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amych - Feb 23, 2006 5:39:44 am PST #7199 of 10003

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

mediawiki and Twiki are the biggies if you need that kind of access control; mediawiki can probably handle the authentication stuff better out of the box, but it's a really big installation for a wiki -- depends on your use. You might also check out [link] for feature comparisons.

(edited because I had the wrong wiki...)

§ ita § - Feb 23, 2006 5:42:08 am PST #7200 of 10003

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

mediawiki can probably handle the authentication stuff better out of the box

What I want to do is replace the authentication, so nothing will be out of the box. If it's big, though, I probably don't want to start there.

::marks post for link perusal at work::

amych - Feb 23, 2006 5:48:30 am PST #7201 of 10003

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I wasn't clear -- I actually meant to say something more like "can handle authenticating via mechanisms other than just its own internal accounts" but then I don't know the setup you have in mind. Still, yes, big: it's the thing behind wikipedia, but it scales down a lot less well than it scales massive.

(D'oh! Just now read BBaBB -- oh, that wiki question...)

And on that note, are we looking for something php/mysql based?

§ ita § - Feb 23, 2006 6:41:06 am PST #7202 of 10003

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

are we looking for something php/mysql based

Oh, yeah. Conversation in two places. Sorry! Yes. PHP 4.3.10 and MySQL 3.23.58.

amych - Feb 23, 2006 6:43:42 am PST #7203 of 10003

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I'll poke through my notes -- I evaluated a metric assload of wiki implementations at work last year; it might as well turn out to be good for something.

TomW - Feb 23, 2006 7:26:25 am PST #7204 of 10003

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."

Which open-source wiki is right for you?

PhpWiki looks promising - php & mysql.

Jessica - Feb 24, 2006 12:28:02 pm PST #7205 of 10003

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Iiiiiiiiinteresting:

Apple will next week announce that it's going to start selling full-length movie downloads through the iTunes Music Store, if the forecast of a US market watcher is correct.

esse - Feb 24, 2006 12:56:50 pm PST #7206 of 10003

S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

They've been talking about that for eight months. I'll be really interested to see if they are actually able to go through with it. I mean, what would the file size and type be? Could you only play it in iTunes? Would it therefore transform iTunes (as it more or less is now) from a music application to an all-around media application, like WMP?

§ ita § - Feb 24, 2006 12:57:27 pm PST #7207 of 10003

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Would it therefore transform iTunes (as it more or less is now) from a music application to an all-around media application, like WMP?

I'd assume it'd be like watching the TV shows from iTunes, just longer.

Gris - Feb 25, 2006 7:36:12 am PST #7208 of 10003

Hey. New board.

iTunes technically IS an all-around media player. It's basically a wrapper to Quicktime.

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