m06orama – nerdly musings from Winnipeg (Wordpress)

What the heck is a content manager anyway and why do I need one?

For some reason I installed Plone on my Mac Mini today. It eats resources. I was thinking “Zope!” but the INSTALL.TXT file said to upgrade Python to 2.4, OSX only having 2.2. I tried to update to Python 2.4 using Fink Commander but it only had 2.3.

Then I stumbled across Plone in the UNIX section of Apple’s “OSX Downloads” web page. It includes Zope AND Python 2.4.9. Wow! Twenty minutes later I was signing into my Plone Portal. Very slowly. Then I got to take a look at it. What was I thinking?!

Still, after copying my 4GB of images to the Mac, I found using OSX Finder’s “Smart Folders” useful to be able to browse without having to import all the images into my old version of iPhoto.

But I still don’t know what I’m doing.

Well my images alone are 4GB. I want to consolidate this with all the other stuff I have lying around. My idea is to make it all easy to navigate and work on. For example to pick out an old movie and work on it, the same with sound files, pieces of writing, and so on. Slow far, slow good. Right now I’m copying the images as a zip file over to my Mac Mini from my Windows XP machine.

Trying to get a handle on several years worth of data accumulated on 7 different PCs since I bought my first 30286 back in 1989. I’d just gotten back from a long trip and my life was about to change forever.

Volume-wise, most of the information is images. The volume really racked up when I bought my Canon Powershot A80 back in the fall of 2004. The rest consists of documents, programs, music and websites.