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Tennessee Gun Owners FAQ Tried the above?

"And come back when you get a real gun!"

I've inadvertently done it before at a past job. Ended up carrying my PM9 around in my pocket all day as a result of being unable to discretely go back to my car and getting run-over with work to do. No one was any the wiser. This is just one of many reasons why I preach discrete concealed carry. If you're doing it right -- and barring metal detectors or strip searches -- no one should be able to tell from looking at you. I'm not advocating carrying in places that by law you should not. I'm just saying that sometimes we are, by virtue of our desire to play by the rules and be good citizens, our own worst enemy when it comes to matters of discretion. Gun owners do it all the time: tatting on themselves, self-consciously tugging at our cover garments thinking that the whole world can see our sidearms, etc. We need to put common sense ahead of this odd society-taught behavior. But I digress.

It appears that essentially all of the various Internet Service Providers (Comcast, Charter, AOL, etc.) have updated their DNS records for TGO and are now pointing our members to the new server. That said, I would like to open this thread to serve as a "Report Card" of sorts on the new server. Primarily I'm interested in hearing your impressions of: Page loading speeds Any delays or errors Timeouts There are some features that may still not be working 100% for 100% of our members. Features such as email alerts, for example. Email is a tricky beast that most people just sort of take for granted and assume it will always work. Unfortunately despite our best efforts some ISPs continue to block our forum's opt-in automatic alerts and consider them to be spam. Not because of TGO necessarily, but because of the thousands of forums out there running vBulletin sending those same emails. To a spam filter, the same email coming from countless domains looks like spam. So there really may not be anything we can do about that. But besides email, what are your impressions? Thanks!

Funny, yes. But I hate it when people throw this out there since it downplays the importance of capacity when compared to the insignificance of caliber. Wolves travel in packs. If all you have are 6 rounds in the magazine and 1 in the pipe, and are shooting the accepted best practice of non-standard response (3-4 rounds per target) what are going to do when wolves #3 and #4 join the fight? At best, waste precious seconds reloading? At worse, fumble the reload? Throw the empty mag at them? Wish you had more rounds? Die?

It looks like most everyone is able to access the site again. Thanks for the feedback, all.

Should have kept your mouth shut and returned it to your car at the earliest convenient time. Being honest doesnt pay in cases like this. No good deed will ever go unpunished.

No. Patience please.

Delete your TGO cookies and try again. I'm not surprised that is happening since moving to a different server. It did it to me earlier as well until I made the same change.

Yep. Software change coming soon! It's never good to do too many big changes at once.

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.