Does anybody know about the Combat flight center? It seems that the pages are down...

Same here

I believe there have been some upgrading to the forum software, they hit a few bumps on the way...but its being worked on ^_^

 

http://www.sim-outhouse.net/forum/showthread.php?t=752&page=2&p=24222#post24222

Phew, good to hear they're okay. Thanks.

V-Bulletin software stinks...

Chasing the "upgrade rainbow" stinks!

 

KISS, and if it ain't broke, don't fix it!

 

The forum ,kode kiddies these days have too much free time on their hands, apparently, so they

create an 'upgrade'!

 

  Paul

Glad to hear it's okay as well.  I was set on getting acquainted with the Navion this weekend, shall have to wait a bit I guess!

I know they were getting hit was some heavy server loads recently. I also downloaded the Navion and the C-47. Some great freeware right there!

And very civilized forum which I notice I'm missing already.

What is the Navion?

Look here: http://airdailyx.blogspot.de/2013/10/woah-check-this-out.html :smile:

Chasing the "upgrade rainbow" stinks!

 

KISS, and if it ain't broke, don't fix it!

 

The forum ,kode kiddies these days have too much free time on their hands, apparently, so they

create an 'upgrade'!

 

  Paul

 

That's a rather simplistic view when talking about commodity online forum software, purposefully not upgrading because 'it's not broke' means that you're left at a version that may very well have known vulnerabilities and thus be exposing yourself to the risk of being hacked.

 

If SOH were to be hacked and have all their downloads compromised, we'd never hear the end of how 'how could they be so foolish to keep running an old version of vbulletin that hackers know how to exploit'.

 

It's like how you hear about company X being hacked and having all their credit card data stolen, and then people say 'well, MS fixed the vulnerability that the hackers used 18 months ago, they deserve it for not updating', you have to balance between the benefit of 'don't fix what isn't broke' vs 'not exposing yourself to obvious vulnerabilities'.

 

 

If SOH were to be hacked and have all their downloads compromised, we'd never hear the end of how 'how could they be so foolish to keep running an old version of vbulletin that hackers know how to exploit'.



It's like how you hear about company X being hacked and having all their credit card data stolen, and then people say 'well, MS fixed the vulnerability that the hackers used 18 months ago, they deserve it for not updating', you have to balance between the benefit of 'don't fix what isn't broke' vs 'not exposing yourself to obvious vulnerabilities'.

 

I could understand 'updating' if a vulnerability is discovered and fixed, but  all to often today it seems that the 'updates' are more in the order of 'let's make it prettier' or 'let's add more bells & whistles - because we can'.

 

For myself, any 'update' must meet a need that I have that the current version does not provide, otherwise

I stay with 'what works'. Driver updates come to mind here. Incessant 'flash player' updates really agrivate me and I refuse to chase that ever-changing application.  Browser updates are another dubious area.

 

I still use my Netscape 3.01 version to read some NNTP forums that I frequent. No HTML 'over-kill' or 'pretty colors' needed. Just simple, fast. text and where a picture is needed, an attachment.

 

    Paul

It doesn't matter why they made the decision. What matters is SOH did. I am completely confident that they did it in their own best interest. And for that all I can give is the best through their troubles. Although a slightly different story, remember what happened here a quite a few years ago?

SOH has a quite special niche. It is good, and should be there.

Member of -
2013 Transcontinental Race ( spelled right this time) - Sponsored by SOH
2013 Western Roundup Race - Sponsored by SOH
2012 Cape to Cape ( Kind of) - Sponsored by SOH
1946 Bendix Trophy Dash - Sponsored by SOH (Winner - Jet Class)
And, an arch enemy :good:  since 2007 :rolleyes:  as a member of the AVSIM "Around the World" ( RTWR) Race Team  :im Not Worthy: 

To the gents taking care of the internals over there ( Dave?) -

May you get all your PhPs, HTMLs, EXEs, DLLs & ZIPSs in a straight line _
May you get all the sparky plugs firing in order,

Regards,
Roman