Tiger Features on Linux

[Baryon]

I wasn't sure which forum was best for this, by the way...

Mac OS X Tiger - as I understand it - updates a metadata-based filesystem as you save things to it, giving rapid searching of everything on the computer. This is similar to a Linux slocate database, except you don't need to schedule a resource-draining filesystem-wide updatedb task, and with slocate, the database is never up-to-date with the very latest changes you've made.

You can also have 'smart folders' on Tiger, which could - for example - contain every MP3 file on the system, which also update dynamically.

So my question is, can Linux do this?

No solution is too complex. I was just wondering - I'm not trying to compete with people who have Macs or anything.

[AdamZ]

Beagle (http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/) does the first thing. As for the second, as I recall that's what GNOME Storage (http://www.gnome.org/~seth/storage/) is supposed to do. That project is on hold at the moment though, IIRC.

[madcompnerd]

I believe reiser4 also stores meta-data now?
Personally, I think it's a pretty superfluous feature. Nothing can replace being organized.

[Parcival]

Originally posted by madcompnerd
Nothing can replace being organized.

Amen to that. I just wish everything else in my life were so neatly organized like my harddisk. :D

[madcompnerd]

.

[hard candy]

Amen to that. I just wish everything else in my life were so neatly organized like my harddisk

So we need a personal life defragger? An emotional file checker? :D

[asarch]

This will be the NEW INOVATION of Longhorn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Longhorn).

[Parcival]

Originally posted by hard candy
So we need a personal life defragger?

Yes. Can I borrow Bon Bon for 500 bucks? (he's the one of the two of you with an M.D., right?)

[madcompnerd]

Somebody send me a copy of "Microsoft's Money 2005" while you're at it. I've got plans for that 40 billion dollars...

[Parcival]

Originally posted by madcompnerd
Somebody send me a copy of "Microsoft's Money 2005" while you're at it.

GNUCash is far better, believe me. Once I gave MS Money a serious chance as I wanted to work with it - I had it deleted agin after 20 mins because one can't get any real accounting done with it.

[madcompnerd]

Parcivel, it was a joke. Microsoft's money.... Pirating tangible objects..

[Gogeta_44]

Originally posted by hard candy
So we need a personal life defragger? An emotional file checker? :D
That mean I can just
# fsck /dev/life --social
and everything would be fixed? After all those years sitting at a computer? Really?
;)

[madcompnerd]

No, fsck'ing things has never been a positive reference ;). Don't go around telling your friends to fsck themselves!

[Gogeta_44]

Originally posted by madcompnerd
No, fsck'ing things has never been a positive reference ;). Don't go around telling your friends to fsck themselves!
Friends? What friends?
;)

[Davy]

Originally posted by Gogeta_44
Friends? What friends?
;)

aw, c'mon... you know! they're in your /dev/

you just gotta make sure you've got the right modules loaded. :D

(okay... i know... that was bad)

[cudaman73]

Originally posted by Davy
aw, c'mon... you know! they're in your /dev/

you just gotta make sure you've got the right modules loaded. :D

(okay... i know... that was bad)

m3r1k@m3r1kb0x:~$ modprobe friends
FATAL: Module friends not found.

not near as bad as that ;p

[Parcival]

Originally posted by cudaman73
m3r1k@m3r1kb0x:~$ modprobe friends
FATAL: Module friends not found.

not near as bad as that ;p

I can do even worse:

Rumors say Steve Jobs will announce in his next keynote iFriend, the perfect friend for modern geeks. Polished surface, easy to use, cool to impress non-friends with. :p

[cudaman73]

Originally posted by Parcival
I can do even worse:

Rumors say Steve Jobs will announce in his next keynote iFriend, the perfect friend for modern geeks. Polished surface, easy to use, cool to impress non-friends with. :p

heh.. i've got worse. this'll actually be a gaim log.. but this is me and Morphius ;)

(02:01:38) F3xp5: i n333333d the caffiene module
(02:01:43) F3xp5: can you send me the tarball?
(02:02:17) Morphius Faydal: http://www.faydalsystem.com/pub/modules/caffeine/
(02:02:24) Morphius Faydal: actually
(02:02:30) Morphius Faydal: access the ftp:// server
(02:03:02) Morphius Faydal: i would recommend the 'jolt2' or the 'mtdew' modules
(02:03:19) Morphius Faydal: they're kernel patches that can be applied to a running kernel
(02:03:26) F3xp5: alas
(02:03:37) F3xp5: i don't have enough system resources to run jolt2 or mtdew
(02:03:43) Morphius Faydal: damn
(02:03:47) Morphius Faydal: pepsi?
(02:03:48) F3xp5: i am stuck with the pepsi module
(02:03:50) F3xp5: heh
(02:03:54) Morphius Faydal: cockclassic?
(02:04:00) Morphius Faydal: s/****/coke
(02:04:13) F3xp5: perhaps running the pepsi module in an infinite loop will suffice

--Later--

(02:03:10) F3xp5: and my sarcasm comes back unbidden
(02:03:15) F3xp5: oh sarcasm, how i enjoy thee
(02:05:40) Morphius Faydal: modprobe sarcasm worked then?
(02:05:43) Morphius Faydal: :)
(02:05:48) F3xp5: indeed
(02:05:57) F3xp5: i believe there is malicious code in the sarcasm module
(02:06:06) F3xp5: either that, or i set some script to run it in the case of it crashing

--Even later--

(02:11:01) F3xp5: hmm
(02:11:29) F3xp5: # /etc/init.d/get_pepsi
Starting get_pepsi services....
(02:12:17) F3xp5: [ok]
(02:12:56) Morphius Faydal: :)

You can't get much worse than that