Wandering Thoughts: Recent Entries For 2010/04

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

2010-04-30:	A rule of thumb: Automate where you can make mistakes Never kill the screen locker
2010-04-29:	How you access an object can be important in Python
2010-04-28:	Altering a Python function's local variables with a trace function
2010-04-27:	Evolving our mail system step 1: adding an external mail gateway
2010-04-26:	How we moved from a black-box mailer configuration to a white-box one
2010-04-25:	An observation about Twitter (and Google)
2010-04-24:	Evolving our mail system: the overview and our goals
2010-04-23:	What per-partition disk IO stats you get from the Linux kernel
2010-04-22:	The latest Solaris licensing and support rumbles
2010-04-21:	The advantage of garbage collection for APIs
2010-04-20:	Standard format Unix errors in Python programs
2010-04-19:	Why you don't want to host your MTA machine in the cloud
2010-04-18:	I think it's time to turn off automatic periodic ext3 fscks
2010-04-17:	The 30 second elevator pitch on HTML 4.01 (vs XHTML)
2010-04-16:	How to write to stderr so people will like you
2010-04-15:	The standard format Unix error messages
2010-04-14:	The myth of a completely shared knowledge base across sysadmins
2010-04-13:	The impact of single-disk slow writes on mirrors (and other RAID arrays)
2010-04-12:	The importance of figuring out low-level symptoms of problems
2010-04-11:	The comedy potential inherent in people reusing your address space
2010-04-10:	Why commands can never afford to get it wrong in a version
2010-04-09:	The processing flow of a network copying program
2010-04-08:	A little script: `sshup`
2010-04-07:	Our current mail system's configuration
2010-04-06:	How not to set up IP aliases on Ubuntu (and probably Debian)
2010-04-05:	An important thing about how ZFS handles spares
2010-04-04:	The problem with header and footer overlays on web pages
2010-04-03:	A DVCS advantage for open source development
2010-04-02:	Notes on the compatibility of crypted passwords on various Unixes

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