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Re: Error loading page in set database
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Date: 
Sun, 14 Jan 2001 05:05:15 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Paul Baulch writes:
> One thing I just found out - for some unknown reason my computer's clock was
> back exactly one day. Was the data inconsistency time-related?
> Would there be A) a possible reason why one's set data might contain
> timestamps, and B) a possible reason why the server might obtain timestamps
> from the remote machine running the browser? I can't think of any reason,
> but then I'm pretty ignorant in this field, and in any case it's probably
> not the problem.

No, it just never completed a write operation -- random bad luck in a section
of unsafe code that assumes that power won't go out or that the system doesn't
melt down.  I rebuilt it from redundant data in the data matrix but it should
still journal the new writes.

> As for delays, well unfortunately I get all sorts of performance
> fluctuations over on this side of the Pacific (or perhaps within my ISP?),
> so it's hard for me to attribute any particular problem to your end...

That's weird -- I get that here too during lunchtime (EST) during the work
week.  Massive Internet clog some times.  :-(

--Todd



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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote in message news:G74zGr.CJG@lugnet.com... [snip] (...) ISP?), (...) I've talked to my ISP about site problems such as the ones Paul Baulch describes, and they say it's not uncommon to experience a lot of delays (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)

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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) rebuilt (...) "burp" (...) memory (...) One thing I just found out - for some unknown reason my computer's clock was back exactly one day. Was the data inconsistency time-related? Would there be A) a possible (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)

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