The more I look at Fibrechannel's competitors , the more attractive Fibrechannel looks. Afterall, FC's only real problem is that it costs a lot of money, and eventhat may be changing as FC vendors come to their senses; we recentlygot a quite reasonable quote from a storage vendor.

(Well, FC switch vendors are still insane, but if you are willing togo for second-hand equipment you can apparently get 1 and 2 gigabit FCswitches for quite cheap as people upgrade to 4

This week, we:

• got 10,541 messages from 243 different IP addresses.
• handled 22,006 sessions from 1,956 different IP addresses.
• received 515,114 connections from at least 130,401 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 10 connections being checked at once.

Connection volume has jumped significantly from last week and session volume is up, which suggests thatour simplistic greylisting stuff is no longer working quite

I was recently reading this slide from a presentation , which set me tothinking about the whole issue of what makes me consider something to be'strongly typed'.

In high-level languages, I have a pragmatic definition: if 2 + "3" succeeds, especially if it is 5, your language is weakly typed. Thus, awk and Perl are weakly typed but Python and Ruby are strongly typed.

(I have to restrict this to high-level languages because this works inC, although it does