Re: iTunes on Windows

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From: demerphq
Subject: Re: iTunes on Windows
Date: 09:40 on 04 Oct 2006
On 10/4/06, Chris Devers <cdevers@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Joe Mahoney wrote:
> It got a surprising amount of mileage out of that idea, including, among
> other things, easy ways to search for things by arbitrary criteria,
> because it new, for example, that an email file had attributes like
> sender, date, and subject, while a song file had attributes like artist,
> album, and genre. And, of course, you could organize or search by any of
> these attributes, all right in the file browser.
>
> Granted, modern OSes completely fail to be able to do this. Oh well.

Not true actually. XP does this, as does I think Win2003. Of course in
XP MS managed to screw the whole thing up (which is not to say that
they didnt scew up 2003, just that I havent checked) so that its worse
than useless, but....

On XP all searches done by the built in search tool use "search
handlers" to inspect a file. So if you have emails in a particular
format, and a handler is installed to search that format then XP can
do more intelligent searches. *Supposedly*

The problem is that if a given filetype doesn't have a search handler
then the stupid search mechansim doesnt default to a text search, it
defaults to skipping the file. And since there is hardly a plethora of
search handler implementation out there the end result is that the
fucking XP search function is totally fucking broken.

If you have XP and you a directory full of c code do a search for
files ending with .c/.h containing some string you know is there. Then
laugh your ass off when you realize that the fucking search program
doesnt find them. Then download something like agent-ransack
(http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/) and be happy that there is a
replacement (and one that works pretty nicely.)

Only Microsoft could fuck up a file search function this badly.

Hate.

Yves
ps: Of course it will search your Excel files and your Word documents,
and probably even your powerpoint presentations, but a plain old
fucking text c header file? Fuckers.

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