A while back I wrote about emulating C structs in Python using (instance) objects to createnamespaces, and wrote:

(Avoid the temptation to just use ' ms = object() ', because ithurts your ability to tell different types of structs apart viaintrospection.)

It turns out that there is another reason to avoid this: it doesn'twork. Somewhat to my surprise, instances of object() can't have newattributes put on them. (Instances of Python subclasses of object(

Sun killed one of my systems the other day. It was very simple: Iinstalled the latest patches (that had passed testing on my testsystem), rebooted, and the ssh daemon failed to come up. Bang. Dead inthe water due to:

ld.so.1: sshd: fatal: libxfn.so.2: open failed: No such fileor directory

Since this machine is accessed only via ssh, that's all shewrote. (For extra fun, outgoing ssh from the

This week, we:

• got 14,343 messages from 220 different IP addresses.
• handled 18,078 sessions from 864 different IP addresses.
• received 140,437 connections from at least 48,849 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 50 connections being checked at once (hit onTuesday).

Unlike last week , we don't seem to havebeen hit with any particular spam fireworks for this Canada Day;volume