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| Authored by: SilverWave on Monday, April 01 2013 @ 09:44 PM EDT |
| Google Reader and other
customer tragedies
Interesting once you filter
out the anti google stuff. ---
RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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| Authored by: Ian Al on Tuesday, April 02 2013 @ 07:59 AM EDT |
I think this is related to something in Windows 7 I hate with a passion. I think
that an object file store is a terrific idea. I am fed up with asking people I
help with computers 'and which directory do you store that sort of stuff?'.
So many Windows programs default to saving files in the C:Program Files
directory. I have spent many unhappy hours rounding up the creative content and
putting it into the correct directory. The reason for all that effort is that I
don't want all their creative stuff to be lost whenever Windows needs
reinstallation. I back up the Windows partition as a compressed image and the
creative stuff as uncompressed files.
Windows 7 uses what I take to be a Federation approach to presenting files in
virtual folders. Each virtual folder can contain standard stuff from the C:
drive and the contents of any user directories. This is a wonderful concept
destroyed by the Windows 7 implementation. As I say, I backup all the creative
stuff separately from the C: drive.
Windows 7 prevents me (even as administrator) from moving creative stuff from
the C: partition to a user directory for backing up. The OS makes it as hard as
possible to backup and restore except for the whole of the Windows installation.
It does allow incremental backup, but Windows can get compromised somewhere in
the incremental chain and it is tedious to keep working back down the chain to
find a non-compromised image.
Actually, I think that the object file store is an illusory goal. The article
mentions the interim Exchange object file store image. This is a simple string
of bytes in a file and the application presents this as individual file objects
inside virtual folder objects. Objects can be added or deleted and saved as an
object file store image. Unfortunately, the storage of the image file requires
an underlying non-object file store.
There is no real difference between the string of bytes on a hard drive with its
associated virtual file and directory table and the same thing inside an image
file, except that additions and deletions cannot be made in memory and saved out
to the hard drive.
The computer has to deal with the underlying file system if it has inadequate
RAM to hold the entire object file store image. In other words, RAM must be
larger than all the fixed storage media put together.
Still, the Windows 7 model together with file system scanning tools that can put
virtual file objects in specified virtual folders would be terrific as long as
the underlying disk file system can be transparently administered. Most media
players in all OSs will do this. Lets have a proper system-wide version. Then we
can have individual email files brought together and a virtual compression
system for email archiving.
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Regards
Ian Al
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| Authored by: tiger99 on Tuesday, April 02 2013 @ 01:11 PM EDT |
| It seems to me that this, as described, is just a Union Mount, which your
favourite OS (Linux and probably xBSD) has supported for ages. Or, the Apache
Foundation has Hadoop, which also seems to work, and is rather more
sophisticated. Once again, Bill's incompetence is showing, and M$ are at
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| Authored by: albert on Tuesday, April 02 2013 @ 05:12 PM EDT |
Wow! So this is MS 'management'? It's organized like the traffic patterns in
Mumbai or Saigon. Looks there's mature, politically-entrenched bureaucracy at
'work' there.
I pictured Jobs (at Apple):
Jobs:"You're going to do this like this, that like that, and I want a
progress report by Friday!"
Team: OK
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