Wandering Thoughts: Recent Entries For 2012

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

2012-05-15:	Some stuff on 'time since boot' timestamps
2012-05-14:	My Firefox 12 extensions and addons
2012-05-13:	My experiment with Firefox Nightly builds: a failure A basic step in measuring and improving network performance
2012-05-12:	The death of paging on the web
2012-05-10:	All your servers should have Linux's magic SysRq enabled
2012-05-09:	Using rsync to pull a directory tree to client machines Things I will do differently in the next building power shutdown (part 2)
2012-05-07:	Third party Linux kernel modules should build against non-running kernels
2012-05-06:	Why I wound up using Django Counting your syndication feed readers
2012-05-05:	Look for your performance analysis tools now
2012-05-04:	Explaining a piece of deep weirdness with Python's `exec`
2012-05-03:	Python scopes and the CPython bytecode opcodes that they use
2012-05-01:	Into the depths of a Python `exec` scope-handling bug
2012-04-30:	Notes to myself about progressive JavaScript
2012-04-29:	The Python language tutorial is a gem My two approaches to learning (programming) languages
2012-04-28:	ZFS and various sorts of read errors
2012-04-27:	The case of the Twitter spam I don't understand
2012-04-26:	When we replace disks in our ZFS fileserver environment
2012-04-25:	Models of providing computing access in a university department
2012-04-24:	Universities and their non-employees
2012-04-23:	My perspective on the 'Bring Your Own Device' controversy
2012-04-22:	I may be wrong about my simple answer being the right one
2012-04-21:	Bash's superintelligent errors about exec failures
2012-04-20:	Sometimes the simple answers are the right ones (a lesson from bash)
2012-04-19:	An interesting experience with IP-based SMTP blocks
2012-04-18:	Why you should never use `file` (or `libmagic`) to identify files
2012-04-17:	`ls -l` should show the presence of Linux capabilities
2012-04-16:	What you need for migrating web content
2012-04-15:	My view on why CISC (well, x86) won over RISC in the end
2012-04-14:	The wiki trap (that we've fallen into)
2012-04-12:	Tanenbaum was wrong in the Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate Hypervisors are not microkernels
2012-04-11:	Faking (or not) a ternary if operator with `&&` and `\|\|`
2012-04-10:	Revisiting checksum functions
2012-04-09:	Understanding hashing in Python
2012-04-08:	My story of running scripts from the web
2012-04-06:	Checksums and hashes Why we haven't taken to DTrace
2012-04-05:	Why I hate having `/tmp` as a tmpfs
2012-04-04:	More on equality in Python (well, mostly Python 2.7)
2012-04-03:	Python's two versions of equality, with a long digression on `hash()`
2012-04-02:	The problem of ZFS pool and filesystem version numbers
2012-03-31:	Our sysadmin environment Why I no longer believe that you need Solaris if you want ZFS
2012-03-29:	Scalable system management is based on principles
2012-03-28:	How I (once) did change management with scripts Ultimately, abuse issues have to be handled by humans
2012-03-26:	Microkernels are quite attractive to academic computer science researchers What it means to become another user on Unix
2012-03-25:	Atom feeds and constrained (web) environments Link: Getting Real About Distributed System Reliability
2012-03-24:	Garbage collection and modern virtual memory systems
2012-03-23:	Sometimes you get lucky
2012-03-22:	The problems of operations and sysadmin heroism
2012-03-21:	My view of where the Unix community is
2012-03-20:	How I use objects in Python
2012-03-19:	A modest suggestion: increase your text size
2012-03-18:	The standard trajectory of a field
2012-03-16:	Parsing versus rewriting: how to tell them apart
2012-03-15:	Part of the cleverness of Unix permissions (a little thought)
2012-03-14:	The right way to do wikitext transitions Configuration management is not documentation, at least not of intentions
2012-03-12:	Why it matters whether your software works when virtualized Why ZFS log devices aren't likely to help us
2012-03-11:	A CBL false positive reveals a significant issue with the CBL
2012-03-09:	Why you do not want to patch your source code in place
2012-03-08:	What I have to run for my custom environment on Fedora 16
2012-03-07:	The hard part of custom environments on Fedora (or any Linux) How not to use Apache's ProxyPass directive
2012-03-05:	Web frameworks should be secure by default Convenience in web frameworks is often insecure
2012-03-04:	Some stuff on Python 2.7.x support periods
2012-03-03:	Two ways I increase the security of SSH personal keys
2012-03-01:	A trick for dealing with irregular multi-word lines in shell scripts
2012-02-29:	SSDs and understanding your bottlenecks The two sorts of display resolution improvements
2012-02-28:	In place migration to Linux software RAID
2012-02-26:	What information I want out of ZFS tools and libraries How much spam is forged as being from who it's sent to?
2012-02-25:	The (future) problem with Python 2.7
2012-02-24:	Blogs and the problem of indexes
2012-02-22:	How I can be wrong about the death of sysadmin jobs
2012-02-21:	Using and understanding Python metaclasses (an index)
2012-02-20:	Why I still have a custom-compiled Firefox My view of where TCL went wrong
2012-02-18:	The most popular sender domains for spam messages sent to here The downside of automation versus the death of system administration
2012-02-16:	Handling modern IPv6 in programming environments
2012-02-15:	The temptation of LVM mirroring A downside of automation
2012-02-13:	The problem with long-term production support of things
2012-02-12:	Some things about changing from old X fonts to modern TrueType fonts Understanding FVWM States, with better FVWM code for selecting terminal windows
2012-02-11:	How I select (terminal) windows from the keyboard in FVWM
2012-02-09:	What supporting a production OS means for me A general point about SSH personal keys
2012-02-08:	Choosing the superblock format for Linux's software RAID
2012-02-06:	The advantage of HDMI for dual displays
2012-02-05:	My view on what will kill 'traditional' system administration Link: Filenames.WTF What five years of PC technology changed for me
2012-02-03:	Understanding a subtle Twitter feature Understanding Resident Set Size and the RSS problem on modern Unixes
2012-02-01:	A ZFS pool scrub wish: suspending scrubs
2012-01-31:	The solution to the modern X font handling mystery Where is Oracle going with Solaris?
2012-01-30:	HTML is not a SGML dialect and never really has been
2012-01-29:	Dealing with Fitts' Law on widescreen displays Thinking about spam rejection and abuse addresses
2012-01-28:	How I use FvwmIconMan
2012-01-27:	Why metaclasses work in Python
2012-01-26:	The drawback of modern X font handling gets mysterious
2012-01-25:	The death of system administration: I'm all for it
2012-01-24:	Why I use `exec` in my shell scripts
2012-01-23:	Every so often, I solve a problem with a hammer
2012-01-22:	My view of the purpose of object orientation
2012-01-21:	The C juggernaut illustrated
2012-01-20:	Another Russ Cox regexp article: How Google Code Search Worked
2012-01-19:	How not to do repeated fields in web forms Let's make it official: Solaris 11 is closed source
2012-01-18:	SOPA and PIPA matter for everyone
2012-01-17:	The first browser blinks on XHTML parsing
2012-01-16:	Understanding `isinstance()` on Python classes What you can find out about the memory usage of your Linux programs
2012-01-15:	Understanding the basic shape of Unix virtual memory management
2012-01-14:	What do we mean when we talk about something's memory usage?
2012-01-13:	Notes on what Linux's `/proc/<pid>/smaps` fields mean
2012-01-11:	A Yum plugin I would like: using a local DVD as a repo source How to use `systemd` to just run some stuff on boot
2012-01-10:	An insight on the purpose of comments: volume control
2012-01-09:	What my physical desk is like
2012-01-08:	The latest annoyance with Google Groups
2012-01-07:	Why you might want multiple keys for disk encryption
2012-01-05:	Nailing down RPM epoch numbers Disk encryption, backups, and your threat model
2012-01-03:	How to lose your data with full disk encryption the easy way The drawback of full disk encryption
2012-01-02:	An example sort that needs a comparison function

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