Tap Tap Tap . . . is this thing on?

[DMCMW Dave]

Whew that was close. . .Hi all. . . .

[DMC5180]

What happened, Dave?



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[DMCMW Dave]

I have no idea. Just noticed it was back.

[OZ DMC]

Whew that was close. . .Hi all. . . .
DMCtalk Web site was down last night in Australia.....
seems all good now

[Tamir A.]

Apologies for the large forum outage. My hosting company had a really crazy catastrophic scenario occur. I'm pasting a link to an explanation below for anyone who cares to read it. But I might explore finding a different place to host the site moving forward as this was pretty nuts.

https://forums.mddhosting.com/topic/1582-major-outage-092118-09222018/ (https://forums.mddhosting.com/topic/1582-major-outage-092118-09222018/)

[David T]

Tamir, we should have a back-up site where you can give updates on status. I tried to e-mail you but I couldn't get through by e-mail either. A broadcast e-mail to everyone would have been useful.

[opethmike]

I can't believe that I am going to say this, but I agree with David T. A broadcast e-mail for one of these scenarios would be great.

[Michael]

I can't believe that I am going to say this, but I agree with David T. A broadcast e-mail for one of these scenarios would be great.

The technical manual outlines the email broadcast procedure in section M:05

[opethmike]

Lol!!!!

[Soundkillr]

You guys could always go back to the other site. Talk about nothing of importance, bitch about everything, then blame us for the worlds problems.

[Jonathan]

You guys could always go back to the other site. Talk about nothing of importance, bitch about everything, then blame us for the worlds problems.

I think the term they have for us over there is "freeloaders and maggots."

Reminds me of an insult I heard somewhere about how the only two things I don't like about you are your face.

[SamHill]

58070

[dodint]

Tamir messaged the DML before the site was back up so I knew it was being worked on.

For the younger kids, that's the "Delorean Mailing List" which is literally a broadcast e-mail. ;)

[Michael]

I seem to remember someone (and admin) telling me that he didn't have a stick so far up their ass that he couldn't appreciate having a little fun when I called some people out about a joke here a few years ago. (It was about someone's DeLorean burning to the ground and you guys were cracking jokes.....not quite as serious as the forum going dark for a few days).

So with that said, get that stick out of your ass, it's all in good fun.

And what's this about blaming this site for all the world's problems?
How much pollution does this board pump into our atmosphere? What did talk know and when did they know it? What are you hiding?

[Tamir A.]

Yeah, if I could have put a redirect page up or had an organized email list of all members to keep you up to date that would've been good. But neither were an easy option when this snuck up unfortunately. I'll sort out a plan for the future should something like this happen again. Appreciate the suggestion. In the event anyone ever needs to get a hold of me not through my dmctalk address, my other site entermyworld.com is hosted by a different service, so that email is always functional as well.


Tamir, we should have a back-up site where you can give updates on status. I tried to e-mail you but I couldn't get through by e-mail either. A broadcast e-mail to everyone would have been useful.

[eight8toy]

As much as I enjoy this site, Facebook has been a fairly good option for quick responses to questions on the Technical Help page. Perhaps in the future you might consider going on there to give updates regarding the status of the site?

I know there were a few posts on FB wondering what happened to DMCTALK last weekend. Glad to see it's back up, I've missed Michael's dark/dry sense of humor lol

[ssdelorean]

System down......?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwZwkk7q25I

[Soundkillr]

Said stick is definitely not up my Ass. I was simply stating there is always the other site when this one goes down. It humors me how this site seems to be the butt of the jokes on the other site. And let's face it, they do alot of bitching and fighting over there.
That said, I wasn't coming down on anyone, just a blanket statement. Kinda like stating, if it's so bad over here, why is everyone so upset when this site goes down. You can always go to today and talk about turtles....

[Michael]

It humors me how this site seems to be the butt of the jokes on the other site.


http://dmctalk.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=26145


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEfTtOQbCLo

That pic(posted by a mod) was back in the days when nightflyer and I were at odds a lot. Now we are much closer and I eagerly await our first date.

[Tamir A.]

You'll be shocked, but I'm not on Facebook. Though I've heard the DMC community has a strong presence on there as well, so that is great.


As much as I enjoy this site, Facebook has been a fairly good option for quick responses to questions on the Technical Help page. Perhaps in the future you might consider going on there to give updates regarding the status of the site?

I know there were a few posts on FB wondering what happened to DMCTALK last weekend. Glad to see it's back up, I've missed Michael's dark/dry sense of humor lol

[dodint]

FB DMC community is pretty splintered. Seems like 10 years ago a bunch of people started individual groups and they kind of grew separately, each having a few thousand members. Most of them overlap in mission. I belong to one or two and get suggested to join others but they all seem the same. I don't even read them now that I bought a car; it's mostly people hawking BTTF crap.

[Ron]

http://dmctalk.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=26145


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEfTtOQbCLo

That pic(posted by a mod) was back in the days when nightflyer and I were at odds a lot. Now we are much closer and I eagerly await our first date.
All this reads like you are saying you learned "it" from one mod/admin then use it on/against Soundkillr, who has been in your corner more than once when things got out of hand, fwiw. Beyond humor... [NUFSAID]

[Ron]

As much as I enjoy this site, Facebook has been a fairly good option for quick responses to questions on the Technical Help page. Perhaps in the future you might consider going on there to give updates regarding the status of the site?

I know there were a few posts on FB wondering what happened to DMCTALK last weekend. Glad to see it's back up, I've missed Michael's dark/dry sense of humor lol


You'll be shocked, but I'm not on Facebook. Though I've heard the DMC community has a strong presence on there as well, so that is great.


FB DMC community is pretty splintered. Seems like 10 years ago a bunch of people started individual groups and they kind of grew separately, each having a few thousand members. Most of them overlap in mission. I belong to one or two and get suggested to join others but they all seem the same. I don't even read them now that I bought a car; it's mostly people hawking BTTF crap.

I don't know...from engineering, developing, ..., to troubleshooting the bottom line is "Were working on it." But anxiety may take some over eventually...

As for Facebook, I got POed after chasing the Agreement Terms 3 levels deep, to yet another 4 levels to read them all and gave up. Haven't been back since (years ago). Not to mention "privacy" there.

Just me!

[Michael]

All this reads like you are saying you learned "it" from one mod/admin then use it on/against Soundkillr, who has been in your corner more than once when things got out of hand, fwiw. Beyond humor... [NUFSAID]

That's because you are taking it way to literally and you are taking me way too seriously. [NOWNUFSAID]

[eight8toy]

There have been plenty of times I was ready to delete my FB profile however stuff like the Delorean Technical group and others is what keeps me from doing so. This site is great for information however in the past posting a question I might only get a single response after a day. FB on the other hand I'll usually have several replies within the first hour which is great when you've got the car on jack stands trying to figure out what step to do next and only a weekend to knock out the project.

That being said, I definitely appreciate the wealth of information on this site. I spent my first month of ownership pouring through tons of old threads here learning as much as I could. Plenty of times someone will post a simple question on FB and I want to tell them to simply search this site as it has been covered in detail!!!

Thanks for keeping up the great work here!

[Ron]

That's because you are taking it way to literally and you are taking me way too seriously. [NOWNUFSAID]

No-no. Literally is the only way that it makes any sense (too me when I read it all). I was not taking it seriously at all -- I fully believe you are joking around.

I just wanted to fuel the "gang up on todayers...and carbers..." bit, but you didn't bite and took ME too seriously[IKNEWTHATWOULDNOTWORK]

[Michael]

No-no. Literally is the only way that it makes any sense (too me when I read it all). I was not taking it seriously at all -- I fully believe you are joking around.

I just wanted to fuel the "gang up on todayers...and carbers..." bit, but you didn't bite and took ME too seriously.

Dam! You got me again! :cheers:

[SamHill]

Speaking of carbs, they are pretty awesome, even 9 years later.

[Andrew]

No-no. Literally is the only way that it makes any sense (too me when I read it all). I was not taking it seriously at all -- I fully believe you are joking around.

I just wanted to fuel the "gang up on todayers...and carbers..." bit, but you didn't bite and took ME too seriously[IKNEWTHATWOULDNOTWORK]


In our defense, there is a bit of a lag time between the time when the system crashes and us carb guys actually realize it:

* We don't suspect that anything is wrong until we try unsuccessfully logging in with our dial-up AOL connection four or five times.
* Upon giving up on the dial-up, we jump in our carbed Delorean and drive it to the nearest Wendy's to use their free WiFi. (Of course we have to fill up the gas tank twice on the 5 mile)
* After spending 10 minutes remembering how to enable the WiFi feature on our flip phones, we finally establish a weak connection.
* Then we spend another couple minutes using the numbers 1-9 on the phone's keypad to type out "Www.Dmctalk.orG"
* Usually by the time we figure the whole internet thing out, the underlying problem has been resolved.

Joking around of course...I don't even have dial-up and I ditched my flip phone for a full QWERTY slider 8 years back. But heck, my prepaid QWERTY slider works and my carbed DeLorean runs ;-)

All joking aside, glad to see that the forum is back up and running!

Andrew
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[DMC-81]

There have been plenty of times I was ready to delete my FB profile however stuff like the Delorean Technical group and others is what keeps me from doing so. This site is great for information however in the past posting a question I might only get a single response after a day. FB on the other hand I'll usually have several replies within the first hour which is great when you've got the car on jack stands trying to figure out what step to do next and only a weekend to knock out the project.

That being said, I definitely appreciate the wealth of information on this site. I spent my first month of ownership pouring through tons of old threads here learning as much as I could. Plenty of times someone will post a simple question on FB and I want to tell them to simply search this site as it has been covered in detail!!!

Thanks for keeping up the great work here!

I visit Delorean groups on Facebook sometimes/rarely, but I don't like the format for detailed conversations. The responses are sometimes quick, but the conversation is short lived in the "feed". Plus, it's not organized into threads, not easily searchable, etc. like a traditional forum is. That's my preference/ opinion.

By the way, if you need another reason to delete your FB profile, here's a thought provoking news story published last month .. https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-to-banks-give-us-your-data-well-give-you-our-users-1533564049

I like the concentrated DeLorean information nature of this forum. I have a chosen forum for my other 2 cars, but this one is by far the best.


Yeah, if I could have put a redirect page up or had an organized email list of all members to keep you up to date that would've been good. But neither were an easy option when this snuck up unfortunately. I'll sort out a plan for the future should something like this happen again. Appreciate the suggestion. In the event anyone ever needs to get a hold of me not through my dmctalk address, my other site entermyworld.com is hosted by a different service, so that email is always functional as well.

Tamir, a redirect for status updates would be a nice-to-have feature in the future. Otherwise, great job with this valuable forum. I'm sure I couldn't have restored my car as well or at all without it.

[opethmike]

Speaking of carbs, they are pretty awesome, even 9 years later.

What kind of boob puts a carb on their car???

[SamHill]

What kind of boob puts a carb on their car???

Touche. That might be the only thing more awesome than carbs.

[opethmike]

Wow. Look at your post count. Fate has decided that you must buy a Porsche.58073

[SamHill]

Wow. Look at your post count. Fate has decided that you must buy a Porsche.58073

My hero and role model drove a 911!

58074

[opethmike]

We just became best friends.

[Timebender]

You'll be shocked, but I'm not on Facebook. Though I've heard the DMC community has a strong presence on there as well, so that is great.

And everyone now has all the DMC owners personal data (or anyone who’s on Facebook), thanks to not only FB’s last mistake, but the current news from them where thousands of FB user’s data has been stolen due to the whole “sign up or sign in with Facebook” button.

FB is a scourge, and they need to be taken down permanently.

[Ron]

And everyone now has all the DMC owners personal data (or anyone who’s on Facebook), thanks to not only FB’s last mistake, but the current news from them where thousands of FB user’s data has been stolen due to the whole “sign up or sign in with Facebook” button.

FB is a scourge, and they need to be taken down permanently.
+1 !

[Michael]

And everyone now has all the DMC owners personal data (or anyone who’s on Facebook), thanks to not only FB’s last mistake, but the current news from them where thousands of FB user’s data has been stolen due to the whole “sign up or sign in with Facebook” button.

FB is a scourge, and they need to be taken down permanently.

Mehhh. That pales in comparison to Chris B's database which he publishes over and over non stop. If someone takes a pic of a D and puts it on instagram, FB, snapchat, etc., he not only reposts it but gives the vin and tags the owner. Nobody is invisible.

[opethmike]

Mehhh. That pales in comparison to Chris B's database which he publishes over and over non stop. If someone takes a pic of a D and puts it on instagram, FB, snapchat, etc., he not only reposts it but gives the vin and tags the owner. Nobody is invisible.

We also just became best friends.

[Michael]

We also just became best friends.

No buddy, we became friends when you said (and I quote) "Good gravy your car is clean!" Yeah, I remember that.

[Andrew]

And everyone now has all the DMC owners personal data (or anyone who’s on Facebook), thanks to not only FB’s last mistake, but the current news from them where thousands of FB user’s data has been stolen due to the whole “sign up or sign in with Facebook” button.

FB is a scourge, and they need to be taken down permanently.


I have always subscribed to the rule of "Don't put anything on FB that you wouldn't want on the front page of the New York Times." Strict adherence to that rule has served me well in life. The fake BOT that eventually hacks my FB profile will probably post a lot more interesting stuff than I ever post.

[opethmike]

No buddy, we became friends when you said (and I quote) "Good gravy your car is clean!" Yeah, I remember that.

Yes, but now we are BEST friends!

[Michael]

Yes, but now we are BEST friends!

Awesome!

Is your sister single?

[refugeefromcalif]

Maybe I'm getting older and less computer literate but, What pray tell is Face Book?
Did some New service come on the scene since I last logged on to AOL?

George

[opethmike]

Awesome!

Is your sister single?

For you, yes!