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In one web application a form has to be completed within 10 minutes. I have a bit of javascript that puts a message the top of the screen when there are 90 seconds to go, and then makes it blink when there are only 30 seconds left. I don't pretend that it is pretty, but it can bring the user back to a task that they got part way through before being distracted.

Just because something can be used to create monstrosities does not mean that it should be banned. If that were the case, then ban .jpg on the grounds of what used to be found at goatse.cx

I'll have to agree 100%. Yours seems like an entirely reasonable usage case for the blink tag. I would hope they'd keep it in the rendering engine and we can just leave pages that abuse the feature, as we do for so many other abused features.

I have a page that simulates a Bash terminal in which the client watches as commands are typed into a Bash terminal and the results are fetched via AJAX.

The cursor blinks slowly, just as it would in a real terminal.

It was a PITA to get characters "typed" slowly with some randomness since JS doesn't have a blocking sleep/wait function. I don't care to have to go in there and update the code.

Not sure if it would've helped in this situation, as it seems the DB itself had no password, but since I don't run phpMyAdmin, I use a fail2ban jail which bans any IP trying to access phpMyAdmin since they're obviously up to no good.

Shameless plug:

Jails for phpMyAdmin, ssh as root, and, bad robots:
https://www.maow.net/fail2ban

And, it's using a self-signed certificate ... seems like the only CA I can trust is myself, and I don't really like the look of that shifty character in the mirror either.

Hi again,

Shaw's trunk likes are little fiber wires,not 2 inch pipes.

I'm curious what you make of these cables:

http://www.maow.net/images/2011-11-16%2015.24.40.jpg

Thanks for any input...

First, congratulations on an excellent, simple site and many, many years of entertaining & informative reading.

The previous posters have been poignant and funny.

But this timing really sucks. Canadians lost a beloved political leader, Jack Layton (yeah, you read that right: it is a once-per-generation thing, I think), yesterday I found out the crows I "befriended" after my beloved dog died had destroyed the nest of a large family of small birds I fed for a long time, who've now disappeared.

Steve Jobs left (personally I don't care a whit about Apple, but the man is too sick to work, that's sad), and now /. is ... different...

I'm going back to bed, wake me up next year.

PS Good luck Rob, and thanks to you and ALL the people who make this site so delightful to read.

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... they contain a significant amount of important information.

1) Lamo stated the he was a journalist and a priest, so the chat logs would be secret.

That one really jumped out at me. WTF Lamo?

I see lots of comments about what a POS Lamo is, but telling that to Manning, and sending him *hugs* [sic], THEN turning him in - while knowing Manning was on his way to discharge, had already lost some level of clearance, well that seems a hugely dishonest betrayal.

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You've made an extremely cogent case for reading this book.

Thank you, and congratulations to David Flanagan (the book's author, who himself posts a reply to your comment) for his work.

I wish him much success...

Now I'm off to go look up the answers to the questions you've posed while I'm still motivated by the shame of not having a clue.

Maybe you could post the answers in reply to your post: someone will likely benefit from it.
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I've had to reboot my WBR-2310 fairly often as my Android phone loses ability to see the router to connect to it.

I moved the DHCP server to my Linux box and it seemed to help, but have since had to reboot router occasionally.

I wonder if it's related.

Also, good work Princeton, this impressed me, from TFA:

Why Haven't Other Sites Reported This Particular Issue?

Some may wonder why only Princeton has reported this problem. Some may believe that because other sites are not reporting it, the problem must be due to a problem with Princeton's network.

Princeton detected this issue because we take a very pro-active stance to monitor for certain kinds of common network problems, including this one. Our network monitoring includes comparing actual IP address usage to DHCP server lease assignments on a daily basis. This allows us to detect some devices using IP addresses not assigned for their use. This is a degree of monitoring that many sites do not perform. We also monitor our DHCP servers very closely for any problems they detect, including when they see DHCP-leased IP addresses in-use when they should not be, or when a client tries to SELECT an offer that was not made to it, or when a client tries to renew or rebind an IP address after the client's lease on that IP address has already expired.

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I read (& posted a comment to) the Salon.com article, and I'll rephrase it here.

At some point, there should be a point where Moore's Law collides with the "law" of diminishing returns.

As others have posted here before me, we have seen a flattening of CPU speeds for a few years, and when's the last time you heard someone say, "I want a new computer, but if I just wait 6 more months, it will be faster, better, cheaper"? Indeed, the same has applied to laptops for a fair while now.

Sure there's room for Moore's Law to rule the mobile market for a few years to come, but once you have IBM's Watson in your pocket, how much more computing power is needed?

And yes, I modded my AMD 64 so it only has 640Kb, because that's enough for anyone - harumph!

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I read (& posted a comment to) the Salon.com article, and I'll rephrase it here.

At some point, there should be a point where Moore's Law collides with the "law" of diminishing returns.

As others have posted here before me, we have seen a flattening of CPU speeds for a few years, and when's the last time you heard someone say, "I want a new computer, but if I just wait 6 more months, it will be faster, better, cheaper"? Indeed, the same has applied to laptops for a fair while now.

Sure there's room for Moore's Law to rule the mobile market for a few years to come, but once you have IBM's Watson in your pocket, how much more computing power is needed?

And yes, I modded my AMD 64 so it only has 640Kb, because that's enough for anyone - harumph!

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http://salon.maow.net/
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I'm a Wind customer: $40 / month, unlimited talk & text Canada & US wide, unlimited internet (possibly throttled after 5 gigs).

I looked at the decision and summarized it here: http://android.maow.net./ The errors in law were:

[107] The Governor in Council has in many respects adhered to and acknowledged the Canadian telecommunication policy objectives as set out in section 7 of the Act.

        However, the Governor in Council has stepped outside those provisions by inserting a previously unknown policy objective into section 7; namely, that of ensuring access to foreign capital, technology and experience. Secondly it erred by limiting its Decision to Globalive only.

And this:

        [113] A decision-maker such as the Governor in Council is not only required to take into consideration the relevant statutory criteria, but also to exclude irrelevant criteria

        [118] In the second of the above “Whereas” clauses, the Governor in Council acted outside the legal parameters of the
        Act in stating that its Decision impacts only on Globalive. The Governor in Council cannot restrict its interpretation to one individual and not to others who may find themselves in a similar circumstance.

        [119] These improper considerations were fundamental to the determination of the Governor in Council to reverse the Decision of the CRTC. Therefore, the Decision of the Governor in Council must be quashed.