SSA-OLC Generation 2 Update

This notice was just posted to the OLC site:

Tuesday October 17, 2006

Known bug in the OLC

The reason is an error in the OLC optimization, which we are going to
eliminate as fast as possible. All concerned flights will get a correct
score even after the tuesday deadline will have passed before we can
solve the problem. Thanks for your patience.

At the very moment software claim method with commercial software like
SeeYou, StrePla or WinPilot is not working correctly, due to OLC system
change. The OLC team urgently recommends to generate an OLC file with
these programs and then claim with this OLC file ('Prepared Claim'), or
use the 'Direct Claim' without external software. Manufacturers are
informed about these troubles and will (if it's necessary) publish
patches as soon as possible.

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The OLC team has been working on correcting problems with the new OLC
Generation 2.0 system. Top priority is getting claims uploaded, scored
and displayed in the daily scores. So if you have problems with this
(other than the known zero score issue), please report it to
helpatonlinecontestdotorg. Problems with summary statistics, and
other functions are second priority, and will be addressed later.

The login function is not needed yet. You can create a user ID in the
Contest Registration update under the Anmeldung tab, but logging in
won't do anything yet. Editing flight claims is disabled for both users
and regional administrators until the platform is stable. Only the
OLC-i admin can make changes for now.

There have been problems reported using different browsers. The
calendar function in daily score does not appear to work properly with
AOL browser for example. It is probably best to use Microsoft Internet
Explorer v6.0 for best results. Alternate browser support is also low
priority right now.

Doug Haluza
SSA-OLC Admin