Just gone into Google photos hosting and this is my first test run.

Bob

Bob

Google allows unlimted storage space, and it seems to work very well. Being new to it, I can't tell you much about how it works, but I put several hundred images on this morning with little or no effort. As it is free, nothing to lose! Here is a link to the reviews:

**LINK**

Rhodesia Star was my first ship – went all the way to Australia and back in it for £9 a week in early 1961!

Bob

When I first set it up, it started transferring every image in my computer into it automatically! I didn't actually want it to do that, so I changed the settings so I would just have to put them in manually, but not before several thousand had gone in. They are not public unless you give the link for individual images like I did for the Rhodesia Star above, but the problem is that if too many get into it, ic can be hard to find what you want. I have since deleted quite a lot of them. Still experimenting.

Bob

I have heard of Linux and looked it up on the Internet. Sadly, the Wikipedia explanation is completely beyond my understanding, and I would certainly not risk changing over to it unless I had the opportunity of seeing it working!

Although I regard myself as a "dinasaur" that is only because I "prefer" the old and well-established ways of doing things Really, I have grown quite weary of all this modern technology. In late 1992, I threw in a highly paid job as radio officer aboard a brand new British passenger liner that had the most up-to-date communicatons, navigational, radar, and computer systems available – all under my charge Afraid from the maiden voyage onwards the story was always the same. They would dump extra computer programmes on me, and after battling with them all voyage, I could seldom get them to function! They would come aboard, look at me sympathetically, and set to work to show me how to do it, in most cases failing themselves and end up taking it away. Lost count of how many times I heard "We have installed it on dozens of ships, and this is the first one that has encountered problem!" In the end, I took voluntary redundancy at the age of 48, after 31 years at sea and it was the best thing I ever did. Since then I have built and sold model ships, written books, designed, built or repaired obsolete valve radios and a host of other things. Goodness knows where all this "flawed" progress will end, but I am sure it will turn out to the detriment of "quality of life!"

However, I would still like to know more plain and simple "facts" about Linux. Will it accept old programmes such as Microsft Word 2000, Adobe Photshop, convert Word to PDF, accept jpegs etc? Will it run in the same computer alongside Windows 7, choosing whichever system I want to use?

Bob

It does work fine on my blog though, and that is what I wanted it for. I can also download the images from Drive, back into the computer, so they can then be used in the normal manner. Goodness knows why the Rhodesia Star image (above) worked OK, but not the latest batch!

Bob

Well, the link works, but not the direct image!

Bob

Well, there you are – one image works, the other doesn't.

Bob