Bug Reporting II

Yes, the culprit is in the link in the topic title.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

So is this now fixed or is this topic effectively unavailable for reply?

I think that an Admin, maybe even the Admin, will have to fix it.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Fixed, I think. Removed link from topic title. Posted test message, complete with grammar error in subtitle. This seem to be working correctly.Adminnemooseus

Wow, there sure are a lot of birthdays coming up!But there is only one birthday today.Happy birthday Nator!

Either the entire membership of the "My Birthday is March 28, 1983" club joined, or the database was somehow corrupted and caused 293 members to have their date of birth set to 3/28/1983. I've set the birthday for these members back to the null default, so if you were actually born this upcoming Wednesday 24 years ago, you'll have to go to your profile and set your date of birth back to March 28, 1983.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

1) It just made me re-log in, even though everywhere showed I was already logged in.2) Server seems to be operating slow. Why does it seem to do this whenever I'm trying to get a bunch of adminning done? Also, maybe this is related to mpb1's 3 duplicate PNT's.3) There has been at least 2 instances of messages being posted but not actually making it to the topic page. They do show up on the "All Topic" page. See http://EvC Forum: Glenn Morton hypothesis: The Flood could ONLY have happened 5 million+ years ago and EvC Forum: Is evolution of mammals finished?. My subsequent messages took over the previously used but not posted message number. Related to #2?4) I merged the MartinV account into the Martin account. The message number for Martin seems correct, but they do not show up at Martin's message index. I tried doing a "Update Member Message Lists" at "Board Centeral", but kept getting a "Internal Server Error" message. Related to #2?5) I'm currently at the veterinary clinic, and there's a really annoying whiney dog. OK, this one's not Percy's problem.AdminnemooseusAdded by edit: OK, Martin's message index now seems correct.Edited by Adminnemooseus, : See above.

Our server is subject to periodic attacks by spammers who co-opt the server by dumping huge numbers of spam emails into the spam queue. I don't know how to prevent this, and our web hosting company feels no responsibility to provide protection and wants $150/hour to fix it.When such attacks occur, the server slows to a crawl because it begins a new process for each spam email, and with over a thousand processes vying for the processor's attention, thrashing causes most of the processor's cycles to be devoted to switching from one process to the next.With such frequent context switching, the likelihood increases of stumbling across holes in the semaphore protection that prevents process interruption during critical activities, such as assigning the next message number. It also makes it more likely to run into timeouts that kill a process after a fixed number of seconds, which is what causes the "Online now" list to occasionally get corrupted.Moving to our own server has been both a curse and a boon. The downside issues are few, but this one is particularly severe when it strikes.

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--	Percy
	EvC Forum Director

This is a new one.My recent post seems to exist on that thread, and it is listed on my profile page, but when I look at All Topics, it lists the most recent post on that thread as Quetzal's previous post.

Same thing still happening in the "Gravity Does Not Exist" thread despite an attempt by Admin to fix. I'm also having difficulty putting new posts up.

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Those who would sacrifice an essential liberty for a temporary security will lose both, and deserve neither. -- Benjamin FranklinWe see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat

I've now done a "Rebuild Forum Data" three atimes for the "Is It Science?" forum. It fixes the problem, at least for the moment.I'm also having the problem that a message will post, but the page posted from will not change from the message creation window to the posted message. But the message is indeed posted.I also tried to do a message edit at the topic in question, of one of my own messages. It just wouldn't work at all. I actually went to the "Board Central" profile edit pages and checked to see if some wise guy/gal admin had turned off my editing privileges.Adminnemooseus

ArchArchitect posted message 20 at the "The Bible was NOT man made, it was Godly made" topic. I briefly saw it, and then it was gone (no message 20 at all). Now, a message by Ringo is message 20.I was doing an edit on ArchArchitect's message 18 when this happened. Perhaps that has something to do with the glitch.AdminnemooseusAdded by edit: At least for the moment, message 20 shows up as being from ArchArchitect at ArchArchitect's message index.Edited by Adminnemooseus, : See above.

Check out the editing date on kaders PNT here. Is that a Bug or what?

The problem is, the date and time of the message's original creation is in the date format and time zone of the reader, as set up in the individual profiles.On the other hand, the "edited by" notes are reported in the date format and the time zone of the person doing the editing.For the date, I see the U.S. format of "5-10-2007" (M-D-Y) and the European(?) format of "10-5-2007" (D-M-Y). Despite the fact that I personally use the M-D-Y format, I do recognize that the D-M-Y makes better sense.For the time zone thing - Suppose the message creator is in a zone 2 zones to the west of you. It is 4:00 pm for you, but 2:00 pm for him. He creates a message at 4:00 pm (your time) and then edits it an hour later. The message creation time (on your browser) is listed as 4:00 pm (your time zone time) and the edit time is listed as 3:00 pm (his time zone time). Seemingly, the message was edited an hour before its original creation. That's the situation I'm seeing - Message created at 1:00 pm and edited at 12:03 pm.What ya say about having everyone on GMT?AdminnemooseusEdited by Adminnemooseus, : New subtitle.

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It wouldn't bother me as I never pay attention to what date or when i do something....I simply do it. The purists would be horrified, however!