Dear Xine: since various modern sound systems are amply equipped toplay multiple audio sources at once, your 'mute' button should muteonly your audio, not the entire audio chain. That way I can turn downthe Internet music stream I'm listening to in the background in favourof something of more immediate interest, like YouTube videos, withouthaving to quit out of you entirely.

While we're here, it would be nice if you didn't block purely audiostreams just because you can'

In dump (and ufsdump, and other close cousins) you can specify thefilesystem that you want to dump in two ways: by the name of itsmountpoint, or by the name of the (raw) device that it's on. One ofmy little twitches is that I always specify thefilesystem to dump by its mountpoint. Like a lot of my little twitches,this has a history behind it.

The problem is that at least some old versions of dump were perfectlywilling to write their output to

This week, we:

• got 15,790 messages from 280 different IP addresses.
• handled 23,657 sessions from 1,340 different IP addresses.
• received 248,408 connections from at least 73,118 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 17 connections being checked at once.

Volume is up again from last week ,although the number of different IPs is down slightly.

I have an embarrassing confession: my home Internet connection is stilla dialup 28.8Kbps PPP link. (Back when I first set it up, this was onlyslightly behind the times, as 33.3Kbps modems had just come out.)

For a long time this was fine, because all I really did with it wastext-based stuff, mostly sshing to my machines at the university; whileI did do some web surfing, pretty much all of the sites I visitedregularly were