Wandering Thoughts archives

2011-09-30: Some thoughts from a close view of catastrophe
Unit testing by analogy to scientific hypotheses
2011-09-28: A multilevel view of DevOps (with more balance)
Oracle shows its appreciation for long-term Sun customers again
2011-09-26: DevOps and the blame problem: an outsider's view
2011-09-25: How we handle iSCSI device names in Solaris
Danger signs for mail senders in SMTP conversations
2011-09-24: Some recent Google spam problems
2011-09-23: Python's attribute lookup order
2011-09-22: An operational explanation of Python types
2011-09-21: I've surrendered on utm_* query parameters in URLs
2011-09-20: Why I still comment out code even with a VCS
2011-09-19: An operational explanation of Python metaclasses (part 4)
2011-09-18: An operational explanation of Python metaclasses (part 3)
2011-09-17: An operational explanation of Python metaclasses (part 2)
2011-09-16: Setting the character encoding for HTML form input
2011-09-15: How your Linux installer should help you set up filesystems
2011-09-14: Graphs are not enough (for your monitoring system)
2011-09-13: 'Web of trust' is a security failure
2011-09-12: An operational explanation of Python metaclasses (part 1)
2011-09-11: The weakness of the certificate authority model, illustrated
2011-09-09: You really want to put your switches in server racks
Things that could happen to your archives
2011-09-08: Archival storage in the modern world
2011-09-06: How not to set up your DNS (part 21)
2011-09-05: The real reason why true asynchronous file IO is hard
2011-09-04: Why true asynchronous file IO is hard, at least for reads
How some Unixes did shared libraries in the old days
2011-09-03: The core of modern Unix shared libraries
2011-09-01: Things I will do differently in the next building power shutdown

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