This LiveJournal posting wound up raising the question of when one could or should avoid usingclasses to implement something. In Python, my warning signs are somecritical mass of:

• lots of NonMethodFunctions on the class.
• either every piece of data is part of the single object, or nothing is.
• only one object of the class is ever created by the program(as distinct from 'only one copy at any given time, but we throwit away and make a new one every so often').

At a certain

To go with the other FC4 Anaconda bugs (and still no updated installer images), we just ran into anotherAnaconda bug in the process of attempting to upgrade a server fromFedora Core 2 to FC4. This server, like most of our other servers,uses mirrored system disks, which in turn means it has two swappartitions (one on each drive).

If you have this configuration and are upgrading from a previousFedora Core or Red Hat version, on some of your systems Anaconda willabort the

I'm not the first person to notice this, but the MSN search spider ('msnbot' if you want tosearch for it in the user agent portion of weblogs, or just look forrequests from the 207.46.98.* subnet) seems to have gone crazy.

Specifically, the MSNBot is repeatedly and aggressively crawlingcompletely unchanging URLs, while paying much less attention to changingones. On this server , the past 29 day's worth of logs show:

• the