It's an article of faith in modern web page creation that using tablesfor layout, especially column-based layout, is an evil hack and thatusing CSS instead is virtuous, proper, and accessible. (These peopleprobably turn up their noses at WanderingThoughts ' table-based layout,which has its reasons .)

I have news for these people: it isn't so. Using CSS floats for layoutis still using a hack. In fact, it's using a worse hack; at least

Presented in the traditional illustrated form:

# chkconfig ntpd || echo not runningnot running# chkconfig --add ntpd# chkconfig ntpd || echo not runningnot running

I like Red Hat's chkconfig , but its --add option is so badlymisnamed it winds up irritating me half the time I use it. Oneindication of how bad it is is that the chkconfig manpage needs touse a paragraph to half explain it, and the explanation is exceedinglytechnical.

Part of the problem is that chkconfig is

This week, we:

• got 13,205 messages from 267 different IP addresses.
• handled 19,508 sessions from 1,153 different IP addresses.
• received 163,293 connections from at least 49,706 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 11 connections being checked at once.

This is about the same volume as last week .The per day table fluctuates a fair bit, with a mid-week peak as usual