While writing my recent post this morning on Kairosnews, 8 Year Old a Pro Gamer in the Halo Universe, I was checking and responding to email--just generally taking my lesirurely time about it. All of a sudden the server had some kind of glitch, and the Kairosnews preview screen for my blog post blanked out. The post was lost.
This is pretty frustrating and has probably happened to many of us who reguarly write on the web. Thankfully, Google Desktop cached the input screen. I ran search for keywords from my post. The Kairosnews blog entry url showed up as a return, and within the cached pages was a recent snapshot of the full entry screen--form fields and all. Nice work, Google Desktop :-)
Spam?
Is this Spam? Or Treet? :-P
Actually, I've had the missing blog problem happen to me on several occasions, but I haven't had much luck with Google desktop. Although I really liked the functionality, I was taking a pretty severe hit in terms of memory and processor resources. Ended up (regretfully) uninstalling it. I'm wondering, though--that was a very early version. Has Google streamlined the program since then? If so, I'm definitely willing to give it another go.
Check out Barton's gaming blog at Armchair Arcade.
hardware
I think I remember you mentioning this a while back. Weren't you using an older machine then? The reason I ask is that I don't notice a preformance hit on either of my two AMD64 machines (a laptop and a desktop). Neither is brand new, so I would suspect that any machine from the last couple of years would do fine.
You might notice a little performance hit while it builds the index. But that usually doesn't seem to take more than a few hours.
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