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pedersena1@gmail.com replied about 14 hours ago to the problem "Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow" in RescueTime:

what I have the same error, except I have a windows xp version, I am trying to burn a cd that is 4.7gb, it says it is from microsoft .net framework and to enable Just in time debugging the program I am using is raw dump 2.0? anyone help me on the airthmetic operation resulted in an overlow error for windows xp professional?

katy lavallee replied about 19 hours ago to the question "How can I view window_title data from the dashboard?" in RescueTime:

Yes please! I have to track my time by project for work, and I usually have several projects open in Textmate, as well as different Navicat windows for different databases.

Joe replied about 23 hours ago to the problem "Reporting sites never vistied, and with long durations" in RescueTime:

Thanks or the update, do you use a proxy server? With an address of 127.0.0.1:81 - that is pointing back to your local machine on port 81, which is usually an indication of a proxy, which would explain why you see time logged against it.

vikramsjn replied 1 day ago to the problem "Reporting sites never vistied, and with long durations" in RescueTime:

Hi,

Just an update...

I tried AdAware yesterday. It reported one site www.go2net.com/useless, removed it.

Still I am getting 127.0.0.1:81, with high usage.
Now am going to create new clean firefox profile, to work without any addons altogether to see if this is the problem.

j-annastasia replied 1 day ago to the question "Error #6" in RescueTime:

Comfortable would be a bit of an overstatement :) But I copied and pasted the above into Terminal. It thought for a minute and then gave me the command prompt again - mycomputer:~ me$ . Nothing else.

Joe replied 1 day ago to the question "Error #6" in RescueTime:

If there is anyone who is having this problem and comfortable with running a command or two at the Terminal level, I'd love to get some information from you.

Essentially, I'm trying to determine if there is more to the error than what we are capturing in RescueTime.

If you are comfortable with using Terminal and can consistently reproduce the Error #6 it would help if I could get some to do the following:

From the Terminal prompt paste in (all on one line):

/usr/bin/curl -k -d 'email=test@test.com&password=testpassword' https://api.rescuetime.com/api/handshake -m 10 -s

You should see something like the following:

System02:~ jhruska$ /usr/bin/curl -k -d 'email=test@test.com&password=testpassword' https://api.rescuetime.com/api/handshake -m 10 -s
login failure!System02:~ jhruska$

Where the important information is the "login failure!".

Paste back your results here or to me in an email at team@rescuetime.com

We'll try to beat this error into submission,

Thanks!

mike replied 1 day ago to the question "rescue time getting unwanted statistics" in RescueTime:

I'm seeing what may be a similar issue. When I step away from my machine, I lock the screen by mousing to a hot corner. Sometimes the data collector continues to log time for the last active application. I will send an email.

j-annastasia replied 1 day ago to the question "Error #6" in RescueTime:

Just installed to try it out... same problem here... also on a new Intel Macbook. Debug shows failure to connect after each attempt to send file. I get a 404 when entering the URL above (?) Tried disabling SSL and restarting... nothing.

vendeep replied 1 day ago to the question "Inconsistencies in tracking time for Games(cod4, halo), FIX?" in RescueTime:

That sounds good.

konryd replied 1 day ago to the idea "Plugins for as many apps as possible?" in RescueTime:

_Any_ plug-in system would do. Do you have any *specific* plans for it?

MarkM replied 1 day ago to the question "Data transferred but not displayed in dashboard?" in RescueTime:

Hi Joe,

thanks for the tip. My entries look like this:

5/12/2008 9:41:58 AM
Sending file : C:\Documents and Settings\xxx\Local Settings\Application Data\RescueTime.com\logs\pending\rt_20080512-091200.yml
5/12/2008 9:42:07 AM
?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<hash>
<error>There was an unexpected error, some data may have been lost. undefined method `to_date' for nil:NilClass
/var/www/rails/rescuetime/current/config/../app/models/user.rb:459:in `create_logs'
/var/ww

sounds like there's something missing in my setup - I'll try and reinstall the client.</error></hash>

Joe replied 1 day ago to the question "Inconsistencies in tracking time for Games(cod4, halo), FIX?" in RescueTime:

Certain full-screen games currently don't record properly with RescueTime. It is on my list to come up with a solution, but a work around for the moment is to play games in a windowed mode. I know that is not optimal, however I have found that it works pretty reliably for many of the games I've "tested" ;)

I'll keep you updated on progress that I make with full screen games.

Thanks!

tvidotto replied 1 day ago to the question "using rescue time in 2 computers with different stats" in RescueTime:

thanks a lot for the answer
i will try the groups

Joe replied 1 day ago to the question "using rescue time in 2 computers with different stats" in RescueTime:

You can use RescueTime on as many computers as you would like, but if they all use the same RescueTime account the information will be lumped together.

Unfortunately there is no way of telling which time belongs to which computer, at least currently. We are looking at enhancements which would allow this, but those are a ways out.

The work around is to create another RescueTime account so you have different accounts for each computer, you could then use the Groups option to view the aggregate data for both accounts in a bit more detail.

Thanks

Joe replied 1 day ago to the question "Data transferred but not displayed in dashboard?" in RescueTime:

By default, RescueTime sends all logging data through port 443 (HTTPS/SSL) though if that causes a problem you can disable secure transfers in the RescueTime preferences.

However, if you are seeing a recent "last update" time on your dashboard, it is likely not a communication issue with RescueTime.

In your RescueTime preference window on your computer, you can check to see if you have successful transfers by looking for entries similar to:

2008-05-13 09:58:56
Sending file: /Users/jhruska/Library/RescueTime/Logs/Pending/rt_20080513-071216.yml

2008-05-13 09:58:56
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<hash>
<successes type="integer">48</successes>
<total-records type="integer">48</total-records>
</hash>

Let me know if you don't see entries like this.

Also, if you would like we can take a look at some of the incoming logs for your account, just send us an email to team@rescuetime.com from the email account you used to setup RescueTime and I'll take a look to see if there is anything strange.

Thank you

Joe replied 1 day ago to the problem "Vista plus new installer still won't install update" in RescueTime:

During this last update we were in sort of a "transition" period between moving off of the old updater (AutoUpdate+) and getting the new custom updater installed. My hope is that updates from now on are a lot more Vista friendly.

I'd love to get some assistance in testing Vista updates from a couple of people who have had problems in the past.

I've got an update ready for testing now, so if you are interested in giving me feedback on how it works for Vista, send me an email to team@rescuetime.com

Thank you!

Joe replied 1 day ago to the question "Can we access the raw data log, to see exactly what I was doing when?" in RescueTime:

The raw data logs are locally stored on your computer for some period of time (currently 30 days or more are kept). I imagine it wouldn't be too difficult to import those log files into an Excel spreadsheet to give you the kind of visualization that you are looking for - but it would be far from quick and easy ;)

You can find the log files here:

Log File Locations:

Windows XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings\Application Data\RescueTime.com\logs

Windows Vista:
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\RescueTime.com\logs

OS X:
Macintosh HD/[username]/Library/RescueTime/Logs/Pending (From the GUI assuming default hard drive name)
/Users/[username]/Library/RescueTime/Logs/Pending (From the command line)

vikramsjn replied 2 days ago to the problem "Reporting sites never vistied, and with long durations" in RescueTime:

Thanks for replying.

I will try AdAware, and then will also try disabling browser plugins and toolbars.
Then will get back.

Mike Koss replied 2 days ago to the problem "Vista plus new installer still won't install update" in RescueTime:

I had this problem to. I followed Joe's instructions to quit RT, and then reinstall manually and it works. But it's really annoying that the auto-updater is not working properly.

A comment on the question "Using RescueTime as a non-administrator" in RescueTime:

It seems to work. I think when I tried it the first time, the server was down (so I couldn't "verify" my account. – mikeg, 2 days ago