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Posted by Ron Bean on April 23, 2006, 1:28 pm
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>Everyone realizes that the catalog is online, right?
Their online catalog is a little weird. It works, but there are times when
the only way to get back to a particular item is to go back to the
homepage and go clicky-pointy through the options until you get back to
where you were-- there doesn't seem to be a way to deep-link to a
particular search result. Sometimes taking a different route through the
options seems to end up finding different items (this is partly a matter
of experience with knowing what to search for in the first place--
something that printed catalogs seem to do better than search engines).
Multi-tabbed browsers can mitigate this somewhat, because I can keep one
result page open while I'm doing another search. But I'm never
completely sure that I've found everything in the database that matches
what I'm looking for (as opposed to what I searched for).
Is the CD version just like the online version, or does it have PDFs of
the catalog pages?
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Posted by StaticsJason on April 24, 2006, 1:01 am
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>
>>Everyone realizes that the catalog is online, right?
>
> Their online catalog is a little weird. It works, but there are times when
> the only way to get back to a particular item is to go back to the
> homepage and go clicky-pointy through the options until you get back to
> where you were-- there doesn't seem to be a way to deep-link to a
> particular search result. Sometimes taking a different route through the
> options seems to end up finding different items (this is partly a matter
> of experience with knowing what to search for in the first place--
> something that printed catalogs seem to do better than search engines).
>
> Multi-tabbed browsers can mitigate this somewhat, because I can keep one
> result page open while I'm doing another search. But I'm never
> completely sure that I've found everything in the database that matches
> what I'm looking for (as opposed to what I searched for).
>
> Is the CD version just like the online version, or does it have PDFs of
> the catalog pages?
>
I've never actually used the CD version. I get a new paper copy every few
years. Between those and the online I've not had the need. I believe the
CD version is identical to their website (but can't confirm). The fastest
way to run the CD version would be to copy it all to the hard drive and run
it locally.
In any case, the online mcmaster catalog is pure torture over dialup, which
many (some?) still use in this group.
StaticsJason
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Posted by Randy Replogle on April 24, 2006, 9:09 am
Please log in for more thread options On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:28:17 -0000, rbean@shell.core.com (Ron Bean)
wrote:
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>
>>Everyone realizes that the catalog is online, right?
>
>Their online catalog is a little weird. It works, but there are times when
>the only way to get back to a particular item is to go back to the
>homepage and go clicky-pointy through the options until you get back to
>where you were-- there doesn't seem to be a way to deep-link to a
>particular search result. Sometimes taking a different route through the
>options seems to end up finding different items (this is partly a matter
>of experience with knowing what to search for in the first place--
>something that printed catalogs seem to do better than search engines).
>
>Multi-tabbed browsers can mitigate this somewhat, because I can keep one
>result page open while I'm doing another search. But I'm never
>completely sure that I've found everything in the database that matches
>what I'm looking for (as opposed to what I searched for).
>
>Is the CD version just like the online version, or does it have PDFs of
>the catalog pages?
Yeah, I was looking for some brass tube there the other day and
couldn't find it. I went back later and must have searched via a
different route and there it was! I don't know about the cd.
-- Randy Replogle
I've found that relationships are like a bell curve.
You love a few, hate a few, but most you're just indifferent to.
-- Randall Replogle 2006
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Posted by Larry Jaques on April 23, 2006, 5:26 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 13:36:42 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Randy
>On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:42:59 -0500, "StaticsJason"
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>>One is on cd.
>>One is hardcopy.
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>>First one to email me off list gets it (or them). Note the anti-spam
>>inclusion in my header email address. jay (on) staticsinc dot com.
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>>StaticsJason
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>Everyone realizes that the catalog is online, right?
Yabbut, have you ever known a networked program respond in anything
like realtime vs. a local program? The difference is in portions of
_minutes_ vs. damnear instantaneous.
That's definitely worth a buck, eh?
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give me The Luxuries Of Life * http://www.diversify.com
i can live without the necessities * 2 Tee collections online
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Posted by Protagonist on April 23, 2006, 2:11 pm
Please log in for more thread options StaticsJason wrote:
> One is on cd.
> One is hardcopy.
>
> First one to email me off list gets it (or them). Note the anti-spam
> inclusion in my header email address. jay (on) staticsinc dot com.
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> StaticsJason
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It's on-line also.
Julius
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