The growth of London FG SS

velocity boy Can I make a Beowulf cluster joke here? I know it's not slashdot... but I never get the chance usually.

why not?

vegansdontneedgears i think we should get a 70s punch card system, that would be as reto as our shoppers!

Yeah man I love the old pianos that run off punch cards or roles making music with a hole punch.

rkn [quote]Buffalo Bill Shoppers!

LADIES 3 SPEED SHOPPER BICYCLE BIKE RETRO EMO PUNK[/quote]
geeeeeez, that went for over 120 quid..

Just in case anyone is wondering. I do realise the server keeps crashing, and we are getting a new one very shortly.

Is it due to hight use or something else?

vegansdontneedgears i think we should get a 70s punch card system, that would be as reto as our shoppers!

Back in the olden days, when computer-programmer types were all men, and the only way to meet women was to hang out in the punch room.

My dad was a programmer for sainsburys in the '60s and claims to be the only person in his office who didn't marry a punch girl.

It's that hippy fscker refreshing too often :)

TheBrick(Tommy) Is it due to hight use or something else?

Yes.

But not just on here.

The server hosts:
http://www.bowlie.com/
http://chifg.com/
http://www.londonfgss.com/

All are busy and increasing in business.

Bowlie pays for the server, but the two cycling forums are factors in the load that the server is under.

The big problem is that the hard drive on the server is a single SATA drive. It's basically a desktop drive and is running Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP, etc. It's not bearing up very well. It's also been in use for almost 4 years and is starting to report an increasing number of bad sectors and faults.

So I'm going to get a new server, it will cost an additional $100 per month, and the new server will have 3 SCSI discs in RAID5. I'll also bump the RAM to 4GB just because I can.

And the new server will solve the bottle neck issues and faults that the current server has. It will happen within a month hopefully.

That's good about the new server.

It'd be a pain in the arse if a lot of the data was lost! All our insightful and meaningful musings as to the meaning of life would be lost forever...

shit i'll buy a shopper when i see one. every single one of them. sit them on my terrace for a year i'll be a fookin' rich man by then. time to get on the saddle and out hunting!

Sometime a few days ago we went past 500 members.

That's kinda cool, no?

We're averaging around 100 per month.

We should establish a monthly meet/ride or something perhaps, to welcome people. Say, first Saturday of each month do a loop of Central London and stop at a bar to talk shit or something?

it's seems to have gained a fair bit of momentum - there's often 40 people using the forum at the same time

Are you implying that we're all going to marry each other?

Or.. http://www.heavensgate.com/

well, i've already had one proposal of marriage from hippy but i'm waiting to get my hands on this foxy little minx

what is the blip on the graphs?

Where it shoots down to zero and back.

tallsam what is the blip on the graphs?

Where it shoots down to zero and back.

That's us moving servers, and the site that monitors the stats getting confused and reaching the old server. So for two days the numbers from their perspective appear to be zero.

I like the idea of a regular ride. Why not do it on a sunday to feed into bike polo? In NYC loads of people would hang around the polo games and watch, take part, talk shit, drink beer...

mashton I like the idea of a regular ride. Why not do it on a sunday to feed into bike polo? In NYC loads of people would hang around the polo games and watch, take part, talk shit, drink beer...

Precisely.

I put in Sunday originally but figured it would clash with Bike Polo, so changed it. But feed into it... now that's an idea. If only there were a pub right next to the polo court.

Hmm, let's start a new discussion and get this going.

do we still need the spoke design sticky?

Nah, unstickying it :)

Quite impressive how the forum has grown and maintaining a steady rate of growth, too.

I swear it's more addictive than crack.

It's all down to hippy and aidan, who apparently do nothing but post on here for a living.

David K It's all down to hippy and aidan, who apparently do nothing but post on here for a living.

Certainly puts one's life into perspective.

David K It's all down to hippy and aidan, who apparently do nothing but post on here for a living.

The benefits of human cloning, proved.