Why you may ask?
Well I wanted a quick and diry install to have somewhere to easily show off the pictures I took at daughters engagement party.
As I did not want to go to the trouble of installing a database and all the work that that can entail I saw in the one click section that they had a gallery programme that required no database. Which is just what I was looking for.
It installed no problem, I found that the 600 photos had to be reduced in size as they were far to large for the programme and the upload to the Internet as each image is some 24mb in size, so it would take some time to upload, and more importantly it would also take a while to download, and as I don't know what kind of connection or device people are using to get at the photos it made sense to down size them.
So I have gallery 1.6 working on my machine it appears to date back to the 2000's?
I am not sure what date it goes back to, the main thing is it works, I just hope it has not got to many security holes and stuff in it, and that's the point of this blog post.
Is okay to offer one click installs but shouldn't they be up-to date so as to reduce the chances of the bad people using an old exploit ?
The good news is that the gallery will only be on the net for a short time, just long enough for all to see the pictures before I delete it.
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