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Open Sourced Cataloguing Packages?
mcse_knowthyenemy asks: "I am cataloguing a HUGE private collection for a magician (No, we cannot waive a wand...) with an item count of at least 100k. The end result will be a searchable website. There are several Windoze packages that fit the bill (item data ad nauseum, image inclusion, reports, website). But these invariably requires numerous Microsoft products plus IIS. So, any input on a solution that is based on Apache, instead?" There are plenty of cataloguing and e-Commerce bases out ther that would work for this, one only has to perform a quick Freshmeat search to find them, however this being a museum, maybe there are better options? Would you use the already available software for this sitution or would you write something custom, instead?
Why doesn't the magician just keep track of everything with magic?
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You are a dumbass. That your post was modded anything other than -5, Retarded only serves to further destroy what little respect I still have for the moderation system.
LDAP is ***NOTHING*** like what he needs. It's not even close. You even say what LDAP is for in your post, but you state it in a way that makes it seem almost irrelevant. I feel like barfing.
He needs a SQL database, with maybe 20 minutes worth of design. Hell, not even anything complex, a small number of tables/relationships. I just don't understand anymore. 500,000 accounts on slashdot, and I'd bet my life 75% of them are trolls.
My god. You even have a relatively low user id. This makes no sense. It may be that the sole purpose of the universe, the single reason it was created, is simply to torture me with stupidity like this. I honestly can't think of any other plausible explanation.