Search services (semi)officially (re)launches

["Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <rudd-o amautacorp com>]

Well, parentheses around word prefixes in the subject are just ornaments. 
First, let me excuse myself if this list is the wrong venue to spread this
message.

What the hell is R talking about?
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Search services!  Our mission: to build and provide the world with free
software tools that enrich and facilitate the computing experience.  Our
vision: a world where search is always available, fast and reliable - and
not wanting to rely on it is unthinkable.

What is this Search services thingie he just said?
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I got tired, *truly* tired, of resorting to tons of tools to find what I
want on my computer.  See, like many here, I own about 160GB of data,
scattered all around in my hard disks (let's leave removable storage out
of the sentence) and I just can't find things when I need them.  Let's
recap:

- find and grep -r for odds and ends
- htdig (heavily customized) for developer documentation and manual pages
(I haven't counted how many)
- Rhythmbox and amaroK for music (about 13000 songs)
- Evolution for e-mail (since 1995, about 1GB of maildirs)

I hate it with my guts.  And I've started a journey to make this madness
stop.

How?
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Pour 2 liters of Python in a bowl.  Stir (gently) with gnome-vfs and
assorted OSS desktop technologies.  Add MySQL to your taste.  Serve
decorated with pygtk.

I've built a preliminary Frankenstein monster, which is usable and (I
think) now worthy of public testing.  Search services is the umbrella
project for:

- The metadata service: A multipurpose, extensible indexer and search
service.
- Quick search: A simple, graphical search tool.
- python-inotify: An abstraction to the Linux inotify file notification
system.
- python-UnixSocketTransport: An extension for the Python xmlrpclib
XML-RPC client library
- python-mytools: A collection of tools to run a private MySQL database,
catalog Python objects and perform blazingly fast queries on the catalog.

Where do I get this stuff?
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http://www.amautacorp.com/staff/Rudd-O/projects/search-services/

I have questions?
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Yes, U sure do.  No, no, that's actually the name of the song I'm
listening to.  I'm rambling again, sorry.  Direct any inquiries to me, or
to me *and* the list if you feel it's worthy of public discussion.  I just
request that you include my e-mail address in the recipient/CC list so my
Evo filters catch and flag those e-mails.


        Rudd-O