Dave Winer: The other side of the coin on piracy.

Rahul Dave points to David Galbraith on Google's Command Line Control.

Rahul:

The question of-course is, whats the equivalence to a link and link popularity on the local drive? Google is not just about full text searching, its about the relative importance of documents. So google wont do anything. Whats needed is filesystems to associate more metadata with a file, such as number of reads and writes, to serve as implicit links, and an explicit model for making linking useful in the context of the local system, something like a radio inteface to the whole system!

The strategy that we're using with Prethink is to not attempt to index and make the entire local disk searchable. We'll settle for a subset: those documents, emails, etc. that have been flagged by the user as needing to be searchable. In my experience, it's often only a small-ish subset of your entire local disk that needs to be searched. So we're pursuing the ability to search that subset of documents for an entire workgroup or entire company.

Mutt on cygwin: use exim. It comes with cygwin, it's fairly simple to set up, and it works better than ssmtp. Especially if you have to send mail from more than one address. Just add set sendmail="/usr/bin/exim" to your .muttrc.