Wandering Thoughts archives

2006-03-31:	The perfection trap: a lesson drawn from Worse is Better The difficulty of punishing people at universities
2006-03-30:	What disk IO stats you get from the Linux kernel
2006-03-29:	Easier Solaris patch management with `pca`
2006-03-28:	Hotmail spam stats revised Using threading to implement a 'busy' cursor (a tale from long ago)
2006-03-27:	A helpful Apache safety tip
2006-03-26:	Weekly spam summary on March 25th, 2006
2006-03-25:	A little gotcha with `os.path.join`
2006-03-24:	Setting up to build RPMs
2006-03-23:	Side effects are bad: a personal illustration We apologize for the disruption in syndication feeds Atom versus RSS Solaris patch exit codes and what they mean
2006-03-22:	Google Desktop and conditional GET (part 2)
2006-03-21:	The backend for our recent mirroring
2006-03-20:	An optimization thought
2006-03-19:	Weekly spam summary on March 18th, 2006
2006-03-18:	Some little things Firefox gets right
2006-03-17:	How not to set up your DNS (part 9) The problem with LiveJournal
2006-03-16:	A tricky memoization decorator
2006-03-15:	The aftermath of our mirroring
2006-03-14:	Some problems with `iostat` on Linux
2006-03-13:	Preparing a high load web mirror setup
2006-03-12:	A DNS realization Weekly spam summary on March 11th, 2006
2006-03-11:	Web design trends that I don't understand (part 1)
2006-03-10:	Why dynamic linking The dynamic linking tax on `fork()`
2006-03-09:	Making things simple for busy webmasters Closures versus classes for capturing state
2006-03-08:	Thinking about project failures
2006-03-07:	A modular approach to Apache configuration
2006-03-06:	How not to set up your mail server (part 1) A thought about Technorati
2006-03-05:	Weekly spam summary on March 4th, 2006
2006-03-04:	`os.walk` can be surprisingly slow
2006-03-03:	Visualizing dynamic program flow
2006-03-02:	A robots.txt surprise The `:;` shell prompt trick
2006-03-01:	Unicode is not simple

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