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gelinas
response 265 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 3 21:36 UTC 2002

Lotus Notes put up a random number of heiroglyphs, rather than asterisks.
bilz
response 266 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 3 22:12 UTC 2002

why is this so slow?
gelinas
response 267 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 3 23:52 UTC 2002

What do you mean by "slow"?  If picospan ("bbs"), then it's probably because
this is a long-running conversation.
mdw
response 268 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 4 01:02 UTC 2002

The bad password delay has been a standard part of Unix login programs
for a long time.  The retry shouldn't be obnoxious unless you've managed
to typo your password twice, in which case, it probably won't hurt for
you to slowdown and think about what you're doing.

The IETF folks want to put a built-in delay of >1second (via a
computationally expensive CPU loop) for encrypting K5 passwords via AES.
If you want to worry about something, why not worry about that?
gelinas
response 269 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 4 01:22 UTC 2002

What is their excuse?
jmsaul
response 270 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 4 02:24 UTC 2002

Re #268:  It's obnoxious on one retyping.  Try it.  (I don't typo it
          twice.)
mdw
response 271 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 4 02:43 UTC 2002

Slow down brute force password cracking.
oval
response 272 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 4 07:41 UTC 2002

 :)
jhudson
response 273 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 4 18:17 UTC 2002

The problem with ^H, ^U, etc. is buried in /usr/sbin/telnetd.
hash
response 274 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 6 03:25 UTC 2002

finding a pattern in spam:
http://www.blackant.net/code/oth/random/nlp-spamfilter.php
jep
response 275 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 6 22:14 UTC 2002

Backtalk is not working; it stopped working about an hour ago.  I can
still telnet in, though.
remmers
response 276 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 7 01:54 UTC 2002

Seems to be working now.  My guess is that httpd died, then got
restarted.
keesan
response 277 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 7 03:17 UTC 2002

Looking up www.google.com, guessing (no DNS numbers available?).
The internet is not terribly usable with lynx at present.
gelinas
response 278 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 7 03:33 UTC 2002

About three minutes before #277, I noticed that 

        load average: 12.08, 7.59, 6.00

I could be wrong, of course, but I suspect the two events are related.
russ
response 279 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 9 19:55 UTC 2002

"nslookup" is freezing up instead of reporting data.
jp2
response 280 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 9 20:18 UTC 2002

This response has been erased.

rlejeune
response 281 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 12 21:21 UTC 2002

I have been having probs with nslookup freezing up as well. 
janc
response 282 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 17 17:25 UTC 2002

I'm a lousy typist.  I've been known to cut/paste passwords.

Of course, you can log in to Backtalk, where most browsers do echo 
bullets with each keystroke and where the authentication delays are, 
well, different.

I really would like it if login/telnet/etc would accept *both* CONTROL-H 
and DELETE as backspace characters when entering logins and passwords.  
It's a pain to remember which key to use where.
gelinas
response 283 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 18 00:28 UTC 2002

Jan, are you not in probably the very best of all positions to make your dream
a reality?

I've heard UNIX geeks complain before about the lack of concensus on a
backspace key.  The discussions usually result in everyone throwing up their
hands in disgust and frustration.
jmsaul
response 284 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 18 15:37 UTC 2002

Re #282:  I'd like that too.  Very much.
remmers
response 285 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 18 17:02 UTC 2002

Personally, I find single-character backspacing to be pretty much
useless for passwords.  I can't see what I've typed, so I'm never
sure how many characters to backspace to correct the error that
I might have made.  It's largely useless for logins too, at least
for me -- when I catch a mistake, I find it faster to just kill
the whole line (ctrl-U works for this on every system I log into)
and start over.
csoval
response 286 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 18 20:38 UTC 2002

my password has been changed. very mature.
oval
response 287 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 18 21:00 UTC 2002

oh it was me who changed the password. very mature.
slynne
response 288 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 18 21:07 UTC 2002

I am so glad to know that I am not the only person who does that! ;)
oval
response 289 of 293: Mark Unseen   Mar 18 21:13 UTC 2002

i should really write them all down somewhere.
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