Google Search Appliance

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The Google Search Appliance

Yeah, so more geek lust. It ends not. Just throw one of these babies on your network and you've got an internal google search database. Searches 200+ file types and pretty much has all the features of the internet google that I love so dearly.

Fuck me daddy. Actually, I'd pay to have one of these at home built into a routing appliance with minimal features. Like if it had support for MP3 ID3 v2 tags it'd be totally useful for finding tunes across the network no matter who's laptop or whatever device is plugged in from any point on the network. Heck, with a Bluetooth to Ethernet bridge (I'm comparing the right OSI layer, right? Bluetooth confuses me) you could totally stream songs from everywhere on the LAN with simple access via a Palm OS device with sound hardware.

Ok, pipe dreaming again. And procrastinating! Doh.

Comments

[brucelloyd.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's becoming reality. It's called Rendezvous (http://www.apple.com/macosx/newversion/), available in the next release of OS X.

If you believe that...

[ranger1.livejournal.com]

...I have this wonderful next-generation OS to show you. It's called Copland. :)

I always take Apple marketing hype with a truckload of salt.

[five0xpres.livejournal.com]

Fuck me daddy, OK if you insist!

Actually, that is pretty freaky, the whole google search database on your local machine. What will they come up with next? Star Trek-type PADDs that can be everything from a book to a music device, to a phone or a navigational aide....oh wait, we're almost there aren't we?

Kyocera QCP 6035 Smartphone

[sultmhoor.livejournal.com]

It catalogues your local systems, it's not a copy of Google's database.

[sultmhoor.livejournal.com]

It shouldn't be too hard -- Google's run on GNU/Linux, and there are several perl (http://search.cpan.org/search?module=MP3::Info) mods (http://search.cpan.org/search?module=MPEG::ID3v2Tag) that read IDv2 tags. Once you were to figure out how they determine magic numbers for files, the rest should be trivial.

[ranger1.livejournal.com]

Heck, with a Bluetooth to Ethernet bridge (I'm comparing the right OSI layer, right?

Right. (gives Brodie a gold star)

Bluetooth confuses me

It is indeed weird. I recently attended a lecture on Bluetooth, and one of the slides had a picture of (I kid you not) Hedy Lamarr. No idea why. Weird, weird, weird.