Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.

River ,'Objects In Space'


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§ ita § - Dec 28, 2002 1:38:40 pm PST #2407 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

You might want to start reading. [link] is kinda overwhelming. One will need a client to access the server (http://wincvs.org), and here's a howto for the WinCVS client. Karl can give you login info.

I've already imported the files, and now I'm just trying to work through some more details.


Rob - Dec 28, 2002 1:40:37 pm PST #2408 of 10000

t volunteers

I can test drive CVS for you, too, if you want. I'm all about CVS.


Jon B. - Dec 28, 2002 1:57:51 pm PST #2409 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Should I be reading "the Cederqvist," then?

wincvs.org isn't resolving for me.


§ ita § - Dec 28, 2002 2:00:13 pm PST #2410 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Huh. Try [link]


Jon B. - Dec 28, 2002 2:01:46 pm PST #2411 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Nope. Not working either. I'll try again later. Maybe a problem with my nameserver.


John H - Dec 28, 2002 2:02:55 pm PST #2412 of 10000

I just tried to do a search for the term V!Giles and got hits for every reference to Giles. Should I put quotes around it or can I not search for the "!"?

I imagine that's because the indexing function splits posts up into "words", and one of the keys for the end of a word would normally be an exclamation or question mark.

I'm saying "words", not to do the "I" "am" "not" "ironic" thing, but because I found out very early when playing search engines that What Your Programming Language Thinks Is A Word May Vary, and indeed may vary between languages. Unfortunately we have invented our own ideolect where "Vamp!Giles" is a word, but MySQL doesn't think so.

Which reminds me, ita was talking about the obscure algorithm which determines which document comes to the top in a search.

I imagine it's actually something like the classic:

W(T,D)=tf(T,D)*log(DN/df(T))

where tf(T, D) is the term frequency of T in D. DN is the total number of documents df(T) is the sum of frequencies of T in every document considered or as it called the document frequency of T.

which translates to "the score for the term in the document, multiplied by it's uniqueness" -- it's not just that the term appears, but that it doesn't appear frequently anywhere else, that makes it score highly.


John H - Dec 28, 2002 2:04:34 pm PST #2413 of 10000

Oh, and Jon -- what's the story with CSS and your sucked-thread design?

I didn't look at the source before to see how the style sheet was handled.


Jon B. - Dec 28, 2002 2:08:39 pm PST #2414 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

If I understand what you're asking - The format of the sucked thread is such that it only uses a few lines from the external CSS file. I just hardcoded those few lines in the html of the sucked thread. No external CSS ref necessary. :)


John H - Dec 28, 2002 2:18:30 pm PST #2415 of 10000

I just hardcoded those few lines in the html of the sucked thread. No external CSS ref necessary.

That was exactly what I was asking. I knew you'd have it under control, just wanted to check.


Noumenon - Dec 28, 2002 9:53:57 pm PST #2416 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti

the difference between "Search thread #__" and "Search [thread names dropbox]" is very small.

Because you already convert the thread_id to the thread title all over the board. I should've realized that. I was just thinking of the front end of the page and wanting to type the thread id number in a form instead of in the URL.