On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 18:03 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > Aaron Konstam writes: > > > Someone in a recent message suggested that people should learn to > > routinely erase Journal entries to prevent the NAND from filling up. > > > > Unless I have missed something that is a very tedious task to lay on > > someone using the current GUI interface for erasing journal entries. > > Journal entries are added at a steady rate but their removal is a > > tedious "one at a time process". I can't imagine child taking the > > time to keep these entries erased routinely. Another erasure method > > is needed. > > I gave up. My journal has 1150 entries, 99% spam. > > I don't even want to look in the journal. Not ever! It's unusable. > It's worse than the worst email inbox nightmare. Nothing has a useful > name, the scroll bar doesn't move with my mouse, clicking to mark an > entry takes many seconds to work (leading me to click again), and > the purely iconic interface is totally incomprehensible. I'd even > prefer the dreadful interface of Macintosh System 1. > > An improvement would be to delete the datastore at boot. No joke. > The user's files are effectively missing already, because they are > lost among the spam. Stuff saved to the journal is unrecoverable > in any practical way. > > In other words: users CAN NOT SAVE THEIR WORK on the XO. Sure, it > may technically get saved, but there is no hope for finding it back. > > Clearly, nobody is dogfooding. We discussed this at the last support-group teleconference. There was general agreement that another journal erasure paradigm is needed. -- ======================================================================= interest, n.: What borrowers pay, lenders receive, stockholders own, and burned out employees must feign. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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