Glad to see the forum back
Like the new look, good work guys.
:D :D second!
Magic
Delighted to see the website up and running again and after being G less for the last couple of years,Ii'm doubly delighted to have purchased another one and can rejoin the gang!!
Nice work, good to see the site back
Great work Maxwell Smart!! And you managed to preserve all the usernames and posts - super.
Thanks for the heads-up lphong..I see your G is already up there on the vehicle list :)
so glad to see the forum back up again but i do have one gripe...
the one bloody summer i have off for years to have guilt free forum browsing and some bugger takes the site down, oh the irony!!!!
nice to be back though, good work to those involved, cant have been easy transferring over all the useful and the even greater number of purely banter posts!
raising my glass of g&t,
Tom
Just you and SpiderIV... otherwise all useful posts! hope you had a good summer!
Ohhhh. Very Good Mr Smart!
Nice format and layout. well done old bean!
Spider1V
Grumpydogg does not like the new/different format.
Cos its not what he is used to.
However
thanks Max
Great to see you back.
We missed you down here!
John
Yep, looks great - quite a nice layout. I think I should actually join GWOA properly again!
Question - did usernames/passwords get compromised and please give us the gory details of what happens when your site gets hacked, and the pain.
How to get the space out these comments too?
Hello peeps, good to see the forum back. Well done Maxwell but yes do dish the dirt on what happened
Russ
Basically the previous site had been running for about 6 years on an open source content management system.
Unfortunately that particular CMS fell out of favour and there were no more security updates created for it.
As such someone managed to get in and use the server as a host to send out spam. This didn't affect anybody's personal details so don't worry as they never gained or tried to gain access to the database.
The upside is that it allowed us to fully upgrade the website and introduce a host of new features which we hope will bring more value to members.
Working on the space issue....
BTW - not sure if everyone was checking daily to see if it was live but had about 6 people logged in in first 5 mins the site went live!! Then about an hour later has been averaging 10-15 people logged in since then! Dedicated or what?
Delighted that the Site is back up and running again. I have been missing for a while but am delighted to be 'home' again :)
Well done to all for their efforts.
Been checking every day. What a very stylish site - hello again - missed u all, tho can't think why really - absence makes the heart grow fonder! How come I look like Elvis now? Thanks for all the work getting the site back. M.
yehaa.........back up and running........sterling work chaps.
me and spider always have fantastic input!
Summer was great thanks Max, though seems a long time ago now, specially as studying obs and blobs at the moment, not eating breakfast much lets put is that way!!
Well done on the site again, my rugby days are potentially coming to an end so will have much more car time on my hands to sit on here
Tom
Now I know your a PC fan but using my mac i have alot of space either side of the screen, is this right. see screen shot, well I would but now it says my 20mb upload quota is exceeded ?
can please you email the grab?
i am a mac convert since the forum went down (air, imac, phone the lot, damn impulses) and have the same thing as Ian
Welcome to the fold...mac makes sense (in most cases).
here's a grab from mine, not sure i have this issue..firefox 3.6.10
you bought and air ! why ?iphone and imac, yo must be minted !
is that full screen ?
Hear Hear !!
We have been a long time waiting, and unfortunately I missed the AGM because of vehicle problems (not with my G-Wagen of course) where I hoped to find out more.
First impressions are that it looks fresh and modern, and I will now have a more in-depth browse around to see what there is.
Mine looks like it on Safari...
ian, the air was second hand, i bought a mate an ipad and did the swap, then ordered the imac after the summer to make the most of back to mac, so i can access data from anywhere, and i now run the new apple tv from it which is great. as for the iphone, i can get all my medical textbooks on it in electronic form, which is great on placement for referencing, id need a g to carry them around otherwise and infection control would have a field day! but yes since june its all gone a bit apple mad, but did not want to get halfway through a research project im working on to then have microsoft throw a wobbly on me!
Tom
Wasn't there something about doctors get iphones for free? Have a friend who is a doc and she swears by hers only because there are so many medical apps and reference material on it...
"Gee sir, I'm not sure what's wrong with you... let me just look it up on my phone..."
"i am a mac convert since the forum went down"
Mac' pre-date G' in my house ~ 20 years. Great to be able to use the Mac to access the G forum again!
Greetings from the bottom of the learning curve.
Rick
Nope it is a smaller size - I think that has something to do with optimisation for certain displays, the larger your display/higher resolution, the greater those blank spaces, but it also means someone looking at the website from an ancient platform (windows 98?) can still read it legibly...please correct me if i'm wrong..
Had an Apple II once upon a time. Took big floppy disks, had no harddrive and a whopping 64k of Ram...
Now I don't touch em... Much prefer Granny Smiths...
would just like to say thanks to all that were involved in putting the gwoa back on !
i am finding the new format a bit hard to to get used to, but thats my fault i'm sure....
rgds hus.
Max, there is an app which is connected wirelessly to patient heart monitors, if it gets critical it tells the doctor who and at what rate the monitor is showing, anywhere in the hospital this is one of many very useful apps that monitor patients via iphone, so get use to it max, apple has changed the way we use our devices, you'll come to the darkside soon my son.
I knew that news readers would be using ipads as seen on BBC, now see the commentators on F1 using them, next it will be hospitals.You just wait and see.
May the apple be with you !
I'd like to say a huge thanks to the guys responsible for sorting the new site (and forum) out.
I too am having layout issues on the forum (Chrome and IE9) but nothing terrible. Perfection comes with time - I'm just glad to be able to chat again.
My G hasn't actually moved since I last posted. I've been tied up with work, selling off various old VW's and a loft conversion but I put my neck on the block and stripped the fuel tank with a POR-15 restoration kit.
I've purchased a bullbar, replacement bumpers with wide caps, new tinted repeaters, tinted indicators, rear lights and rear 1/4 panels to match from a W463 plus various rubber seals, a snorkel, grille badge and mirrors.
I'm planning to paint the G satin black with gloss black wheels and trim.
Time to renew my membership IIRC too
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