{{link http:\/\/www.boomspeed.com\/ Boomspeed}} has just stopped direct linking for anything other than auction sites. Wheee…. –;; I can only think of one other site that allows picture storage. All others have since shut down direct-linking capabilities.<\/p>\n
Now, I know that bandwidth stealing is bad, (and it was in Boomspeed’s TOS) but still… :-\\ I mean, most of my RL friends’ blogs are on {{link http:\/\/pitas.com\/ pitas}}. To get any image on pitas requires direct linking. I used to use {{link http:\/\/envy.nu envy.nu}} for direct-linking. They shut down, and their server was always insanely slow. Why? You guessed it. Hotlinking (which I’m pretty sure is another term for direct linking.)<\/p>\n
Argh. -_-;; I suppose I could look at this as a challenge and re-design my friends’ blogs so that the use of direct-linking is unnecessary. Or I could use iframes to get around the problem. –;; Of course, then compatibility concerns come in. I know IE is the browser of choice (contrary to what you might hear, Netscape use is hovering only around 7 or 8 per cent, according to the newspapers) but since Netscape doesn’t properly support iframes, well, that’s a bad thing \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n
There are ways to get around this. The most expensive option would be to buy a domain. XD But, I’ve been looking around. Sure, {{link http:\/\/www.activewebhosting.com\/ 10 dollars a month}} doesn’t SEEM like an awful lot, but I mean, translate that into CAD, add the annual domain renewal, and some other hidden costs (cheques and such) and it quickly comes to… welll…. maybe a bit more than I’m willing to spend in one go.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, my ISP does not provide webspace (although it is cheap at just $9.95 per month! ^^) If it did, I’d have an easy solution to this problem.<\/p>\n
Oh, by the way, I have no idea why I’m ranting about this here, I just want to XD<\/p>\n
Oh, and once again, this makes me quite happy that I’m hosted. {{link http:\/\/www.pioneerproject.net\/ PLUG!}} {{link http:\/\/www.pioneerproject.net\/blog New layout here!}} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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