Addressbook: - Syncs with.Mac and multiple computers - Holds pictures, dates - Can link people via spouse, relation, etc - Can export in vcard - Has iChat integration and awareness - Has a powerful search - Integrates with OSX Mail - Syncs with iPod, Palm etc.
Adding Smart Groups, better imports, more syncing options and better searches makes it better.
As someone who has been building sites based on Zope for the last 3-4 years, my personal experience is that it is extrememly powerful.
Zope Pros: - Built in everything: Webserver, ftp, webdav, gzip, caching. - Great products: Plone, CMF, discussions, content types. - Everything is an object. This sounds strange, but actually lends itself to the web very very well. - Huge, active community. Tons of examples. Tons of sites.
Zope Cons: - Documentation, while getting better, is not at the level of other solutions. - Python while the right choice (and better) is not as well known or supported - Splintering of efforts in the community now. Zope X3, Zope 3, Zope 2.8, CMF 1.5, Plone. They will all come together in the next year or so, but if you are a newbie, it would be a hard choice of where to jump in (probably Zope 2.7.3, Plone 2, CMF 1.5 (included in Plone).
I bought two iPods about a two days after they came out so I have had each of them for over 24 months.
Just for kicks, I ran one of them all day from 8am to 5:30pm nonstop. For those doing the math, that is over 9.5 hours and it was still going (I had to go home).
I am not saying there are not defective units, but as someone who has had one of the oldest iPods out there (2 of them) they just keep on ticking (or playing).
Each computer has to be "authorized" which means that you have hooked up (through iTMS) to Apple and given a username and password. This "authorizes" your computer (one of three) to play iTMS songs under that account.
When you want to move from your work PC, to another PC at home, or another at work, you de-authorize one computer and authorize the other.
Been using this since April 24th and it all works very well.
Do you know that Apple makes more money on an iPod than they do on an iBook at 3 x the cost?
Did you know that they sold about 700,000 iPods in the year and a half they have been out?
The profit is in the iPod. The $.34 they make from each song (less from albums) goes to keeping all those servers running, credit cards percentages and Akamia (sp) contracts.
Yeah, Apple will be covering costs with iTMS but swimming in the money with iPod/iMac/iBook/OSX/PowerMac/PowerBook sales.
1. iTunes Music Store 2. Sell hardware ($$$$$) 3. (see subject)
I started reading this with some interest as I just gone and added two movies to my list.
I have had an account for over two years (3/28/01) and have rented over a hundred movies. Recently, in the last six months, I have started to watch/return 2/3 a week sometimes more. And as I look at my list now of 47, I have 1 movie that is a "short wait" which is "Inherit the Wind (1960)".
"About A Boy" is on the list and available now and I was just shipped three new releases.
I also checked with a friend who has a faster return rate than I do and with 97 on his list only 4 are rated "Short Wait", 3 are Korisawa films the other is a korean war film from 1959.
It is an interesting study, but I am not sure it 100% accurate of the way Netflix does business.
Here are some others (off the top of my head now that I sit in front of an NT workstation).
Bookmarks: - Self updating (can check for changes ever X min/hour/day/week and highlights when changed) - Self fixing bookmarks (can redo its own pointer, if redirected on outdated bookmark) - Object oriented (a folder with an update time on it will update all of the bookmarks in the folder) - Filter on dead bookmarks (shows list of all dead bookmarks, great for cleanup) - Shows updated bookmarks in dock - Dock icon is clickable to updated bookmarks - Go to next new bookmark button - Can pick folder for new bookmarks to be added to
Customizable - Toolbar (unlike Safari) can be customized like any other cocoa app - Can make it very small which is good for powerbooks with limited vertical space
Download manager - Respects where to download to - Shows progress - Can stay in the background
Other - Spell checking (works, always, first) - Very cool search on bookmark and history titles - Best ad blocking around (size and string based */ads/*) - Click link to open window behind - Tons of contextual features like "Save all links" and "Save all images") - Shortcuts that allow you to do quick things like "gg slash" and it will search for slash at google
What I want to see in OW 5.0 - Some sort of tabbed thingy (rumors are they are working on a new type of tabs) - Diplay favicons in toolbar and in bookmarks - More goodies...
Connectix had a copy of 10.2 for months and they should have found the error. Is is not Apple's job to make sure every application works, it is their job to make new releases available to developers so they can test and fix. Can anyone say Apple did not make 10.2 available?
I have been using 10 since 3/24/01 on both of my machines, full time. I almost never boot back into 9 and have gotten things done. It has been a downhill ride since 10.0.0. Each release made things easier and each iApp has opened a whole new world for me in terms of music (never listened to MP3 before my iPod), digital photos with iPhoto and hopefully video soon.
They have not done everything right (upgrade prices for those of us who bought 10.1) but they are still the best out there, and so is OSX.
There is a big difference in having a 650 MB CDR sitting in your desk and 100 MB of storage space sitting up on an Apple server.
If you had a fire? Theft? Water damage? All your computers (and disks) go with it. If Apple is hosting your back up, you can get it back.
It is the first thing an IT department with a backup strategy gets to. OFF SITE BACKUP.
Comparing a 100MB to lets say, getting a rackspace server ($250 a month) I say it is not a bad deal. They should, of course, keep the old email and storage. Booting people after 90 days is going to hurt.
1) WAIT TILL MWNY is OVER! Prices will drop, deals will be had.
2) The G4 runs pretty cool.
3) Buy a dual system from Apple but skimp on the drive and ram. Add those from the many other places (http://www.dealmac.com) is a safe bet. A number of test have shown the Western Digital 120GB Special Edition drive to be way fast.
4) Max the Ram. It is cheap and worth it. Max it to 1.5 GB and never look back. My old 350Mhz G4 has 1.5 GB and still is pumping along.
5) Get a video card that suits your needs.
And most of all, welcome and enjoy the heck out of it.
It has been asked a few times and maybe some/.ers can finally put it to bed. What can we expect with 10.2 coming inline with BSD 4.4? Features? Unix Tools? Bash? What?
My 2.5 Year old 350 MHz G4 (lowest ever produced) has been running OSX since March 24th, 2001 (day it came out). It was ok to start, got better with each release and now that I am on 10.1.4 and running PS 7.0 I am happy as a clam. Uptimes of 18 days plus (from Apple updates) is really what makes it all worth while.
It will hold me till MWNY where a shiny new Dual G4 (something) awaits me.
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Zope scales very well. Your option is to use the ZEO Zope Enterprise Options which is a high level, multi-OS clustering ability. It runs just fine on www.CBSNewYork.com which is running on 48 dual processor linux boxes.
I have been using Zope for months now and once you get over the early documentation issues (meaning: there is very little in the way of starters, but there is plenty if you have a good sense of Zope) you will find that it has some extreme power.
On the content management side, it has built in users, groups and roles which allow you to easily break content out to different people. I have about three or four people working on content and it is easy to control. The interface might take a half hour to get used to but after that, even the most novice user "gets it.".
Coming soon for Zope.. - ZEO (Zope Enterprise Option) which will allow you to easily "cluster" a Zope installation over servers. - PTK (Portal Toolkit) which will make it easier to set up, develop and manage a website (portal) - More Products. There are 2-3 very useful products release every week.
The areticle does talk a lot about Perl and Python but in the end ends up talking about the Python Killer App, Zope http://www.zope.org If nothing else everyone should give Zope a once over. It as some really powerful features that should be making waves and M$ ASP, IIS and Vignette sites. BZ
Slashdot Mirror
Good catch!
BZ
http://wiki.zope.org/zope3/SummerOfCode2007
If you want to code for Zope, go check it out.
BZ
You are missing out.
.Mac and multiple computers
Addressbook:
- Syncs with
- Holds pictures, dates
- Can link people via spouse, relation, etc
- Can export in vcard
- Has iChat integration and awareness
- Has a powerful search
- Integrates with OSX Mail
- Syncs with iPod, Palm etc.
Adding Smart Groups, better imports, more syncing options and better searches makes it better.
BZ
As someone who has been building sites based on Zope for the last 3-4 years, my personal experience is that it is extrememly powerful.
Zope Pros:
- Built in everything: Webserver, ftp, webdav, gzip, caching.
- Great products: Plone, CMF, discussions, content types.
- Everything is an object. This sounds strange, but actually lends itself to the web very very well.
- Huge, active community. Tons of examples. Tons of sites.
Zope Cons:
- Documentation, while getting better, is not at the level of other solutions.
- Python while the right choice (and better) is not as well known or supported
- Splintering of efforts in the community now. Zope X3, Zope 3, Zope 2.8, CMF 1.5, Plone. They will all come together in the next year or so, but if you are a newbie, it would be a hard choice of where to jump in (probably Zope 2.7.3, Plone 2, CMF 1.5 (included in Plone).
BZ
Have you actually seen the desktop interface at Xerox PARC? Now compare that to OSX. Yeah, those two match.
BZ
I put my 2.5 year old iPod 1st gen through the random-all-day-play-test and it got over 9.5 hours.
BZ
They are not too sneaky, since their FAQ links to a sun.com blog.
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/KitchenSink
Hmm? Could it be SUN?
BZ
I bought two iPods about a two days after they came out so I have had each of them for over 24 months.
Just for kicks, I ran one of them all day from 8am to 5:30pm nonstop. For those doing the math, that is over 9.5 hours and it was still going (I had to go home).
I am not saying there are not defective units, but as someone who has had one of the oldest iPods out there (2 of them) they just keep on ticking (or playing).
BZ
Each computer has to be "authorized" which means that you have hooked up (through iTMS) to Apple and given a username and password. This "authorizes" your computer (one of three) to play iTMS songs under that account.
When you want to move from your work PC, to another PC at home, or another at work, you de-authorize one computer and authorize the other.
Been using this since April 24th and it all works very well.
BZ
Did you see the 110,000 *NEW* iPods sold?
Do you know that Apple makes more money on an iPod than they do on an iBook at 3 x the cost?
Did you know that they sold about 700,000 iPods in the year and a half they have been out?
The profit is in the iPod. The $.34 they make from each song (less from albums) goes to keeping all those servers running, credit cards percentages and Akamia (sp) contracts.
Yeah, Apple will be covering costs with iTMS but swimming in the money with iPod/iMac/iBook/OSX/PowerMac/PowerBook sales.
1. iTunes Music Store
2. Sell hardware ($$$$$)
3. (see subject)
BZ
I as actually at a CD store (J&R here in NYC) last Thursday and decided to wait till Monday to buy something from AMS (at that point still a rumor).
I not go every morning to see what is new, to maybe buy a few tracks.
I can't wait till they get new stuff or when artists decide just to release via AMS (probably a year or so off).
I love my 500 CDs, but there is something so instantly cool about hearing a song, buying it and being on your way to work listening to it some more.
They got this one right and when iTunes for windows is bundled with the next iPod right before X-mas, you can bet they will fly off the shelves.
BZ
I started reading this with some interest as I just gone and added two movies to my list.
I have had an account for over two years (3/28/01) and have rented over a hundred movies. Recently, in the last six months, I have started to watch/return 2/3 a week sometimes more. And as I look at my list now of 47, I have 1 movie that is a "short wait" which is "Inherit the Wind (1960)".
"About A Boy" is on the list and available now and I was just shipped three new releases.
I also checked with a friend who has a faster return rate than I do and with 97 on his list only 4 are rated "Short Wait", 3 are Korisawa films
the other is a korean war film from 1959.
It is an interesting study, but I am not sure it 100% accurate of the way Netflix does business.
BZ
Here are some others (off the top of my head now that I sit in front of an NT workstation).
Bookmarks:
- Self updating (can check for changes ever X min/hour/day/week and highlights when changed)
- Self fixing bookmarks (can redo its own pointer, if redirected on outdated bookmark)
- Object oriented (a folder with an update time on it will update all of the bookmarks in the folder)
- Filter on dead bookmarks (shows list of all dead bookmarks, great for cleanup)
- Shows updated bookmarks in dock
- Dock icon is clickable to updated bookmarks
- Go to next new bookmark button
- Can pick folder for new bookmarks to be added to
Customizable
- Toolbar (unlike Safari) can be customized like any other cocoa app
- Can make it very small which is good for powerbooks with limited vertical space
Download manager
- Respects where to download to
- Shows progress
- Can stay in the background
Other
- Spell checking (works, always, first)
- Very cool search on bookmark and history titles
- Best ad blocking around (size and string based */ads/*)
- Click link to open window behind
- Tons of contextual features like "Save all links" and "Save all images")
- Shortcuts that allow you to do quick things like "gg slash" and it will search for slash at google
What I want to see in OW 5.0
- Some sort of tabbed thingy (rumors are they are working on a new type of tabs)
- Diplay favicons in toolbar and in bookmarks
- More goodies...
BZ
I am now using SP2 and I have seen nothing "removed" from 4.2.
There are a few things that are not working 100%, but that is why it is a SP.
BZ
Connectix had a copy of 10.2 for months and they should have found the error. Is is not Apple's job to make sure every application works, it is their job to make new releases available to developers so they can test and fix. Can anyone say Apple did not make 10.2 available?
I have been using 10 since 3/24/01 on both of my machines, full time. I almost never boot back into 9 and have gotten things done. It has been a downhill ride since 10.0.0. Each release made things easier and each iApp has opened a whole new world for me in terms of music (never listened to MP3 before my iPod), digital photos with iPhoto and hopefully video soon.
They have not done everything right (upgrade prices for those of us who bought 10.1) but they are still the best out there, and so is OSX.
BZ
Of course.. going to the bank every morning and dropping off your CD is going to get old quick.
Automating a back up is important. Leaving it to the human is not a great idea.
BZ
There is a big difference in having a 650 MB CDR sitting in your desk and 100 MB of storage space sitting up on an Apple server.
If you had a fire? Theft? Water damage? All your computers (and disks) go with it. If Apple is hosting your back up, you can get it back.
It is the first thing an IT department with a backup strategy gets to. OFF SITE BACKUP.
Comparing a 100MB to lets say, getting a rackspace server ($250 a month) I say it is not a bad deal. They should, of course, keep the old email and storage. Booting people after 90 days is going to hurt.
BZ
1) WAIT TILL MWNY is OVER! Prices will drop, deals will be had.
2) The G4 runs pretty cool.
3) Buy a dual system from Apple but skimp on the drive and ram. Add those from the many other places (http://www.dealmac.com) is a safe bet. A number of test have shown the Western Digital 120GB Special Edition drive to be way fast.
4) Max the Ram. It is cheap and worth it. Max it to 1.5 GB and never look back. My old 350Mhz G4 has 1.5 GB and still is pumping along.
5) Get a video card that suits your needs.
And most of all, welcome and enjoy the heck out of it.
BZ
It has been asked a few times and maybe some /.ers can finally put it to bed. What can we expect with 10.2 coming inline with BSD 4.4? Features? Unix Tools? Bash? What?
My 2.5 Year old 350 MHz G4 (lowest ever produced) has been running OSX since March 24th, 2001 (day it came out). It was ok to start, got better with each release and now that I am on 10.1.4 and running PS 7.0 I am happy as a clam. Uptimes of 18 days plus (from Apple updates) is really what makes it all worth while.
It will hold me till MWNY where a shiny new Dual G4 (something) awaits me.
Zope scales very well. Your option is to use the ZEO Zope Enterprise Options which is a high level, multi-OS clustering ability. It runs just fine on www.CBSNewYork.com which is running on 48 dual processor linux boxes.
On the content management side, it has built in users, groups and roles which allow you to easily break content out to different people. I have about three or four people working on content and it is easy to control. The interface might take a half hour to get used to but after that, even the most novice user "gets it.".
Coming soon for Zope..
- ZEO (Zope Enterprise Option) which will allow you to easily "cluster" a Zope installation over servers.
- PTK (Portal Toolkit) which will make it easier to set up, develop and manage a website (portal)
- More Products. There are 2-3 very useful products release every week.
BZ
The areticle does talk a lot about Perl and Python but in the end ends up talking about the Python Killer App, Zope http://www.zope.org If nothing else everyone should give Zope a once over. It as some really powerful features that should be making waves and M$ ASP, IIS and Vignette sites. BZ