What Isn't on the Internet? 407
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Every modern geek knows that one can find practically everything
on the Internet these days. In fact, I just realized today that
I have *never* not found anything I've searched for, barring things
that can't for some reason be released in such an environment, or
things that just don't exist, even off the 'net. I think it would be
interesting to find out what people have searched for that isn't
out there ... have any of you ever looked but come up dry?"
Source code to windows.... 404 not found (Score:1)
Re:free pr0n? (Score:1)
Hm... (Score:2)
-A.P.
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* CmdrTaco is an idiot.
Re:Userfriendly is going public? (Score:2)
-A.P.
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* CmdrTaco is an idiot.
The lyrics to the Spiderman Sega CD game.. (Score:2)
The opening theme goes something like "Save this city.."
I would figure that some crackhead has posted the lyrics somewhere, but I sure can't find them.
Just once... (Score:2)
I've been looking for schematics for a Roland Jupiter-4 (circa 1978) which has a broken fourth voice (doesn't do resonance). Haven't found free versions online: only pay-for versions which are photocopies so therefore useless (the schematics need colour to be read).
I've found some useful information before but the WWW isn't perfect. If someone sends me a URL for Roland Jupiter-4 schematics then I'll eat my words, of course!
Texas Toast (Score:2)
So yes, I have found a hole in the Internet.
POSIX standards (Score:2)
It turns out (I read in Rebel Code) that Linus was just as surprised, and instead went to the Sun manpages for documentation to base his system call implementations on.
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I'm not on the Internet (Score:2)
Thanks slashdot...
bulk historical data (Score:3)
2000AD surprisingly absent (Score:2)
I have yet to find (Score:2)
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Re:One Thing.. (Score:2)
No one's figured out how to rake in the bucks providing that yet.
Re:No April Fools jokes (Score:3)
Well... (Score:2)
"Your mom being fucked in the ass by an Australian sheepdog."
Thank you.
things I've been looking for (Score:2)
weapons in space") in MPEG/whatever video
format
2) Scans of the photos in "The Sex Life of the
DSKRAT"
3) Either online text of or a seller that will
sell me Helen Zahavi's "The Weekend"
4) Documentation describing bus interface units
and the precise operation of peripherals used
in various definitely obsolete, but not truly
ancient architectures (e.g. R2K)
Well, that's my wishlist for now.
Bill
Ask and you shall receive. :) (Score:2)
Re:Ask and you shall receive. :) (Score:2)
Orbquest (Score:2)
Caution: Now approaching the (technological) singularity.
A real one (no april fools joke) (Score:3)
So I tried to find out.
I found a few dozen web sites devoted to "the man in black", but not a single one that explains when or why he picked up this particular quirk. Maybe it's out there, but it's too hard for a search engine to find.
A simple one. (Score:3)
This plant is known to have many useful properties - it helps speed up nerve signaling a tad (useful for MS sufferers, such as myself), as well as helping asthma, and even lowering blood pressure. I can buy capsules containing a measured amount of dry plant, even standardized to a particular amount of the active chemical, forskolin. I can buy freeze-dried root. I can buy liquid extract of this plant.
I can get studies done that tell what climate and nutrients are needed to maximize the content of forskolin. I can find all of this on the web.
What I cannot find online is a source for the seeds, or live roots, or even live plants, so that I can actually *grow* this stuff for myself. Instead, to use this to help my multiple sclerosis, I must buy it already-made into something, either pills or capsules, at *incredible* markup.
As 60 capsules generally costs about $15, and, for MS, I'd need to take six daily (two at a time, three times a day), this adds up VERY fast. Factor in at I'm on disability, with *very* limited income, and it gets even more entertaining.
From my searching, I've seen that I am by far not the only person scouring the Web for this plant. Every site that has requests for plants, seems to have several people looking for this plant. I know it's available - not only are the places that sell capsules able to grow it, but the people who've done the studies on growing it had to have live plants.
But if it's available on the Web, no search engine I've yet seen can find it.
Looking for love, at one point. (Score:2)
Angora boxers (Score:2)
Thanks!
I've spent the last three months looking for... (Score:2)
Daylight saving. (Score:2)
I now rely on the traditional method of hoping someone else will tell me. Seems to work.
Dave
Some things I've found that don't really exist... (Score:5)
On a somewhat related note--have you ever (by accident or on purpose) conducted a websearch for something that doesn't *really* exist...and found it anyway?
I discovered this phenomenon the other morning. Here are some examples of things I've found that don't exist:
Vegemite T-shirt (Score:2)
can't find (Score:2)
Information on Saturn V's Iterative Guidance Mode and source code. (with Makefile)
retrocomupting info that ain't there (Score:2)
in case yer wondering, JOVIAL is a 1960's derivative of ALGOL. a friend tells me that it has no I/O commands -- you had to write your I/O in whatever low-level language the hardware supported.
Find this for me please... (Score:2)
Thanks.
-jfedor
Repeat Searches (Score:2)
Re:AOL bought out DALnet... (Score:2)
Notice the date.
-Restil
Re:Things you cannot find (Score:2)
And Voyager
and Simpsons
and Southpark
and Futurama
and Andromeda
and Friends
and plenty of other shows I don't watch.
-Restil
Re:Free, Legal, Quality Pornography (Score:2)
You call that quality?!? Your lack of standards is deplorable! Where are the videos? Where's the live, 24-7-365, streaming models? How about the Hot and Horny Sorority Girls?
In fact, there isn't even any pornography on that site! It's merely links, mostly to family-oriented "unofficial fan pages" and such. Fellow slashdot readers, I urge you to restrain yourselves from visiting that sorry excuses for a pornographic webpage. I've seen Kids 'R' Us catalogs more revealing than that!
It's obvious that there's a very serious issue here. Should we allow ourselves to be satisfied by this disgraceful attempt to garner advertising revenues, then net porn will never achieve its full potential. Demand better!
Free, Legal, Quality Pornography (Score:3)
You know, try as I might, I just can't seem to find some free, legal, quality pornography online.
It false under the "free, legal, quality -- choose two" rule:
free and legal - But then it's never quality. Who would actually dedicate their time and bandwidth to archiving quality pornography for others to view? It's like Gnutella -- too many people downloading, too few uploading.
free and quality - This is typically inspired by a strage fetish for something illegal, such as child pornography or papparazzi shots of celebrities. People are obsessive enough to waste their time collecting this stuff, but only because they're so desparate to find it themselves (after all, it's illegal).
legal and quality - Do I really need to say it? You get what you pay for. If somebody puts up a quality archive of legal pornography -- a precious commodity; one that people are willing to pay for -- how long can it be before money corrupts and they're off with their credit card billing, mass spam advertising, and hundreds of pop-up windows?
I look forward to seeing any dissenting views. It's a win-win situation for us all =)
Dimmer circuits (Score:2)
I'd like a digital dimmer circuit. I'd like DMX512 transmitter and receiver circuits. I'd like to see how people use IGBTs for dimming. I'd like to see a circuit which can dim fluorescent lamps digitally (I found an analog version after much googling).
Any hints?
Darth Vader Gargoyle (Score:2)
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Patrick Doyle
Re:Lyrics to "So Fine" by the Persuasions(?) (Score:2)
Something I have found, and one thing I haven't (Score:2)
The one thing that I haven't been able to find is a copy of "Gates of Delerium" for the TRS-80 Color Computer 2 - a clone of Ultima that was made by Diecom Software in the mid-80's. Diecom was founded by Dave Dies, and someone else - and then went out of business with the death of the CoCo in the early 90's. I know that he now works for a company doing PDA games. It almost seems like I have the only copy, and my copy is DEAD. I spent a fair amount of money on that game, and I want to play it again... argggh!
Worldcom [worldcom.com] - Generation Duh!
I found one (Score:5)
Re:Looking for love, at one point. (Score:2)
popular sheet music (Score:2)
Re:Free, Legal, Quality Pornography (Score:2)
Re:A meaning of life, that isn't 42 (Score:2)
Re:What does 'USA' stand for. (Score:2)
What isn't on the internet? (Score:2)
Example from Plastic.com -Yet to be published Book (Score:2)
Re:Actually... (Score:2)
How about this? (Score:2)
Well there's Railpage Australia [railpage.org.au]. That the sort of thing you wanted?
Time zone problems (Score:2)
One of the problems I find is that by the time the USA gets around to April 1st, it's almost over elsewhere in the world. The jokes tend to wear thin after a couple of days of them.
Re:Just once... (Score:2)
Having had to hunt down the schematics for a Roland SRV-2000, here's some advice:
- Call your local|regional|national Roland distributor. Sometimes you can get a photocopy for free. Remember that you're asking someone to find a document that's nearly 20 years old, so be extra nice, offer to pay postage, etc.
- Failing that, try a local music electronics repair center. They might run off a copy for you.
- Last resort: E-Bay.
- Extra last resort: Schematics are for the weak. Replace or resolder everything.
- Important: Make sure you know your instrument's revision number. Roland, like many other manufacturers, would often introduce new revisions of circuit boards, firmware, and software over the life of a product, both to fix defects and streamline the production process.
Schematics are out there, though your
Those old Jupiters sound pretty sweet.
Good luck,
k.
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"In spite of everything, I still believe that people
are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Good historical information (Score:3)
There's no shortage of historical information on the net, but if you want in depth analysis of some historical issue or other, you basically have to go and look in a library.
In fact, I often find that Xrefer [xrefer.com] does a better job of answering historical or philosophical questions than a generic web search. Since Xrefer is just [free beer] access to a collection of reference books, that isn't really very encouraging.
Basically, the net is great for breadth, but for non-geek disciplines, the depth is often lacking. We need to shrink copyright terms down to at most 5 or 10 years. That might help :)
Re:FP (Score:2)
I've got a good one: (Score:2)
In fact, it's only by combing the internet that I've found a few places where you can actually price car parts, so if you want to shop around for something like aluminum reconditioned cylinder heads you have to go somewhere like badasscars.com [badasscars.com] but they're not exactly a known name or anything, so you don't know if the guy's full of shit or actually knows his stuff. (I'll find out pretty soon when I actually order a set of heads and get a look at them)
Basically, the internet could use more car information. Especially along the lines of rebuilding motors, choosing parts to use (IE which pistons are better, what stock parts will be just fine in a hot rod and which will absolutely need replaced, etc.)
Also, when shopping for seat covers, carpet, and headliners for my son's Mercury Comet I found that very few sites actually had prices online. One wouldn't even tell you how much stuff cost when you called them. You had to wait for them to mail you something.
I know this will sound like carping, but even though I've found most of what I've been looking for it sure hasn't been easy. I challenge someone to find the information out there on whether or not a TH350 transmission can be converted to a four speed, or what it takes to use a lockup torque converter with one. It's not going to be easy!
Here's one (Score:2)
Re:What can't be found on the net (Score:2)
A web page without banner ads.
My web page.
A practical way to stop spam.
Don't give out your email address to anyone you know personally. Even then, be careful: my mom sent me one of those electronic greeting cards where the company also sold all email addresses entered to spammers.
A web search that doesn't turn up porn.
Eh, still working on that, I suppose. But Google's pretty good.
Re:Some things I've found that don't really exist. (Score:2)
A long long time ago, I entered a web seach on Alta Vista, with the query "peronal homepage". Note that I misspelled it "peronal" instead of "personal". Nearly every search engine turns up a ton of "peronal homepages":
http://www.google.com/search?q=peronal+homepage
Google turns up about 418. Anyway, I remember that it was about half an hour before I noticed that I had spelled "personal" wrong...
Re:A real one (no april fools joke) (Score:3)
5.
MAN IN BLACK
(Johnny Cash)
© '71 House Of Cash
Well you wonder why I always dress in black
Why you never see bright colors on my back
And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone
Well there's a reason for the things that I have on
I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down
Livin' in the hopeless hungry side of town
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime
But is there because he's a victim of the times
I wear the black for those who've never read
Or listened to the words that Jesus said
About the road to happiness through love and charity
Why you'd think he's talking straight to you and me
Well we're doin' mighty fine I do suppose
In our streak of lightning cars and fancy clothes
But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back
Up front there oughta be a man in black
I wear it for the sick and lonely old
For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold
I wear the black in morning for the lives that could have been
Each week we lose a hundred fine young men
And I wear it for the thousands who have died
Believin' that the Lord was on their side
I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died
Believin' that we all were on their side
Well there's things that never will be right I know
And things need changin' everywhere you go
But till we start to make a move to make a few things right
You'll never see me wear a suit of white
Oh I'd love to wear a rainbow every day and tell the world that everything's okay
But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back
Till things're brighter I'm the man in black
Guess you need to listen to his older music to find out
What can't be found on the net (Score:2)
A practical way to stop spam.
A web search that doesn't turn up porn.
I have some more but they get depressing at this point.
Re:No April Fools jokes (Score:2)
sure (Score:2)
Rami
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Re:sure (Score:2)
Rami
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Scanned original copies of early music (Score:2)
Of course, there's some stuff by these composers around, but very seldom do you see a scan of one of the original copies (i.e., purely public domain content).
Legal Information at the Local/State Level (Score:2)
I recently have become involved in a lawsuit filed by Main Line Personnel, a headhunting company in the Phi;adelphia rea, and when I wanted information on who else they have sued recently, it was nowwhere to be found on the NET. I had to go to the courthouse, run a swearch off of a terminal that was hooked up to an old IBM mainframe.
the real clincher was though, if I wantedmore inforamtion about each case, I had to actually go to each county seat to get information. That is if there was a case that was filed in Somerset county, I had to travel to Somerset county to get more information
This is a funny followup (= (Score:2)
Today: "Is there anything you can't find"
- Knut S.
It might just be me bing lame...
Re:Actually... (Score:2)
I point to websites such as http://www.shannons-world.com/ as proof.
Try these, McCheese! (Score:2)
http://page.auctions.yahoo.com/auction/23451661 brings up 2 pics of a 1973 glass featuring the Mayor.
You, sir, obviously have not used Google recently.
But anyway, I miss those old playgrounds full of the McDonalds characters that they used to have in some locations. The lame see-them-everywhere plastic tunnel crap they have at McDonalds now just sucks in comparison. I remember clibing all over those huge metal characters, with "forts" and see-saws and all sorts of fun stuff. But these days I guess it's too much of a legal liability to give kids a playground that's actually fun, instead of a bunch of plastic tubes and nylon webbing. Blech.
Umm, can you read??? (Score:2)
As I said, they can be found second-hand, but are no longer being sold new and will probably never be sold new in King's lifetime. Therefore, I was hoping to find an OCR's copy of *The Rage* on the Net, but no one has posted one. As I said, I might buy a used copy and OCR and upload it myself, since doing so won't be taking money out of any author's or publisher's pockets.
Well, I've searched for books that were pulled... (Score:3)
The "banned" book I could not find online was *The Rage*, written by Stephen King under the pseudonym "Bachman" back when the market was too saturated with King novels and he didn't want to put out that many more for a while, but kept writing voluminously anyway. It was later published under King's own name in a collection of all the books written under that pseudonym, called *The Bachman Books*. But the novel was found in the locker of a high school kid who was involved in a school shooting, and King decided to have the publisher yank the book. I went looking for a scanned-in text of it online, figuring I wouldn't be taking money out of anyone's pocket since the book is permanently out of stock and out of print. Nada. Of course, a quick search of eBay yields a ton of second-hand copies, so if I really wanted to I could buy one and OCR it onto the Net myself. But, I was surprised that no one has done so, considering that it is no longer available except second-hand anyway.
Re:a melody lookup database (Score:2)
If you do have any cool ideas, especially about how to get the actual data to search through, or how to provide this service on the web without the RIAA sueing your ass off, I'd be interested to hear.
Use MIDI files with LilyPond (Score:2)
popular sheet music: napsterize that!
You can always go to MIDI Farm [midifarm.com], download your favorite songs, fire up LilyPond [lilypond.org], and print it.
No web pages but there is an audio clip (Score:2)
No home pages about 'my Amish life'.
Except for this audio clip... [nap]
Re: (Score:2)
Goat Sex? (Score:2)
What kind of sick weirdos would be into that?!?!
Re:No April Fools jokes (Score:2)
Miranda was the suspect.
Rate me on Picture-rate.com [picture-rate.com]
Re:Yes, Miranda was the suspect (Score:2)
Rate me on Picture-rate.com [picture-rate.com]
Actually... (Score:5)
Plus, there have been numerous occasions where I'd remember a specific web page, and even whole phrases from the webpage, and couldn't find my way back to it from any search engine. That really sucks because you know its out there, you just can't find it. And it never fails this happens just after the entry from when you first visited it has expired from your history.
stupidest question ever (Score:2)
Aye, April fool's for sure.
Two Words (Score:4)
Lyrics to "So Fine" by the Persuasions(?) (Score:2)
So fine
My baby so doggone fine
doo-do-de-doo-do-de (hand in mine?)
Oh-oh-oh-ohhhh
Yeah-eah-eah-eahhhh
So fine
And lyrics in general.
The Harry Fox Agency has managed to close down a source of information so universally acknowledged as useful that it was one of the first archives/search sites on the web.
The story is told in part here [lyrics.ch] and here [fiftiesweb.com] and here. [lyrics.net]
The parable of the dog in the manger, who can't eat the hay himself, but prevents others from eating it, has never been more appropriate.
No April Fools jokes (Score:2)
Therefore, by order of the High Council of the Internet, there are to be no April Fools jokes posted this year.
Would you believe. . .Pubic Library? (Score:3)
Thanks for the great idea! I'm looking for more Freudian slips. . .
Curious George
Re: (Score:2)
Universality of emotion in melodic curves. (Score:2)
Check out the Vinny the Vampire [eplugz.com] comic strip
God, I hope this works... (Score:2)
Please...
Help me, Slashdot users. You're my only hope.
Hey dude, history prior to 1995 is missing (Score:2)
Here's an example: Let's say that you are interested in the issue of the CIA's influence on and involvement with academia. Try a "AND" search for "CIA" and "campus," or "CIA on campus."
You will get lots of hits about the Culinary Institute of America, and student life there,
and very little about the Central Intelligence Agency and academia. Why?
It's because the CIA on campus issue began in the late 1960s, and peaked twice since then -- once in 1977 and again in 1987. All three of these predate the web.
A site was just started less than two months ago to remedy this situation: http://www.cia-on-campus.org/
Almost all of the 27 documents currently posted there had to be OCRed from dead-tree records. Some of these articles were difficult to track down, and some were so yellowed from age that OCR didn't work.
Yet no one can claim that the issue of the CIA on campus is no longer important in 2001.
a melody lookup database (Score:2)
I have some interesting ideas about how to do this if someone wants to fund it. :-)
(Not using humming as input, though, because some IP squatter has already patented [164.195.100.11] that.)
--Mike
Re:A simple one. (Score:2)
My second thought is that you are having trouble getting it because its a cash cow, who would sell you the goose that lays golden eggs? Instead you might benefit from trying to find someone who lives/goes to the regions it grows such as china and india and they may either be able to get the plants for you to grow or the extract much cheaper (i.e before it's passed through x number of middle men.)
I have some connections to that area of the world so if you dont have any luck you could email me dazs (at) tarbard.co.uk, I will see if I can help find any.
Scientific Paper (Score:5)
I know that journals want to make money by selling them, but scientific papers ARE public domain, and why should I have to pay to read them (in sometimes very poor quality - on microfilm/fiche).
Re:Scientific Paper (Score:2)
Or you can use http://uncweb.carl.org/ [carl.org] which costs money.
Re:I've spent the last three months looking for... (Score:2)
http://slate.msn.com/Features/bushisms/bushisms.as p [msn.com]
Searching the Internet IS Difficult (Score:2)
It's really annoying.
Sometimes hotbot.com [hotbot.com] is useful because it has some additional functionality that allows you to search particular domains or subdomains for your regular run-of-the-mill boolean search.
Still it does seem like a lot of the pages that exist on a particular website are Not catalogued by search engines!
I understand that they all have databases of what is currently out there and they are constantly rechecking to make sure that those links are still valid. I imagine it would take too much memory to index all of the pages on each website but then why do search engines often have the same page come up as two or more different hits! I don't get that one.
Currently I can think of one thing: (Score:2)
Re:Currently I can think of one thing: (Score:2)
Nova Theme (Score:2)
The funniest thing I found was on some website that had theme songs for download, was a guestbook entry asking if the admin could add the Nova theme.
Court Cases Not on the Internet (Score:2)
The wiring diagram of the human brain (Score:2)
Gasoline Powered Turtleneck Sweaters (Score:2)
Re:Currently I can think of one thing: (Score:2)
Ryan T. Sammartino
I've never found... (Score:2)
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