Wandering Thoughts: Recent Entries For 2012/07

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

2012-07-31:	Would GPL'ing ZFS have worked or been a good idea? Ruminations on the future of ZFS
2012-07-30:	IPv6 is going to be a fruitful source of configuration mistakes
2012-07-29:	The periodic strangeness of idiomatic Python
2012-07-28:	The ecological niches of current open source Unixes
2012-07-27:	What 32-bit x86 Linux's odd 896 MB kernel memory boundary is about
2012-07-25:	The kernel memory addressing problem My dislike for what I call 'perverse Test Driven Development'
2012-07-24:	Unicode's two new problems
2012-07-22:	The history of booting Linux with software RAID A sleazy trick to capture debugging output from an initramfs
2012-07-20:	Ubuntu 12.04 can't reliably boot with software RAID (and why) The temptation of selective sender address verification
2012-07-19:	Unicode code points and abstract characters
2012-07-18:	Strings in Python 2 and Python 3
2012-07-16:	Getting an Ubuntu 12.04 machine to give you boot messages My arrogance about Unicode and character encodings
2012-07-15:	My general issue with Unicode in Python 3
2012-07-14:	ZFS's problem with generic messages
2012-07-13:	Why system administration certifications have worked so far
2012-07-12:	Why formal sysadmin education isn't likely any time soon
2012-07-11:	The extremely cynical take on DevOps
2012-07-10:	A theory on why defaults for tunable parameters stay unchanged
2012-07-09:	Why the defaults for tunable kernel parameters matter
2012-07-08:	Why System V shared memory may normally be limited
2012-07-06:	Why Exim has a single queue for all email Exploring an ARP mystery: a little Linux surprise
2012-07-04:	How to irritate sysadmins and give mailers heartburn with your MXes
2012-07-03:	The secure web voting problem The well behaved Unix program and job control signals
2012-07-01:	Another cynical take on the nofollow tag

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