Wandering Thoughts: Recent Entries For 2007/12

Categories: links, linux, programming, python, snark, solaris, spam, sysadmin, tech, unix, web.

2007-12-31:	There are really two GPL v2 licenses
2007-12-30:	The importance of killing processes in the right order
2007-12-29:	SNI doesn't work in practice
2007-12-28:	Please don't make me pick an account name
2007-12-27:	Why I am not entirely fond of Solaris 10 x86's boot archive
2007-12-26:	Two problems with Python's file iterators
2007-12-25:	Process memory layout for 32-bit Linux programs
2007-12-24:	The difference between shells that do job control and shells that don't
2007-12-23:	Multihomed hosts and `/etc/hosts` Shortening hostnames for fun and profit
2007-12-22:	Getting a useful persistent VNC session
2007-12-21:	A thought about Solaris 10 x86's boot process
2007-12-20:	Virtualization does not eliminate security concerns
2007-12-19:	Why setuid scripts are fundamentally a bad idea How x86 Linux executes ELF programs
2007-12-17:	What is a script language on Unix
2007-12-16:	A thought on reading multiline records
2007-12-15:	There are reasons for stupid anti-spam policies
2007-12-14:	Check then use is a dangerous security pattern
2007-12-13:	Doing one-shot booting with GRUB
2007-12-12:	A more abstract view of the generalized `open()` issue Implicit generalized `open()`'s are dangerous
2007-12-10:	A surprise about Linux serial consoles
2007-12-09:	I don't like smooth scrolling
2007-12-08:	A depressing thing about phish spam
2007-12-07:	Using Linux's magic SysRq feature
2007-12-06:	Why large ISPs like SPF (the cynical view)
2007-12-05:	Safely updating files that are read over NFS
2007-12-04:	Dumb switches are now too smart for my good
2007-12-03:	A comment spam precaution that didn't work out
2007-12-02:	How my CGI to CGI/SCGI frontend works
2007-12-01:	My expectations for responsible spider behavior BitTorrent's protocol is not designed to hide

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