The Five Applications Most Used in 2007

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jan 3, 2008 at 10:08 AM

Stephen R. Diamond wrote:
>Creating a database is a supported use of Brainstorm. How
>big is too big a file?

It’s more than 1.5 Mb which by Brainstorm standards is rather huge. However, I think the problem lies in it having too many namesakes.

>Do the developers agree the file is larger than Brainstorm can handle?

Not quite; unfortunately I haven’t be able to reproduce the problem consistently. In any case, due to the size and the way that Brainstorm works, some of operations such as search/replace are simply too slow. That’s why I say that it wasn’t intended for such work; Zoot or other programs using indexing would speed along.

I have another problem with Brainstorm, which remains my main tool notwithstanding; the new version which has been re-engineered on a new and more powerful framework ( http://www.brainstormsw.com/weblog/archives/268 ) is no longer compatible with Greek characters. So I have a choice (a) switch to the new version for my English-language academic work, for which I find it irreplacable, and give it up for my Greek professional work, or (b) maintain the previous, no longer developed version, for all my needs.

>>- Opera

>Version 9.5, in beta, is supposed to address
>infrastructural issues. The beta isn’t suitable for work use, as it is somewhat
>unstable and annoyingly incomplete. But it is noticeably faster, at least
>subjectively the fastest browser on my system. My guess is process usage has
>improved, but I haven’t looked at it.

Thanks, I will wait around until it’s completed and available. I found even IE7 much lighter (processor-wise) than Opera. I have the feeling that they have put too much under the hood, compared to other browsers that have a swift core and one can add functions on top. On my notebook I tried K-meleon ( http://www.k-meleon.org/ ) which uses the Modzilla Gecko engine, and I didn’t even notice that it was running. Very impressive - until I started opening several layers (tabs) and it consumed the browser’s full memory footprint X the number of layers…

alx