I’ve had this idea for a while now, and I’m not quite sure why this creation doesn’t exist yet. I mean, there are alot of people who would come to my house and personally hug me for making this, but unfortunately for them, I can’t code, so it’s not gonna happen.
The idea is this: A home server indexer. Take a linux box, probably with a gig of ram or two, and set up a nice set of php/python/(flavor of the moment programming language) scripts to connect to all of the servers you have in your house (and theoretically abroad) and index all the files in certain directories, it could be the entire computer, but thats a fairly stupid idea from a security perspective. Say, all of the files in a certain user’s directory on the server. And it could just index file names for starters, but could be expanded to include one of the really good ID3 tag reader libs and have all of your music indexed, and then maybe your documents and stuff. I don’t know, but thats the gist of the idea. I’d probably want it to be php or python, with an sql backend(mysql, postgresql, sqlite, firebird, whatever). I’ve no idea if it’s feasible, but it sounds alot like the google search appliance. But not for corporate, and not thousands of dollars. Say, FOSS or something.
Again, I’m not sure if this is at all feasible, but if anyone ever reads this, tell me what you think.
