Stevens wrote:
Today Kevin Dupuy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From what I'm reading right now, I'm presuming either you have no
documents, or they are all on your desktop. If you actually did work,
you would love Beagle. I do.
I've been using Beagle since it's SUSE introduction in 2005 (9.3), and
it is a really nice way to find any documents, emails, chats, web
history, music, podcasts, videos, etc. that is really easy to find
things.
Furthermore, as I mentioned on the "other" thread, I'm trying to figure
out why Beagle takes up so much CPU and memory in some people's
computers
ALSO:
Today "Peter Van Lone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
it's desktop search ... what's the big mystery? Have you been living
under a rock for the last 2 or 3 years?
If you don't want/need desktop search, then fine. Many do. Beagle
seems to be a quite useful example of a category of service that many
many millions of people use.
OK, a little clarification is needed. I neither live under a rock nor
do I idle away my time. Nor can I fathom a need for Beagle
when it is such a resource hog.
I am reminded of a friend who has been buying and using personal
computers since the old twin 5 1/4" drive TRS-80 just so he could
keep track of his crap. Nowdays he is no better and he uses some
kind of file indexing scheme on his Windows box. I used to spend
time there helping him with projects; after a day or two, I had all his
stuff catalogued in my head and could find it for him faster than he
could look it up. Ditto with my files that are strung out over 3 disk
drives and in tons of email. For me, Beagle is a terrible waste; for
him and others like him, it is probably a Godsend. YMMV.
I similarly have no problem finding any file I create
which may be years since I last touched it.
The key is ORDERLY, LOGICAL creation and naming of
both files and directory the trees in both my home
directory and other "storage areas" (such as /local
for stuff I download and want to keep from version
to version but doesn't really belong in $HOME).
Fred
By the way, FYI Kevin: my system is:
* Intel 2.4GHz CPU, 512MB RAM, Intel chipset
* Suse 10.2, kernel 2.6.18, KDE 3.5.5
* kmail, 4800 files, 730MB
* no Beagle
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