This week, we:

• got 10,190 messages from 259 different IP addresses.
• handled 18,093 sessions from 1,527 different IP addresses.
• received 223,304 connections from at least 76,627 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 10 connections being checked at once.

This is up a bit from last week inboth connection volume and the number of different IPs tryingto talk to us.

In their wisdom, the people who created the Debian package formatdecided to allow packages to ask the person installing them questions.By including this feature, they insured that Debian packages do quiz the people installing them about various things.

The problem with this is that questions are landmines . Every timeyou ask one, you are gambling that the person knows enough about theissue to give you an informed answer. When they do not, at best theyjust pick the default answer (fortunately Debian seems to mostly insistthat package

The traditional way of measuring how much load your web server can takeis to use a tool such as ab to see how many requests a second youcan handle and how fast the requests get handled. People throw aroundnumbers such as their web server serves pages in 0.03 seconds under aload of 50 simultaneous requests, for example.

(Sometimes they just say 0.03 seconds withoutmentioning important information like what sort of pages, on what sortof a system, and with how many simultaneous