zope/plone breaks on dapper drake

Saint Brendan, Patron Saint of NavigatorsLast week I quite thoroughly blew up the Ubuntu installation on my test server. This was after repeatedly taking various approaches to installing Zope/Plone on Dapper Drake (both by apt-get and Synaptic installer) and getting the same I/O error over and over and over and over and over…

IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

Meanwhile, threads on the Ubuntu Forum point to a bug in Dapper Drake that makes it seriously difficult to set up Zope/Plone.

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how to make the worst of your content management system

I recently heard tell of the following activity, parading as content migration to an enterprise level content management system. I am not making this up:

  1. Copy large volumes of Web-content-to-be, page by page, into separate Dreamweaver files containing the design (created and sliced up in FireWorks)
  2. Copy/paste said Dreamweaver files into content wells of the content management system
  3. Repeat this activity ad infinitum until an entire Web presence is constructed in this fashion

When I heard this, something inside me snapped.
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