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Version: WikiTaxi 1.03
"Good program, but..."
Pros: Once you get this program and the database file, you don't have to do it again on a different computer. You can copy it to a different drive or disc and run it from there, copy it to a friend's computer for them, or even use it on a flash drive.
Cons: I only wish I had some warning as to how long it was going to take to download this program, over an hour. It also would have been nice to know that even after it takes that long to download, what you download isn't the complete program.
Summary: In order to use WikiTaxi, you also have to download one of the database files, and depending on which one you choose, that, too, could take awhile to get. I chose the full English one because I figure what's the point of having this unless you have all the information available you can get.
So, now after you download the database file, you have to extract it using the WikiTaxi Importer that came with the program, a separate exe file. When I started that at 5 AM this morning, it said time remaining over an hour and a half. When I got up after 11, more than 6 hours later, it still had 3 minutes and 15 seconds left to go, mostly because it was going at the time when all my anti programs were scheduled to do their daily scans, but that's not the point. After shutting down a few running programs, the WikiTaxi Importer was still at 3 minutes and 15 seconds remaining and it wasn't moving.
I had to restart my computer and the first thing I did when it came back up was start WikiTaxi Importer and just let that get done. It's still going because I'm doing other things on the computer at the moment. Oh and my resources are down to 20% of the RAM it's normally at, so I can see WikiTaxi Importer is trying to use up everything my computer has available. I just hope the WikiTaxi program itself doesn't do that, so we'll see.
So, just a warning to anyone else who might be interested in this program what they are getting into. Don't even try to get this program unless you are doing nothing else on the computer at the time and have no scheduled scans. I have a cable connection and use a download accelerator and it still took as long as it did.
It took more than 3 hours for the databse file to be extracted because it also creates indexes. I can't comment on the program itself yet as I just restarted the computer after the program finished, so I'm going to check it out now. I was thinking the whole time it was doing it's thing that it may not be worth having this on my computer, since it takes over 8 GB of hard drive space when finished, which isn't a problem for me really, but I don't know how much I will really actually use the program. When I think about it, I don't go to Wikipedia only once in a while to look up something, which is not a problem to just go search at the site itself.
I will check it out and may keep it for now, but in the long run, I will most likely get rid of it and just visit Wikipedia online when I want to look up something.
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