Wandering Thoughts: Recent Entries For 2008/03

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

2008-03-31:	Keeping secrets as a system administrator The quote of the time interval, on XML
2008-03-30:	Docstrings versus comments in my code
2008-03-29:	Tradeoffs in where you store volume management metadata
2008-03-28:	The stages of Bittorrent encryption
2008-03-27:	An idea for a browser anti-phish feature
2008-03-26:	Why authenticated email won't stop phish spam
2008-03-25:	The easy way to keep a week's worth of something
2008-03-24:	The two sorts of (programmer) certification
2008-03-23:	Why software engineering certification may not work out the way people want
2008-03-22:	Why NFS writes to ZFS are sometimes (or often) slow
2008-03-21:	Journaling filesystems and the `fsync()` problem
2008-03-20:	Why you should ratelimit messages that outside things can cause
2008-03-19:	The problem of charging for things (well, one of them)
2008-03-18:	Some things I dislike about the ASUS Eee
2008-03-17:	Why I expect more from Solaris
2008-03-16:	My problem with Lisp
2008-03-15:	Why accurately counting committed address space is hard
2008-03-14:	Why I like definite answers to support issues
2008-03-13:	Another problem with iSCSI on Solaris 10
2008-03-12:	A `bash` irritation: mutable history
2008-03-11:	The 'Add Comments' problem
2008-03-10:	Why I organize comments on WanderingThoughts the way I do
2008-03-09:	The difference between a SAN and a cluster filesystem
2008-03-08:	What controls Red Hat Enterprise's ethN device names My problem with Ethernet naming on Red Hat Enterprise 5
2008-03-06:	Software RAID, `udev`, and failed disks The difference between operations and system administration
2008-03-05:	How we make Exim discard bounces of spam
2008-03-04:	How we deal with the spam forwarding problem
2008-03-03:	How not to set up your DNS (part 18)
2008-03-02:	How ZFS's version of RAID-5 can be better than normal RAID-5
2008-03-01:	Speed surprises in reimplementing the `.find()` string method

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