Wandering Thoughts: Recent Entries For 2008/08

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

2008-08-31:	There is a balance between optimism and paranoia for compromised machines A realization about the recent Red Hat Enterprise security issue
2008-08-29:	Open source projects and programs versus products We don't really control user desktop machines
2008-08-28:	Thinking about the importance of cross-implementation portability
2008-08-27:	How I think about how important security updates are
2008-08-25:	Fixing low command error distances The concept of error distance in sysadmin commands
2008-08-24:	An update to the ZFS excessive prefetching situation
2008-08-23:	Another problem with SSL identities
2008-08-22:	Why noting security fixes in Linux kernel changelogs doesn't really help
2008-08-21:	What you select for when you make something harder
2008-08-20:	An illustration of why syntactic sugar matters
2008-08-18:	The problem with using tuples and lists to hold structures
2008-08-17:	Thinking about the best way to handle command registration Why your blog comments have less of an audience than new blog entries Another reason to avoid having comments
2008-08-16:	Why it matters what users like
2008-08-15:	Using a non-standard shell as your login shell
2008-08-14:	A `bash` irritation: the incompatible `exec`
2008-08-12:	The first principle of analyzing compromised machines
2008-08-11:	How RPM verification deals with prelinking
2008-08-10:	Anti-spam work is pure overhead How to tell when your bug reporting system is at its limits
2008-08-08:	How to exploit unsigned repository metadata A workaround for the Python module search path issue on Unix
2008-08-07:	The pragmatics of language changes
2008-08-06:	More on the funding capture problem
2008-08-04:	SSL does not create trust Our answer to the ZFS SAN failover problem
2008-08-03:	A performance gotcha with `syslogd` First impressions of using DTrace on user-level programs
2008-08-02:	One reason that it is so hard to challenge Google

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