From sandradavis7 at yahoo.com Sun Jan 8 21:14:44 2006 From: sandradavis7 at yahoo.com (Sandra Davis) Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 21:14:44 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Helpers] Library file question Message-ID: <20060109051444.48046.qmail@web51509.mail.yahoo.com> Hello Mystress, > The off-site links popups are here ready to be edited. > http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/tantra/poplink/ On this one: http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/tantra/poplink/25introk_p.html, the 3rd link down is defunct - Spiritweb Diary of Awareness, Kundalini and Life, by Roger Hamstra. I was able to nab a copy of it, which leads me to ask about the library option. We have his .html material, yet the page is yucky, there's links and such associated with Spiritweb that I didn't get to grab. It looks like we can pop his material into one of your green frameworks (on the new pages, like you have for essay, homework, and transcript) - like a new page template?, just for situations like these? The copy is on the FTP, as /sdavis/2005 Time Travel L1-11/Site Saves for Lessons 1 Intro, 2 MatGod/.... html. Sandra From sandradavis7 at yahoo.com Sun Jan 15 10:43:57 2006 From: sandradavis7 at yahoo.com (Sandra Davis) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:43:57 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Helpers] fscnew-fstlinks.html Message-ID: <20060115184357.7653.qmail@web51509.mail.yahoo.com> Hello Mistress, Is the order of lessons pretty much set for the fscnew? I did a big code clean-up on fstlinks.html, from this link: http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/fstlinks.html The revised fstlinks.html is now in my FTP folder. I'd love to see it swapped in, just to check and make sure I kept everything the same overall. Would you swap it in please? Other stuff: - I made a backup of the current one, and that's there in the FTP too, labeled fstlinks_backup011506.html. - I added 'Back' links everywhere so if a person clicks down into say Lesson 23, they can go back up to where they were rather than lots of scrolling. - I added more closing tags for some of the table elements. - I capitalized, corrected some text, adjusted spacing... Biggest thing I noticed was 1 of the numbers was missing between lessons 14 and 17. Re-numbering then gives us 58 total lessons for fscnew. So the question remains, if we have the order right, and if there's more lessons to add too? Amirita? ....I understand that re-numbering might have been a big no-no, yet - is there ever going to be a time of renaming, or resorting these new files to be exactly as you want? I don't mind keeping on as we've been going. I just thought - since clearly you've done a great thing by pulling the links out into a separate pages, that here'd be the first place to rename, renumber, without seriously impacting other places.... My next step that I can see is taking all the files on http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/links/ and making sure they connect back and forward to each other, in the proper order. Looking forward to hearing from you, Sandra From sandradavis7 at yahoo.com Sun Jan 15 11:13:50 2006 From: sandradavis7 at yahoo.com (Sandra Davis) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 11:13:50 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Helpers] Favicon.ico Icon Message-ID: <20060115191350.7658.qmail@web51507.mail.yahoo.com> Hello all, I wanted to share this great helper site: http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/ Does everybody know what a favicon is? It's that little icon in the tab (in Firefox), or to the right of the bookmarked site (in IE). I see that Mystress has one going on for the fsc (current) site - that's great. This site lets you load any source image (there's a button Browse), then click on Generate Favicon.ico, then Test in Browser. It's so easy this way to rapidly explore different images, with no committment, and trust that the .ico file generated really is good graphically & the right size for your site. The www.kundalini-teacher.com site, does that get one?? =) Just thought I'd share. Sincerely, Sandra From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Sun Jan 15 11:47:11 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 11:47:11 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] fscnew-fstlinks.html References: <20060115184357.7653.qmail@web51509.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <003601c61a0c$7a738a80$7b45fea9@sachikojn> Hello Sandra! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandra Davis" To: Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 10:43 AM Subject: [Helpers] fscnew-fstlinks.html > Hello Mistress, > > Is the order of lessons pretty much set for the fscnew? I did a big > code clean-up on fstlinks.html, from this link: > http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/fstlinks.html > > The revised fstlinks.html is now in my FTP folder. I'd love to see > it > swapped in, just to check and make sure I kept everything the same > overall. Would you swap it in please? I have put your fstlinks.html file in the http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/ folder. original file is still there but re-named as fstlinks_old.html Sachiko From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Sun Jan 15 14:37:58 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:37:58 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] Library file question In-Reply-To: <20060109051444.48046.qmail@web51509.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060115131954.058d29e8@mail.fire-serpent.com> Hello, Sandra: I have created a library section for K-gateway instead, and plan to put the recovered pages there instead of on fire-serpent. I made a form for the pages, just go through the code and grab the valid stuff, leave the rest behind! I'm doing them as SSI, with the content as an include, so just make a file with just the essay with line breaks and paragraphs, and a note about the original link that went down and the url where the content was recovered from, but no body tag etc. The naming convention for the SSI content is lib_filename.html and the url will be http://www.kundalini-gateway.org/library/filename.html I'm sleepy, just got up. Was up all night doing what needed to be done to delete the old mystress_serpent at yahoogroups list. Did some work on the K-goddess board, too. thanks! At 09:14 PM 1/8/2006, you wrote: >Hello Mystress, > > > The off-site links popups are here ready to be edited. > > http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/tantra/poplink/ > >On this one: >http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/tantra/poplink/25introk_p.html, the >3rd link down is defunct - Spiritweb Diary of Awareness, Kundalini and >Life, by Roger Hamstra. I was able to nab a copy of it, which leads me >to ask about the library option. > >We have his .html material, yet the page is yucky, there's links and >such associated with Spiritweb that I didn't get to grab. It looks like >we can pop his material into one of your green frameworks (on the new >pages, like you have for essay, homework, and transcript) - like a new >page template?, just for situations like these? > >The copy is on the FTP, as >/sdavis/2005 Time Travel L1-11/Site Saves for Lessons 1 Intro, 2 >MatGod/.... html. > >Sandra > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Sun Jan 15 13:37:44 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:37:44 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] Favicon.ico Icon In-Reply-To: <20060115191350.7658.qmail@web51507.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060115133617.02b9fc48@mail.fire-serpent.com> Cool!! :) I made the FST one with shareware program that expired! At 11:13 AM 1/15/2006, you wrote: >Hello all, > >I wanted to share this great helper site: >http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/ > >Does everybody know what a favicon is? It's that little icon in the tab >(in Firefox), or to the right of the bookmarked site (in IE). I see >that Mystress has one going on for the fsc (current) site - that's >great. > >This site lets you load any source image (there's a button Browse), >then click on Generate Favicon.ico, then Test in Browser. It's so easy >this way to rapidly explore different images, with no committment, and >trust that the .ico file generated really is good graphically & the >right size for your site. > >The www.kundalini-teacher.com site, does that get one?? =) Just thought >I'd share. > >Sincerely, Sandra > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Mon Jan 16 00:35:01 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:35:01 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] fscnew-fstlinks.html In-Reply-To: <20060115184357.7653.qmail@web51509.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060115230147.03817ed0@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 10:43 AM 1/15/2006, Sandra Davis wrote: >Hello Mistress, > >Is the order of lessons pretty much set for the fscnew? no. > I did a big >code clean-up on fstlinks.html, from this link: >http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/fstlinks.html Hmm, the future of that file is uncertain. >The revised fstlinks.html is now in my FTP folder. I'd love to see it >swapped in, just to check and make sure I kept everything the same >overall. Would you swap it in please? no. >Other stuff: >- I made a backup of the current one, and that's there in the FTP too, >labeled fstlinks_backup011506.html. >- I added 'Back' links everywhere so if a person clicks down into say >Lesson 23, they can go back up to where they were rather than lots of >scrolling. Heh. Theoretically, if they are doing the lessons in order there is no need for a "back" link. I do like people to do the lessons in order, and I don't make it easy for them to skip around. Deliberately make it difficult, in fact! >- I added more closing tags for some of the table elements. Table element closing tags missing? I usually check them. Hmm, maybe I had nested tables that you changed to stacked tables? >- I capitalized, corrected some text, adjusted spacing... It needed cleaning up. >Biggest thing I noticed was 1 of the numbers was missing between >lessons 14 and 17. Yeah, I screw those up... Maybe a lesson with no links? >Re-numbering then gives us 58 total lessons for >fscnew. So the question remains, if we have the order right, and if >there's more lessons to add too? Amirita? The total will be 60. I think I sent a work file listing them all in order? That may change as I do the edits... The bottom of the members index becomes the new first lesson, because I find people don't scroll down to read it. Grounding anim will no longer be a separate lesson. Cannot recall the others just now... my brain is partly elsewhere! They are in the archives. Maybe it would be easier if we switch the list over to a bulletin board! I finally got ahold of Nero 7, which I need to convert the original dv tape footage to DVD discs to send to Gustaf. Picked it up today, haven't installed it yet. Getting that job done has been more troublesome than I anticipated. I also have to edit a proposal for my European tour, tonight and send it off to Lori in England. It is midnight now... >....I understand that re-numbering might have been a big no-no, yet - For that file, it doesn't really matter.. I planned to abandon it once the new site is up, because I think link checking on the all popups in a folder will be easier anyway, than link checking was, when there was the whole lesson to scroll through and distract me! >is there ever going to be a time of renaming, or resorting these new >files to be exactly as you want? I know, I get restless with it too, have for years!! I do want to rename them, it will make things easier forever! I dread it, it is an awful job, worse now that there are more includes... that kind of organization is hard for me. I had a hard enough time with the mixed case video filenames from my old partner's windows server! Not sure I ever got them all straight! If we rename all the files, the grad students bookmarks won't work anymore.... though I suppose we could make 60 metafiles to redirect, when the redesign goes live. The new names and numbers have to be changed in the top of the lesson page, too... The video files are not on the fscnew mirror, they are not even on the same server as the course... and Gustav is going to remaster them all anyhow. I guess we can leave the old vids as they are and name the remastered ones to go with the new order. Wait with it, for now. If you are getting finished with the popups and finding library files, you could go through the old work file (in the archives) and come up with a new name- old name list for all the files for each lesson, it would be a good first step, and help to keep things straight. Keep as much of the old name as possible, like 14matgod.html becomes 003matgod.html. (00 so the files will sit in order in the directory) Remember 7years and 3rdeye, the number is part of the name. Change the numbers to words.. sevenyrs and thirdeye. (keep filenames short) Could get fancy and list them all, including .smi, rm, includes, etc. If you do that, it might be easier to set it up as a doc file with columns or tables. Some lessons do have extra files, even moreso if I get more animations done. So don't be too ridgid with it. Getting the link popups and library files is the priority. >I don't mind keeping on as we've been >going. I just thought - since clearly you've done a great thing by >pulling the links out into a separate pages, that here'd be the first >place to rename, renumber, without seriously impacting other places.... > >My next step that I can see is taking all the files on >http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/links/ >and making sure they connect back and forward to each other, in the >proper order. I don't want them to connect to each other, only to the lesson page they belong to. I want to keep people coming back to the lesson. I don't think a "back to lesson" link is even necessary since it is a popup >Looking forward to hearing from you, There ya go! Thanks for your work... but please Sandra, stay focused. Updating the FSTlinks file was not on the things to do list, not necessary because I did not intend for it to be included on the new site. I only used it as a reference. It did not need "back" buttons either, they were not wanted. I did not care that the numbers were out of order, the links in the top worked and they have names. Numbering the lessons is a new thing. I know link checking and file finding for the popups and library is boring work but I do need you to do it. It really is simplest to rename all the files as a last step before the update goes live.. and it never will if the other stuff doesn't get done. If you get distracted and wander off doing other stuff, then email me with questions about your distractions, and I get distracted responding... well I cannot affoard to! I am too distractible to begin with!! :) It is, unfortunately quite natural that the karmic issues of volunteers manifest when they do work for me. The conscious mind wants to be a helper, and the unconscious wants to be helped. Guess which one wins? It is one reason why I mostly gave up on volunteers before, too many of them would take a lot of my attention but end up not getting much done. Well, I won't go into that... but I am feeling deja-vu! I think this stuff is one of the ways you make things hard for yourself... and others!! Took me nearly two hours to respond to this, .. please, just do what you agreed to do. From rich at ulterium.com Mon Jan 16 01:17:28 2006 From: rich at ulterium.com (Rich) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:17:28 +0700 Subject: [Helpers] fscnew-fstlinks.html In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20060115230147.03817ed0@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <011f01c61a7d$aed11510$1f64a8c0@clarityforms.com> > >is there ever going to be a time of renaming, or resorting these new > >files to be exactly as you want? > > I know, I get restless with it too, have for years!! I do want to > rename them, it will make things easier forever! >From what I've seen FrontPage will automatically update all the links inside the html pages when a file is renamed from within the application. It has to catalogue and carry the whole site in one folder (or subfolders) to be able to do this. > I know link checking and file finding for the popups and library is > boring work but I do need you to do it. A link checker program can also find broken links. I can run one over the html files once they are in place and accessible through the web server. r From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Mon Jan 16 01:25:27 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 01:25:27 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] fscnew-fstlinks.html In-Reply-To: <011f01c61a7d$aed11510$1f64a8c0@clarityforms.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060115230147.03817ed0@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060116011955.0377bf08@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 01:17 AM 1/16/2006, Rich wrote: > > >is there ever going to be a time of renaming, or resorting these new > > >files to be exactly as you want? > > > > I know, I get restless with it too, have for years!! I do want to > > rename them, it will make things easier forever! > > >From what I've seen FrontPage will automatically update all the links inside >the html pages when a file is renamed from within the application. It has to >catalogue and carry the whole site in one folder (or subfolders) to be able >to do this. Can it do it without killing my code? > > I know link checking and file finding for the popups and library is > > boring work but I do need you to do it. > >A link checker program can also find broken links. I can run one over the >html files once they are in place and accessible through the web server. Yeah, we used it. The task is to find replacements for the broken ones. Thanks! Sorry if I sounded impatient... more just.. tired. From sandradavis7 at yahoo.com Mon Jan 16 03:50:46 2006 From: sandradavis7 at yahoo.com (Sandra Davis) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 03:50:46 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Helpers] fscnew-fstlinks.html In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20060115230147.03817ed0@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <20060116115046.14074.qmail@web51502.mail.yahoo.com> Wow Mystress. I was finding it so difficult getting started again, since the new pop-up link files you pointed me to looked nothing like I remembered working on. The templates have Previous-Home-Next links on them that are partially connected, for some of them, there are new lessons in that pop-up links folder I didn't recall, some have a list of links I was familiar with, some had new-changed links. Some lessons I'd done hours of work finding new links - and I'd think "Oh - good, this is a good one to update" - and when I'd find it, it'd be 100% working with all different links entirely! I just wanted a safe-spot that I understood, and the list of links became it - especially since I have spent hours and hours this week flipping through nearly every single email in the archives and reading them again. I got through nearly all but one month so far - and I just wanted a single place that seemed solid. > >The revised fstlinks.html is now in my FTP folder. I'd love to > >overall. Would you swap it in please? > > no. Sachiko has already swapped it in, after I wrote my email yesterday. http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/fstlinks.html > Heh. Theoretically, if they are doing the lessons in order > there is no need for a "back" link. I do like people to do the > lessons in order, and I don't make it easy for them to skip > around. Deliberately make it difficult, in fact! Well, on this page - there's no code to prevent someone from clicking on any lesson link they'd like. My 'back' is just getting people back to the top of the page table of contents. The same with the pop-up links template & indiv. files- there are 'back' and forward buttons there too. I imagine there was a different understanding when someone made your template. > >- I added more closing tags for some of the table elements. > > Table element closing tags missing? I usually check them. Hmm, > maybe I had nested tables that you changed to stacked tables? Absolutely missing. Dreamweaver couldn't even display anything on that .html. All tables are still exactly nested as you had them. All spacing, width, height, everything is the same. > >Biggest thing I noticed was 1 of the numbers was missing > betweenlessons 14 and 17. > > Yeah, I screw those up... Maybe a lesson with no links? After I wrote this, I looked again carefully. The fstlinks.html I started editing 'said' 58 total lessons during display, yet it in the code the numbers were different. Since no one really sees the code, it was just another clean-up. All lessons with no links are retained as is. > The total will be 60. > I think I sent a work file listing them all in order? That may > change as I do the edits... Okay great! I'll look again for a work file. There was a link I saw that might have been it, yet I couldn't tell if it was current. > elsewhere! They are in the archives. Maybe it would be easier > if we switch the list over to a bulletin board! It sounds like it was a mistake for me to start back into this task without having re-read that last month's worth of archive material. I apologize. > >....I understand that re-numbering might have been a big no-no, yet It turns out I didn't renumber anything. The fstlinks_old.html file had 58 lessons in it as well. > For that file, it doesn't really matter.. I planned to abandon > it once the new site is up, because I think link checking on > the all popups in a folder will be easier anyway, than link Understood - from what I remembered however, it was the master list that I was to edit first, and from there we'd simply pick up the 5-6 links of code and plunk it into each pop-up link template. That some, not all of the pop-up link files are made - that some, not all have links that match the master list, etc. ?? I have no idea what's been going on there, and I didn't want to go backwards and negate anybody's work. I knew a master list was how I'd been doing any of my work - and if it only helps me, then so be it. I needed the help getting a foothold again. > >is there ever going to be a time of renaming, or resorting > these new files to be exactly as you want? > > Wait with it, for now. Okay. > If you are getting finished with the popups and finding library > files, you could go through the old work file (in the archives) > and come up with a new name- old name list for all the files for each lesson, it would be a good first step, and help to keep > things straight. I am just getting started with understanding all the work that's already been done on the pop-ups. I really don't get just yet all the differences between the notes I have, and what's already there. > Getting the link popups and library files is the priority. I am working on that, and that only. > >and making sure they connect back and forward to each other, > in the proper order. > > I don't want them to connect to each other, only to the lesson > page they belong to. I want to keep people coming back to the > lesson. I don't think a "back to lesson" link is even > necessary since it is a popup I agree. Who would you like to change the template then? I will, if you want. Let me know. I won't touch it until you say change it. There are currently Previous-Home-Back at the bottoms of the pop-up link files. > >Looking forward to hearing from you, > > There ya go! Thanks for your work... > > but please Sandra, stay focused. Updating the FSTlinks file was > not on the things to do list, not necessary because I did not > intend for it to be included on the new site. I only used it as > a reference. It did not need "back" buttons either, they were > not wanted. I did not care that the numbers were out of order, > the links in the top worked and they have names. Numbering the I am focused, and I use this file as a reference too. Like I wrote above, and now I'm figuring it's all just a huge misunderstanding - I understood it was this master list that I was to update first, that was then to be cut-up in chunks and put into pop-up files. When you sent me the link to the folder with all the pop-up files, I couldn't make sense of what had been done there. I couldn't see any sense of asking you to help me make sense of it either, because you'd already told me in a previous email to "figure things out myself a little more", to look in the archives, etc. So I did the work, I went ahead with helping myself figure things out. I'm sticking by it. Having the master list user friendly, if only to me, with very clean code - is a huge help. > If you get distracted and wander off doing other stuff, then > email me with questions about your distractions, and I get > distracted responding... well I cannot afford to! I am too I'm sorry you felt this was a distraction. I simply wasn't able to proceed without getting some ground in this task. > I think this stuff is one of the ways you make things hard for > yourself... and others!! Took me nearly two hours to respond It's took me many many hours too, just to get through that master list of links again. I expected some 're-entry' difficulty, just not really this response from you. It's kind of hard. > .. please, just do what you agreed to do. Yep. Sandra From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Mon Jan 16 10:37:27 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:37:27 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] fscnew-fstlinks.html References: <011f01c61a7d$aed11510$1f64a8c0@clarityforms.com> Message-ID: <004a01c61acb$e79a2500$7b45fea9@sachikojn> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich" To: "'FST Helpers list.'" Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 1:17 AM Subject: Re: [Helpers] fscnew-fstlinks.html >>From what I've seen FrontPage will automatically update all the >>links inside > the html pages when a file is renamed from within the application. > It has to > catalogue and carry the whole site in one folder (or subfolders) to > be able > to do this. I think Dreamweaver will do the same thing. sachiko From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Mon Jan 16 18:47:24 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:47:24 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] fscnew-fstlinks.html In-Reply-To: <004a01c61acb$e79a2500$7b45fea9@sachikojn> References: <011f01c61a7d$aed11510$1f64a8c0@clarityforms.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060116184355.0377bd38@mail.fire-serpent.com> Ok. I am humbled and penitent, and shall mend my dinosaur ways. I am off to ebay to get Macromedia Studio 8 and Adobe Creative Suite 2. At 10:37 AM 1/16/2006, you wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Rich" >To: "'FST Helpers list.'" >Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 1:17 AM >Subject: Re: [Helpers] fscnew-fstlinks.html > > > >>From what I've seen FrontPage will automatically update all the > >>links inside > > the html pages when a file is renamed from within the application. > > It has to > > catalogue and carry the whole site in one folder (or subfolders) to > > be able > > to do this. > >I think Dreamweaver will do the same thing. > >sachiko > > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Mon Jan 16 17:50:13 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:50:13 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] fscnew-fstlinks.html In-Reply-To: <20060116115046.14074.qmail@web51502.mail.yahoo.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060115230147.03817ed0@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060116152446.03787020@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 03:50 AM 1/16/2006, Sandra Davis wrote: >Wow Mystress. > >I was finding it so difficult getting started again, since the new >pop-up link files you pointed me to looked nothing like I remembered >working on. I'm not sure either. Sorry if I was hard on you. Usually when I write late at night, I re-read the posts in the morning before sending... I compared files via FTP, and the ones on my hard drive are 4 months newer than the ones you are seeing. Ooops my bad. I have uploaded the new files into a folder called poplinks. It never occurred to me you were looking at old versions. I thought I had uploaded them already. Looking at the fscnew directory, it is a mess of old versions and bits... Will have to go through and sort it... later! >The templates have Previous-Home-Next links on them that are partially >connected, for some of them, there are new lessons in that pop-up links >folder I didn't recall, The new lessons. >some have a list of links I was familiar with, >some had new-changed links. Some lessons I'd done hours of work finding >new links - and I'd think "Oh - good, this is a good one to update" - >and when I'd find it, it'd be 100% working with all different links >entirely! That is a little odd, perhaps the file is misnamed? >I just wanted a safe-spot that I understood, and the list of links >became it - especially since I have spent hours and hours this week >flipping through nearly every single email in the archives and reading >them again. I got through nearly all but one month so far - and I just >wanted a single place that seemed solid. > > > >The revised fstlinks.html is now in my FTP folder. I'd love to > > >overall. Would you swap it in please? > > > > no. > >Sachiko has already swapped it in, after I wrote my email yesterday. >http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/fstlinks.html I know. No need for me to do it. > > >- I added more closing tags for some of the table elements. > > > > Table element closing tags missing? I usually check them. Hmm, > > maybe I had nested tables that you changed to stacked tables? > >Absolutely missing. Wierd! > Dreamweaver couldn't even display anything on that >.html. All tables are still exactly nested as you had them. All >spacing, width, height, everything is the same. Thanks. > > >Biggest thing I noticed was 1 of the numbers was missing > > betweenlessons 14 and 17. > > > > Yeah, I screw those up... Maybe a lesson with no links? > >After I wrote this, I looked again carefully. The fstlinks.html I >started editing 'said' 58 total lessons during display, yet it in the >code the numbers were different. Since no one really sees the code, it >was just another clean-up. All lessons with no links are retained as >is. Probably unfinished from an earlier repair. > > The total will be 60. > > I think I sent a work file listing them all in order? That may > > change as I do the edits... > >Okay great! I'll look again for a work file. There was a link I saw >that might have been it, yet I couldn't tell if it was current. I was thinking of the lesson list and links list emails from the archives.. but I see they are not much use. The new one is called worknew.html and the only error I see is it counts 61 lessons because the grounding anim is still listed as a separate lesson. I uploaded the new library folder to the K-list site. I will also load it to FSCnew so you can see the shape of the template, and how two spiritweb pages have been done. /public_html/fscnew/library It might look weird because the images are missing. > > elsewhere! They are in the archives. Maybe it would be easier > > if we switch the list over to a bulletin board! > >It sounds like it was a mistake for me to start back into this task >without having re-read that last month's worth of archive material. I >apologize. It is all ok. Good thing it happened or you would have been updating old files. The nice thing about a board is the topics don't all go into once place, they are separated for easy looking up, and can be edited as work progresses. The downside is without incoming mail, people forget it exists... (I sent an email to all K-Goddess board members two days ago, but there are no new posts. :( I set up a board back when we started... fire-serpent.org/helperz > > >....I understand that re-numbering might have been a big no-no, yet > >It turns out I didn't renumber anything. The fstlinks_old.html file had >58 lessons in it as well. Yes. > > For that file, it doesn't really matter.. I planned to abandon > > it once the new site is up, because I think link checking on > > the all popups in a folder will be easier anyway, than link > >Understood - from what I remembered however, it was the master list >that I was to edit first, and from there we'd simply pick up the 5-6 >links of code and plunk it into each pop-up link template. Could be.. but I did that already. When I was working on the lesson pages I found it easier to create files to link to, and then delete the hidden links from the lesson code. If you want to work from a master list, use the archived email of broken links. Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:50:24 -0700 From: Mystress Angelique Serpent Subject: Re: [Helpers] FST links - Round 1 There is a whole list of spiritweb files to be recovered... but it does not tell you what links are from what lesson. Thus, I found working with the popups is more effective. YMMV >When you sent me the link to the folder with all the pop-up files, I >couldn't make sense of what had been done there. I couldn't see any >sense of asking you to help me make sense of it either, because you'd >already told me in a previous email to "figure things out myself a >little more", to look in the archives, etc. Whups, my foot in mouth.. >I'm sorry you felt this was a distraction. I simply wasn't able to >proceed without getting some ground in this task. It is that my own work is very challenging, and it can be hard for me to switch gears when hyperfocused... and sometimes when I do, the inspiration for the interrupted project is gone. I have to start over. Lori is taking quotes from my sites, and rearranging them into a proposal and the result is good but odd. Different energy, and .. I dunno, it feels like a patchwork quilt, the bubble is not coherent. I'm having difficulty editing it because I am not sure what her intention was... I dunno the audience. She needs it right away to send out on Wed. I was trying to do it, but it was like your email was tugging at my sleeve. > > I think this stuff is one of the ways you make things hard for > > yourself... and others!! Took me nearly two hours to respond > >It's took me many many hours too, just to get through that master list >of links again. I expected some 're-entry' difficulty, just not really >this response from you. It's kind of hard. There were some things coming up for me, unfinished energy from another interaction between us. I'm email you about it privately. > > .. please, just do what you agreed to do. > >Yep. Yay! Thanks! From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Sat Jan 21 17:28:40 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:28:40 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] Comedy of errors. Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060121141537.03563b10@mail.fire-serpent.com> Please be entertained by my comedy ranting. I'm having a day... no, it has been more like... sigh. Gustaf has graciously agreed to remaster my FSt vids. Yay!! I have the original DV tapes of the content but I don't want to risk shipping them to Europe... so I have to convert them to DVD disc to ship. My friend Brian tells me my computer is not smart enough to edit DV tapes. I call around and locate someone who will convert them for $200... but I am really going to need to be able to do it myself for the long term, as I plan to make a lot more videos. I decide to look for another solution. I wander into Office Depot one day last October, and tell the nice man what I want to do. He tells me my computer is smart enough for newer tech, and sells me a firewire card, a Mad dog DVD-CD writer and a whack of blank DVD-r discs. My current CD writer was taking 25-40 minutes to burn an FST CD so it seems a good idea to upgrade. My druid's computer is way stupider than mine (Linux needs less stuff than "We are Microsoft -You Will be Assimilated") and his computer can burn the same CD in 7 minutes. I get home, hubby does the installation. Yay druid! I'm busy focused on other things, and Brian cannot lend me his digital video camera for a few weeks, then a few more weeks, so I postpone installing the software. December comes, Brian is done making rock videos for his band, lends me his camera and I go looking for the CD and manuals. It appears a trial housekeeper has thrown out the software, manuals, warranty cards etc. for the card and the writer, when she disposed of the boxes. I usually keep the packaging around for a few months after buying new electronics, just in case it turns out to be fooked or not right so I must have been out of body when she asked... That housekeeper also did not know that you are not supposed to wash black stuff and white stuff together and had freaked out crying and fled the house when she discovered my white satin bra is now grey zebra... I did not blame her because I am where the buck stops and I might have known better than to let her do my laundry unsupervised. My laundry is challenging, lots of silk and leather, antique fabrics and other delicate stuff. She is not the first housekeeper to create destruction in my wardrobe and I have learned to be philosophical about the losses. Finding a housekeeper who can handle cleaning a high vibration space without going strange is difficult, and can be hazardous to mind and property... fortunately my old housekeeper came back, yay! She had to quit because the school threw out her difficult child and she had to homeschool him. Then she moved to the other side of the street, from Surrey to Delta and the Delta school welcomed him, to her great relief and mine. Delta is way cooler than Surrey. People don't park dead cars on the lawn. Even the water is better. I call Office Depot, ask them what software was supposed to come with that writer... Nero 6. I contact the Nero people and they tell me that they need proof of purchase, to replace the software. I cannot find the receipt, either... I call the store and discover they don't keep records that far back. I'm fooked. druid saves the day, one of his fishing buddies has a copy he has uninstalled and doesn't use anymore and gives it to me, with the reg number. I install it glady, and capture one DV tape of FST vids to my hard drive.. takes 6 hours and a whopping 15gigs!! Holy cow I am running out of space. (Why does XP insist on writing a second copy of the data to a temp folder on C-drive instead of just writing directly to CD-R from another drive, like win98 used to? Whose dumb idea was that? Somebody smack 'em upside the head for me.) It won't edit either so I capture again, slicing it into 4g bits as I go. Doesn't seem right.. an 80 minute DV tape should fit onto an 80 minute DV disc?? What up with that? I research conversion after I discover Nero 6 doesn't write DVD videos!!!! What the hell? I told the guy in the store what I wanted to do, and he sold me something that won't fricking do it? OY!! Too late now, no receipts or boxes or any hope of taking it back. Nero 7 does, and it is $80. USD at the website. Oh you sneaky boogerheads, giving the old version with the new hardware and forcing people to upgrade. Nuts to you! I get a shiny new, still-sealed-in-the-box copy on ebay for $48.usd, and the seller is a local guy so I drive over to pick it up. I get it home and install it... and test it by burning a data DVD of my websites. Takes just over 2 hours. Hmm, seems kind of slow... I look in the Nero 7 manual and discover guess what, my computer is not smart enough... 800mh pentium three is ok for data and some things but not good enough to write DVD video, it wants a 1.3g chip. Brian was right, and I am fooked. My geeky druid tells me it will be fine, just slow. I test it again burning a bunch of music mpgs from my hard drive, making room for the FST stuff. Slow is an understatement. Takes 9 hours and I have to move a bunch of stuff around on my c-drive and delete the captured FST tape to have room to do it! While it is working I cannot use the computer for anything else. The resulting DVD will only play on the DVD burner, not on the DVD player on the TV, or the other CD/DVD reader on my computer. Uh-oh. Last night, I try the direct capture to DVD... not a chance. Did not think so, but I had to try! I wish for a simpler solution. druid tells me there is a standalone unit that just converts DV tape to DVD disc, and I can probably get it for just over $100. I go into Future Shop and ask 4 different salespeople about such a thing, they tell me it does not exist. One of them tells me it is a great idea, I should patent it and make a lot of money. I look at him in disbelief... because it is impossible such a simple thing, where you plug in the DV tape and the blank DVD-r and press a button and it converts and writes the DVD could not already exist. The person who invented the standalone printer for digital cameras surely thought of it. druid goes online and finds several, @ $300.+ We decide that Future shop is fooked. I cannot affoard to have my computer in the shop for a week of lost work. My last several months effort at paying off my credit cards is going to get a setback. Tomorrow I have a professional geek from Geek Patrol coming over to look at my computer, discover whether it is slow because it is fooked, or just stupid, and tell me what it will take to make my computer get smart enough to turn DV tapes into DVD discs. I expect a new chip and motherboard, at the least, and hope my 512mb of RAM will fit the new board... but I wouldn't lay any bets. I contemplate last years purchase of 80g hard drive... and how I wanted a bigger one but my present motherboard was not smart enough... I think I will spend today backing up C & E drives onto DVD data disks to be able to get a bigger drive for them... which means re-installing everything. Hmm... yikes. Maybe not!! Maybe replace D& F drive instead. I hope I get a good geek, one that is smarter than salespeople at Office Depot or Futureshop. Maybe he can even get the USB for my digital camera to work so I am not always asking druid to download my pix for me. The guys who had my computer for a week last year to install the new hard drive couldn't... and their bizarre installation of winxp asks to be activated every time I reboot. The good thing is that one of my favourite Tantra partners (codenamed "the Bull") is coming over tomorrow to fook my brains out... because after all this, I think I need to defrag my wetware!! (brain) -------------------------------------------------------- There is a delightful movie about sexuality and repression called "Sirens." It is set in Australia, about an artist who lives with his wife and young models, and a preacher who comes to discourage his sinful ways. There is a scene in a bar with an crazy old man, all he ever says is "get fooked" in a normal voice, and he says it to everyone. Men, women, children... "get fooked. Yooou get fooked. You get fooked too." It was funny, and it stuck in our vocabulary. ----------------------------------------------------------- Well, at least now I have a plan for my evening: 1. start making a DVD of d-drive. 2. sex with druid. 3. Get dressed up. 4. inner with druid, Boathouse restaurant special: steak and lobster thermidor yum! 5. Start making another DVD of D-drive... and another, etc. From rich at ulterium.com Sun Jan 22 05:33:26 2006 From: rich at ulterium.com (Rich) Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 20:33:26 +0700 Subject: [Helpers] Comedy of errors. In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20060121141537.03563b10@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <000301c61f58$70bee6a0$6e65000a@clarityforms.com> > I have the original DV tapes of the content but I don't want to risk > shipping them to Europe... Not being funny or anything, wouldn't it be possible to find somewhere to make a digital (no quality loss) copy of the DV's? (assuming Gustaf can read DV tapes) r From gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com Mon Jan 23 05:00:10 2006 From: gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com (Gustaf Grefberg) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:00:10 +0100 Subject: [Helpers] Comedy of errors. Message-ID: <190882CA24B3B94F8AFB36BA5E60C7CE016B7B2C@ix.o3games.com> Wow, that's a lot of fook! Ya'd think that conversions between video formats is simple, but I've been through similar chaos just trying to convert a single mpeg file into a workable avi. It's resulted in a good dose of anger-management lol. Thanks for the humorous rant, it was indeed entertaining, and I so know the feeling. Especially with video conversion, it can be very fooked! > (Why does XP insist on writing a second copy of the data to a temp > folder on C-drive instead of just writing directly to CD-R from another > drive, like win98 used to? Whose dumb idea was that? Somebody smack 'em > upside the head for me.) I think you can set so that the CD burner program automatically removes the data it wrote to the harddrive after it's done burning the DVD/CD-R. It does it for two reasons, one is like you said that the computer may be too slow so it caches the file to the harddrive first. It's very good especially if you are making more than one copy! >From my experience what it really comes down to is having the right software. The problem with only being able to playi the DVD on your DVD burner is most likely related to regions. You can set either US/Canada region (#1 I think), Europe (Might be Europe/Asia) And you can also set it to be region free, which can cause some players to get confused with it. Easiest is to make sure it's burned with US/Canada region. I can read/convert those DVDs without problems. That's the end format you'll want from me anyway since most customers are in US/Canada? Though I can probably remaster them to Europe format too somewhat easily if you want to have two versions depending on where you send them later. Hmm.. There's also the possibility to convert the DV tapes to another format that has a similar rate of compression as the DVD, for example Xvid. Then you can simply put the files on DVD data discs, but they will take up much less space than a DV file, while still retaining almost all of the original quality. I can look into Xvid conversion for you if you are interested! Namaste Gustaf > Please be entertained by my comedy ranting. > > I'm having a day... no, it has been more like... sigh. > > Gustaf has graciously agreed to remaster my FSt vids. Yay!! > > I have the original DV tapes of the content but I don't want to risk > shipping them to Europe... so I have to convert them to DVD disc to > ship. My friend Brian tells me my computer is not smart enough to edit DV > tapes. > I call around and locate someone who will convert them for $200... but > I > am really going to need to be able to do it myself for the long term, as I > plan to make a lot more videos. I decide to look for another solution. > > I wander into Office Depot one day last October, and tell the nice man > what I want to do. He tells me my computer is smart enough for newer tech, > and sells me a firewire card, a Mad dog DVD-CD writer and a whack of blank > DVD-r discs. My current CD writer was taking 25-40 minutes to burn an FST > CD so it seems a good idea to upgrade. My druid's computer is way > stupider > than mine (Linux needs less stuff than "We are Microsoft -You Will be > Assimilated") and his computer can burn the same CD in 7 minutes. > > I get home, hubby does the installation. Yay druid! > I'm busy focused on other things, and Brian cannot lend me his digital > video camera for a few weeks, then a few more weeks, so I postpone > installing the software. December comes, Brian is done making rock videos > for his band, lends me his camera and I go looking for the CD and manuals. > > It appears a trial housekeeper has thrown out the software, manuals, > warranty cards etc. for the card and the writer, when she disposed of the > boxes. I usually keep the packaging around for a few months after buying > new electronics, just in case it turns out to be fooked or not right so I > must have been out of body when she asked... That housekeeper also did > not > know that you are not supposed to wash black stuff and white stuff > together > and had freaked out crying and fled the house when she discovered my white > satin bra is now grey zebra... I did not blame her because I am where the > buck stops and I might have known better than to let her do my laundry > unsupervised. My laundry is challenging, lots of silk and leather, antique > fabrics and other delicate stuff. She is not the first housekeeper to > create destruction in my wardrobe and I have learned to be philosophical > about the losses. > > Finding a housekeeper who can handle cleaning a high vibration space > without going strange is difficult, and can be hazardous to mind and > property... fortunately my old housekeeper came back, yay! She had to quit > because the school threw out her difficult child and she had to homeschool > him. Then she moved to the other side of the street, from Surrey to Delta > and the Delta school welcomed him, to her great relief and mine. Delta is > way cooler than Surrey. People don't park dead cars on the lawn. Even the > water is better. > > I call Office Depot, ask them what software was supposed to come with > that writer... Nero 6. I contact the Nero people and they tell me that > they > need proof of purchase, to replace the software. I cannot find the > receipt, > either... I call the store and discover they don't keep records that far > back. I'm fooked. > > druid saves the day, one of his fishing buddies has a copy he has > uninstalled and doesn't use anymore and gives it to me, with the reg > number. I install it glady, and capture one DV tape of FST vids to my hard > drive.. takes 6 hours and a whopping 15gigs!! Holy cow I am running out > of > space. > > (Why does XP insist on writing a second copy of the data to a temp > folder on C-drive instead of just writing directly to CD-R from another > drive, like win98 used to? Whose dumb idea was that? Somebody smack 'em > upside the head for me.) > > It won't edit either so I capture again, slicing it into 4g bits as I > go. Doesn't seem right.. an 80 minute DV tape should fit onto an 80 minute > DV disc?? What up with that? > > I research conversion after I discover Nero 6 doesn't write DVD > videos!!!! What the hell? I told the guy in the store what I wanted to do, > and he sold me something that won't fricking do it? OY!! Too late now, no > receipts or boxes or any hope of taking it back. > > Nero 7 does, and it is $80. USD at the website. Oh you sneaky > boogerheads, giving the old version with the new hardware and forcing > people to upgrade. Nuts to you! I get a shiny new, still-sealed-in-the- > box > copy on ebay for $48.usd, and the seller is a local guy so I drive over to > pick it up. I get it home and install it... and test it by burning a data > DVD of my websites. Takes just over 2 hours. Hmm, seems kind of slow... > > I look in the Nero 7 manual and discover guess what, my computer is > not smart enough... 800mh pentium three is ok for data and some things but > not good enough to write DVD video, it wants a 1.3g chip. Brian was right, > and I am fooked. > > My geeky druid tells me it will be fine, just slow. I test it again > burning a bunch of music mpgs from my hard drive, making room for the FST > stuff. Slow is an understatement. Takes 9 hours and I have to move a > bunch > of stuff around on my c-drive and delete the captured FST tape to have > room > to do it! While it is working I cannot use the computer for anything else. > The resulting DVD will only play on the DVD burner, not on the DVD > player on the TV, or the other CD/DVD reader on my computer. Uh-oh. > > Last night, I try the direct capture to DVD... not a chance. Did not > think so, but I had to try! > > I wish for a simpler solution. druid tells me there is a standalone > unit > that just converts DV tape to DVD disc, and I can probably get it for > just > over $100. > I go into Future Shop and ask 4 different salespeople about such a > thing, they tell me it does not exist. One of them tells me it is a great > idea, I should patent it and make a lot of money. I look at him in > disbelief... because it is impossible such a simple thing, where you plug > in the DV tape and the blank DVD-r and press a button and it converts and > writes the DVD could not already exist. The person who invented the > standalone printer for digital cameras surely thought of it. > > druid goes online and finds several, @ $300.+ > We decide that Future shop is fooked. > > I cannot affoard to have my computer in the shop for a week of lost > work. My last several months effort at paying off my credit cards is going > to get a setback. Tomorrow I have a professional geek from Geek Patrol > coming over to look at my computer, discover whether it is slow because it > is fooked, or just stupid, and tell me what it will take to make my > computer get smart enough to turn DV tapes into DVD discs. > I expect a new chip and motherboard, at the least, and hope my 512mb > of > RAM will fit the new board... but I wouldn't lay any bets. > I contemplate last years purchase of 80g hard drive... and how I wanted > a bigger one but my present motherboard was not smart enough... I think I > will spend today backing up C & E drives onto DVD data disks to be able to > get a bigger drive for them... which means re-installing everything. > Hmm... > yikes. Maybe not!! Maybe replace D& F drive instead. > > I hope I get a good geek, one that is smarter than salespeople at > Office > Depot or Futureshop. Maybe he can even get the USB for my digital camera > to > work so I am not always asking druid to download my pix for me. The guys > who had my computer for a week last year to install the new hard drive > couldn't... and their bizarre installation of winxp asks to be activated > every time I reboot. > > The good thing is that one of my favourite Tantra partners (codenamed > "the Bull") is coming over tomorrow to fook my brains out... because after > all this, I think I need to defrag my wetware!! (brain) > > -------------------------------------------------------- > > There is a delightful movie about sexuality and repression called > "Sirens." It is set in Australia, about an artist who lives with his wife > and young models, and a preacher who comes to discourage his sinful ways. > There is a scene in a bar with an crazy old man, all he ever says is "get > fooked" in a normal voice, and he says it to everyone. Men, women, > children... "get fooked. Yooou get fooked. You get fooked too." It was > funny, and it stuck in our vocabulary. > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Well, at least now I have a plan for my evening: > > 1. start making a DVD of d-drive. > 2. sex with druid. > 3. Get dressed up. > 4. inner with druid, Boathouse restaurant special: steak and lobster > thermidor yum! > 5. Start making another DVD of D-drive... and another, etc. From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Mon Jan 23 14:05:21 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 14:05:21 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] Urgent for Hillary Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060123140317.02ae3f60@mail.fire-serpent.com> My posts to you seem to not be getting through.. urgent, please call me or send me your number. 604-538-3078 Do not use AOL to report spam!!! We are under threat of being booted from the provider! From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Mon Jan 23 13:19:26 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:19:26 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] Comedy of errors. In-Reply-To: <000301c61f58$70bee6a0$6e65000a@clarityforms.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060121141537.03563b10@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060123124401.03fb64a0@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 05:33 AM 1/22/2006, Rich wrote: > > I have the original DV tapes of the content but I don't want to risk > > shipping them to Europe... > >Not being funny or anything, wouldn't it be possible to find somewhere to >make a digital (no quality loss) copy of the DV's? > >(assuming Gustaf can read DV tapes) Maybe. Thing is, I do need the technology. I want to make more videos. I'm cleaning the soap out of the playroom and it doubles as my video studio. I am planning to bring Brian along on my European tour to be a grounding influence and my cameraman. I will have to get a good mic too, sometime before May15. In other news, I took a whack at the K-Goddess board last week. Deleted empty or mostly empty boards, consolidated a few others, like the personal ads... then sent a "We miss you please come back" notice to all members... which had zero effect and I wonder if I was the only one who got it! I also closed down the Mystress_Serpent at yahoo list with a last post. Did you get either of those emails? That reminds me, I have to tweak the settings of the replacement list on domin8rex.com I got stuck on the K ebook because I felt something is missing... I realize what is missing is more about K itself, for people who want to give the book to recently awakened, confused friends... some symptoms, more about the process, etc. I have renamed it: Kundalini awakening: essential practices. I got a used but legal, registerable copy of Macromedia suite MX (2004) on ebay last week. It will arrive this week, with transfer papers. Dreamweaver, flash, the whole meal deal. I know you and others have offered to do flash animations for me, but I don't even know enough about how they work, to get the art prepared... and Goddess put an idea in my head about doing live workshops in the modern way, with additional clarity from powerpoint presentation. I'm on some internet marketing info lists... mostly they are for ebooks and affiliate sites, but much of it is applicable to promoting an online school. I'm still shopping for an affordable, legal version of Adobe Creative suite 2. The legal, non academic versions are selling on ebay for >$500. usd and some have gone over $900. Right now I am looking at an older version... but I want Acrobat pro 7 because theoretically it has improved file integration. It is selling for >$250. by itself, so I might as well get everything even though I don't need all the bits. I have photoshop 5 now, that is pretty old. Some parts of it, like the ability to make transparent gifs, stopped working altogether when I got XP... and the jpg compression algorithm sucks hairy moose cock. I save them full size and import them into my only slightly newer version of Paintshop pro to compress them. Sachiko has demonstrated to me how lame that turns out! Actually, I have a whack of Adobe stuff that came along with my digital camera or photoshop upgrades... but some of it, like pagemaker, I have never found useful. A student recently asked about printing the lesson pages. They are not very print-friendly as html, and it might be useful to provide a link to print friendly PDF versions of each lesson. Thus, my interest in Acrobat 7 pro... Feedback welcomed. From Druout at aol.com Mon Jan 23 14:17:20 2006 From: Druout at aol.com (Druout at aol.com) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:17:20 EST Subject: [Helpers] Urgent for Hillary Message-ID: Tried calling. the number is the mcbride residence! SFBARS seems to be hijacking e-mail. In a message dated 1/23/2006 2:07:15 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, Mystress at fire-serpent.com writes: My posts to you seem to not be getting through.. urgent, please call me or send me your number. 604-538-3078 Do not use AOL to report spam!!! We are under threat of being booted from the provider! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Druout at aol.com Mon Jan 23 14:32:44 2006 From: Druout at aol.com (Druout at aol.com) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:32:44 EST Subject: [Helpers] Urgent for Hillary Message-ID: Is there a way to deactivate e-mail addresses from the sfbars site? Could that appease the server? In a message dated 1/23/2006 2:07:15 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, Mystress at fire-serpent.com writes: Do not use AOL to report spam!!! We are under threat of being booted from the provider! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Druout at aol.com Mon Jan 23 14:35:09 2006 From: Druout at aol.com (Druout at aol.com) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:35:09 EST Subject: [Helpers] Urgent for Hillary Message-ID: <1f5.1a49f032.3106b41d@aol.com> This phone # reached the McBride residence. 604-538-3078 My phone # is 1 510 526-3265 Love, Hillary In a message dated 1/23/2006 2:07:15 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, Mystress at fire-serpent.com writes: My posts to you seem to not be getting through.. urgent, please call me or send me your number. 604-538-3078 Do not use AOL to report spam!!! We are under threat of being booted from the provider! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From percyval at rcn.com Mon Jan 23 14:50:36 2006 From: percyval at rcn.com (percyval) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:50:36 -0500 Subject: [Helpers] Comedy of errors. References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060121141537.03563b10@mail.fire-serpent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20060123124401.03fb64a0@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <001901c6206f$6df94830$6501a8c0@bigmo> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" > In other news, I took a whack at the K-Goddess board last week. Deleted > empty or mostly empty boards, consolidated a few others, like the personal > ads... then sent a "We miss you please come back" notice to all members... > which had zero effect and I wonder if I was the only one who got it! > I also closed down the Mystress_Serpent at yahoo list with a last post. Did > you get either of those emails? That reminds me, I have to tweak the > settings of the replacement list on domin8rex.com hi Mystress, thank you... i never got a last post after you closed it down, and was wondering about that... (i have an aggressive anti-spam program, possibly the culprit)... i did get the K-Goddess reminder... lovingly, Percyval From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Mon Jan 23 16:08:32 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:08:32 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] Comedy of errors. In-Reply-To: <001901c6206f$6df94830$6501a8c0@bigmo> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060121141537.03563b10@mail.fire-serpent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20060123124401.03fb64a0@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060123160702.03e60b40@mail.fire-serpent.com> Thanks for letting me know. I backed up the member list, so at some point I will send those folks an invite to the new domin8rex info list. At 02:50 PM 1/23/2006, percyval wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" > > In other news, I took a whack at the K-Goddess board last week. Deleted > > empty or mostly empty boards, consolidated a few others, like the personal > > ads... then sent a "We miss you please come back" notice to all members... > > which had zero effect and I wonder if I was the only one who got it! > > I also closed down the Mystress_Serpent at yahoo list with a last post. Did > > you get either of those emails? That reminds me, I have to tweak the > > settings of the replacement list on domin8rex.com > >hi Mystress, > >thank you... i never got a last post after you closed it down, and was >wondering about that... (i have an aggressive anti-spam program, possibly >the culprit)... i did get the K-Goddess reminder... > >lovingly, > >Percyval > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Mon Jan 23 16:15:00 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:15:00 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] Urgent for Hillary In-Reply-To: <1f5.1a49f032.3106b41d@aol.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060123160840.03e60c40@mail.fire-serpent.com> To group: Hillary and I resolved this... Her site is hosted on my account. Spammers were spoofing her domain, so she reported them to AOL. AOL is stupid enough to not see that the address was spoofed, and sent a spam complain to my provider. They understood that AOL sucks hairy moose cock but posted to me saying stop reporting spam to AOL or be deleted. The provider was understandably upset at being unfairly labeled a spammer by AOL. At 02:35 PM 1/23/2006, Druout at aol.com wrote: >This phone # reached the McBride residence. 604-538-3078 > >My phone # is 1 510 526-3265 > >Love, Hillary > > >In a message dated 1/23/2006 2:07:15 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, >Mystress at fire-serpent.com writes: >My posts to you seem to not be getting through.. urgent, please call me >or send me your number. 604-538-3078 > Do not use AOL to report spam!!! We are under threat of being booted from >the provider! > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From rich at ulterium.com Tue Jan 24 05:22:31 2006 From: rich at ulterium.com (Rich) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:22:31 +0700 Subject: [Helpers] Comedy of errors. In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20060123124401.03fb64a0@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <003501c620e9$3df82820$6e65000a@clarityforms.com> > In other news, I took a whack at the K-Goddess board last week. Deleted > empty or mostly empty boards, consolidated a few others, like the personal > ads... then sent a "We miss you please come back" notice to all members... > which had zero effect and I wonder if I was the only one who got it! Let me know if you still need a hand. BDSM is very topical for me! > I also closed down the Mystress_Serpent at yahoo list with a last post. > Did > you get either of those emails? yep! One received. > That reminds me, I have to tweak the > settings of the replacement list on domin8rex.com > I got stuck on the K ebook because I felt something is missing... I > realize what is missing is more about K itself, for people who want to > give > the book to recently awakened, confused friends... some symptoms, more > about the process, etc. I have renamed it: Kundalini awakening: essential > practices. My biggest problem when I write is I don't know who I'm writing to. if there is audience or recipient it is easy. Covering all bases and all styles is impossible. Maybe just writing about me is enough as people will tune in on this rather than something which may not be in their world. > I got a used but legal, registerable copy of Macromedia suite MX (2004) > on ebay last week. It will arrive this week, with transfer papers. > Dreamweaver, flash, the whole meal deal. > > I know you and others have offered to do flash animations for me, but > I > don't even know enough about how they work, to get the art prepared... and > Goddess put an idea in my head about doing live workshops in the modern > way, with additional clarity from powerpoint presentation. Flash is a killer! Need a brain expansion to get to grips with it. I found this program is an easier and cheaper way to make Flash animations in my opinion. http://www.swishzone.com/ > I'm still shopping for an affordable, legal version of Adobe Creative > suite 2. The legal, non academic versions are selling on ebay for >$500. > usd and some have gone over $900. Right now I am looking at an older > version... but I want Acrobat pro 7 because theoretically it has improved > file integration. > It is selling for >$250. by itself, so I might as well get everything > even though I don't need all the bits. > > I have photoshop 5 now, that is pretty old. Some parts of it, like the > ability to make transparent gifs, stopped working altogether when I got > XP... and the jpg compression algorithm sucks hairy moose cock. I save > them full size and import them into my only slightly newer version of > Paintshop pro to compress them. Sachiko has demonstrated to me how lame > that turns out! Well, another wicked program I love is Xara Xtreme. It's an effortless and creative drawing program and now supports Photoshop plugins. I finally bought it last week (US$79)! http://www.xara.com/products/xtreme/default.asp?t= > Actually, I have a whack of Adobe stuff that came along with my digital > camera or photoshop upgrades... but some of it, like pagemaker, I have > never found useful. > > A student recently asked about printing the lesson pages. They are not > very print-friendly as html, and it might be useful to provide a link to > print friendly PDF versions of each lesson. Thus, my interest in Acrobat > 7 > pro... Only need Acrobat Elements (if you can get it) or Acrobat Standard version to produce PDF files. There are cheaper alternatives (http://www.win2pdf.com/ is just US$35) that will do this for you. r From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Tue Jan 24 15:44:58 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:44:58 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] Comedy of errors. In-Reply-To: <190882CA24B3B94F8AFB36BA5E60C7CE016B7B2C@ix.o3games.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060123131934.04027990@mail.fire-serpent.com> Wrote this on Monday... At 05:00 AM 1/23/2006, Gustaf Grefberg wrote: >Wow, that's a lot of fook! Yes, it was. (Big smile!) 7 hours of fooking, and swapping massages and energy work. My wetware is defragged. My body is very fragged and this morning the physiotherapist told me to take it easy today. I seem to have displaced a hip! LOL!! I started responding to your tea room post about shadow... The past few months I have worked at re-awakening my sex drive. I succeeded 2 weeks ago and ye Gods I had forgotten how strong it is! Holy crap!! I keep thinking, how the hell am I going to feed this monster? Must be like a full time job! I surrender it... Then I laugh at myself and remember uh, yeah, it used to be... kind of... a full time job... :) I am recalling why having a small army of sex slaves at my beck and call, was a good idea... more than a good idea, really quite necessary and healthy!! But WOW, it is good to be back! druid says I have regained my sparkle. I have been thanking Goddess for the car accident. The physiotherapy is mostly fascial tissue release, and 10 years of desk slouch is releasing, giving me back my perfect posture, balance and energy. Body is craving exercise again, especially yoga, singing and dancing.. and... really athletic contortionist fooking! When I show people my home, I can always tell who is kinky because the English riding helmet on my headboard makes them giggle... >Ya'd think that conversions between video formats is simple, but I've been >through similar chaos just trying to convert a single mpeg file into a >workable avi. It's resulted in a good dose of anger-management lol. Thanks >for the humorous rant, it was indeed entertaining, and I so know the >feeling. Especially with video conversion, it can be very fooked! The professional geek basically told me I need a new computer... Replace the chip (it is celeron not pentium) and you have to replace the mother board, power supply, hard drives, RAM... pretty much everything but the new DVD writer! I need a new laptop anyway, so I will be patient in shopping around for a smart one that can do the job. In the meantime, I think I can do the job, it is just awful slow. I'll burn DVDs in my sleep.. > > (Why does XP insist on writing a second copy of the data to a temp > > folder on C-drive instead of just writing directly to CD-R from another > > drive, like win98 used to? Whose dumb idea was that? Somebody smack 'em > > upside the head for me.) > >I think you can set so that the CD burner program automatically removes the >data it wrote to the harddrive after it's done burning the DVD/CD-R. It does >it for two reasons, one is like you said that the computer may be too slow >so it caches the file to the harddrive first. It's very good especially if >you are making more than one copy! While making backups I discovered a folder called "Recycler" that had 7.5 gigs worth of backups of old CDs I had burned. No wonder c-drive was running out of space! > >From my experience what it really comes down to is having the right >software. The problem with only being able to playi the DVD on your DVD >burner is most likely related to regions. I think it is related to this player being about 5 years old... they play OK downstairs on druid's newer one. I'm recording them NTSC, I can make yours PAL if you want. >You can set either US/Canada >region (#1 I think), Europe (Might be Europe/Asia) And you can also set it >to be region free, which can cause some players to get confused with it. >Easiest is to make sure it's burned with US/Canada region. I can >read/convert those DVDs without problems. That's the end format you'll want >from me anyway since most customers are in US/Canada? Though I can probably >remaster them to Europe format too somewhat easily if you want to have two >versions depending on where you send them later. Great! Students are from all over the world, though Americans are a slight majority. I am wondering whether to stick with realplayer for the web format? I am open to changing to another if it would be better and equally universal. >Hmm.. There's also the possibility to convert the DV tapes to another format >that has a similar rate of compression as the DVD, for example Xvid. Then >you can simply put the files on DVD data discs, but they will take up much >less space than a DV file, while still retaining almost all of the original >quality. I can look into Xvid conversion for you if you are interested! Give me a few days to give it another try... part of the problem was lack of hard drive space. Making backups and deleting useless stuff has to come first. Turning off all the anti-virus and other background junk helped too. It is now burning data DVDs in about 20 minutes including verification. I'll get it to work, even if I do have to chop the 80 minute (15gig) tapes into 4.5g bits and send them as data DVD-r without conversion. I think I wouldn't mind having some like that as backups anyhow, for when the DVD conversion tech changes again. I've got about 60 blank 4.7g DVD-r discs, so I'm set. From gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com Sun Jan 29 12:33:33 2006 From: gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com (Gustaf Grefberg) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 21:33:33 +0100 Subject: [Helpers] Comedy of errors. References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060123131934.04027990@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0E20C4@mail.starbreeze.com> > I think it is related to this player being about 5 years old... they >play OK downstairs on druid's newer one. I'm recording them NTSC, I can >make yours PAL if you want. NTSC is perfectly fine. :) > I am wondering whether to stick with realplayer for the web format? I am >open to changing to another if it would be better and equally universal. I had a talk with a fellow producer about that. Basically you have three options. Quicktime. Stable and good format.. if you have a mac. On PC it tends to be a bit messy. Realmedia (realplayer) It was always a bit of an ugly format, but it works. The newer versions are better. Windows Media. Very easily accessible and supposedly decent. I'm thinking of testing both windows media and realmedia and see what works best. > I'll get it to work, even if I do have to chop the 80 minute (15gig) >tapes into 4.5g bits and send them as data DVD-r without conversion. I >think I wouldn't mind having some like that as backups anyhow, for when the >DVD conversion tech changes again. I've got about 60 blank 4.7g DVD-r >discs, so I'm set. That sounds fine! It's good for me too to receive them as video files on DVD discs, that way I can copy them directly to my computer and work with them, and then remove what I am not using at the moment to save a bit of space. By the way, I just downloaded the trial of Sony DVD Architect.. If it's good I'm gonna get the upgrade from Vegas.. I've been playing around with some ideas for the DVD menu. Do you have any high resolution images I could download from your FTP? I could use the FST logo, the nice blue banner logo you have at the start page, and any good pictures of you/your work that you'd like to have included. Then I can post you some screenshots once I've got something happening. :) In addition I was pondering putting together some sort of music ambience backdrop for the DVD menu... Will have to see what happens. Namaste! Gustaf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Sun Jan 29 15:52:18 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:52:18 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] Comedy of errors. In-Reply-To: <003501c620e9$3df82820$6e65000a@clarityforms.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060123124401.03fb64a0@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060124144211.02b92ae8@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 05:22 AM 1/24/2006, Rich wrote: > > In other news, I took a whack at the K-Goddess board last week. Deleted > > empty or mostly empty boards, consolidated a few others, like the personal > > ads... then sent a "We miss you please come back" notice to all members... > > which had zero effect and I wonder if I was the only one who got it! > >Let me know if you still need a hand. BDSM is very topical for me! Rapidly becoming topical for me too, again! What is surprising is how my sense of humour has changed. Yesterday I was at the chiropractor filling out forms about the progress of my healing, for the lawyer and it was asking about pain in bed and pain in my social life. I turned it around in my head and got serious gigglefits that brought tears to my eyes! I am happy with your taking care of the board, sorry if I stepped on your toes.. it is just I was there trying to polish it before closing down the email list, and it was easier for me to go ahead and adjust it, than to explain what I wanted. I've set up other boards since I did that one, and experience has shown those with fewer topics do better. However, I think K-goddess may be beyond reviving... Since the email list closing message seems not to have been received by anyone but me, the comedy continues. > > I also closed down the Mystress_Serpent at yahoo list with a last post. > > Did > > you get either of those emails? > >yep! One received. K-goddess one? > > I got stuck on the K ebook because I felt something is missing... I > > realize what is missing is more about K itself, for people who want to > > give > > the book to recently awakened, confused friends... some symptoms, more > > about the process, etc. I have renamed it: Kundalini awakening: essential > > practices. > >My biggest problem when I write is I don't know who I'm writing to. if there >is audience or recipient it is easy. Yeah, me too, always. Way easier to respond to a question from an individual, than to the great "out there" unknown audience. One of my sticking points with completing a book... and the reason I am drowning in amitra in the first FST videos. I tried to connect to everyone who would see it, like I connect to members when posting to an email list. > Covering all bases and all styles is >impossible. Yup. > Maybe just writing about me is enough as people will tune in on >this rather than something which may not be in their world. I dunno, I have tried it both ways. Writing only about me me me like for FST and domin8rex.com ends up sounding kind of self centered, egocentric. My years of working with people, gives me experience beyond my own. In some ways I prefer the more anonymous voice I used for K-teacher. I'm bored of autobiography, bored of my personal mythology. I still have not been able to write an "about the author" page for K-teacher. It was written from Witness, there is no "I" > > I got a used but legal, registerable copy of Macromedia suite MX (2004) > > on ebay last week. It will arrive this week, with transfer papers. > > Dreamweaver, flash, the whole meal deal. > > > > I know you and others have offered to do flash animations for me, but > > I > > don't even know enough about how they work, to get the art prepared... and > > Goddess put an idea in my head about doing live workshops in the modern > > way, with additional clarity from powerpoint presentation. > >Flash is a killer! Need a brain expansion to get to grips with it. Maybe I should not try, then. Perhaps I just need a better understanding of its limitations and parameters. >I found >this program is an easier and cheaper way to make Flash animations in my >opinion. > >http://www.swishzone.com/ Thanks! Still waiting for the macromedia to arrive. > > I'm still shopping for an affordable, legal version of Adobe Creative > > suite 2. The legal, non academic versions are selling on ebay for >$500. > > usd and some have gone over $900. Right now I am looking at an older > > version... but I want Acrobat pro 7 because theoretically it has improved > > file integration. > > It is selling for >$250. by itself, so I might as well get everything > > even though I don't need all the bits. > > > > I have photoshop 5 now, that is pretty old. Some parts of it, like the > > ability to make transparent gifs, stopped working altogether when I got > > XP... and the jpg compression algorithm sucks hairy moose cock. I save > > them full size and import them into my only slightly newer version of > > Paintshop pro to compress them. Sachiko has demonstrated to me how lame > > that turns out! > >Well, another wicked program I love is Xara Xtreme. It's an effortless and >creative drawing program and now supports Photoshop plugins. I finally >bought it last week (US$79)! >http://www.xara.com/products/xtreme/default.asp?t= Hmm, cool. I have given up on Creative suite because my computer is not smart enough to run it. I was messing around in the back and saw the original sticker... "Boddhi Tree" was a hot fast custom made box back in... 1999!!! Egad. Where does the time go? The idea of getting a new desktop and having to reinstall everything is... yikes. It is still smart enough for most of what I need it to do, so if I can get a laptop to do the DVDs, even if it is not faster, at least I can keep working at my desktop while the laptop is ripping vid. So, for the past few days I have been shopping for laptops on ebay until my head spins and I have to take a nap. The problem is I don't know much about them so I end up searching google and cnet reviews and getting confused. I need it shipped USPS and sellers like UPS better... I really like the Sony VAIO line, I like the ergonomic sloped front profile and most of them have a DVD writer and firewire, and the software to do conversion. Reviews on them are very mixed... and some of them are really heavy, 8+lbs. The bidding often goes beyond my budget, (even though I have increased my budget 3x!) and there are scams. I've had two sellers try to sell to me off ebay, I declined and later got an email that one of them was not who they claimed... some guy wrote me in a panic that his account had been compromised with someone else using his username, and there was no laptop. I have spent way too much time on this. My gut instinct is failing me, when it comes to this shopping and I am losing faith in ebay security. Life is not meant to be this kind of struggle so I am asking what now Goddess? If this is not the right direction then let me know what is so I can get on with it. I called Brian and he sung the praises of a mac laptop, which is a new direction I had not considered. Any suggestions? > > Actually, I have a whack of Adobe stuff that came along with my digital > > camera or photoshop upgrades... but some of it, like pagemaker, I have > > never found useful. > > > > A student recently asked about printing the lesson pages. They are not > > very print-friendly as html, and it might be useful to provide a link to > > print friendly PDF versions of each lesson. Thus, my interest in Acrobat > > 7 > > pro... > >Only need Acrobat Elements (if you can get it) or Acrobat Standard version >to produce PDF files. There are cheaper alternatives >(http://www.win2pdf.com/ is just US$35) that will do this for you. Could be just a txt file or a more printable html version for FST... but PDF is nicely secure. Some of the laptops I am looking at come with adobe elements installed, I think... I have looked at so many I cannot keep them straight in my head. I was interested in Acrobat 7 pro because it is supposed to have improved file integration. I am not sure, but I am hoping that means I could embed a video or animated gif, which would be useful for ebooks. I might be out to lunch on that one. I tried some freeware pdf makers that converted on the way to the printer, but they were no good, things got reformatted and moved around; titles appeared on the wrong page and images showed up in front of the text instead of behind. That is what made me think I had to go to Adobe to get what I need. I am likely to be wrong about that. Do you have those problems with the win2pdf program? Thanks for the support! From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Sun Jan 29 16:46:58 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:46:58 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] Goddess provides... In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20060116184355.0377bd38@mail.fire-serpent.com> References: <004a01c61acb$e79a2500$7b45fea9@sachikojn> <011f01c61a7d$aed11510$1f64a8c0@clarityforms.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060129151416.035a6838@mail.fire-serpent.com> This is sort of an apology I am feeling I owe to my helpers, and a thank you for your patience with the stubborn dinosaur. I feel like I have been unreasonably difficult, ignorant and stubborn in my ignorance. You guys have been great, and many thanks for the gentlest of ass kickings to try to bring me into the new century! I am finding the technology a little overwhelming because of my ignorance. Trying to get a laptop is making me crazy, and I have barely approached the thorny problem of a cellphone that will work in Europe... I am just lost. Surrender means "give up." So I have. Kids these days... I was commiserating with a friend, she has the same astonishment to see her son playing a video game on the computer with one hand and text messaging to his friends with the other hand. I got my first computer when I was 32. I have experienced getting my ass kicked by 9 year olds, gaming online. They are actually able to whup me and taunt me about it via chat, AT THE SAME TIME. Ouch. Armand most always did use humiliation as the trump card to get me to listen to what I did not want to hear. The door of me taking care of my own technology is closing on my foot. I am frustrated with myself, I really don't want to be a one woman show anymore but I am not good at giving up control, even over stupid stuff like renaming the lesson files. I can feel my helpers patience wearing thin... my patience with myself is .. gone. I have been afraid of ending up with a website that I do not have the ability to maintain by myself, if y'all drop off the planet... but the fact smacking me in the head is that my skills are outdated, and I am a dinosaur who never will catch up with what some of you know and can do... and as the years go on it will only get worse. Insisting you do things my way, is going backwards into a deeper stuck place... sinking deeper into the tarpit. They'll dig me up in 1112,006 with my petrified bones still clutching my ancient copy of Homesite. Here lies Mystress, she could not evolve to keep up, or even at least age gracefully... and she could not let go of the shiny thing in the monkey paw trap. My wetware and my hardware reflect each other, both are too old to be upgraded, but the wetware cannot simply be replaced!! Oy! These are the kind of pictures Armand gives me, once I get beat up enough to ask... be happy you are not a Shaman!! My only comfort is that the things I do best, writing and teaching, do not go out of date... and that door is opening wider and wider... :) I wonder if Osho knew how to use a computer? At 06:47 PM 1/16/2006, Mystress Angelique Serpent wrote: > Ok. I am humbled and penitent, and shall mend my dinosaur ways. > I am off to ebay to get Macromedia Studio 8 and Adobe Creative Suite 2. > >At 10:37 AM 1/16/2006, you wrote: > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Rich" > >To: "'FST Helpers list.'" > >Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 1:17 AM > >Subject: Re: [Helpers] fscnew-fstlinks.html > > > > > > >>From what I've seen FrontPage will automatically update all the > > >>links inside > > > the html pages when a file is renamed from within the application. > > > It has to > > > catalogue and carry the whole site in one folder (or subfolders) to > > > be able > > > to do this. > > > >I think Dreamweaver will do the same thing. > > > >sachiko > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Helpers mailing list > >Helpers at fire-serpent.org > >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Sun Jan 29 16:52:11 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:52:11 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] Comedy of errors. In-Reply-To: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0E20C4@mail.starbreeze.com > References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060123131934.04027990@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060129164736.035a5200@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 12:33 PM 1/29/2006, you wrote: >Content-class: urn:content-classes:message >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C62513.46353E97" > > > I think it is related to this player being about 5 years old... they > >play OK downstairs on druid's newer one. I'm recording them NTSC, I can > >make yours PAL if you want. > >NTSC is perfectly fine. :) > > > I am wondering whether to stick with realplayer for the web format? I am > >open to changing to another if it would be better and equally universal. > >I had a talk with a fellow producer about that. Basically you have three >options. > >Quicktime. Stable and good format.. if you have a mac. On PC it tends to >be a bit messy. Realmedia (realplayer) It was always a bit of an ugly >format, but it works. The newer versions are better. Windows Media. Very >easily accessible and supposedly decent. I'm thinking of testing both >windows media and realmedia and see what works best. What if we offer more than one format? Quicktime and rm or windows? > > I'll get it to work, even if I do have to chop the 80 minute (15gig) > >tapes into 4.5g bits and send them as data DVD-r without conversion. I > >think I wouldn't mind having some like that as backups anyhow, for when the > >DVD conversion tech changes again. I've got about 60 blank 4.7g DVD-r > >discs, so I'm set. > >That sounds fine! It's good for me too to receive them as video files on >DVD discs, that way I can copy them directly to my computer and work with >them, and then remove what I am not using at the moment to save a bit of space. I'm working on it! :) >By the way, I just downloaded the trial of Sony DVD Architect.. If it's >good I'm gonna get the upgrade from Vegas.. I've been playing around with >some ideas for the DVD menu. Do you have any high resolution images I >could download from your FTP? Yeah, I made some high-res ones of the logo for the cafepress store. I have some larger pix of me too. >I could use the FST logo, the nice blue banner logo you have at the start >page, and any good pictures of you/your work that you'd like to have >included. Then I can post you some screenshots once I've got something >happening. :) > >In addition I was pondering putting together some sort of music ambience >backdrop for the DVD menu... Will have to see what happens. I'd love that! I'd like to update the opening thing for the vids online too, it is archaic and clumsy. Always wanted to have a tibetan bell sound with it. >Namaste! >Gustaf > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org From gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com Mon Jan 30 01:44:08 2006 From: gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com (Gustaf Grefberg) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:44:08 +0100 Subject: [Helpers] Comedy of errors. Message-ID: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0C87E6@mail.starbreeze.com> > I called Brian and he sung the praises of a mac laptop, which is a new > direction I had not considered. > > Any suggestions? Mac laptops are not bad at all. And good thing is that video formats are interchangeable between macs and PCs. Generally, a lot of people who work with audio and video use macs. The OS is better suited for it and tends to render less problems. I use PCs myself, generally because of the software I use. Vegas is only available for Windows systems, and I have never worked with anything equivalent in audio/video editing. And of course it's the games... :) But if you don't need a lot of games or Vegas, a Mac may be both more stable and faster than a Windows laptop.. For you it'd probably be pretty good. From gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com Mon Jan 30 02:34:32 2006 From: gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com (Gustaf Grefberg) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:34:32 +0100 Subject: [Helpers] Comedy of errors. Message-ID: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0C87E7@mail.starbreeze.com> > What if we offer more than one format? Quicktime and rm or windows? We can definitely do that. Once I have a master I can easily render it in any format or size. The only issue with that is web server space. More than one format will start eating space quickly... But once I've got the first video done, we can do some calculations. :) > I'm working on it! :) How is it going? I know you've had to deal with a lot of hassle. Let me know if I can help out with anything. > Yeah, I made some high-res ones of the logo for the cafepress store. I > have some larger pix of me too. Excellent. Both the DVD menu and video logos need new graphics. That brings up something else. Do you want a DVD that you can play in any regular DVD player at the TV? It could be very nice to be able to do lessons off the computer. The only drawback with that is that you won't be able to access the web material. Though it is possible to make a DVD readable both on a computer and playable on a DVD player.. So you can watch videos in the living room and then have the webpage archive available on the same disc for the computer. It may also be a good idea to still have the disc available as a regular red-book CD for those with older computers. Then it'd be like your current FST CD, only with the newer video files and updated webpages, etc. My suggestion is to stick to something simple so people aren't overwhelmed by a wal-mart supply of FST products lol :) > I'd love that! I'd like to update the opening thing for the vids online > too, it is archaic and clumsy. Always wanted to have a tibetan bell sound > with it. Tibetan bell sound it is! Wondering where I can get hold of some authentic recordings... Or even bells to record myself. It would be a very fun project. From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Mon Jan 30 23:55:51 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:55:51 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] Comedy of errors. In-Reply-To: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0C87E7@mail.starbreeze.com > Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060130212421.032e0b48@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 02:34 AM 1/30/2006, you wrote: > > What if we offer more than one format? Quicktime and rm or >windows? > >We can definitely do that. Once I have a master I can easily render it >in any format or size. The only issue with that is web server space. >More than one format will start eating space quickly... But once I've >got the first video done, we can do some calculations. :) Space is not really a problem because web hosting accounts have become so inexpensive. Back in '96 I was paying $45. /month for a 10mb account. Now I pay about $20. usd/month for a 4g reseller account which is less than 1/2 full. At present I have a second account with another provider hosting the videos, because the old one at affordablehost did not offer streaming vid. The new one does but I haven't moved them over to it yet. I figured I would just cauncel it when the update and new vids are done. I'm thinking new format with bigger image will probably still be a smaller file than realplayer from 1999. > > I'm working on it! :) It is handled!! Yaaay!!! I just kept surrendering, and druid (who is a certified genius) came up with an elegant... and in hindsight, obvious solution. Tonight I bought a new DVD player-recorder with firewire, for my TV! A Sony RDR-GX315 We were not sure which one to get, but while we were in Futureshop trying to find a salesperson who had a brain, Goddess provided a pro videographer with a big turban who said he uses that one for everything from capturing from a camcorder to copying DVDs for clients. At least, I think that is what he said! I'm half deaf and he had a very thick accent! Now I can play the workout music vid DVD I made, on the TV. I'm really enjoying getting back into shape. I am a vain creature, and I want to lose about 25 lbs before going on camera again. I was about 135 when the FST vids were made, now I am 159 lbs. Makes me look jowly and double-chinned. I can burn my old fave VHS tapes and some of my ancient vinyl LPs to DVD too. I'm doing the happy dance! While I'm doing the DVDs I'll make some notes for you using the time signature. We shot 2 or 3 versions of each vid and checking the transcript or the current vids, is the only way to tell which version was used. It may be you can edit the bits into something even better!! I've leave it to your discretion. If the vids change, the transcript will need to be adjusted too. Percyval transcribed them all, originally. >How is it going? I know you've had to deal with a lot of hassle. Let me >know if I can help out with anything. You have been very helpful. Thank you. > > Yeah, I made some high-res ones of the logo for the cafepress >store. I > > have some larger pix of me too. Most of the pix of me on the site now, were captured from the DV tapes... then altered a bit because it had a wider aspect ratio for some unknown reason. I don't like pix of myself from my digital camera either, it has a fisheye effect that is most unflattering. >Excellent. Both the DVD menu and video logos need new graphics. That >brings up something else. Do you want a DVD that you can play in any >regular DVD player at the TV? It could be very nice to be able to do >lessons off the computer. The only drawback with that is that you won't >be able to access the web material. Though it is possible to make a DVD >readable both on a computer and playable on a DVD player.. So you can >watch videos in the living room and then have the webpage archive >available on the same disc for the computer. Yes... and I think it is still possible to password protect the grail ritual? I've noticed some movie DVDs have all kinds of wierd stuff on them, like a Shrek quiz that unlocks a bonus feature. Dunno if you have the tech to do that... remastering the vids is the important thing, for now. Ever since we made them, I have had a funny mental image of myself pitching FST in DVD & VHS on a late-night infomercial like Tony Robbins. At the time it seemed absurd, but since then I have seen other "better sex" etc. infomercials so it doesn't seem so strange anymore. Mind you, I am miles away from being able to affoard TV air time or a studio to record it in... Wasn't my idea, Goddess put it in my head so if She wants it She can provide... and now She is reminding me that I have some crazy old vaudeville friends who have a lease on a tiny old vaudeville theatre... hmmm... http://heartachesrazzband.com/ >It may also be a good idea to still have the disc available as a regular >red-book CD for those with older computers. Then it'd be like your >current FST CD, only with the newer video files and updated webpages, >etc. > >My suggestion is to stick to something simple so people aren't >overwhelmed by a wal-mart supply of FST products lol :) LOL!! Yup. > > I'd love that! I'd like to update the opening thing for the vids >online > > too, it is archaic and clumsy. Always wanted to have a tibetan bell >sound > > with it. > >Tibetan bell sound it is! Wondering where I can get hold of some >authentic recordings... Or even bells to record myself. It would be a >very fun project. I have a small collection of Tibetan bells of various sizes. I gave Brian a call. He is a musician too, one band he is in was voted best independent Canadian band in 2004... http://www.fidgital.com/main.php http://www.fidgital.com/media/Fidgital_Wins_Indie_Award.jpg Brian is the blonde on the right. he agreed to take the bells to the studio, then suggested I record them myself with the camcorder mike! I have the use of his DV videocam till the end of Feb. when the band goes on tour. I don't know how the quality will be, but I'll give it a try~! Blessings... From gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com Tue Jan 31 02:30:07 2006 From: gustaf.grefberg at starbreeze.com (Gustaf Grefberg) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:30:07 +0100 Subject: [Helpers] Comedy of errors. Message-ID: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0C87EB@mail.starbreeze.com> > Space is not really a problem because web hosting accounts have become > so inexpensive. Back in '96 I was paying $45. /month for a 10mb account. > Now I pay about $20. usd/month for a 4g reseller account which is less > than > 1/2 full. At present I have a second account with another provider > hosting > the videos, because the old one at affordablehost did not offer streaming > vid. The new one does but I haven't moved them over to it yet. I figured I > would just cauncel it when the update and new vids are done. > > I'm thinking new format with bigger image will probably still be a > smaller file than realplayer from 1999. Ok I gotcha! Space should definitely not be an issue then. It's still probably a good idea to offer low bandwith versions of the videos as well. Like half the picture size and twice the compression ratio. Makes for quarter size or so. > I just kept surrendering, and druid (who is a certified genius) came up > with an elegant... and in hindsight, obvious solution. Tonight I bought a > new DVD player-recorder with firewire, for my TV! A Sony RDR-GX315 > > We were not sure which one to get, but while we were in Futureshop > trying to find a salesperson who had a brain, Goddess provided a pro > videographer with a big turban who said he uses that one for everything > from capturing from a camcorder to copying DVDs for clients. At least, I > think that is what he said! I'm half deaf and he had a very thick accent! > > Now I can play the workout music vid DVD I made, on the TV. I'm really > enjoying getting back into shape. I am a vain creature, and I want to lose > about 25 lbs before going on camera again. I was about 135 when the FST > vids were made, now I am 159 lbs. Makes me look jowly and double-chinned. > > I can burn my old fave VHS tapes and some of my ancient vinyl LPs to > DVD > too. I'm doing the happy dance! > > While I'm doing the DVDs I'll make some notes for you using the time > signature. We shot 2 or 3 versions of each vid and checking the transcript > or the current vids, is the only way to tell which version was used. It > may > be you can edit the bits into something even better!! I've leave it to > your > discretion. Daaang that's nice! And cheap too. That will definitely make it way easier. :) > If the vids change, the transcript will need to be adjusted too. > Percyval transcribed them all, originally. Maybe Kimberly can help out with transcribing them if anything changes. She's said she'd like to help out. Btw, she still hasn't been able to read mails from the helpers list.. Not sure what's up with that. Her email addy is ladyofquills at spray.se > Most of the pix of me on the site now, were captured from the DV > tapes... then altered a bit because it had a wider aspect ratio for some > unknown reason. I don't like pix of myself from my digital camera either, > it has a fisheye effect that is most unflattering. Maybe you have photos to scan or something? What I had in mind is for example the picture where you hold the candle on the FST starting page. Is that a DV cap too? > Yes... and I think it is still possible to password protect the grail > ritual? I've noticed some movie DVDs have all kinds of wierd stuff on > them, > like a Shrek quiz that unlocks a bonus feature. Dunno if you have the tech > to do that... remastering the vids is the important thing, for now. It -should- be possible. This will be a learning experience for me. I've never done DVD authoring before, only video editing. I'm going to upgrade the work license of Vegas to include DVD architect. Until then I have a trial "try before buy" version of it. It's fully equipped and should be able to handle anything you're supposed to be able to do with DVDs... So I've got a bit of experimenting ahead of me. I will play around some this weekend and see if I can figure it out. > Ever since we made them, I have had a funny mental image of myself > pitching FST in DVD & VHS on a late-night infomercial like Tony Robbins. > At the time it seemed absurd, but since then I have seen other "better > sex" > etc. infomercials so it doesn't seem so strange anymore. Mind you, I am > miles away from being able to affoard TV air time or a studio to record it > in... > Wasn't my idea, Goddess put it in my head so if She wants it She can > provide... and now She is reminding me that I have some crazy old > vaudeville friends who have a lease on a tiny old vaudeville theatre... > hmmm... > http://heartachesrazzband.com/ Haha! Looks like a gorgeous theatre. :) Btw, when you make future recordings, I would warmly recommend an external microphone for the DV camera, that can be placed on a mic stand closer to you, or a small personal microphone that can be fit on clothes, hidden under a collar, etc. They tend to eliminate the engine buzz of the DV camera since they can be farther away, and can have very good sound quality. I'd recommend a narrow-cone condenser mic (It's a sensitive mic which is directional, so it focuses on picking up what it's pointed out rather than the room echo and other noises) Mics come in all sorts of price ranges, shapes and sizes. If you ever decide to get one, let me know and I'll help you out sorting through the microphone jungle. It sounds like you have had decent micing on the original FST classes, although the realmedia format has distorted it a bit. And who knows, maybe the theatre people have external microphones.. > LOL!! Yup. FST T-shirts and coffee mugs. "FST - what would you like to surrender today?" "The serpent is your friend!" > I have a small collection of Tibetan bells of various sizes. I gave > Brian a call. He is a musician too, one band he is in was voted best > independent Canadian band in 2004... > http://www.fidgital.com/main.php > http://www.fidgital.com/media/Fidgital_Wins_Indie_Award.jpg > Brian is the blonde on the right. > > he agreed to take the bells to the studio, then suggested I record them > myself with the camcorder mike! I have the use of his DV videocam till the > end of Feb. when the band goes on tour. I don't know how the quality will > be, but I'll give it a try~! Wonderful! I'm looking forward to it. From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Tue Jan 31 07:29:50 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:29:50 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] Comedy of errors. In-Reply-To: <322B2388B4048A4C924F92CAA52A6E9F0C87EB@mail.starbreeze.com > Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060131063229.032ab018@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 02:30 AM 1/31/2006, you wrote: > > I'm thinking new format with bigger image will probably still be a > > smaller file than realplayer from 1999. > >Ok I gotcha! Space should definitely not be an issue then. It's still >probably a good idea to offer low bandwith versions of the videos as >well. Like half the picture size and twice the compression ratio. Makes >for quarter size or so. Yup. They need to be small for downloading or streaming, but having alternate versions is not a storage issue. > > I just kept surrendering, and druid (who is a certified genius) >came up > > with an elegant... and in hindsight, obvious solution. Tonight I >bought a > > new DVD player-recorder with firewire, for my TV! A Sony RDR-GX315 >Daaang that's nice! And cheap too. That will definitely make it way >easier. :) Yeah! Surrender is good problem solving! > > If the vids change, the transcript will need to be adjusted too. > > Percyval transcribed them all, originally. > >Maybe Kimberly can help out with transcribing them if anything changes. >She's said she'd like to help out. Btw, she still hasn't been able to >read mails from the helpers list.. Not sure what's up with that. Her >email addy is ladyofquills at spray.se That would be lovely! I checked and she was not subscribed, so I added her. > > Most of the pix of me on the site now, were captured from the DV > > tapes... then altered a bit because it had a wider aspect ratio for >some > > unknown reason. I don't like pix of myself from my digital camera >either, > > it has a fisheye effect that is most unflattering. > >Maybe you have photos to scan or something? What I had in mind is for >example the picture where you hold the candle on the FST starting page. >Is that a DV cap too? Yes. It will be on the DVD, I think. I don't remember if he gave me big ones. I'll look for them, but I have not found large versions yet. > > Yes... and I think it is still possible to password protect the >grail > > ritual? I've noticed some movie DVDs have all kinds of wierd stuff on > > them, > > like a Shrek quiz that unlocks a bonus feature. Dunno if you have the >tech > > to do that... remastering the vids is the important thing, for now. > >It -should- be possible. This will be a learning experience for me. >I've never done DVD authoring before, only video editing. I'm going to >upgrade the work license of Vegas to include DVD architect. Until then I >have a trial "try before buy" version of it. It's fully equipped and >should be able to handle anything you're supposed to be able to do with >DVDs... So I've got a bit of experimenting ahead of me. I will play >around some this weekend and see if I can figure it out. I think in Nero 7 I saw something about password protection, but that may have been for the whole DVD, not a part of it. I had a terrible time with it, making the FST CD and the only solution was making the last lessons into password protected exe files. No hurry for that anyhow, web vids come first. > > and now She is reminding me that I have some crazy old > > vaudeville friends who have a lease on a tiny old vaudeville >theatre... > > hmmm... > > http://heartachesrazzband.com/ > >Haha! Looks like a gorgeous theatre. :) Btw, when you make future >recordings, I would warmly recommend an external microphone for the DV >camera, that can be placed on a mic stand closer to you, or a small >personal microphone that can be fit on clothes, hidden under a collar, >etc. Yes, that will be yet another investment. I have three mics right now... a full size one that doesn't work, has to be returned to Panasonic. A cheap gooseneck desktop, and a mid-range headset mic Percyval gave me when I was trying to get Dragon Dictate to work. Wouldn't it be great to just play the vids to a voice dictation machine and have it pop out a transcript? I'm dreamin! > They tend to eliminate the engine buzz of the DV camera since they >can be farther away, and can have very good sound quality. I'd recommend >a narrow-cone condenser mic (It's a sensitive mic which is directional, >so it focuses on picking up what it's pointed out rather than the room >echo and other noises) Mics come in all sorts of price ranges, shapes >and sizes. If you ever decide to get one, let me know and I'll help you >out sorting through the microphone jungle. I'd appreciate a recommendation. >It sounds like you have had decent micing on the original FST classes, >although the realmedia format has distorted it a bit. Yeah, my old partner had a cordless clip on mic... but it really only worked well if I stayed very still. Thus, the loss of the video for the diet lesson. >And who knows, maybe the theatre people have external microphones.. They have all kinds, but I agree the sound is terrible on the web clip of the band. >FST T-shirts and coffee mugs. "FST - what would you like to surrender >today?" "The serpent is your friend!" That is great! I never thought of that! Making funny K slogans for the store. I just thought it would be cool to have branded school stuff, like they do for universities... and once that was done I did not give it another thought. I bought a ton of the stuff because I don't get tired of looking at that logo... but seen through your eyes, the offerings really are rather boring. There is much potential for fun! large logos are uploaded to psd/big art/ > > I have a small collection of Tibetan bells of various sizes. I >gave > > Brian a call. He is a musician too, one band he is in was voted best > > independent Canadian band in 2004... > > http://www.fidgital.com/main.php > > http://www.fidgital.com/media/Fidgital_Wins_Indie_Award.jpg > > Brian is the blonde on the right. > > > > he agreed to take the bells to the studio, then suggested I record >them > > myself with the camcorder mike! I have the use of his DV videocam till >the > > end of Feb. when the band goes on tour. I don't know how the quality >will > > be, but I'll give it a try~! > >Wonderful! I'm looking forward to it. Cool! From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Tue Jan 31 10:36:57 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:36:57 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] Comedy of errors. References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060130212421.032e0b48@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <005901c62695$51af3fa0$7b45fea9@sachikojn> > Yes... and I think it is still possible to password protect the > grail > ritual? I've noticed some movie DVDs have all kinds of wierd stuff > on them, > like a Shrek quiz that unlocks a bonus feature. Dunno if you have > the tech > to do that... remastering the vids is the important thing, for now. For the computer reading, you can create with Flash to have the ritual page protected, too. Sachiko From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Tue Jan 31 13:44:21 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:44:21 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] Comedy of errors. In-Reply-To: <005901c62695$51af3fa0$7b45fea9@sachikojn> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060130212421.032e0b48@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060131134233.031ed2d8@mail.fire-serpent.com> At 10:36 AM 1/31/2006, you wrote: > > Yes... and I think it is still possible to password protect the > > grail > > ritual? I've noticed some movie DVDs have all kinds of wierd stuff > > on them, > > like a Shrek quiz that unlocks a bonus feature. Dunno if you have > > the tech > > to do that... remastering the vids is the important thing, for now. > >For the computer reading, you can create with Flash to have the >ritual page protected, too. > >Sachiko Yay! Thank you. BTW Sachiko you are completely right about my navbar mouseovers. They suck, and need to be stylesheet text. My attachment to my labour is not sufficient excuse for making people wait for the page to load. From sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com Tue Jan 31 14:31:25 2006 From: sachiko at Heartinjewelry.com (Sachiko M) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:31:25 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] Comedy of errors. References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060130212421.032e0b48@mail.fire-serpent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20060131134233.031ed2d8@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <00db01c626b6$12cf59c0$7b45fea9@sachikojn> > BTW Sachiko you are completely right about my navbar mouseovers. > They > suck, and need to be stylesheet text. My attachment to my labour is > not > sufficient excuse for making people wait for the page to load. You can always do the menu in Flash, too. Then you can have three stages (Mouse Out, Over and Down) with much much lighter file size. It just the URL link will be written inside flash, so it needs to be alter then you have to have flash softwear to do so. Sachiko From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Tue Jan 31 16:31:52 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:31:52 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] Special helpers chat party! Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060131163029.033a91e8@mail.fire-serpent.com> I'm thinking Saturday at noon or 1pm. Does that work for everybody? From Mystress at fire-serpent.com Tue Jan 31 16:42:40 2006 From: Mystress at fire-serpent.com (Mystress Angelique Serpent) Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:42:40 -0800 Subject: [Helpers] menu/flash/filenames. In-Reply-To: <00db01c626b6$12cf59c0$7b45fea9@sachikojn> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20060130212421.032e0b48@mail.fire-serpent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20060131134233.031ed2d8@mail.fire-serpent.com> Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20060131154022.03232c58@mail.fire-serpent.com> ooooh, flash menu! I have no clue what that is like. Does that mean I get to keep my pretty menu fonts and colours? I give them up to Goddess, and Goddess through Sachiko gives them back better. Coolness! :) Macromedia MX is on the way, supposedly it was shipped UPS Jan 17. Might be time to inquire about a tracking number. The menus will need editing anyway, if there are to be alternate versions of the vids. Maybe it is time to rename the files, after all! Anybody up for the task? Hmmm... With the number of files for each lesson increasing, I wonder if a bigger reorganization might work... instead of folders for different parts of the lesson, have a separate folder for each lesson, with all the files (except the images) for that lesson in it together. Does that make sense? Am I on glue? In the beginning, and since, the vids were on a different server from the html, but that won't be the case, anymore. I think it might be best for me to turn the design over to the group, and focus on the content alone. You know how I want the pages to look, more or less. How that is accomplished... ? Your ideas are better than mine. I'm just not sure if you want the job... let me know if I am asking too much. It is hard for me to edit my own work, I tend to read from memory and not see the words. I'm going to paste the essays into text files to try to get a fresh eye. I'm throwing out my attachment to doing the SSI last, too. I'll ask Goddess for another way to work out the cohesion of the energy bubble of the Shaktipat of information. The only thing that concerns me is that the SSI won't work on the CD, and it is maybe ineffective to take the lessons apart for the web, then put them back together again for the CD. Got opinions? I guess there will be a windows CD and a mac CD... I have wanted a mac version, for years... :) I'm wondering where everyone is at, in the course? I don't want your helping to interfere with the process of your growth with it. Sigh. I am tired. I was up all night writing, then had a brief nap before my housekeeper showed at 11. We worked to clear out the playroom because druid's B-day is tomorrow... it turned out to be a surprisingly emotional process. Digging through boxes, I found some forgotten items that just slayed me with the energy they held. I expected the job would be difficult because of dust allergy, I did not expect to be dealing with emotions coming up. It let me know some things are still healing. Time for a soak in a hot bath, then food and a nap to get myself in shape for a 3 hour Shaktipat session with a guy in Australia at 11pm. At 02:31 PM 1/31/2006, Sachiko M wrote: > > BTW Sachiko you are completely right about my navbar mouseovers. > > They > > suck, and need to be stylesheet text. My attachment to my labour is > > not > > sufficient excuse for making people wait for the page to load. > >You can always do the menu in Flash, too. Then you can have three >stages >(Mouse Out, Over and Down) with much much lighter file size. > >It just the URL link will be written inside flash, so it needs to be >alter >then you have to have flash softwear to do so. > >Sachiko > > > >_______________________________________________ >Helpers mailing list >Helpers at fire-serpent.org >http://fire-serpent.org/mailman/listinfo/helpers_fire-serpent.org