Re: [opensuse-factory] beagle-thunderbird has too many dependencies.

2007-09-24 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 9/23/07, Rajko M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: linux-kw92:~ # zypper in beagle-thunderbird The following NEW packages are going to be installed: MozillaThunderbird art-sharp2 beagle-gui beagle-thunderbird control-center2 eel evolution-data-server gail gconf-sharp2 glade-sharp2

Re: [opensuse-factory] beagle-thunderbird has too many dependencies.

2007-09-24 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 9/24/07, Rajko M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm merely amused that small package pulls in bits that I would never install, like evolution-data-server, and in any case it is funny to see 123.4 MB as precondition for 144 kB. Indeed. It's unfortunate that Thunderbird doesn't provide the

Re: [opensuse] home partition is full

2007-08-26 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 8/26/07, Cristea Bogdan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the tip. I have found that .beagle directory was occupying my partition (almost 8 GB). Within your ~/.beagle directory, what is the size breakdown? If the majority of the size is in ~/.beagle/Log, you've likely hit a bug.

Re: [opensuse] Strange RPM Problem

2007-08-18 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 8/18/07, Jim Sabatke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally got an lsof to work, and it looks like Beagle was attaching itself to the NFS mounts. This would only be the case if your NFS mount was in your home directory. Rather than uninstalling Beagle, you could tell it not to index those

Re: [opensuse] Manual Install of Google Desktop on 10.0 [ was: Google has an openSUSE repository ]

2007-07-02 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 7/2/07, Sunny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/2/07, Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the hijack, but looks like related - does anybody has a list of the differences between GoogleDesktop and beagle? Including performance monitoring, etc. I'm working on a blog post

Re: [opensuse] Bye Bye Vista - Hello issue with SUSE...

2007-05-24 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 5/23/07, Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, it wasn't. In fact it was locked up tight. HOWEVER... ...I left it in the locked state for a few hours. Went off to a meeting, and it has been working perfectly. Could it have been The Return of Beagle? I'd forgotten about the dog, and I

Re: [opensuse] parse-metadata

2007-05-18 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 5/17/07, M Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am noticing that a significant amount of open source software is emerging from the C# development platform. Is the runtime 'open' (free 'as in freedom' software)? If you're talking about Mono, it is all free software: * The

Re: [opensuse] Converting file system

2007-04-24 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 4/24/07, G.T.Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: access time == modification time == creation time Note that ctime is *not* creation time, it's change time. It is set any time some metadata about the file is changed (user/group ownership, change in access rights, extended attributes). See

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE 10.2 - process mono defunct

2007-04-23 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 4/23/07, Rajko M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that .exe suffix is the source of problem. No, this has nothing to do with it. The .exe extension is just an extension, like .py for python programs or .sh for shell scripts. What to do? It's a bug in Mono. See this bugzilla

Re: [opensuse] beagle again - was: Disk I/o In 10.2 Significantly Slower Than 1.0(reiser)

2007-04-20 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 4/20/07, Morten Bjørnsvik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The priority of beagle-indexing must be completely wrong it should be nice -19 It definitely should not be nice -19. You probably mean nice +19? The version that ships with openSUSE 10.2 doesn't nice itself at all, so any adjustments

Re: [opensuse] Beagle and Indexing Zips

2007-04-18 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 4/18/07, Carl William Spitzer IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have heard a lot about beagle good but mostly bad. I need an index of my article collection which is mostly in text files spread across multiple zip files. Does Beagle penetrate such things or do I need another tool? The

Re: [opensuse] 2.6.20 on 10.2 (again)

2007-04-16 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 4/16/07, Thomas Hertweck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Beagle is part of the kernel?? No. I thought that's a desktop search engine based on *argh* Mono... Yes. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] How do I disable beagle indexing deamon!

2007-04-12 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 4/12/07, Paul Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or for a per-user solution without root access copy /opt/kde3/share/autostart/beagled.desktop to ~/.kde/share/autostart then make the same edit! BUT THIS IS DOCUMENTED NOWHERE! I recommend you file a bug at bugzilla.novell.com to ensure

Re: [opensuse] How do I disable beagle indexing deamon!

2007-04-11 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 4/11/07, Paul Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help I can not stop beagle! 2) unchecked start beagle indexing service automaticly both from the beagle configure page and from control center \ kde componets \ desktop search What version of Beagle are you

Re: [opensuse] How do I disable beagle indexing deamon!

2007-04-11 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 4/11/07, Alexey Eremenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't really understand, why users need beagle at all ? Isn't find and locate serve all the searching purposes on the local PC ? Anybody can give usage cases for Beagle ? locate only searches file names. find, paired with xargs and

Re: [opensuse] How do I disable beagle indexing deamon!

2007-04-11 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 4/11/07, Bernhard Walle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Paul Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-04-11 23:27]: Help I can not stop beagle! rpm -e beagle and all dependent packages. Don't forget the firefox plugin which isn't a (RPM) dependency. Reread the original email: On 4/11/07, Paul

Re: [opensuse] RE: enourmous number of compressed files under .beagle subdirectory under users home directory Open SUSE 10.2

2007-04-09 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi Scott, On 4/9/07, Registration Account [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My home directory contains the hidden file /.beagle . There is a subdirectory named TextCache. It currently hold 155 Subdirectories each with aprox 180 .Gzip files. This is an enormous amount of HDD space and there appears no

Re: [opensuse]

2007-04-07 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On Saturday 07 April 2007 09:06, Kai Ponte wrote: Beagle stores visited web sites? Even if the Firefox/Opera/IE/Seamonkey cache is deleted? There is a Firefox extension which indexes web pages as you view them. It's completely separate from Firefox's internal cache. It's

Re: [opensuse] Beagle Configuration

2007-04-01 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 3/31/07, Rajko M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The right hand side list of commands has somewhat unusual layout. I expected that is just textual information about setup. In setup I couldn't find anything that resembles, so I came on unusual idea to click on right hand pane entry. Bingo,

Re: [opensuse] Beagle Configuration

2007-03-31 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 3/31/07, Rajko M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is actually the I/O that is slow and faster CPU doesn't help much. Problem is when 2 or more programs are trying to access HD at the same time, and that happens on the first boot. Indeed. As CPUs get faster, the amount of time applications

Re: [opensuse] Beagle Configuration

2007-03-30 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi Randall, Sorry for the delay. It's been a very busy week in the Cambridge office, and I've been pretty overwhelmed by the feedback on the thread so far. (49 messages!) On 3/29/07, Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 29 March 2007 11:20, Joe Shaw wrote: ... I could rattle

Re: [opensuse] Beagle Configuration

2007-03-30 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 3/28/07, Boyd Lynn Gerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My main issue is that I can not get it to run only on off hours. When it is running I am unable to use my machine for anything worth while. It hogs most memory and CPU usuage. I have problems with even the CLI. There's an important

Re: [opensuse] Beagle Configuration

2007-03-30 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 3/29/07, Carlos F Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 29 March 2007 08:14, Peter Van Lone wrote: though I think there should be options to control WHEN the initial and on-going indexing occurs. Basically, we should easily be able to get to menus that let us control all aspects

Re: [opensuse] Beagle Configuration

2007-03-30 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 3/30/07, Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Beagle uses inotify for this -- in fact, inotify was basically written *for* Beagle with its use cases in mind. inotify is a kernel service, so you actually don't need a separate daemon to use it. OK. The whole point was whether or

Re: [opensuse] Beagle Configuration

2007-03-29 Thread Joe Shaw
Wow! Thanks everyone for your responses. I'll respond individually to a number of you a little later. Broadly, it seems that people basically fall into two camps: (a) People who have no need or desire for Beagle. I can understand this. Some people are just inherently organized -- I do not

[opensuse] Re: Another Beagle Question - http interface?

2007-03-29 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi Greg, On 3/28/07, Greg Freemyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an OpenSUSE 10.2 box running as a samba server. I've added the creation of a beagle index to my nightly backup script and from X I can search the archive. (minimal testing). What I would really prefer to do is make the search

Re: [opensuse] Beagle Configuration

2007-03-29 Thread Joe Shaw
Hey Patrick, On 3/29/07, Patrick Shanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is incorrect. There exists three goups. (a) People who have no need or desire for Beagle. [...] (b) People who experience performance problems when running Beagle. [...] (c) Those who use Beagle and like it and

Re: [opensuse] Beagle Configuration

2007-03-28 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi Michael, On 3/28/07, Michael Letourneau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know many (most?) dislike beagle and turn it off, but I actually have a need to use it right now, and thought it would be a good solution to finding some information I have mis-placed. I'm the main developer of Beagle, so

Re: [opensuse] dbus-daemon and other stuff

2007-03-23 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 3/23/07, jef peeraer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * i'll had to disable beagle, because it ate all my ram. is it possible, to let it run at night only, or when a user is logged out ? Which process is it? If it's the beagle-build-index process, that's the system-wide crawler that runs once

[opensuse] Beagle project in build service

2007-03-20 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, I wanted to let everyone know that we recently added a Beagle project to the openSUSE Build Service. It contains the latest versions of Beagle and related programs like the Kerry Beagle KDE client, and KBeagleBar. It's kept up-to-date with the latest upstream releases. Packages and

Re: [opensuse] What software responsible for process update-status?

2007-03-20 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 3/20/07, Terry Eck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice there is a process called update-status. Anyone know what software is responsible for this process? If it is beagle or zdm then what is the safest way of removing either/both packages. This program is part of the zypp helpers for

Re: [opensuse-packaging] Proposal: Any rm in .spec %install must be commented

2007-03-15 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 18:17 +0100, Juergen Weigert wrote: Good point. Mandatory comments are counter productive. If comments are mandatory, they will be more often at the bullshit end of the spectrum than not. With a high noise level around it, even the good comments become useless.