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Just had a look at the Competitions and noticed a few items still on the back burner, so here's this week's quick schedule: Chop Comp #12: HUMMER H3T Concept Now voting. Voting ends Friday, February 18th @ 11:59PM **Entrants not eligible for prizes. This is voting only.** Chop Comp #13: Pontiac Solstice Concept Final entries due Monday, February 20th @ 11:59PM **This one is eligible for prizes.** Chop Comp#14Chevrolet Camaro Concept Now open for entries. Deadline will be announced later by Northstar, but expect 7-10 days as usual. **This one and all the follow is a prize competition.** The Pontiac RWD Sketch competition still ends Friday and that is also a prize…
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Wasn't me Actually, Dreamhost had experienced some DNS-related problems last night. They're continually patching and updating their servers, and, well, sometimes things just don't go as planned. The actual message from them follows: We had notified them of the problem with C&G at 10PM last night (once it was clear there was nothing on our end wrong), and they replied around 12AM saying it would be fixed the next time they made their DNS changes "official" (usually in 2-4 hour cycles). We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Just got some insider info from a friend who works at Hyundia. He said some models are showing advanced rust to the sub frames and control arms. These are not 10 year old cars either. He did not give me the model names in the e mail but will post them when I find out. He said the fix right now is to drill the frame, hit it with a hammer to break lose the rust and then pump it full of wax. Needless to say he was not impressed with the fix. Might want to see if anyone else speak of this since it has not been reported in the press.
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I'll be installing updates for this version of IPB this afternoon. One of the updates looks like it'll plug a hole that allowed the hacker to gain control of our databasse. While I'm doing this, here might be slight disruptions in service, but no major downtime.
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Due to some abuse by spammers, you are now no longer able to edit your signature (and thus put links in there) until you have over 200 posts or purchase a premium membership. I will update the member options in a moment. for 99% of you who read this, it won't be an issue for you.
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There is a major update to CheersandGears.com coming. I invite you to go play in the sandbox at the development site. While the look of the new software appears to be a minor upgrade of what we use today, it has actually been completely re-written under the hood. Currently, only the software default look and feel is available, but we will eventually be adding our own look and feel. Before going into production on the main site, we will be testing out new looks at the R&D site. You should consider any posts/uploads/blogs/articles on the R&D site to be temporary. They could disappear during a future site refresh. I need your help testing. Please repo…
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Hi Drew, So was looking through the garage, clicked on a few pics and got the error EX0 - Something went wrong, please try again. I then went and clicked on your Encore, same error, then checked each of my own pics and always the same error. Seems no matter what picture I click on, then click on the image tab and click the JPG
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I hope you are all enjoying the new look of the website. As I mentioned in the other thread, there will be another major update just ahead of the Chicago Auto Show. This update will change the structure of the site's article pages with the aim of making our news easier to find and modernizing our front page. One part of this change will go into effect as early as today - Currently, when we post an article, a topic is automatically created that contains the article as the first post plus the comments on that article. This is bad practice as far as the search engines are concerned as it creates duplicate content in two places on the same website. The change that I will …
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The thread titles are now white text on a white/silver gradient. Please, fix this slight oversight. If it matters, I'm using the default skin.
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There seems to be confusion about the Politics rule in non-politics threads. Discussion of policy is fine. Discussion of execution of policy is fine. Random partisan hackery irrelevant to GM or the discussion at hand is not fine.
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A new front page is coming. I would like your input as to what you would like to see changed, added, subtracted any other comments you have. No guarantee that I can integrate all ideas, but would like everyone to throw something into the ring.
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So I'm in the Lounge, and I see at the bottom that "2 Guests" are browsing the thread. How is this possible? The Lounge is supposed to be reserved for registered members only, when did this change and/or why?
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Have an XBox? Have an Outlook.com or Hotmail.com account? We have now added the ability to use your Microsoft account to log-in. If you would like to add that ability to your existing CheersandGears.com account follow these steps: 1. Click on your name drop-down in the upper right corner and then select Account Settings 2. Select Microsoft in the middle left. 3. Authorize the link between CheersandGears.com and your Microsoft Account 4. Once connected, you will see a screen similar to the one below. You can have your Microsoft Account Photo automatically synced to be your profile photo here at your option. …
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A picture's worth at least a sentence or two: Frank, take a bow, your time has come. That Corvette with Nomad taillights seems like a faint memory of a bad dream now. C&G is proud to welcome longtime member NOS2006 to the staff as moderator of the design forms. He'll be in charge of setting up both the sketch and chopping competitions that you guys all know and love. Let's give our newest staff member a round of applause.
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Great, fantastic, and entirely necessary feature. However, can it be slowed down at all? Its tough to read at that pace.
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Not a fan. I would much rather see a few more pics posted within the threads.
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to post images on this site is not too hard, but if you were never told, you would never know Image hosting on imageshack first, open the imageshack site herehttp://www.imageshack.us/ it says browse, click there and find the file of the picture you would like to post then click host it and a list of URLs will appear, the bottom one is the direct link URL to the image, copy the direct link to the image and save it in a document on your computer so that you will not have to return posting an image from image shack onto c&g open the c&g website and create the reply or new topic window that you wish, at the top of the window for the actual t…
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I went to the Tech questions and then where it says c&g fourm>Tech Corner>Tech questions near the top, I clicked on Tech corner and it says you dont have access. If that makes sense, just wondering if any one else noticed this?
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We've fractured another empire, this time in the European Forums. Go ahead and check out... Daimler AG for all your Mercedes, Maybach, and smart news. BMW Group for the latest in BMW, MINI, and Rolls-Royce. Volkswagen Group has VW, Audi, Porsche, SEAT, Skoda, Bentley, and Bugatti info. The French is home to...the French - Citroen, Renault, and Peugoet. The Italians contains the newest developments from Ferrari, Lambo (they're still Italian-ish), Fiat, Alfa-Romeo, and Maserati. The British showcase the remnants of the English automobile empire, including Morgan, Aston, and Lotus Everything else - Russian, Czech, Albanian? - will be found in the main European Forums.…
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Is it possible to either remove or move the "Start New Topic" button at the bottom of each thread. It's right where I'm used to the "Reply" button being. I can't say how many times I've accidentally found myself in the wrong area, just about to start a new topic, when all I wanted to do was reply with quotes. It seems unnatural that the "Reply" button is offset to the left of the other. It's not a terribly big deal, but it's fairly annoying to find myself there. This is seemingly the only forum that I find myself having this issue with ever since the forums were moved to this new style.
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I was wondering if it was at all possible to get a spell-checking feature incorporated into the forums. I hate having to second-guess my spelling and then have an ugly "edited by" message from fixing a simple spelling error. So how about it?
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... But I believe I've lost the ability to edit my signature.
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We now have a social stream that works similar to the Facebook feed. You can see it on the right side of most pages or you can get to a full page view from Social Stream tab under the Activity tab.
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Another server in the network we sit in was under DDOS attack. We weren't being attacked directly, but the strain on the network caused our outbound connections to slow or fail. It has been resolved.
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If you ordered and paid for a calendar, but did not recieve it please post what you ordered, and how much you paid. We need to get a list together on this. Please do not comment in this thread, I want this to be reference only so the staff can deal with this. If you want to comment on the situation, please start another thread here in the feedback forum. When you report, please also tell us your name also and how you paid (check, cash, PayPal). Send the PM to multiple admins (myself, Northie, Z, etc) so that we can all receive the PM. Posts that are comments will be deleted from this thread. Thanks.
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BOSTON -- Team 5 Investigates found more than two dozen complaints on file with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration detailing problems with rusted frames on 2000 and 2001 Toyota Tundras. Here are some excerpts: *** 2000 Toyota Tundra April 10, 2009 "The frame in my truck has rotted out in less than 9 years." *** 2000 Toyota Tundra March 26, 2009 "2000 Toyota Tundra with rust holes through frame, over and beside rear shock brackets and spring brackets. I am at my wits end with Toyota and have tried to resolve this obvious defect at every level. This has become a safety issue for myself and other drivers. It is just a matter of time before the frame w…
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March 2, 2013 - State of the Site As promised, on the first Saturday of each month, I present the State of the Site. Last month's can be viewed here: February 2013 State of the Site. Operations Server - The new server is proving to be dead reliable with no involuntary reboots since it was installed. I still plan on having it performance tuned at some point, but it is not a priority right now. We did get pinged that we've used up 89% of our free disk space, so I will need to buy some additional room there. Software - IP Board has released a small maintenance update that I will install tomorrow or Monday evening. Nothing drastic, but a number of small fixes for annoyi…
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Keeping your email address up to date is an important part of membership here. Aside from getting all the latest automotive updates, it makes sure you get your yearly birthday cards and it allows for password resets. We have a new addition to the software that can detect if emails to you bounce back or if you flag them as spam. In either case, your account here will be suspended until you successfully validate a new email address. You can check your current registered email address here.
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Could a poster's location be reinstated underneath the avatar? Sometimes it's useful to know where someone usually posts from in reading or responding to a particular post, and this used to be listed with the old boards software.
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How come today, my Avitar pic will not show? Went to my settings, and it indicated one was there, which I had orginally downloaded from my pictures. Up until today it appeared on every post that I entered. Not today! Instead, all I got was a white square with the little red "X" up in the corner, but it would never open! What's up????????? <_< :angry:
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Guys, I don't know if it's just me, but the redirect that you have in place on the old c&g server doesn't work for Firefox. In Firefox, it asks if you'd like to download the octet stream, instead of the auto-redirect. It seems to works fine in IE though.
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I tried to reply to the thread that was recently added about the '11 Camaro convertible (the one added by JamesBond), and got this error message: Sorry, an error occurred. If you are unsure on how to use a feature, or don't know why you got this error message, try looking through the help files for more information. The error returned was: Sorry, you do not have permission to reply to that topic Useful Links WTF??
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Ater a rather long hiatus, Cheers and Gears' popular design competitions are back...with a vengence, by which I mean prizes. You read right, starting today, the winner of each competition will recieve a small prize that relates to the subject of the competition if possible. Don't expect a car or a vacation, but there will be a little reward for your outstanding efforts as well as a little motivation to keep that mouse or pencil busy. Entrants in the onging RWD Pontiac sketch and Camaro photoshop threads are eligible for prizes, so good luck and let's see your work! P.S. If you have anything of interest that you'd like to donate as a prize for a future competition, plea…
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Amazon.com is now being offered as another shopping choice for Cheers & Gears members. Just click on the link to amazon.com or search for your automotive products via our Cheers & Gears widget to find all the products that you need. Every time you purchase something through our link to Amazon.com, you are helping to improve Cheers & Gears features and services. Amazon.com is a great retail outlet that has over time, expanded their offerings to include almost any product you could think of or want to purchase. With their free super-saver shipping on most products in Amazon's inventory, Amazon will directly ship your purchases to your home or business. Amazo…
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i havent been on this site long... only since january... but when i first came on... there was a sketch competition in progress... sketch competition 2: RWD pontiac sedan... the competition had been running since october 2005 because it was never ended by an admin... and here we have a similar problem... the voting for sketch comp 4... was suppose to end on May 14th... last sunday... yet it is still in operation... because it has not yet been ended im sure i do not speak for myself when i say im frustrated with the way the sketch comps are left to run on endlessly yet the chopping comps are consistently on time with deadlines etc... i am aware that the admins have …
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IMO, this is a dumb policy. there are tons of 3-letter words to search for. I just tried to search for "Ion" (as in the saturn ion, but I don't care to search for "saturn ion", because posts may not have included the word "saturn" in them). Other terms I can think of off the top of my head include Geo, LS1, LS2, GMC... *edit* well frack, it's not just a limit on the length of the search, it's a limit on any individual term in the search. So I can't even search for "Saturn Ion" because "Ion" is less than 4 letters. Seriously? Wow...
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We have some really great writing talent filling up the "Member Articles" section. Be sure to check some of it out, and feel free to discuss. Also, if you'd like to contribute an article, feel free to do so. One of our friendly staff members will give you all the help you need.
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I was trying to reply to Walt's post about his G6, but didn't really work. At first I couldn't even click reply, just gives me permission problems. Now I could reply, but post doesn't seem to show up. But then when I go back to the forum index, the post icon does show that I have replied.
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Am I the only that experiences problems? It seems every once in a while the C&G server becomes extremely slow and eventually a DNS error page thing pops up. It's been happening for a while now, but today has been terrible. I've been able to get about 20 minutes or so on the site since I first got on at 2:40. I notice everytime I get on, the member list is extremely low, like during the late night hours so I can't be the only having these... right? Regardless, it's extremely annoying and it's pissing me off. If it's my PC... something will be done. If it's C&G, I'll be a bit happier, but I hope it ends.
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Guys, I need some forum description suggestions for the following forums: Ford Lincoln Volvo Dodge Chrysler Ram Jeep Fisker Tesla Mercury They can be witty, but not derogatory.
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Im not sure what "vestage" means :lol: However Im up on unnecessary and meanings. I made a brief statement about a deleted post of mine on a topic here. It was necessary for me to make note that the post was deleted and that I disagreed. The was no reason for me or anyone else to say any more. It was just me saying "I know what you did and I saw you do it :lol: " I realized it was done to try to keep things undercontrol. But I didnt care :) Necessary at the time, pointless now meant something at the time, no longer has any relevence :CG_all:
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What's the deal with the images that are hosted off site not loading correctly? Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't.
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... the new server wasn't on autopay for some reason even though the service provider is the same.
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In case you didn't notice, I've decided to move to a blog-like methodology in posting news and articles on C&G instead of my old method of simply cutting and pasting the entire article. It takes a little longer to post news this way since I'm typing the titles and content myself but I feel it's a good way to add some originality in posting news here. I just wanted to gauge the opinions of the rest of the forum on this as I feel I will stick with this method from now on. So, thoughts?
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The hot topic sidebars seem to update very, very slowly. The articles about a new Saturn logo and the Camaro test-drive were just posted today, but they were on the GMi ticker about 5 days ago. It just seems like this could be updated more regularly.
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Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Extremely annoying.
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News may appear out of order for a bit.... or old articles may pop back to the top looking like they were published more recently. (Tesla autopilot article is my test article currently) This is not a bug. This is me testing software that will enable automatic publishing of our articles to Apple News to hopefully reach a larger audience.
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will a "2007 autoshow" catagory be added sometime soon?.... at least with info (dates) for them... http://www.naias.com/ has a count down for themselves, kinda cool
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Do you even know we have a C&G Store? If not, check it out! C&G Company Store C&G CafePress Store Would anyone be interest in purchasing products such as... Calendar featuring members' cars - photographs would be selected by voting; those who win would be included in the calendar. Design Showcase merchandise - T-shirts, mousepads, and other items featuring sketches and 'chops from our Design Showcase. Here's an example... This particular shirt retails for $11.49. Remember, all profits go directly to supporting C&G and its activities (site upgrades, purchasing spyshots for your viewing, etc). Any suggestions or comments on this at all?
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As you know, last night the server experienced some major issues again. Well today, I approached a person recommended to me by other people who run this same software. On the forum for IP.Board admins that I frequent, Gary is often mentioned as a savior. Well, today he did just that for us. The problem last night wasn't that Cheers and Gears doesn't have enough server. No, in fact, the server we have is way more powerful than we really need. By my calculations, we could be 5 to 6 times our current size and traffic levels.... if the server is configured properly. Essentially, we have a Z-06 engine under the hood here. And there in was our problem. I am an I.T. guy... bu…
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I just found out that you can create your own customized PM boxes. Stock, we get Inbox, Sent PMs, and Saved (Unsent) PMs. However, you can add your own! I just added Saved (Received). Figured I'd share this new-found feature. I love it.
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The Old Forum Archives Are they Gone?
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Can't access the site for quite awhile then it comes back up for a few minutes?
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Just now my time settings for the board got changed. I refreshed the page and suddenly the time is 4 hours behind. I had it on Eastern Standard Time and it was still set to that when it happened. I have to have it on Cape Verdean time to get the accurate time. :huh:
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Admins: Please allow me to help out Northie with the Design Competitions. His school work is dominating his ability to help the competitions run smoothly. Please let me help him out. Well, as long as Northie is okay with it. :P
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Koenigsegg CCX Revealed Text & photos courtesy Koenigsegg Automotive AB 02-24-2006 First Impression The first impression of the Koenigsegg CC is its dynamic stance and futuristic, aggressive attitude. It appears amazingly low and broad, with the cockpit-like semicircular windscreen and organically shaped rear hood as key features. The smooth and polished body is gently curved, almost simplistic; a fully integrated design. Lines and surfaces appear thoroughbred and slippery, projecting an image of velocity onto the machine. This design shouts in a clear and universal language: “I travel at extreme speed”. Machined for Speed Koenigsegg's design seeks to give an in…
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Hello everyone ! Do you want to buy cars & parts cheap from Japan ? Do you know Yahoo Auctions, the biggest on-line private auctions in Japan ? We believe this is the cheapest place you can buy used cars in Japan compared to other on-line auctions and normal auctions such as USS, JA. If you are interested our services and Yahoo Auctions, please email us. Info removed EverFree: Please no advertising in the forums.
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do we have a site icon? the icon i get in my addy bar is a white V in a blue background. can this be changed? should someone make one? make it a competition? just find a good free one? thanks
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What'a with the log-in clock? Today, when it acknowledged my log-in, it said my last log-in was Aug 27th! I've posted replies since then----- and was at these forums only yesterday, Sept. 16th! Something ain't right ------- and I still have to register each time I come here, even after checking off the box to remember me, and I haven't deleted any cookies!!!
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any chance of getting chevy, buick, pontiac...... skins anytime soon?
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I get this fairly often..... 3 times this morning so far.
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C&G would like to welcome Oldsmoboi and WildManJoe as Staff Members. We have nominated them to the Editor/Reporter position. We thought that the site could use some help so we decided adding some editors was a good idea. We hope that the improved C&G Staff will be able to serve the membership better and make C&G a better place to find automotive news and rumors. Congrats to Oldsmoboi and WMJ for their nominations!
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Guys, I'd like to reorganize the way the Auto Show forums are listed. Rather than have sub-forums by year, I would like to have sub-forums by show location and then all of the years grouped under that show. Rather than having to search 5 different forums for Detroit auto show stuff, all years of Detroit Auto show would be in one forum listed in reverse chronological order. The current structure was built at a time before we had our articles system in place and doesn't mesh well (read: at all) with our new preferred way of posting articles. Making this structure change will allow front page articles to dump into the appropriate forum automatically and correctly. This …
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I don't have the option to comment on the thread, only follow, yet others that are Members and Premium Subscribers (as I am) are commenting on it. What's up with that?
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I have always been rather permissive and light on the moderation around here. The influx of new people around here have forced my hand and I will have to moderate much more heavily now. I will be seeking moderators to help me in this and looking for volunteers. Please PM me if you have an interest. I will not announce the moderator promotions when they happen. A number of you may not like having your posts subject to moderator action..... you can save time by getting over it now.
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What happened today? Several times I tried to get in here and there were database errors and then just "page not found" errors. This seems to happen every so often (I've seen it a few times over the past few weeks). I'm guessing the first issue had to do with MYSQL going down. The next was probably Apache.. While there's no reason this place needs to be on a dedicated server at this point in time - I think the server it's on has too many problems. One site or another is draining all the resources..
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Thursday, December 01, 2005 Print this Comment on this E-mail this Michael J. Dunne Thailand: Japan’s Backyard Michael J. Dunne / Autos Insider While China and India steal the headlines, Thailand's automotive industry makes quiet, remarkable progress. Vehicle production will top 1 million units this week. The industry expects total output to reach 1.15 million cars and trucks for the year. Exports will surpass 450,000 units, making Thailand the seventh largest vehicle exporter in the world. Mazda, Ford, GM, Mitsubishi, Toyota and Isuzu ship cars and trucks to 106 countries from factories here. Thailand is already the second largest pickup truck market on t…
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I noticed Walt had been hanging around much less over at Autoblog in recent months and now they're no longer on the front page. Is there something we should know about? If there was a falling out, I'm not entirely surprised. There was a lot of anti-GM articles and bloggers over there that it felt like I was at Autoweek.
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Will there be much gnashing of teeth of I condense the Corvette, Camaro, and Volt forums down into the Chevy Car forum?
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would anyone else think a sub forum to help others find jobs would be a good idea?
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How come people dont use that feature while surfing the fourms.
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Hey Josh...um...about your DNS server updates you've been mentioning... Theoretically even as CheersAndGears.com becomes active again and that site still works, this will remain an active backdoor since it is a direct link to the server. It's simply knowing the name of the actual server under DNS, might be the best way to put it. So, it won't just "stop working" unless your host is a little odder than the ones I've worked with... You may just have to poke and prod people to move them over. The real problem comes in 6 months when they decide this server is overwhelmed and decide to move you to another and those who didn't update their book…
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Just to spread the word again, Cheers and Gears now features some great static information pages for your enjoyment and use. Clicking theGM Resources and Guides link on your Main Menu brings you to a wealth of information including... Powertrain Guide Transmission Guide Production Plant Guide Vehicle Safety Guide Fuel Economy and Efficiency Guide All of which are frequently updated. Watch out soon for our Future Product Guide! For you design competition fans, we now have a Design Showcase Gallery with all of our recent contest winners. Don't forget about our Member Marketplace or our official Cheers and Gears Company Store, which will feature even more great merc…
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Most of us use Facebook I'm sure. I was recently on consumerist.com and had the option of logging in with my Facebook account. After logging in I was able to make posts with my Facebook avatar posted and then a pop up window gave me the option of duplicating the post along with a link to the article on my Facebook account. Here is my Facebook account.
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New Category created: Cheer and Gears Features Sub-forums include: C&G Drives - renamed to C&G Reviews C&G Competitions C&G Top News Ford of Europe posts moved into Ford - Ford of Europe forum REMOVED Old "C&G Features" category renamed "Editorials" - new name once I can think of one Volvo moved from Ford Family to European Marques. Saab moved from GM to European Marques Buick New Vehicles and Concept merge with regular Buick forum - New Vehicles and Concepts forum removed Ditto Cadillac Ditto Chevrolet Concepts GM Motorsports merged into Motorsports and removed Added 2011 Autoshows forum Added 2010 Monthly Sales Archive Added "Heritage …
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Link: http://www.autoweek.com/news.cms?newsId=103103
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Ok, I haven't seen this on here yet, so if it's a re-post I apologize. Anyway, this is not any surprise to me and shows how "dedicated" Toyota is to the United States economy. http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/20/news/compa...sion=2007062006
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How the shit do you use that tab?!
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I would love to see an anti GM board somewhere on these forums. It would be interesting to read from people who had bad experiences with a GM product and won't buy a GM car anymore. They are out there. Sometimes someone is ticked off about a GM product and need a place to vent. GM needs to be aware of reasons why some people won't buy their products given that the company once had 50 percent of the market share two and one half decades ago. Anyone else interested in an ex-Gm, anti-GM, GM vent board??
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On the front page, the only car in the Member Garage that shows up is Z28's Cobalt. And when you click on it to get to the rest of the Member Garage, this is what you get: ERROR: Database error. Cannot execute the query: SELECT evento, titolo, descrizione, file, click, rate, trate, autore, idauth, peso, data FROM mkp_gallery WHERE id = '1' AND validate = '1' MySql Error returned: Unknown column 'idauth' in 'field list' MySql Error code: 1054
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Don't know exactly how to phrase this civilly, but keeping topics and sub-topics off limits for non-members is only gonna screw C&G up the rear. I've done research. Get with the program or lose it.
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how come "hummer" is a "protected" forum? (not that i care all that much about hummer news--its the only one of the brands thats locked)
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Hi all... it's that time again. The current server was installed in 2016 and it's time we pack up and move to a newer build. Because I have some other web projects going on, the power of the new server is significantly increased over the last one, so I'm hoping to get some big performance boosts to the site. We're talking going from my Encore to a Hellcat in terms of power. That said, this software is still rather bloated, so there is still an upper limit to how fast it will go no matter how much processor I throw at it. It will be a fun experiment. Also... there is 96 gigs worth of data to transfer, so we'll be down a while. I'll probably kick off the tran…
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I don't know why it stopped working, but I tried to upload 150 X 150, 90 x 90, and 50 x 50 pics, nothing seems to load, could someone look into it please. Thanks! der Bö®gÉr
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Japan’s Economic Future in Doubt: A National Introspective TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2010 It’s not been a good year for Japan. China has recently overtaken the Land of the Rising Sun as the world’s second biggest economic power and a recall of over ten million vehicles by one of the nation’s biggest and most respectable companies, Toyota, kicked off a global PR debacle that some analysts predict will take years to recover from. Add to that Japan’s aging population, its growing national debt and heavy reliance on manufacturing, all of which are effectively killing what was once thought destined to be the world’s leading economic superpower. The departure of its fourth Pri…
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Check your PMs ASAP
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There used to be a function called "my last posts" where I could see what i have commented on. Did we lose this? Can we get it back? Is there a way to do this that I just am not seeing?
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Well ... how about it? Or is there something else in store for the main page?
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Is this IPB illegal? It doesnt say liscensed to cheersandgears. Just wondring. I am not a representative of "IPB", Im just wondering to make sure if you can take away the liscense to: footer. Or is this a liscensed version at all...Thanks!
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I'm new to this posting game. I have been a long time reader, and a member at the old site, but the procedures to chime in were(are) just too confusing to us "old-timers". My current frustration is in the process required to post a picture! And until I started participating in this new forum, I did not know, and still don't know what an "avatar" is! I figured out that it is the little pic by your name on each message. It took my pic straight from "My Documents", and even adjusted the size. Why can't the same program, or one like it be used to add signature or other pics to a thread?(Now there's another "new&qu…
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So after not being on the forum for about a day, I click the "view new content" button, and get... 3 results. I highly doubt the board has been that inactive in the last day. Is there a setting somewhere that decides how long after a new post something gets marked as not new anymore? Can we extend that to a few days instead of less than one? Not sure what I missed, or how to find what everyone's been talking about for the last day or so.
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Thank you to whomever updated the description line for the "Future Buick Models/Concepts." A website has the potential to be kept as current as possible, and this small example makes a lot of difference!
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To better serve our members in keeping up-to-date with all things GM especially in regards to future vehicle development, I'd like to take this time to announce two new forums on the C&G website. The Volt-ometer subforum located within the Chevrolet Forum will chronicle the development of this amazing new vehicle from concept to production. In the same way the Camaro Center represented the emotion surrounding the rebirth of Chevy's muscle car, we hope The Volt-ometer will foster the same spirit and enthusiasm for this truly revolutionary vehicle. All other GM developments in biodiesel, ethanol, fuel cells, and related demonstration vehicles will be chronicled i…
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It seems for the last... forever... this site cant ever keep me signed in... i've got the cookies and everything, i've tried deleting it and make it remember me again, no workie... whats the deal? its annoying to have to sign in every time i want to give my 2 cents
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Cheers and Gears now has it's own facebook page! You can become a fan by joining here: Cheers and Gears Promote Your Page Too
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8QaxwrexTk...h=5th%20gear%20
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Whenever I post a message and then hit "View New Posts" I get a Flood control error saying that I have to wait 10 seconds. I'm not actually trying to post again. I just want to view the new stuff.
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I've installed yet another server performance modification today. Looks like it has cut page load times in about half. Let me know if you experience any issues or have comments about the speed.
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