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Monthly Archives: November 2006

“Ask Desktop Search” trouble

Friday, November 17, 2006

After some sucessful searching the web with the Ask Search Engine I thought about trying the “Ask Desktop Search” Software. I needed to index my pdfs, so I could do a full text search on them. Apparently, this little program does not send my data out onto the web, like googles desktop search does. A [...]

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The man who almost owed me the 243 Million Lottery Jackpot

Friday, November 10, 2006

Here in Europe, we have the weekly EuroMillions Lottery. As of today, 10th of November 2006, there were 243 Million Euros to win (That is USD 310’588’020, aka 310 Mio $). Of course everybody tried thier luck… My lucky numbers for today were these: 14 22 35 38 44 – 3 7 01 13 21 [...]

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“Ask” Search Engine

Saturday, November 4, 2006

A friend of mine told my yesterday about the search engine Ask. I remembered today when starting to get my hands dirty with the Apache Axis Webservice Framework. I was reading through the User Guide and tried to run their TestClient application. However the URL for the Echo Webservice did not seem to be working. [...]

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