[gripe] The internet would make things better.

[MvGulik]

Yea, sure. In making things complicated and convoluted. (and of course collecting outdated stuff at infinite)

Libreoffice base & Sqlite: No direct support what so ever.

Searching is a bitch. As most is win related (even with "+Linux"), for which there is a singe .exe that makes it work. Add "-windows" and your down to pretty much nothing.
Some seemingly decent walk-trough page on how to get it working ... stranded already on the first part. Guess is outdated already.
Spending days on figuring out what else to try ... hopefully without screwing up my Linux system.
Seemed at some point I got it working ... but Libreoffice base had only db-readonly access and no bd-relation support.
Guess I also need sqliteodbc than. No pre-build for Linux of course due to the dark Linux flavor forest.
Attempt one:

dpkg-checkbuilddeps: error: Unmet build dependencies: debhelper (>= 5) cdbs libsqlite-dev
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.)
make: *** [Makefile:228: deb] Error 3

Ok, adding -d flag seems easy enough.

dpkg-buildpackage  -tc -d
...
 dpkg-source --before-build .
 fakeroot debian/rules clean
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/.../Downloads/sqliteodbc-0.9999'
debian/rules:6: /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/autotools.mk: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target '/usr/share/cdbs/1/class/autotools.mk'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/.../Downloads/sqliteodbc-0.9999'
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules clean subprocess returned exit status 2
make: *** [Makefile:228: deb] Error 2

Right, of course. F** it, one more personal project that died.

Sure there are potential related help talk/forum locations. But I'm tired of registering, and adding more passwords, for highly specific and dedicated communication groups.

(not subscribed to this thread. Just needed to get rid of some my frustrations in this matter.)

[Larz60+]

Before the World Wide Web 'www', we had 'archie', which was considered the first internet search engine. I remember it well, it was created at McGill University (Montreal Canada) I got this date from Wikipedia, but I'm quite sure it was earlier than that ( I was working in Waltham, Massachusetts, about halfway up prospect hill starting around 1986 or 7 ). Our internet consisted of a microwave dish pointed to a laboratory at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was quite fast. We had mail, again no advertisements, and we had news feeds. We were very lucky as most others had to use dial-up modems (The best modems at the time were 14.4 Kbs, 14.4 kilobits (bits not bytes) per second) so search engines could be slow and nobody (that had even heard about the internet) cared, it was great.

Archie worked. There were no advertisements, although, believe it or not, there were already a few hackers out there.

There was also 'gopher' which could be used to retrieve documents, and worked well.

I agree search engines today suck, you ask for persimmons, and get back apples as a result, let alone looking for 'Australopithecus africanus'!

[SleipnirTheHorse]

They basically make you guess what to search. Back in my day, you could put quotation marks around your search to get the exact order of words. There was a bunch of stuff you could do on Google to make searching more precise, I don't know why they got rid of it?