RT @OSMLondon: Eeek it's Tuesday. OpenStreetMap Mapping evening and pub TONIGHT! http://bit.ly/londonosm3 in Holborn
New blog post "Collecting Garbage: PHP's take on variables": http://derickrethans.nl/collecting-ga...
Yay, I seem to have it all working with OAuth. Thanks to pecl/oauth. The client also has a name now: Haunt (cause Stalker is in use already)
Playing around with pecl/oauth again.
class a extends b {} class b extends man {} $film = new a; #developermovies
'hi' from pecl/oauth
test OAuth
Discussing freezing ice without bubbles and comparing infinities with @scottmac
I returned from a trip to Sankt Augustin.
Back from an amazing @froscon.
RT @lornajane: Thanks to @s_bergmann who was, as always, an excellent host (and tells the best stories) :)
So much meat! #froscon
Made it to Siegburg for Froscon. However, my laptop refuses to start due to 'fan error' :-/
I started a trip to Sankt Augustin.
What is this very old Norwegian tram wagon to 'Stortinget' (the big thing) doing here in Amersfoort, .nl?
I should have opened this book before I packed it for the flight-it is full of maths!
On the way to Heathrow for LHR -> AMS for my sister's wedding and @froscon
I started a trip to 's-Hertogenbosch.
Comments
At least, it should be possible to stick all the metadata in one single file in the root folder...
BlueHarvest can get rid of that mess if you're using a Mac at some point.
RE: Macs Suck
http://doughboy.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/emacs-sux-too/
Same for Linux & Windows. Its just what you have to live with when you are using a current File Manager.
I always wondered where all the .thumb files come from before I used Windows for the first time.
Hi,
Mac Users are used to many additional features their file manager provides. Features like associate a specific file (not file type) to a specific application. Or put colored labels onto specific files.
To allow these features, the file manager as to store the metadata somewhere. It could use extended attributes, but then, these won't work in FAT file systems.
Even worse: Like NTFS (and maybe ext3 - I'm not sure there), Mac filesystems traditionally provided multiple data streams per file and applications got used to depend on that feature being available and thus stored vital information in these streams.
Thankfully this went more or less away with OS X, but there are still some applications insisting on doing that.
So where to store that information on a file system that doesn't provide the features?
A hidden file would be a workable solution. And .DS_Store is hidden from most GUIs on unix and additionally is marked hidden as good as possible on each file system.
And while the Mac OS filemanager could just not provide the label-feature (though it could be confusing for a user to suddenly lose features when copying a file), storing the rest of the alternate data streams of a file is IMPERATIVE because otherwise, the file may not be readable after copying it to a different file system.
Tell me: How would you solve the problem?
Philip
Must be like all that Thumbs.db crap that Windows sticks everywhere?
it's not a big price for convenience it gives
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.DS_Store
I agree, even linux sucks! Whenever I create an ext3 or reiserfs partition, it creates this journal thing hundreds of megabytes in size. I mean, who told the drive to keep a dairy?
Who does that team of highly educated software engineers think they are, putting random crap on my drives?
Same like Thumbs.db etc on Win ;-)
That sucks indeed, but there are solutions available to not write these files on external drives.
Add Comment