2008 Calendar!!!!!

thanks!!!!!!!!!!!11

 

Sent out the mod email sorry i took so long to get back to ya! Also sent a better color pic....

 

do we get to vote on the pics or how did it work last year?

 

heck ya we do!!! probably start this weekend or next week at the latest

 

how do we purchase calendar when it's ready?

 

We are planning on cafepress.com again.

 

my sister is a graphic designer and she can make a good calendar with nice pics and other things if you guys interested. I would need a picture of the car and maybe some other things you want on it. She did one of those calendars before with my family pictures, it's pretty nice. Thanks.

 

voting? its almost half way through the week already

 

thanks for the offer. next year we'll need to look at another option because this is a ton of work.

hallywood....sunday night I'll have them up for sure...working through formatting as we speak (well, kinda)

 

You've got mail!

 

I submitted a photo also.

 

zzzzzzzzzzzzzz



nothing like your friendly neighborhood heckler to help get things done!

 

I wasn't holding my breath either

 

ah shut up you two....

seriously though, I'm having comcast issues at home and will nto be able to upload the pics until tonight/tomorrow. They are supposed to come out this afternoon.

 

I do not like cable broadband anymore. When TimeWarner was around, they had a great system. ComCast ****ed it all up.

 

something about my IP address not renewing....this is the 2nd modem from them...

 

Well it really depends on where you live. My girlfriends brother just moved out to Mayer, they have the option for cable broadband, or FIBER!! Of course he has the fiber service. He has a constant 3.5Mb connection. I was messing around with it at his place and was just amazed at the constant speed.

I have the deluxe package with Qwest, it's OK, I prefer it over comcast that's for sure.

I've also ran into people working from home that use comcast, who connect over a VPN that are getting random drops. It seems like if comcast see's a lot of traffic on an IP, they send a drop signal to the modem or something of the sort. It causes it to lose connection to the VPN, but its quick enough so you don't notice anything else drop.

That's just shady IMO, if its even true.


For the standard home user, I suppose it wouldn't really make any difference. The fact that Comcast charges what, $60.00/mnth for service is just outrageous.

 

This is why I like my Comcast Business Class service. They do traffic shaping on the residential service, especially on BitTorrent traffic. This is one good reason to switch on the encryption in your BT client. My brother-in-law also got a nastygram from them about downloading movies. As a business class customer, they leave you alone. I have a VPN connection between my house and my parents office in Europe, and it's been rock solid.

I'm also on my 3rd modem, but they have couriered out a replacement modem to me within 4hrs after both failures, which is about as good as one might be able to reasonably expect.

Stuart.

 

How much more is the business class through Comcast? Is your bandwith quota increased at all with the service?

 

It's Business Class; there is no bandwidth quota. In talking to their reps from time to time, I'm even entitled to resell the bandwidth if I so choose. I can host servers on it without fear of interference from them, and that's exactly what I do for my folks' business.

It costs $99/month for the service, and I pay an extra $20/month for a block of 8 static IPs (only 5 of which are usable for hosts, of course). If you don't need the static IPs, or you're happy using the likes of DynDNS, then you wouldn't need to stump up the extra.

Stuart.

 

That's a pretty damn good deal, I may have to look into that.
I've got a linux file server, and a small web server running at home over Qwest, its pretty slow to say the least.

 

I'm in the process of building my SuSE web/ftp server right now. Most of my traffic is email, and my webmail runs about as well from the outside world as it does from the inside. And my upstream speed is faster then my folks' download speed at their end, so they're the weak link in our VPN setup.

My boss has residential Comcast at home, and has a very similar email setup to me. He is very envious of how quickly my webmail kicks off compared to his. And he has a much faster server than me. Mine's not slow (Proliant ML370 G3, dual Xeon 2.8, 4GB RAM), but it's got a lot less horsepower than the AMD 64 X2 he's running.

What are you running for a firewall ? Not that it matters, I'm just curious.

Stuart.

 

I'm messing around with Firestarter at the moment, so far so good.

http://www.fs-security.com/

on a side note:

I'm jealous, very very jealous of your setup

 

Mmmmkay

new modem in place. pics will be up late tonight.


I'm only putting up pics, not the mod list that everyone should've provided ( i think everyone did)

 

I was wondering if you were using some flavour of Linux firewall. I have a pair of Watchguards (one at each end of the VPN for the sake of simplicity) but have used all sorts of stuff over the years. My favourite was the Merilus Firecard, which ran what is today the Gateway Guardian firewall, on a PCI card equipped with a Transmeta chip. It was way ahead of its time unfortunately. I think I still have it somewhere.

By the way, I have a matching pair of ML370s (email + file/print). The web server is an old Proliant 1600, and my internal switching is all on Cisco switches (yep, plural, the house is wired with Cat5). It's amazing what you can pick up for cheap if you don't mind lightly used gear that's a little bit out of date.

Stuart.

 

Can't wait to see this years calendar

 

Not sure if I sent you my mod list...??

 

Nate, do you have any higher resolution pics?? The ones you sent aren't cuttin it.

also, waiting on two people to respond to emails.


I need one more day before these are up for a quick vote.

 

I never sent you a mod list either. anyway, there aren't a lot of them lol

 

is this high enough res? I'm thinking front cover?

 

Bump, let's start the voting

http://www.mnsubaru.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20978

Or here....

Here's the photos for the 2008 calendar vote. choose as many as you wish, the top 12 get in the calendar.
PICTURES HERE http://s255.photobucket.com/albums/hh157/MNSUBARU/

If you don't see your photo on here email me at [email protected] It's possible I missed your photo OR it didn't qualify. If I missed your photo we'll add it.

These photos meet the basic requirements.

Picture extras such as mod list or member name may be used on final calendar pic.

Vote in this thread and the next.
#2 http://www.mnsubaru.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20979
#3 http://www.mnsubaru.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20982
#4 http://www.mnsubaru.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21005

 

didn't see this one in there - too late to add?

http://carl-s.smugmug.com/photos/213640091-O.jpg

 

Calendar votes #4- Late Entries

Here's most of the late entries
http://s255.photobucket.com/albums/hh157/MNSUBARU/Late entries/

 

BUMp, last chance to vote!

 

so who gets to be in the calendar? when do we order one?

 

yeah... voting is over now isn't it??

 

Should be able to order by tuesday. I'll know about the winners sometime tonight and post them up!!:yumyum:

 

Congrats to the following winners. You will be featured in the 2008 MNSubaru Calendar!


MCJT
Blackmix
BadbennyB
Chux1
Shorty1
Bill and Readymix
Hallywood
Impreziv
The Kid
Bill1
Ryan
Stoooo7

As you know, you can only have on photo featured in the calendar.

If you were one of the winning entries and had multiple photos entered ONLY one photo will be selected and it will be the photo with the highest votes. There are a couple exceptions due to layout design.

 

I will send the high res versions of my pics that were selected

 

email sent

 

^^^Thank you sir!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!