ZEO
will allow you to scale the ZODB (Zope Object Database) across multiple processors, machines, and networks. Although the ZODB is a Python object database, so it's probably not an option to port your current database. There are other limitations of the database - it's not always the fastest, it's an object database so concepts like foreign keys are not fully there, but it can give you high availability. As of new Zope 2.7 in beta though, ZEO is quite easy to set-up, and it is open source.
HTML is a markup language. HTTP is a protocol. The difference is that mark-up languages are data, while protocols are used for the transferring of data. Contrast XML and FTP. Or the English language and the IRC protocol. Or BASH and ssh.
Text manipulation is what your web apps
do when you write them in Perl.
I write web apps in Python/Zope all day long,
and almost never do any text manipulation.
It was only a couple days ago when I was porting
a Perl/CGI script into Zope without
refactoring it, that I needed to enable
regexs on a Zope installation that I've been
using for over a year.
Stormix is in the process of putting a new downloadable ISO image on our FTP site for Storm Linux 2000 that fixes the problems that the original installer had with extended partitions.
Stormix's distribution is officially called 'Storm Linux 2000 operating system'. Our distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux, and it's fairly similar to Corel LINUX OS. The two products are fairly similar, especially in their first releases. Both companies are adding ease of use GUI features to Debian GNU/Linux, both companies are Canadian, both distros even have similarities in package design and both even offer a $10 cash rebate. Stormix and Corel both started working on a Debian GNU/Linux enhanced system around the same time and both worked independantly of each other, but it's a bit weird to notice all of the similarities.
There are a few differences between Storm Linux and Corel Linux. Storm Linux offers an easy way to install and switch between GNOME and KDE. Corel has a file manager. Corel's front end for dselect is called Corel Update, while Storm Linux's front end is called Storm Package Manager. Storm Linux includes the beginnings of an ambitious project to create an administrative GUI that works in either ncurses or X over a network called the Storm Administration System. Corel Linux has a deluxe version already available which includes a cool penguin and an almost complete version of CivCTP.
Off course both distro's are based on Debian GNu/Linux 2.1 (slink) and are fairly compatible with Debian. With Corel, Stormix, and the upcoming Progeny Linux, plus the VA Linux/SGI/O'Reilly Debian GNU/Linux package, it looks like Debian is continuing to gain popularity at a rapid pace. The best part of Debian has to be it's package management system. Typing apt-get install [package] and have the system grab the package via FTP also fetch and dependencies is awesome.
I've never used Napster. Hotline was developed on the Mac first, and used to be great for warez and mp3 trading. They then released a Windows version of Hotline. After Hotline got popular there were so many leeches that it became very hard to find a decent server that wasn't just more "click on my banners to download pron so I can buy a 10GB HD to keep this server running!!!" crap.
Carracho uses a different protocol than Hotline. There are a lot fewer servers for Carracho right now, but a lot better ratio of quality to noise. Carracho is still Mac only and it is still only a 'preview' release. Carracho is also more ambitious feature wise.
http://www.hotlinesw.com http://www.carracho.com
I don't want obsolete hardware in my computer
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I think the SuperDrive would have been a good choice -- backwards compatability and good sized storage at the same time. Alternatively, the Zip drive has a large installed base, and you can sacrifice backwards compatability. Heck, a combination CD+DVD+CD-RW wouldn't even need extra space.
I can't remember the last time I used a floppy disk. The superdisk is pricey and slow. I had a Zip drive, but it got the click of death - twice. A CD-R would be nice, perhaps we'll see this soon as the price of CD-Rs are finally starting to hit the consumer level.
Despite the limited number of models that the iMac II comes in, Apple has still given us quite a bit of choice. Those who don't need removable media aren't forced to buy one. Backing up data is important, but that's what the 'i' is for in the iMac, FTP your files somewhere safe on the net and your house could burn down and your files would still be safe. Apple's not being reckless they're just thinking different.
If you think the tangerine iMac is ugly and looks like a traffic cone on it's side I hope you don't have a generic beige pc otherwise people might think your computer is uglier than sin and looks like giant hunks of tofu.
Re:if people start changing to two column webpages
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I don't really see any resemblance between the Apple web site and a newspaper. Sure they use a two column design in places, but they mix it up with short sections that go across the entire page and quite often the second column is used for short bits of information and factoids. This is a good format for selling products like Apple's because you can read a couple marketing paragraphs, and then absorb a blurb n' graphic, then scroll down, absorb another blurb, then read about another feature.
The Apple web site's weakness is it's fixed width format. It looks great in 640 x 480 and 800 x 600, but if you're surfing with a big ass window open it looks lopsided with all that extra white space. This is a trade off that all web sites have to make though - do you let your text flow as wide as the browser window, and risk having your layout fall apart (reducing the impact of your design), or do you fill the window and dumb down your design creating a more useable but design-limited page?
A section like Apple's Tech Info Library (Apple TIL ~ Linux HOWTO) could benefit from a design that fills the whole window. At least Apple doesn't make the collosal mistake that so many sites are making of specifying really small fonts - like AMD, wow, there are some web designers who have been spending too much time with the dummy pipe. They've specified everything on the site as x-small CSS. Who wants to read an entire press release in an extra small font?
A web site that needs to realize that the web is not a newspaper is http://www.nytimes.com
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ZEO will allow you to scale the ZODB (Zope Object Database) across multiple processors, machines, and networks. Although the ZODB is a Python object database, so it's probably not an option to port your current database. There are other limitations of the database - it's not always the fastest, it's an object database so concepts like foreign keys are not fully there, but it can give you high availability. As of new Zope 2.7 in beta though, ZEO is quite easy to set-up, and it is open source.
HTML is a markup language. HTTP is a protocol. The difference is that mark-up languages are data, while protocols are used for the transferring of data. Contrast XML and FTP. Or the English language and the IRC protocol. Or BASH and ssh.
Text manipulation is what your web apps do when you write them in Perl.
I write web apps in Python/Zope all day long, and almost never do any text manipulation. It was only a couple days ago when I was porting a Perl/CGI script into Zope without refactoring it, that I needed to enable regexs on a Zope installation that I've been using for over a year.
If you have a hammer, then everything is a nail.
Stormix is in the process of putting a new downloadable ISO image on our FTP site for Storm Linux 2000 that fixes the problems that the original installer had with extended partitions.
Kevin Teague,
Stormix iBuilder
Stormix's distribution is officially called 'Storm Linux 2000 operating system'. Our distribution is based on Debian GNU/Linux, and it's fairly similar to Corel LINUX OS. The two products are fairly similar, especially in their first releases. Both companies are adding ease of use GUI features to Debian GNU/Linux, both companies are Canadian, both distros even have similarities in package design and both even offer a $10 cash rebate. Stormix and Corel both started working on a Debian GNU/Linux enhanced system around the same time and both worked independantly of each other, but it's a bit weird to notice all of the similarities.
There are a few differences between Storm Linux and Corel Linux. Storm Linux offers an easy way to install and switch between GNOME and KDE. Corel has a file manager. Corel's front end for dselect is called Corel Update, while Storm Linux's front end is called Storm Package Manager. Storm Linux includes the beginnings of an ambitious project to create an administrative GUI that works in either ncurses or X over a network called the Storm Administration System. Corel Linux has a deluxe version already available which includes a cool penguin and an almost complete version of CivCTP.
Off course both distro's are based on Debian GNu/Linux 2.1 (slink) and are fairly compatible with Debian. With Corel, Stormix, and the upcoming Progeny Linux, plus the VA Linux/SGI/O'Reilly Debian GNU/Linux package, it looks like Debian is continuing to gain popularity at a rapid pace. The best part of Debian has to be it's package management system. Typing apt-get install [package] and have the system grab the package via FTP also fetch and dependencies is awesome.
I've never used Napster. Hotline was developed on the Mac first, and used to be great for warez and mp3 trading. They then released a Windows version of Hotline. After Hotline got popular there were so many leeches that it became very hard to find a decent server that wasn't just more "click on my banners to download pron so I can buy a 10GB HD to keep this server running!!!" crap.
Carracho uses a different protocol than Hotline. There are a lot fewer servers for Carracho right now, but a lot better ratio of quality to noise. Carracho is still Mac only and it is still only a 'preview' release. Carracho is also more ambitious feature wise.
http://www.hotlinesw.com
http://www.carracho.com
I think the SuperDrive would have been a good choice -- backwards compatability and good sized storage at the same time. Alternatively, the Zip drive has a large installed base, and you can sacrifice backwards compatability. Heck, a combination CD+DVD+CD-RW wouldn't even need extra space.
I can't remember the last time I used a floppy disk. The superdisk is pricey and slow. I had a Zip drive, but it got the click of death - twice. A CD-R would be nice, perhaps we'll see this soon as the price of CD-Rs are finally starting to hit the consumer level.
Despite the limited number of models that the iMac II comes in, Apple has still given us quite a bit of choice. Those who don't need removable media aren't forced to buy one. Backing up data is important, but that's what the 'i' is for in the iMac, FTP your files somewhere safe on the net and your house could burn down and your files would still be safe. Apple's not being reckless they're just thinking different.
If you think the tangerine iMac is ugly and looks like a traffic cone on it's side I hope you don't have a generic beige pc otherwise people might think your computer is uglier than sin and looks like giant hunks of tofu.
I don't really see any resemblance between the Apple web site and a newspaper. Sure they use a two column design in places, but they mix it up with short sections that go across the entire page and quite often the second column is used for short bits of information and factoids. This is a good format for selling products like Apple's because you can read a couple marketing paragraphs, and then absorb a blurb n' graphic, then scroll down, absorb another blurb, then read about another feature.
The Apple web site's weakness is it's fixed width format. It looks great in 640 x 480 and 800 x 600, but if you're surfing with a big ass window open it looks lopsided with all that extra white space. This is a trade off that all web sites have to make though - do you let your text flow as wide as the browser window, and risk having your layout fall apart (reducing the impact of your design), or do you fill the window and dumb down your design creating a more useable but design-limited page?
A section like Apple's Tech Info Library (Apple TIL ~ Linux HOWTO) could benefit from a design that fills the whole window. At least Apple doesn't make the collosal mistake that so many sites are making of specifying really small fonts - like AMD, wow, there are some web designers who have been spending too much time with the dummy pipe. They've specified everything on the site as x-small CSS. Who wants to read an entire press release in an extra small font?
A web site that needs to realize that the web is not a newspaper is http://www.nytimes.com
From their press release:
"It can take up to 36 hours to download free from the Internet..."
Or up to 100 hours if you are trying to serve 500+ MB files from an ADSL connection.