Another week, another set of cruddy Hotmail spam numbers. Let's seehow bad things are this week:

• here's a new one: no email accepted from Hotmail this week.
• 216 messages rejected because they came from non-Hotmail emailaddresses.
• 107 messages sent to our spamtraps.
• 20 messages refused because their sender addresses had already hitour spamtraps.
• 6 messages refused due to their origin IP address (three for beingfrom SAIX, two for being on the SBL, and one

I've recently been looking into Sun's Ultra 20 line of workstations.This surprises a lot of people who hear about it, because they wonderwhy I'm thinking of moving to Solaris and a Sparc from Linux and a PC.

The answer is that I'm not. But it's an easy mistake to make, becauseSun has chosen a totally confusing product name. You see, the Ultra 20is not yet another one of Sun's Sparc-based Ultra workstations,

In the spirit of yesterday's entry on a Unix annoyance :

If you're fond of Unix, and especially if you're uncritically fond ofUnix, it's good to read the Unix-Haters Handbook (originally published in dead trees format, but now available online);another website on it is Don Hopkins' here ,which has bonus bits and pieces.

I don't agree with the Handbook; my position is probably closest toDennis Ritchie's marvelous anti-forward, which really

Unix: where you have to escape command line arguments twice, oncefrom the shell and once from the program.

I dearly love Unix, but I am forced to admit that every so often ithas what I can only describe as 'robot logic'; things that areperfectly logical, but not to normal humans. For example, consider thefun of trying to remove a file called something like " -Brad Foo ".

$ rm -Brad Foorm: invalid option -- B$ rm "-Brad