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Kali come to the PCR!

Of course HHGTTG and Red Dwarf rule! ;-) As far as TV sci-fi goes anyway! That's sacrilege here in the Austen Conference!

just read every entry, COOL, now how do i get into chat.......

TJ, there's a link on the main page of Spring..."Live chat at Pemberley Drawing Room" or something. When you get there you need to choose the "Pemberley Drawing Room"-- it is defaulted to the "Northam Lounge" and there you are! Come join us sometime! ;-)

Yes, I'm afraid I do look down upon people who are very interested in TV science fiction (for example Star Trek), but have no interest in any other science fiction... The Regency dancing at the Science Fiction convention has a WWW page at http://lacon3.worldcon.org/www/Events/regency.htm (I haven't ever really been to an SF convention, myself...)

Kali and Ian - ST:TNG AND HHGTTG Rule!!

Love you, Kaff!

Kaffeine: ST:TNG AND HHGTTG Rule!! Yeah, but Vogon poetry bites! Resistance is futile! ;-)

Cheryl, I left you the poem (not Vogon) that we talked about....look in topic 3 of the poetry conference. As to whether it 'bites', you will have to let me know. Ann, try to leave the offering you mentioned....in the same place...we would all love to get a look at it! Kali, it is wonderful to finally see you. Thanks!

Oh my dear little Kuklamou -- It was so nice to see your picture! Louie says "My goodness, she does look like a greek girl!". I'm glad that you have this skill -- If I mail our picture to you, could you post it? I haven't gotton my "Snappy" yet. Let me know, OK?

I've been trying to find a solution to the problem of AOL and Prodigy users not being able to participate in chat. I've found a Java app that I think would solve the problem. I'd appreciate it if you would try it out and let me know what you think - especially those of you using Prodigy or AOL. Its at: http://www.worldrch.com/temp.html

Very nice of you to do that, Kaf. I'm impressed. Java! Eee! Still scares me.

Glad you and Louie got a kick outta my pic! ;) You certainly can send me the picture...you still have my address, right?

Don't be impressed - I didn't write anything! Its a company called Sneaker Chat. You just block and copy some html onto a web page, and their server does all the work! I like it, in terms of ease of use, but it has one flaw I don't think will make it practical for our group to use. You can only speak in sentences, rather than in paragraphs as we do at Pemberley. Let me know what you think.

Will you be around later, Kaf? I have breakfast club in just a little while, but I wanted to ask you something else about Pemberley.

Off and on, Amy. Give me a shout!

Well, some of us had a slumber party at Pemberley last night! We talked hair, boys (Darcy, Wentworth, etc.), we made fudge, we were even invaded by a BOY (poor Ian!), but at least at this slumber party, no one's bra ended up in the freezer! It was a hoot! ;-)

Kaffeine, I much prefer the Chat Rooms you've set up, despite logging in problems, socket errors and other problems which crop up from time to time. Speaking in single sentences is very difficult for people who are so able to speak lengthy passages without drawing breath. But, we really would test and push any chat service to it's limits regardless of the medium. As your service still copes admirably well most of the time then I vote we stay with your service.

Kaffeine, I'm an AOL user and I just minutes ago tried your link. Either no one was home or everyone thinks I'm weird for chatting away to myself! It seemed to work, but no one was listed as a room occupant but myself.

Margaret - Since its just a test site, the odds were that you wouldn't find anyone there. It IS good to know, however, that you AOLers can get into it! Now all I need to do is find a similar program that will allow for speaking in more than short sentences, so that we can ALL get together!!

Kaff, here's an interesting pronblem. I just went over to see the temporary chat room and all I get is a blank black page and a message, which says "Applet can't srart; class JavaTalkClient not found". I'm using Netscape Gold 3 with an ethernet connection ot the Internet. PS Sorry about the spellings, but editing in a shell account is still an awful lot of hassle :(

I got a "connection not made" error when I tried to connect...

Here's some impromptu ad hoc imprecations and poetry, devised on the occasion of finding oneself alone in the chat room: From: Ann2 at 2/2/97 5:15 PM Forever empty is this room, why is it so? Wrong choice of time I do assume, I grieve hoho... From: Grace at 2/4/97 3:27 PM Everyone goes out the door... I am left alone once more! It is a condition I deplore. From: Grace at 1/25/97 10:41 AM Amy, Henry, Ian et al.... I am now channeling all my wishes and thoughts to you in hopes of persuading you cosmically to now appear here..... From: Ann2 at 2/2/97 3:26 PM Oh no, not again... those walls however elegantly covered with tapisseries and paintings, echo the sound of my lonely thoughts... Oh where are the friends that once I knew? Where have they gone?

Oh how sad!

That's wonderful - graffiti in the chat room!! If you have your towel, click here! (wav file)

I tried to go into A Place to Practice HTML under this new configuration and got a Server Error message (I was able to get in before). Help?

Kaff - connections to the PCR seem to have ground to a complete halt - is there something happening in your part of the world interfering with connection?

Kaff, Netscape said that the .wav file was "invalid"???

Joan, too -- I was able to access Kaff's .wav file, using Netscape. Local server problem?

Just tried it again - Netscape (3.0, Mac) does not seem to like it. The PRC has not accepted a connection for almost an hour now...

" So long.... and thanks for all the fish" :) all I need to hear now is Wallace to say " Cheeeeeze, Gromit, we need some more Cheeeeeeezzzzzeeeee"

oups, sorry, forgot to mention I'm on Netscape gold 3.1 Windoze95 like it :)

The last time I tried the .wav it froze my whole machine and I had to restart. But I did save it and it played OK offline... go figure!

Well, I'm very pleased to see the PDR back again, Kaff. Bernie, Amy and I were all tossed out yesterday morning (USA Eastern Time) while having a great repartee. C'est la vie! ;-)

Re: Chat outage. Here's the response from my ISP: ----------------- Kathleen, We noticed some instability in the hard drive about 1 -1/2 ago and we are replacing it now. We have shut off ftp access so that no one can write to the drive while we transfer the data to the new one. Should be up again in another hour. --------------------

Thanks for the explanation, Kaff. Actually Kathleen, I hope you do get enough sleep ?

Here's a link for you HHGTTG fans (a screensaver) ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/winsite/win3/desktop/panic11.zip

Thanks Slartibartfast! From Ford Prefect.

Thanks Slartibartfast! From Ford Prefect. And from one of the Arthurs. Myarthur