With A-N-I-T-A wrigglin free onto skull'n'dagger.

[reddragdiva]

I have a temporary location for the 100 or so Whitby New Year photos I've done out of the 500 or so I took. Let me stress that this is TEMPORARY — I need to set up a proper site on reddragdiva.co.uk and put them there. But you can have a look now. faerierhona's faith in my photographic eye is greatly reassured!

Gallery 2 sucks as badly as arkady said it did. Creating, uploading and maintaining albums is easy, but it's far too much work to get the galleries to look only half like arse. I'll see what I can beat out of it. Fotopic still shits on it for usability and presentation.

I was going to use LiveJournal photo hosting (I have a gigabyte courtesy a paid account), but not only does the gallery format suck ... but you can't bulk-upload by FTP or scp, only with their client software. What the fuck.

Getting my photos up in any sort of timely fashion relies on getting the laptop working — my recent productivity was because I was doing them on my daily commute; I have far too many other things to do at home. I need to find time to strip down and rebuild it in the hope of bringing it back to life. The service manual is indeed relatively clear.

Update: Anyone know how to get Gallery 2 to email you comments people make on photos? I can't see anything obvious. Someone did a Windows binary ... I suppose I could hack the PHP if I had to.

Comments

[lithiana.livejournal.com]

but you can't bulk-upload by FTP or scp, only with their client software.

you can also use a client (like an LJ client, but for SB), but i don't know if anyone's written any good ones yet. maybe you could be the first ;-)

[lithiana.livejournal.com]

hmm, now i realise you actually said "client software", not "web interface". oh well. go write a good client software ;P

[reddragdiva]

If the Perl one worked with MacOS X out of the box I'd probably use it!

[lnr]

Hmm, dunno about OSX but I needed to install one XML perl module I think, and then create .fotoup.conf in the following format:

server: pics.livejournal.com
username: lnr
password: XXXXXXXXX

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

You see, this is why everyone writes their own gallery software.

[reddragdiva]

This is why I was using a pile of shell scripts before discovering Fotopic, and why I'm still this >< close to just giving them more money EVEN WITH MY OWN UNLIMITED SPACE.

[lnr]

The LJ perl client works fine for me, once I worked out how to configure it.

[axy-666.livejournal.com]

I'm still using an old version of gallery, from all the reports I've heard about it until it doesn't need beating with a hammer I'm stick with the version I'm on.

[reddragdiva]

Yeah. Arkady says Gallery 1.5.x is notably less teh suck than Gallery 2.0.x and was most annoyed by everything changing incompatibly.

The most annoying thing is I can't find a way to change the defaults.

[axy-666.livejournal.com]

I'm actually on 1.4.5. (http://gallery.darknetweb.co.uk/ (http://gallery.darknetweb.co.uk/)) Ok it's an old version but it works. Although I'be not looked at Gallery 2 yet I may at some point when I get curious..

[reddragdiva]

Now exploring site admin and finding more of the buttons I need ...

[axy-666.livejournal.com]

Just a matter of digging then...

[reddragdiva]

Not quite. Still haven't found how to change it from 3x3 to default to 4x5. But I did switch off those bloody square thumbnails. I should be taking notes.

[axy-666.livejournal.com]

*hands over the squeaky hammer of d00m* try that it may work..

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

Have you looked at Flickr? It's probably the best-developed photo hosting site. It doesn't have FTP/scp, but it does expose lots of APIs and feeds.

[reddragdiva]

Not yet, probably will.

[kest]

yes, so temporary I see, that they are still there when I show up four months later to catch up on your lj.

[reddragdiva]

Ooh, bugger! Thought I'd killed that ... no, I killed the version on reddragdiva.co.uk. I should probably keep that one around to play with, when (not if) I reach the workable limits of Coppermine. If I can be bothered.