The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #91460   Message #1740794
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
14-May-06 - 06:18 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Digital Tradition Programmer Needed
Subject: RE: Tech: Digital Tradition Programmer Needed
"You can download and burn to CD damn near anything on the internet. That is OLD technology."
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"Look, I'm a luddite when it comes to this stuff. But if I know at least this small amount about the POSSIBILITIES,"

'Possible' is not always achievable.

A wiki is a large collection of pages, pushed out by a server. How the hell would you load all these cross-indexed pages on to a CD? You would need to have a copy of EVERY page - at a particular instant in time, AND the full wiki server on the user's PC (or LAN).

It MIGHT be possible to grab 'snapshots' and dump them to CD, but that takes some regular stuffing around, LOTS of processing time, and once it's on the CD, HOW do you access it - well you need the wiki server....


"To the ignorant, all things are possible"

"You can't get there from here"
- old Irish anecdote