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I must say, I can't for the life of me figure out why Microsoft desktop file
search stuff all *SUCKS* so bad.
They've got the USN to tell them every file that changes. They have a flag
to say whether you want the file indexed, or any files in the entire
directory or file system.
Yet they still manage to read every single file, changed or not, indexable
or not. Apparently they read and index every file, and just don't *keep* the
results for the files you say not to index. Say what?
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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I find Gnome's Tracker to be pretty neat and fast. I heard Beagle in
mono is even better, but may be hype for yet another Microsoft tech
spin-off. :)
BTW, I'm glad I don't need to be the one bashing Microsoft anymore... :)
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nemesis wrote:
> I find Gnome's Tracker to be pretty neat and fast. I heard Beagle in
> mono is even better, but may be hype for yet another Microsoft tech
> spin-off. :)
I found beagle annoying enough I uninstalled it from my linuxes. It really
didn't seem to do the trick for the stuff I needed. Plus, of course, beagle
is per-user, which kind of sucks if you have a lot of accounts on one box.
> BTW, I'm glad I don't need to be the one bashing Microsoft anymore... :)
I bash MS whenever they deserve it. I just tend to stick up for them when
someone else bashes them for being a commercial enterprise. :-)
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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I've always thought that searching the filesystem == you should learn to
organise your files better.
About the only valid use for searching is to search the Internet. It's
not managed by a single person or entity, it's vast, and so it's
infeasible to find stuff on it "manually". A search engine is a valid
solution to this problem. I think anywhere else, the need for a search
engine indicates that you are organising things poorly.
Having just said that, I do occasionally wish there were some way to
search through newsgroup postings.
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> I've always thought that searching the filesystem == you should learn to
> organise your files better.
Even with that, indexed search is a true marvel. I searched for blend and it
brought everything with blend in it, even an obscure povray man page about
blending colors... :)
grep was never this zippy... :D
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I've always thought that searching the filesystem == you should learn to
> organise your files better.
I'm very organized. That's why it bugs me that Windows insists on scanning
all the stuff I know I don't want to search. :-)
> About the only valid use for searching is to search the Internet.
Not really. If you know you read something in one of the papers you
downloaded, or you know the name of the directory but not where you might
have stored it, searching can be handy.
Or if you're searching stuff it's not left to you to organize, like the
program files directories.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Having just said that, I do occasionally wish there were some way to
> search through newsgroup postings.
Oh, and their is. That's another thing about the Windows search. You're
supposed to get plug-ins to help you search mail messages, newsgroups,
favorites, etc.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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Darren New a écrit :
> Yet they still manage to read every single file, changed or not,
> indexable or not. Apparently they read and index every file, and just
> don't *keep* the results for the files you say not to index. Say what?
>
<PARANOIAC MODE>
How do you expect MS-friends in USA government's agencies to get the
right information otherwise ?
You see Window as a monolithic system, but it is just a huge collection
of happily running together historic pieces of crap (some code may be
lost, who cares... next system will be a rewrite... by a set of
teenagers right out of IT school until they learn how to do it cleanly,
"well no crash is ok, boys!")
Do you expect someone at MS to even have access to the real
specification of the modular system ? Do they have specification, really ?
</PARANOIAC MODE>
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.<br/>
Q: Why is it such a bad thing?<br/>
A: Top-posting.<br/>
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I've always thought that searching the filesystem == you should learn to
> organise your files better.
Yeah, try rifling through 20,000 (tagged) photos looking for pictures
that include your son, your wife, her father, and her grandparents.
Though you do need to tag the files, searching a large library of images
like this is much easier than, say, looking at each picture trying to
figure out which ones meet your requirements.
> About the only valid use for searching is to search the Internet. It's
> not managed by a single person or entity, it's vast, and so it's
> infeasible to find stuff on it "manually". A search engine is a valid
> solution to this problem. I think anywhere else, the need for a search
> engine indicates that you are organising things poorly.
Oh, you did say vast, didn't you ... :slinks away in embarrassment:
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~Mike
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> I've always thought that searching the filesystem == you should learn to
> organise your files better.
You obviously don't have enough files to search through :-) It's like a
library, you can only physically sort the books one way (eg by author), if
you want to then find a book using some other criteria (eg the ISBN number)
you're shafted without a "search" feature, and would have to look at every
single book until you found the one you wanted.
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