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Bob Smith
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Been on holiday since the 21st when this kicked off, I see my sites are still down. I understand it's an awkward time of year; as ever, simply some communication would go a long way.
Bob Smith
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Quote from The Very End :I clearly won that drinking game and I clearly beat Bob's sorry arse on that table.
'Nough said!

Somebody is in denial. I don't keep bringing it up.
Bob Smith
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Well it's been over 5½ years since I last posted my face here.

To bring you all up to date, here's a collage from last month.
Bob Smith
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Mine neither but Franky knows:
Quote from franky500 :The Cpanel license will be sorted out next week.

Although, it is now the end of the week...
Bob Smith
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Are you using Gaming Deluxe services? I'm getting my emails returned to sender due to my email host having a poor Barracuda reputation.
Bob Smith
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Maybe once a week, for 5 mins. Not three times a day, for an hour at a time, like I once did.
Bob Smith
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...and now sites are down completely.
Bob Smith
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Been a few days, what's the progress Franky?
Bob Smith
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Quote from franky500 :Bob If you can you should login to Cpanel and change your affected sites root directories to CHMOD 755 (in cpanel file manager click the file and then choose change permissions)

Forgot to say, this did the trick. Thanks.

That said, the old chestnut "Cannot read license file" has returned.
Bob Smith
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Hey, my sites have been showing error 403 for a couple of days now, what's up? Cheers.
Bob Smith
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More people check here I'd imagine, so useful to repost; thanks.
Bob Smith
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Nice work Vic.
Bob Smith
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Yeah, sites are still online for me, just reeeeeally slow.
Bob Smith
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Cheers!
Bob Smith
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Sites are down?
Bob Smith
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Quote from CarlLefrancois :the live settings ability of VHPA is great, but it must be using an ideal flat corner representation for its calculation, so I would go with the raw data from lfs to account for the dynamic environment.

Interesting point. I'll make note to allow forced extra body roll and lateral acceleration from transients for the next update. Sounds like it could well be useful.
Bob Smith
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Quote from The Very End :Indeed, damn you Ben, damn you to hell!

Always fancied going. Google says that's an 11 hour trip north from your place?
Bob Smith
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Quote from CarlLefrancois :lastly, to really do the job right, look into exporting RAF data and loading that into VHPA.

Curious. What information is it you want from the RAF files to be loaded into VHPA?
Bob Smith
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Quote from Mountaindewzilla :Why are there so many empty servers?

Waiting for new content to drive, perhaps? I doubt many have done every combo, but rule out the unpopular combos (90+%?) and the need for something fresh online is pretty strong.
Bob Smith
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You take a few people off fb and suddenly you never hear the end of it. :P
Bob Smith
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Where are everybody elses photos? Becky? I want to see embarrassing Twister photos
Bob Smith
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Perhaps too late and not so relevant but lots of what would now be considered unusual engine configurations were run back in the 50s and earlier. Finding reliable information on such engines can be hard though.
Bob Smith
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Quote from cargame.nl :French car.

What did you expect?

Va va voom?
Bob Smith
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Quote from Mp3 Astra :But are you going to add each other on Facebook again?

No, he's offended that I took him off so wouldn't tell me his last name so I could add him back.
Bob Smith
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Karting
The weather was a great mix for the karting, a drying track to start out which gave way to walking pace drifting once a shower hit (never laughed so much when racing). Could almost spin the wheels in a straight line, madness.

After the rain stopped, the weather just got warmer throughout the day and the track dried and increased in grip, to the extent we were back to only dabbing the brakes for the reverse Eau Rouge style corner. Quite the change from earlier.

The karts were more closely matched this time, with no obvious super fast or slow karts. Not saying they were anywhere near as even as we would have liked but complaints on this front were definitely reduced this time. I had some of my best racing this year, was nice to end up part of a pack at times.

My sympathies go out to the Swedes (Mike & Andreas), who, after traveling so far, ended up with some of the worst luck regarding karts.

The endurance race was unexpectedly cut short soon after our team (myself, cargame and ACCAkut) stopped for our last drive change + fuel, only to find there was none left. The marshals were also citing running out of karts as a reason. They did at least make up by letting some of us take out the "Thunderkart" for a few laps apiece which went down very well (allegedly circa 30hp, vs a measly 5½hp for the hire karts). Can we get 9 more for next year?

Evening
Amusement began soon after the awards ceremony when I awkwardly discovered at a roundabout on the way to Jason's that cargame and I were following one another. This was soon rectified though and the rest of the journey was without incident.

Alcohol did give way to some amusement as the night progressed, after nominating myself chef and even managing to cook some food (apart from the sausages Jason had hidden and neglected to tell us about) we had some laughs with twister though many (wisely?) declined to join in. Embarrassing photos to follow?

Poker and pool seemed to go down very well also, TVE is a flukey bastard at darts, three_jump is inventive with Jenga blocks, Stormcloud wins an honorary award for "most severely passed out" and people seem to think I'm starting to resemble Simon Pegg. The anniversary cake was quickly consumed, pretty healthy going for a cake I think; makes a very pleasant change from the chocolate encased variety I usually seem to be offered.

Morning after
Usual pleasantries, breakfast, helping clear up and people making their leave. Some people watched the F1. Becky, TVE, ACCAkut and I left in convoy about half way through the race and later grabbed lunch at a service station somewhere in the midlands before Tor and I had our tearful goodbye.
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