@SpectateShit said:
What make video at prompt as well said about entry Search threads.
D*mn - is that Markov chains? I was going to do exactly the same thing, but I couldn't be bothered to do the copy'n'pasting...Well done chap!
@SpectateShit said:
What make video at prompt as well said about entry Search threads.
D*mn - is that Markov chains? I was going to do exactly the same thing, but I couldn't be bothered to do the copy'n'pasting...Well done chap!
@WWWWolf said:
weep But I don't have a camcorder! This challenge is entirely unfair!
Like I said, there must be plugins that'll do this - a combination of the "BlairWitch" screen-jiggle, some lens-flare and a "monitor surround" framing device. Maybe somebody fancies knocking together the complete "SwampyCam" filter.
As an aside, has anybody seen Swampy's Fan Club ? How sad is that? Friends : None. Fans : None...
@WWWWolf said:
My happy desktop search engine!
Sorry - you fail at blurry video. There's no mumbling, no camera shake, and I can't see the sides of your monitor once. You could have at least put it through a Photoshop filter to add some fake reflections or something...
@SpectateSwamp said:
Means that I spent as much time in comming up with command names as the Guy that discovered GREP
[G]lobal search for [R]egular [E]xpressions and [P]rint
I tell you what - why don't you get back to us when you've implemented RegEx'es? DFA or NFA - don't care, but it'd bring SSDS up to about the level of 1976...
@SpectateSwamp said:
For notepad I Double Click a shortcut on my desktopThen (Ctrl/o) for open - A quick (Ctrl/V) to paste the source.txt as the target file and then (enter). Grab the slider and drag it to the bottom showing last page.
Close out using upper right close tab.
You see mate, this is why we've given up. If/when the rest of us use Notepad , or whatever text editor is the default app for a textfile, we simply double click on the file itself, then do (usually) CTRL + End to get to the end of a file - no grabbing of "slider" necessary. But WTF has that got to do with searching anyway? That's called - ermmm - viewing. And having looked at those notes in SSDS, how do you then add to / edit them? Let me guess - in Notepad?
@tdittmar said:
From what I've seen (and I didn't dare turn up the speakers)
No - do! The commentary's integral to the enjoyment - it's marvellous. Swampy'll move the mouse, and explain how he's moving the mouse..."and then I click on here, and then I type in this...". Personally, I'm thinking of working up a stand-up character just based on that audio...
I think the whole which-toolset-is-better thing misses the point, which is more cultural and political. Like many, I started with micros in the early 80's, and every time a machine came out, it was faster and nicer and had better sound...the games improved, then the business software started improving...it was all looking good. When I first heard my Amiga talk in 86, surfed the web in 87, put on a VR helmet in 89 and actually talked back to my computer in the early 90's, I fully expected to be living in Neuromancer territory by 2000. Moore's law demanded it! And then something happened - I think it was probably Windows 3.1 . MS gained dominance, and like all companies beyond a certain size, simply became a money-making dinosaur re-releasing the same product over-and-over with simple marketing tweaks. Hardware became simply a faster platform to run MS Office. I, for one, resent that. I want my hover car, and I want my virtual world.
Linux, on the other hand, represents the new frontier for all those 80's bedroom micro hackers. It appeals politically to those with a general mistrust of large corporations (and capitalism as a whole) and is a great way of "sticking it to the man". Unfortunately, it suffers from having to play catch-up to the established MS culture, which means that as a desktop replacement, it can never win.
As it happens though, I think the battle has already been lost to the Triumvirate of the Internet, Mobiles, and Games Consoles (the first of which is already dominated by Linux, and the 2nd and 3rd will be real soon now, I reckon). When you've got a dedicated 3D processor at home that only cost $100, and has a way cooler interface than the 2D mouse'n'keyboard (personally, I think the Wii controller is the first bit of real innovation we've seen in 15 years), and when it can plug into the biggest computer n the world and run any online app you like - and you can do the same on the train with your little talky-gadget that plays tunes and takes photos and videos and scans and everything you need - then I think the fight for the desktop will be seen historically as a minor skirmish.
@SpectateSwamp said:
See the latest video. Demonstrating the creation of the search.exe
My word. That really is something, isn't it? I'm almost tempted to say "please ignore my last liberal whinings" :) I don't use VB myself, but please somebody tell me that all that Form'n'button creation stuff can just be incorporated into the code? var F = new Form; var b=new Button("Click Me",100,100) or something? Surely! (And WTF is with "Project1, Project2.." - has SwampSearch really been called "Project1" for all these years?)
@MarcB said:
...Google Maps, you can see what the source of all the problems is... it's a Trailer Park
Much as I'm loving this thread (it's replacing 'The Archers' as my favourite lunchtime soap atm) does anyone else think the whole tracking-the-guy-down thing is getting a bit creepy? Someone'll be sneaking a webcam up there next... Maybe we should just chill a little and remind ourselves of why we're here - to mock the message , not the messenger (though the odd side-helping of animation-format argument is fun as well - personally, I thought ender's gif was indeed the most pertinent post yet). I know it's hard not to point out, as I too have been guilty of, the relationship between crazy idea and crazy guy, but for me, the meat of this has been the informed argument - timing tests, search strategies, comparisons with similar products - it's all good. Let's knock the personal stuff on the head for now - not least because it's simply feeding the ego. I suspect the map postings simply confirmed in his head that all the swampies now know how to find the shack. He's probably got the kettle on ready...
@wooter said:
@derula said:
@boomzilla said:
Yeah, but who wants to count that many lines in a file?Yeah, that sure makes sense if you're using Windows Notepad.
... and are too arsed to click "Status Bar" in the "View" menu.
Count lines? Click on some mysterious 'Status Bar' ? Nahhh - he just needed SwampSearch...
@Lingerance said:
Wasn't it four large disks on the back of one elephant? I only read the wikipedia page so i might be wrong.
Wow - there's a Wikipedia page on SwampSearch already? S**t - next thing you know, MS will be incorporating it into Vista '09 ...
@belgariontheking said:
So let's pick on his icon now!
I think it's Open Office (I see the icon there in the screenshot).
This started happening on my partner's XP laptop as soon as she installed OO. No idea why it should though...
@kaamoss said:
So is SwampSearch the new Paula here, or is this going to pass with time.... ?
@daxianjin said:
If you are defied by AJAX
@SpectateSwamp said:
The thing is with these posts. I learn a lot. Every time.
package DesktopSearch;
public class SwampyBean {
private String Swampy = "ClueLessNess";
public String getSearch(String Swampy) {
return 1970sBASICImplementationOfgrep(Swampy);
}
}
Instant notepad, no sql, no indexing, search large files instead of a spell checker. Customizable. Portable, Random....
You know how after a while, 'LOL' and its cousins become almost automatic,
and you're not actually laughing out loud IRL ? I really and truly did splurt coffee here...
@SpectateSwamp said:
Hold it hold it. You are losing me SMTP POP3 I'm in the Don't NEED to Know Mode.
@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.
@jemptymethod said:
yum install Cirrus
@MasterPlanSoftware said:
'do the encription here november 20 2000
If UCase(ttt) = "CRIPT" Then
encript = "CRIPT"
....[some stuff]
End If
'do the de-encription here november 20 2000
If UCase(ttt) = "DECRIPT" Then
encript = "DECRIPT"
....[same stuff]
End IfGAH! MY EYES!!!