News Displaying 87 to 96 of 116 Not a huge or exciting update, but, initially, when I started running XAMPP on the downstairs box and opening that machine up to the outside world, our external IP was quite static and sat there without changing for a good few weeks.
Since then, I was having to make changes to the '$box_ip' variable in the site's index page to keep updating the IP every couple of days, which was in no way practical, since we've been quite busy lately.
I was chatting on over at the deadnet forums and it sent me hunting after dynamic DNS solutions.
Dynu has a free service where you download a client onto pretty much any OS - even iOS, amazingly - that polls their server every so often to find out your external IP and then it updates dynu's DNS records for your domain name accordingly.
I see that the service also allows you to apply SSL encryption (although there is a minor cost involved) in case I ever want to host any applications on that box as well as any big files.
You should find now that the link to the Krystal file area never points to a previous IP.
That machine has a lot of space. I would be interested to hear any ideas around what Star Fleet material we might store on there to expand xbomber.co.uk as a one-stop-shop for Star Fleet information.  I chucked a photo of a new build of the Moderoid Dai-X model kit, by Neko into the relevant folder.
I'm really keen to see a photo of the whole thing, finished.
I think the way he's layered and chipped the paint to do the weathering is the best I've seen yet. Here's an interesting Japanese summary video of Star Fleet on youtube:
X Bomber program commentary and final episode - OMOSHIRO TRIVIA NEWS
You can enable the subtitles on it by clicking "CC" at the bottom of the video window.
If you click the settings gear > Subtitles > Auto-translate, you can choose English from the long list of options.
I will say that they seem to have used some images from the site, including some of my scans in the making of the video. I lately developed an interest in Y2K futurism and skeuomorphism.
It was something that was taken for granted at the time because it was all around.
I think the sterility and brutalism of current user Metro/minimalist interface design has run its course.
I had good success running Explorer Patcher on Windows 11, to get some of the Windows 10 UI functionality back, but I saw that StartAllBack lets you put a Windows 7 appearance on Windows 10 and 11 and get back the glassy Aero theme, and it works really well.
I added the sites to the links page for anyone wanting to make Windows 10/11 a bit more enjoyable to use.
I see at the same time that Microsoft, while adding some useless features to Teams Free, are removing the below features:
Public communities, Polls, and Community Bot
It shouldn't affect Star Fleet Teams, since we never really use those features, but it does make me wonder what they plan to do with the service in the longer term.  I came across this reconstruction of X-Bomber for the procedurally generated game: No Man's Sky by twitter user: kareki_ni_mizu.
It might not be exactly elegant, but it is quite a striking and functional-looking design. I've spotted these settings before, but I hadn't made the connection that they could be used to push back on DDoS attacks:
phpBB • Specific ACP Load Settings: exactly what do they do?
You can throttle the number of sessions, which would mostly impact non-legit users anyway, if we received however-many thousands of sessions our resource allocation was able to handle last time, again.
It limits the demand on the server and keeps the site online - even if the forum is messed on with again.
I thought this info might be useful for any PHPBB admins who happen to pass by.
Congratulations to user: Gumboots for getting to the bottom of how those settings operate. Star Fleet Teams has been pushed back by 1 week to 20:00 UK time on 30th October, rather than the 23rd, due to a scheduling conflict.
I will update the main Star Fleet Teams page accordingly.
If this creates a conflict, let me know and we'll move it until we hit on a time that works for everyone that wants to join.  GVZtz1uakAAAFAd.jpg) I'm sure I came across twitter user: LunoriqreZX before.
They seem to be quite a fan of Star Fleet.
Their AI images of Princess Keeli and Lamia have been added to the fan artwork section.
On a completely different subject, I'm looking for a replacement for our SLIR online image resizer script because that script hasn't been developed in many moons.
It doesn't have any capability in the area of webp or avif formats that we see more-and-more of.
The 'alternatives' that I'm finding all seem to demand PHP 8+, so I'm gradually increasing the PHP version on the server and seeing what breaks first.  I'm sure I've come across this blue outline of X-Bomber before, but more recently, I came across the outputs from Illustrator, showing the process of making it, along with a very nice and useful graphic of the X Bomber logo.
I see that the creator has a redbubble, featuring this and other designs.  Found on nitter, this is an AI enhancement of the often-seen publicity shot of the X-Bomber studio model.
The enhancement process is quite striking and it gave me a very strong Chris Foss vibe.
At the same time, it seems to have introduced a few features that don't make perfect sense.
It makes you feel like you're looking at an Escher when you examine it more closely.
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