Wandering Thoughts archives

2006-05-31:	A simple way to get a disk space usage summary Fiddling with X selections from shell scripts
2006-05-30:	An shell script idiom for choosing what file to operate on
2006-05-29:	An obvious way to do bulk initialization of dictionaries
2006-05-28:	Weekly spam summary on May 27th, 2006
2006-05-27:	Today's dilemma: wiki page or blog entry?
2006-05-26:	A message you do not want to see from your backup software The problem with treating RAID arrays as single disks
2006-05-25:	Link: Classic Mistakes Enumerated A Linux `su` surprise SCGI is a form of caching
2006-05-24:	The not so secret history of vmlinuz
2006-05-23:	Link: Why overtime is bad for everyone A defense of Unix that always irritates me
2006-05-22:	A little failsafe feature in 3-prong electrical plugs
2006-05-21:	My mistake with the `Host:` HTTP header Weekly spam summary on May 20th, 2006
2006-05-20:	Things that irritate me about Python's socket module
2006-05-19:	Some modest suggestions on vendor tradeshow giveaways
2006-05-18:	The future of spam is advance fee fraud
2006-05-17:	Where to find package inventories on Solaris 9
2006-05-16:	A Python limit I never expected to run into
2006-05-15:	PlanetLab hammers on `robots.txt`
2006-05-14:	Absolute versus relative URLs in syndication feeds Link: an engineering management hack A small user interface suggestion Weekly spam summary on May 13th, 2006
2006-05-13:	Safely updating Unix files
2006-05-12:	The problem with preforking Python network servers
2006-05-11:	Building a boot floppy for BIOS flashing
2006-05-10:	Another really stupid web spider The practical cost of forking in Python
2006-05-09:	Bad patch management at Sun
2006-05-08:	Link: an excerpt from On Writing Well A really stupid web spider
2006-05-07:	Link: Search engine page size limits for indexing SCGI versus FastCGI Weekly spam summary on May 6th, 2006
2006-05-06:	Using a stock kernel.org kernel on Fedora Core 5
2006-05-05:	Link: Readable colour text combinations Peeking under mount points with NFS
2006-05-04:	A subtle advantage of simple wikis
2006-05-03:	Fedora Core 5's missing 32-bit shared library symlinks
2006-05-02:	CSS and syndication (another CSS limitation)
2006-05-01:	Emergency repairs with GRUB

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