Wandering Thoughts: Recent Entries For 2008/11

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

2008-11-30:	My view on vi and vim (and nvi et al) Server problems caused by 'transparent' self-signed SSL certificates
2008-11-29:	Good editors aren't better or worse, just different
2008-11-28:	Why rootkits targeted at Red Hat Enterprise would make me especially nervous
2008-11-27:	The practical insecurity of self-signed SSL certificates on the web
2008-11-26:	One consequence of mathematical security thinking
2008-11-25:	The problem with security alerts, and indeed all alerts
2008-11-23:	My sign of a good graphical interface
2008-11-22:	Why I hate 'security questions'
2008-11-21:	Limiting how much load Exim puts on your system
2008-11-20:	Combining dual identity routing and isolated interfaces revisited
2008-11-19:	A growing realization about `tcpdump` and reading IP traffic BitTorrent's file fragmentation problem
2008-11-18:	Where `vi` runs into its limits
2008-11-16:	Checking systems with RPM verification (part 2) A hint for email providers
2008-11-15:	Getting Python's encoding and decoding straight
2008-11-14:	How to force a crash dump on Solaris 10 x86
2008-11-13:	What the members of a Unicode conversion error object are
2008-11-12:	Why not doing Unicode is easier than doing Unicode in Python
2008-11-11:	Another attempt to split SSL into encryption and trust
2008-11-10:	Exploiting the Bourne shell to parse configuration files
2008-11-09:	The history of Unix `*dump` programs
2008-11-08:	Thinking about how your security domains relate to each other
2008-11-07:	What the timestamps in Ubuntu kernel messages mean
2008-11-05:	How many root passwords should you have? An issue with quotas on ZFS pools
2008-11-04:	Mistakes editors can make that disqualify them as sysadmin editors
2008-11-03:	Why `vi` has become my sysadmin's editor
2008-11-02:	Why university webmail systems are attractive to spammers

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