Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal and filenames on USB disks - more leases.sig problems

2009-07-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 19:41, Martin Langhoff > wrote: >> Is there a better way to do this? > > If you go through the archives, you will find that this was discussed > some weeks ago, I think it was Tony Forster who started the > discussion.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal and filenames on USB disks - more leases.sig problems

2009-07-01 Thread Edward Cherlin
Better way: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities#Midnight_Commander On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > I am trying to get leases.sig from the XS to the USB stick. On 8.2.x, > Browse.xo saves the file as > >   File leases.sig from http://... > > ... two possible ways to m

Re: [Sugar-devel] Journal and filenames on USB disks - more leases.sig problems

2009-07-01 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 19:41, Martin Langhoff wrote: > I am trying to get leases.sig from the XS to the USB stick. On 8.2.x, > Browse.xo saves the file as > >   File leases.sig from http://... > > ... two possible ways to move next. > > Copy and rename > >  1 - Insert (fat-formatted) USB stick, on

Re: Journal and filenames on USB disks - more leases.sig problems

2009-06-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Rename and copy >From the department of useful tricks... If you want to preserve your users' ability to name a file you serve via HTTP, eschew proper mimetypes and say with me: Content-Type: application/x-forcedownload With that mime

Re: Journal and filenames on USB disks - more leases.sig problems

2009-06-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:47 PM, John Gilmore wrote: > Don't use Browse as if it was a real web browser.  Don't use the > Journal as if it was a real file system. ... and don't use Sugar as a useful Desktop or UI...? I don't buy the argument. There are lots of things that rely on filenames; as th

Re: Journal and filenames on USB disks - more leases.sig problems

2009-06-30 Thread John Gilmore
> Is there a better way to do this? Don't use Browse as if it was a real web browser. Don't use the Journal as if it was a real file system. Run Firefox, not Browse. Open up a terminal and do what needs doing. You've just stumbled on one tiny corner of the problem that the Sugar tools don't tea

Journal and filenames on USB disks - more leases.sig problems

2009-06-30 Thread Martin Langhoff
I am trying to get leases.sig from the XS to the USB stick. On 8.2.x, Browse.xo saves the file as File leases.sig from http://... ... two possible ways to move next. Copy and rename 1 - Insert (fat-formatted) USB stick, once mounted copy the file to the USB stick. Check on Terminal indicate