News Displaying 51 to 60 of 124 Here's an interesting Japanese summary video of Star Fleet on youtube:
X Bomber program commentary and final episode - OMOSHIRO TRIVIA NEWS
You can enable the subtitles on it by clicking "CC" at the bottom of the video window.
If you click the settings gear > Subtitles > Auto-translate, you can choose English from the long list of options.
I will say that they seem to have used some images from the site, including some of my scans in the making of the video. I lately developed an interest in Y2K futurism and skeuomorphism.
It was something that was taken for granted at the time because it was all around.
I think the sterility and brutalism of current user Metro/minimalist interface design has run its course.
I had good success running Explorer Patcher on Windows 11, to get some of the Windows 10 UI functionality back, but I saw that StartAllBack lets you put a Windows 7 appearance on Windows 10 and 11 and get back the glassy Aero theme, and it works really well.
I added the sites to the links page for anyone wanting to make Windows 10/11 a bit more enjoyable to use.
I see at the same time that Microsoft, while adding some useless features to Teams Free, are removing the below features:
Public communities, Polls, and Community Bot
It shouldn't affect Star Fleet Teams, since we never really use those features, but it does make me wonder what they plan to do with the service in the longer term.  I came across this reconstruction of X-Bomber for the procedurally generated game: No Man's Sky by twitter user: kareki_ni_mizu.
It might not be exactly elegant, but it is quite a striking and functional-looking design. I've spotted these settings before, but I hadn't made the connection that they could be used to push back on DDoS attacks:
phpBB • Specific ACP Load Settings: exactly what do they do?
You can throttle the number of sessions, which would mostly impact non-legit users anyway, if we received however-many thousands of sessions our resource allocation was able to handle last time, again.
It limits the demand on the server and keeps the site online - even if the forum is messed on with again.
I thought this info might be useful for any PHPBB admins who happen to pass by.
Congratulations to user: Gumboots for getting to the bottom of how those settings operate. Star Fleet Teams has been pushed back by 1 week to 20:00 UK time on 30th October, rather than the 23rd, due to a scheduling conflict.
I will update the main Star Fleet Teams page accordingly.
If this creates a conflict, let me know and we'll move it until we hit on a time that works for everyone that wants to join.  GVZtz1uakAAAFAd.jpg) I'm sure I came across twitter user: LunoriqreZX before.
They seem to be quite a fan of Star Fleet.
Their AI images of Princess Keeli and Lamia have been added to the fan artwork section.
On a completely different subject, I'm looking for a replacement for our SLIR online image resizer script because that script hasn't been developed in many moons.
It doesn't have any capability in the area of webp or avif formats that we see more-and-more of.
The 'alternatives' that I'm finding all seem to demand PHP 8+, so I'm gradually increasing the PHP version on the server and seeing what breaks first.  I'm sure I've come across this blue outline of X-Bomber before, but more recently, I came across the outputs from Illustrator, showing the process of making it, along with a very nice and useful graphic of the X Bomber logo.
I see that the creator has a redbubble, featuring this and other designs.  Found on nitter, this is an AI enhancement of the often-seen publicity shot of the X-Bomber studio model.
The enhancement process is quite striking and it gave me a very strong Chris Foss vibe.
At the same time, it seems to have introduced a few features that don't make perfect sense.
It makes you feel like you're looking at an Escher when you examine it more closely.  While things are quiet on the Star Fleet front, I wanted to share with you a website that I came across the other day while browsing around about the subject of Y2K futurism.
Deadnet Internet Services
Your pitstop on the Information Superhighway!
This site looks as though its design has been more-or-less untouched since 1999. It certainly has the turn-of-the-century website feel and yet it even now has a very active forum and IRQ full of very friendly people.
Also the internet radio stations are great.
I've been listening to the TechnoBase FM station a lot. It helps move the day along and, with the announcers being German, I can practice my German a little as well.  I set up a Star Fleet Teams for 23rd Oct at 20:00.
It's an hour-long Teams call for Star Fleet fans to catch up and chat on about whatever.
Please use this link to join the meeting, nearer the time.
You can join the group, to get future notifications directly, and get more info via the Star Fleet Teams page.
If anyone would like to join, and can't make it, please let me know and I'll see about shifting it around.
I wanted a 'Teams' logo for the Star Fleet Teams page, but the actual logo design is so bland, that I decided to throw my own one together based on the old MSN Messenger logo.
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