News Item - October 31, 2000 09:30 PM
We're running some development software accelleration on the scripts. Slower to you? yes, it is.. it has a 2 second delay built in until we decide to buy it. We've tried unsuccessfully in the past to make this thing work out. Looks like the newest version is going to swing for us. If everything is cool tomorrow, we'll probably lay down the cash & ditch the footer message and the 2 second delay. Just so you know if it seems slower, it actually is for now.
Written by Dallas DamonZ
News Item - October 30, 2000 07:49 PM
Updated the Links page finally. Lots of new entries. This is my favorite: Z32 Wheel Selection Guide. I don't know who's page this is, but kudos on the compilation of info!
News Item - October 28, 2000 11:29 AM
OK, the verdict is in. Most people liked the 'old' way that View Personal worked. SO, I've spent about three days working on code strictly for the thread building process to make it work better and more efficiently, and voila! The old way is back!
In addition, you should now see on the normal forum pages that any messages you have posted will have the author's name highlighted in red. This should help you more easily identify your own posts on the main forum pages without necessarily having to use View Personal.
Other minor fix: Some of you may have noticed that it's possible for you to view a post, compose a reply, and then submit the post successfully only to find out that it never shows up because the post you were replying to got deleted while you were replying. This has now been fixed and you will be notified upon preview or submit if the message you are replying to has been deleted.
Enjoy!
Written by Greg (Dallas)
News Item - September 26, 2000 01:44 PM
We're down right now, I'm on hold with Verio trying to find out exactly why we're down. I'm moving the server(s) off Verio in the next couple weeks, as other suitable connectivity has been ordered that doesn't leave the server end right next to the largest construction site in Dallas. The construction kills our power at least once a day, or shreds our T1/telco connection. Makes me as an engineer with a lot of electrical equipment working for a company that hasn't grasped the concept of centralized UPS rather cranky. I officially hate the new American Airlines Arena being built next door, I suggest you do the same. Verio says our connection has been up and down for the last 3 days. For WebTV users, we're looking into the login problems some of you are having, which is confusing, because some WebTV users are able to get on & go. Since none of us use WebTV, it's difficult to diagnose. tt.NET merchandise is still being worked out. Greg & I haven't gotten to talk a lot in the last 2 weeks to settle out the front costs. That is all.
News Item - September 17, 2000 10:04 PM
Well... I guess we'll unleash this on everyone. There's a new theme now! I'd had this half built for a long time & decided to polish it off & get it out there. Our three themes are getting stale, so we'll start adding themes to take advantage of the flexibility we built into the site. The new theme is 'Alxlee', a little gift of gratitude for our new Admin. Thanks Alex! If you find anything odd, e-mail me directly damonz@twinturbo.net please. I think it's mostly in line, and it's very, very frameless! :-) Go here to change your profile & check it out under 'Theme' at the bottom.
News Item - August 28, 2000 10:19 AM
The new server is screaming along. Hopefully you've noticed the difference in performance. We're still working on NOS for it tho. There's still more to be gotten out of it.
We're gearing up to have shirts and other merchandise made to promote the site. We need a headcount to see who's interested in what so we don't over order certain items. This isn't a commitment to anything, but we do ask that you be honest in what you might want to purchase. All the pics are mock-ups to give you an idea of what the final items will look like. Check out the survey page here. Thanks for your participation.
News Item - August 25, 2000 02:22 PM
Well, we FINALLY have the new server up and running. Hopefully you'll all see the site to be quite a bit faster. This is a pure hardware upgrade at this point, so we still have some things we're working on to continue improving the speed. Of course, we never miss an opportunity to add new functionality, so here goes:
I guess that's about it for now. Hopefully you'll enjoy a dramatic speed increase with the changes that we have made.
Greg (Dallas) Dallas DamonZ AlxLee (Admin)
News Item - August 09, 2000 08:35 AM
*grrrrr* 38 hour service outage. My office, where the server is at is right next to where the new American Airlines Arena is being built. Lots of construction work going on 24-7. Just so happens a lot of the utilities have to come down the street to my office and then onto the worksite, so the road is constantly ripped up while they lay in power, fiber, gas, etc.. Unfortunately, this pretty much requires someone to run into the cables & drop my telco service. Lost phones, ISDN and T1. That's bad enough. Everything recoved when the line was repaired with some help.. except the T1's equipment was fried. Had to wait for the Worldcomm guys to come on site to repair/replace the box. What a freaking PITA. If it weren't for bad luck, I guess I'd have no luck at all. Sorry for the downtime.
News Item - August 02, 2000 01:37 PM
Well, I'm officially fed up with Verio (the ISP this site is operating on). After having a month of horrible connection difficulties and talking to CS people there about it repeatedly... Then having a 13 hour outage with no real resolution (my company pays a crapload a month for this T1, I'd expect better) on why it took so long to fix. They were the ones to originally report the outage, but I had to call to get things moving on the circuit correction, which took all of a half an hour to complete. They are monitoring the line now to try and resolve all the bounces that have been happening over the last 3 days. Hopefully this will improve site performance, but I have a feeling the only way to improve it is to get the server moved elsewhere.
Yes, we know Classifieds 'wanted' and 'selling' buttons are not working properly. There's a few other features that are down right now. We're not going to fix them because they all work on the new server (long story, not going to spend time explaining), any time we have (Greg and I) is being spent on the new server for the speed increase. All bugs should be fixed when we make the move over. The network is not making me want to make the move yet, because even though the server is a *lot* faster, the network performance reflects poorly on the overall site performance. Hopefully all the pieces will fall in line very shortly (fingers crossed).
Sorry for the inconvenience
News Item - July 25, 2000 02:14 PM
We have now been back online for nearly a month now and things seem to be running fairly well. We are still having a few issues with speed. However, that problem will soon be solved. Damon, Greg and Steve have splurged and purchased a new server. The new server is a dual 800mHz. Improvement should be seen immediately since we are currently on dual 300s.
For everyone that has had problems with your left menu bar, please clear your browser's cache first to see if that cures the problem. 99% of the time, this will solve your problem. Also, everyone seems to be getting a bit more used to the dual forum setup. I'd just like to remind everyone to keep technical items in the tech side. My moderators and I will now be moving more of the posts over to the technical side from the general side (And vice versa if necessary). There's also no need to post the same questions on both forums. Simply use your best judgement and decide if your question should be on the tech side or the general side.
That's about all I have to say right now. Hope everyone is enjoying themselves!
Written by Alex Lee [DE]
