an OS-indepedent base class.

__repr__:  Use the postive_id function to embed the machine address.
Addresses with the high bit set trigger warnings before Python 2.4,
and come out as negative numbers in 2.4+.

Windows trigger.__init__:  Don't make 50 guesses at a port number
to use, let Windows pick an available port for us.  Also documented
the baffling single-thread socket setup dance, which took an hour to
reverse-engineer (in large part because it used a bare "except" w/ no
clue as to why).