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Examining Mac OS X 10.4's Spotlight

Posted by michael on from the seek-and-ye-shall-find dept.

Ton writes "Apple has published a discussion of Spotlight, the radical systemwide search technology that will be part of Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger'. The really interesting part is that metadata will be playing a big role in Spotlight while just a few years ago people were afraid metadata in Mac OS X was going the way of the dodo."

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  1. Re:Pre-emptive post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mac OS X thread, not Mac OS 9 thread, silly.

  2. German tanks? by Zedrick · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's up with apple and German tanks? First the Panther (http://www.achtungpanzer.com/pz4.htm#panther) and now the Tiger (http://www.achtungpanzer.com/tigerp.htm). What's next, the Leopard? When apple releases Mac OS 1x.x Leopard II, then I'm buying a Macintosh!

  3. lock your screens by TVC15 · · Score: 5, Funny


    I've tried Spotlight and suggest that when it comes out, every time you step away from your computer make sure to lock your screen. All someone has to do is type 'porn' into the little search toolbar and within seconds it's all nicely listed.

    Perhaps Apple needs to add a feature to turn off indexing for certain directories. ;-)

  4. Re:Metadata? In a time like this? by UncleRage · · Score: 3, Funny

    And without a proper search tool, how is it, exactly, that we're supposed to keep track of our fellow insurgents, plans for sneaky attacks, plots to undermine the "powers that be" and means of crippling the status quo?

    A disorganized revolution is just a waste of time.

    Keeping one's data organized is a priority, bucko. ;)

    --
    #SickNotWeak
  5. Re:What's so special about searching by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hmmm. This sounds a little dangerous. It will make it much too easy for the wife to find your porn collection, your AOL-IM sessions with that weird Goth chick, the draft of your divorce papers, etc. I AM NOT UPGRADING TO TIGER.

  6. Re:What's so special about searching by dr00g911 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Speaking as someone who married a girl geek, I've had to find workarounds for this set of annoying situations already. She's crafty and won't fall for the 'put the stuff in /etc/' trick so that my hypothethical goth and asian schoolgirl porn won't show via a normal search.

    Solution?

    Save the porn / super personal stuff on an encrypted disk image saved somewhere inconspicuous, and set cronned (or logout) scripts to scrub your various histories and recent items. Make sure that the machine logs you out after no more than 10 minutes of activity.

    Hypothetically, that is.

    Hi sweety!