Stijn!!

[RKDinOKC]

Running AS tires on the Cayenne. Gets around just fine, despite the fact that last winter a missed a drive due to high snow and smashed a curb pretty hard. Had to have the wheel straightened. But it got me home just fine.

The rest of the week I drove my 928 GTS with AS tires just fine also.

On the 90 GT no M+S tires and it has so much low end torque you could NOT let the clutch out slow enough in any gear to keep both rear tires from spinning and the rear going down hill. Whatever direction that is.

[flipper35]

When I first got the Cobra I could only get BFG Radial T/A tires or similar and I took a friend out when there was a fresh 4 " of snow on the road. It did not like trying to go in any gear.

[RKDinOKC]

Running AS tires on the Cayenne. Gets around just fine, despite the fact that last winter I missed a drive due to high snow and smashed a curb pretty hard. Had to have the wheel straightened. But it got me home just fine before the tire went flat.

The rest of the week I drove my 928 GTS with AS tires just fine also. One winter I BIG chunk of ice came out of the back of a pickup and busted up one of the undertrays. Had to replace it.

On the 90 GT no M+S tires and it has so much low end torque you could NOT let the clutch out slow enough in any gear to keep both rear tires from spinning and the rear going down hill. Whatever direction that is.

[GH85Carrera]

Many years ago a buddy had a Road Runner with a VERY high compression engine and it was set up as a drag car. It was totally street legal but the gas pedal was like a on-off switch. THere was no easy on the throttle. We were driving around in the evening and it started to rain. It was in the days of Bias-ply tires. It was terrifying just trying to get back home.

[RKDinOKC]

Took me a very very long slow time to get home from a rainy autocross on R-1's in the rain one time. Very nerve racking. Even got passed by a police car when trying to leave a stop light, bet he was laughing at me too.

Have also run into a couple of heavy rains on the highway that my BoxsterS was way too dangerous hydroplaning over 50 mph. Pulled off at the first exit to wait the heavy part of the rain out. Twice it was in the same part of Texas between Waco and FT Wort and there was at least 4 inches of water on the highway.

Ran into several harrowing driving experiences daily driving a 944 Turbo, 928 GT, and BoxsterS that I also autocrossed for years.
Got tired of changing tires for autocrossing with the 944 turbo and went with the stickiest non-dry only tires I could get on the other two.

Towards the end of the 944 Turbo ownership autocrossed it with Yokohama racing rain tires, they were A034R. Really liked the really soft edge vs competition R-1's. Kept giving lots of forward traction way farther into the slip angle than the R-1's. R-1's would stick, then just let go. While i'm sure the R-1's would have been faster on the track, the A034R's were faster in all the corners of an Autocross course.

[Oh Haha]

I had Yokahama A520s on my 94 Z 28, 245 front, 255 rear.They were about useless in temps below 40. At the time I was driving 87 miles one way to work, through 3 counties. We had a surprise snowfall while at work. It took me close to 3 hours to get home, mostly highway. Normally,the drive would take 1 hour,5 minutes.

They did make good smoke, though.

We had a pretty nice day here today. Sunny and about 30degrees. On the East side of MI they got close to 7 inches of snow yesterday. "Lake effect" snow squalls.

[flipper35]

We are getting crap for the weekend so look for it next week in your area.

By the way, driving the Cobra while snowing at night with no top, no heater (does have defrost) and 11" wiper blades makes for an interesting ride.

The Goodyear Blue Streaks are rain tires and are very predictable and don't overheat easily on such a light car. The only thing I don't like is the fact they pick up and throw everything on the road into the car. On gravel it sounds like a heavy rain storm from all the rocks and sand hitting the underside. Going to try Avons next. I hear they are better overall. The Goodyears tramline something fierce on rutted roads.

[Oh Haha]

yep, they are calling for some wet weather for Sat and Sun but it depends on where the temps are if it is snow or rain. The ground isn't even frozen yet.

[RKDinOKC]

Oh boy. We are moving our email from one online office 365 host to another.
Even thpugh it is on microsoft's servers we have to move everything from one on-line service to a local server, then out to the new on-line service. They say it will take at least a month and the old host is going to charge us for leaving and the new one to move us to their service.

Really woulda been cheaper to setup an on-site exchange server the first time!

[flipper35]

But if you look long term it only costs 2-3 times as much as an on premise virtual server when you are done. So you are actually saving money by not having it cost 6 times as much as it could have been.

[RKDinOKC]

What? It would be cheaper if we used on site servers than cloud services, but since one cloud service cheaper over another it is saving money? Oh an don't include the cost of migration either.

[flipper35]

Richard, you have to learn to speak senior management. It is almost like politic-eze. You justify spending extra money by saying how much money you save by not spending a bunch of extra money. Like buying a statue of a monkey playing a banjo because it was $50 instead of $500. You just saved yourself $450.

[flipper35]

By the way, I have gone through that with our old CEO several times. It would have been less for us the first year to use a cloud service IF we had to buy a new server instead of virtualizing it. But then we have annual costs for the service and so forth. But if you do the numbers right and forget about other numbers it works out in his head, somehow.

[flipper35]

I should have used green on post 128043.

[RKDinOKC]

According to the companies I am listen to on the phone right now, they are moving companies email and office licenses a lot lately.

[flipper35]

It is a little more work in some ways but so much better to self host those things. IMHO.

[RKDinOKC]

Me too.

[Porsche-poor]

That all sounds good unless you work for people who use the same server for 3 tasks and wonder why things are slow.

[RKDinOKC]

Never seen anything local based run as slow as cloud based. Well, unless the local virtual machines were overloaded. Should be looking both network and processor loads all the time to see where the bottlenecks are.

[RKDinOKC]

Good Evening