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On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Peter da Silva wrote:
> BeOS metadata is useful for humans in organizing and managing
> information about files at a higher level, but it's no better a place
> to put stuff like hard file types than resource forks, finder info, or
> file extensions.
I don't really mean BeOS's mechanism for storing the types -- I really don't
care and I really don't actually want to know.
I mean its system for handling them in general, both the MIME heirarchy for
specifying them, and the flexibility the system provided for applications to
register an ability to handle types.
There were essentially no data/application relationships that I wanted but
could not model with BeOS, and it also helpfully provided, out of the box, a
simple application for managing preferences, which is still stupidly lacking
in OS X.
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why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain
now and then.
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