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[Mar. 13th, 2009|12:27 am] |
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Continuing with the I name my computers strange things theme.
I was chatting with Andrew Patterson the other day, while we waited for class to start. He mentioned that he'd just been to purchase Office 2007 for his computer.
Andrew: Do you buy Windows for your computers?
Mm: Well, let me think. Bianca had a hacked copy for a while, but I didn't like it, so I purchased a fresh copy of XP Pro and installed it. Connor has XP Home. Tristian had two versions, since he started out with XP Home and I upgraded to Pro. ...So I guess... Yes, for all of them?
Andrew: Are these your siblings, or just random people?
Mm: ...No. These are my computers.
Andrew: ... ... ...
...Wow, that makes two people I know who actually purchase Windows. The first being me.
...In related news, I had a terrifying hour or so today when I thought I'd left Bianca somewhere at the mall and she'd been lifted. Luckily, I got home to find she'd been sitting on my bedroom floor the whole time. Sigh...
And now, I should have been in bed two hours ago. Sleep time.
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[Mar. 13th, 2009|03:02 pm] |
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I can't quite grok the logic.
I asked this of Ryan Heise back in first year, and I'm not sure he got what I was on about. I'm talking about it in the context of files as email attachments in my example, but general search could be interesting as well.
Is it possible to search for, say, emails that have at least one attachment of a filetype other than x? To exclude a file with a name of x from being counted towards the results?
The example that is springing to mind is if I wanted to search for mail that had attachments. Now, Nathan always signs emails he sends with a digital signiature - by attaching a file to the e-mail. I have no interest in the signiature file, so I'd like that excluded from my "has:attachment" search.
So far, so easy. "has:attachment -filename:[signiature]".
But then, imagine he added an extra file to his email - maybe an image illustrating a point he was making. Suddenly, I do want the email to appear in my search results - the new file is interesting; but at the same time, I don't really want to sift through hundreds of signiature files to get to the one file of interest.
I know that in text files, this probably wouldn't be too difficult a problem - a regex could probably be knocked together fairly quickly to identify 'x' where not 'xy'. But in situations like the one I've outlined above, I wonder if there's any way to do so...
-Mmaster |
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