FAQ - Server wiped out in power issue
Jim Ley
The jibbering site is down, whilst the data disks are okay, and
there's no data loss that I can ascertain at the moment (I remissly
had not been backing up the FAQ parts off site since not maintaining
it) the machine is completely dead.
Unsure of the exact time to get it back up, although I would hope to
have something at least up sooner rather than later - obviously as
it's my personal site too :)
Sorry!
Jim.
Jonathan Fine
> The jibbering site is down, whilst the data disks are okay, and
> there's no data loss that I can ascertain at the moment (I remissly
> had not been backing up the FAQ parts off site since not maintaining
> it) the machine is completely dead.
Thank you, Jim, for past hosting and for owning up to the problem.
When first I saw the Subject, I thought "Server wiped out in power
issue" was a FAQ that was new to me (smile).
--
Jonathan
Jon Gómez
As Jonathan said, thanks a bunch for hosting the FAQ. It's too bad
about the machine, but I'm glad it looks like the data itself is okay.
Good luck with a speedy recovery.
Jon.
Thomas Allen
If you don't mind sharing, what happened to the server? At my first
design job (startup), our rack at a data center got fried by water
that dumped from the ceiling somehow.
Thomas
Garrett Smith
I have the latest, 2009-04-04, on my windows machine.
If that should crash and become unavailable, cached versions can be
found from google or web.archive.org.
I have the "unsafe names" on my mac.
I do not have the "notes" or "charter" documents or anything else.
> Jim.
Garrett
Jim Ley
<dhtmlk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I have the latest, 2009-04-04, on my windows machine.
>
>If that should crash and become unavailable, cached versions can be
>found from google or web.archive.org.
>
>I have the "unsafe names" on my mac.
>
>I do not have the "notes" or "charter" documents or anything else.
Data is fully recovered, there's no loss - unfortunately the hardware
I located to swap in, is also having issues :( so now I'm trying to
get something together, or finding some new hardware!
I expect to have at least something up and running by end of today
though.
(The problem was probably related to a power surge that made it
through to the machine, the disk controllers and the o/s disk were
screwed on the original machine)
Jim.
Jim Ley
Okay, so it should be back now, Let me know if anyone sees any
problems - the rest of the site will likely have other issues, but the
FAQ at least is up!
Cheers,
Jim.
Dr J R Stockton
9 Apr 2009 22:02:35, Garrett Smith <dhtmlk...@gmail.com> posted:
>Jim Ley wrote:
Jim, nice to hear from you again - take a look at
<URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/js-dobj2.htm>,
if the weather has spoilt better plans.
>> Hi,
>> The jibbering site is down, whilst the data disks are okay,
>> ...
>I have the latest, 2009-04-04, on my windows machine.
Is this Guess-the-URL?
>If that should crash and become unavailable, cached versions can be
>found from google
Strangely, Google-searching for the FAQ offers a cached version, which
calls jibbering, which is not working; but the "text-only version" is
accessible.
$clj-faq.htm, at merlyn, will find that; but don't cite it as I do not
want to supply the bandwidth that linking to it might use. The boxing
is lost, but otherwise the effective CSS is much better. Therefore, I
suggest that minimal CSS for the boxes should be put in the HTML page
itself.
Change : $clj-faq.htm will now find View Source of the FAQ from
jibbering, which has re-awoken.
> or web.archive.org.
Old, AISB.
<FAQENTRY>
Section 11.1 How do I get my browser to report javascript errors?
The content does not answer the question.
The answer should be along the lines of
Firefox : Tools, Error Console
Chrome : "Page" icon, Developer, ...
Opera : Tools, Advanced, Error Console
Safari : Develop, ... (after Edit, Preferences, Advanced, tick)
MSIE : Yellow triangle ?????
followed by
11.2 What debugging tools are recommended for my browser?
That to have the existing content, except what goes better in 11.1.
FAQ section 1.4 should be split, just before "You are reading", and the
second part moved upwards. Its first sentence could go before the
index, the rest before Section 1.1. "It has" should be "They have".
FAQ section 5.1 : In my IE, (0.07).toFixed(N) is OK for N>1,
(0.007).toFixed(N) is OK for N>2, (0.0007).toFixed(N) is OK for N>4,
etc. Therefore, in a section headed "How do I format a Number as a
String with exactly 2 decimal places?", 0.07 is not a good example. And
the example Math.round(.49999999999999992) would be better as
Math.round(0.49999999999999992). Likewise .1255 to 0.1255, .07 to 0.07.
The W3 validator gives two warnings,
No Character Encoding Found! Falling back to UTF-8.
No Character encoding declared at document level
TIDY gives a few more - "&" on line 560, multiple "name='FAQ_'>",
multiple empty <p> </p>, No system identifier in emitted doctype.
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wrote:
> In comp.lang.javascript message <grmjtj$s1...@nntp.motzarella.org>, Thu,
> 9 Apr 2009 22:02:35, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitc...@gmail.com> posted:
That makes sense. Did not get any feedback on my last proposed change,
which I made but kept locally. I added Firebug to the list of
debuggers for Firefox.
> FAQ section 1.4 should be split, just before "You are reading", and the
Putting the "You are reading" and the four paragraphs that follow
immediately under section 1 heading "Meta-FAQ meta-questions" would
make sense.
> second part moved upwards. Its first sentence could go before the
> index, the rest before Section 1.1. "It has" should be "They have".
Regarding the faq notes.
It would make sense to move that, as has been suggested, to /faq/
notes/. A temporary redirect could be used.
>
> FAQ section 5.1 : In my IE, (0.07).toFixed(N) is OK for N>1,
> (0.007).toFixed(N) is OK for N>2, (0.0007).toFixed(N) is OK for N>4,
> etc. Therefore, in a section headed "How do I format a Number as a
> String with exactly 2 decimal places?", 0.07 is not a good example. And
> the example Math.round(.49999999999999992) would be better as
> Math.round(0.49999999999999992). Likewise .1255 to 0.1255, .07 to 0.07.
>
OK.
> The W3 validator gives two warnings,
> No Character Encoding Found! Falling back to UTF-8.
> No Character encoding declared at document level
>
> TIDY gives a few more - "&" on line 560, multiple "name='FAQ_'>",
> multiple empty <p> </p>, No system identifier in emitted doctype.
>
The empty p tag could be the script that processes the xml and finding
an empty text node.
Will look into that.
Garrett
Jim Ley
<repl...@merlyn.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>The W3 validator gives two warnings,
> No Character Encoding Found! Falling back to UTF-8.
> No Character encoding declared at document level
I'll fix this up - fell through the cracks in the move to Apache
presumably.
Cheers,
Jim.
Garrett Smith
> On Apr 10, 2:17 pm, Dr J R Stockton <reply0...@merlyn.demon.co.uk>
> wrote:
>> In comp.lang.javascript message <grmjtj$s1...@nntp.motzarella.org>, Thu,
>> 9 Apr 2009 22:02:35, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitc...@gmail.com> posted:
>>
>>> Jim Ley wrote:
>>
>> 11.2 What debugging tools are recommended for my browser?
>>
>> That to have the existing content, except what goes better in 11.1.
>>
>
> That makes sense. Did not get any feedback on my last proposed change,
> which I made but kept locally. I added Firebug to the list of
> debuggers for Firefox.
>
Firebug added to list.
Regarding separating debugger and error notifications: I'm thinking that
once an error is received, what to do with that error is the next
question in line, and if it is debugging (not a simple notification)
that is desired, then that may be a more useful question.
>
>
>> FAQ section 5.1 : In my IE, (0.07).toFixed(N) is OK for N>1,
>> (0.007).toFixed(N) is OK for N>2, (0.0007).toFixed(N) is OK for N>4,
>> etc. Therefore, in a section headed "How do I format a Number as a
>> String with exactly 2 decimal places?", 0.07 is not a good example. And
>> the example Math.round(.49999999999999992) would be better as
>> Math.round(0.49999999999999992). Likewise .1255 to 0.1255, .07 to 0.07.
>>
>
> OK.
Done.
>>
>> TIDY gives a few more - "&" on line 560, multiple "name='FAQ_'>",
>> multiple empty <p> </p>, No system identifier in emitted doctype.
>>
>
> The empty p tag could be the script that processes the xml and finding
> an empty text node.
>
> Will look into that.
>
That was part of it. There are still two or three empty p tags. One is
generated near a comment node.
no more name="FAQ_".
Version 12 up:
http://jibbering.com/faq/
Garrett