Star Trek

[TransWarpDrive]

I got it to download from the link in your last post, but now I can't get the bells to chime on the hour and half-hour like they're supposed to. The only time I can get them to ring is when I right-click on the icon in my toolbar, then click the "Test Bells" button in the box that opens. What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions? (PATY)
EDIT: Never mind. I fixed it. Didn't click all the hour boxes. (Oops..... )

Now you need to go read some Hornblower or Aubrey/Maturin stories as your computer chimes the bells in the background. You'll swear you can smell the salt air ...

The program works great, except I have to manually start it every time I start my computer back up. And then, I have to reset the time in the "Clocks" window back to Standard time - it always seems to revert to Daylight Savings time otherwise.
But I was inspired by having this software to go on-line and search for actual clocks that ring the time using the ship's bell system - Lord, are they expensive!! The cheapest ones start at around $450.00, and they go all they way up in price to $2500.00+ for the really fancy ones... And it doesn't matter whether they're key-wound clockwork, or battery-operated quartz movement - they all cost a pretty penny.
I guess I'll just have to save my money if I want to buy one of those...

[campy]

I got it to download from the link in your last post, but now I can't get the bells to chime on the hour and half-hour like they're supposed to. The only time I can get them to ring is when I right-click on the icon in my toolbar, then click the "Test Bells" button in the box that opens. What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions? (PATY)
EDIT: Never mind. I fixed it. Didn't click all the hour boxes. (Oops..... )

Now you need to go read some Hornblower or Aubrey/Maturin stories as your computer chimes the bells in the background. You'll swear you can smell the salt air ...

The program works great, except I have to manually start it every time I start my computer back up. And then, I have to reset the time in the "Clocks" window back to Standard time - it always seems to revert to Daylight Savings time otherwise.
But I was inspired by having this software to go on-line and search for actual clocks that ring the time using the ship's bell system - Lord, are they expensive!! The cheapest ones start at around $450.00, and they go all they way up in price to $2500.00+ for the really fancy ones... And it doesn't matter whether they're key-wound clockwork, or battery-operated quartz movement - they all cost a pretty penny.
I guess I'll just have to save my money if I want to buy one of those...

You should put a shortcut to the program in your startup folder. I don't know why you have to set the time yourself, unless your time zone isn't set correctly in Windows.

[TransWarpDrive]

I got it to download from the link in your last post, but now I can't get the bells to chime on the hour and half-hour like they're supposed to. The only time I can get them to ring is when I right-click on the icon in my toolbar, then click the "Test Bells" button in the box that opens. What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions? (PATY)
EDIT: Never mind. I fixed it. Didn't click all the hour boxes. (Oops..... )

Now you need to go read some Hornblower or Aubrey/Maturin stories as your computer chimes the bells in the background. You'll swear you can smell the salt air ...

The program works great, except I have to manually start it every time I start my computer back up. And then, I have to reset the time in the "Clocks" window back to Standard time - it always seems to revert to Daylight Savings time otherwise.
But I was inspired by having this software to go on-line and search for actual clocks that ring the time using the ship's bell system - Lord, are they expensive!! The cheapest ones start at around $450.00, and they go all they way up in price to $2500.00+ for the really fancy ones... And it doesn't matter whether they're key-wound clockwork, or battery-operated quartz movement - they all cost a pretty penny.
I guess I'll just have to save my money if I want to buy one of those...

You should put a shortcut to the program in your startup folder. I don't know why you have to set the time yourself, unless your time zone isn't set correctly in Windows.

Well, my time in Windows is set correctly; it even reset itself when we recently switched back to Standard Time. And the icon on my desktop for this program is a "shortcut" icon - it has the little white box with the black arrow in it designating it as such. Tell you what - I'll double-check and see if this program has a shortcut in my startup folder. If not, I'll put one there.
Anyway, thanks for all the advice, campy.

[campy]

You should put a shortcut to the program in your startup folder. I don't know why you have to set the time yourself, unless your time zone isn't set correctly in Windows.

Well, my time in Windows is set correctly; it even reset itself when we recently switched back to Standard Time. And the icon on my desktop for this program is a "shortcut" icon - it has the little white box with the black arrow in it designating it as such. Tell you what - I'll double-check and see if this program has a shortcut in my startup folder. If not, I'll put one there.
Anyway, thanks for all the advice, campy.

Well, I'd still double-check that you're set to the Central time zone ... I know my pocket PC and iPod have done weird things when they were connected while set to different zones.

[TransWarpDrive]

You should put a shortcut to the program in your startup folder. I don't know why you have to set the time yourself, unless your time zone isn't set correctly in Windows.

Well, my time in Windows is set correctly; it even reset itself when we recently switched back to Standard Time. And the icon on my desktop for this program is a "shortcut" icon - it has the little white box with the black arrow in it designating it as such. Tell you what - I'll double-check and see if this program has a shortcut in my startup folder. If not, I'll put one there.
Anyway, thanks for all the advice, campy.

Well, I'd still double-check that you're set to the Central time zone ... I know my pocket PC and iPod have done weird things when they were connected while set to different zones.

I double-checked and yes, I am set to the Central time zone. I even manually updated my clock by synchronizing it to an Internet time server. It only confirmed that my computer's clock had been right all along. All I can do now is recheck my startup folder to see if "Ship's Bell" has a shortcut there. Other than that, I think we've covered everything else.

[campy]

The Enterprise computer is silent today. Majel Barrett-Roddenberry has crossed the final frontier.

RIP

[jeriddian]

The Enterprise computer is silent today. Majel Barrett-Roddenberry has crossed the final frontier.

RIP

The news report mentioned she had leukemia. God bless her. She has joined her Captain Kirk.

[TransWarpDrive]

The Enterprise computer is silent today. Majel Barrett-Roddenberry has crossed the final frontier.

RIP

The news report mentioned she had leukemia. God bless her. She has joined her Captain Kirk.

Yes, I was saddened to learn of Majel's passing myself. I met her son, Gene Roddenberry, Jr., a few years ago. He was a Media Guest of Honor at Windycon; and he also showed up as a guest at Chambanacon one year when that convention was held in Springfield, IL (the hotel we'd been using for years in Champaign decided they wanted more money, and priced us out). He's a very nice young man. My sympathies go out to him - he lost his father back in 1991; now his mother's gone as well.
May she rest in peace...

[Mr Birthday]

Well, I've been reading information about the new movie for the last few weeks, and it is a reboot of sorts, via time travel. I say "of sorts" because when I hear "reboot", I think of something like Marvel's Ultimates Universe, or the new Battlestar Galactica, or Batman Begins versus the '89-to-'97 film series. You know, a completely new continuity. The universe in the new film seems to instead be "merely" the result of Romulans messing around with the timeline.

Anyway, who here has seen it? I haven't yet (I plan on renting it when it comes out on DVD), but I'd like to know what the people here thought of it.

[jeriddian]

I'll be too busy this weekend to see it, but Rob has seen it. I'm sure someone will stop by and give us a review. I certainly will when I get around to seeing it.