Wandering Thoughts: Recent Entries For 2008/07

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

2008-07-31:	A crude system verification method SSL's identity problem
2008-07-30:	What is guaranteed in languages in practice
2008-07-28:	What you can (probably) count on for concurrency in Python Another advantage of Python builtins
2008-07-27:	The yum versionlock problem
2008-07-26:	`dict.setdefault()` as a concurrency primitive
2008-07-24:	How packaging systems should handle kernel updates One thing that I dislike about typical debuggers
2008-07-23:	Retracting blog entries in the face of syndication feeds
2008-07-22:	Two different usage patterns
2008-07-20:	Thinking about uses for (system) activity tracers Why I'm mostly out of the email (anti-)spam game
2008-07-18:	One consequence of Linux's dynamic network device naming The advantage of blog comments
2008-07-17:	The not so secret origins of `/usr/bin` and `/usr/sbin` (and `/sbin`)
2008-07-16:	The problem with Usenet
2008-07-14:	What some `fdisk` options actually do
2008-07-13:	How ZFS helps out with the big RAID-5 problem The problem with big RAID-5 arrays
2008-07-12:	When overlapping windows do (and don't) make sense
2008-07-11:	The case of the mysteriously failing connections
2008-07-10:	Internet software decays and must be actively maintained
2008-07-09:	Detailed usage charges versus simpler charging models
2008-07-08:	How to force Solaris to renumber network devices
2008-07-06:	A (D)VCS feature that I'd really like A small drawback to Wietse Venema's TCP Wrappers
2008-07-05:	How OOXML is a complete failure, even for Microsoft
2008-07-04:	Phish spammers who make it easy
2008-07-03:	Why system administrators like interpreted languages
2008-07-02:	Why reverse proxies are good for big web applications

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