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Flickr pro account…

October 20, 2009

: Image via CrunchBase

I just upgraded my flickr account to a pro account! I have been meaning to get around to doing this for a while now but just forgot about it!

Flickr only allows you to upload 200 photos if you have a standard free account, you can actually upload more than 200, however flickr will only show your latest 200 uploaded.

I ran into this problem when I returned from Edinburgh last summer, I added all my pictures to flickr and then I could only see a few of them.

It is great to have the flickr pro account as this means there is no more restrictions on my account 😀 . For the pro membership it is a yearly cost of $24.05 which is about €16, not exactly breaking the bank with that membership as it is completely worth it.

This is the first time I have paid for hosting of my pictures but it is completely worth it also now I have the ability to upload HD videos to flickr! Not that I will be using this feature, it is always nice to have something extra 😉 .

Now that I have the pro account it helps out here on this blog, I have a section on my blog, now all my flickr photo sets / album’s can be seen here too! As soon as I upload them to flickr they will all be right here on this blog. This feature has been on my blog for a while now however with the old limitations of my standard account for a few months visitors could only see a few of my pictures 🙁 .

I will most likely begin to use flickr to store some pictures for some of my websites, this will save bandwidth on my end and also the images will load quicker as they are coming from a much better server!

Time to save…

October 12, 2009

: Image via Wikipedia

I save money every week when i get my wages. A little bit every week throughout the year and then when christmas comes i take it all out and use it for something usefull.

The money i am currently saving will be going to pay for next years car insurance, well most of it. I have to spend some of it 😀 otherwise it would of being pointless to save! Treat myself with something then put the rest onto the insurance.

Now however i have another target that i want to begin to save for. I want to save up for a new computer. So tomorrow i will be going down to the post office to start a savings account. By putting my money there it will mean i will not spend it. Once it is gone out of my bank account i dont mind, it is just like i dont have it, but if it was there i would be more inclined to spend it on something.

The computer i currently own is 3 years old and will be nearly 4 by the time i get my new computer. I have no idea yet how much i will be saving from week to week, but i will definitly be saving something.

Any money that i make from doing websites for people now will be going into my savings, which will be a big help.

The computer i have in mind will be a Dell XPS, not sure what model yet, but i want a really good computer. Must be fast, really fast, have lots of memory and disk space 😀 .

First day back at college

September 08, 2009

: Image by Gildas Le Mentec via Flickr

Today i started back at college and so far it is very easy. Currently i do not have my timetable as there was a problem in college this morning which made it impossible for us to get our timetables.

So far i have attended 2 of my modules, Database Management Systems & Systems Administration 1, the first of the two is broken down into 50% CA (continuous Assessment) and then 50% final exam at the end of semester, then in Systems Administration 1 it is just a full 100% CA which is great, the less final exams i have the better 😀 .

I found out that one of my classes is 4 hours long in one sitting! It is mainly practical work that will be done in it so hopefully the time will not drag too much!

So although today was a waste of a day in college, it looks like it will shape up to be an interesting year in college, after this year i will come out with a Bachelor of Science in Computing in Applications & Support.

Error on my blog last night

September 06, 2009

Last night i was just about to start to write a blog post and then when i went to my site to write it, i could not access my site!

For some reason there was an error on my site, it displayed a white page saying: HTTP Error 500 – Internal server error, after looking about the internet for what this exact error is, it turns out that it is nothing to do with client-side so therefore it was out of my control on how to fix it.

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In order to find out what exactly caused my site to crash last night i would have to contact my hosting account holders (Dreamhost) and would have to ask them to inspect the log, however i reckon it would take too long to get them to do this so, for now i will leave it, however it it does happen again i will most certainly be get in touch with them.

The funny thing is that this blog is on a server with a few of my other sites and only this one went down, my Newmovies.ie site was still working and so was SeanLucas.com and a few others, i wonder why just this site failed?

If you want to know more about the error 500, go to this site, it is where i read about the internal server error 500 😉 .

Eircom block PirateBay.org – Internet Censorship

September 03, 2009

The beginning of internet censorship has begun in Ireland, with Eircom getting the ball rolling by blocking the Internet’s most popular torrent downloading site, The Pirate Bay.

After recently losing a court case, Eircom have now been forced to block any domain that is currently hosted on the PirateBay server’s or any domain that directs to the PirateBay ip address.

The image below is what appears when you try to visit The PirateBay.org:

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The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) plans to bring the remaining ISP in Ireland to court to try and get them to follow Eircom and block access to the site too.

I wonder how long this ban will actually last, surely people do not want their internet censored, so if Eircom can easily block this one site, surly they will not hesitate in the future to block more.