The obsession with semantic filesystems continues……

I have this habit of getting glued to fs types this year. I found another paper on semantic filesystems here.

In my search for a semantic filesystem, I was quite pissed by the extra huge number of desktop search applications, all making logical queries to a file’s metadata. Sure, desktop search is cool, but pray how do third party apps use your search tools ?

I believe that one needs a filesystem based on tagging and not another Spotlight clone. During my long and exhaustive search for such a filesystem, I came across tagsistant. Tagsistant is a 3 day hack (!). Tagsistant uses FUSE to implement an fs with an SQLite3 database. There is even a GUI to define relations between tags and to define new tags altogether.

Apart from that snippet on all things semantic, I just signed up for an account in facebook. I have heard so much about the facebook api and how well it was tested against django. Let me see if I can come up with a cool facebook app sometime later.

I’ve got to sit (stand actually) for my practical examinations on the 4th and 5th. I did revise a few experiments in the FIITJEE lab and I hope it goes well.

BTW, I have a few euler problem solutions here that will be put up in the next post. I am close to solving problem#25 now and once I finish, an update containing solutions to problems which are worth mention will be posted here.

Till the next post, goodbye