I suppose it had to happen one day! The old pc kept locking up for no apparent reason, also it didn’t have enough processing power to handle the videos from the camcorder. With this new pc everything happens so fast, and it’s so quiet. It’ll probably use less electricity as well – whenever the old one was working the fan was whirring away very noisily so probably using more power. I had cleaned out all the dust from the fan etc. but it still blew out a lot of hot air. Support for XP finishes soon, so I knew the days of using the old pc safely on the internet were numbered.

Use your android smartphone to make a note of train numbers and any other relevant information. It will also include a date and time that you actually enter the data. Data isn’t lost when ‘phone is switched off and once installed, the app works without a network connection.

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Coppermine galleries needed upgrading to 1.5.20.

WordPress blogs needed updating also.

Well that’s taken up a few hours of my time over the past few days. It’s not just updating, but making backups of all the files & databases used – just in case something goes wrong.

I doubt if you will see any differences, but it is always best to make sure the software used is the latest version.

A few weeks ago I noticed a new release of Coppermine photo gallery software. It is a security update, so probably no visible changes. Everything seems to have updated without problems, but with 5 galleries on the go it does take a few evenings to work through it all.

After recently updating the BIOS to correct the problem with the flat battery not charging, I decided to try and work out how install a later version of Firefox – as it was running version 2. I know nothing about the Linux operating system, but the instructions I followed made it quite easy to do, and it is now running Firefox 7.0.1.

The instructions here are easy to follow:-

http://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=9481.0

It’s a handy little netbook, but hadn’t been used during the summer. When I switched it on yesterday – nothing happened. Battery must be flat, I thought, so plugged in the mains lead & it worked. After using it for a while, I unplugged the lead & the netbook went dead. Plugged the lead back in and restarted it, then checked on the state of the battery – it was supposedly 100% charged.

A few searches suggested the BIOS needed updating. There were other suggestions such as removing the battery, holding power on button down for 2 minutes etc. etc. but they didn’t work. So it looked like updating the BIOS. There is a page on the Acer Support site explaining what to do – and it fixed the problem, the battery is now charging again.

http://acer–uk.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3087/kw/battery

For anybody else with the same problem, follow the instructions on the above link.

It seems to be going well at the moment. Getting the basic format right from the start is important, then making sure it is easy to use for the largest number of visitors.

http://www.transport-photos.co.uk

http://www.transport-photos.co.uk/indx/

Both of the above links go to the home page, the lower one is the direct link, but the top one is set to divert to it.

Plugins have been added for a contact form, also to make the right-hand menu expand & collapse, depending on which section visitors are looking at. The mobile plugin seems to work for my cheap ‘phone and the latest plugin is to add tags to pages for the benefit of search engines.

I know it’s going to take a long time to work through all my albums, but hopefully it should be worth it. Surprising how many photos I’ve forgotten about as I work through the albums!

I think all files are now uploaded. Just some e-mail accounts to set up & a final check before altering DNS settings, probably later today. Then just a matter of waiting for the links to be directed to the new host.

One of my other domains has already been moved – this includes my test gallery. I’m pleased to say the photos in that gallery download much faster, so am looking forward to having the other galleries moved soon.

Just about everything has been uploaded – over 5GB of data and something like 100,000 files! Only one more gallery to check, then the smaller jobs like this blog & my e-mail accounts. After that, alter some DNS settings and wait for the change to take place. Hopefully this will be done in a few days time.

Lots of head-scratching & internet searches, but I signed up with a new host a few days ago & have been busy transferring files. Still using the old host at the moment, but testing one of the galleries that I have started installing with the new host and the images load much faster.

Will keep you informed about when the changeover is likely to happen, but you’ll probably notice the increase in speed after it has happened.

Just found out about Google Translate and how a site can be translated into other languages. Wonder how accurate a translation is???

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=en&tl=fr&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sharpos-world.co.uk%2Fblog%2F