Re:Reiserfs, storage and why do you want this?
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Isn't the whole point of this to use keywords and other meta data to search instead of the filename?
Re:Reiserfs, storage and why do you want this?
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And if I called the file planning_app.sxw? plan_app.sxw? "letter to council.sxw"? "Planning Application" wouldn't even match your example. Yes, a bunch of regexs would probably find it, but that's a fairly involved process just to find a file I only need for a few seconds to look up a name or something.
The point is, for most people the overhead of naming and organising files has become subconcious, and we have a bunch of tools to sort-of work around it. That doesn't mean an attempt to create a different system to remove the overhead completely isn't worthwhile.
Why not just run in console mode? All this GUI stuff is just getting in the way of absolute performance.
If it adds 0.5 seconds to every time you save a file, but saves you 20 seconds of filesystem navigating every time you open the file, that's a worthwhile tradeoff. Add to that the fact that copmuters don't get tired or bored, while humans do, and it makes even more sense to shift as much of the burden of working onto the computer as is practical.
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The problems with the hierachical system are:
- maintenance overhead on part of the user to create hierachy and maintain it. Every time you save a file you have to think "where do I put this?" - Finding files can be hard. Is that letter about the planning application in Documents/Letters or Documents/Planning App? - keeping files in two or more places at once is hard (as in the previous example). You can use softlinks, but that's hardly ideal and doesn't survive moving things around.
Basically, the current file system imposes a significant overhead. Most power users have restructured the way they work and use a computer in order to minimise that overhead without really noticing. It's just become one of those things you have to do, like remembering to save documents.
Why not shift the burden of organising the files onto the enormously powerful computer, rather than take up valuable human mental resources.
Xorg has come with the Bitstream Vera truetype fonts for a while now, which look really good. Just make sure you use a recent Freetype (this typed on an Arch linux install with the stock borked Freetype 2.1.5, which looks horrible).
They're extensions - turn them off if you don't want them. As it is, Composite is off by default unless you put "option "composite" "enable"" in your xorg.conf.
The two accidents when I was hit by a car and a moped happened when I was commuting to my part time job in north east london from IC on my bike. One was near trafalgar square, the other just north of liverpool street station. Neither was my fault at all - in both cases the other vehicle didn't see me when trying to turn left at speed. The pedestrian was some idiot kid who ran into the road while the lights were green without looking.
I never go through red lights, I have very bright lights, I don't cycle on the pavement. Yet the shear volume of cars and stupidity of drivers means it's hard to avoid an accident eventually in central London.
Around 30C+ is hot for here, although last year we had a freak heatwave up to 38C or so, along with the rest of Europe. The tube is ridiculously hot, though. On a normal summer day, ~26C outside, after five minutes on a crowded tube train the sweat is quite literally dripping of me.
Straying way off topic, but yes, Imperial, Chemical Engineering(97-01). That zebra crossing was a death trap - taxis approaching it used to accelerate when they saw a pedestrian to stop them stepping out.
Interesting point. Most of the accidents I've seen (and been involved in) have been caused by people doing stupid things because the traffic is so heavy - going through red lights, pulling out too quickly, stopping in junction boxes etc.
I did notice an improvement in the buses, but I think the tube is hamstrung by the PPP system introduction and idiot unions - "no, we just keep our empty beer cans there, honest, we never drink at work". Stupid bastards.
If you read the parent post to mine, you'll see that he's talking about the congestion charge. This uses cameras to enforce a 5 pound ($9) charge if you want to drive in the city, and has reduced traffic by about 20-25%. Fewer cars = less pollution and fewer accidents.
I lived in S. Kensington, Earls court and Hammersmith (went to uni in S. Ken). I cycled a lot there, and have been hit by one car, one moped and a pedestrian - who ran across the road straight into me from the side. While on foot I've been hit by one car that decided reversing back across a pedestrian crossing full of people was a good idea. Fortunately I've never had anything worse than nasty bruises and cuts to show for them, although that was pure luck. The moped, for example, caught my handlebars and dragged me along behind it for 20 metres down the middle of a six lane road full of traffic before I eventually fell off.
The worst places for accidents were Fulham Palace road and High Street Kensington. Mostly motorcyclists and bicyclists - I've seen one in which the guy died, although mostly it looks like broken bones and cuts.
I just moved out of London because I was fed up with the noise and traffic. The amount of traffic was insane - most days I could have walked on stationary cars in a traffic jam the entire mile to the tube station without touching the ground.
The number of times I would walk past some poor pedestrian surrounded by paramedics after being hit by a car was insane. Something had to be done about it.
Almost every car you see is just carrying one person. That's just not sustainable. Charging a toll that's really not that great compared to parking charges is a good way for the city to raise money to pay for upgrading public transport, and to make the car drivers actually pay for the vast damage they are doing.
It doesn't take a genius to work out that it is going to be misused, even if it is only petty larceny," said Kittow.
"Petty larceny". Oh, very English. A journalist making up quotes, perhaps? Or did they find an American van driver to ask about what the British think?
I'm not quite sure why a store would need ActiveX anyway. I can't test it - I'm on Linux here.
My idea of an online store would be:
1) select song (HTML page) 2) Make payment (HTML+some dynamic server side stuff (PHP/ASP etc) served over https) 3) Download song to hard drive(FTP/HTTP)
Doesn't speed of mouse vs keyboard depend on what you're doing? Obviously the GUI is going to be quicker at many things
For example: I know that hitting Alt-F1 (the binding I use in KDE) to maximise a window is faster than reach for mouse -> find maximise button -> click -> reach for keyboard. Much less strain on the wrist as well. Alt-tabbing is often faster than using the mouse+taskbar.
OK, I'll repeat the argument this thread. For other answers to this suggestion, see *every single fricking SCO discussion on Slashdot*.
Why would we want to do exactly what SCO want someone to do? You want to take a large amount of money from OSS supporters and give it to the failing company who attacked OSS in the hope that IBM would buy them out. Why?
SCO are losing the case - see pretty much every story coming out of the courtrooms for evidence to that effect. You're suggesting we set the precedent that if you start spurious legal claims against Linux, someone will come along and give you several million dollars?
Take that money and give it to some OSS developers instead.
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Isn't the whole point of this to use keywords and other meta data to search instead of the filename?
And if I called the file planning_app.sxw? plan_app.sxw? "letter to council.sxw"? "Planning Application" wouldn't even match your example. Yes, a bunch of regexs would probably find it, but that's a fairly involved process just to find a file I only need for a few seconds to look up a name or something.
The point is, for most people the overhead of naming and organising files has become subconcious, and we have a bunch of tools to sort-of work around it. That doesn't mean an attempt to create a different system to remove the overhead completely isn't worthwhile.
Why not just run in console mode? All this GUI stuff is just getting in the way of absolute performance.
If it adds 0.5 seconds to every time you save a file, but saves you 20 seconds of filesystem navigating every time you open the file, that's a worthwhile tradeoff. Add to that the fact that copmuters don't get tired or bored, while humans do, and it makes even more sense to shift as much of the burden of working onto the computer as is practical.
The problems with the hierachical system are:
- maintenance overhead on part of the user to create hierachy and maintain it. Every time you save a file you have to think "where do I put this?"
- Finding files can be hard. Is that letter about the planning application in Documents/Letters or Documents/Planning App?
- keeping files in two or more places at once is hard (as in the previous example). You can use softlinks, but that's hardly ideal and doesn't survive moving things around.
Basically, the current file system imposes a significant overhead. Most power users have restructured the way they work and use a computer in order to minimise that overhead without really noticing. It's just become one of those things you have to do, like remembering to save documents.
Why not shift the burden of organising the files onto the enormously powerful computer, rather than take up valuable human mental resources.
Them/they is commonly used as a gender-neutral pronoun in English.
I'm sure I used to run firefox like that, but it doesn't seem to work anymore (0.9.3).
You might fool the user with a wrong icon, but Firefox will still use the MIME type when it downloads the file, so it's hardly a major problem.
Wouldn't getting the HTTP headers for every non-HTML file linked to on a web page be a bit bandwidth and processor intensive for an extension?
Xorg has come with the Bitstream Vera truetype fonts for a while now, which look really good. Just make sure you use a recent Freetype (this typed on an Arch linux install with the stock borked Freetype 2.1.5, which looks horrible).
They're extensions - turn them off if you don't want them. As it is, Composite is off by default unless you put "option "composite" "enable"" in your xorg.conf.
The two accidents when I was hit by a car and a moped happened when I was commuting to my part time job in north east london from IC on my bike. One was near trafalgar square, the other just north of liverpool street station. Neither was my fault at all - in both cases the other vehicle didn't see me when trying to turn left at speed.
The pedestrian was some idiot kid who ran into the road while the lights were green without looking.
I never go through red lights, I have very bright lights, I don't cycle on the pavement. Yet the shear volume of cars and stupidity of drivers means it's hard to avoid an accident eventually in central London.
Around 30C+ is hot for here, although last year we had a freak heatwave up to 38C or so, along with the rest of Europe.
The tube is ridiculously hot, though. On a normal summer day, ~26C outside, after five minutes on a crowded tube train the sweat is quite literally dripping of me.
Straying way off topic, but yes, Imperial, Chemical Engineering(97-01). That zebra crossing was a death trap - taxis approaching it used to accelerate when they saw a pedestrian to stop them stepping out.
Interesting point. Most of the accidents I've seen (and been involved in) have been caused by people doing stupid things because the traffic is so heavy - going through red lights, pulling out too quickly, stopping in junction boxes etc.
Why do you think I moved out :)
I did notice an improvement in the buses, but I think the tube is hamstrung by the PPP system introduction and idiot unions - "no, we just keep our empty beer cans there, honest, we never drink at work". Stupid bastards.
If you read the parent post to mine, you'll see that he's talking about the congestion charge. This uses cameras to enforce a 5 pound ($9) charge if you want to drive in the city, and has reduced traffic by about 20-25%.
Fewer cars = less pollution and fewer accidents.
I lived in S. Kensington, Earls court and Hammersmith (went to uni in S. Ken). I cycled a lot there, and have been hit by one car, one moped and a pedestrian - who ran across the road straight into me from the side. While on foot I've been hit by one car that decided reversing back across a pedestrian crossing full of people was a good idea. Fortunately I've never had anything worse than nasty bruises and cuts to show for them, although that was pure luck. The moped, for example, caught my handlebars and dragged me along behind it for 20 metres down the middle of a six lane road full of traffic before I eventually fell off.
The worst places for accidents were Fulham Palace road and High Street Kensington. Mostly motorcyclists and bicyclists - I've seen one in which the guy died, although mostly it looks like broken bones and cuts.
I just moved out of London because I was fed up with the noise and traffic. The amount of traffic was insane - most days I could have walked on stationary cars in a traffic jam the entire mile to the tube station without touching the ground.
The number of times I would walk past some poor pedestrian surrounded by paramedics after being hit by a car was insane. Something had to be done about it.
Almost every car you see is just carrying one person. That's just not sustainable. Charging a toll that's really not that great compared to parking charges is a good way for the city to raise money to pay for upgrading public transport, and to make the car drivers actually pay for the vast damage they are doing.
I can't think of a time when I've ever heard anyone not from the US say it - especially not a London van driver!
It was Mark Thomas, political comedy genius.
It doesn't take a genius to work out that it is going to be misused, even if it is only petty larceny," said Kittow.
"Petty larceny". Oh, very English. A journalist making up quotes, perhaps? Or did they find an American van driver to ask about what the British think?
Ahah. That's ok then, I apologise.
Zire 21 is pretty close to that.
I'm not quite sure why a store would need ActiveX anyway. I can't test it - I'm on Linux here.
My idea of an online store would be:
1) select song (HTML page)
2) Make payment (HTML+some dynamic server side stuff (PHP/ASP etc) served over https)
3) Download song to hard drive(FTP/HTTP)
What extra functionality does the activeX add?
Doesn't speed of mouse vs keyboard depend on what you're doing? Obviously the GUI is going to be quicker at many things
For example: I know that hitting Alt-F1 (the binding I use in KDE) to maximise a window is faster than reach for mouse -> find maximise button -> click -> reach for keyboard. Much less strain on the wrist as well. Alt-tabbing is often faster than using the mouse+taskbar.
OK, I'll repeat the argument this thread. For other answers to this suggestion, see *every single fricking SCO discussion on Slashdot*.
Why would we want to do exactly what SCO want someone to do? You want to take a large amount of money from OSS supporters and give it to the failing company who attacked OSS in the hope that IBM would buy them out. Why?
SCO are losing the case - see pretty much every story coming out of the courtrooms for evidence to that effect. You're suggesting we set the precedent that if you start spurious legal claims against Linux, someone will come along and give you several million dollars?
Take that money and give it to some OSS developers instead.