Wandering Thoughts: Recent Entries For 2008/10

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

2008-10-31:	Why realistic UDP bandwidth testing is hard Banging rocks together in Python
2008-10-30:	How Linux initrds used to be a hack
2008-10-29:	Problems I have seen with switch port mirroring
2008-10-28:	One reason why people buy Ethernet taps
2008-10-27:	What we keep track of for ZFS pools
2008-10-26:	Why RAID-1 is the right choice for our new fileservers
2008-10-25:	How we worked out the partition sizes for our SAN
2008-10-24:	A little neat detail of the BitTorrent protocol
2008-10-23:	Another update to the ZFS excessive prefetching situation
2008-10-22:	How Amanda knows what restore program to use
2008-10-21:	Seeing how remarkable V7 Unix was
2008-10-19:	The advantages of iSCSI's MC/S for multipathing Thesis: reputation based antispam systems are dead
2008-10-18:	More on Firefox 3's handling of self-signed SSL certificates
2008-10-17:	How self-signed certificates are a problem for browsers
2008-10-16:	Why Firefox 3's handling of self-signed SSL certificates is wrong
2008-10-15:	The corporate identity problem
2008-10-14:	Improving initial ramdisks
2008-10-13:	The complexity of not lying to Makefiles
2008-10-12:	An irritating `awk` limitation: getting a range of fields
2008-10-11:	Forcing sort ordering in Unix shell scripts
2008-10-10:	Some notes about iSCSI multipathing in Solaris
2008-10-09:	We've lost the password battle
2008-10-08:	How we set up our Solaris ZFS-based NFS fileservers
2008-10-07:	How we set up our iSCSI target servers
2008-10-06:	A problem with Python's `help()`
2008-10-05:	SSL certificate revocation doesn't work (for web browsers)
2008-10-04:	Consider having obvious interfaces too
2008-10-03:	Arranging your SSL websites for very cautious people
2008-10-01:	Another consequence of the Debian OpenSSL security bug

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