Wandering Thoughts: Recent Entries For 2010/05

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

2010-05-31:	Another building block of my environment: `sshterm`
2010-05-30:	The end of university-provided email is probably nigh
2010-05-29:	UPSes: defense against problems, or sources of them? Some comments on spam scoring and anti-spam tools in general
2010-05-28:	Why I am really unhappy with ZFS right now: a ZFS import failure
2010-05-27:	One benefit of relying on third-party (anti-)spam filtering
2010-05-25:	Watch out for quietly degrading SATA disks
2010-05-24:	Give your personal scripts good error messages
2010-05-23:	Replacing modules for testing (and fun)
2010-05-22:	How I fixed Google's search results redesign Why I'm wrong about what sort of APIs C's stdargs allows
2010-05-21:	An example of an API that you can't do with C stdargs
2010-05-20:	The limitations of C's varargs support
2010-05-19:	Why RPM's `.rpmnew` files don't work in practice
2010-05-18:	An illustrated example of how not to do package updates
2010-05-16:	You should also document why you didn't do attractive things A theory about our jumbo frame switch firmware bug
2010-05-15:	Why we don't use jumbo frames for iSCSI: a cautionary tale on testing
2010-05-14:	A sysadmin mistake: shooting your virtual foot off
2010-05-13:	Python exceptions for C programmers
2010-05-12:	'Borrowing' IPv4 netblocks to get around address space exhaustion
2010-05-11:	Retrospectives are uncommon
2010-05-10:	A little `vi` twitch
2010-05-09:	Why diskless Unix machines lost out
2010-05-08:	SSL certificate vendors are selling a commodity
2010-05-06:	Oracle's future for Sun's hardware and OS business is now clear The right way and the wrong way to disable init.d services
2010-05-05:	The right way to fix ZFS disk glitches (at least for us)
2010-05-04:	Dear software packagers, startup scripts edition
2010-05-03:	Keeping track of filesystem consistency
2010-05-02:	A brief history of `fsck`

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