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chombee wrote on 08/05/08 02:24:
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> But there is so much fundamentally wrong usability cruft going on here.
> This sort of incident should not be possible.
Others have discussed the backup and restore issue, so I'll address the
lower-level points:
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 02:50 -0400, Blaise Alleyne wrote:
> Sound quite similar to rsnapshot... http://www.rsnapshot.org/
The underlying system, yes. The UI, um, no :)
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On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 21:55 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> Your idea would mean going around having to delete a bunch of
> temporary files that were autogenerated.
When closing the file, the editor could ask whether to keep the file. It
already asks whether it should be saved, anyway.
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Alexandre Strube wrote:
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Markus Hitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
>> AFAIK, Apple simply ignores this problem. You either have enough disk
>> space, or ... well, I don't know what TimeMachine does in disk full
>> conditions. Probably it simply stops doing it
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Vincenzo Ciancia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 08/05/2008 alle 20.28 +0800, John McCabe-Dansted ha
> scritto:
> > If we define a users work as a user's typing, we could easily save
> > this permanently.
>
> Not quite :) What if I "type" in a video edit
Il giorno gio, 08/05/2008 alle 20.28 +0800, John McCabe-Dansted ha
scritto:
> If we define a users work as a user's typing, we could easily save
> this permanently.
Not quite :) What if I "type" in a video editor and save a changed
600mb .avi file? We should record input instead of changed data, b
Am 08.05.2008 um 14:28 schrieb John McCabe-Dansted:
> [...] and then get up to 4.4GiB a month to play with, which is
> probably more than enough to permanently store your average users
> documents and photos etc.
For me, I'm producing several hundred files each day, most of which
are delete
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Vincenzo Ciancia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 08/05/2008 alle 02.24 +0100, chombee ha scritto:
> >
> > Using git is ridiculously difficult and technical by the standards of
> > most normal users, but I see no reason why a versioning system could
> > n
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Markus Hitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> AFAIK, Apple simply ignores this problem. You either have enough disk
> space, or ... well, I don't know what TimeMachine does in disk full
> conditions. Probably it simply stops doing it's work until you clean
> up manuall
Am 08.05.2008 um 11:38 schrieb Vincenzo Ciancia:
> OSX does automatic backup and versioning,
The newest Mac OS X ships with an application which can be told to do
backups. It's well integrated into the OS' appearance, though.
Automatic backup, as provided with the OS distribution, requires an
Il giorno gio, 08/05/2008 alle 02.24 +0100, chombee ha scritto:
>
> Using git is ridiculously difficult and technical by the standards of
> most normal users, but I see no reason why a versioning system could
> not
> be built in to the OS or the desktop environment and function
> completely
> with
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 02:24 +0100, chombee wrote:
> * The user should never have to press Save. There should not be any save
> buttons anywhere on the computer. Saving is something the computer can
> do automatically all the time, the user never needs to know. Save
> buttons were introduced back wh
Warning: this is a rant. But hopefully we can discuss any developments
in Ubuntu in the direction of what I'm talking about. I hope this was
the best place to post this.
* * *
I have little hope that much can happen about this because it would be
such a major overhaul, but... my friend was just w
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