Simplified and summarized a lot, Fitts' Law says that the four ofthe five easiest locations to reach with the mouse are the fourcorners of the screen, because they require very little precision.(There's a lot more to it than just that, of course; see AskTog .)

A number of window managers, fvwm2 included, have virtual screensand a feature called 'edge flipping': if you move your cursor toa screen edge where there's another virtual screen beyond it andkeep

Dear Fedora Core 6 X server: please stop randomly turning my NumLock on.It's getting really old by now, especially since I use a BTC-5100C minikeyboard and so turning NumLock on sprinkles numbers around my typinginstead of the letters that I expected.

(It also makes various fvwm2 operations not fire, since I'm not hittingshift+alt+mouse button, I'm 'hitting' shift+alt+numlock+mouse button.I'd tell fvwm

One of the things that watching your logs while trying out variouscomment spam precautions is good foris seeing how comment spammers seem to behave, or at least how thecomment spammers that drop by WanderingThoughts behave. (Your mileagemay vary, since there are a lot of comment spammers out there and theycan't all be using the same tools.)

As before, I'm only really interested in defeating the automated commentspammers; a dedicated person is always going to be able to leave commentshere. (

This week, we:

• got 12,733 messages from 249 different IP addresses.
• handled 21,567 sessions from 1,259 different IP addresses.
• received 197,829 connections from at least 58,846 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 8 connections being checked at once.

This is up from last week , althoughthe messages received count remains down from the usual levels.

While doing performance tests on an iSCSI RAID controller, we recentlyturned up some unexpected results: the controller could writesignificantly faster than it could read, to both RAID 5 and RAID 0targets. In one case, a six-disk RAID 0 target could do streaming writes20 megabytes/second faster than it could do streaming reads (75 MB/swrite versus 55 MB/s read).This surprised me a lot, because I usually expect reads to run fasterthan writes. (It