Re: More Active Newsgroups?

From: CWO4 Dave Mann (misterfixit_at_loveable.com)
Date: 07/18/05

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    Thorn wrote:

    > On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:46:37 -0500, Moe Trin Cried: Read These Runes!:
    >> In the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux, in article
    >><slrnddkg95.p4u.Raptor@Western.Migration>, Thorn wrote:
    >>
    >>>Here Google is your friend. When I have a failure of some sort that
    >>>isn't easily identifiable I'll run the program from an xterm (if usually
    >>>launched from an icon), copy the error message (sweep with mouse pointer
    >>>while depressing left button) and paste (middle mouse button) it into
    >>>google's search box.
    >>>
    >>>99% of the time I'll get a good hit on that text regardless of how arcane
    >>>it may appear.
    >>
    >> Two .sigs I've seen on Usenet:
    >>
    >> "Ten minutes with google will tell you more about anything
    >> than you ever wanted to know." -- Ross Presser, 2002
    >>
    >> Google.com for a man, and you'll answer his question. Teach a man to
    >> google.com and you'll teach him to google forever.
    >>
    >> There is no finer resource available. I use it at least several times a
    >> day, often as much as a dozen times, and it _rarely_ fails to provide the
    >> clue or fact you are searching for. Actually, I have an alias set up
    >> (google => lynx http://www.google.com) to speed things up a few
    >> keystrokes.
    >>
    >> Old guy
    >
    > Another "Old Guy" once said google is like trying to get a drink of water
    > from Niagra Falls :)
    >
    > Thorn

    Heh! I know what you mean. However, I learned boolean searching back in
    the 1970's when I went to school for 4 weeks courtesy of the US Army just
    to learn how to pose queries on the World Wide Military Command and Control
    System (WWMCCS), Defense Intelligence Agency On-Line System (DIAOLS) and
    the Community On Line System (COINS) in the Washington DC area. Everything
    had to be done using a ASR-33 but if you were really smart you found an
    idle KSR-33 with the tape punch on it and punched a tape for every
    repetitive query you made, then just fed the tape in when you need to know,
    say, how many bombs had been dropped in a certain grid square in South East
    Asia in the past 24 hours. I had a thing on my desk that held rolls of
    punch tape so I could just grab one and run it. Only took maybe 10 or 15
    minutes to get the answer back.

    Boy are we off the thread ....

    Cheers,

    Dave
    (CWO4 US Army, Retired)

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