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Has anybody downloaded anything from archive.org? I was thinking of using it but am not sure it is safe.
ed
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if you decided to try a link : you can put the link in https://VirusTotal.com[^] and it will scan the link (web page or whatever endpoint) with like 60 virus scanners.
Also, if you download a pdf or exe or whatever you can then upload it to VirusTotal.com (before running or opening) and scan it that way too, to determine if it is likely to contain a virus.
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Cool! Very helpful. Thank you.
ed
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yes, it is safe.
I download documents and audio files all the time from that site.
Archive.org is great.
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It's a great site and it's safe.
Cheers,
Vikram.
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Hello...
I have developed a complete desktop document management system that is in its final phases of completion. The application can currently store PDF, Doc, Docx, and TXT files based on any of up to 5 category levels.
Currently, this application is completely developed with WPF with a Firebird Embedded Database Engine.
I would like to ask if the community members here could see any general interest if I eventually released it for downloading with additional file types being allowed for minimally charged fees (ie: $1.99 per extension).
Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Yes, each of the document types does have a general text-search for within the document...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Back in the dark ages of 1990 I worked at a place that among other things resold "Document Management Systems" While this behemoth that ran windows 2.2 (really) could only save as tiff, it could text search whole folders via ocr. This permitted scanning truck loads of records then at a later date look for a string find the results that linked to documents and high-lit the stings in the document(s).
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You mean like grep -r "search text" * ?
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Not all document types are searchable as plain text.
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My application is not designed for business use but personal use...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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I'd prefer Google Desktop. You competing with "free".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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To my knowledge, Google Desktop is not a document management system but a word-processor...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Then your knowledge is lacking.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Google Desktop is not a document management system, no matter how you slice or dice it. You should review what these types of systems do.
For example, SharePoint is a document management system for the enterprise. Its features in no way resemble anything that Google Desktop would provide except for the search mechanism.
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Steve Naidamast wrote: Google Desktop is not a document management system
Depends on your definition.
Steve Naidamast wrote: For example, SharePoint is a document management system for the enterprise. Its features in no way resemble anything that Google Desktop would provide except for the search mechanism.
Ehr, and what?
So you got a hardon for Document Management and SharePoint. Wanna try to explain what is wrong with Google Documents?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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How about the fact that Google Docs are barely compatible with each other and don't allow live content embedding between documents.
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Windows search is sufficient for most people, especially if they turn on TIFF indexing.
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Do personal users actually think about organizing their files? I think it all goes to Documents in some form.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I don't really know. That is why I put the question out to the forum. From the answers I have been seeing it appears that outside of researchers, students, and the like there would be little call for my application.
Had there been more positive feedback, I would have considered upgrading the application to a multi-user, department level application using something like WCF as the communication medium.
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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I wouldn't be too hard on yourself. Your informal survey has a biased population (from a science of surveys point of view).
I do keep my personal documents managed manually. I also work on an enterprise level document manager (called Doc Man), which is just a small piece of the overall program. From what I've seen, I'm the exception for how well organized my documents are. I find Windows Search frustratingly stupid. I use grepWin (freeware) to deal with that, which only searches plaintext documents. If I had a binary searcher, or one that could search PDF's, Open Office files, and Microsoft Office files, then I would be set.
If I had to manually tag items, then I wouldn't bother with it. That's an extra layer of work that wouldn't be worth the effort.
Hope that helps.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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I'd want it web based so documents can be shared between the four computers I have in my home office, not to mention with others. And seeing as they are all laptops, having this web-based so I can be adding / updating documents from anywhere...well, you get the idea.
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