OT: Google the new RTFM (Was: Re: [ale] Internet Access around Atlanta)

[Pete Hardie]

Jeff Layton wrote:
> This is all true and I agree with it. However, we have this problem
> at Lockheed. If you have a web browser open to anything but the
> internal website you are immediately labeled a "surfer" and are
> accused of wasting time. Even if you are looking for something
> for work or are taking a couple of minutes (literally a "couple"
> of minutes) to look up something, you are labeled as a time waster.
> It's OK to sit around and talk to each other about things that have
> nothing to do with work at all for hours (which I have see done
> every data), but the second you open a browser and particularly
> if go to Google, you have been branded for life.
> 
> So, sometimes I use post to ALE and ask stupid questions in the hope
> that someome will find a usefule link for me via Google. I know
> it's dirty and I apologize. Unfortunately, it's my only choice to get
> any work done. Sigh...


Sounds like it's time to write a python/perl app that will take a query string, 
dump it to Google, and email the result file to you, HTML or ASCII as desired....

Or perhaps a proxy website that will 'wrap' Google in a specified 'skin' to look 
like work....


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