Wandering Thoughts: Recent Entries For 2010/08

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

2010-08-31:	I don't understand how `net.ipv4.conf.*.rp_filter` can work
2010-08-30:	My avoidance of Python global variables
2010-08-29:	A Bourne shell irritation: no wildcard matching operator How many uberblock copies ZFS writes on transaction group commits
2010-08-28:	The different between an SMTP proxy and a SMTP relay
2010-08-27:	My impressions of Google Chrome so far
2010-08-25:	A Windows moment on my laptop The limitation of templates for web design changes
2010-08-24:	A design mistake in my comments form
2010-08-23:	Why I hate the Solaris 10 version of `/bin/sh` My (probably wrong) assumption about Flash on Fedora
2010-08-22:	Another reason to hate `$LANG` and locales on Unix
2010-08-21:	A sudden realization about Unix access time updates and disk mirrors
2010-08-20:	A clever blog anti-usability trick
2010-08-19:	Getting Flash to work on my upgraded 64-bit Fedora 13 machine
2010-08-18:	Please, no automatic scrolling to the next item
2010-08-17:	The two sorts of Referer spam that I see
2010-08-16:	What OpenSolaris's death probably means for us
2010-08-15:	Why I change font sizes
2010-08-14:	What I want in a caching nameserver
2010-08-13:	PPP over ssh: solving problems with indirection
2010-08-12:	Many programs should provide an easy way to change font size
2010-08-11:	You should have a way to purge history
2010-08-10:	Upgrading to Fedora 13 with my first yum upgrade
2010-08-08:	The joy of debugging other people's programs A personal view of the Fedora versus Ubuntu issue
2010-08-07:	Why buying a Linux machine is not such a simple thing
2010-08-06:	A thing I miss in the modern X world: command line arguments
2010-08-05:	Doing unsigned 32-bit integer math in Python
2010-08-04:	Good Solaris news from Oracle for once
2010-08-02:	How OpenBSD's pf `source-hash` maps internal IPs to NAT pool IPs
2010-08-01:	The consequence of Oracle's Solaris decisions

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