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Ken Thomas (Future328driver)
New member
Username: Future328driver
Post Number: 28
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2002 - 8:01 am: | |
But, can you leap tall buildings????
Well, I know that we all appreciate your hard work on this site.
PPL was great fun and not too difficult. The academic stuff was no problem, but you have to make time to fly at least twice a week while in training otherwise you spend a lot of flight time relearning. This is particularly true in the first 15 hours or so. I have been thinking about getting my helicopter ticket and I have been told that emersion training is best. That comes after I buy a 328 though. |
Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
Intermediate Member
Username: Rob328gts
Post Number: 1058
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2002 - 10:16 pm: | |
I've never been busier anytime in my life. Including college with 2 a day swim practices, 16 credit hours a semester, ran my own cd business, worked in the computer center, and partied my ass off.
I'm at work by 8am, I work until 4 T and R, past 5:30 M, W, and F. Auto Tech Courses at local community college T and R 6-9pm. Swim practice M and W 6:15-7:15. I run T, R, and N. I cycle S. I club race at least one weekend a month. That really eats the time, I have to leave Fridays after work and don't get home until late Sunday or early Monday morning. I autocross one day a month. I do about one race a month (tri, running, or biking). About one car show a month. I party hard almost once every week. I'm an avid hunter (ducks and pheasant) and off season love to fish (crappie and catfish).
It's really nothing compared to most of your schedules. The key is I really love everything I do. This site only takes about 1 hour a day and a few more on the weekends. Hey, I have too much time on my hands, private pilots license is next! |
Ken Thomas (Future328driver)
New member
Username: Future328driver
Post Number: 27
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2002 - 9:46 pm: | |
Great work Rob!!!!
When do you have time to work to support your car habit? |
TomD (Tifosi)
Member
Username: Tifosi
Post Number: 283
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2002 - 9:33 pm: | |
Rob
Great job as always, thanks! |
Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
Intermediate Member
Username: Rob328gts
Post Number: 1057
Registered: 12-2000
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2002 - 9:22 pm: | |
Well, 3 days later it looks like most the details have been worked out with the upgrade. If you haven't heard the updates already, here's info on some of your questions and the bugs...
1) Saturday we had major database issues with user ids. I'm sorry that the dozen or so people had to go through being able to log in one second and not the next. That has been 100% resolved and improved upon by now using a fully relational MySQL database. Remember when ids disappeared a few weeks ago or last August, well, that should never happen again.
2) The slowness issue when brining up the threads was simply the added graphics of the new site plus the high number of messages. This has been resolved through an automatic archiving process that when the total thread count gets to 100, then it will archive the oldest 50. The archive of the General Ferrari Discussion last evening took longer than expected and many users couldn't access the site for about 5 hours. If you get that locking message, then keep trying until you get through on each data retrieval.
3) User names now link to your profile if you have one.
4) Your message count should be correct and your level title should be correct. If your count isn't correct, then I found a way to change it where it should be, so contact me. The levels are...
0 - Rookie
50 - Karting
250 - Formula Ford
1000 - Formula 3
2500 - Formula 1 Rookie
5000 - Formula 1 Veteran
If you can suggest a better system, please let me know.
5) You can now edit your posts within 60 minutes by clicking on the edit icon on the bar of your message.
6) "New Messages" is still around, but it's now part of "Search". It still functions the same way.
7) You can now renew ads on FerrariAds.com.
8) You can now get an automatic password reminder without me manually resetting it. (Yea!!!)
9) The banner ad software is now working like it should by being random and also linking directly to the sponsor site.
10) Topics change colors again between blue for not visited yet and that purple/red for visited links.
11) Everything should fit on your screen left to right, please send me the link to any pages that don't. You should only have to use the horizontal scroll.
12) The hit counter was counting every refresh for the past 2 days, but now it counts only each visit, like it should. Hey, we did double our previous record. Let's do it officially now.
I'm sure there's others, so please ask and I'll answer. I'll remove the Bug Reports topic in about a week.
Things that are still on my list to work on...
1) Design wise I want to remove excess space vertically on the main page and throughout. With 1024 by 800 resolution I want to see the entire page down to the counter.
2) Setting up archive in Technical Q & A tonight. It will take about 2-3 hours and you'll get locking messages for that time.
3) Find a way to put the "Post new Conversation" at the top.
4) There may still be a bug out there with iMac users on IE.
Enhancements to just the overall site...
1) Trivia will be back within the month.
2) Updated Model List.
3) Live Chat.
4) More items for the Online Store.
5) More links.
Anyway, I think that's good for the near term. Please remember that you can support the site by buying Polo Shirts at the secure "Online Store" above. My costs are now up to $600 a month, not that I'm complaining. I do this because it's enjoyable. But the $10 profit from the shirts do help. The first batch will be delivered 2nd week of March. Unless I get them before my 2 weeks of out of town training starts 2/24. I notice several sites are going to a $15 annual fee or so. If that would upset users or if I would even loose a few, then I wouldn't do it.
Thanks,
rob
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