A very long time ago, I spent a year being an Amiga programmer as partof a small team writing an application. We wanted it to have a busymouse cursor (the general hourglass 'this is going to take a while'cursor good apps put up during long operations), but what with one thingand another, we wound up with two problems:

• we weren't actually sure what user actions would take a longtime.
• we got to 'implement a busy cursor' rather late in the whole

It turns out I made a mistake in my Hotmail stats for this week that missed some Hotmail rejections thatwere for @sympatico.ca addresses. There were actually 11 messagesrefused due to their IP origin, from six different IP addresses:

This is a two part safety tip:

1. most things that roll Apache logfiles SIGHUP Apache to get it toclose and reopen the logfiles
2. when Apache is SIGHUP 'd, it closes its current set of sockets andtries to listen on the set that its configuration file says itshould use.

So, if you have changed Apache's configuration of what it should listenon, and something else is currently camped on one of those places,something that is scheduled to be killed off during an impendingreboot, and your logfiles

The basic volume numbers for this week are that we:

• got 19,744 messages from 236 different IP addresses.
• handled 19,083 sessions from 955 different IP addresses.
• received 139,156 connections from at least 43,459 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 31 connections being checked at once.

We got more emails this week than usual mostly because of a small mailloop explosion during the week that added several thousand