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Assetto Corsa / Re: My New PC Build
« on: February 28, 2021, 07:44:24 PM »
Jealous Joe? ;D. Nice one Bird AMD or Intel?
Intel 10700, I've had a couple of bad runs with AMD stuff in the past, I'll wait a bit more before I dare change.

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Assetto Corsa / Re: My New PC Build
« on: February 27, 2021, 06:55:46 PM »
I've got a new one, too.  Altho in hindsight what for did I get a 3070 card I've no idea, but it runs RDR2 damn well in 4k I tells ya :)

Looks like xmas, too, hehe.

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Mod Cars / Re: 500cc F3 cars.
« on: December 21, 2020, 12:54:29 PM »
skippy extreme is what these should be called :D

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Real Life Motorsport / Re: Formula 1
« on: November 30, 2020, 02:33:52 PM »
I'd not do it for any money.

I'd throw up in my helmet every time so badly I'd not be able to finish 2 laps.  And I'd feel absolute shit for days.

Btw, big kudos to the safety; just seen news of this insane crash.   The guy walks away with burns to his hand that's all.   He fucking went through the barrier.  Mental.



Aftermath of the front:




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Damn you guys are old  ;D

Can`t race online anymore,i am seriously thinking giving this hobby  away.I had a ball the last few races but the last one i had to press the "esc" button in agony. Wrist,arms,neck.....a mess!!
You shouldn't be getting sore. Is your set up OK, seat height, distance from wheel etc etc?

I know what's wrong, the old 9 is resurfacing and he's driving in anger, again! :D

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Maggie Reilly has a magical voice.

Glad you're enjoying life, 9 :)

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Damn you guys are old  ;D
Was before colour lol
Well, we only had a b/w TV set when I was a little kid...

But before GTL the good times were with LFS.   The online part of that is still unparalleled IMO.

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Great stuff.   GTL was bloody well balanced for close fun racing!

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Ok, I'm going to deviate a bit here, this isn't a song or a clip, but a nice little doco on the Traveling Wilburys - one of the greatest groups of people to do music in my humble opinion.


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News / Re: Forum upgrade
« on: October 17, 2020, 09:19:24 PM »
So they let it happen to screw you out of dollars? >:(

Huh?  No.

This is running on a normal instance - a t2.micro one.  However, a normal server does not have the infrastructure to apply geoblocking.  For that you need a VPN, a load balancer, and an AWS firewall with geoblocking rules set up.   All this is ok for commercial applications, however it's a massive extra cost on a little community server like this.   

For now all I could think of is to bump up the server to a t2.small, which does double the cost, but still nowhere near as bad as all the extra infrastructure would be.  (the monthly cost goes from $10US to $20US)

TBH it maybe an idea to tune Apache & mysql a bit, so instead of flopping it'd just reject requests, but it's all time, time, time to play around with these.   Anyway, I'll try and do it at some point.


For now, blame the friggen script kiddies who run their botnets looking for easy hacks.

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News / Re: Forum upgrade
« on: October 17, 2020, 06:03:20 PM »
Thanks Bird. The bots were out of control. Luckily not many of them managed to actually post anything. I kill bot posts pretty quickly and remove the accounts anyway.

Annoying thing is I could geo-block overseas requests, that'd reduce the numbers significantly, but it multiplies the server cost, as it requires a step up in the aws infrastructure. :(

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News / Forum upgrade
« on: October 17, 2020, 05:42:48 PM »
Gents I've upgraded the forum to the latest.

However some of the mods were quite out of date so they could not be reinstalled.

One of these things it seems was the youtube tags - so just put your youtube link into the post and it should be replaced.   One thing; the shorthand url (youtu.be) does not work with a start time, so for that you need to use the full url format.

The recent outages it seems were caused by bots/crawlers overloading the server, hopefully the upgrade helps with that.

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