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[searching lore], useful to keep abreast.
The exact
names of all pages
that have been updated
are regularly
listed here. As anyone capable of searching the web knows,
[names] have the outmost importance when
mining information on the www. Owners of private and
[public mirrors] can
thus fetch directly
all updates through good old
[wget]
(here for windoze addicts), or Stevo Ondrejicka's
mighty [pavuk] (Note 1),
or Daniel Steinberg's "curl" site-grabbing facility (Note 2).
You may also like to have a look at Luc's
and +Forseti own-made mirroring
[bots] and/or scripts. Of course you could use
[teleport-pro] or any other commercial spider
instead, but in that case you better
be [careful].
Finally you better read
the [warning] below before
attempting any kind of mass-downloading from my sites...
Spring 2023
The page is alive again!!! |
Greetings to everyone from
Zagreb, the capital of
Croatia (actually Zagreb County), the new home of Fravia's pages. : ) There is
another domain
where Fravia's pages are located, but they are not updated. This
Fravia website will be fully updated within a year, all links will be
checked and updated, and all files that are currently missing will be
re-uploaded. And the pages will be here as long as I live. So God helped me, and I helped myself, ahahahahahaha. The
page was uploaded to the server on August 15, 2023. on the
Assumption of Mary (Velika Gospa on Croatian language), which is a Croatian
national holiday that celebrates the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin
Mary. In Croatia, it is annually marked on August 15. Cheers! Bok! Bog i Hrvati! And me, myself and I.
~Davor Sever
Spring 2009 Der Lenz ist da! |
March: due to my [still ongoing illness] this site
was frozen for half a year... but will
now be further updated... unfortunately as a last "Sour 'n sweet [swan song"] :-|
[kane_how_2_host.htm]: How to Host Files on Free Services
by ~S~ Kane
part
of the updated [files_repositories.htm]
section.
"...for instance if you are uploading a file named
“adobephotoshop.rar”, anyone who comes across that file anywhere on the
web is going to have a good idea of what is inside that file and can
complain to have it taken down on suspicion of pirated content. If on
the other hand you renamed it ‘familyholidayphotos08.rar’ anyone coming
across that file other than from where you posted it will think its
uninteresting and pass it by.."
[realicra/crithou.html]:
Critical thinking
(Fallacies and the "fallite fallentes" seekers' approach)
by hraefn
part of the [reality cracking] section.
The need to doubt, analyze and reverse whatever you find:
"Critical thinking is the ability to be aware of the fallacies
in our own thinking, and root them out. The overconfidence that we are
right, that we only exaggerate slightly, or value an ideology over truth.
These are things we as reality crackers need to be aware of
and counter both in ourselves and in the information we receive."
[realicra/basiclawsofhumanstupidity.htm]:
THE BASIC LAWS OF HUMAN STUPIDITY
by Professor Cipolla, illustrations by James Donnelly, now finally in the public domain
part of the [reality cracking] section.
"Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals.
In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under
any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out
to be a costly mistake"
[machine_translation.htm]: How to search the web in languages you don't know
by fravia+
part
of the [seekers linguistic station]
and of the [essays]
section.
"Granted! Personal (good) knowledge of foreign languages
is always a mighty addition -and weapon- for all web-seekers: You
happen to know -say- Czech and whoop-là! A whole world of browsing and
untapped information opens up. Yet even the best linguists-seekers
("lusi naturae", all of them :-) cannot cope with the fathomless linguistic depths of the infinite web: in order to
fetch real information on a given subject you very often have to delve
inside languages you don't understand a single word of..."
[what_strings_did_users_use_to_find_searchlores.htm
] some data! ~ some transparency! ~ some info!
by fravia+
"Never underestimate the hidden power of a "convoluted-byzantine-obsolete-not trendy" structure of a site :-)"
Those
readers whose searching skills are below average might rejoice
knowing that our mighty
namazu search functions
(which were broken for an embarassing long time),
now work again.
Here some new (or slightly updated) pages @ [searchlores]:
[files_repositories.htm]
(new intro) ~
[info.htm] ~
[seekers linguistic station] ~
[links.htm] ~
[beers.htm] ~
[objects_searching.htm] ~
[journals.htm]
(confer University level FREE open courses & Theses & dissertations searching) ~
[googlex.htm]
(all the EU-docs through google's servers) ~
[photos.htm] ~
[babelfish.htm] ~
[rabbits.htm] ~
[google.htm]
(Some useful know hows ) ~
[targets.htm] ~
[basic.htm] ~
[advanced.htm] ~
[classroo.htm] ~
[further.htm] ~
[yahoo.htm] ~
[library.htm] ~
[images.htm] ~
[usenet.htm] ~
[destream.htm] ~
[useful_findings.htm]
(even more GNU/Linux "findings") ~
[rose.htm] ~
[mines.htm] ~
[fravia_summa.htm] ~
[books.htm] ~
[effective_searching.htm] ~
[awebbitsearchform.htm]
(yeah, a webbit search form, nomen est omen :-) ~
[magicfi.htm]
(guessing lore) ~
[tips.htm]
(more seekers' proverbs :-) ~
[combing.htm] ~
[main.htm] ~
[google_ajax.htm]
(a google translate mask to play with) ~
[mirrors.htm] (a zipped searchlores with images for download-junkies) ~
[909Essay.htm] ~
[terminology.htm] ~
[welcome.htm] ~
September 2008 Does an imminent death inspire careful consideration on the meaning of one's past? |
Due to my [illness] this site has been frozen and is no longer updated
-
[realicra/bravegeorgia_stupidossetia.htm]:
Folly of the progressive fairytale
("brave gallant georgia versus stupid vile ossetia")
by John Gray
part of the reality cracking section.
Reversing the most recent, scary and warmongering, propaganda lies of our slavemasters
- [files_repositories.htm]:
Specialized search tools and techniques
by Mariuolo
part
of the searching locally
section.
Mariuolo has updated the older files repositories section prepared
by Kane and myself, adding some useful search forms.
And he points out: "generally when you search for file sharing,
Yahoo is better"
Updated! (yahoo mask now working)
- [bash_galore.htm]:
Assorted command line tricks and tips
by _Mammon
part
of the GNU/Linux
section.
_Mammon is still alive and kicking,
and shares some interesting ideas about how to use
the shell. Most unwashed are simply incapable to
grasp the fact that any graphical interface slows things
down, compelling you to click around like a madman, while at the same time
most command line commands represent sheer mighty cosmic power.
As _Mammon points out: "The shell is awesome!"
-
realicra/moscheta.htm: Moschete, Mouches & Moles: mmm! (Reversing secret codes: "Beauty spots")
by Sesame ellis
part of the reality cracking section.
"Reversing the "beauty spots" language.
Until now there was no satisfactory complete explanation on the web. Good enough a reason
for researching a little and sending it to searchlores"
- Here some new (or slightly updated) pages @ searchlores:
[info.htm] (new Gnu/pgp key) ~
[linux_games.htm] ~
[accmail.htm] ~
[find_the_command.htm] ~
[local.htm] ~
[blog.htm] ~
[gimp_versus_photoshop_1.htm] ~
[linux.htm] ~
[useful_findings.htm] ~
Winter 2008 It is necessary to streamline and "clean" searchlores: there's a lot of obsolete stuff.
Readers' suggestions, "modi operandi" and advice
would be welcome |
- [how_to_research.htm]:
How to research, evaluate and collate web material
by A+heist
part
of the essays
section.
Old A+heist reappeared out of the blue with
an interesting short essay: how to prepare a pre-universitary level
but still full-fledged and thoroughly valid research on a given argument (here in his example:
Dinosauria) in a very short amount of time. As the Author himself points out: "Unfortunately, finding
journals and texts is often easier than evaluating them".
- [searching_image_challenge_2008_1.htm]:
A short image searching challenge for this cold February 2008
part
of the images
section.
"Well, how would you proceed?"
- [objects_searching.htm]: The basic principles of searching.
Searching stuff you have lost.
by fravia+
"Most of the time the object you'r looking for is not 'missing', YOU forgot where you did put it"
- [mhyst_w3s.htm]: W3S: Web Personal Spyder.
by Mhyst
"The aim of this document is to put forward the structure and functionality of W3S and, at the same time,
to describe a basic searching web spider.
I hope this essay will offer somebody the possibility of making his own web spider."
Part of the bots section.
For ADVANCED seekers, some sound programming knowledge required.
- [deepweb_searching.htm]:
How to access and exploit the shallow deep web.
by fravia+
Part of the essays
section.
"This paper profess that the many "open access" indexable databases
that have recently flourished within what was the "unindexed web", have
already shallowed the supposed depth, and are destroying the
prehistoric "pay per knowledge" access model, of the "deep web" of once.
Moreover, seekers might access "from behind" the remaining unindexed deep web
of proprietary databases
using some creative, if at times slightly dubious, approaches
(provided this is not forbidden by the legislation of their respective countries of residence
or of the countries of their chained proxies)."
Updated!, with some additions by ~S~ Nemo
- [ocadelcairo.htm]:
"La legge dell'oca", a web-searching rule
(a demonstration of the direct relation between "findability" and "celebrity")
by fravia+
part
of the essays
section.
So did we prove the "Legge dell'Oca"? Is there a real direct relation between "findability" and
"celebrity" of a target? Indeed there is, as those readers that took the time to follow the links we
have used in this essay will surely have noticed. But we also determined that the "findability" curve
never vanish: rare and obscure subjects are surely more difficult to find than
ubiquitous targets like Mozart's "great" G minor symphony K_550, yet even such
rare targets ARE lurking somewhere in the deep deep web. So
even
when approaching maximum rarity levels the chances to find a
given "rare" target remain constant.
Updated!, "a refreshing guide to classical music searching"
- Here some new (or slightly updated) pages @ searchlores:
[info.htm] (new Gnu/pgp key) ~
[laws.htm] (new links) ~
[targets.htm] ~
[rose.htm] ~
[bots.htm] ~
[main.htm] ~
[realicra/exegesis.htm] (cleaned & added a lot) ~
[rabbits.htm] ~
[specdba.htm] (now obsolete) ~
[statistics.htm] ~
[dictiona.htm] (added etymological dictionaries) ~
[nomomen.htm] (more on altdorf and schleswig :-) ~
[tools.htm] (cleaned) ~
[blog.htm] (cleaned) ~
[tuttiope.htm] ~
[find_the_command.htm] ~
[welcome.htm] (new antispam) ~
[news.htm] (new antispam) ~
[pdffing.htm] ~
[critics.htm] ~
[prev2006.htm] ~
[rabbits.htm] ~
[useful_findings.htm] (new linux section) ~
[linux_games.htm] (new linux section) ~
[statistics.htm] ~
[trolls.htm] ~
[stalking.htm] ~
[linux.htm] ~
Autumn 2007 (Chemiocleaning myself) |
- [linux.htm]: Going to Linux (Ubuntu) once for all.
by VVAA
Added: How to wardrive for hours on your batteries (tty secrets)
Updated in November
- [google.htm]: A very interesting snippet
by Shally Steckerl
Daterange secrets (&as_qdr=d kniffs)
Updated in December
- Here some new (or slightly updated) pages:
[tools.htm] (a little cleaned) ~
[bangla.htm] (corrected links) ~
[filehosting.htm] (small addition by Eevon) ~
[rabbits.htm] (small addition by Mariuolo) ~
[newsfeeds.htm] (a little cleaned) ~
[targets.htm] (changed) ~
[statistics.htm] (new) ~
- [alltheweb.htm]: No one lights a candle and hides it under a bushel, except Yahoo!
by Nemo
An incredible load of seekers' knowledge. It encompasses an update of the famous
[nemo_SEO.htm]:
how to beat SEO spammers at their own game: cleaning our web from SEO crap.
Part of the essays
section.
"This
is Nemo, delivering an incredible amount of seekers' knowledge for
free. Be warned, the iceberg is deeper than it looks like, and if you
follow it, and the many hints inside, you'll obtain dangerous wizard
power searching capabilities..."
-
irc.htm:
Internet Relay Chat lore
by Kane
The "Internet Relay Chat lore" section has been updated! Tons of info and links in
order to finetune your IRC-searching skills!
-
realicra/nightclubs.htm: Nightclubs are hell. What's cool or fun about a thumping, sweaty
dungeon full of posing idiots?
by Charlie Brooker
part of the reality cracking section.
"Clubs are despicable. Cramped, overpriced furnaces with sticky walls and the latest idiot theme
tunes thumping through the humid air so loud you can't hold a conversation, just bellow inanities
at megaphone-level. And since the smoking ban, the masking aroma of cigarette smoke has been replaced
by the overbearing stench of crotch sweat and hair wax"
-
realicra/aquafina_and_dasani.htm: Aquafina and
Dasani: Consumers are morons
- misleading marketing practices
by fravia+
part of the reality cracking section.
"...for most european consumers, the idea of some bottled tap water sold as
a "real" spring mineral water would definitely be on the top list of scams.
Well, rejoice: it has been common practice in the States during the last ten years,
and the slavemasters are now trying the same scam in the European Union...
...it's like shooting at the red cross: you open a bottling factory and can automagically sell some
0.03 cents half litre water for one euro..."
- [linux.htm]: Going to Linux (Ubuntu) once for all.
by VVAA
Ahhh. What a bliss. What a speed. What a power. The idea behind this page is to help anybody to swap
almost on the fly a windozian, slow, cumbersome, virus ridden and prone to errors computer,
into a quick, stable and above all powerful linux box.
Updated in June!
- ... as usual, some new (or slightly updated) pages:
[mirrors.htm] (news) ~
[main.htm] (cleaned) ~
[bangla.htm] (cleaned) ~
[json.htm] (part of Nemo's essay) ~
[nemo_SEO.htm] (part of Nemo's essay) ~
[oracle.htm] (part of Nemo's essay) ~
[yahoo-document.htm] (part of Nemo's essay) ~
[yahoo-gandalf.htm] (part of Nemo's essay) ~
[yahoo-gandalf-aragorn.htm] (part of Nemo's essay) ~
[yahoo-gandalf-frodo.htm] (part of Nemo's essay) ~
[yahoo-gandalf-tolkien.htm] (part of Nemo's essay) ~
[yahoo-hints.htm] (part of Nemo's essay) ~
[yahoo-internet.htm] (part of Nemo's essay) ~
[yahoo-nemo.htm] (part of Nemo's essay) ~
[yahoo-nemo-verne.htm] (part of Nemo's essay) ~
[yahoo-philosopher's-stone.htm] (part of Nemo's essay) ~
[yahoo-search.htm] (part of Nemo's essay) ~
[yahoo-seek.htm] (part of Nemo's essay) ~
[yahoo-strategies.htm] (part of Nemo's essay) ~
[yahoo-tips.htm] (part of Nemo's essay) ~
[yahoo-web.htm] (part of Nemo's essay) ~
[yahoo-webpage.htm] (part of Nemo's essay) ~
[welcome.htm] (corrected) ~
[info.htm] (cleaned) ~
[faq.htm] ~
[tuttiope.htm] (cleaned) ~
Spring 2007 (Still rethinking the future of searchlores) |
- [rcrs.htm]: Reverse engineering of online customer reviews
by slappy and sem
A study of 'shillism'
Part of the trolls
section.
"Take a look at the top reviewer on amazon. As of today this is harriet klausner
with 13723 reviews. On first sight there is nothing that catches the eye, but
doing some math raises questions. Lets suppose she has been reviewing for
amazon the last 5 years...
13723 book reviews
2744.6 books per year
52.78 books per week
7.54 books per day...
What d'you say? Would you trust her? :-)"
- [termisearch.htm]: How to build a google pre-filter. A proof of concept: a pre-search filter/bot.
by fravia+
Just an example of a possible application of a simple, but effective google's pre-filtering approach
Part of the bots
section (even if it is just a pre-filter and not a bot strictu sensu).
This is here simply done
adding, subtracting or ORring automatically some ad hoc search terms to whatever query you may have.
This is the whole point of this example. Tou don't need to go linguistic. You modify or create your own forms at leisure.
You may want special effective forms in order to search for books or images and just eliminate all those idiot sites that try to
'trap' searchers into advertisement hells or crippled items for zombies and guinea pigs.
Or maybe you want mp3s without having to wade knee-deep into morons trying "to sell"
you those very mp3s (quelle vulgarité!). Or whatever... I'm sure you get the infinite
possibilities now in your own hands :-)
- [linux.htm]: Going to Linux (Ubuntu) once for all.
by VVAA
Ahhh. What a bliss. What a speed. What a power. The idea behind this page is to help anybody to swap
almost on the fly a windozian, slow, cumbersome, virus ridden and prone to errors computer,
into a quick, stable and above all powerful linux box.
Updated in June!
- [find_the_command.htm]: How to find with find.
by
fravia+, part of the linux section.
"...and how to locate, list and grep inside your box whatever you need whenever you need it..."
Updated in June!
- ... as usual, some new (or slightly updated) pages:
[main.htm] (cleaned) ~
[tuttiope.htm] (cleaned) ~
[dictiona.htm] (new tool for chinese, korean, russian and
japanese web-searching: repairing the Babel tower?) ~
[contract.html] (cleaned) ~
[fu_sussi.htm] (underlining a terrific tool
to seriously
examine and study those awful clima changements that only idiots, american presidents
and criminals still deny)
~
[converter.htm] (Length, Weight, Pressure, Volume & Temperature converter) ~
[images.htm] (cleaned) ~
[welcome.htm] (+february) ~
[password.htm] (cleaned) ~
[info.htm] (email addresses pngged) ~
[bangla.htm] (cleaned) ~
Winter 2007 (The streamlining of searchlores) |
- [linux.htm]: Going to Linux (Ubuntu) once for all.
by VVAA
Ahhh. What a bliss. What a speed. What a power. The idea behind this page is to help anybody to swap
almost on the fly a windozian, slow, cumbersome, virus ridden and prone to errors computer,
into a quick, stable and above all powerful linux box.
Updated in March!
- [change_windows.htm]: I won't beta-test windows.
by
mycroft tanstaafl, march 2007, part of the essays section.
"As it turns out, quite a bit of common software exists, is free, often works better than anything else out there.
I slowly switched, and I still use them, since, well, I have about 20 PC's in my life, and about
half of them run Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora Core, Open SuSE, Solaris, and, of course Debian. No Mandriva,
no Slackware, no Centos, no Yellow Dog, no Linux From Scratch... There's just too many to load them all"
- [find_the_command.htm]: How to find with find.
by
fravia+, march 2007, part of the linux section.
"...and how to locate, list and grep whatever you need whenever you need it..."
- ... as usual, some new (or slightly updated) pages:
[intro.htm] ~
[main.htm] ~
[info.htm] ~
[mirrors.htm] ~
[terminology.htm] ~
[inktomi.htm] ~
[quickforms.htm] ~
[google.htm] ~
[faq.htm] ~
[lea2tra.htm] ~
[anonyweb.htm] ~
[rabbits.htm] ~
[destream.htm] ~
[misterstallman.htm] (part of the
exegesis lore) ~
[bangla.htm] ~
[compound.htm] ~
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