Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (868 mails)

[Peter Nikolic <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 08 May 2011 14:23:24 Carl Hartung wrote:
> On Sun, 8 May 2011 07:22:49 -0500
> "Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> <snipped>
>
> > 1)  "using puters for (30) years"
> > Compare that to new user that knows what he/she can see on the
> > screen. To me it seems that such users will benefit of desktop
> > search.
> >
> > 2)  "too many disks to easily keep track of"
> > And you say that you don't have use of automated system to track your
> > data :) Maybe some program/utility that will know that some disk is
> > not online, but that will have idea what is on that disk will help
> > you to know not only that you have disk, but also what is on that
> > disk.
> :
> :-)
>
> I still prefer findutils: 'updatedb' then 'locate <textstring>'
> If I can remember, roughly, the name of the directory or a partial
> filename I'm all set. It updates itself every X hours, discreetly. As
> for offline and nearline devices, creating updated indexes is not that
> hard. I do it all the time. It only takes a few minutes.
>
> IMHO the problem is there are now too many and overlapping 'specialty'
> (or 'boutique') indexers, each stepping on my and each other's toes when
> I'm trying to just concentrate on my work. Notwithstanding the added
> privacy and security implications, if these things just worked silently
> in the background, virtually undetectable and unobtrusively, I'd have
> no complaints. But the fact that I was compelled to track the processes
> down and disable them, then remove them, says a great deal about their
> efficacy and desirability.
+1 
far better   

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