Today Kevin Dupuy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From what I'm reading right now, I'm presuming either you have no
> documents, or they are all on your desktop. If you actually did work,
> you would love Beagle. I do. 
>
> I've been using Beagle since it's SUSE introduction in 2005 (9.3), and
> it is a really nice way to find any documents, emails, chats, web
> history, music, podcasts, videos, etc. that is really easy to find
> things.
>
> Furthermore, as I mentioned on the "other" thread, I'm trying to figure
> out why Beagle takes up so much CPU and memory in some people's
> computers

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Today "Peter Van Lone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> it's desktop search ... what's the big mystery? Have you been living
> under a rock for the last 2 or 3 years?
>
> If you don't want/need desktop search, then fine. Many do. Beagle
> seems to be a quite useful example of a category of service that many
> many millions of people use.

OK, a little clarification is needed. I neither live under a rock nor
do I idle away my time. Nor can I fathom a need for Beagle
when it is such a resource hog. 

I am reminded of a friend who has been buying and using personal
computers since the old twin 5 1/4" drive TRS-80 just so he could
keep track of his crap. Nowdays he is no better and he uses some
kind of file indexing scheme on his Windows box. I used to spend 
time there helping him with projects; after a day or two, I had all his 
stuff catalogued in my head and could find it for him faster than he
could look it up. Ditto with my files that are strung out over 3 disk
drives and in tons of email. For me, Beagle is a terrible waste; for
him and others like him, it is probably a Godsend. YMMV.

Fred

By the way, FYI Kevin: my system is:
* Intel 2.4GHz CPU, 512MB RAM, Intel chipset
* Suse 10.2, kernel 2.6.18, KDE 3.5.5
* kmail, 4800 files, 730MB
* no Beagle
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