-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-09-22 at 18:05 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
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And do we still cling to the notion that local content index and search is unnecessary??
What do you mean? I said nothing about indexing or searching.
No, you didn't, and I wasn't really addressing you, but rather the person who (at least possibly) had the information they needed on their very own disk but was unaware of it and (presumably) had no real way to find it, lacking specific knowledge of its existence and whereabouts.
This goes to the oft-repeated assertion that "locate", "find" and maybe "grep" are all one needs to manage content on a desktop or workstation installation of Linux. I cannot agree, and I think this is just one example coming to the surface at the moment that refutes that claim.
Ah! :-) I understand now. Yep. Heh, this particular howto it was my memory, not a search tool ;-)
And if you do, wait until you collect 5 GB of PDF, gzip-compressed PostScript and HTML documents, as I have...
The howtos are less than 10 megas.
Of course. And if they were the only documents on a system, one could indeed just use grep. But who does not accumulate a lot of documentation (and / or email, for that matter), whether part of the distribution or separately acquired, that would not benefit from being indexed and searchable, á là Beagle, Google Desktop or other document indexing system?
True enough. Howeer, beagle on my system doesn't seem to find the documents I want... I don't deactivate it because of the cpu it uses, but because it did not find the proper things, which is a pity. I'll give it another chance. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjYvtwACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WciQCeOAPpWyyYHem1RSi2XeIwMju5 BXUAni36VQ3WHlaWW5DcKL0uuy1k6+JO =S79s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----