except Swampies

    @CodeSimian said:

    @SpectateSwamp said:

    Swamp lessons 90% Complete
     

    If your goal was to make the entire Internet hate you, congratulations.  Mission accomplished.  I guess there may have been a few hunters who enjoyed your trapline videos, but other than them....

    Some hunting forum kids saying thanks for taking them on the trapline. 40 minutes of video every 3 or 4 days (2 days checking) Skinning, Stretching and the wilderness. And right now I don't care all that much for the "entire Internet" either.


  • 2000th post...sob...:cries: I can't believe this thread is still going.


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