Hi, I must admit it took me some time to get used to the concept of a journal that captures all that you do, and saves it, along with versioning, date and time. Additionally, the ability to add tags and description is great.
What I didn't expect is that I would get used to it so much that I would miss it in my regular work environment! I find my file manager and backup utilities to be primitive. With file managers, you have to go digging into drives, folders, and then look at time stamps. BTW, I use Ubuntu Gutsy as my primary interface. I boot into Windows XP about once a month (old habits...). Now that I've experienced the journal, I want it on my machine!!! I can [now] see how a person (child or otherwise) who has never used a file manager would not need one and would take to the journal. Of course, those of us who like it under the hood would want their /usr /var /etc to be there, but if you don't know about it, why bother? I wonder if anyone else has had this experience, or is my wine tainted :-) Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Information Systems San Francisco State University San Francisco CA 94132 USA http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://opensource.sfsu.edu/ _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
