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paul_HArkonen
For whatever reason the top reply of the Welcome to the Shadows forum (topic Living in the Shadows OOC, in case it matters) isn't responding as having been read. I open it up, read the new post. Then click the link at the bottom of the page to go back to the main section and it still registers as unread. I checked several times, and even clicking on the "Mark all posts as read" button doesn't work. I also made sure that there wasn't a new post that had been made.

I realize it isn't a big error, but I figured you might want to know about it anyway. If it doesn't matter just ignore this.
Nikoli
Been happening to me to.

I find that shutting down all the browser windows and deleting content files clears it up for about 5 minutes.
Kanada Ten
It has something to do with the floating time issue. Sometimes posts I make will later appear as unread by myself becasue the post time is 10 or so minutes ahead of the system (or cookie) time.
Neuron Basher
The floating time problem is related to the way that the site is currently running -- in a virtual machine. The emulated system clock in the virtual machine is unreliable at best. This problem should take care of itself when the new server goes in. (Soon, the second hard drive came in yesterdan and I'm working on OS install/configuration.)

Nikoli
Sweet, that's the fun part to me.
HeySparky
Completely OT: Sorry pH

Yeah, the fresh install and the shiny, virgin territory of an uncluttered harddrive. Ahhh...

Looking forward to the new server.
Tanka
QUOTE (Neuron Basher)
The floating time problem is related to the way that the site is currently running -- in a virtual machine. The emulated system clock in the virtual machine is unreliable at best. This problem should take care of itself when the new server goes in. (Soon, the second hard drive came in yesterdan and I'm working on OS install/configuration.)

You're running this on vmware? That's an odd way to run a server...
Neuron Basher
It's not that odd of a way to run a server when the original linux based host dies and all you have available is a Windows server. It's a "make it work now" kind of solution to the problem.

Hell, it's not the weirdest solution I've come up with in the 13 years I've been doing Unix administration. smile.gif
paul_HArkonen
ok. it actually seems fixed right now. And like I said obviously it isn't a big issue. Thanks for responding though.
Neuron Basher
It's not really fixed. What happens is that the server synchronizes itself with an NTP server every hour to fix however many minutes it's skewed from "real" time in the intervening 60 minutes. Rest assured it'll be screwed up again in a little while. smile.gif
Ecclesiastes
Yeah, this is getting kind of funny. I made a post and it showed up as having posted at 5:25. I then made another post a few minutes later and it came through as having posted at 5:22... 3 minutes before the previous post.
Fortune
It's been happening to me for weeks. The best part is when an edit on a post is time-stamped up to 7 minutes before the actual post was made. grinbig.gif
Tanka
It's magic, I tell you! Magic!
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