On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 01:07:45PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> >
> > Has anybody comeacross this file format ?
> >
>
> 'fraid I have no fish for this request, but here's a fishing rod:
>
> Package: file
Then here is a net:
eckage: bitcollider
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 77
Maintainer: Scott M. Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Version: 0.3.1-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-1)
Suggests: bitcollider-plugins
Description: Collects bitprint and other information from files for
bitzi.com
Think of it as file(1) with a really big database on the internet with
constant contributions from others of metadata on files.
.
Bitcollider is a small program to reliably identify and describe files
on your machine. When run with a specific file as input, this program
does two major things:
* It examines the file, calculating a distinctive digital fingerprint,
or bitprint, and taking note of some other identifying information that
can be extracted from the file, like file length and the local filename.
* It launches your web browser to do a lookup at our website,
* submitting this identifying information as the search terms.
.
At bitzi.com you'll see what - if anything - others have said about your
file, and have a chance to contribute descriptions or comments yourself.
If your automatic submission included information useful to our database,
that new information will be contributed to the database under your screen
name.
--
Casper Gielen
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
[..] and 2000 only pissed me off with it's vague,"You have a
hardware error, contact your hardware vendor." errors. Sometimes
dealing with 2000 was like dealing with a cross between Marvin
the Paranoid Android, HAL and a VCR that always blinks 12:00.
JonnyGURU
