GoogleFS on Haiku
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 21st Jan 2007 22:39 UTC
BeOS & Derivatives "Francois Revol, a.k.a. mmu_man, commited this Saturday to the Haiku's source tree his GoogleFS, a project he started working on about 2 to 3 years ago. GoogleFS is basically a queries bookmark, meaning you can search Google right from your Desktop, be it Haiku or ZETA, and the results are displayed like a regular query you run nowadays."
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Cool.
by brewin on Sun 21st Jan 2007 23:08 UTC
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2005-06-30

It's always nice to see new things happening with Haiku.

BTW, what happened to the Xfce 4.4 article that was right under this one?

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RE: Cool.
by DigitalAxis on Mon 22nd Jan 2007 03:12 UTC in reply to "Cool."
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2005-08-28

XFCE 4.4.0 hasn't actually been released yet (well, as of right now when I write this). Check www.xfce.org and see. The links on that article were to a test/staging server, and I bet they were pulled because of premature announcement.

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Bad Idea
by binarycrusader on Mon 22nd Jan 2007 01:26 UTC
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2005-07-06

Bad idea. They should never have used a trademarked name for this project. Google might go after them, and rightly so.

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RE: Bad Idea
by TaterSalad on Mon 22nd Jan 2007 01:40 UTC in reply to "Bad Idea"
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2005-07-06

Not a problem. Then they rename it "web query" or something equally generic.

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Nice
by raynevandunem on Mon 22nd Jan 2007 09:04 UTC
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2006-11-24

Now let's see if they can make a Haiku equivalent of Gmail Drive. ;-) http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

It's a surprise that they came up with this for Haiku R1, though. I read on Haiku's Wikipedia article that one of Glass Elevator's (Haiku R2) planned features include desktop search like Apple's Spotlight or Google's Desktop Search.

Maybe this can be extended to include such capabilities.

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RE: Nice
by agentj on Mon 22nd Jan 2007 09:32 UTC in reply to "Nice"
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2005-08-19

AFAIK google prohibits using anything that modifies the website code.

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RE: Nice
by mmu_man on Tue 23rd Jan 2007 13:05 UTC in reply to "Nice"
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2006-09-30

> Now let's see if they can make a Haiku equivalent of Gmail Drive. ;-)

It's planned ;)
But I'd rather first make a real gmailfs (that is publishing the email, and queriable).

> It's a surprise that they came up with this for Haiku R1.
It's not been written specifically for Haiku, I just ported it because I wanted Bruno to showcase it, but it was written for BeOS long ago.

> (Haiku R2) planned features include desktop search[...]
You mean like content searching and so on ? cause BeOS/Haiku already has queries that are quite powerful and way predates Spotlight (which btw uses a syntax 99% similar to that of queries, because Dominic Gianpaolo who wrote BFS is at Apple now).

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the speed of finding
by Nutela on Mon 22nd Jan 2007 16:36 UTC
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2006-02-09

Always loved the speed of BeOS finding matches there are problems IMO if you want to restrict your results to one or more dirs this isn't possible, also finding all images is slow as well. Things to work on!

Still next to Amiga OS and maybe mac os x BeOS really shows how to do things smart, that's what I've always liked about it and always will like.

Really a shame everybody else is useing Moron-OS-no. 1 aka Windows ;)

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NTFS read added to image today too!
by El-Al on Mon 22nd Jan 2007 17:18 UTC
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2006-04-17

Well, I havn't had chance to test it yet but checked-out the latest revision today. NTFS read is added, write disabled for now...

Oh Yes! Tra-la-la :o)

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