BCM BB Hours

[usbusin]

OK, who has the most hours logged on to Bus Conversions Magazine BB?

[belfert]

I don't know how the system tracks logged in time.  I leave my home computer on 24x7 except when out of town.  99% of the time I have a browser window open to the BCM BBS even when I am not at my PC.

[buswarrior]

It claims I have procrastinated away some 33 days, 9 hours and 58 minutes here on the computer since it started counting for me...

Maybe better to shut that feature off?

If she ever sees it....

You may not have the pleasure of my company any longer!

happy coaching!
buswarrior

[usbusin]

At the top of the page it shows "Total time logged in: XX days, XX hours and XX minutes"

Uh, oh I hope I didn't get you in trouble, buswarrior!!

[HighTechRedneck]

The stats on the server show these as the top ten:

H3Jim	140d 8h 53m
cody	123d 8h 25m
luvrbus	94d 8h 45m
buddydawg	74d 11h 44m
niles500	74d 10m
JackConrad	71d 3h 46m
Busted Knuckle	69d 12h 16m
Len Silva	67d 10h 20m
DrivingMissLazy	64d 11h 12m
Nick Badame Refrig. Co.	58d 10h 3m

What the system does is use the "session" time.  When you log in, the web server creates a session.  As long as you are actively viewing pages, posting, etc. it keeps the session active.  If you leave the browser window open but don't do anything with it for 20 minutes, the session "expires" and it stops contributing to your total online time.

One thing that throws it off is if your computer has a little known internal setting roughly known as "keep alive" set to keep sending periodic signals to keep the session active.  In that case it keeps accruing online time even when you aren't actually using it.  This setting can be the result of you intentionally setting it in the Windows registry or it can be tweaked by the installation program of some software you install that may need keep alive activated.

[usbusin]

Thanks, Mike that is interesting.  Do you know where in the Windows system the "keep alive" setting is?

[HighTechRedneck]

It has been a long time since I messed with it, so I don't recall precisely where.  But it was in the Windows registry which can be a dangerous place to going tweaking around in if you don't know exactly what you are doing in it.  One wrong edit and it can dramatically affect your computer's performance, function or in extreme cases even mess up the operating system beyond usability.  So unless a person has a need to tweak it, it isn't generally recommended.  But for those strongly interested in it, there is a Microsoft KB article on it.

The primary purpose for the keep alive setting has to do with the TCP/IP connection, the effect on PHP sessions is more of a side effect as I understand it.

[Singing Land Cruiser]

Looks like Cody needs a job, LOL
M&C

[cody]

Cody has a job, too many jobs, on every second friday cody (studio1) does a benefit for the local St Vincent Depaul for their food bank and so they can pay shut offs for people, every wednsday it's 40's swing music at the local nursing home and every second saturday it's a benefit for a local veterans group that help old people by building wheelchair ramps and mounting lifts in vehicles for their chairs and what ever they need to make their lives better, also every baby thats born at the local hospital gets a picture taken, unfortunately sometimes a baby doesn't make it and there is nothing for the parents to remember them by without the picture, also at the local nursing home on december 18th anyone that wants can sign up for a family picture done so the old people can have a pic of their family for their room dresser and the family can have pics for their homes, along the way we pick up benefits for various other reasons, I don't think cody needs another job, already got too many of them, and thats not counting the 30 to 50 storm windows he builds and fits and installs for elderly people each fall, or the furnaces he cleans for them, this is all done for free just because it may make somebody's live a little better, cody doesn't need any more jobs.  Cody has answered the phone at 3AM or whatever time and grabbed the camera and drove to the hospital either in L'Anse or in Hancock just to take a picture of a baby that the nurses think may not see the sun come up and it's all done with a smile and a tear, cody has enough to do. 

[chuckd]

Cody, you are the man!!  Well done, well done.

Chuckd

[buddydawg]

I hope my boss doesn't see those numbers....   

[JackConrad]

Cody,
   I was particularily touched by your photographing the newborns. My sister-in-law works in the neonate unit and is part of a program called "No Child Dies Alone". These are, unfortunately, mostly abuse cases, but if a child is dying and a parent or family member is not present, one of the volunteers will hold the child and sing to them until they die. She has been called and went in at all hours of the night as well as on week-ends and holidays. Jack

[PP]

I knew there was something good about Cody, just couldn't put my finger on it till now. You're an inspiration my man, Will

[Singing Land Cruiser]

God Bless you Cody. We should all take note!
M&C

[Sean]

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