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At The Bright Empire....
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It's Interstellar Women's Day, and we finally conclude First Protector Two, after three years, as Vespyr Tal'esta and her partner Alexios embark on their first mission – to redeem Tazzi, the world where she had served as Companion, from the Aureans. It's a learning experience for her as well as an adventure and a love story – a test of her commitment as a Protector, and of her loyalty to a new vision of the role of Velorians in the universe. And there are some surprises along the way at Freiwelt, a world where another Companion has embraced a different vision of her role; and at Tazzi itself, where personal redemption awaits...
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An update to Power of Blue (2010), which I had neglected to include in updated AU-3 references to Aureans as opposed to Arions (to avoid confusion with Aryans on both Earth and Reigel Five). Also, I had set my edit of Shadar's story on Varig, a seeded world used elsewhere in a different context, so now it's Ixania.
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But today, I can't get any new posts to appear at AURG. Shadar had complained of the same problem earlier. It may have to do with Oath, a branch of Verizon that has taken over Yahoo; its terms of service may preclude any adult content.
Maybe SWM will be the only place to discuss Aurora Universe fiction generally, as opposed to just updates to TBE. With that in mind...
Still open to suggestions about FP-3. Can Shadar think of more about Zeta-5, the heavy-gravity planet where Jana Sunderlund was born? Why was it ever seeded in the first place?
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brantley wrote: Already did that, hoping they wouldn't look too closely at AURG or the kind of fiction it relates to. Yet it may be a false alarm; my last post to AURG finally appeared, but only after more than an hour. Then again, maybe Oath runs a quick check for dirty words and the like before allowing posts to appear.
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Don't confuse incompetence with malevolence. Oath is a bunch of idiots. I heard that the good people left after the purchase from Yahoo.
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But it's worst than that. There’s no way Hostway can take over the account as manager (rather than just host) and update brightempire.com with all the files and links intact, because the design uses an obsolete technology called frompt as well as the obsolete Dreamweaver I’d been using to edit it before my 2005 computer died. I’d have to create a new version from scratch, and with more than 13 years’ worth of material....
The only option seems to be create a new version as an .org or a .net for new material, with a link to the .com version for the old material – might even have to save the .com as a Wayback archive, just in case… At the moment, the only stories I have In mind are First Protector 3 and the completion of Empress-3. But I might think of something, and host new material by Shadar and others.
Should I go with Hostway for that, or somebody else? Any other advice?
Really need to get some feedback.
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brantley wrote: Talked to technical support at Hostway.com today, and the news is bad. As you may know, my site has been frozen since my old computer died in March -- no updates since then.
But it's worst than that. There’s no way Hostway can take over the account as manager (rather than just host) and update brightempire.com with all the files and links intact, because the design uses an obsolete technology called frompt as well as the obsolete Dreamweaver I’d been using to edit it before my 2005 computer died. I’d have to create a new version from scratch, and with more than 13 years’ worth of material....
The only option seems to be create a new version as an .org or a .net for new material, with a link to the .com version for the old material – might even have to save the .com as a Wayback archive, just in case… At the moment, the only stories I have In mind are First Protector 3 and the completion of Empress-3. But I might think of something, and host new material by Shadar and others.
Should I go with Hostway for that, or somebody else? Any other advice?
Really need to get some feedback.
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I have the same problem with the AU-Otherworlds site, and my approach for dealing with it was to post any new stuff here on SWM.
My old site is built on FrontPage and their specialized server extensions, which is even older than Dreamweaver. Turn of the century stuff.
I'm confident I could figure out how to build a new page using current tools and then manage it, but it would be a bunch of work and I'm just not motivated enough to do it given the audience for readers of this style of fiction has shrunk greatly over the years.
It's my belief that the remaining true-believers are here on SWM, with is kind of the Rivendell or Lothlorien (if we only had Arwen or Galadriel !) of the superwoman fiction world.
Perhaps we should call ourselves a virtual Last Homely House, which Tolkien described as being in Rivendell:
"That house was, as Bilbo had long ago reported, 'a perfect house, whether you like food or sleep, or story-telling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all'. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness, fear, and sadness." — The Fellowship of the Ring, Tolkien
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From a May 15 post at AURG:
<<Just got off the phone with Hostway technical support. They said the TBE site uses an old technology called frompt, which is as obsolete as the Dreamweaver program for editing it.They say I can't just have the old site with all its files and links uploaded to a new system; I'd have to start from scratch. Given that there are 13 years worth of material, it would be an insuperable task. The only thing I can think of it is to create a smaller site, only for new material, with a link to brightempire.com for the older stuff. Any advice on who to go with, Hostway or somebody else?"
The site is, effectively, only an archive. It can't be edited or updated.
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If you're comfortable with a random person uploading your site to a random website for a few days as proof-of-concept, let me know and I will give it a go.
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Let me know and I'll set up an FTP account and a folder on the server.
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I don't remember how to do any of this stuff, but obviously, from the comments, others do.
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But you actually set up the domain. If you gave me a password for the registration, I can't remember it.
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HendrixLives wrote: Hi Brantley- I can upload a copy of your site to my one (and then remove it). I don't want to do this without your approval - it is your copyright etc. If you give me the okay, I can put it up, post the website address, and then take it down. Hopefully, it will mean in the meantime you are comfortable that you won't have lost too much if you switch over to a new host. CBaby is right that the resulting site is static (ie individual pages of content are each uploaded, rather than effectively a database which generates pages) but this may have been how you were doing it anyway, and I don't think it is a significant disadvantage for creative sites that don't have 1000s of pages (if it wasn't for the comments section, I would recommend SWM run a static site).
The problem isn't access, but the fact that the tools for editing the site are obsolete.
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