[ILUG] Re: unison

[John McCormac]

"John P. Looney" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 01:52:43PM +0000, Colin Whittaker mentioned:
> > Well internet-ireland are running all the machines, its all part of
> > indepenant newspapers now.
> 
>  Curious, considering that Unison is a group of regional papers that got
> together, - as opposed to the Independant Newspapers group.

It seems that the regional newspaper content is from that fiasco rmbi.ie
or what ever the ultimately forgettable domain is. According to some
sources, the regionals are less than pleased to be incorporated in the
Unison thing. For what it is worth, the approach used by Unison is
strictly hobbyist. It has not been confirmed yet but the db backing is
probably MySQL. It is not a portal in a true sense - very few people in
Ireland would have the mindset necessary to assemble a decent portal and
Internet Ireland never struck me as being capable of doing such.

While MySQL and PHP can produce excellent results in the right hands,
the current set up would falter if it gets any serious traffic. The
ACS/Aolserver/Oracle path being pursued (? ;-) ) by online.ie is the
only way to go for a serious portal site. At the moment, the only way
out of it is to replicate the db/website using a round robin DNS system
and have a centralised database update. (I think I saw a program for
allowing a satellite MySQL db system that would work on Freshmeat a few
weeks ago.) 

Some of the framing techniques used by Unison left some rather
exploitable PHP holes. The best one was an URL that apparently was
Unison but it was framing www.playboy.com.


Regards...jmcc
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