From scr@thegestalt.org  Fri Jan 17 13:40:19 2003
From: scr@thegestalt.org (Alex Robinson)
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:40:19 +0000
Subject: ::scr Happy Birthday Simon
Message-ID: <p05200f2cba4db6d06df9@[192.168.0.34]>

Categories. Categories. Categories.

http://m-arriaga.net/software/newdocms/
  (via interconnected)

So. Has anybody given it a go?

If it's implemented for KDE, how convoluted and possible a process would it
be to get it working in OSX?


From scr@thegestalt.org  Fri Jan 17 14:24:25 2003
From: scr@thegestalt.org (Anthony Newman)
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:24:25 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: ::scr Happy Birthday Simon
In-Reply-To: <p05200f2cba4db6d06df9@[192.168.0.34]>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0301171354200.30452-100000@yaffle.1highlandroad.co.uk>


On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Alex Robinson wrote:

> Categories. Categories. Categories.
>
> http://m-arriaga.net/software/newdocms/
>   (via interconnected)
>
> So. Has anybody given it a go?
>

Someone who didn't have time to learn about some bloke's contrived new
system to catalogue things in a way which is totally alien to normal
people's ways of physically organising objects once may have said
"If it ain't broke don't fix it".
Does he just want to get his fizzog on the gogglebox?

Metadata. What a wonderful word. And now computers are being accepted as
part of mainstream, everyday life, and proles are learning what a folder
is in Internet Explorer, we sting them with this.
"Come to GNU/Linux land, and forget everything you ever knew about
computing. Or common sense."

* Picture the scene. Child is using Daddy's[0] computer *

Child: "What's this file called ~/newdocms.db, Daddy?
        It's full of gobbledygook."
Daddy: "Later, darling, Daddy's busy now."
[Child presses Delete key]

* Later... *
Wife: "Where's this year's tax return, dear?
	It was called C:\Documents and Settings\Wife\My Documents\
        tax return 2001-2"
Daddy: "I know it's here somewhere. Maybe it's this one called
        0588625331.{ext}. Shit, I've run out of inodes"



> If it's implemented for KDE, how convoluted and possible a process would it
> be to get it working in OSX?

You need to lay off the crack. Seriously.



Ant.


[0] Or Mummy's.



From scr@thegestalt.org  Fri Jan 17 14:41:25 2003
From: scr@thegestalt.org (Simon Kinahan)
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:41:25 -0000
Subject: ::scr Happy Birthday Simon
In-Reply-To: <p05200f2cba4db6d06df9@[192.168.0.34]>
Message-ID: <HCEIKPJHGCNDEPJBDOGPOEKCDAAA.simon@flatnet.demon.co.uk>

> Categories. Categories. Categories.
>
> http://m-arriaga.net/software/newdocms/
>   (via interconnected)

<sarcasm>
Let's relieve the user of the stress of all this hierarchy business and get
them to learn how to do object oriented analysis instead. That'll work well.
</sarcasm>

Simon



From scr@thegestalt.org  Fri Jan 17 14:46:56 2003
From: scr@thegestalt.org (Dan Argent)
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:46:56 -0000
Subject: ::scr Happy Birthday Simon
Message-ID: <331EAF14997BD5119E8B00065B198654131525@BLADE>

> 
> > Categories. Categories. Categories.
> >
> > http://m-arriaga.net/software/newdocms/
> >   (via interconnected)
> 
> <sarcasm>
> Let's relieve the user of the stress of all this hierarchy 
> business and get
> them to learn how to do object oriented analysis instead. 
> That'll work well.
> </sarcasm>
> 
> Simon

why not keep the files in the hierarchical way that everyone is used to, and
just have a supplementary index for this kind of stuff. Not a massive
performance penalty, surely?