Lord Sigma - Slashdot User

Attractive Open Source Search Interfaces? 65

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @04:22PM from the you'll-have-this-ansi-terminal-and-like-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I work for a company that manages an online database for the political market. We add to this DB daily with updates from a variety of sources and our customers then search through this content via our Solr/Lucene search engine. My problem is, our search interface is a little, well, basic and I would love to know if there are any feature-rich open source alternatives out there. The only one I can find is Flamenco, and while that seems strong on categorisation, that seems to be about the height of it."

Comment Politics... (Score 1) 675

by Lord Sigma on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @03:15PM (#26985093) Attached to: How To Handle Corporate Blackmail?

I've never been good at them. I know I do what is right by myself and by those I work for. If they don't like it, they can go have intercourse with themselves.

Comment Re:Say it with me: (Score 1) 286

by Lord Sigma on Tuesday January 29, 2008 @12:47PM (#22222782) Attached to: Lawyer Puts $10k Bounty on Blogger's Identity

I have never claimed to know how to spell. Good spelling just happens sometimes.

Submission + - World's first tricorder created by Purdue

Submitted by aeoneal on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @05:42PM

aeoneal writes: According to Science Daily, mass spectrometry is no longer limited to what can be taken to the lab. Purdue researchers have created a handy 20 lb. device that combines mass spectrometry with DESI (desorption electrospray ionization), allowing chemical composition to be determined outside of a vacuum chamber. Purdue suggests this could be useful for everything from detecting explosive substances or cancer to predicting disease. Researcher R. Graham Cooks says, "We like to compare it to the tricorder because it is truly a hand-held instrument that yields information about the precise chemical composition of samples in a matter of minutes without harming the samples."

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