Dave Ambrose

Try clearing your browser cache and let me know if that resolves your problem.

I know the frustration a lot of us feel. But, we decided a while back that we wouldn't be discussing COVID-19 on this forum. I will say that in any situation like this, our understanding evolves as new data becomes available. That's normal and you just have to roll with it.

We have two intersecting problems. One was on the server and was actually fixed a few days ago. The other is with Chrome browser. It's caching something it shouldn't. In our case, a very old encryption certificate. I haven't figured out a solution for this yet. So far, none of the published methods work in the current version of Windows.

I haven't seen those yet. I'll see what I can do with the settings.

I've narrowed this down to some kind of problem with Google's Chrome browser. So far, all the published solutions for this don't work. I feel so special. But, you can either proceed, or use a different browser. Edge, FireFox, or Safari should all work fine.

We have a set of certificates to ensure that we are who we say we are. One of these got messed up in the renewal process. This is turning into a royal pain in the brain.

I'm still working on this. Should have it fixed shortly. And for the record, I hate SSL certificates. ?

If you have Netflix, I recommend Ancient Geniuses. Unfortunately, it goes away on the 31st.

Answering that question would take this topic straight into the political realm. We don't do that here. I'm locking this topic so it doesn't get out of hand.

These are great kits for people new to the hobby. Low parts count lets them focus on painting and all the other stuff that's now embedded itself into our lizard-brains and never enters our consciousness.

Yes, they did. Us kids in CA, where it never rains during summer had them.

Got the replacement. Damaged the same way. Is there a special machine that stomps packages they don't like? First Fedex, now the Postal Service. Come to think of it, I think the USPS contracts out some operations to Fedex. Say what you will about Amazon, but I don't have these kinds of issues with shipments they handle. (Now I wonder if this wasn't part of their motivation for starting their own deliveries.) Roberto from The Petersen has been so nice and helpful that it was painful writing the damaged-shipment email. Poor guy deserves better.

I do apologize. I completely missed the significance of that. We should be good for the moment, and I'll figure out some kind of migration plan when it gets to that point.

There aren't any quotes around the tags. In the post, they're just the tags. I felt like I needed to set them apart somehow. This caught me off guard. I didn't even know we had supported them until this morning. My first level assumption is that Invision will give us a way to convert them to their equivalent HTML tags. If not, I can get into the forum database, and convert the postings programmatically. That might take a few hours, as we are somewhere north of 2 million posts. I will follow up with Invision, and see what the future plan is. In the interim, I've reenabled them, so they should work the way they used to for the time being.

I think I know what's going on. There are " and " tags around your images. Those seem to mess everything up. If you just paste the straight URL (the text between the tags), the board is smart enough to identify them as images and embed them into your post. You can also tell it to embed them as links if you prefer. I'll see if there isn't some setting that I need to tweak and post back here if I find anything. For the time being at least, skip those tags and everything should work fine. Update: BBCodes were deprecated in the new version. I assume that at some point, they'll remove the support altogether. I reenabled them, but we should stop using them.

I think I know what was going on. There were "[img]" and "[/img]" tags around your images. Those seem to mess everything up. If you just paste the straight URL (the text between the tags), the board is smart enough to identify them as images and embed them into your post. I'll repost this over in the How to Use this Board section.

Let's see how these work:

Ordered a limited edition print of a Dan Gurney F1 car and a book from the Petersen Museum. It arrived to day. The goods were well packaged, but Fedex managed to drop something along the lines of an anvil on it. The print, which was in a sturdy mailing tube was creased and the book had some new wrinkles too. I don't know how Fedex managed to do this, but they did. Dropped a line to the Petersen today, and they're getting on making a claim and sending me replacements. They rock.

You should be able to drag and drop the files into the area at the bottom of the reply box. Or, you can click "choose files" and it opens up a native file opening dialog. Let me know if neither one of those work for you.

This is a great way to display your models. That dragster on the upper deck is especially interesting. Can you share its story?

Nice build. I like the name for the car. I moved it to under glass.

That is great news. I always get this little lump in my throat when I see someone's been laid off. You not only landed on your feet, but stuck the landing.

I don't know why they think this is a good idea. We're not the only ones experiencing this problem. I think I have it fixed. Setting changes apparently take a few hours to propagate to all the little corners of the Googleverse, but I'm sure you'll let me know of you see them again. ?

Welcome to the forum, Hans. My son also got back into modeling with the onset of the pandemic. His room looks like the Gundam aisle of the hobby shop. At least he's stopped giving me a hard time about my kit stash. ?

Looks like my settings changes didn't solve the problem. Sorry. Back to the drawing board.