Of libraries and thieves
Well, today it was very hot. I wanted to write, and wrote only three bloody lines. =.=
Anyway, a side by that, I have made a few searches, and I have found out that the central library of Salisbury is open Monday and Thursday, until 7 30 in the evening, and gives free internet access. This is an interesting thing: if I find a job there, I can live for a while connecting to the net only twice at week. at least until I can buy a used desktop computer. I have seen good rates for them in online shop in England: I have seen things like 250/300 pounds for a used computer. I can live with that, I think. I hope.
Now, I will only need to actually go there and try to look for a job, and for a room/house/whatever. I hope to find something not too expensive. I think I might be able paying 350 pounds monthly, but nothing more than that :( otherwise I wouldn't have any money left to live. I don't know how much salaries are in England.
Anyway, second topic of the day . . . thieves. I had a look at the statistics of Inuyasha.net (my site) and found out that some people had eagerly direct linked the smileys I have in my forum to their boards! A French forum about Fantasy. ARGH! You can't imagine how I was pissed off the situation. However, the administrator immediaely replied to my message telling to me she was sorry and that she would remove the images immediately. Instead, I found another site who linked to an image of my gallery, providing (just figure!) a *service of free background for websites* DIRECTLY LINKING TO MY IMAGE IN MY SITE! Who knows how many people have used that code and now have that 250Kb image as background of their websites . . . stealing my bandwidth.
And this I found out only looking at the last 50 referrals. Who knows how many people steal my bandwidth. This is why Inuyasha.net went over the limit last month? I mean, 120GB monthly are A LOT, they should never be surpassed by a site that has 1500 visitors at day . . . instead, last month the site arrived to 130 GB.
Poor me . . .
Anyway, a side by that, I have made a few searches, and I have found out that the central library of Salisbury is open Monday and Thursday, until 7 30 in the evening, and gives free internet access. This is an interesting thing: if I find a job there, I can live for a while connecting to the net only twice at week. at least until I can buy a used desktop computer. I have seen good rates for them in online shop in England: I have seen things like 250/300 pounds for a used computer. I can live with that, I think. I hope.
Now, I will only need to actually go there and try to look for a job, and for a room/house/whatever. I hope to find something not too expensive. I think I might be able paying 350 pounds monthly, but nothing more than that :( otherwise I wouldn't have any money left to live. I don't know how much salaries are in England.
Anyway, second topic of the day . . . thieves. I had a look at the statistics of Inuyasha.net (my site) and found out that some people had eagerly direct linked the smileys I have in my forum to their boards! A French forum about Fantasy. ARGH! You can't imagine how I was pissed off the situation. However, the administrator immediaely replied to my message telling to me she was sorry and that she would remove the images immediately. Instead, I found another site who linked to an image of my gallery, providing (just figure!) a *service of free background for websites* DIRECTLY LINKING TO MY IMAGE IN MY SITE! Who knows how many people have used that code and now have that 250Kb image as background of their websites . . . stealing my bandwidth.
And this I found out only looking at the last 50 referrals. Who knows how many people steal my bandwidth. This is why Inuyasha.net went over the limit last month? I mean, 120GB monthly are A LOT, they should never be surpassed by a site that has 1500 visitors at day . . . instead, last month the site arrived to 130 GB.
Poor me . . .