Wandering Thoughts: Recent Entries For 2011/07

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

2011-07-31:	Reference counting and multiple inheritance in (C)Python One of my testing little dirty secrets
2011-07-29:	Deciding the meaning of 'disabling' an account (and the value of procedures)
2011-07-28:	A directory service doesn't make it easy to disable user accounts Another reason why version control systems should support history rewriting
2011-07-27:	Why not YP, er, NIS
2011-07-26:	Disabling an account can be kind of complex
2011-07-25:	The risks of using CentOS are split A little thing that irritates me about common WSGI implementations
2011-07-24:	On documenting (or not documenting) binary protocols
2011-07-23:	What good secure string expansion on Unix should look like
2011-07-22:	String expansion and securely running programs on Unix
2011-07-20:	Why I would like my mailer to have a real programming language (part 2) Our ZFS spares handling system (part 3)
2011-07-18:	Thinking about when SQL normalization can improve performance My view on ORMs
2011-07-17:	Another reason to reject spam at SMTP time: as a signal
2011-07-15:	Ubuntu, illustrating how to utterly fail at kernel security updates Something to remember: HTML forms are anonymous
2011-07-14:	Ramblings on handling optional arguments in Python
2011-07-12:	Why I'm going to be skipping Fedora 15 Some thoughts on creating simple and sane binary protocols
2011-07-11:	`mxiostat`: second generation better Linux disk IO statistics Some things to think about when doing polymorphic WSGI
2011-07-10:	Exploiting polymorphic WSGI again to create `cat`
2011-07-08:	My view on iSCSI performance troubleshooting
2011-07-07:	An interesting gotcha with Exim and `.forward` processing How Exim makes traditional .forward semantics work
2011-07-06:	Our solution to the spam forwarding problem
2011-07-05:	Another reason to allow mail origin address forgery
2011-07-04:	Our ZFS spares handling system (part 2)
2011-07-03:	Why Ubuntu's PAM versioning failure matters
2011-07-02:	Dear Googlebot: SMTP is not HTTP

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