That X needs a configuration file less and less makes it more and moreimportant to have your monitor(s) powered on when you're powering on orrebooting a machine, because otherwise X won't be able to get the DDC information it needsto do most of that nice automatic configuration. A side effect of thisis killing off BNC monitor connectors, because you can't do DDC overBNC.

(Yes, I still have a CRT monitor at home, and until recently I was usinga

One of the things that irritates me about DiskSuite in Solaris 8 is howhalf-hearted the provisions for automated monitoring and reporting are.I don't necessarily ask that DiskSuite have all of this pre-built, butI would like commands that had output that at least made it relativelyeasy to build this ourselves, and DiskSuite falls flat on this.

Metastat will tell you all of the necessary information, but it does itin a verbose, human-readable format that is sufficiently complicated andunderdocumented that I get

Out of a somewhat idle curiosity, I decided to do up some numbers foractual HTTP requests against one of the servers here. All of this isusing the past 28 days of old logs (plus today's):

289160 total requests277323 GET  5722 PROPFIND  3665 OPTIONS  2215 POST   178 HEAD    39 CONNECT    18 garbled

Most of the requests were successful; 90% got a 2xx or

OpenBSD spamd - greylisting and beyond is a presentation by BobBeck of the University of Alberta about the OpenBSD's spamd system, howspammers react to it and similar systems, how you can exploit this,and the University of Alberta's experiences with spamd, complete withinteresting numbers. I'm sadly jealous, as local feelings insure thatI'm not going to get to deploy this sort of technology any time soon.

(Also from Richard Johnson of river.com.)

Varnish - the http accelerator [PDF] is the slides for apresentation about a HTTP accelerator for dynamic websites/CMS systems(its website is here ). Slide threemade me laugh out loud, and I have to say 'what he said'.

(From Richard Johnson of river.com.)