[time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken
Mike Monett
xde-l2g3 at myamail.com
Wed Jul 1 13:55:36 UTC 2009
>Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 06:24:38 +0000 (GMT)
>From: Robert Atkinson <robert8rpi at yahoo.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Google Patent Search is Broken
>Hi Mike,
> Try http://ep.espacenet.com/ It's an offical european site that
> also searches US and World Patents. Very flexible search options
> and no registration required. You do have to type in the code from
> a graphic image if you want to download a full PDF. That is a
> small price to pay to keep the bots out.
> Robert G8RPI.
Hi Robert,
Thanks very much for the reply and the link. That looks like a
useful site, especially for European and Japanese patents.
How do you "type in the code from a graphic image"? I guess you mean
to enter a captcha, but couldn't see any box to enter a code.
It found US6134065 with no problem, and all I had to do was click on
the Acrobat symbol to download the file. But only shows the text on
the first page. The rest are blank.
I'm running Win98, which uses old versions of Acrobat and Foxit. Is
this a version problem, or is there a way to get the rest of the
document?
I'm hoping a lot of these problems will soon go away. I have WinXP
SP3 running in VirtualBox 3.0 on Ubuntu 9.04, and it works great.
But it doesn't like running my old DOS programs. The screen update
is so painfully slow it makes the program unusable. I tried VB 2.1,
but it was only slightly faster.
I bought a new graphics card, but it was only marginally faster. It
also overwhelmed the cooling in the computer. The case got so hot I
couldn't hold my hand on it. I can't upgrade the motherboard since I
need the parallel and serial IO ports, but they don't exist on newer
systems.
I'll try to get Win98 running in QEMU today, and see if that helps
the slow display problem. If so, I'll transfer all my files over to
the new box, and that should end these problems with old, down-level
versions of Acrobat and browsers. The plan is to run Win98 as usual,
and if there is a problem, bounce over to WinXP.
If anyone has other suggestions to speed up the DOS display in XP,
I'd be very happy to hear them.
Thanks,
Mike
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