Re: [Bug-gne]various random thoughts

[Tom Chance]

> speaking of images, actually, we need to get them
> working.
> I know its not possible to get them fully working
> without the server setup,
> but, tom, you could use the various sourceforge
> servers to almost simulate 
> this.
> could you?
> i dunno.

well we have an anonymous ftp space we can use, so I
suppose we could work out a simple system by uploading
images there and omitting the html+cgi upload form for
now, assuming it would put images to the same
directory as ftp? actually i was thinking rob if u
have any of those old P90s spare u could lend me it
and then I can have a fiddle with sockets and these
sorts of things in my room... want to come over and
set it up some time?



> the problem with replication is that it requires a
> constant connection.
> as soon as a change is made, it is cascaded down.
> the advantage to rewriting this (or more accurately:
> redirecting this) 
> ourselves is that it could be a proper client server
> thing.

sounds like a good project for you ;-)


> i am still in favour of only being able to add
> articles to the master server.

ditto. certainly until we have a simple mirror system
set up. maybe u could talk to Paul
Visscher (address@hidden) about mirroring... cuz gnu
mirror all their www.gnu.org site, but they dont
mirror SQL databases... hence we will have to have a
gnu.org subdomain and so we wont get mirrored.

I'm also still wondering about having the body of
articles in the db cuz of db load. atm even on a
fairly fast server it will take a while to fetch the
whole article body when viewing it. as it is doing
this, the rest of the db will be either out of action
or slow, depending on how secure we want to make data
transfers. So for the moment it will be fine but if
any one server starts to get at all busy, it could
cause problems. The alternative is to just plonk the
body of each article as a text file in a folder and
then use the db as an index, but then that's just not
as fun :/

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individual effort - Fyodor Dostoyevsky"

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