[openbeos] joke from homo-meetingus....

Have you heard about the new "quick" Federal Income Tax form?
It only has three questions:
a) How much money did you make last year?
b) How much do you have left?
c) Send us "b"

regards, Valentin       

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eike Dehling [mailto:e.e.dehling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Freitag, 29. November 2002 00:37
> To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [openbeos] Newsletter -- device filesystem article.
> 
> 
> I liked the article. There is definitely something wrong with 
> the current 
> fixed pre-coded way it is often done. Even more with the way 
> it is done 
> under most traditional unixes: user-made device nodes. But i 
> don't really 
> agree with michaels vision. So here comes mine ...
> 
> I do like the idea of devices being in /dev! but in a 
> different way than is 
> common now. The / filesystem should completely be a virtual 
> filesystem, 
> only meant to mount other (virtual) filesystems in. so one 
> could mount a 
> harddisk, a virtual device driver filesystem, a device, or the famous 
> /proc. So the / would only be the root directory, in which 
> hardware or 
> virtual devices could be mounted in a directory. This 
> provides an easy way 
> to find things, and visualise them in a file manager. so 
> maybe in /smb the 
> computers on your lan with their samba shares could be 
> mounted? or in /pop 
> a directory with mailserver and the mails on it.
> 
> Now to the device filesystem idea: I like organising them in 
> groups of what 
> they return. so in /dev we make it happen:
> 
> some 5 hard disks:
> /dev/mass_storage/harddisk/0
> /dev/mass_storage/harddisk/...
> /dev/mass_storage/harddisk/4
> 
> the mouse, drawing-tablet, scanner and digital camera:
> /dev/graphics_input/scanner/0
> /dev/graphics_input/camera/0
> /dev/graphics_input/pointers/0
> /dev/graphics_input/pointers/1
> 
> and so on.
> 
> Of course this is created dynamically. so a devices publishes 
> itself as a 
> graphical input device of type scanner or camera, maybe even 
> that it can 
> output this or that  format. Then the number of this device 
> of that type is 
> automatically assigned. I already see open-tracker browse through my 
> devices: on icon with a scanner, on with a camera, one with a 
> harddisk...
> 
> Now with this layout you don't have to ask anyone which 
> devices give you 
> what output; you can have a device in any catgory you need 
> it. so you could 
> put the camera in /dev/output_format/jpeg/0 and your 
> (open)BFS filesystem 
> is in /dev/output_format/bfs/0 :)
> 
> What you proposed, having the / only for your harddrive 
> leaves me with one 
> major question: where do you put the second hard-drive? i 
> hate the idea of 
> virtually mounting a drive to a directory which on a physical drive.
> 
> Eike.
> 
>

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