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Nick I asked a question in LUCI on February 27, 2008 07:15:

Finding Doc/Image Pairs...

Does anyone have any good methods for finding the image files in the document for assignment 6?

I was thinking that I'd have to find all the tags, then the src values within them, but it seems like a weak algorithm that doesn't explore all the possibilities. Are there any easy WebSphinx methods that get all the images out of it, or something?

Thanks for your help!

Nick

Nick I asked a question in LUCI on February 22, 2008 19:41:

Making the XPI File

I'm having trouble making the XPI file for the Firefox extension. I'm doing it by using winzip, and calling the file "emptysidebar.xpi." I'm zipping up the folder that is in the emptysidebar.zip file that is provided on the website. The XPI file that they give works just fine, but when I try to make one, it states that it can't find the install.rdf file, even though it is included in the xpi file, and I placed it in the same folder as install.rdf.

Can someone give a walkthrough about how to create an XPI file, and where to place it? (if there's a certain place where it has to go)

Nick I replied on February 08, 2008 18:01 to the question "Anyone know how to store the webGraph to a file? Anyone finish crawling all of wiki?" in LUCI:

ArrayListMutableGraph

Nick I replied on February 08, 2008 04:17 to the question "Anyone know how to store the webGraph to a file? Anyone finish crawling all of wiki?" in LUCI:

We added more threads to speed it up, but it still seems like an impossible task. At 75 threads, it was too much for the computer to handle, bringing up memory errors. We're making sure to dump the pages after each visit, so the memory doesn't build up so much. Running at 40 threads, it's crawling, but it's not going fast enough (7500 pages in 20 or so minutes). We're starting to get really concerned, since the math does point to an inability to crawl all this in the time allotted.

Has anyone been able to use a huge number of threads, or have a clue about how to jump start the crawler (in a big way)? We're out of ideas here.

Nick I replied on February 08, 2008 01:12 to the question "Anyone know how to store the webGraph to a file? Anyone finish crawling all of wiki?" in LUCI:

I also haven't found out how to add more threads. Did Chris say something about that in class one day?

Nick I replied on February 06, 2008 18:35 to the question "Questions about palindromes" in LUCI:

What is the definition of "...a page that is not about palindromes?" Would that be any page that has the word "palindrome" anywhere in the text (body or title), or just in the page title?

Nick I replied on February 05, 2008 22:51 to the question "Questions about palindromes" in LUCI:

We've run into an interesting dilemma for returning palindromes. Since spaces are not included in the palindrome, they are not checked in our isPalindrome method. They are typically included in the palindrome String that is returned by our findPalindrome method.

So, the question is, should the length of the palindrome only include letters and numbers, or should punctuation and spaces be included as well?

Example: "madamiamadam" vs ". madam I am Adam! " Notice the period that occurs before madam in the second choice.

Nick I replied on February 04, 2008 22:59 to the question "Finding the import files for WebGraph" in LUCI:

Nevermind, it looks like I simply downloaded and installed the wrong files (tar instead of the rpm).

Nick I replied on February 04, 2008 18:16 to the question "Questions about lipograms" in LUCI:

So, a lipogram doesn't have to occur on the whole page in order for it to count? I thought an entire page would be invalid if it wasn't a lipogram, similar to the book "Gadsby." Is that true, or is it sentence- and paragraph-length lipograms?

Nick I asked a question in LUCI on February 04, 2008 18:05:

Finding the import files for WebGraph

I'm trying to extend the ImmutableGraph class, but the files I need to import don't seem to be in any of the jar files that I downloaded (the ones in the tar file). Does anyone know where to find those files for webgraph that need to be imported? (The Package I'm looking for is it.unimi.dsi.webgraph)

Nick I asked a question in LUCI on February 01, 2008 19:32:

Questions about Rhopalics

I have a few questions about the rhopalic.

First, can it start with more than one letter as the first word? For instance, can it be a 3 letter word, 4 letter word, and 5 letter word?

Second, do we judge longest by number of letters in the sentence or number of words in the sentence?