This week, we:

• got 13,435 messages from 269 different IP addresses.
• handled 21,900 sessions from 1,620 different IP addresses.
• received 197,361 connections from at least 50,069 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 8 connections being checked at once.

This is down from last week , althoughthe connection numbers are still up a bit compared to two weeksago .

I use what I call 'lazy focus follows mouse' in my window manager (fvwm2calls it SloppyFocus): the last window that the mouse touched hasfocus, but the mouse doesn't have to actually stay inside the window. Ilike this because it means that I don't have to have the mouse cursorobscuring some of the window contents.

(I am not a fan of click to focus, but that's another entry.)

Unfortunately, this exposes an X limitation in how it

Why is it so hard to find a decent CD player on a modern Linux system?It's not that I have particularly demanding requirements; all I reallyneed is something reliable that does CDDB lookups, ejects the CDs whenthey're done playing, and that will show me the total time remaining inas well as elapsed time in the track. (Other features would be nice butare not as important.)

(Technically, I also need a CD player program that willdo direct digital playback, since

Here's a classical Unix tape gotcha:

mt -f /dev/st0 fsf 5

If you're lucky when you make this mistake, you were fsf 'ing thetape to read from it, and it is merely embarrassing and time-wasting.

The difference between normal and no-rewind tape devices is that onerewinds the tape when you use it and the other doesn't. More precisely,the tape is rewound when the tape device is closed for the last time(usually as the