OT: vista cool feature!

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007, GCC Consulting wrote:
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>> It's like data entry.  When you know where your stuff is, you 
>> don't even blink after a while.  And I do have to laugh at 
>> how innovative they made it sound.  All I can say is, "Five 
>> years, and that's the best you have to show for your 
>> efforts?"  Every video I've seen shows either in earnest or 
>> by spoof that Vista is basically a Microsoft rip of 
>> OS/X...and a sub-par one at that, as you won't get the 
>> iLife/iMovie/iWhatevers with it.  I'd rather get a Mac and 
>> have better security at that point--except for the one thing 
>> that keeps me from linux as a desktop:  Games.
>> 
>> Not that I've gotten to play more than 10hrs in 2 months.  :( 
>>  For me, that's almost as bad as quitting cold turkey.
>> 
>> mark->
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>I've been readin one of the books on Vista.  Apparently vista has a very
>much improved search function.  It can search text and/or metadata
>infromation to help find files.  

Sorta like OS X's ``Spotlight'' which has been around for at
least a year now -- except that Spotlight doesn't require a lot
of extra work to index things, they just happen when files are
created or changed.

>To use the metadata functionality one will have to take the extra step in
>actually filling in this information.  This function has been available in
>MS Office for some time but has been defaulted to OFF.  Apparently the hid
>the option to turn on this function quite well.  
>
>It has been suggested that when one turns on the indexing function for the
>first time, do it at night when you or at some time when you don't plan to
>use your computer for a very long time. 

I do see a fair amount of disk activity on my Mac Mini when I
turn on the 250GB FireWire backup drive as Spotlight does its
thing, but it doesn't have any significant performance hit while
this is going on (probably less than Microsoft Office on-line
updates checking for pirated software on that drive if I forget
to unmount it before doing the update :-).

Bill
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