[svlug] Any other photo geeks?

[Bill Ward]

On Feb 6, 2008 1:07 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Quoting Christian Einfeldt (einfeldt at gmail.com):
>
> > I hope that the MSFT acquisition of Yahoo fails, simply because
> > consumers are more well-served by three competitors.  As awful as the
> > borg is, I do welcome even their competition against Google, because
> > as much as I like Google, I would not want to see them be the only
> > vendor of on-line services.
>
> By the way, who needs "vendors" to just house a few photos on the Web?
> Personally, I prefer open source software, Linux, and a static IP address.

I have root on a hosted box, but I don't want to run up our bandwidth
cost by hosting images there.  I like letting Flickr eat that cost
while making my high-res pictures available.  Also the social
networking aspects of Flickr give my photos levels of visibility that
I couldn't get by hosting them myself.

Of course I do keep copies of all my photos on my own computers, so if
Flickr were to disappear or be acquired by MSFT and I delete my
account, or whatever, I would not lose anything.

I do agree with you as far as normal hosting goes; my blogs and Web
sites are hosted on a machine I have (shared) control over, not on
something like blogger or blogspot or whatever.