Adrian@TORQEN

Mike, bellow is the screenshot with the reply you've sent me back in February on my first contact, to me it's quite blunt, sorry

Kunena is the perfect alternative if you want to have a complete working system using Joomla as Content Management System - news, articles, calendar (list of all events happening with the feature that people can RSVP and it will show up in their profile), social networking (Facebook like, wall, apps, etc), live chat( not separated, members will be able the write a reply on the forum and private chat with different members that are online), photo album with dedicated albums from each event / meeting in one place where members will be able to comment on each photo or tag members like on Facebook, ads section where members can sell their cars, parts, etc, a members map and so on. If you just want a simple forum in terms of functionality then stick to phpBB 3 and forget about the paid crappy versions like vbulletin or IPB...

By the way, just booked with Colin for the Wales event, I'll come and meet you guys, building on the trust element as I said See you all there!

In the event of upgrading we will be keeping the exact forum structure, posts, user list, etc. It's just faster, more features in terms of interacting and so on. We can vote for the features that we would like to keep and that we would like to eliminate.

Peak time doesn't necessarily means when most users are online, but when the users and the hundreds of bing, google, yahoo and other spiders are crawling the forum. While you're investigating have a look at the traffic stats, it may well be a case where DoS is happening. About the phpBB not being old, let us remember the following about the engine behind it: In February 2001, phpBB 2.0.x began development entirely from scratch; the developer's ambitions for phpBB had outgrown the original codebase. Doug Kelly joined the team shortly afterwards. After a year of development and extensive testing, phpBB 2.0.0, dubbed the "Super Furry" version, was released on April 4, 2002, three days later than intended. phpBB forums are used frequently with multiplayer online game sites. Work on phpBB 3.0.x began in late 2002. It was originally intended to be released as phpBB 2.2, and the first planned feature list was announced on May 25, 2003. However, as development progressed, the developers realised that phpBB 2.1.x (the development release cycle for 2.2) had eliminated virtually all compatibility with the 2.0.x line, so the version number for release was changed to 3.0.0, in keeping with the Linux kernel versioning scheme, which phpBB followed at the time. In September 2005, Paul Owen resigned as the Development Team Leader and Meik Sievertsen was promoted to the role. ...blah blah blah... The first beta of phpBB3 was released in June 2006, and the first release candidate was released in May 2007. The phpBB3 codebase received an external security audit in September, which was done by SektionEins. Finally, phpBB 3.0.0 "Olympus" (also dubbed the Gold release) was published on December 13, 2007.

Simple answer is NO, because the systems is very old, outdated and uses extremely complicated long SQL queries that slow down the website at peak times as it happened yesterday in the evening again. Most likely the hosting is a big issue as well...

There's nothing else I could add but just to say that my offer remains available for a while.

Hi Mike, There is one more thing I learnt over the years is that as much as you like or dislike one thing, people are different, they think different. When we build communities, voluntarily or in the business interest we have to listen in a democratic way to what members wish or suggest otherwise we risk of loosing them... That can easily be resolved by a trial period and poll over here. Things can be adjusted / amended to fit what the majority would like. The demo I have created took me only few hours that evening I wrote you, imagine what could be achieved in using all our skills combined, the resources we have, the user experience in here and listening to what the crowd wishes! P.S. Take in consideration that English is not my native language and things I may say in here may be interpreted different to what I meant. I can assure you of my true and honest interest in the good will of this community as a support and giving something back to the help I have received here and will receive in the future Later edit: I can provided the admin user and password to the members of the team here, admins and moderators if you want to play with the setup and configuration. The forum looks as a draw back because is empty but have a look in here for instance: http://www.kunena.org/forum/index

Hi, I completely understand what you mean and this is the first positive step (approach) taken, before I've been told: thanks, but no, thanks. In terms of changing the layout you are partially right. What I meant by improving the site is not making it more complex, but give it more modern features and also keep it simple! I have upgraded my community websites many times in the past years, as we've started with PHPBB as well and later migrate to other systems. Never changed the website layout completely in one go, but gradually, when necessary. In my experience I found out that this was the major point of difference comparing to our "competitors", keep the website fancy, with many new / modern features, fast loading, well organised (specially the forum part and the tutorials) and so on. Never liked IPB or Vbulletin, I like open source forums We could migrate to PHPBB 3 or to Kunena(best option by far). Regarding the trust element, I agree with you, I'm fairly new in here, but I gave you all details (or if not yet I can PM) including the other companies I own, address, contact numbers, etc. Maybe we can also meet sometimes in the future, first meeting I will be attending is the Port Solent one on June, hope to get the car ready by then with all the mods I planned, most of the work being carried out this and the next week. ZMANALEX and Tarmac can also testify the amount of money I've spent with them and that I always kept my promises in the business relationship I had with them regarding payments, etc. The passwords in the database are MD5 (encrypted) but I don't need root access to it yet. As a side joke, if I really wanted it I could have just gain root access in here, trust me with few SQL injections / XSS We can start by building onto the new demo site I created here: http://www.350zed.co.uk and get few users from here to try every feature of the website and suggest what else we need to change / adapt. Once we have finished all the features we can then look into migrating the existing content into the new website and server under your domain. Once we've migrated to the new system, we can test it for another month let's say and then we can make it widely available. Details for SQL, FTP, email, control panel will be made available to whoever the team wants to, eg: all admins. Hope that clarifies it! Adrian

I have offered my FREE services to improve the site, that including dedicated hosting on a Phenom X6 Hexa-Core - 6 x 2.8 GHz, 16GB RAM and 2TB Hard Drive but there is no will to take the help. There are a lot better solutions in terms of software (content management system) comparing to the extremely old PHPBB where SQL queries are long and slow, therefore at busy times eating up all the available resources ==> site offline / down. My offer is still open, I love this forum / community and I got hundreds of ideas and resources to improve it if the owners are willing to use them. One of my websites / community forum has over 12.000 members and is never offline as is happening here daily. This will put members off in time and they will move to different websites which is a shame...

To me it's like saying: If someone burglars your house and steal the £300.00 left in the living room on the coffee table is RIGHT, because you did not put them in a safe or in a bank account...

So basically we are treated as bunch of fraudsters and thieves just because we MIGHT leave in the same areas with the real fraudsters and thieves... That's very NON-DISCRIMINATORY and very EQUAL! Not!

Details here!

Thanks, I'm on the phone with them, on hold for checking the fitting price. They said they did not change a clutch on a 350z recently, therefore they don't know the price... Edit: Got a price of £250.00 + VAT (about 4-5 hours work at £50/h)

I suppose is not something extremely difficult, any garage can do it... That's what I will do, take it to a different garage...

They don't want to... FFS!

This one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Exterior-Race-S ... 388&sr=1-1

Just ordered mine as well...

I'll try my best!

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoe ... r_say.html

You are right, called them again now, they estimated another £350 for the flywheel, same model Exedy as your kit Alex. They will call me later today for the exact price. They biggest trouble when sourcing from a different provider like yourself, they don't want to give any warranty which I can't understand, really...

Talking about roads and driving, try these two routes, night or day, doesn't matter, your Zed will love them, I promise! Drove Alfa Romeo 156 v6 2.5, BMW M5 E39 and many other cars at least three times a week, every single night on the summer nights http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&sourc ... 64187&z=13 and http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&sourc ... 64187&z=13 I'll come and join you for some driving when you move in Good luck finding your place!

Called Japex Performance minutes ago, been advised not to fit uprated clutch kit as it worn twice faster on a standard (not supercharged) engine. Quoted £500.00 including parts, labor and VAT. Does that seem a fair price? Also, what could be the benefits of fitting a more expensive (at least double) uprated clutch on a standard engine? Japex are fully booked, the nearest available appointment is on 16th of May. Would you advise to drive the car before then?

Lived in Ascot / Bracknell for nearly 3 years, loved Windsor, only 10 minutes drive, nearly every night going out for a drive from Ascot to Windsor! Good food restaurants, bar, pubs and clubs, gets very busy in the weekend, etc etc. You'll love it! Not to speak about the roads when you're going out for a drive, fun, fun, fuuuuun!

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