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What is the currently best Desktop Search software?
Darwin:
Desktop Search software is useful for me, at any rate. I have 20 GB of pdf files (ie thousands of them, some are over 1000 pages long), all academic journal articles and masters and PhD theses and dissertations. Often I am after a bit of content - all pdfs that mention and discuss some arcane term like "microstratigraphy" or "olecranon process" or "HLA" - and desktop search is the only way to to this, short of opening each pdf up and reading through it...
tinjaw:
short of opening each pdf up and reading through it...
-Darwin (June 07, 2008, 12:05 PM)
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You young people have no idea how lucky you are. When I was your age we had to read them ourselves. Forwards AND backwards. We had to TURN PAGES. We even had to stack them outside which meant retrieving them from the yard with 12 feet of snow in freezing temperatures at night with a candle. :P
Darwin:
So... do you have a tin ear trumpet to go along with the tin jaw then?
;D
cranioscopical:
We had to TURN PAGES. We even had to stack them outside
-tinjaw (June 07, 2008, 12:45 PM)
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Pages? PAGES? Why, when I was a lad they were incised on stone tablets!
Try stacking those in the yard at 40C below, having carried them uphill with bare feet.
Holy Moses!
Darwin:
Why, when I was a lad they were incised on stone tablets!
-cranioscopical (June 07, 2008, 02:29 PM)
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Shouldn't that be "When I were a lad..."?
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