Every so often having comments on here really pays off. A commenteron my previous entry gave me a pointer to pca (Patch Check Advanced), anactual sane patch management program for Solaris machines; if you wantmore reasons to take a look, see my longer comments .

One of the nice things about pca is that it led me to the patchdiag.xref file, which is a big cross index of all of the Solaris patches, and to patches.sun.com in general. Patchdiag.xrefis

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: