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I love this webpage. It's in my favorites bar and check it everyday at school in my Robotics class.:D

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Thanks man. You made my day!

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Hey, I just noticed that your website is 30 minutes ahead of the one on us first.org . Still love the website! My friends are all jamming to the music as I am writing this!

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This problem may be due to how the site gets its time. It takes the time from the clients computer and subtracts that from kickoffs date. If the clients clock is wrong, the timer will be off. I have found this problem occurs on my schools old laptops that have trouble keeping time. I have an idea of how to fix this problem but it isn't ready for deployment yet.

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May I ask why you don't just take the time from the server? I know that in PHP it is very easy!

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When I try to load the page it simply locks down Firefox until the plugin crashes

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Does the site have explosions and all when the countdown reaches zero? It should show a clip of some video. I think that would be great.

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The issue with that is the site can only load from php one per refresh, and the site gets the time from the client every 37 milliseconds. But you gave me an idea that could help me fix the issue. I can get the time from the server, calculate the error between the client and server times, then add the error time onto the clients time.

Firefox has had a ton of issues with the site. Most of these are due to Firefox not liking the positioning and sizing code for the footer. If the site crashes, it usually means I made an error updating and should be fixed within 5 minutes of being made.

When the counter hits 0, It will change the music citing box into a player for the stream. Explosions would be cool... An example can be found here http://frccountdown.hosthorde.net/beta.php

PS. Is the kickoff stream hosted on the NASA education stream?

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I'm sorry to report that the server has been attacked and is shut down at the time being. Some one found a mistake I made in the file submission page and uploaded a malicious file. I do have backups and will have the site back up ASAP.

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The site is back up and running! It took a while to re-flash the Beaglebone and load the backups but the site is back up!

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The site now works with Firefox. There are only 4 and a half days until kickoff! I would like to thank everyone that has sent in images for the slideshow. With 78 and counting, you all have helped the site grow!

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With less than 12 hours until kickoff, the final updates to the site have been made. I have corrected all known timing issues, the steam is displayed 20 minutes before it hits 0, and you can download the manual from the site. Thanks to everyone who has helped the site grow and have a great 2015 season!