Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-11-16 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: We do have an internal format - the ._metadata.json format outlined for the JEBs themselves. Sugar 0.82 writes that out in the internal 'datastore' storage. We can reuse it here. Ok - so last Friday Bert Desmet

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-11-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:33 AM, K. K. Subramaniam subb...@gmail.com wrote: Keeping meta-data in the same directory (folder) is the way to go. Of course, the meta-data has to be a hidden file. Of course - why? FWIW, www.freedesktop.org contains a bunch of  standards (really conventions) for

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-11-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 1:55 PM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote: inclydiung usb if that was desired Maybe your usb disk has a firmware smart enough to run telepathy :-) Not kidding, at least one of the bugs listed in SL's tracker about Journal Entry sharing would be fixed with the

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-11-12 Thread David Van Assche
its true its an unecessary step in THIS particular scenario, but I'm thiking more of a universal tool we could rely on for our datar storage, and something like xmpp file sotrage XEP came to mind. IT contains rudeimentary autehntication, file storage per person or for mutiple people (ie a group

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-11-12 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 12.11.2009, at 14:08, Martin Langhoff wrote: Not kidding, at least one of the bugs listed in SL's tracker about Journal Entry sharing would be fixed with the JEB-based approach I am proposing. And once the Journal can prepare a JEB, you just write it to the USB disk mountpoint. But (IIUC

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-11-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: IMHO separating the meta-data from the file itself is a good idea. Having one database at the root of the stick is just too fragile. Better store meta data next to the file in question, like myimage.jpg and

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-11-12 Thread David Van Assche
and storing images in Base64 for example? David On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Bert Freudenberg b...@freudenbergs.de wrote: IMHO separating the meta-data from the file itself is a good idea. Having one

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-11-12 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 6:16 PM, David Van Assche dvanass...@gmail.com wrote: and storing images in Base64 for example? Ugh! Why - for ASCII art enjoyment? m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-11-12 Thread Hal Murray
martin.langh...@gmail.com said: In terms of use cases, saving to a USB disk allows for personal backups -- like before a complete upgrade / reflash, which is still used in many cases. You wouldn't use a system that didn't let you copy your files to a disk, would you? How old do kids have

Re: [Sugar-devel] User workflow sharing Journal Entries over USB sticks

2009-11-12 Thread K. K. Subramaniam
On Thursday 12 November 2009 08:36:58 pm Bert Freudenberg wrote: IMHO separating the meta-data from the file itself is a good idea. Having one database at the root of the stick is just too fragile. Better store meta data next to the file in question, like myimage.jpg and