Mayhem News - 2006
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Friday 23 October 2006
Well Here are on the - OUR OWN NEW PRIVATE SERVER!! (VPS)
Play nicely and don't break anything! I've noticed that there are a lot of "?" all over the place, this happened last time we moved servers, I think it's something to do with American keyboard codes! I'll try to change them as I come across the in the posts.  We'll run the Forum with picture for a short while without the photos until we feel all is stable.
 

Tuesday 24 October 2006
Well after a frantic 3 days or investigations, complaints, intense negotiations, discussions, ill-informed debates, bad tempered arguing and lengthy stroppy silences,  Bradders and I have decided that you can't go wrong with Digestive biscuits  with a cup of tea........ oh, and and got the Forum working again!

The Forum has now been temporarily reinstated just so we can let you know what's going on and we can all speak to each other again.  Tomorrow morning we will be moving to a VPS "Virtual Private Server" service which will ensure (according to the Host ) the overloading problems do not happen again. More expense.... We have also been informed that this is a 12 hour process but please be assured we will try our best to keep the Forum up and running as much as possible through the entire upgrade. ( Please note that all attachments / Photos have been disallowed to reduce Forum traffic on the site but will be reinstated as soon as we are live on the new service. )

You may have noticed a new button at the bottom of the menu bar (left), got to fund the new hosting package somehow.! Muchas Graciasto those that have already. [ Donations ]
 

Friday 23 October 2006
Well Guy & Girls we seem to be a victim of our own success! The forum is so popular that the hosting company is complaining that we're overloading their servers!! "...even if your bandwidth usage it at 20%, that does not mean it will not overload the server. When a mysql request is sent to the server, it might do a loop and therefore, overload the server." No, I don't really know what that means either! So this week I'm going to have to fork out even more money for our own VPS - Virtual Private Server! Until then I've been asked ( told ) to 'suspend the forum' or / and upgrade to a VPS service. Use the time to find who those other people in your house you see from time to time really are and finish building your models! The forum will be back on-line later this week. Sorry, Martin

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Wednesday 7 June  2006
BEST Dickie Tug Conversion - Ever!?!
A beautiful Mail ship - by Steve Cas
Links:
Giant Model Aircraft carrier - http://www.bismarck-class.dk/shipmodels/german_models/admiralgrafspeeterra.html
Chris Brown Model Boats - http://www.christopher-wyn-brown.co.uk/
 

Friday 2 June  2006
Mike Pendlebury's  Lifeboat Google eyes to Rivets!
Andy's Giant Javelin
Steve's got a new "Yacht"... whatever that is!! ;-)
Dick Hopper's Pretoria Castle
I Think Burza is building a new Lifeboat.....
New Photo of the Month. Thanks Ian.
Links:
http://www.sputnikk.com/homeport/
http://www.modelshipworld.com/
http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/Common/Macsmouldings.htm
http://ukatlantisbuilder.blogspot.com/
http://www.busybeas.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
 

Tuesday 4 April  2006
"The Model Boats website is in the process of being redesigned and will be moving to a new Host Provider - as is obvious when you click on the url. This will happen in the very near future - should be up and running by May. It will be completely redesigned and will once again feature direct on-line shopping for plans, etc.

We will be including a Forum and we are hopeful that we have been able to recover the Forum files so that none of the previous information is lost. Confirmation on this is expected later today as we only became aware yesterday lunchtime that the Host Server was about to pull the plug and there was some last minute downloading in an attempt to secure the Forum files.

The website was one of the many items to suffer under the demise of Highbury. Our new company, Encanta Media Ltd is striving to bring everything back to normal and to develop our services so we ask people to be patient for a few more weeks." John Cundell ( Editor Model Boats Magazine ) ......

Added Pictures of Kirkless MBC lake
 

Friday 24 March  2006
Andy's Ultra modern NovaTug
Spotted in Port Louis, Mauritius.... anyone know anything about her?
Here a silly way to waste a bit of time! - http://dock.easycruise.com/

Pleased don't think me rude if you sent me an email or photos and they haven't appeared or I've replied, I do read each and every email you send... except the Viagra ones...! If you were expecting a reply or hoping to see your picture, please email me me again to check I'm still alive!      Regards,   Martin ;-)
 

Friday 3 February  2006
London Model Engineering Exhibition   - Ally Pally
New picture of the month
Trying to fix the counter stats....
Here's an interesting / useful page! - http://www.mcdonoughmarine.com/signals.htm
 

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