Re: [ilugd] Google Desktop Finally Out for Linux

2007-06-29 Thread das
These are the times when State intervenes every moment into every bit of personal data: more as a preemptive bid. Are all these bits and pieces, Google Earth, Wikimapia, and now this Google Desktop just ploys in that maneuver? Just curious what other people on LUG List are thinking?

Re: [ilugd] Google Desktop Finally Out for Linux

2007-06-29 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 29-Jun-07, at 10:01 PM, Ravi Shanker wrote: > You didn't get what exactly I wanted to say. > ophs, no its not you, Its me who cannot make the thing clear what > actually I want to say. > Anyway, let me out of this discussion. Sorry for what I said. no need to be sorry - you made several vaild

Re: [ilugd] Google Desktop Finally Out for Linux

2007-06-29 Thread Ravi Shanker
You didn't get what exactly I wanted to say. ophs, no its not you, Its me who cannot make the thing clear what actually I want to say. Anyway, let me out of this discussion. Sorry for what I said. On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 21:53 +0530, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE---

Re: [ilugd] Google Desktop Finally Out for Linux

2007-06-29 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ravi Shanker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 22:34 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote: > >> kenneth, i've already taken my own ass by mentioning how shamelessly i rely >> on google for my total internet experience. please read my earlier pos

Re: [ilugd] Google Desktop Finally Out for Linux

2007-06-29 Thread Ravi Shanker
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 22:34 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote: > kenneth, i've already taken my own ass by mentioning how shamelessly i rely > on google for my total internet experience. please read my earlier posting > carefully. so you can save your energy. :-) > hehehee > > :-) > niyam Niyam, do you

Re: [ilugd] Google Desktop Finally Out for Linux

2007-06-28 Thread Linux Lingam
> > > and this mail is from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) kenneth, i've already taken my own ass by mentioning how shamelessly i rely on google for my total internet experience. please read my earlier posting carefully. so you can save your energy. :-) hehehee :-) niyam _

Re: [ilugd] Google Desktop Finally Out for Linux

2007-06-28 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 28-Jun-07, at 4:22 PM, Linux Lingam wrote: > however, is there any way of communicating with google that "just > being > useful" is okay, but not being community-focussed and with proprietory > software for end-users, they are as, ummm... "evil [is that a good > word?] as > microsoft"? an

Re: [ilugd] Google Desktop Finally Out for Linux

2007-06-28 Thread Linux Lingam
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070628/tc_pcworld/133543 > Google Inc. plans to launch a Linux version of Google Desktop on Wednesday, almost three years >after the product's launch for the Windows operating system. [snip] yawn! 01. first it's late. ironic. google treats the gnulinux end-user

Re: [ilugd] Google Desktop Finally Out for Linux

2007-06-27 Thread Ravi Kumar
Thats right, Beagle uses resources heavily. I too have disabled it and using Tracker which uses less than Beagle. But again, after installing tracker, Application and system reactions are poor to some extent. I havent uses Google Desktop. ___ ilugd mailin

Re: [ilugd] Google Desktop Finally Out for Linux

2007-06-27 Thread mehul
On 6/28/07, Gaurav Mishra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/28/07, Vikas Rawal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is google desktop any better than say beagle? > > > No i don`t think so , I have a dual boot machine and i find beagle > much accurate than Google desktop But what about the resource usage

Re: [ilugd] Google Desktop Finally Out for Linux

2007-06-27 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On 6/28/07, Vikas Rawal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is google desktop any better than say beagle? > No i don`t think so , I have a dual boot machine and i find beagle much accurate than Google desktop > Vikas > > ___ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.l

Re: [ilugd] Google Desktop Finally Out for Linux

2007-06-27 Thread Vikas Rawal
Is google desktop any better than say beagle? Vikas ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@l

[ilugd] Google Desktop Finally Out for Linux

2007-06-27 Thread Lokesh Bhog
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070628/tc_pcworld/133543 Google Inc. plans to launch a Linux version of Google Desktop on Wednesday, almost three years after the product's launch for the Windows operating system. The application, designed for indexing and finding data in PCs, as well