Here's the sort of command line I can wind up typing:

spam/wtd daemon | expsyslog.pl | tcpwrhits -i | sed 10q |while (read foo) { n=`{echo $foo}; echo '| '^$n '|' `{checksmtp $n(2)}; }

(This will probably be wrapped in your browser, but it is all one line.)

I wrote that on the fly, in one pass, although I had

ftp.heanet.ie serves a huge volume of mostly static file downloads withApache on a single machine. This results in interesting Apache tuningissues, among other things.

• Scaling Apache 2.x beyond 20,000 concurrent downloads [PDF]; just the title alone gives you the flavour.
• Niagara vs ftp.heanet.ie Showdown (Niagara is the new Sun server box and chipset.)
• Niagara Benchmarks: Update

If this sort of thing is your cup of tea, much of Colm MacCá

I've mentioned quilt before ;it's a package for managing a series of patches. One of the things it'sreally handy for is modifying source RPMs (which themselves are mostlya series of patches on top of a base source tree, hence the good fit).However, there's a bit of arcana involved in the process, so it's usefulto have an example.

(Since my margin is only so big, I'm going to assume that you'rebroadly

That CSS isn't supported by lynx may sound like a peculiar thing tocall a limitation of CSS, but it does have one important consequence: If I want lynx to format something right, I can't use CSS .

(Well, I suppose I can use CSS in addition to non-CSS methods. But Ihave to have the non-CSS methods.)

As strange as it may sound, I still value looking good in lynx (and links , a related text mode browser). (