Doesn't "Big Delays, Small Laptops: OLPC XO Recipients Mad"
imply that some XO Recipients are mad because the laptop is small?
The actual article is "Big Delays for Small Laptops", it's some of the people who haven't received them yet who are upset.
I was expecting mine (in Canada) some time in February based on the initial delays in shipping to Canada. So I was quite pleased when it showed up last week.
I guess that make me somewhat ineligible to advocate patience if you're still waiting for yours, but I can say that I wasn't disappointed in mine once it arrived.
Count me in for the plain old file-system method! (Although the tags would certianly be useful at times...)
My reasoning was this: How can I identify my photos in a way that is obvious to me, and obvious even if I copy a few photos on to a CD to send someone else, or email someone else?
Use a folder/hierarchy system for the basics. Remember that you have date and timestamps to help you sort. Rename the files using your keywords. Consider using a 3 digit number at the start of the file name (e.g. 001) if you have over 100 pictures in a folder - it saves a lot of time when your image software wants to sort by name.
On the down side, it's a tedious job - but I imagine any tagging would be almost as bad. There are utilities that help you rename massive numbers of files in a text editor and then apply the changes en masse./600 pictures from a 1 week vacation//Re-lived the highlights while renaming the pictures/// No, it didn't take a week to rename them all.
Speaking as someone who works with data and databases for a living, and loves to program, and has a large library... forget the computer.
Unless the data is kept up to date (adding books, location of books, even if you lend a book, to whom, and when...) it's not spectacularly useful.
I used to have a problem finding books in my house. The main problem was that they were in too many places. Or, to look at it another way, too many too loosely defined small collections.
I thought about a catalogue, but what worked for me was to turn one wall of the den into bookshelves. That was a good start.
As has been pointed out by other posters, shelving them by author alphabetically works really well. I have no problem finding books any more. We broke a couple of small genres out of the main group - text books, history, biography and autobiography, reference books. These have their own shelves or shelf units, and are arranged by loosely by topic.
The whole point is, don't take on a lifelong job of data entry in order to make finding books easier. Organize the books in a way that's natural to you and as simple as possible.
Yarr! 'Aliens of the Carribean'! Sounds like a fine game. Or ride. Or movie.
Or ye might just as well replace column 1 with Starrrr Trek:TOS./prefers coffee beans to Carribeans
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The actual article is "Big Delays for Small Laptops", it's some of the people who haven't received them yet who are upset.
I was expecting mine (in Canada) some time in February based on the initial delays in shipping to Canada. So I was quite pleased when it showed up last week.
I guess that make me somewhat ineligible to advocate patience if you're still waiting for yours, but I can say that I wasn't disappointed in mine once it arrived.
Count me in for the plain old file-system method!
/600 pictures from a 1 week vacation //Re-lived the highlights while renaming the pictures /// No, it didn't take a week to rename them all.
(Although the tags would certianly be useful at times...)
My reasoning was this: How can I identify my photos in a way that is obvious to me,
and obvious even if I copy a few photos on to a CD to send someone else, or email someone else?
Use a folder/hierarchy system for the basics.
Remember that you have date and timestamps to help you sort.
Rename the files using your keywords. Consider using a 3 digit number at the start of the
file name (e.g. 001) if you have over 100 pictures in a folder - it saves a lot of time
when your image software wants to sort by name.
On the down side, it's a tedious job - but I imagine any tagging would be almost as bad.
There are utilities that help you rename massive numbers of files in a text editor and
then apply the changes en masse.
Speaking as someone who works with data and databases for a living, and loves to program, and has a large library... forget the computer.
Unless the data is kept up to date (adding books, location of books, even if you lend a book, to whom, and when...) it's not spectacularly useful.
I used to have a problem finding books in my house.
The main problem was that they were in too many places. Or, to look at it another way, too many too loosely defined small collections.
I thought about a catalogue, but what worked for me was to turn one wall of the den into bookshelves. That was a good start.
As has been pointed out by other posters, shelving them by author alphabetically works really well. I have no problem finding books any more.
We broke a couple of small genres out of the main group - text books, history,
biography and autobiography, reference books. These have their own shelves or shelf units, and are arranged by loosely by topic.
The whole point is, don't take on a lifelong job of data entry in order to make finding books easier. Organize the books in a way that's natural to you and as simple as possible.
Thanks for the warning about the grain of salt.
If only you'd warned me about the mouth of coffee! Bravo!
Yarr! 'Aliens of the Carribean'! Sounds like a fine game. Or ride. Or movie. Or ye might just as well replace column 1 with Starrrr Trek:TOS. /prefers coffee beans to Carribeans