Well, will you look at that.

I just forlornly tried running Everything in Wine, and apparently they've added non-NTFS support!, because while it doesn't index anything by default, once I point it at the various folders I want to make searchable it works beautifully, even with folders on my ext4 partition. Updating the index is slower and I suspect I'll need to switch to periodic index updates instead of automatic change detection, but search works just as instantly as it should, readily accessible from it's notification-area icon.

I would still prefer a comparably powerful native solution, if only to avoid having to constantly deal with that disconcerting WINE filesystem translation. But it's not *that* bad, so if you'll excuse me I'm going to go do a happy dance and laglessly scroll through the list of 133,000 indexed files a couple more times.

Well, there are many legends about various individuals who did such a thing. However, if there's any truth to the legends then those individuals are obviously keeping a low profile these days. Can't say I'd blame them - they'd probably start a war between those who would make them laboratory subjects and those who would make them gods. And I can't imagine either option would actually be very appealing, at least after the first few centuries.

Thank you, that is close enough to at least get the job done in a pinch. It's *sooo* slow though, and doesn't even include an indicator to tell you whether it's still working or it just can't find what I'm looking for. Can anyone know suggest something that uses indexing instead of a file system search?

Example of the functionality that I so love in Everything:
As soon as I open it I see a list of all 100,000 files on my computer (well, it may take several seconds to update the index first if it hasn't been run in a while). Then as fast as I type the file count shrinks as non-matching files are removed from the list. No perceivable lag whatsoever as the list shrinks from hundreds of thousands of entries to a handful, nor as it grows back if I hit backspace a few times. I know instantly if I mis-typed something as the list goes empty, and no waiting around to see if maybe the file is just buried 20 folders down and needs a while to be located.

I'm aware that Everything exploits the implementation details of the NTFS file system to perform it's lightning-quick indexing, and would be willing to let a well-behaved indexing daemon loose on my system to get the same functionality, but I've yet to find anything that even offers a well-behaved daemon, much less that wonderful winnowed-list. Tried KDE 4.X for a while earlier this year and hoped their built-in indexing would do the job - but it would often start randomly hogging 60+% of the CPU in the background, and still sometimes fail to find files altogether. Plus I didn't much care for the rest of the desktop: promising, and much improved from the early 4.X days, but still not quite ready for prime time in my book.

I actually think Google should charge all media organisations to be seen on News where laws like this are in effect but offer a free service elsewhere

But wha do you do ten years from now when you change operating systems or that mtadata program gets abandoned? All that indexing work out the window. But my "tagged in the filename" collection still works just fine, with cross-platform support in any OS that can perform file name searching on the drive.

With a good filename indexing system (I use the freeware "Everything" on Windows, still looking for a comparable Linux equivalent) you don't even necessarily need categories - if you're willing to add tags to the end of the file names:
      Myphotot1234___beach moon party.jpg
Fire up Everything and type in "par oon", and the list of *every* file on your computer containing those character sequences is already displayed, add "bea" and you're probably down to few enough files that you can spot the one you want.

Folders can then be used to create "albums", or whatever other complementary organization scheme you want, for when you're not looking for a specific file. And of course folder names can be similarly tagged, Everything catches them too.

Please, if anyone knows of something similar for Linux, let me know. I cant overstate how much of a difference a winnowed-as-you-type list makes for me. Even instant search times after you hit the button don't compare.

You get an awful large dosage of a great many heavy metals just by living in the 21st century. Granted that makes intentionally subjecting yourself to further contamination almost less appealing, but there's a benefit to be weighed against as well. There may indeed be a weak link between vaccines and various health issues - and that may be reason to consider refraining from things like annual flu vaccines, etc. But there is a devastatingly strong link between developing a lot of these serious diseases like mumps, etc. and far more dire consequences. Death or permanent crippling - suffering of a kind rarely seen by modern Americans precisely because we've struggled long and hard to almost eliminate the diseases.

Someone might say: "Hey, we have pretty good herd immunity, why should I subject my child to the risks of vaccination, whatever they may be?" To them I say, "By what right do you claim the benefits of herd immunity for your child without subjecting them to the same risk as all the children who had to be vaccinated in order to provide that immunity?" That is the behavior of a social parasite. My child risked death, however small the chances, to take that vaccine. How *dare* you claim the benefits of herd immunity without subjecting your own child to the same risk. I am not heartless, and I will gladly make allowances if your child would face a substantially higher risk than my own. But because you are a coward? Never. How dare you even suggest such a thing.

Well $#@!

The same as every time - I rarely proofread forum posts more than a skim, and homophones slip through when I'm typing several sentences behind my thoughts.

And yes, I can count - my thoughts are simply more voluminous than my "prose". And I suppose it means that I don't care enough about the good opinion of "grammar nazis" to waste attention on the details of a throwaway joke. Anyone who comes to an internet board looking for flawless spelling and grammar is clearly just looking to spar. Which I can respect, except that you're being unpleasantly rude.

So, what's your excuse? If you actually want to alter people's behavior rudeness is rarely the most effective approach.

I hardly doubt that a future employer would hold him accountable for telling the truth under oath.

Was that intentional, Freudian slip, or mistake? I mean, I concur 100% -- there is no doubt in my mind that the most successful US companies strongly favor a willingness to lie under oauth -- but then I've worked on Madison Ave and my brother worked on Wall Street, so I've seen the sausage get made.

No, it's means I didn't proof read and a homophone slipped through while my fingers were busy typing two sentences behind my brain.

Ah yes, that's one of those great truths right up there with "War is Peace" and "Freedom is Slavery"

Actually there's more words in there, they were just spoken very small and weasely so you can't read them - allow me to magnify:

A duopoly? Has Toshiba collapsed as well without me noticing? Surely neither Seagate nor WD has gone under.

Perhaps the way most mail-in rebate deals make money - most people end up being too lazy to actually send in the rebate form. Or don't have exactly the right paperwork to qualify: We're sorry - the packing/price list which clearly says RECEIPT at the top does not qualify as a receipt for the purposes of claiming this rebate. Oh, and by the way the rebate-claiming window is now closed, so don't even bother trying to get a "real" receipt from the seller to try again.

And it's no doubt helped that warranty periods have been falling for years: Of all the drives I've had from the days when the standard warranty period was five years, only two have ever had issues before being abandoned as too small to be useful, and the ones still in use are still going strong a decade later. Now it seems like the goal is only to make the drives last at least one day longer than the warranty - after which any repairs become an additional profit center.