From: vince@offshore.ai (Vincent Cate)
Newsgroups: sci.space.tech,sci.space.science
Subject: Re: Simulating Van Allen Particles
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inquiringminds123@hotmail.com (Inquiring minds) wrote in message news:<eecf4838.0312081256.3951e7a2@posting.google.com>...
> Wasnt able to access your site with either IE 6.0 or Netscape 7.1
> Other people tell me they have never been able to access your site
> with their browser either.
> 
> Has it been down the last few months, or just the Java side???

I don't understand this yet.   It works for many people every day.
I can see from the logs that they have clicked on different samples
because they download the classes for those samples. But you are not 
the first to have trouble either.  If anyone can help with this I 
would appreciate it.

I am on a small island in the Caribbean, so there is a chance there 
is some funny Internet problem.  The nameservers for spacetethers.com 
are ns1.offshore.ai and ns2.offshore.ai.  There have been times when 
a company had an internal "ai" domain in their DNS in such a way that
people in that company could not get to my nameservers.  Andrew Thompson
is now also hosting the simulator so trying his site could avoid either
of these problems:  

     http://www.1point1c.org/st/st.jsp

What exactly is the error that you get?  

Can you get to the home page http://spacetethers.com/    ?
There is no Java there, so this could let us know if it is an Internet or
Java problem.

To test that your Java is working (could have been turned off), go to:
http://thorin.adnc.com/~topquark/fun/applets.html
and see if you can run any of those.

There is like 150 KB to load, so it could take some time if you are 
on a dialup connection.

The HTML I had for starting the applet was not the best it could be,
and Andrew helped me get that fixed last week.  So there may be some
people who can get through now that could not.  However, that did 
not take of you as that change was before I posted about simulating
particles.

If anyone who has trouble running my applet can give me feedback after 
trying any of the above I would really appreciate it.

   -- Vince


