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[kimhollamby]

Apologies to all, have just managed to figure out the problem. You should all be able to log on okay now.

Kim

12:47 GMT 01/01/04



Apologies to all...we've suffered an unforeseen millennium-type issue in a kind of British railways way (four years late) and most PC users with system calendars set to 2004 will not be able to log on today, although all previous posts remain available to view.

To compound the issue we also have some maintenance issues going on with our secure access to servers and so we are not going to get this bug fixed today. I'll keep you all updated with progress.

Meantime, you can gain access if you are prepared to reset system clocks to a 2003 date. There is some risk to your system in doing this regarding file management and so this is an advisory, rather than a recommendation.

Mac OSX users may find themselves unaffected.

Once again, sorry, not a great way to start the new year...

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[Jools_of_Top_Cat]

Quick response, thank you Kim, shouldn't you be on holiday! Happy new year to you and all by the way.

So, what was the problem Kim, it is not important really, but I am just a little curious why 2004 caused logins to fail.



<hr width=100% size=1>Julian

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[kimhollamby]

Silly thing

We had a date issue in the config file for the management of the user ID cookies. To be honest I found it a lot faster than I thought I would.

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[circumnavigation]

Re: Silly thing

This did happen last year as well. Been looking at the communications between us for the sametime last year.

A very happy and lots of good fortunes for 2004.

Martin

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[Talon]

Re: Silly thing

Kim,

Cheers for sorting it out so quickly.

Just out of interest, what software are you using to run this forum?

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[BrendanS]

Re: Silly thing

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[Talon]

Re: Silly thing

Thanks for that. I was interested as I am going to be setting up a forum soon, hopefully.

Everyone online seems to swear by PHPbb2. Not sure on the benefits..

<hr width=100% size=1>Alex

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[kimhollamby]

We\'re a bit stuck now

Having developed the original open source code on quite a long way in response the reader requests and our requirements it would be difficult for us to move to another solution now. So haven't looked at the respective alternatives.

If we did change it would be to a PHP solution, to keep in step with all recent dev work on sites we manage.

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