Searching the archives (was RE: [mythtv-users] How about using a Ram disk for the ringbuffer tospeed up channel change?)

Kirby Vandivort kvandivo at ks.uiuc.edu
Thu Oct 2 12:19:41 EDT 2003


You could take the mythtv.org approach, where you follow the link in
the left column that says 'lists', scroll down to where it actually talks
about the lists, and click on the link where it talks about searchable
mailing list archives.

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:56:35AM -0500, Chris Delis wrote:
> 
> Of course, I forgot to mention the google approach and host option, e.g.,
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?as_q=ram+disk&num=10&hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=mythtv.org&safe=images
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Chris Delis wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Is there a search engine for the list archives?  The only site I know of
> > is (yes I'm new to this list in case you haven't yet figured that
> > out ;-):
> > 
> > http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/
> > 
> > Currently, if I want to search the archives, I can either go into each
> > month and do a title search.  If I want to do a message body search,
> > I can download the complete archive and search the whole lot.
> > 
> > Is there a better way?
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Scott Blomfield wrote:
> > 
> > > Michael,
> > > 
> > > I don't know... but I'm pretty that this topic is covered in the manual.
> > > If you still cannot find it, search the archives!
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Michael Greb [mailto:mikegrb at yahoo.com] 
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 10:06 PM
> > > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] How about using a Ram disk for the
> > > ringbuffer tospeed up channel change?
> > > 
> > > On Wednesday 01 October 2003 10:43 pm, cmisip wrote:
> > > > Will this work?  If I have 1 gig ram, I might use 640 mb as a ring
> > > > buffer to speed I/O. (it will probably last 40 minutes)  Would this
> > > get
> > > > rid of the 2 second pause between channel changes?  Has anybody done
> > > > this yet?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > Has anybody tried reading emails about a topic before taking part in a 
> > > discussion?  If I read all of the emails then I would know what is going
> > > on.  
> > > Would this get rid of people making suggestions that don't make a single
> > > bit 
> > > of since? Has anybody done this yet?
> > > Thanks
> > > Michael
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 

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