One of the problems with Gallery 1 was that it would not run with PHP's safe mode, which is often used in shared web hosting. Does Gallery 2 also have this restriction? (The site's still slashdotted.)
There are other PHP-based photo gallery solutions that do not have this restriction, such as Coppermine
http://coppermine-gallery.net/index.php.
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I think that the recent launch of the Penny Arcade book, Penny Arcade Volume 1: Attack of the Bacon Robots! is more the point of the article than the transcript of last September's MIT visit.
Wow those guys really must be going without food
One of the problems with Gallery 1 was that it would not run with PHP's safe mode, which is often used in shared web hosting. Does Gallery 2 also have this restriction? (The site's still slashdotted.) There are other PHP-based photo gallery solutions that do not have this restriction, such as Coppermine http://coppermine-gallery.net/index.php.