On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Chris Palmer <ch...@noncombatant.org> wrote: > 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.
you've misstated the problem. I almost never need to find information without having any clue where it is. if I need something from a PDF, it's probably with all my other PDFs. if I need something from email, it's probably in a maildir. with this powerful indexing system, I don't have to grep my whole hard drive to find granny's phone number. if it came in an email, then I can cd to maildir and grep -r. if it for some reason is in a pdf, well, grep works on binary data too! like some kind of miracle, this 'remembering where you put shit' technology is available for free, and it's cross-platform!1 > Having too much data? So rm is your search system? see above re: advanced 'not being a moron' techniques > I think you've had a few too many PCP-spiked Coors Lites. please explain your obsession with coors lite thanks -- # Kurt H Maier
