I started a PD-4104 specific group on Yahoo. The main purpose is to have a place to collect documents and pictures that are 4104 specific. I am going to start posting what I have already collected. Feel free to join and add anything you may have as well.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/PD-4104/
Thanks,
Vern
Those old GM owners are active on FaceBook ton of photos if you would like to lift a few. good luck on the Yahoo site great idea
Cool Idea, I will check it out tonite. Think I mayhaps have a photo or 2 of them buses.
Siberyd
I also created a simple database on there to store serial number info. We can add fields if we need to. Now the file space is limited to 100 megs, but I can store big files on my servers and we can just link to them.
I applaud your efforts Vern. I also wish you luck with Yahoo groups. As an 04 owner, I will check it out. I have belonged to about seven different groups on Yahoo (all bus related). Ever since their new roll-out of the "improved" turd of a system, there has been little to No activity on any of those sites. In my opinion they have wrecked a perfectly good thing they had going. It is now as user friendly as a blind porcupine. I wish Yahoo would have left it alone. I had thousands of photos stored on those group sites that now anyone can barely access. I'm not shooting the messenger, but there has got to be a better (free) way to run a website. I pay something like $75 a year for Go-Daddy to host my website (wordpress style), and I hate the whole thing. That format sucks too.This website, and BNO use "simple machines" format (I think that what it's called) and I love how easy it is to actually do things. I need to make a change for my site, but too much going on to fool with it. Anybody got any free geek advice? Stick to paper and pen right! Forget about these here comp-u-taters. Sorry for the rant Vern. I hope your site does well!
I run my own servers and at some point will look at hosting something on them, I just don't have time to find and install anything right now. There are a lot of systems out there like PHPBB and such, but nothing that has all of the tools in one place. While I like these forums, there is not a good way to store pictures and documents in forums like this.
I will probably have to put the pieces together to get what I really want and that will take time.
Vern,
remember what Yahoo did with GeoCities ?
remember what Yahoo did with user accounts last fall ?
that's in addition to Tom's complaint that every Yahoo upgrade doesn't look like one (at least from Tom's & my perspective).
speaking from my experience as a former heavy Yahoo user.
edward
Yes, but like I said it was a way to get things moving until I get the software installed on my servers to provide all of the functionality needed. I need a forum, that is easy I have already run PHPBB in the past. I need a picture gallery that allows uploads from authenticated user and I need a file repository setup the same way. There are a lot of different software packages out there and I have to find the right ones that not only function the way we want, but will work with the servers I have.
Vern
Quote from: mung on September 10, 2014, 05:12:39 AM
Yes, but like I said it was a way to get things moving until I get the software installed on my servers to provide all of the functionality needed... There are a lot of different software packages out there and I have to find the right ones that not only function the way we want, but will work with the servers I have.
yaas, BTDT !!! when I was in the biz, we spent more time evaluating/testing packages than anything else. Some things never change.
edward