The overall SMTP connection rate is up from last week , as we hit 213,000 SMTPconnections from at least 36,000 different IP addresses.The SMTP frontend hit a new highwater of 22 simultaneous connectionsbeing checked at once. It's possible that a lot of this is from spammersforging our domains as the MAIL FROM of their spams.

Top 10 kernel level SMTP rejections:

Host/Mask           Packets   Bytes213.4.149.1

I spent today wrestling various pieces of commercial software into ourFedora Core 4 auto-install environment. In theory this should havebeen fast and dirt simple, because all of the vendors had thingspacked up in RPMs.

In practice, most vendors produce RPMs that are glowing examples ofhow not to package your software in RPM form. Instead of creating RPMsthat are fully installed software, they generally create RPMs that arelittle more than lightly packaged up files and then add huge amountsof post-install scripts to shuffle everything

I recently came to a realization that RSS (and syndication in general)has two faces:

1. notification of new information
2. rearranging information from feeds

This neatly explains something that's been puzzling me for a while:why I find RSS sometimes very useful and sometimes very irritating.

Notification works great, except for web sites that already update asfrequently as I normally read them. (For example, Slashdot, which Ionly browse once or twice a day. If my RSS reader were to tell me thatSlashdot had no new