TGO David

Obviously.

Easy fix thankfully. All done.

Make sure you guys temper your expectations with the understanding that there is still quite a bit of performance tuning to be done behind the scenes. There may be periods of time when it drags ass; but that has to happen in order for me to get meaningful performance counters out of the logs to see where adjustments have to be made. The next few days, or even the next week, could be laced with periods of time when the server runs dog-ass slow. That's to be expected. I am monitoring it behind the scenes and will know when it happens.

I'll work on that as soon as I get a chance.

Still monitoring and tweaking... it got a little slow earlier running all of the "defaults" so I began tuning the server up. So far, so good if I don't say so myself.

Good deal, guys... I appreciate the feedback. It's more of an academic exercise than anything as I'm curious to see how many ISPs update quickly and how many lag behind.

The very fact that you're reading this means you're on the new server. Please check in and let me know the date/time that you were finally able to see the site on the new server. Thanks!

While I hope this doesn't harm anyone's delicate sensibilities here, I would be remiss if I didn't point out that it has been my own experience that you run into some real kooks at church due to the "Welcome! Jesus loves everyone!" atmosphere of acceptance at play. On one hand, yes, you want to reach out to the lost and downtrodden. On the other hand, when you cast a net that wide you come up with some real nutcases as well. Why? I can only rationalize it's because Church is the one place where they feel welcome and not [overtly] judged by the normal people. Churches need good, solid security programs in place because of that. It should included allowing staff and members to come armed, and should also include a planned response to active aggressor scenarios.

I can't speak for Willis, but I wouldn't piss on Hennessey if he were on fire. Total, absolute, documented crook. I can't believe he is still in business after the number of people he has screwed over the years in the Viper community. As for me, offroading is a given. Moab, UT and Ouray, CO next summer.

You first! I'm still really on the fence about it. Maybe once I start getting some rock chips...

This is one of countless pictures that I took in Sedona last year. No retouching. I did shoot it through a polarized filter, but that's it.

Very cool. It seems like the whole Raptor owners community is looking for 1:18 scale diecast models of our trucks. So far no one has stepped up to make them. I'm pretty surprised that neither Maisto or Auto Art have made them yet, but that Lexan R/C body is definitely the coolest thing I've seen yet.

I have Line-X in mine.

I agree. The interior is nicer than the exterior.

We'll get them together and take some pics and post them up.

So... we need to get the trucks together and see if they really look like photo negatives of each other.

If you guys are looking for temporary work, I'd suggest working through a temp agency. That may seem blindingly obvious, but those are the best sources of work on a day to day or week to week basis. Thankfully you guys are being honest about the temporary nature of your need. The "good" news is that there are a lot of temporary opportunities out there. Quotes due to the fact that sadly some companies could easily staff permanent positions but opt to use temps rather than hire a person and give them benefits.

If the Grand Canyon interests you, save your time and money and just watch a documentary about it. Far less commercial that way. It is pretty much the National Park Service's Disney Land. Just my $0.02 worth.

I agree completely.

Spent 3 days there last fall. Gorgeous town; would love to retire there or to a neighboring town... but that's a good ways away. I'll put together a list of "must do / must see" things later this evening when I have some time.

Nope, took tonight off to go see a movie with my wife. No work for me this evening!

We have had this in the past via a modification to vBulletin called iTrader. iTrader was written by a third party volunteer author who subsequently stopped writing the code, and then a few more people from the vB community picked it up and started working on it again, updating it for vB4. The last time I tried to use it, there were some pretty serious bugs in the software that caused us some problems so I abandoned it again. The good news, however, is that I plan on moving us off of vBulletin very soon and the new software has several well written add-ons that bring that functionality back to the table along with a very nice "classified ads" system. I will be implementing those as soon after as possible. Right now I'm neck deep in some very major projects at work so I just haven't had a lot of time to work on TGO. In fact, this past week I've done the most recreational surfing of the forums that I've been able to do in a long while. And sadly that's because I was pulling some 8pm - 3am upgrades for work from home. That stuff is about to calm down in the second week of August and I hope to be able to earnestly pursue getting us moved to the new server and to the new software.

You couldn't pay me to eat a fish pulled from Percy Priest.

There are far too many variables at the client side (i.e. your computer) over which I have zero control and far too many people not experiencing this problem at all -- myself included -- for me to be able to troubleshoot this or even consider it to be something on the server side. As always, the vast majority of login related issues are either the result of (a.) wrong password or (b.) settings or software on the client side interfering with the browser cookies that TGO uses to store your session credentials. Sorry.

I will say that it is harder for me to get as much work done in the office as I get done working from home. Here at the office there are so many other distractions vying for pieces of my time. People stopping by and expecting you to drop whatever you're doing at the moment to look at something for them, phone ringing, etc. At home I can just focus on the tasks at hand and do my work. Kind of the polar opposite of what so many people say it is like working from home.