Sunday, February 24, 2008

Sgrep : Super Grep?

No sgrep means Structured Grep but as far as I'm concerned it could be super-grep because it is a non-lined based grep.

# sgrep has the advantage of being non-line based
sgrep -i '("<h1>" .. "</h1>")' index.php
sgrep -i '("fred" .. "joe")' essay.txt
It gets really useful when you stream it
sgrep -i '("fred" .. "joe")' essay.txt | egrep -i 'keyword'


More details here http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/jjaakkol/sgrep.html

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Friday, February 15, 2008

iPhone Boosts Mobile Searches Fantastically

Google's logs show that more searches are coming from the iPhone than any other mobile device. How much more? Fifty times more. Google's Vic Gundotra told the Financial Times that "We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again".

This is to be expected. The iPhone makes the web easy to use on a mobile device, and every customer has a bundled data plan. In the US, AT&T says that iPhone users burn through double the data of other customers.

It also shows the growth of mobile search, and the potential revenues for Google, something of which the search giant is fully aware.

Thinks: Must get an iPhone

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Sunday, February 03, 2008

Disappearing Control Panel on Vista
On my Vista system after recent automatic updates I can no longer open the "Control Panel" or rather it opens and then closes instantly. Googling around reveals that this does seem to be some kind of driver problem. Well anyway fixing it without being able to enter the control panel will be a tad difficult. Oh what a wonderful operating system! Does anyone else have the Task Manager which you can't close problem?. Now where is that Ubuntu disk?