how do i turn [img] code on?

Not very nice. I can't view pics because I have a MAC and IE isn't supported by Mac anymore!

Thank you Rob.

 

Don't mind him Ms. McCloud, the rest of us still love you

 

Thanks.

 

Of course! Time to revive the yellow hotties thread

 

Look there are 3 solutions to this. Either deal with it or we start membership fees or get some Ferrari advertising. Dealers. Mechanics. All sorts of stuff to help with cost. Getting that kind of software isn't cheap. Maintenance alone cost lot of money.

 

Will do. However I won't be able to view any pics.

 

Rob already has thought of it. He is implementing membership fee currently and will revoke priviledges for us free loaders starting June I think. You can read about it on General Discussion.

 

You don't need to view pictures, you have a mirror


*Running away before Jeffrey gets here*

 

I'll check it out. Thanks.

 

http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?p=200932#post200932

 

Hm I don't know how that thread helps Robiferetti. The reason he can't turn it on is what Rob (the owner) said earlier, and the fact that Rob (the owner) does not allow it.

Whether you have Mac or Pc or IE or whatever, on this site you cannot use the code.

 

For reference, the Standard edition of the Oracle Database System will run you $15k *per processor.* It doesn't really make a lot of sense to make such a massive investment for an internet bulletin board to discuss cars. Just because someone owns a Ferrari or two, does not neccessarily mean that they have, or are willing to throw $30k at a problem(Assuming dual processor at a minimum), that is in all honesty, caused by something that is already costly to maintain(bandwidth isn't cheap, as I am sure you know all to well) and most likely a pain in the ass to be responsible for(Which is what I would guess caused Rob's enthusiastic response to this thread)

Load balancing and clustering can be done with cheap commodity hardware and open source software (which essentially costs nothing but the bandwidth to download it and the time to jack around with it to get it humming.) Hell, you can even pick up used Cisco Local Directors dirt cheap these days.

Something that people need to remember when they are telling Rob how to run the place is that, he has been extremely generous in providing a place for everyone to bs the work day away, talk cars, women, watch Allen attack NNO, etc. with a group of largely like minded people. He can do whatever the hell he wants with it, including shutting it down tomorrow if he gets tired of people giving him **** for the decisions he has made in how to run his site. Although I think he views it more as the community's site, he just happens to be the guy who has been footing the bill and dealing with the crap that no one else even hears about...

~5000 members means there are atleast 1000 who assume that they are entitled to the service this site offers and which will ***** til the sun comes up if something isn't to their personal liking. Not a fun thing to deal with.

-ag

 

Rob
I appreciate this is your board and your rules, but I can't agree with this statement. The board is so slow as to be unusable at times.

 

Rob
Much of the time the site is great, probably because of the time difference I tend to be on here when you guys are sleeping, but sometimes its not the best. I have a cable connection at home and multiple OC3's at work. When the server starts slowing down I usually jump on to either the MB World or Speedzilla sites with no issues.
I'm not complaining, just informing. Most people won't bother saying anything about poor performance on a Forum, because it is generally expected on more popular sites. In any event the standard response to most complaints is "out of the goodness of our hearts we provide this service, if you don't like it don't come here", or a variation.

 

Hmm I disagree with Stephen.

I am also on speedzilla/club desmo/nsx prime and a host of other sites. I would say F chat is always fast on my T3. I have never had a problem and it has never slowed down for me.

 

Rob
I am experiencing problems with the site at around 2.00am in the morning, it's 5.00 in the afternoon over here.

 

That's cool, I'll just skip the site betwen 5 and 6pm. Thanks for the heads up.

 

I can see pictures now!
Nenernenernener

Woo Hoo

 

Lol congrats