News Displaying 31 to 40 of 132  A while ago, the site had a few tweaks to its meta tags to try and clear the below behaviour with mobile browsers:
html - On mobile, font size is different depending on the number of paragraphs - Stack Overflow
I only very seldom access the site on a mobile browser other than Windows Mobile Edge.
For all its faults that are especially apparent today, its browser has always rendered this site really well.
I was playing with various browsers available in Android a while ago, and noticed that the way the page was rendered was inconsistent.
Since the change, the site was rendering much better in Chrome, Firefox and Brave on Android.
I've never found browsing on anything smaller than a notebook very fulfilling, but a lot of people use phones as their sole means to access the internet and that problem needed fixing.
More recently, the theme selector was updated, so that the colour selector bar indicates better which colour is chosen.
I also wanted to create a 'frutiger aero' style orb as a graphic for the theme selector page, which I think turned out alright. I would like to share with you, what I thought was, an interesting video on youtube, about Star Trek Deep Space 9.
The delivery of the information is undermined by the bad language of the presenters. Do not watch it with children in the room.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Season One (part 1) - re:View
This video was released at the same time as premiere of Star Trek Academy and completely devastated it in terms of number of views and like/dislike response.
With nutrek fatigue finally reaching an advanced stage, it may be that Paramount finally relents and gives us an HD release of DS9, and this video gives an idea of how this could surpass the TNG blu-rays: being presented in 16:9 without any cropping.  This would've been done last night, but I'd managed not to scan page 10.
With some of the pages, 'auto colour' had a positive effect, so there are some pages that are presented with and without photoslop's auto-colour enabled.
This is the first time that I'd looked at this instalment closely and it's interesting to see which parts of comic mirrored the TV series and where certain alterations were made...
- The appearance of Lamia's crashed ship on Mars is very different, more alien and striking.
- Prof Hagan looks a bit more heroic and I noticed that in this version, he is armed on entering the spacecraft.
- Certain aspects of the alien hardware are interesting, such as the armoured segments down the back of the Alliance catfish cruiser (p24).
- The style of the EDF missile launchers is significantly different and the manner in which they are destroyed is a bit more dramatic.
- General Kyle suddenly appears to wear a slighly different uniform and exhibits a different energy on p30.
- X-Impulse appears less like a wave or a pulse, and more like the lightning gun from Quake.
 The scanning of volume 3 of the French comics is complete.
I have to go through and process them.
It would probably have been done by now, but I've been doing a playthrough of Descent 3, trying to explore all the levels.
Moon's Descendarium was very helpful for speeding up the process.
At the same time, Sectorgame hosts some great resources for Descent.
I got my Sidewinder force feedback controller set up on my desk upstairs next to the scanner for the first time in ages.
The two Starlog magazines have arrived at FromJapan's warehouse, but I have 60 days of storage there, so I might try and pick up one or two other items to consolidate with them for shipping.
I saw on youtube today that, last year, they'd found the models of two main missing characters from Tugs and brought them all together for display:
They found Top Hat! TUGS props reunited - YouTube  The web interface on my downstairs server got a refresh the other week and I decided that the next step should be to get it SSL-secured since a lot of browsers create an enormous pandemonium now if a site lacks a CA-signed certificate.
I got a 1-year certificate as a test from dynu.com.
To me, the whole business of CA-signed certificates, which is what pacifies modern browsers, is a performative nonsense.
There's any number of ways in which someone might get their hands on those certificates and install them on their own server.
Changing the domain name to point to another server in the first place would be far more difficult in my view.
The process really emphasised to me how these practices are thrown around now and complicate matters, yet offer nothing more than a placebo level of security.
Anyhow, this procedure here for adding the certificate into XAMPP was a great walkthrough that worked for me right away:
XAMPP SSL Configuration and Installation Guide for Windows
One thing I do not recommend is following this article, which google gave me, and has all the hallmarks of being an AI product:
How to Install an SSL Certificate on XAMPP - DEV Community
Once I followed this, step-by-step, the Apache service wouldn't start afterwards, so I had to undo all the changes to the configuration files in notepad.
Well, now it works, but I'll keep the default link on the site set to HTTP for a week just to test it a little further.
The reason that I'm doing this is to put my ducks in a row.
I have a feeling that independent websites are going to face even more fun and games this year.
We've already had DDOS attacks aimed at all message boards, legislative changes to gatekeep online content, and enormous increases in hardware and energy costs.
I'm not sure what comes after that, but I'm sure there'll be something.
Starlog
At the same time, I've had a little bidding war to get copies of the Japanese Starlog magazines that contain some features on X Bomber.
We already have a really great scan of the poster featuring the characters from one issue, done by Vanessa: one of our forum veterans.
I seriously doubt that I'll be able to improve on that. I think the document was sent off to be scanned professionally.
In any case, I'll be able to see if there's anything else in the magazine about X Bomber, and I can get a better scan of the white-on-black Dai-X cutaway that's in the other issue, which is really just a larger variation of the one in the UK Fantastic Films magazine. .jpg) The 1981 article on Star Fleet in Fantastic Films magazine, which is quite a nice article (especially given that it came over a year before the show arrived on television in the UK) has been re-scanned using the magazine mode that turned out useful in scanning the French comics.
My initial attempt was four years ago and the magazine has been sitting on a shelf since then and can now be filed away.
I'm not sure where I got the placeholder scans for the last 2 pages.
They were pretty good, if a little discoloured in places, but the new scans are a lot bigger and sharper.
A very small part of the big Dai-X illustration disappears into the spine of the magazine sadly.
I will try and scan it again next week, if I find time, to see if I can fix that, but the magazine may need the staples taking out and scanning as an individual page, which is not my first preference.  Another year, another book of the French Star Fleet comics scanned ...
I think they turned out fine.
The dimensions of the images are not all the same, as some of the illustrations stick out of the normal bounds of the images on the page.
All images have been given auto contrast and tone in photoshop, which didn't seem to add much.
Auto colour has been applied in cases where it made the image brighter or more colourful.
Otherwise, the effects were unhelpful.
The ones with de-screening applied have been re-done.
I will try and do volume 3 by the end of January.
The method of using the magazine mode, rather than photo (which delivers great results, but expects a smaller document) should make the scanning of the remaining instalments, plus other magazines that I have lying around that bit less time-consuming.  Well, the great Easter slug hunt that has taken all year is almost at an end, with only a few very hard-to-find slugs missing from our collection.
I saw someone on the stagnant demesne of reddit asking about an overview of what slugs were made by the original company that took up the license: Jakks Pacific.
I thought it wasn't a bad idea to make one so I put together all the product images from the archive pages of toywiz.com.
The first image covers waves 1-5 and there are separate images for waves 6 and 7, where the number of re-issues makes things a bit more complicated.  I've been playing a bit of catch-up and have expanded Phil's folder with a lot of great artworks.
There are some Christmas themed ones, plus some new ones of the Alliance ships, which I think have come out really well.
At the same time, I'll be finishing off the scanning of second of the four French comic books this week.  I've been tidying up my 'New Folder' on my desktop where things live until I decide where things are going on the site or elsewhere.
Things have been added all-over the site, including some Star Fleet video files from Nitter so it's worth having a tour around the site to see if you can find anything new.
I was sent this great image by Dan H, which google and tineye can't seem to source.
It may be from the X Bomber exhibition catalogue, but in any case is a fantastic image of the effects team that worked on X Bomber.
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