In an earlier entry on Solaris patchexit codes I mentioned that its formatting might not look very nice insyndication feeds. And I was right; it did not look very good.

It didn't look good because it was styled with CSS, and you can't reallyput CSS in syndication feeds. CSS goes into the HTML element,but that only appears in HTML pages; syndication feeds and entries aredivorced from that sort of context. This is more or less implicit inRSS ( like

This server lost its boot drive today, which occasioned a certain amountof flailing. We use mirrored drives, but there were two problems: thedead disk wasn't actually dead , just puking, and the second diskhadn't been set up to be bootable (although it had a fully populatedcopy of the /boot partition). The first problem was dealt with byyanking the drive's power plug out, but the second one took more work.

Although GRUB people may hem and haw about it

This week's statistics are distorted by a Wednesday noon system rebootthat had the effect of resetting some of them. Having said, that, thisweek we:

• got 11,083 messages from 230 different IP addresses.
• handled 15,463 sessions from 840 different IP addresses.
• received 88,321 connections from at least 28,538 different IPaddresses since Wednesday noon .
• hit a highwater of 38 connections being checked at once,