Re: Reference material

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 23:56:31 +0100, spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jonathan
L Cunningham) wrote:

James Eades <jeeades@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:36:08 -0800, Bill Swears <wswears@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

I love using the internet to pull up quick definitions, find superficial
coverage of secondary issues, etc. However, it annoys me when I know a
reference exists and I can't find it on the web. It always feels as
though somebody is covering up.


Ayup. My problem is finding the reference and then having it
disappear on me. Note, this does not mean 'get lost.' It means

Either the links have vanished or my bookmarking was in error - I'll
accept the possibility of error, since I certainly am not perfect, but
how is it that the exact same search on multiple search engines will
turn up different results on different days?

I've learnt that, if I think I might want to go back to some exact
same page, I have to save "web page, complete" it. (Very occasionally, I
feel certain that I don't need to save all the images and stylesheets,
etc. and just save the text.)

This saves a file of html and a folder of mostly junk.

When this first happened to me I was upset - I certainly didn't mean
to use up disk space on some advertiser's gif files, and it
complicated the heck out of searching through the web page for the
single item I'd wanted to save. (I'm old school, I think... despite
working in gigabytes instead of megabytes, I despise wasting space)

OT: Another item that bothers me is to burrow into the bookmark file
and find executable code (or script) within it, compliments of your
friendly neighborhood spyware.


[On the Mac, it is all stored in (it seems) one file.

I am very, very annoyed that at least one such save on the Mac no longer
opens, for reasons which escape me. The original web page is long
gone. (It was some guy's page of photos of a meeting, at which I was
present. By examining the file in a binary editor, I think I will be
able to locate and extract the jpegs, but it will be a lot of work, and
it's not that important, so I haven't done it yet. I *almost* deleted
it, but maybe one day I'll extract the jpegs. This experience has tipped
the balance for me: I've decided the Mac has no real reason to
exist. I'm posting this message from a Mac, BTW. Several story seeds
there, I think.) ]

Not familiar with the Mac, having fallen by default into working on MS
operating systems. However, one facet of webpages is the links they
rely on - there may be a feature of the page you are trying to view
that has to have an image from another website (which may no longer
exist), and can't display without it. I have no suggestions about how
to get around that.


Anyway, if you find something worth keeping, keep it. If you don't have
enough disk space, buy a bigger disk. If you can't afford to buy a
bigger disk, weigh yourself: do you really need to eat this week?

Second the notion of buying a bigger disk. Cheap at half the cost.
:-)

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JamesE
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