Bug found in Rockstar site
Question
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Guys open the link that shows th list of STUDENT ROCKSTARS along with their rank.
Now search for "Allaudeen" you will notice he is in Rank 1 in the search results.
Now seacrh for "Rajkumar", you will notice that he is also in rank 1 in the search results as well as the main rockstar list.
The real rockstar at rank 1 is rajkumar, but still in the search results its showing Allaudeen at rank 1
Admins should fix it
Answers
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I think people are trying to hack the database
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yup its right... things are going strange..
But Harshil you are again at 1st position.. looks like it going in your favour...
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If they cant do simple addition correctly, how do they expect us to solve the tough quiz
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@anoop i dont get any such errors
DO you face it everytime ? if so then may be some settings in your browser might cause it. -
the ratings have been corrected guys, now its showing the right thing.
i have checked it.. hope u all try once.
Bye
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Congrats Harshil, you are at the top.
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Harshil, i am very much impressed with your precise and punctual answers. I would like to know more about you. If you need some info from my side, please let me know.
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My dear friend Harshil
Wishing u congratues for top ranking and keep successing everytime.
Good luck
Bye
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@Varun - The database is correct, the search results are weired
@Adnan - I dont know what you want to know more about me. Btw I completed 4th semester MCA, studying in Sardar Patel University, Gujarat. -
I agree with you Varun, that there is a problem in their system somewhere. But to correct you , it aint a FAILURE, the appropriate word would be FAULT
A failure would cause a system to not even work, but a fault may cause the system to behave unexpectedly -
Admin will do whatever they thiks are better for all!!!
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Adnan_Hussain_b89496 wrote: I think Microsoft is doing its best, and will ensure that all problems are solved before the competition ends. I participated in TGMC 2006, and support from IBM was, lets just say, caused more confusion, then you can imagine. Lets start a thread for the admins, and report the problems, without any chat or replys from ourside. Try to keep the posts as relevant as possible. Instead of complaining, lets make things easier for them and us. Who's with me?
I had thought of it, but if you go through the threads, there are many such threads addressing the Admins, but they all failed... Reason ??
1.) Either people start posting unnecessarily which makes the thread useless..
2.) Either people dont post , which makes the thread Obsolete, as a result, it is pushed back a lot.
So the final conclussion is that, its of no use......
One possible solution is that we get the email-id of the admins...
now we say what the problem is to other members and every member sends a mail, this will just block their emails and they will have to check out atleast some of the mails... in short the message is conveyed...
I m a DEVIL
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As the admins are used to stay lazy, do you think they will respond to the bombarding of the mails i guess they will just ignore then, or bulk delete them
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I tried searching for myself. And guess what i dont exist. Now, isnt that funny?
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Hey Guys ..............looks like things are looking fine now. It was probably something to do with points updation of offline events.............. Looks fine now
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@Varun - I have somethign to say about your FireFox problem.
It happens in FF, when you stay logged in the studentrockstar site for a long time, and the session expires. After that if you try logging it will keep on popping up that "Continue" MessageBox.
There is no other solution , other than clearning the cache and trying, or restarting FireFox
I use firefox 100% of the time, and i face no problems in the site except for that MessageBox. I just restart Firefox, and the problem gets solved. -
Guys, Finally this thread has spoken its words to the admins. The admins have come to know about this problem, and also rectified it. I think the admins will slowly rectify other minor problems as well.
I would like to thank all of you who have participated in this thread, and discussed about their viewpoints for the same, which forced the admins to act promptly
Congratulations guys once again.!!! -
@Anoop - Nothing much
I am just happy that our efforts and words have reached the admins. The admins are also playing a good part in this contest. Keep it up admins !!! -
Ok ill discuss in short about a bit on cookies and sessions.
Cookies are stored on the client side, by the browser. They are stored locally. Also there are various types of cookies, like temporary cookie, permanent cookie, etc etc. Cookies are nothig but just normal text file stored in the hard disk which is used by the browser. THey contain information about the site name, its last updated time, username, password if required, and also some regional settings, and other preferences like colors, language, etc etc, so that next time you login to that site the same settings are loaded from the cookie (the information in the cookie is sent as a HTTP request header when you open the site) and sent to the site on a http request. The server reads the information from the header about the cookie data, and then prepares the settings of the page that will be displayed dynamically.
Umm its a but tough to explain what a session is.. Session is created on the server side, by the web server, each session has a session ID, and other information stored into it. This is how the site knows that youare the person who have logged in and are viewing different pages. And thats the reason why you only require to login in once into hotmail.com or any other site, and then view ALL THE PAGES that are allowed for you, without even authenticating for each page request. The session and cookies handle them for you. Sessions are stored in the RAM, also they got a lifetime, once they expire, you will be prompted to login into the site .....
I think i have started about it , more information if you want, i guess someone else can better explain, or wikipedia it its not hard to understand the concepts, but you need to have interest in it -
Great explanation my friend.... Now somebody give me a glass of milk to eat my cookie.
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One more thing i strongly feel they should add is the AJAX while marking posts as answers, and also while posting the posts. This would remove one of the bug which while creating a new post (reply) and submitting takes us to the first page
Also it will be much more convenient for us, and also lesser bandwidth utilization at our end and also the servers' end. -
@Jabed, there are still bugs in the forums
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yes i agree with you Varun, it does eat up a bandwidth, But its not a problem for you as you have unlimited, many dont got unlimited connection. You have unlimited but at slow speed, so it does take lot of time to browse from one page to the next, and from the next to the other, because there is no facility to directly jump to a particular page as of now, unless you know the total number of pages in that thread from the thread index page, and then append &pageID=Tot_Pages-1 to the URL.
Guys have you tried clicking on the alert that you get in MSN messenger when a post is made to the thread that you are subscribed to ? when you click on that alert, it takes you directly to the appropriate page. If they can give direct link to the intended page in the alert, then why not provide it in the link that is sent to us as an email alert. -
Anoop_Mehta_056d33 wrote: Varun_Modi_a59ed9 wrote: yup, those are the bugs.... and they are some serious issues.. as Harshil mentioned this things eats up the bandwith.. for me, I have unlimited but slow speed of only 64 Kbps, so it takes up a lot of time to post back in the threads.. join the BSNL team buddy... ;-)
Bsnl Tends out to be costly for me as compared to the TATA plan i m using.. I m very cost effective and have charted out my usage and what are the choices i have... the TATA plan that i use is too cost effective compared to others... Raise the topic in the Chat Thread, I will give out a whole observation, and who knows, even you might think to change ur plan -
Varun_Modi_a59ed9 wrote: Anoop_Mehta_056d33 wrote: Varun_Modi_a59ed9 wrote: yup, those are the bugs.... and they are some serious issues.. as Harshil mentioned this things eats up the bandwith.. for me, I have unlimited but slow speed of only 64 Kbps, so it takes up a lot of time to post back in the threads.. join the BSNL team buddy... ;-)
Bsnl Tends out to be costly for me as compared to the TATA plan i m using.. I m very cost effective and have charted out my usage and what are the choices i have... the TATA plan that i use is too cost effective compared to others... Raise the topic in the Chat Thread, I will give out a whole observation, and who knows, even you might think to change ur plan
we will talk about the isp in the other thread...meanwhile
regarding the bug....i think , u r wrong about the quote thing, quote follows the same order as reply, if you aRE QUOTING OR REPLYING LAST POST....the sequence u had mentioned for reply was correct...but regarding the quote thing, the sequence is difference, when u quote a message, other than the last post, it will not display as the last reply..try it out...
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Anoop_Mehta_056d33 wrote: ohh..i didnt know that it was the case with reply also...umm....yaar why dont the admins do anything?
anywayz, guys i take the priviledge of posting the 100th post of this thread...yay..cheers...
Do you think the admins do anything ? hehehee I think they are appointed to sit in the AC room and enjoy
And btw, good observation about the 100th post... Without you guys it wouldn't have been possible. Thanks everyone for contributing to this thread, and making it reach century.
Lets make a double century ?
Why double century ? There are enough bugs in this forums, if we keep no listing them, i think we can reach 10 centuries. Atleast if we cannot reach the 10K points in rockstar, we can reach the 10K points in this thread if we keep on listing the bugs -
well said, buddy, i guess at the end of the day, bugs will make it possible...) lolll
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And one more bug I wanted to say from the beginning..
Do you know how i login into MSDN forums? (This happens when i access forums by clicking on the link in student rockstar)
When i click on the "sign in" command button, after a few seconds it displays "Could not find the page".. This presents itself even after many refreshes... So, i go back two pages by clicking twice on the BACK button, now i find that the page displays
"
"
I have been logging in this way for the past many days...
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Hi Friends,
Also The Updating Thing is Very Sluggish in this site .....
I refered many people , but never got any points for that ...
Wat platform they are using for making this site ?????? ...
Microsoft CAnt Find A GOod Programmer For Designing ???????????
Regards,
MoHaN
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Hi friend,
ohh.. But when i was registering i didnt replaced the slashes .... k fine i ll ask my friends to do the next time .. thanks patil ...
Thank you
Regards ,
MoHaN -
Hi friend,
Also ,,,,, Other than referals ,, there are also lots of problems ... hope Microsies will solve them for next year competition .....
Thank you
Regards ,
MoHaN -
YIPPEEEEEEEE!!!!
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@Preetam - I get that too sometimes, and while it sends unencrypted passwords, it asks me the password again the 2nd time.
I am being asked for the password 2 times when i open studentrockstar and hotmail site both at the same time. and first try loging in studentrockstar, and then logging in hotmail. Then it asks me to enter password at hotmail once again. I dont know why this happens, but i have found out a solution to this. I open both the sites, and then login into hotmail first, once i login in hotmail, i just clck the signin from studentrockstar site, when i do so , it dnot ask for me the password again as the passport id is linked. This is perfectly OK, but when i try the other way, like first logging in rockstar and then in hotmail, the BUG never seems to go away -
Thanks Adnan - I have created an account under you Hope you have got the points. in that DeveloperKnowledgeDrive contest
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will this finding of new bugs ever stop
We are getting more and more bugs with time -
Lets just hope there is no bug with the final results.
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Yes adnan. We can bear other bugs , but the bugs with the final results, NO NO!!!!!
But i think we should be worry-free as the admins will surely take care of this. -
Adnan_Hussain_b89496 wrote: Lets just hope there is no bug with the final results.
nice said adnan....we dont want a bug with the scoring system and the calculations.. -
And wedont need a bug in the rankings too.. The bug reported by me lastly is not yet fixed.. Hope i dont slip further down in rank because of the bug
All replies
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I think people are trying to hack the database
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yup its right... things are going strange..
But Harshil you are again at 1st position.. looks like it going in your favour... -
If they cant do simple addition correctly, how do they expect us to solve the tough quiz
-
@anoop i dont get any such errors
DO you face it everytime ? if so then may be some settings in your browser might cause it. -
the ratings have been corrected guys, now its showing the right thing.
i have checked it.. hope u all try once.
Bye
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Congrats Harshil, you are at the top.
-
Harshil, i am very much impressed with your precise and punctual answers. I would like to know more about you. If you need some info from my side, please let me know.
-
My dear friend Harshil
Wishing u congratues for top ranking and keep successing everytime.
Good luck
Bye
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@Varun - The database is correct, the search results are weired
@Adnan - I dont know what you want to know more about me. Btw I completed 4th semester MCA, studying in Sardar Patel University, Gujarat. -
I agree with you Varun, that there is a problem in their system somewhere. But to correct you , it aint a FAILURE, the appropriate word would be FAULT
A failure would cause a system to not even work, but a fault may cause the system to behave unexpectedly -
Admin will do whatever they thiks are better for all!!!
-
Adnan_Hussain_b89496 wrote: I think Microsoft is doing its best, and will ensure that all problems are solved before the competition ends. I participated in TGMC 2006, and support from IBM was, lets just say, caused more confusion, then you can imagine. Lets start a thread for the admins, and report the problems, without any chat or replys from ourside. Try to keep the posts as relevant as possible. Instead of complaining, lets make things easier for them and us. Who's with me?
I had thought of it, but if you go through the threads, there are many such threads addressing the Admins, but they all failed... Reason ??
1.) Either people start posting unnecessarily which makes the thread useless..
2.) Either people dont post , which makes the thread Obsolete, as a result, it is pushed back a lot.
So the final conclussion is that, its of no use......
One possible solution is that we get the email-id of the admins...
now we say what the problem is to other members and every member sends a mail, this will just block their emails and they will have to check out atleast some of the mails... in short the message is conveyed...
I m a DEVIL -
As the admins are used to stay lazy, do you think they will respond to the bombarding of the mails i guess they will just ignore then, or bulk delete them
-
I tried searching for myself. And guess what i dont exist. Now, isnt that funny?
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@Adnan - Dont search for your full name, only search for your first name or last name, cause thats what the database is organized. The admins have saved the first name and last name in different fields, so if you enter the search string, it will query the database on the First name OR the last name, but if you enter the full name in the search string, it will not be found in either the firstname or thelast name
Rank Name Forums Display Name 382 Adnan Hussain Adnan_Hussain_b89496
Here is what your rank is from that search page. I think you might have searched for your whole name, and thats why the results didn't show up.
Now there is a flaw in this too -
Wow, i am so happy to know that i exist.
Thanks Harshil. -
Hey Guys ..............looks like things are looking fine now. It was probably something to do with points updation of offline events.............. Looks fine now
-
@Varun - I have somethign to say about your FireFox problem.
It happens in FF, when you stay logged in the studentrockstar site for a long time, and the session expires. After that if you try logging it will keep on popping up that "Continue" MessageBox.
There is no other solution , other than clearning the cache and trying, or restarting FireFox
I use firefox 100% of the time, and i face no problems in the site except for that MessageBox. I just restart Firefox, and the problem gets solved. -
Guys, Finally this thread has spoken its words to the admins. The admins have come to know about this problem, and also rectified it. I think the admins will slowly rectify other minor problems as well.
I would like to thank all of you who have participated in this thread, and discussed about their viewpoints for the same, which forced the admins to act promptly
Congratulations guys once again.!!! -
@Anoop - Nothing much
I am just happy that our efforts and words have reached the admins. The admins are also playing a good part in this contest. Keep it up admins !!! -
Ok ill discuss in short about a bit on cookies and sessions.
Cookies are stored on the client side, by the browser. They are stored locally. Also there are various types of cookies, like temporary cookie, permanent cookie, etc etc. Cookies are nothig but just normal text file stored in the hard disk which is used by the browser. THey contain information about the site name, its last updated time, username, password if required, and also some regional settings, and other preferences like colors, language, etc etc, so that next time you login to that site the same settings are loaded from the cookie (the information in the cookie is sent as a HTTP request header when you open the site) and sent to the site on a http request. The server reads the information from the header about the cookie data, and then prepares the settings of the page that will be displayed dynamically.
Umm its a but tough to explain what a session is.. Session is created on the server side, by the web server, each session has a session ID, and other information stored into it. This is how the site knows that youare the person who have logged in and are viewing different pages. And thats the reason why you only require to login in once into hotmail.com or any other site, and then view ALL THE PAGES that are allowed for you, without even authenticating for each page request. The session and cookies handle them for you. Sessions are stored in the RAM, also they got a lifetime, once they expire, you will be prompted to login into the site .....
I think i have started about it , more information if you want, i guess someone else can better explain, or wikipedia it its not hard to understand the concepts, but you need to have interest in it -
Great explanation my friend.... Now somebody give me a glass of milk to eat my cookie.
-
One more thing i strongly feel they should add is the AJAX while marking posts as answers, and also while posting the posts. This would remove one of the bug which while creating a new post (reply) and submitting takes us to the first page
Also it will be much more convenient for us, and also lesser bandwidth utilization at our end and also the servers' end. -
@Jabed, there are still bugs in the forums
-
yes i agree with you Varun, it does eat up a bandwidth, But its not a problem for you as you have unlimited, many dont got unlimited connection. You have unlimited but at slow speed, so it does take lot of time to browse from one page to the next, and from the next to the other, because there is no facility to directly jump to a particular page as of now, unless you know the total number of pages in that thread from the thread index page, and then append &pageID=Tot_Pages-1 to the URL.
Guys have you tried clicking on the alert that you get in MSN messenger when a post is made to the thread that you are subscribed to ? when you click on that alert, it takes you directly to the appropriate page. If they can give direct link to the intended page in the alert, then why not provide it in the link that is sent to us as an email alert. -
Anoop_Mehta_056d33 wrote: Varun_Modi_a59ed9 wrote: yup, those are the bugs.... and they are some serious issues.. as Harshil mentioned this things eats up the bandwith.. for me, I have unlimited but slow speed of only 64 Kbps, so it takes up a lot of time to post back in the threads.. join the BSNL team buddy... ;-)
Bsnl Tends out to be costly for me as compared to the TATA plan i m using.. I m very cost effective and have charted out my usage and what are the choices i have... the TATA plan that i use is too cost effective compared to others... Raise the topic in the Chat Thread, I will give out a whole observation, and who knows, even you might think to change ur plan -
Varun_Modi_a59ed9 wrote: Anoop_Mehta_056d33 wrote: Varun_Modi_a59ed9 wrote: yup, those are the bugs.... and they are some serious issues.. as Harshil mentioned this things eats up the bandwith.. for me, I have unlimited but slow speed of only 64 Kbps, so it takes up a lot of time to post back in the threads.. join the BSNL team buddy... ;-)
Bsnl Tends out to be costly for me as compared to the TATA plan i m using.. I m very cost effective and have charted out my usage and what are the choices i have... the TATA plan that i use is too cost effective compared to others... Raise the topic in the Chat Thread, I will give out a whole observation, and who knows, even you might think to change ur planwe will talk about the isp in the other thread...meanwhile
regarding the bug....i think , u r wrong about the quote thing, quote follows the same order as reply, if you aRE QUOTING OR REPLYING LAST POST....the sequence u had mentioned for reply was correct...but regarding the quote thing, the sequence is difference, when u quote a message, other than the last post, it will not display as the last reply..try it out...
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Anoop_Mehta_056d33 wrote: ohh..i didnt know that it was the case with reply also...umm....yaar why dont the admins do anything?
anywayz, guys i take the priviledge of posting the 100th post of this thread...yay..cheers...
Do you think the admins do anything ? hehehee I think they are appointed to sit in the AC room and enjoy
And btw, good observation about the 100th post... Without you guys it wouldn't have been possible. Thanks everyone for contributing to this thread, and making it reach century.
Lets make a double century ?
Why double century ? There are enough bugs in this forums, if we keep no listing them, i think we can reach 10 centuries. Atleast if we cannot reach the 10K points in rockstar, we can reach the 10K points in this thread if we keep on listing the bugs -
well said, buddy, i guess at the end of the day, bugs will make it possible...) lolll
-
And one more bug I wanted to say from the beginning..
Do you know how i login into MSDN forums? (This happens when i access forums by clicking on the link in student rockstar)
When i click on the "sign in" command button, after a few seconds it displays "Could not find the page".. This presents itself even after many refreshes... So, i go back two pages by clicking twice on the BACK button, now i find that the page displays
"
"
I have been logging in this way for the past many days...
-
Hi Friends,
Also The Updating Thing is Very Sluggish in this site .....
I refered many people , but never got any points for that ...
Wat platform they are using for making this site ?????? ...
Microsoft CAnt Find A GOod Programmer For Designing ???????????
Regards,
MoHaN -
Hi friend,
ohh.. But when i was registering i didnt replaced the slashes .... k fine i ll ask my friends to do the next time .. thanks patil ...
Thank you
Regards ,
MoHaN -
Hi friend,
Also ,,,,, Other than referals ,, there are also lots of problems ... hope Microsies will solve them for next year competition .....
Thank you
Regards ,
MoHaN -
YIPPEEEEEEEE!!!!
-
@Preetam - I get that too sometimes, and while it sends unencrypted passwords, it asks me the password again the 2nd time.
I am being asked for the password 2 times when i open studentrockstar and hotmail site both at the same time. and first try loging in studentrockstar, and then logging in hotmail. Then it asks me to enter password at hotmail once again. I dont know why this happens, but i have found out a solution to this. I open both the sites, and then login into hotmail first, once i login in hotmail, i just clck the signin from studentrockstar site, when i do so , it dnot ask for me the password again as the passport id is linked. This is perfectly OK, but when i try the other way, like first logging in rockstar and then in hotmail, the BUG never seems to go away -
Thanks Adnan - I have created an account under you Hope you have got the points. in that DeveloperKnowledgeDrive contest
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will this finding of new bugs ever stop
We are getting more and more bugs with time -
Lets just hope there is no bug with the final results.
-
Yes adnan. We can bear other bugs , but the bugs with the final results, NO NO!!!!!
But i think we should be worry-free as the admins will surely take care of this. -
Adnan_Hussain_b89496 wrote: Lets just hope there is no bug with the final results.
nice said adnan....we dont want a bug with the scoring system and the calculations.. -
And wedont need a bug in the rankings too.. The bug reported by me lastly is not yet fixed.. Hope i dont slip further down in rank because of the bug
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guys........
actully a 404 error is an exception error handler found in the routine........
if the link specified ceases to exist due to the removal of contents inside the link........ or the link exists by presence
n not in reality.
such error occurs........
