Wandering Thoughts: Recent Entries For 2009/08

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

2009-08-31:	How to deprecate bits of your program The IO scheduler improvements I saw
2009-08-30:	Some more thinking about requirements in specifications
2009-08-29:	MUST versus SHOULD in your specifications
2009-08-28:	ZFS changes filesystem device numbers on reboot
2009-08-26:	What packages SystemTap requires on Ubuntu 8.04 (and others) A frame object's `f_locals` isn't always the locals
2009-08-24:	The problem with the CFQ IO scheduler and our iSCSI targets Anti-spam content scanning systems need to scan more
2009-08-23:	You should not use HTTP request parameters as filenames
2009-08-22:	A gotcha with Python's new `signal.siginterrupt()`
2009-08-21:	The danger of powerful generality, illustrated
2009-08-20:	Python modules should not reinvent `OSError`
2009-08-19:	Link: Using colour well in data visualization Python, signal handlers, and `EINTR`
2009-08-18:	Why user programs mapping page zero is so bad news on x86 hardware
2009-08-17:	More accidental BitTorrent on our network
2009-08-16:	Testing versus extensibility
2009-08-15:	SSDs and the RAID resync problem
2009-08-14:	Sorting out what 'passive ftp' is
2009-08-12:	Undo is sometimes not good enough One thing your mail-sending system should do
2009-08-11:	The somewhat apocryphal history of comments in the Bourne shell
2009-08-10:	The difference in the Bourne shell between `:` and `#`
2009-08-09:	Building true ssh opportunistic connection sharing
2009-08-08:	How I use ssh's connection sharing feature
2009-08-07:	The basics of ssh's connection sharing feature
2009-08-06:	A rule for Internet software
2009-08-05:	A feature that I wish Linux package managers had
2009-08-04:	A downside to syndication feed readers respecting permanent HTTP redirects
2009-08-02:	Limitations on custom NFS mount authorization on Solaris What you can't do before you drop setuid permissions

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