Re: [Bug-gne]A suggestion for reformulation

[Hook]

Tom Chance wrote:
> > > The fact that millions of websites exist indicate
> > that people are
> > > willing to put some effort in, think about it this
> > way, a lot of people
> > > who are going to be writing articles for the
> > Encyclopeda are going
> > > to be writing on toipics on which they already
> > have webpages and
> > > thus can upload an encyclopedia article fairly
> > easily.
>
> That they can, in the same was a Paul mentions below.
> And I don't think a homepage is a fair comparison with
> GNE, because those are made by people with enthusiasm
> for a given topic (myself included). Professors,
> teachers, and many other people both have little time
> and have no particular wish. I don't think we're going
> to have people knocking down our door to get their
> article on GNE. We need to encourage them, make it
> easy.
>
> > > Remember we can just have a client side program
> > which does
> > > most of the work for the authors.
> >
> > I'm not sure we need even that. A web form which
> > uploads a file from the
> > users' PC is trivial. The file arrives mime encoded,
> > and a one-stop Perl
> > function decodes it. Works for images, text files,
> > WAV's and anything else.
>
> Indeed we can.
>
> As for processing power, unless we use a single PII
> 450 to do the serving, I'm not sure processing power
> is going to be much of a problem. Especially if we use
> Perl, because then we can use a small bank of
> interpreters to do the number crunching, and a main
> computer to act as the "gateway", to hold the info
> etc. We shouldn't offload our problems onto the users,
> we should solve them all ourselves.

With database servers the main issue is memory rather than raw CPU power.
MySQL responds well to proper tuning, most of which relates to telling it
how to use the memory it has available.

Paul