Ann, I think it is a work in progress. I have been watching it in amazement for the past few days. The page fits perfectly on my Netscape 4.7 4.5 should be able to handle it. Have you tweaked your monitor screen? (I know you know all about this stuff!) The pictured in the black table to the right do not load because there are no pictured installed there yet...so far...still working...I think...!

The main page does not fit on my screen either...and my monitor is tweak-free. Also, some links do not work, as Ann said.

Like Marcia said, it is still being worked upon and rearranged and so on. Be patient. Your sites are up and humming happily as is Geo... I am wondering why it fits on my monitor even when I shrink it to medium-sized...?!

It needs work, I'd be happy to give y'all, Ann, Karen and Marcia author permisson on the page if you like. Wouldn't it be great to make it a team project?

sprin5, you know not what you do. Can you see CF balancing the earth ala Atlas clad in loin cloth? *lol* Actually, that might make for interesting stuff but alas, not for your front page. Let us discuss this and get back to you...whew! What a thought!

With all due respect, I wish you would continue doing as you contemplated doing. They will never agree to leave Geo things there...and I really appreciate seeing them...and I will not agree to Colin Firth all over the place. There is so much more to Spring than Drool! (ducking under my work station just in case they brought brickbats with them...)

Marcia, why would you think we'd want Colin on the front page? And BTW, you are not talking in Inner.

I know that...why did you think I was? My comments about CF? Just having a bit of fun. Actually, I could see him as the god Vulcan who wore just about nothing. Neptune, Ditto... Ok, I'll be serious here. We could certainly do it. might we wish to toss ideas round somewhere before tackling it? I am a most agreeable person, as you know, and try to get along with all ideas...I am willing to put my meager experience in your more capable hands.

why did you think I was? The use of "they"

Oops....shoulda been "us" Actually, I saw it as a contest for space between austen.com, drool and everything else. There is no reason for that assumption, and I am sorry! Constructively, do you have any ideas?

Not really, but thought I would cause trouble anyway. ;-)

Of course, but now am off to slumberland...not to be confused with Firthland, a high-class suburb. ;-)

We really do need to get organization, form a team, and all. Ideas?

It was Evelyn's idea initially...perhaps she will see this or we can post it to her and get her input. She is very good at this sort of thing!

Thank you Marcia....for the compliment... I have an idea of a workable committee, that would work in other instances, however I am not knowledgeable of cyber- problems. I suggest that someone ask Myretta re: the overall organization of Pemberley. Although they are set up differently, we could modify and build on their plan.I believe both Ann and Karen know her well enough to inquire. She has always been v. generous with Spring and I know would assist us to organize.My other suggestion would be to ask a representative from Digihost to also serve on the team/committee. There should be periodic meetings....not just meet when there is a crisis. This keeps communication flowing. What do you guys think? I'm excited....A New Era for Spring!

Let's hear it for the New Era of Spring (whilst Alexander is working on the advertising dynamics on Porch 31...)

.I believe both Ann and Karen know her well enough to inquire. } I think I'll leave that one for Karen >:)

(Oh yes...!)

*guffaw guffaw*

Ummm Hmmm... I shall say no more...lest I get...never mind...!

I am unable to read the last 50 responses. Is anyone else having this problem? Marcia, I have not been to Geo because of this. I use to be able to click on a post of the last 50, but Geo is not even listed on the Main Menu.

Thanks, Karen! And little Red Valentine said, "My, Marcia, what a great big topic you have!" ;-)

Wow!!! What a Valentine to find from Karen and Moon this morning. I am all amazement and delight. Thanks for helping, Karen, and thanks also for your nice comments, Moon. There are all sorts of updating maps and things in there from sunspots in 24 to weather maps for just about everywhere on earth in 14 and updating earthquake map in 26. My fav ones are the Jewels ones in which Karen has held forth on the Darcy Family items of the same - or was that Vulcanism?! We have managed to import Darcy into Geo, as is only appropriate, considering...

As to the last 50 posts etc, Terry emailed Kayleen about that. She is the wife of the author of Yapp software and it appears to be a problem with it. Soon hopefully...

I had a very nice email from Myretta re: the RoP organization. I shall read it and present my suggestion for you all to work on (NOT adopt)later in the week.

Excellent news, Evelyn.

Yep, I'd like to review that.

What I meant a while ago about lost posts was this: Topic 53 has only 5 posts; Topic 59 has 12; 67 has 12 and 68 has 24. I don't know about others, but I'm sure these were much bigger when first I got into Spring. What happened?

Those losses had nothing to do with the move and happened ages ago. They were caused by an inexperienced new host. ;-) (hiding behind the curtain)

Oooohhhhh neat!! The Most Recent Postings are back on the main Drool page. Yeah!! Thanks Terry and Kayleen.

(Karen)Oooohhhhh neat!! The Most Recent Postings are back on the main Drool page. Yeah!! Thanks Terry and Kayleen. Yes, I noticed it too. I was in Geo when it happened, a few moments ago :-) Those losses had nothing to do with the move and happened ages ago. They were caused by an inexperienced new host. ;-) (hiding behind the curtain) Oh! So we'll never read them again? Or has Marcia saved them at some point?

They were lost getting drool's back, but that has been corrected.

Wow, our buttons are back! Thanks so much. Now I think the designer bars need to be removed as well, for aethestic reasons. They're pretty but just don't fit the overall design.

Just put them in Geo where they are well loved and appreciated *smile*

Marcia Has them - shall I send you the 53 file? Email, of course.

(Marcia)Just put them in Geo where they are well loved and appreciated *smile* I like 'em too:-)

...and Marcia does not have them any longer...rather she has the pristine marble bars which were chosen when the conference was first created....*sigh* I know...

If we are very polite and wash our hands and put on pretty dresses and act like ladies, may we have a Crafts Conference with Wolf and Marcia as Hosts...or crafters?! Please?

...but not before Food conference is brought up to speed and is back to being as lovely as Geo is and Paraspring, and all of those other non-default conferences. Food is the only conference without horizontal bars or other neat things. It makes me very sad to see it that way. Please fix it!

....oops...we've been found out already? *lol* Dontcha think someone needs to fix the Food conference and Screwed now? You and I could put up little curtains all around and hang copper pots from the ceiling, and wear frilly little aprons and little else (if'n you want to bury the lady idea altogether...) Think I got anyone's attention, Wolfie?!

I feel sorry for those buttons and bars... I really liked them, they were "happy". I feel a Conference should be created just so they could be used again :-)

They are in all other conferences (porch, food, news, cultures, babes, books, austin... on and on) not having their own setup like mine and Wolf's. I think I shall change back and forth as the seasons change, but there was such dedicated work on my behalf today I do not have the heart to change it now... By the end of the weekend, however ...

No, if they are on all the others, let them be and bask in your exclusivity ;-)

Thank you for saying that. I have been torn all day. They are the default buttons and are wonderful where they are to cheer up the default wallpaper which is really bland and intended to be so. You made me feel very good by your comment. Thank you more than I can say...*hugs* Gi, dear!

There is a glare on the bottom of the SpringCam where the phone number is. However, there is enough visible to know that it is one of Terry's Spring.net phones. Tonight is the first time I have not gotten a window saying that the url was not a working one. I am getting "the wailers in austin, texas" but I cannot hear anything but what is the computer equivalent of rectifier hum. My problem or Spring's? Otherwise things are splendid on The Spring and it is better than ever. Thanks for all the hard work and sleepless nights. I truly appreciate it! Anything new on Telnetting to Spring?

Mike is back! He is the crown jewel of Geo, I am happy to say. I miss others, though...

(What does a mom have to do to get her kid-the-geologist onto Spring?! Mine has a pretty neat one, too...*sigh*)

well, my connection to the spring is great! my thanks to all those hardworking behind the scenes type people!

Mine is, as well...Guess I do not need to hear SpringCam...*sigh* G'morning, Wolfie!

bleeding hearts!!! My Mother always had them and I have been away from the temperate zone for so long I have no idea how to grow them. I think I have heard some really pilau music from SpringCam (nevvah mind - did not like it so no loss!) and an occasional guy discussing things local Austin that I had no idea about. Mostly I am hunting for our fearless leader in blond ringlets or some other permutation and so far I have not seen him at all on SpringCam Ree...Yes. Terry...No. *sigh*

Even though this is hardly the topic... my bleeding hearts (which have taken over an entire terraced area, daffodils, columbine, and iris are pushing way up out of the ground. This idiotic weather. Everything here thinks it time to come out. Stupid plants! Don't they know it's still February. ;-)

http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/read/garden/2/new Actually... A friend in North Carolina said each time the snow melted the dandelions were blooming under the ice and snow and were all pretty and green and yellow. He said it was surrealistic!

Now playing on Spring's webcam, Colin Firth in Turn of the Screw, full motion fvideo and sound.

Thanks, Terry! We do not get it until this evening!

Terry!!! It'excellent quality sound and picture. Wow!!! HE is speaking... *sigh* Very much appreciated!!!

And after that there was this cool poetry show. About Rumi poetry.

Now playing, the Wailers, some hot mamas and some great reggae musicians, from the the live show the other night. Shot it with my digital camcorder. What a rockin' good time, man, I danced heavily for two hours.

Did anyone catch that? Gotta watch really carefully!!!

You are loud and clear and wonderful and I love it!!!

Yup! got it! Wish there were some way to save it here!

I even tried to pause on your image and using LviewPro to save you as part of the desktop capture. Your image turned into a pink screen. I am all disappointed. How do we get a picture of you like you look now? Much better, I might add. Men get better and better - like fine wine!

Nice house - needs some soft touches but no sound! (Hawaii still awake - IO sleeping elsewhere tonight...)

Love the side views - literally side...This must be the lovely house which you took a camera to hide behind. Lovely, like you said! And...of course no sound...tis a slide show!

It's still playing as a tape, the Wailers, Elota's play, Wimberly. It went to a blue screen for the latter part of last night.

Then I did not miss anything. Excellent!

(((((((((( TERRY )))))))))) SpringCam is making really nasty loud noises and the screen is black and blank, too. Help!

Firth.com and its chatroom are missing. Tried www.colinfirth.com, but that didn't get me there either.

Karen, when the cf domain problem gets resolved, would you consider listing The CF Chat Room with the other websites at the top of Drool? Then I wouldn't have to go to favorites first. Thank you:-)

I'll consider it. ;-)

I finally finished the move to our own nameservers, ns1.spring.net and ns2.spring.net so some things may be broken. The admins of cf may have to do a bit of patching, even though I tried to keep everyting intact. If anyone needs access information please email me terry@spring.net Today is the last day the old servers will run at the old Austin colocate facility so if you need anything off of 206.97.234.70 or 206.97.234.73 get it today.

I moved a *bunch* of sites last night to new locations: primoincense.com 207.0.32.100 atlantea.com 207.0.32.119 lifespaces.com 207.0.32.120 mysticalplaces.com 207.0.32.121 motorblade.com 207.0.32.122 miniaturebooks.com 207.0.32.123 colinfirth.com 207.0.32.155 firth.com 207.0.32.155 bioregion.com 207.0.32.157 childrenstory.com 207.0.32.158 tvreviewer.com 207.0.32.159 poolgoods.com 207.0.32.160 workontheweb.com 207.0.32.161 wholetech.com 207.0.32.162 saveseed.com 207.0.32.163 silkcloth.com 207.0.32.164 golftravel.net 207.0.32.165 divecruise.com 207.0.32.166 ns1.spring.net 208.165.65.27 ns2.spring.net 208.165.67.233 eatsolar.com 208.165.68.149 spring.net 208.165.85.156 austen.com 208.171.121.122 suzyamis.com 208.171.121.38 repeater.org 208.171.127.70 Not all of these are built, some are concept sites. But this is our current roster of websites. Note that firth.com is a *pointer* to colinfirth.com. Some folks who have authorship on these sites will need to email me for access. If anyone wants to volunteer to work on any of these sites plese email me terry@spring.net or post something here.

i'm willing to help out if i can. let me know what you need, terry!

You can visit some of these sites and say what you like or don't like, or suggest a direction for future growth. austen.com is now surpassing spring.net in overall traffic and bandwidth.

That is pleasing and gratifying to know! Ann, Congratulations!

Austen is really growing in size and bandwidth.

How much growth can this new server handle. Wolf is afraid to post pictures for fear of over-loading the Spring's share of their hard drives or however it is being done. I am also concerned about that...

*Clap* , *Clap*I applaud DWG and Ann at the helm.

We're already maxing out, but that's ok, we'll just run a pledge drive. Or I could go down to the freeway and hang out with a sign "Will work for bandwidth!".

No nononononono! Geo is hot these days, but I shall cut back on my postings. Have you posted this information on the email message board that was set up so you don't have to do that?! Time to rattle the cages again?! NO playing on the Freeway, Please! We NEED you!!!

Since austen.com is getting so incredibly popular. It's off the charts, a little ecommerce, like Visto and some click though programs to booksellers, etc ought to help as well, depending on how the powers at be at austen feel about that.

Terry, isn't this the kind of discussion that should be occurring on springcom?

maybe you should post something at austin.com for donations. make them pay for their site?

Most definitely! If they are using most of the bandwidth...

i still don't understand the bandwidth thing but know about taking up space. do you want me to start posting pics as hotlinks to save space? i can do it again if need be. (still got my geo account and it's got lots of room for now)

I can delete Ree's paintings from my space on Spring's hard drive too and portraits os Springizens, as well. (Wolfie, I think you and I are not using all of the space - I'll bet it is other stuff not even on Spring...)

well, if you delete ree's paintings, save them to disk! we don't want to lose any of her artwork at all.

they really belong in the artcentaur project we started. am waiting further instructions from ree-ree for building it up!

I just deleted two files from Geo...I have them on my hard drive in case anyone wants them posted again....*sigh*

I have Ree's stuff saved on my computer!...and all other stuff originally on the old hard drive. It should be on ArtCentaur...but all I have seen of it was the topic and a few posts...

yep. the domain did get registered but right after, ree went back to school and has been rather scarce. don't know whether we should press with it or wait. *sigh*