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From: "Steve Oostrom"
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>It might be the ad banners AOL forces onto the
pages. My computer expert found that the AOL ad banners threw a monkey
wrench into things with an old version of Netscape Navigator. Could be its
doing the same for the most recent version of IE or there's some setting in
IE causing a problem with it. My expert did say they=20 had heard of some
problems with the latest version of IE, but didn't have any specifics. I'll
see if I can find out more
Today (February 5), I must've got on one of my ISP's better modems (they
have some crappy ones, so it is a joy to get a good one), and I checked the
"Dark Horizons" site again. This time, the graphics loaded all
the way, and I got to see the star map. That's kind of cool, although I
can't imagine the Tholians controlling that much space. Anyway, while
watching the graphics load, I did not look at the image, but at the status
bar, and I noticed that it constantly switched between the AOL banner
graphics loading the content graphics loading. The AOL graphics were
frequently "done," before the content graphics resumed reloading.
Maybe on a less-than-perfect connection, Internet Explorer might have
interpreted the completion of a banner graphic to be also the completion of
a content graphics. That is likely the cause.
>By the way, I just started reading the first episode
of Star Trek: Athena, "In Fire" and so far am enjoying it.
Thanks. I just had this thought... it's been five years since I wrote
"In = Fire."
It's hard to believe that much time has passed.
In other matters...
I'm still reading the first "Dark Horizons" story. A heavy work
schedule r= ight
now has limited my on-line time, but I want to read the story and get my
impressions, although some of Garry's posts contain spoilers that I perhaps
should not have read.
Actually, as for the "Progenitors," I use the concept, mostly
because it ha= s
appeared in Steve-Trek long before "The Chase" (TNG). In 1980,
when I came up with the Ksassans, I had them believe in two things. One is
that there = was
an ancestral race that was humanoid and seeded planets throughout the
galaxy with DNA to lead to human life. The second was that the Ksassans
are the direct descendants of the ancestral race (I didn't use the term
Pro= genitor
race at the time), and are destined to rule the whole galaxy again. The co= ncept
came about as a means to explain why the galaxy is so full of humanoid life
and why truly alien species are unknown. In Steve-Trek, the Progenitors
created the Presevers (which is not "life as we know it") and set
them up t= o
actively guide the evolution on my different planets, along with other deta= ils.
Simply seeding the planets would not be enough, as another agent would have
to exist to guide the evolving humanoids, and some believe that there is
so= me
kind of deep purpose, some kind of end result that should come from this.
Steve
The Universe Unbounded.
Visit "Star Trek: Athena" at http://ussathena.iwarp.com
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>It might be the ad banners AOL forces onto
thepages. My
computer expert found that the AOLad banners threw a monkey
wrench into thingswith an old version of Netscape
Navigator.Could be its doing the same for the most
recentversion of IE or there's some setting in
IEcausing a problem with it. My expert did say they
had heard of some problems with the latest versionof
IE, but didn't have any specifics.I'll see if I can find out
more
Today (February 5), I must've got
on one of my
ISP's better modems
(they have some crappy ones, so it
is a joy to get
a good one), and I
checked the "Dark
Horizons" site again. This
time, the graphics
loaded all the way, and I got to
see the star
map. That's kind of cool,
although I can't imagine
the Tholians
controlling that much space.
Anyway, while watching the
graphics load, I did
not
look at the image,
but at the status bar, and I noticed that it
constantly switched between
the AOL banner graphics loading the content
graphics loading. The
AOL graphics were frequently
"done," before the
content graphics
resumed reloading. Maybe on a
less-than-perfect connection, Internet
Explorer might have interpreted
the completion of
a
banner graphic to
be also the completion of a content
graphics.
That is likely the cause.
>By the way, I just started reading the first
episodeof Star Trek:
Athena, "In Fire" and so far am enjoyingit.
Thanks. I just had this
thought... it's been
five years since I wrote "In Fire."
It's hard to believe that much time has
passed.
In other matters...
I'm still reading the first
"Dark Horizons"
story. A heavy work schedule right
now has limited my on-line time,
but I want to
read
the story and get my
impressions, although some of Garry's posts
contain
spoilers that I perhaps
should not have
read.
Actually, as for the
"Progenitors," I use the
concept, mostly because it has
appeared in Steve-Trek long before
"The Chase"
(TNG). In 1980, when I came
up with the Ksassans, I had them
believe in two
things. One is that there was
an ancestral race that was
humanoid and seeded
planets throughout the
galaxy with DNA to lead to human
life. The
second was that the Ksassans
are the direct descendants of the
ancestral race
(I
didn't use the term Progenitor
race at the time), and are
destined to rule the
whole galaxy again. The concept
came about as a means to explain
why the galaxy is
so full of humanoid life
and why truly alien species are
unknown. In
Steve-Trek, the Progenitors
created the Presevers (which is
not "life as we
know it") and set them up to
actively guide the evolution on my different
planets, along with other details.
Simply seeding the planets would
not be enough, as
another agent would have
to exist to guide the evolving
humanoids, and some
believe that there is some
kind of deep purpose, some kind of
end result that
should come from this.
Steve
The Universe
Unbounded.
Visit "Star Trek: Athena" at http://ussathena.iwarp.com;">http://ussathena.iwarp.comhttp://ussathena.iwarp.com">http://ussathena.iwarp.com;
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