Comments on: AltaVista Personal Indexer

By: neozeed

neozeed — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:09:46 +0000

In reply to calvin. I think part of the magic is in the PWS to AltaVista link...

By: calvin

calvin — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 09:40:51 +0000

In reply to calvin. now that I think about it, you could hex edit the executable to force it to listen elsewhere

By: calvin

calvin — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 17:56:47 +0000

can’t IIS do something like that? maybe an inetd hooked up to netcat?

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:57:11 +0000

In reply to calvin.

From what I can find the workgroup and enterprise versions were very expensive. And ran on NT and Unix. But it was all sold to some Finish company (not Nokia) who was bought by Microsoft and basically shut down.

I don’t think there was an Alpha NT version.

It’s effectively all dead now. What I need is a good reverse proxy for NT.

By: calvin

calvin — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:06:39 +0000

In reply to neozeed. maybe someone can dig out the workgroup version... and i'm curious if it ran on Alpha NT (maybe VMS?)

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 12:39:27 +0000

In reply to calvin. I was just thinking of putting one online. I was going to use apache as a reverse proxy and serve a bunch of legacy stuff off of this box.

By: calvin

calvin — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 09:53:49 +0000

honestly, I actually run a shared sharepoint instance for me and friends… and the native search since Vista/Tiger has gotten a lot better

certainly pretty interesting! did they release an alpha version? 😉

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 09:08:21 +0000

In reply to GL1zdA. No I haven't although that looks kind of modern & supported, unlike AltaVista products from 1997...

By: GL1zdA

GL1zdA — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:28:11 +0000

Have you tried DocFetcher? http://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html
In my experience, if you properly setup it (give the JVM lots of memory) it works quite well.