Re: The tedium of erasing journal entries

2008-08-04 Thread Martin Dengler
On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 11:02:17PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clearly, nobody is dogfooding. (me too, +1, kkthxbye) That'd be a great start. I happen to think that Sugar's python files should be kept in the journal.

Re: The tedium of erasing journal entries

2008-08-04 Thread Gary C Martin
On 4 Aug 2008, at 04:02, Albert Cahalan wrote: On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is rather unfair. I take it you've just filled up all available space and jffs2 is now thrashing (as would happen on almost any file system)? df -m . reports

Re: The tedium of erasing journal entries

2008-08-04 Thread Eben Eliason
A conglomeration of responses follow... Also, as a prologue, I will refer occasionally to the designs on the wiki [1], and in particular the 6th slide [2] with respect to the deletion issue. It's also prudent to note the initial description of the Journal [3] which remains, in nearly all

Re: The tedium of erasing journal entries

2008-08-04 Thread Aaron Konstam
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

Re: The tedium of erasing journal entries

2008-08-03 Thread Bastien
Aaron Konstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unless I have missed something that is a very tedious task to lay on someone using the current GUI interface for erasing journal entries. In latest joyrides, is there a way to select all entries? (C-a) This would be useful not only for deleting, but

Re: The tedium of erasing journal entries

2008-08-03 Thread Albert Cahalan
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

Re: The tedium of erasing journal entries

2008-08-03 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Albert, On 3 Aug 2008, at 23:03, Albert Cahalan wrote: I gave up. My journal has 1150 entries, 99% spam. I'm at about 900 or so after 4 months. 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,

Re: The tedium of erasing journal entries

2008-08-03 Thread Bastien
There could be a default (favorite) filter for the journal entries. I'd suggest something based on time: the more recent the entry, the more likely it's you want to resume it. Such a notion would also nicely combine with the notion of favs in the home view. And maybe it's not that hard to

Re: The tedium of erasing journal entries

2008-08-03 Thread Albert Cahalan
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3 Aug 2008, at 23:03, Albert Cahalan wrote: This is rather unfair. I take it you've just filled up all available space and jffs2 is now thrashing (as would happen on almost any file system)? df -m . reports 1024 blocks,