TGO David

I'll be taking the site offline briefly this evening sometime to try and repair that. Going to wait til later though, as the site seems to be doing well right now and it's pretty busy.

Thanks guys. You're all very welcome and I consider it more of a labor of love than a burden. Granted, it seems kind of burdensome when the site is running slowly -- but that's because I am very picky and HATE slow web sites. As for the new software, when we go that direction, the site will look different of course, but I am going to try very hard to keep TGO's characteristic appearance intact. I don't want to throw the baby out with with wash water. And yeah, currently I'm just going to move the site to a "different plot of land". The address will stay the same.

I disagree with this video's lumping Kydex holsters into the mix, particularly since Fobus are plastic and not Kydex, but you get the idea. Fobus rivet mounting is not secure. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDeKtgkZKmQ

I may take the server offline again tonight to repair and reindex portions of the database. That may resolve this issue.

Read the announcements, folks. Nothing is going to improve until I get us moved to the new server.

Yes, that is true.

Fobus holsters are almost a step above carrying your firearm in a paper sack. Almost.

The SERPA lock design encourages bad finger discipline when drawing your weapon. If I am going to use an active locking mechanism I would much prefer something that uses the thumb instead, because your thumb isn't going to be covering (and slapping at) the trigger once the trigger guard clears the holster.

<-- Still not a fan of the SERPA holster, for carry purposes, for obvious reasons. (Although they make reasonably good holsters when screwed to permanent / semi-permanent structures for house/office/vehicle firearms stowage)

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Mulch hauler...

Man, you are getting REALLY good with your photography. Nicely done. Far better than anything I can do.

Unfortunately I will not be able to make it. July is going to be very busy month for me due to family obligations, but I hope you guys have a great time and a great turnout.

FWIW, I also have another Yaesu FT-7900R radio (2m/70cm) less than 6mos old that I might be willing to sell soon. I am probably going to put a different radio in my truck soon and have to go with something smaller, and sadly more expensive, because of space limitations. The 7900R is a great radio. PM me if you're interested. I'll get around to listing it for sale officially sooner or later.

Hand-held is fine if you're in an area with good repeater coverage, but I would honestly recommend a 12-volt mobile (vehicle mount) radio as my first and only radio if I could have just one. Reasons: 1. Higher power output 2. Better reception / transmission courtesy of more antenna options 3. Typically easier to use courtesy of larger surface for operating controls 4. More versatile since you can mount it in a vehicle, operate it from a 120Vac to 12Vdc power supply, or operate completely off the grid with 12Vdc battery supply, possibly served from solar power. Just my $0.02 worth on the matter as someone who's been playing with amateur radio (General Class) for about a year now. As for where to buy, I have used and can recommend both Gigaparts.com and Ham Radio Outlet.

I haven't been able to work on it much today. I did ask the hosting company to investigate; it seems faster to me right now. Really fast, actually.

This is a pretty vague question. That's probably why you don't have any replies yet.

We've maxed out our VPS options with the current hosting company, but it's still a VPS competing for resources against whomever else is on the physical host. I'll either move us to a VMware based VPS or to a dedicated server entirely when we make the next move.

It really doesn't work that way. The conversion has to be done in sequence and with the data quiesced.

I've been doing hot rod cars since way before I was of age to own firearms. Past rides include an SRT8 300C, a 2003 Mach1, several Mustang GTs and other assorted toys.

Which is one of the reasons why Invision Power Board is attractive to me. Their development staff truly seems to care.

They are getting a ton of crap about it.

No it's related to the new editor regardless of which browser is being used.

Unfortunately not without losing several days worth of posts.

Hey gang... As you may have read in my post about the issues we've been experiencing since upgrading to vBulletin 4.1.4 and in keeping with my general distaste for vBulletin 4.x as a whole, I am thinking very seriously about converting the TGO forums over to a different software suite. I have waffled back and forth about this for the past year (at least) but recently the guys over at Invision Power have released a preview of the upcoming next generation Invision Power Board and, frankly, it has blown me away. I feel it is a much more polished, leaner, cleaner forum software than vBulletin and reports from others who have swapped to IPB in the past suggest it runs much faster than vBulletin 4.x does. I'd love your input on this since a swap of the magnitude would be a pretty big undertaking. TGO's forum database is HUGE and converting to new software would require at least a day's worth of downtime and would have a little bit of a learning curve for all of us. You can see the IPB preview site here: IPS Community Forum Just take a look around as a guest, or sign up for an account and use their test forum to try out the software if you feel like doing that. Then let me know what you think about it in this thread. Meanwhile, I'll be trying to squash bugs with vBulletin. Thanks!