| 2007-12-31: |
There are really two GPL v2 licenses
|
| 2007-12-30: |
The importance of killing processes in the right order
|
| 2007-12-29: |
SNI doesn't work in practice
|
| 2007-12-28: |
Please don't make me pick an account name
|
| 2007-12-27: |
Why I am not entirely fond of Solaris 10 x86's boot archive
|
| 2007-12-26: |
Two problems with Python's file iterators
|
| 2007-12-25: |
Process memory layout for 32-bit Linux programs
|
| 2007-12-24: |
The difference between shells that do job control and shells that don't
|
| 2007-12-23: |
Multihomed hosts and /etc/hosts
Shortening hostnames for fun and profit
|
| 2007-12-22: |
Getting a useful persistent VNC session
|
| 2007-12-21: |
A thought about Solaris 10 x86's boot process
|
| 2007-12-20: |
Virtualization does not eliminate security concerns
|
| 2007-12-19: |
Why setuid scripts are fundamentally a bad idea
How x86 Linux executes ELF programs
|
| 2007-12-17: |
What is a script language on Unix
|
| 2007-12-16: |
A thought on reading multiline records
|
| 2007-12-15: |
There are reasons for stupid anti-spam policies
|
| 2007-12-14: |
Check then use is a dangerous security pattern
|
| 2007-12-13: |
Doing one-shot booting with GRUB
|
| 2007-12-12: |
A more abstract view of the generalized open() issue
Implicit generalized open()'s are dangerous
|
| 2007-12-10: |
A surprise about Linux serial consoles
|
| 2007-12-09: |
I don't like smooth scrolling
|
| 2007-12-08: |
A depressing thing about phish spam
|
| 2007-12-07: |
Using Linux's magic SysRq feature
|
| 2007-12-06: |
Why large ISPs like SPF (the cynical view)
|
| 2007-12-05: |
Safely updating files that are read over NFS
|
| 2007-12-04: |
Dumb switches are now too smart for my good
|
| 2007-12-03: |
A comment spam precaution that didn't work out
|
| 2007-12-02: |
How my CGI to CGI/SCGI frontend works
|
| 2007-12-01: |
My expectations for responsible spider behavior
BitTorrent's protocol is not designed to hide
|
| 2007-11-29: |
Hashes are not complete protectors of privacy
|
| 2007-11-28: |
The problem the automounter was trying to solve
Another aphorism of system administration
|
| 2007-11-27: |
Taking advantage of polymorphic WSGI
|
| 2007-11-26: |
The two things I can mean by 'web spider'
|
| 2007-11-25: |
Why we may not be able to use ZFS
|
| 2007-11-24: |
Gotchas with dual-headed X with RandR on ATI cards
|
| 2007-11-23: |
My web spider technical requirements
|
| 2007-11-22: |
The different types of hash collisions
|
| 2007-11-21: |
Linux virtual terminals and the X server
|
| 2007-11-20: |
A lesson learned: Always upgrade Fedora with a respin CD
|
| 2007-11-19: |
What IPsec being mandatory in IPv6 really means
|
| 2007-11-18: |
I love Linux's serial console support
|
| 2007-11-17: |
Fighting spam always costs
|
| 2007-11-16: |
Improving your life with checklists
|
| 2007-11-15: |
Platform risk and platform (in)security
|
| 2007-11-14: |
What NAT is useful for
|
| 2007-11-13: |
Why vfork() got created (part 2)
|
| 2007-11-12: |
Matching words against a list in the Bourne Shell
|
| 2007-11-11: |
Why vfork() got created (part 1)
|
| 2007-11-10: |
The risks of spam filtering (part 2)
|
| 2007-11-09: |
An object oriented design mistake illustrated
|
| 2007-11-08: |
How Linux handles virtual memory overcommit
|
| 2007-11-07: |
Understanding the virtual memory overcommit issue
|
| 2007-11-06: |
A thought about competition between Red Hat Enterprise and CentOS
|
| 2007-11-05: |
Some notes on Solaris 10 U4 x86 as an iSCSI target
|
| 2007-11-04: |
Thinking through salts for passwords
|
| 2007-11-03: |
A thought about the speed of IPv6 deployment
|
| 2007-11-02: |
Note to self: check for gigabit Ethernet
|
| 2007-11-01: |
Dynamic rendering versus static rendering for websites
|
| 2007-10-31: |
What may be causing my random NumLock issues
Jumbo frames on gigabit Ethernet on Solaris 10 x86
|
| 2007-10-30: |
The problem with big systems
|
| 2007-10-29: |
My problem with learning new programming languages
|
| 2007-10-28: |
The inconvenience of some DWiki design choices
|
| 2007-10-27: |
Why I am not really interested in hearing blacklist appeals
|
| 2007-10-26: |
The Slashdot effect is not like regular load
|
| 2007-10-25: |
Long term storage management in the field
|
| 2007-10-24: |
The format of PTR records in Bind irritates me
|
| 2007-10-23: |
How we sized the overcommit ratio
|
| 2007-10-22: |
The dangerous appeal of the obvious
Vim options it turns out I want
|
| 2007-10-21: |
How I got a corrupted metadb replica that paniced Solaris 10 x86
|
| 2007-10-20: |
Why mail systems should not defer rejections to RCPT TO time
|
| 2007-10-19: |
Some notes on booting single user in x86 Solaris 10
|
| 2007-10-18: |
The Python marshal module versus the cPickle module
|
| 2007-10-17: |
Our experience with Linux's strict overcommit mode
|
| 2007-10-16: |
Our old mail system's configuration
|
| 2007-10-15: |
The arrogance of trying to design for long term storage management
|
| 2007-10-14: |
Why I think identity blurs into authority
|
| 2007-10-13: |
Weekly spam summary on October 13th, 2007
|
| 2007-10-12: |
Getting your networks to your racks
|
| 2007-10-11: |
A gotcha with command order in pipes
|
| 2007-10-10: |
How to properly look up hostnames from IP addresses
|
| 2007-10-09: |
A silly trick with X
|
| 2007-10-08: |
I have new system enthusiasm
|
| 2007-10-07: |
An improvement in my comment spam precautions
|
| 2007-10-06: |
Weekly spam summary on October 6th, 2007
|
| 2007-10-05: |
Why we don't use cable management arms
|
| 2007-10-04: |
The corollary to who actually benefits from bug reports
|
| 2007-10-03: |
A basic principle of system design
|
| 2007-10-02: |
A gotcha with 'bidirectional' pipes to commands
|
| 2007-10-01: |
How Exim determines the retry time for local deliveries
|
| 2007-09-30: |
Understanding Exim's weird way of doing retries
Weekly spam summary on September 29th, 2007
|
| 2007-09-29: |
The first rule of free email-based services
|
| 2007-09-28: |
Phase objects: simple decent error reporting for Python programs
|
| 2007-09-27: |
Fixing Ubuntu's ethN device names when you swap hardware
|
| 2007-09-26: |
Thinking about why Apache waits for CGIs to close standard output
|
| 2007-09-25: |
How to clear Solaris Volume Manager metadb replicas on Solaris 10 x86
|
| 2007-09-24: |
Assume the existence of folklore among your users
|
| 2007-09-23: |
Names are not cheap
|
| 2007-09-22: |
Weekly spam summary on September 22nd, 2007
|
| 2007-09-21: |
An interesting bind(2) failure
|
| 2007-09-20: |
Websites should not accept random parameters in requests
|
| 2007-09-19: |
The benefit of chronological blog navigation
|
| 2007-09-18: |
Linux NFS client kernel tunable settings
|
| 2007-09-17: |
How mmap(2) requires a unified buffer cache
|
| 2007-09-16: |
In praise of Python's Global Interpreter Lock
|
| 2007-09-15: |
Weekly spam summary on September 15th, 2007
|
| 2007-09-14: |
A thought on untyped languages
|
| 2007-09-13: |
Limiting a process's memory usage on Linux
|
| 2007-09-12: |
Mass scanning via POP3
|
| 2007-09-11: |
Why I dislike ATX power supplies
|
| 2007-09-10: |
A small drawback of 64-bit machines
|
| 2007-09-09: |
Rethinking my views of Fibrechannel
|
| 2007-09-08: |
Weekly spam summary on September 8th, 2007
|
| 2007-09-07: |
My view of what 'strongly typed' means
|
| 2007-09-06: |
When you don't want RAID-5
|
| 2007-09-05: |
Where to find specifications on HTTP POST behavior
Features that I wish ZFS had
|
| 2007-09-03: |
Why syndication feed readers ignore an entry's 'last updated' time
|
| 2007-09-02: |
I wish mailers had a real programming language
|
| 2007-09-01: |
Weekly spam summary on September 1st, 2007
|
| 2007-08-31: |
Partial entry syndication feeds and updated entries
|
| 2007-08-30: |
Using reverse proxies to unify web sites
|
| 2007-08-29: |
One limitation of internal charges
|
| 2007-08-28: |
A gotcha with Solaris Volume Manager metasets
|
| 2007-08-27: |
On the naming of machines (part 2)
|
| 2007-08-26: |
A limitation in Linux's policy based routing
|
| 2007-08-25: |
Weekly spam summary on August 25th, 2007
|
| 2007-08-24: |
Linux and accidentally multipathed disks
|
| 2007-08-23: |
The excessive cleverness of some people's reverse DNS
|
| 2007-08-22: |
Redirecting traffic to another machine with Linux's iptables
|
| 2007-08-21: |
The dilemma of website facing
|
| 2007-08-20: |
Recognizing phish spam from exceedingly RFC compliant mailers
|
| 2007-08-19: |
A realization about breadcrumbs
|
| 2007-08-18: |
Weekly spam summary on August 18th, 2007
|
| 2007-08-17: |
A thesis about language niches
|
| 2007-08-16: |
How not to set up your DNS (part 17)
How to tell a DNS no data reply from a lame delegation
|
| 2007-08-15: |
The problem that built C++ (a thesis)
|
| 2007-08-14: |
The benefits of growing your toolbox
|
| 2007-08-13: |
One problem with distributed identity systems
|
| 2007-08-12: |
Adventures in network design, illustrated by our new backbone connection
Weekly spam summary on August 11th, 2007
|
| 2007-08-11: |
On the performance of Python longs being used as bitmaps
|
| 2007-08-10: |
Clever large integers
|
| 2007-08-09: |
A gotcha with the format of dump archives
|
| 2007-08-08: |
Explaining some university staff peculiarities
|
| 2007-08-07: |
A surprise with the Provides header in RPM
|
| 2007-08-06: |
Implementing a preforking network server in Python
|
| 2007-08-05: |
Thinking about more text formatting for DWiki
|
| 2007-08-04: |
Weekly spam summary on August 4th, 2007
|
| 2007-08-03: |
The scope of shell history
Using WSGI for performance tuning
|
| 2007-08-02: |
Link: XML on the web summarized
|
| 2007-08-01: |
A ZFS-based fileserver design
|
| 2007-07-31: |
Consequences of allowing packages to quiz users at install time
|
| 2007-07-30: |
What we want out of our new fileserver design
|
| 2007-07-29: |
My standard for clear idioms in personal code
|
| 2007-07-28: |
Weekly spam summary on July 28th, 2007
|
| 2007-07-27: |
How big is the Slashdot effect?
|
| 2007-07-26: |
An unexpected performance stress test for DWiki
|
| 2007-07-25: |
Solaris Volume Manager and iSCSI: a problematic interaction
|
| 2007-07-24: |
Using iSCSI and AOE to create artificial disk errors
|
| 2007-07-23: |
An interesting issue when yum upgraded gaim
|
| 2007-07-22: |
Universities are not businesses: an implication
|
| 2007-07-21: |
Weekly spam summary on July 21st, 2007
|
| 2007-07-20: |
The downside of a unified buffer cache
|
| 2007-07-19: |
A safety tip: keep your different sorts of source trees separate
|
| 2007-07-18: |
Why I like Python's large integer support
|
| 2007-07-17: |
Random passwords are not necessarily good passwords
|
| 2007-07-16: |
Why SSL and name-based virtual hosts don't get along
|
| 2007-07-15: |
Problems I see with the ATA-over-Ethernet protocol
Weekly spam summary on July 14th, 2007
|
| 2007-07-14: |
Linux kernel asynchronous IO doesn't work on sockets
|
| 2007-07-13: |
You can't change a Python function's local variables from outside
|
| 2007-07-12: |
An interesting mistake with ZFS and iSCSI
|
| 2007-07-11: |
Why I wish Python had assignment in conditionals
|
| 2007-07-10: |
Thinking about the Python equivalents of C's !! double negation
|
| 2007-07-09: |
How many bits of information are in a password?
How not to set up your DNS (part 16)
|
| 2007-07-08: |
A suggestion for HMAC signature construction
|
| 2007-07-07: |
Weekly spam summary on July 7th, 2007
|
| 2007-07-06: |
What the flags on DNS query responses mean
How not to set up your DNS (part 15)
|
| 2007-07-05: |
What OpenID is good for
|
| 2007-07-04: |
What OpenID is (and is not)
Problems with EXA X acceleration on ATI cards in Fedora Core 6
|
| 2007-07-03: |
How not to set up your DNS (part 14)
|
| 2007-07-02: |
What the unified buffer cache is unifying
|
| 2007-07-01: |
The optimization rule for systems
|
| 2007-06-30: |
Weekly spam summary on June 30th, 2007
|
| 2007-06-29: |
The stupidity of being nickled and dimed by vendors
Why forwarding all email for users is dangerous
|
| 2007-06-28: |
Why I don't like inverted if conditionals
|
| 2007-06-27: |
Why you can't use object.__new__ on everything
|
| 2007-06-26: |
A small update on comment spammer behavior
|
| 2007-06-25: |
ZFS's issues with long term storage management
The advantage of a SAN
Painless long term storage management without disturbing users
|
| 2007-06-23: |
Weekly spam summary on June 23rd, 2007
|
| 2007-06-22: |
One reason why the Debian package format is not my favorite
A thought on web server capacity measurement
|
| 2007-06-20: |
More on slot wrapper objects
|
| 2007-06-19: |
Thinking about types of bugs (and static analysis)
|
| 2007-06-18: |
What are slot wrapper objects?
|
| 2007-06-17: |
A use for CSS adjacent selectors
|
| 2007-06-16: |
Weekly spam summary on June 16th, 2007
|
| 2007-06-15: |
Why I am in system administration instead of programming
|
| 2007-06-14: |
Getting source RPMs with yumdownloader (part 2)
|
| 2007-06-13: |
What NFS file-based locking problems can happen
|
| 2007-06-12: |
'Argument list too long' is a misleading message
|
| 2007-06-11: |
Getting source RPMs with yumdownloader
|
| 2007-06-10: |
How NFS is unreliable for file-based locking
|
| 2007-06-09: |
Weekly spam summary on June 9th, 2007
|
| 2007-06-08: |
Some thoughts on Slashdot's moderation system
|
| 2007-06-07: |
Why I hate firewalls, especially stateful firewalls
|
| 2007-06-06: |
Why you want a filesystem consistency checker
|
| 2007-06-05: |
RPM's multi-architecture file ownership problem
|
| 2007-06-04: |
RAID-5 versus RAID-6
Why we need our SAN RAID controllers to support logical drives
|
| 2007-06-02: |
Weekly spam summary on June 2nd, 2007
|
| 2007-06-01: |
Why our Solaris fileservers still use the automounter
|
| 2007-05-31: |
Please test your error paths
|
| 2007-05-30: |
A gotcha with the automounter and loopback mounts
|
| 2007-05-29: |
On storing source code in some non-text format
|
| 2007-05-28: |
Why ZFS's data integrity is less important than Solaris's usability
|
| 2007-05-27: |
Paying for security exploits
|
| 2007-05-26: |
Weekly spam summary on May 26th, 2007
|
| 2007-05-25: |
If you want work done, you need to pay for it
The risks of spam filtering (part 1)
|
| 2007-05-24: |
Firefox preferences settings that I use
|
| 2007-05-23: |
The danger of a web server writeable document area
|
| 2007-05-22: |
A case for breaking the web server ownership guidelines
|
| 2007-05-21: |
Linux is a Unix
|
| 2007-05-20: |
Properties relevant to finding what class supplies a method
|
| 2007-05-19: |
Weekly spam summary on May 19th, 2007
|
| 2007-05-18: |
The difficulty of throwing things away
|
| 2007-05-17: |
Determining what superclass supplies a method in Python
|
| 2007-05-16: |
My rules of thumb for picking conference talks
|
| 2007-05-15: |
Sizing your swap space (part 2)
|
| 2007-05-14: |
Sizing your swap space (part 1)
|
| 2007-05-13: |
Unix folklore: your swap should be twice your RAM
|
| 2007-05-12: |
Weekly spam summary on May 12th, 2007
|
| 2007-05-11: |
Building your own kernel with the Fedora kernel configuration
|
| 2007-05-10: |
The other problem with network booting
|
| 2007-05-09: |
CSS separates layout from content less than you'd like
|
| 2007-05-08: |
Supporting the real world
|
| 2007-05-07: |
What computer security is
|
| 2007-05-06: |
What Linux bind mounts are really doing
|
| 2007-05-05: |
Weekly spam summary on May 5th, 2007
|
| 2007-05-04: |
A little twitch I have in X Windows
|
| 2007-05-03: |
A stupid switch configuration trick
|
| 2007-05-02: |
My view of Ubuntu
|
| 2007-05-01: |
Some good practices for web servers
|
| 2007-04-30: |
Being specific about where your systems are
|
| 2007-04-29: |
What matters about object oriented operating systems
Weekly spam summary on April 28th, 2007
|
| 2007-04-28: |
Why I no longer bother to complain to ISPs about spam
|
| 2007-04-27: |
My view of Solaris 10 summarized
|
| 2007-04-26: |
A clever way of doing IP address assignment
|
| 2007-04-25: |
What do Unix errno values mean?
|
| 2007-04-24: |
RPC is surprisingly expensive
|
| 2007-04-23: |
Extra security systems for Unix should be explicit, not implicit
|
| 2007-04-22: |
Why Red Hat 7.3 is (still) so present on servers
|
| 2007-04-21: |
Weekly spam summary on April 21st, 2007
|
| 2007-04-20: |
Why organizations buy software from commercial companies
|
| 2007-04-19: |
A thought about attitudes towards support requests
|
| 2007-04-18: |
An advantage of CSS layouts for accessibility
|
| 2007-04-17: |
Why the University of Toronto can't just use Google Mail
A disappointment with ZFS
|
| 2007-04-16: |
Using CSS instead of tables is still using a hack
|
| 2007-04-15: |
chkconfig --add considered misleading
|
| 2007-04-14: |
Weekly spam summary on April 14th, 2007
|
| 2007-04-13: |
A little gotcha about binding services to interfaces
|
| 2007-04-12: |
Why Evolution is not my favorite mail reader
|
| 2007-04-11: |
Users don't really benefit from filing bug reports
|
| 2007-04-10: |
A limitation of Debian's /etc/network/interfaces control file
|
| 2007-04-09: |
Why indirect xdm probably doesn't work on your Linux machine
|
| 2007-04-08: |
A limitation of Python properties
Weekly spam summary on April 7th, 2007
|
| 2007-04-07: |
An interesting observation about web cracker behavior
|
| 2007-04-06: |
Why network booting is not a good answer
|
| 2007-04-05: |
Wanted: remote controllable DVD drives
An irritation about rails
|
| 2007-04-04: |
A brief sad note about root passwords
Social problems are the real problems
|
| 2007-04-03: |
Why charging for email won't do what people want
|
| 2007-04-02: |
Some lighttpd bits
|
| 2007-04-01: |
An advantage of virtualization for license servers
Please leave IOError and OSError alone
Weekly spam summary on March 31st, 2007
|
| 2007-03-31: |
Created functions and exception stack backtraces
Microsoft has another problem
Link: you are what you code
A simple debugger feature that I would really like
|
| 2007-03-30: |
What an Ethernet splitter looks like
|
| 2007-03-29: |
Usability issues with blog URLs
|
| 2007-03-28: |
A surprise to remember about starting modern machines
Dual identity routing with Linux's policy based routing
|
| 2007-03-27: |
The VPN routing problem
Some problems with iSCSI on Solaris 10 (on x86)
|
| 2007-03-26: |
Quality Solaris 10 software:
|
| 2007-03-25: |
Fitts' Law and edge-flipping in window managers
|
| 2007-03-24: |
Weekly spam summary on March 24th, 2007
How comment spammers behave
Randomly engaging NumLock considered irritating
|
| 2007-03-23: |
Counterintuitive RAID read performance
|
| 2007-03-22: |
An irony of conditional GET for dynamic websites
Making user home directories on a stock Solaris machine
|
| 2007-03-21: |
Users are almost always right
|
| 2007-03-20: |
On educating users
|
| 2007-03-19: |
The three strata of virtualization
|
| 2007-03-18: |
Why Unix setuid is incompatible with real network filesystems
|
| 2007-03-17: |
Weekly spam summary on March 17th, 2007
|
| 2007-03-16: |
GRE is a translucent tunnel
Things I have learned while doing GRE tunnels on Linux
|
| 2007-03-15: |
An annoying limitation of Linux IPSec
|
| 2007-03-14: |
The problem of machine startup order dependencies
|
| 2007-03-13: |
Machine room archaeology
What I currently do to stop comment spam on WanderingThoughts
|
| 2007-03-12: |
New warning messages might as well be fatal errors
|
| 2007-03-11: |
I consider __dict__ an implementation detail
Weekly spam summary on March 10th, 2007
|
| 2007-03-10: |
What a sysadmin's machine should be able to do
|
| 2007-03-09: |
Why hashcash schemes for email will never be adopted
|
| 2007-03-08: |
A bad popup dialog
A belated set of more power consumption numbers
|
| 2007-03-07: |
A gripe about sun.com
|
| 2007-03-06: |
Why I don't like USB keyboards
|
| 2007-03-05: |
Some useful new Linux software RAID features
|
| 2007-03-04: |
Handling lines with something-separated fields for Python
Weekly spam summary on March 3rd, 2007
|
| 2007-03-03: |
On useful front-panel LEDs
|
| 2007-03-02: |
A story of network weirdness
|
| 2007-03-01: |
An irritating limitation of listening sockets
|
| 2007-02-28: |
Using Unix domain sockets from Python
|
| 2007-02-27: |
Things I did not know about until recently: Ethernet splitters
|
| 2007-02-26: |
Things I have learned about effective sysadmin meetings
|
| 2007-02-25: |
Ordered lists with named fields for Python
How CSLab currently does email anti-spam stuff
Weekly spam summary on February 24th, 2007
|
| 2007-02-24: |
Thesis: any server push technology inevitably breeds spam
The problem with browser minimum font size settings
Most world-editable wikis are doomed
Some things to remember when implementing __getitem__
|
| 2007-02-23: |
The downside of distinctive hostnames
|
| 2007-02-22: |
A simplified summary of Python's method resolution order
My zeroth law of compromised machines
A note about the ordering of mixin classes
|
| 2007-02-21: |
Fixing Python's string .join()
The quick overview of DiskSuite failover
|
| 2007-02-20: |
Getting around LiveJournal's new minimum page width
|
| 2007-02-19: |
What I currently know about Fibrechannel versus iSCSI versus AoE
Another aphorism of system administration
|
| 2007-02-18: |
Why we do NFS fileserving with a SAN
Weekly spam summary on February 17th, 2007
|
| 2007-02-17: |
Programming fun
|
| 2007-02-16: |
I hate hardware (Dell 2950 edition)
QOTD: There are three types of authentication
|
| 2007-02-15: |
Something all full-service backup systems should have
|
| 2007-02-14: |
RPM tricks for dealing with multiarch machines
|
| 2007-02-13: |
On Python's grammar
|
| 2007-02-12: |
Why thin clients are doomed (part 2)
|
| 2007-02-11: |
How to do locking in shell scripts
|
| 2007-02-10: |
Weekly spam summary on February 10th, 2007
A temptation with challenge/response anti-spam systems
Link: Why the ease of installing Java matters
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| 2007-02-09: |
What System V did to the poor ln command
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| 2007-02-08: |
The danger of validating your XHTML
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| 2007-02-07: |
Why I think thin clients are doomed
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| 2007-02-06: |
What the Solaris 8 nfs3_max_threads parameter probably controls
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| 2007-02-05: |
An irritation with yum localupdate
Another small user interface suggestion
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| 2007-02-04: |
A sysadmin twitch about dump
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| 2007-02-03: |
Weekly spam summary on February 3rd, 2007
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| 2007-02-02: |
A modern environment's need for broadband
Why don't SQL servers do a lot of caching?
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| 2007-02-01: |
Transparent versus non-transparent caching
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| 2007-01-31: |
The inherent fragility of complex systems (in system administration)
Why I am not fond of DHCP in lab environments
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| 2007-01-29: |
A gotcha with <textarea>
How to have your web spider irritate me intensely (part 2)
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| 2007-01-28: |
Why DWiki doesn't use fully REST-ful URLs
Weekly spam summary on January 27th, 2007
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| 2007-01-27: |
Why I think that DNS whitelists are going to fail
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| 2007-01-26: |
First impressions of pyOpenSSL
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| 2007-01-25: |
A clever trick to deal with students powering off workstations
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| 2007-01-24: |
An irritation with current GUI interfaces
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| 2007-01-23: |
How to stop DiskSuite resyncing a mirror on Solaris 8
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| 2007-01-22: |
Why host authentication has to check who the certificate belongs to
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| 2007-01-21: |
Sometimes system administration requires a hacksaw
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| 2007-01-20: |
Weekly spam summary on January 20th, 2007
Browsers are the wrong place to report HTML validation errors
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| 2007-01-19: |
Link: Peter Gutmann on PKI
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| 2007-01-18: |
Why I want direct certificate checking instead of having to rely on CAs
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| 2007-01-17: |
A grump about the socket module's SSL support
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| 2007-01-16: |
Why I don't have a GPG key
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| 2007-01-15: |
Configuring VLANs on Fedora Core
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| 2007-01-14: |
Wrapping exceptions versus propagating them untouched
An alarming reflex in my use of find
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| 2007-01-13: |
Weekly spam summary on January 13th, 2007
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| 2007-01-12: |
The easy way to get me to not comment on a weblog
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| 2007-01-11: |
Xen versus VMware for me
An interesting Bourne shell limitation
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| 2007-01-10: |
A gotcha with inetd/xinetd and popular UDP services
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| 2007-01-09: |
Solving an automounter timeout problem with brute force
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| 2007-01-08: |
What I really want from an automounter
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| 2007-01-07: |
Another issue with C's volatile
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| 2007-01-06: |
Weekly spam summary on Janury 6th, 2007
Fixing up .rpmnew files
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| 2007-01-05: |
Henry Spencer on C's volatile
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| 2007-01-04: |
The scars of my NPTL experience
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| 2007-01-03: |
The problem with C's volatile qualifier
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| 2007-01-02: |
My current views on webmail providers
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| 2007-01-01: |
Solaris's impressive ABI compatibility
Link: Threads Cannot be Implemented as a Library
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