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Zem
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Posted on 03-10-05 06:46 AM |
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If the clock did "stop" it would fuck with the board royally until it was fixed. =D |
Colleen
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Posted on 03-10-05 07:39 AM |
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You have NO idea how screwy the board would be if that happened. XD
Maybe a script could be done for the ACS that counts all posts in a 24-hour period that isn't based on server time... *head explodes* |
Zem
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Posted on 03-10-05 08:14 AM |
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That would be impossible. The ONLY way for the board to keep track of time is through the server clock.
Think about this: all the posts made during that time would have the exact same timestamp.
Of course, I don't know how servers work or anything, so it's quite possible that everything would just shut down if the clock stopped. But if not, it would cause lots of problems. =p I guess the posts in a thread might still be ordered by ID, but maybe not...
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Posted on 03-10-05 08:35 AM |
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How about a manual one? Click "start" at midnight my time and "restart" at midnight the following night.
Either that or we just all stop posting and pretend like the board's frozen - just like the archive. |
Zem
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Posted on 03-10-05 08:49 AM |
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Well, you'd have to watch every single post because you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at the posts themselves. Also the users on online.php would never expire and would be organized in a useless way, such as user ID. And of course "Mark Forum Read" wouldn't work. Actually I have no idea how you'd keep track of the posts that happen within that time.
EDIT: I guess you could try to record EVERYONE's post count at each midnight, but that would be quite a task.
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Colleen
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Posted on 03-10-05 09:39 AM |
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Ran-chan
Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing...
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Posted on 03-10-05 12:34 PM |
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"Edit: Page rendered in 104.305 seconds. after I did press "submit reply" LMAO..."
What the hell? Did the clock do that too or di you actually wait that long?
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Posted on 03-10-05 12:43 PM |
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Where were you when God was handing out brains? Honestly?
Think. If it took roughly a minute and a half to 'load' the page for you, then it really did take that long.
If it finished 3 seconds after pushing the button, it was the clock.
Arrghghh..
Also, if the clock froze, Zem would be right -- all hell would break loose. Nothing would work right, all posts would contain the exact same time, and if it kept going for days every unique user that appeared during the freeze would be online until the freeze ended.
Of course, if the clock jumped forward for a while, then back, things would go wrong there too (users who were there during the warp would remain online until the time of the warp was reached, etc)
I should know, I set my local server time to about 2030 and screwed around, now I get a DLL error every time it restarts and the board (used to) show a few people as being constantly online |
Kitten Yiffer
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Posted on 03-10-05 08:04 PM |
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The server have been slow lately, but the clock have nothing to do with the time it takes to render a page.
I have only seen a battery die once, and that was on my grandfathers computer. And of course, we did replace it. |
Ran-chan
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Posted on 03-10-05 08:23 PM |
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Was that a 286, Kitten Yiffer?
"The server have been slow lately, but the clock have nothing to do with the time it takes to render a page."
I assumed that it was like that but I wasn |
Kitten Yiffer
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Posted on 03-11-05 02:31 AM |
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No, it was a Pentium. My 486's battery was still going strong last I checked, and probably is. Sometimes even new computers battery dies, althought that's not too common. |
Colleen
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Posted on 03-11-05 05:09 AM |
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The batteries can be replaced pretty easily, I think.
My 486... Oh man. When I got rid of it the clock was losing around 30 seconds a day. That's what 5 years of heavy gaming will do I guess. |
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Posted on 03-11-05 09:06 AM |
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Posted on 03-11-05 11:15 AM |
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Big drop? Well, maybe for Trapster and Colleen...
I think I can catch up this month, considering I really don't have that much work to do. |
Ran-chan
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Posted on 03-11-05 11:25 AM |
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Originally posted by Colleen
My 486... Oh man. When I got rid of it the clock was losing around 30 seconds a day. That's what 5 years of heavy gaming will do I guess.
Heavy gaming on a 486? Hah!
And what do you mean with big drop, Kitten Yiffer? |
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Posted on 03-11-05 02:23 PM |
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You would just be so surprised how many games that can be run on a 486.
Back then, it was a shareware heaven. Now shareware's aren't that common nowdays, now it's open source program that is "big". And a few big games started as shareware... Doom and Descent. |
Ran-chan
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Posted on 03-11-05 03:58 PM |
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Yeah, I know it can be used for old DOS games and such things but heavy gaming as UT2004...I don |
Banedon
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Posted on 03-11-05 04:08 PM |
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I play a lot of games on my old 486...I don't like modern games, only the old 2-D ones... |
Jarukoth
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Posted on 03-11-05 06:52 PM |
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Ah, I remember Decent. Good times...
Oh, and it seems like a lot more new faces are appearing on the ACS. Does that strike anyone else as a bit odd? |
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Posted on 03-11-05 10:29 PM |
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You mean Sketchie and Glyph Phoenix? I |
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