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

Boyd II, Willy wboyd at fulbright.com
Fri Oct 3 15:41:50 EDT 2003



> The link to gossamer 'is' in the docs but it's a blue link on blue text
and is the 2nd > > link in the sentence.... very hard to distinguish.

> Tim

I always thought that was intentional after I saw some of the aggravation
over repeated questions :-P  Like it was made less obvious on purpose...

(only kidding)

- Willy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users- 
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Chris Delis
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 10:10 AM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: Searching the archives (was RE: [mythtv-users] How about 
> usinga Ram disk for the ringbuffer tospeed up channel change?)
> 
> I realize this now, Thanks.  I made the mistake of joining the list
before
> checking out the searchable archives link next to it.
> This took me to the subscribe page which had its own link to the 
> archives (but not the gossamer threads).  I made a horrible assumption 
> that the archives link was the "searchable" link.  Maybe it'd be a 
> good idea to add the gossamer link to the mailing list options site, 
> too?  Or, maybe I'm the only one on earth that has made this mistake 
> (I wouldn't doubt it? :-)
> 
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Kirby Vandivort wrote:
> 
> > 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_q
dr
> =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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> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Kirby Vandivort                      Theoretical and
> > Senior Research Programmer            Computational Biophysics
> > Email: kvandivo at ks.uiuc.edu          3051 Beckman Institute
> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~kvandivo/    University of Illinois
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> >






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