Hey there, I'd like a favor from anyone running dialip. When you go here:

http://www.drexle.com/osload.html

Do you see a preloader? I cannot tell if it works or not because the site it's supposed to load comes in instantly on cable.

I hope a laptop aircard is sufficient. Details in 5.

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Laptop aircards are roughly 100kbps, so you might want to get a second opinion, but the site just loaded up on a blank screen with the wee progress bar in the lower right corner, as it is with every website. I did get a "Now Loading" message when I clicked on the icons, though.

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hmmm.. so you saw nothing like this, then...?

http://www.drexle.com/osload2.html (It's not loading anything, but it's what the loader looks like if it is actually doing something.)

No, none of that. I didn't see a single black screen. Blank white to sky blue.

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Nothing loaded for me. Which means that I wasted precious moments of my life waiting in vain for a website to appear -- moments that I will never get back, ever.

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Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.

My goal in life is to make biped waste his. I am pleased that I am well on my way to realizing this goal.

The preloader works now, so don't bother clicking that link anymore... unless you like wasting your life.

Click this one instead.

http://www.drexle.com

And continue wasting your life.

it even loaded on adsl!

that was just for show

admit it

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Hrm???

Well, the site is about 100kb, which I remember being a thoroughly unacceptable ammount of time to sit and look at a blank screen when I was on dialup back in North Carolina. I decided that it needed a preloader for those few poor souls who still have dialup.

That said, I also wanted it to look like a boot-up screen for a computer, so it needed to last long enough to look like one for people on faster connections.

Wow! It loaded up so fast that time, I almost shit!

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Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.

Given that my other goal in life is to make Biped shit, I am highly dissapointed in myself that I failed to quite do the job.

I will now commit seppuku. Who shall attend me during my last moments?

Will it be done automatically by a black robot with red eyes?

Incidentally, before you commit ritual suicide, you might want to tweak the picture links so they open in windows of the right size. Having to resize every one was a bit of a pain.

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Causing DexX pain isn't one of my life goals, but is an added bonus.

Consider it improv-ed.

Took about 15 sec of loading on my humble 56k modem.

Did that red-eyed thing skewer a robot penis?

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