Federation Starship USS Augusta Ada NCC-55011

she dreams of the future...

The U.S.S. Augusta Ada meets monthly!

LCARS Query: system parameters You have been authorized to access a limited amount of system diagnostics.

The domain is maintained primarily by Comp Ops (Heather Stern) with a bunch of backup help from our Captain (Dave Benfell). Special networking support is provided by Engineering ('Dillo). We do our best to keep the dilithium crystals at full when Ion Storms abound, and the Covert Ops team offers their talents to keep Species 31337, a mutual enemy we share with the Borg, from invading our command circuitry.

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System Architecture

A combination of Sparc and Intel framework, plasma-flow inverters at all critical junctions to prevent power loss, and our hypermodern ship's AI, MI/BUS.

Hosting

The website is hosted at a subhost within the domain of Starshine.Org, the personal and consulting site belonging to Jim Dennis and Heather Stern (Ops Team). Email is shared by both Ops and the Captain. The Captain maintains a mirror of the main website.

Deflector Shields

We employ the Romulan cloaking device as well as standard biometric filters and diagnostic scripts.
 
The natives refer to deflector technology as "firewalls" and have some unique ways of configuring them.

MX Subspace Communications Array

We maintain a small array of MX nodes to handle all starship communications. Depending on which node you transit through, postfix or qmail may be selected for subspace signalling.

LCARS interfaces

LCARS interfaces are supposed to be adaptive to the display environment, and to our best efforts, this one is.
 
We want our site to look cool but only have one version of HTML pages. It must work well in popular browsers such as Mozilla, Netscape, and Konqueror, yet actually get the job done in such "off brand" browsers as lynx and 'dillo (a lightweight GUI browser). If there's an interface you have problems accessing it in, you'll have to let us know. We don't get much opportunity to test Borg command pathways without being assimilated, after all.
 
As for graphics formats:

• plaintext
  The LCARS effects are properly alt-tagged... not with something insipid like "metal bar" or worse, "long metal bar.jpg 2k" but with either "" to make them disappear, or markings that are made of punctuation; easy to skip for screen readers, pleasant to view for those surfing in text mode.
• JPEG
  We desire near-photographic quality, but a limited range of colors (dark blues to black, and gold, and silver) allows a great deal of success in providing compressed images which are still pleasant to view. In addition to photos, these are used where PNGs might have been more suited, with the background set to help blending.
• PNG
  Yes, we know about the evil patent woes of GIFs. The evil is regarding compressed GIFs using LZW, by the way. Unfortunately PNG support is unreliable; even some that support it, don't support alpha transparency (its most useful benefit) and can't be trusted to stick to black as a background color.
• GIF
  These are used in very tiny portions where transparency helps us avoid sending large image files. We don't use animations on normal pages but there may be some in the graphic galleries.

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