Comments on: XPAT on news.mozilla.org http://ilias.ca/blog/2006/08/xpat-on-newsmozillaorg/ I still dream of Organon Sat, 10 Jul 2010 22:48:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Chris Ilias’ Blog » XPAT on news.mozilla.org http://ilias.ca/blog/2006/08/xpat-on-newsmozillaorg/comment-page-1/#comment-38422 Chris Ilias’ Blog » XPAT on news.mozilla.org Mon, 21 May 2007 19:19:41 +0000 http://ilias.ca/blog/2006/08/xpat-on-newsmozillaorg/#comment-38422 [...] XPAT on news.mozilla.org     Music : Joe Satriani - (You're) My World[modified version for Thunderbird 2 users. Thunderbird 1 users go here.] [...] [...] XPAT on news.mozilla.org     Music : Joe Satriani – (You’re) My World[modified version for Thunderbird 2 users. Thunderbird 1 users go here.] [...]

]]> By: J.B. Nicholson-Owens http://ilias.ca/blog/2006/08/xpat-on-newsmozillaorg/comment-page-1/#comment-344 J.B. Nicholson-Owens Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:03:45 +0000 http://ilias.ca/blog/2006/08/xpat-on-newsmozillaorg/#comment-344 By the way, your blog preview is broken. It doesn't show paragraph breaks so it doesn't accurately preview the post as it will appear when the post is submitted. Also, the preview inserts an apostrophe before the apostrophe in the word "doesn't" (probably any other apostrophe use as well). By the way, your blog preview is broken. It doesn’t show paragraph breaks so it doesn’t accurately preview the post as it will appear when the post is submitted. Also, the preview inserts an apostrophe before the apostrophe in the word “doesn’t” (probably any other apostrophe use as well).

]]> By: J.B. Nicholson-Owens http://ilias.ca/blog/2006/08/xpat-on-newsmozillaorg/comment-page-1/#comment-343 J.B. Nicholson-Owens Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:00:18 +0000 http://ilias.ca/blog/2006/08/xpat-on-newsmozillaorg/#comment-343 Giganews could have one server generate an index for XPAT to fgrep or search through (with some faster indexed search). Then Giganews could offer XPAT but tell users that articles will take up to an hour (for instance) before they show up in the XPAT search results. I believe the indexer used in Beagle would be of assistance here; it's free software (in the best sense: free to run, inspect, share, and modify). This would let them define how often the XPAT data is created and contain how much CPU time and storage is used. Also, Thunderbird should be extended to do online the brute-force searching it will do offline. Giganews could have one server generate an index for XPAT to fgrep or search through (with some faster indexed search). Then Giganews could offer XPAT but tell users that articles will take up to an hour (for instance) before they show up in the XPAT search results. I believe the indexer used in Beagle would be of assistance here; it’s free software (in the best sense: free to run, inspect, share, and modify).

This would let them define how often the XPAT data is created and contain how much CPU time and storage is used.

Also, Thunderbird should be extended to do online the brute-force searching it will do offline.

]]> By: Lauw http://ilias.ca/blog/2006/08/xpat-on-newsmozillaorg/comment-page-1/#comment-324 Lauw Thu, 17 Aug 2006 07:39:01 +0000 http://ilias.ca/blog/2006/08/xpat-on-newsmozillaorg/#comment-324 I don't understand it, but half a year ago I could download binaries from mozilla, it was the best newsserver online ever, but I can't download from it anymore... but ik don't know why! maybe you can explain te me why? Greetings I don’t understand it, but half a year ago I could download binaries from mozilla, it was the best newsserver online ever, but I can’t download from it anymore… but ik don’t know why! maybe you can explain te me why?

Greetings

]]> By: »Q« http://ilias.ca/blog/2006/08/xpat-on-newsmozillaorg/comment-page-1/#comment-302 »Q« Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:13:19 +0000 http://ilias.ca/blog/2006/08/xpat-on-newsmozillaorg/#comment-302 The Giganews support person is not quite correct. Before an XPAT command must come a GROUP command, and only articles in the specified group should be searched, not the full spool of over 700 million posts. If enabling XPAT on the software Giganews uses would result in the entire spool being searched, something is wrong. But the overall point that a few users using XPAT can put a significant strain on the server, affecting performance for all users, is certainly legit. The Giganews support person is not quite correct. Before an XPAT command must come a GROUP command, and only articles in the specified group should be searched, not the full spool of over 700 million posts. If enabling XPAT on the software Giganews uses would result in the entire spool being searched, something is wrong.

But the overall point that a few users using XPAT can put a significant strain on the server, affecting performance for all users, is certainly legit.

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