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Welcome polymaths !

Ever get the feeling that you seem to don't know what to do with your life because there are just so many things that you want to do ? I know, I've been there, so welcome to the club.

My name is Zigfred Diaz and I am a polymath. After more than 6 years of bloging about almost anything under the sun and having sort of a "blogging identity crisis." I've finally embraced who I am and decided to turn my main blog into some sort of guide for people with so much interest. Feel free to poke around.

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What is hotlink and how to disable hotlinking in order to prevent bandwidth theft

September 20, 2010 by Zigfred Diaz Leave a Comment

Last Sunday I just disable hot linking for this blog. I found out that somebody was stealing bandwidth space from me. For those the sake of the uninformed “Hotlinking” or “hotlink” works like this. Most blogs or websites often feature pictures and images. The picture or images can be addressed in your website or blog through a unique url address. For example in my case one of my image url address is at https://www.zdiaz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Kindle-1.jpg Now somebody comes along and finds this picture that I have uploaded. Instead of asking my permission to use my image, downloading it to their computer or netbooks and uploading it to their server, they just use the image link (The url above) in their site and viola ! My image is already featured in their site. This is called “hotlinking.” Aside from the fact that they are using images that I personally took without permission when these people “hotlink” to my site they also steal bandwidth. What do I mean when I say that … [Read more...]

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