Kurt H Maier writes: > it's not my fault you're bad at organizing your data
Please tell us about your data organization scheme, such that you can find anything you have -- email, PDFs, Postscript, music, text files, HTML files, et c. -- in the same amount of time a Google, Google Desktop, Spotlight, or Windows Search query takes. If you have never used any of those systems, I'll tell you: the amount of time is about 1/10th of a second. > if you think you need a 'desktop text indexing system', chances are you > are doing something wrong Having too much data? So rm is your search system? > if you could actually write simple awk scripts you wouldn't need a > 'desktop text indexing system' I think you've had a few too many PCP-spiked Coors Lites.