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John Pytlak
Film God

Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 05-31-2000 02:47 PM

As of this morning (05/31/00), when I enter the Film-Tech site (www.film-tech.com), I get a slow "fade in" to the home page, starting with a white screen, and taking about a minute to go progressively darker, until the Film-Tech headings and menu bar appears. Has something changed in the way the site is accessed? Once I'm in the site, everything is normal.

The change seems to have coincided with the heading announcing the on-line availability of Joe's projection training tape. Has access speed just bogged down with everyone downloading this huge (but entertaining) file?

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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Eastman Kodak Company
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7419
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: 716-477-5325 Fax: 716-722-7243
E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com

Brad Miller
Administrator

Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 05-31-2000 02:58 PM

Yup, it's all Joe's fault.

Seriously though, I'll check into it. What browser and such are you using?

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Evans A Criswell
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1579
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 05-31-2000 03:04 PM

I haven't noticed any difference whatsoever in access speed since the training video became available. I've been using both Internet Explorer on NT machines and Netscape on SGI boxes today and haven't noticed anything different than usual. I've accessed from two different domains (itsc.uah.edu and msfc.nasa.gov) as well with nothing unusual.

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John Pytlak
Film God

Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 05-31-2000 03:08 PM

I'm using Netscape Communicator 4.61, accessed through Kodak's high speed Ethernet. I assume there is some sort of "firewall". Other sites don't have the "fade-in" delay to their home page.

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Josh Jones
Redhat

Posts: 1207
From: Plano, TX
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 05-31-2000 04:08 PM

John,

I noticed this as well, except my browser takes about one secont to "fade in".
I don't think its just film-tech. other sites I've noticed doing this as well also have a dark background

Josh

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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 05-31-2000 04:17 PM

John, you just aren't surfing the web properly! Perhaps if you were accessing the site from behind Fuji's firewall it would work better

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Tyler Skinner
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 115
From: Pa
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 05-31-2000 04:46 PM

I see this as well, I thought it was just a gimick to make it look like the lights were coming down in an auditorium or something which actually looks pretty cool, but annoying after a while....

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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 05-31-2000 05:07 PM

I have a Mac and I don't see it. I guess that, just like most computer viruses, it is limited to PC users only. Cool.

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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster

Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 05-31-2000 05:33 PM

Thats funny, mine opened up upside down and backwards. Hitting thr refresh button straightened it right out.
mark

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Colin Wiseley
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 123
From: Blacksburg, VA
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 05-31-2000 07:13 PM

I noticed the fade-in when I view the site at home with Netscape 4.0, but at work with IE 5.1, there is no fade.

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Colin Wiseley
Lyric Theatre
Blacksburg, VA www.thelyric.com

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Scott Norwood
Film God

Posts: 8146
From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 05-31-2000 07:34 PM

Haven't seen this here. I usually use Lynx, but I checked this out with Netscape 4.6 under WinNT, Solaris, and Linux with no problems.

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Dustin Mitchell
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1865
From: Mondovi, WI, USA
Registered: Mar 2000

posted 05-31-2000 08:00 PM

I see it, Netscape 4.5.

Joe, that has nothing to do with platform, merely popularity. If MAC was the number 1 OS, it would be the other way around.

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Bruce McGee
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1776
From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular.
Registered: Aug 1999

posted 05-31-2000 08:27 PM

I thought WebTV was going down again.

When I go the the 'next newest' (post,) I get a prompt from Webtv saying that Film-Tech could not find the page, then I see the page slowly form behind the prompt on the screen. I hit continue, and stagger on...

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Michael Barry
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 584
From: Sydney, NSW, Australia
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 05-31-2000 08:34 PM

John P:

I experienced this for the first time recently as well - except for me, the fade-in only lasted a couple of seconds.

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Joe Smith
Film Handler

Posts: 56
From: Dale City, Va. USA
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 05-31-2000 08:37 PM

I've seen the fade-in for about a week now. I use Netscape 4.7. I figured it was just a new "feature".

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