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 la

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 respec

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

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

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 b

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 im

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 > nam

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 en

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, b

The tedium of erasing journal entries

2008-08-03 Thread Aaron Konstam
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 entries. Journal entries are added