Chris Maaskant wrote: > Op zo, 21-05-2006 te 18:54 +0200, schreef Carl-Daniel Hailfinger: >> Once upon a time, the findutils-locate package provided very similar >> services. It was dropped because it used too many resources. Then, >> quite >> a while later, beagle came, used ten times the resources and everybody >> either had to be happy or silent. >> Beagle will happily index gigabytes of my data *while I'm working on >> battery*. And there is no way to stop it from doing that except >> mucking >> with cron or uninstalling beagle. > > findutils-locate was never dropped, i still use it next to beagle.
Sorry, I meant to write "dropped from default selection". > I gues you never realy used beagle because of the way you compare it > with locate. > It realy isn't the same thing. > Can you use locate to find a persons name in a email or in a chat log? > I think not. You're right. I use seamonkey to search my mail and gaim to search my chat log. Works for me and I couldn't yet see a reason why I should run a third app to search my mail and chat log. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
