Re: Recommendations for desktop search tool under Linux
1.I am using google desktop search : http://n2b.org/archives/699 2. Good: I use it to search my mail also, works fast and easy. Bad: relay on he browser, I don't know about privacy - can google use my desktop data? 3. Very happy, I like it. On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Omer Zak wrote: > Some time ago, I installed Beagle as my desktop search and information > retrieval tool. > Then I disabled it as I was not so happy with its computer use hogging > combined with weakness in finding & retrieving information. > > Now, after upgrading my PC from Debian Etch to Debian Lenny, I would > like to repeat the process of searching for a desktop search tool. > > The article which I used at the time, and which is available at: > > http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/desktop_search_tools_gnu_linux_tracker_recoll_strigi_deskbar > is from almost two years ago. > > So I would like to ask the community for recommendations for today's > state of the art desktop search tools. The Debian repositories have > bewildering array of packages, which might be suitable. > > So I am asking: > 1. Which desktop search tool are you using under Linux? > 2. What are its good and bad points? > 3. How happy are you with it? > > Thanks, >--- Omer > -- > Never let beliefs, God or Gods incite war and hatred among human beings. > My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ > > My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. > They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which > I may be affiliated in any way. > WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html > > > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- Nitzan Brumer Http://n2b.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Seeking tag-based mail client.
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 09:19:33PM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: > Dear lazyweb, > > I am hooked on the Gmail way of managing mail conversations by tags > rather than by directories, it's really hard to leave that (and other > features) behind, now that I'm trying to get rid of my gAddiction. > > I understand people have immitated several sides of this in Thunderbird > but it's far from being useful, or stable. Plus I'd rather have a > web-based program as well, so I can access it on my server from > anywhere. > > I haven't used roundcube, Squirel and IMP3 is a little crude (imp4 I haven't > tried) and I am not really sure what else is out there that is worth my > time to test. > > Can anyone recommend a good tool/combo or two to try? http://sup.rubyforge.org/ (Haven't tried it, though) -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 || friend ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Recommendations for desktop search tool under Linux
On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 03:54:58PM +0300, Nitzan Brumer wrote: > 1.I am using google desktop search : http://n2b.org/archives/699 > 2. Good: I use it to search my mail also, works fast and easy. > Bad: relay on he browser, IIRC most other desktop search tools have more useful interfaces > I don't know about privacy - can google use my desktop data? What about permissions? Can other users on the system know the content of your documents (or even that they exist)? How much control do you have over when indexing is run? What file types are supported? Any such tool that is smart enough to allow searching the text of a Hebrew PDF (which is visual Hebrew) -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best ICQ# 16849754 || friend ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Recommendations for desktop search tool under Linux
בSaturday 04 April 2009, נכתב על ידי Omer Zak: > So I am asking: > 1. Which desktop search tool are you using under Linux? Beagle. I dumped it once for the same reasons you described, but recently I went for the hunt again, and found that beagle has the most index plugins, and it indexes almost everything I have. > 2. What are its good and bad points? It's not as a hog as it was, it integrates nicely with KDE (kerry). I'm not too impress with its search capabilities, but it does a fairly good job. On occasion I am getting angry with it and closing it until I need it again. > 3. How happy are you with it? Pretty happy. --y signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Recommendations for desktop search tool under Linux
Beagle once created huge log files in its directory under my home dir, which clogged my filesystem. It took a while to find the culprit but afterwards it was pretty fast to purge it from my system :-) . That incident, couple with very little use I had for it, convinced me to drop it altogether. Nobody mentioned the long proven, useful and (very) lean on resources - Linux command line tools like locate, grep, find, vi and probably a few good other "dinosaurs" which I left out of the list. They do what I want today to the point that I don't feel an urge to find such a tool as you describe. Yes, the downside is considerable as well - they are hard to use to the point that probably the new Linux user (=my mother, if she would have ever considered using Linux...) will never use them. I just mention these tools for the sake of the record :-) Boaz. but yes - not trivial command line for the casual user (=my mother, if she had used Linux in the first place :-) Yuval Hager wrote: בSaturday 04 April 2009, נכתב על ידי Omer Zak: So I am asking: 1. Which desktop search tool are you using under Linux? Beagle. I dumped it once for the same reasons you described, but recently I went for the hunt again, and found that beagle has the most index plugins, and it indexes almost everything I have. 2. What are its good and bad points? It's not as a hog as it was, it integrates nicely with KDE (kerry). I'm not too impress with its search capabilities, but it does a fairly good job. On occasion I am getting angry with it and closing it until I need it again. 3. How happy are you with it? Pretty happy. --y ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Last Day Reminder - Re: [Telux] Reminder: "Introduction to Perl 6 - Part II" this Sunday - 05-April-2009
Hi all! This is a last day reminder that we meet tomorrow, Sunday, 5-April-2009 at 18:30 in Tel Aviv University for "Intro to Perl 6 - Part 2". More information can be found in the quoted message. Regards, Shlomi Fish On Thursday 02 April 2009 18:41:44 Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi all! > > (This is a reminder for the upcoming meeting.) > > The Tel Aviv Open Source Club will host the second part of a series of > talks by Gabor Szabo ( http://www.szabgab.com/ ) about "Introduction to > Perl 6" - on 05-April-2009 (next Sunday). > > The meeting will take place at Tel Aviv University, at the Schreiber > Maths&CS building, room 008 on 18:30. So mark your calendars. For more > information can be found at: > > * http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/telux/ > > * http://wiki.osdc.org.il/index.php/Tel_Aviv_Meeting_on_05_April_2009 > > Attendance is free and everyone are welcome. > > With any other problems, feel free to contact me: > > http://www.shlomifish.org/me/contact-me/ > > Abstract: > - > > Introduction to Perl 6. > > A series of presentations on learning and using Perl 6 from the ground up > to the special features. > > Many would think that Perl 6 is just a new version of Perl and that it > might only be interesting for Perl programmers. However, Perl 6 is in fact > a compiled language running on a virtual machine that embraces many new > concepts not found in most programming languages. > > The presentations will be equally interesting for Perl, Java and C# > programmers. > > During the series of talks we will start by learning the basics of the > language and will get to various high level concepts. For now we plan 2 > sessions but if we need more time we'll schedule more meetings. > > Note > > After the talk we go to the café at the main entrance where we can continue > the discussion. If people bring portable computers, we can get the off the > ground on the spot. VirtualBox images will be provided with everything that > is needed for playing with Perl 6 set up inside. So you may opt to bring a > computer with VirtualBox installed. > > -- > > We are always looking for presentations on interesting topics. If you have > an interesting idea for a talk, feel free to contact us and we'll > co-ordinate a date. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Understand what Open Source is - http://xrl.us/bjn82 God gave us two eyes and ten fingers so we will type five times as much as we read. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Galgalatz from Linux/Firefox?
On Friday 31 October 2008, Gilboa Davara wrote: > mplayer http://stream.msn.co.il/glz-stream -ao alsa This used to work for me, but now I get the following (and I don't know if this is Linux specific or specific to my box, or maybe not even a Linux problem). Any help would be apprreciated. [solo...@shlomo1 ~]$ mplayer http://stream.msn.co.il/glz-stream -ao alsa MPlayer 1.0-1.rc2.10.5plf2008.1-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ (Family: 15, Model: 75, Stepping: 2) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing http://stream.msn.co.il/glz-stream. Resolving stream.msn.co.il for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: stream.msn.co.il Resolving stream.msn.co.il for AF_INET... Connecting to server stream.msn.co.il[213.199.162.87]: 80... Resolving il.msn.com for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: il.msn.com Resolving il.msn.com for AF_INET... Connecting to server il.msn.com[213.199.164.111]: 80... Cache size set to 320 KBytes Cache fill: 17.40% (57014 bytes) Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/win32/avisynth.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/avisynth.dll Exiting... (End of file) [solo...@shlomo1 ~]$ -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail 1.9.9 (KDE 3.5.9) on LINUX Mandriva 2008.1 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Recommendations for desktop search tool under Linux
On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 21:43 +0300, Boaz Rymland wrote: > Beagle once created huge log files in its directory under my home dir, > which clogged my filesystem. It took a while to find the culprit but > afterwards it was pretty fast to purge it from my system :-) . That > incident, couple with very little use I had for it, convinced me to > drop it altogether. The huge files (index and log files) were not a problem for me. I set aside a separate multi-GB partition for Beagle's use, directing it to use it by an appropriately planted symbolic link. > Nobody mentioned the long proven, useful and (very) lean on resources > - Linux command line tools like locate, grep, find, vi and probably a > few good other "dinosaurs" which I left out of the list. They do what > I want today to the point that I don't feel an urge to find such a > tool as you describe. Yes, the downside is considerable as well - they > are hard to use to the point that probably the new Linux user (=my > mother, if she would have ever considered using Linux...) will never > use them. I just mention these tools for the sake of the record :-) I use those "traditional" command line tools, too. The problem is that they are very slow when I want to search significant parts of my PC's filesystem. Therefore I need a search tool which I would expect to index the information for easier subsequent retrieval. See above for my not minding the space taken up by those index files. --- Omer -- Wilcox-McCandlish Law of Online Discourse Evolution: The chance of success of any attempt to change the topic or direction of a thread of discussion in a networked forum is directly proportional to the quality of the current content. My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Who translates the Ubuntu websites to Hebrew?
I see that the Ubuntu 8.04 website (which will stay active until 2011 because 8.04 is a Long Term release) still calls the distro "Dapper Drake": ברוכים הבאים לאובונטו 8.04 LTS, "דאפר דרייק"! Who is responsible for the translation, so that I could notify them? Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Galgalatz from Linux/Firefox?
Yup, The moved the site, so you should do: mplayer -ao alsa mms://213.8.138.13/glz-stream Worked perfectly here, Fedora 10 and Win XP with mplayer. Hetz On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > On Friday 31 October 2008, Gilboa Davara wrote: >> mplayer http://stream.msn.co.il/glz-stream -ao alsa > > This used to work for me, but now I get the following (and I don't know if > this is Linux specific or specific to my box, or maybe not even a Linux > problem). Any help would be apprreciated. > > > [solo...@shlomo1 ~]$ mplayer http://stream.msn.co.il/glz-stream -ao alsa > MPlayer 1.0-1.rc2.10.5plf2008.1-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team > CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ (Family: 15, Model: 75, > Stepping: 2) > CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 > Compiled with runtime CPU detection. > mplayer: could not connect to socket > mplayer: No such file or directory > Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. > > Playing http://stream.msn.co.il/glz-stream. > Resolving stream.msn.co.il for AF_INET6... > Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: stream.msn.co.il > Resolving stream.msn.co.il for AF_INET... > Connecting to server stream.msn.co.il[213.199.162.87]: 80... > Resolving il.msn.com for AF_INET6... > Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: il.msn.com > Resolving il.msn.com for AF_INET... > Connecting to server il.msn.com[213.199.164.111]: 80... > Cache size set to 320 KBytes > Cache fill: 17.40% (57014 bytes) > Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: > avisynth.dll, /usr/lib/win32/avisynth.dll, /usr/local/lib/win32/avisynth.dll > > > Exiting... (End of file) > [solo...@shlomo1 ~]$ > > > > -- > Shlomo Solomon > http://the-solomons.net > Sent by KMail 1.9.9 (KDE 3.5.9) on LINUX Mandriva 2008.1 > > > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Galgalatz from Linux/Firefox?
thanks On Sunday 05 April 2009, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Yup, The moved the site, so you should do: > > mplayer -ao alsa mms://213.8.138.13/glz-stream -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail 1.9.9 (KDE 3.5.9) on LINUX Mandriva 2008.1 ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Who translates the Ubuntu websites to Hebrew?
It will be better if you'll ask them directly. I told them about this issue in the past, but it seems they don't really care. cc: ubuntu-il On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 00:27, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I see that the Ubuntu 8.04 website (which will stay active until 2011 > because 8.04 is a Long Term release) still calls the distro "Dapper > Drake": > ברוכים הבאים לאובונטו 8.04 LTS, "דאפר דרייק"! > > Who is responsible for the translation, so that I could notify them? > Thanks. > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://what-is-what.com > http://gibberish.co.il > > ___ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- Tomer Cohen http://tomercohen.com Sent from Haifa, Israel ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Recommendations for desktop search tool under Linux
Omer Zak wrote: The huge files (index and log files) were not a problem for me. I set aside a separate multi-GB partition for Beagle's use, directing it to use it by an appropriately planted symbolic link. Even if I had lots of diskspace I still wouldn't have liked the fact that beagle waste so much of it and more over, the fact that I need to track its disk usage. But, its a matter of taste of course. I use those "traditional" command line tools, too. The problem is that they are very slow when I want to search significant parts of my PC's filesystem. Therefore I need a search tool which I would expect to index the information for easier subsequent retrieval. Right, searching over large subtrees of your FS can be quite slow. There are probably even more downsides to command line tools. Well, nobody's perfect :-) Boaz. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
