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> On Aug 16, 2021, at 4:55 PM, o1bigtenor via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: > > > Funny guy - - - - > >> On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 10:36 AM tito via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: >> On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 09:43:46 -0500 >> o1bigtenor via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: >> >> > Greetings >> > >> > I'm finding myself occasionally drowning in information resulting in me >> > trying to improve the connection between what I'm working on AND the >> > information that I'm collecting. >> > >> > An example (followed by some questions). >> > >> > I'm into gardening/raising my own food (simplified for here!!). >> > >> > Create a directory 'gardening' . >> > >> > Inside 'gardening' notes for a particular year (each year in its own >> > directory). >> > Also in 'gardening' are directories for various crops 'potatoes'/'malus' >> > (easier to say apples but I'm >> > including pears and and ). >> > 'Potatoes' includes files (notes) some of which needs to be taken from >> > something like a >> > diary/journal (rednotebook is my preferred tool at this point). >> > 'Potatoes' includes directories like specific >> > varieties/diseases/pests/fertilization/remedies. >> > Further information like cooking/techniques for/health related/other uses >> > (think distilling) as a >> > further level. >> > >> > This is all found in one project - - - - and I have projects - - maybe too >> > many but things are what they are. >> > >> > I'm trying to find a way of connecting things. >> > >> > So when I find an idea that I can use for electronic control on movement >> > that I can link that to irrigation and then back to the >> > 'shrubs/trees/plants'. >> > >> > I would rather NOT have 10 different copies of the same information stored >> > - - - wastes space - - - but I'm finding that looking for information that >> > sometimes I have what I'm found but it was/is connected to a very different >> > project. >> > >> > Dig some digging and hard links to directories are a no no (!!!!!!!!!) - - >> > like forbidden. >> > >> > I could see hard links being useful for what I want where soft links are >> > going to break (have had the joy of breaking some myself and causing myself >> > all kinds of joy in the process). >> >> Hi, >> I was going to propose file systems with hard and soft links >> (which BTW break only if you yourself break them) >> but as they are taboo the only other and far superior >> system is to use paper and ink. This system showed resilience, >> ease of use and hardware independence for the last 4000 years. >> In conjunction with a physiological process better known as >> learning which transforms your brain in the primary >> storage for pointers to the information stored in >> your papyrus rolls and allows endless recombination >> of the inputted information to achieve what is called progress >> through try and error (let's see what happens if principle). >> In the end this process will make you a expert in the field of your >> choice and your papyrus rolls will be saved in libraries >> for the future generations to study (unless they use >> only wikipedia and instead of studying they just >> print them out wasting loads of paper with no >> result at all). > > As I manage to collect some 25 to 40 GB of pdfs and notes in an > 'normal' year paper lost its appeal some 30 years ago. > I would likely need to hire a couple people just to store maintain and > index the information - - - if you're paying I'll start tomorrow. >> >> Ciao, >> Tito >> >> P.S.: I suggest for urban gardening: onions, peppers and cucumbers >> they grow in almost every condition. >> Tomatoes are very sensible to lots of diseases and lost their taste >> long time ago in the process to be made solid red. >> With avocado trees in pots I got mixed results, >> with mango trees in pots this year is the first time >> there is a good chance of eating some mangos. > > Don't know where you got the information that I'm urban but I can tell > you that tomatoes plucked ripe from the vine - - - they have flavor and > task quite different to what you purchase in your grocery - - - - I call > those 'little rocks' - - - bugs my wife a lot but I really don't like them. > Taste too much like straight cellulose!!!!!!!!!!!! > > Please do let me know if you're up for funding the needed help - - - > I would think that some $250k a year for the next 25 years should do > nicely. > A quick web search pulled up quite a few different solutions for document management and indexing. https://www.linuxlinks.com/documentmanagementsystems/ > Regards > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
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