December 2004 - Posts
This is probably the only problem I experience with GDS. Here goes my problem.
Say I have installed GDS on my Windows 2000.The one-time indexer indexes my files.Now after some time I boot my machine thro some other OS and delete one of the GDS indexed file. After several days when I perform some search, Google Desktop Search returns the file(the GDS indexed file which doesnt exeist anymore). I click on it to find that the document has been deleted several days back. Isn't this a big issue ??
To solve this problem, currently what I do is uninstall GDS every 10-15 days and install it once again, so that it reindexes all the files on my hard disk. This process is too cumbersome.
Google Desktop Search should have had an option to remove the current index, and reindex all the files on your computer say every 'x' number of days.[with an option to select 'x'].
Cant Google do that?
Today I went to attend the Visual Basic World Tour Session held here in Chennai (In India) . Alan Griver and Steven Lees were there here as part of the VB.NET Team.
Alan is the Group Manager for the Visual Studio Data group. Steven currently works as Group Program Manager for Visual Basic.
There was a huge crowd here. The queue for registration was so long that it went even outside the hotel premises. At one point people had to join the queue on the road outside the hotel. In fact Chennai has India's largest .NET user group- The Chennai .NET User Group. My city also has the largest Student .NET user Group-www.cnugstudent.net. The Student User Group of which Iam a member recently saw the 1000'th member. (it started just an year ago).
So not much surprise that we had developers queuing up for the event.
A dozen of guys were standing and listening as the entire hall was so crowded and we did'nt have space to put any more chairs!! Allen would soon post the photos taken in his blog.
How far do you trust Google Translation Service?? Answer my question after seeing this:
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Step 1: Go to http://www.google.com.my/language_tools?hl=en
Step 2: Enter the following line into the translate textbox:
Aishwarya's mom is nice and cool
Step 3: Translate from english to spanish.
Step 4: Copy the translated text, and translate it back from Spanish to English.
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Saw it?? When I first saw this, I could'nt control my laughter. It was 3am. I was continously laughing aloud for 2-3 minutes and shocked to turn back and see that my mom, dad and sister are all seeing me. They woke up in the middle of their sleep due to the noise I made.
Google Translation Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!