Wandering Thoughts archives

2008-09-30:	The consequences of your SSL certificate getting compromised Using Python to find out what cipher a SSL server is using
2008-09-29:	SSL/TLS and forward secrecy
2008-09-28:	Why I hate Solaris 10's service facility right now
2008-09-27:	The problem with initial ramdisks
2008-09-26:	The aesthetics of syntactic sugar
2008-09-25:	Why qmail is no longer a suitable Internet MTA
2008-09-24:	How we lie to our Makefiles
2008-09-23:	Some thoughts on improving current thread-based programming
2008-09-21:	Why I wind up writing real parsers for my sysadmin tools
2008-09-20:	A side note to the attraction of file-based blog engines The attractions of 'file as blog entry' blog engines
2008-09-19:	Gotchas with IET that I have encountered
2008-09-18:	My experiences so far with Linux iSCSI target software
2008-09-17:	How to securely manipulate user files
2008-09-16:	A Unix without a `test` program
2008-09-15:	Why ZFS's raidz design decision is sensible (or at least rational)
2008-09-14:	A read performance surprise with ZFS's raidz and raidz2
2008-09-13:	999 days is not forever
2008-09-12:	ZFS's helpful attention to detail Why you want sysadmins, not users, to be providing the computing
2008-09-11:	Why I have the same shell dotfiles everywhere
2008-09-10:	A Unix shell trick
2008-09-09:	The problem with unit testing programs
2008-09-08:	How to get as much of your program byte-compiled as possible
2008-09-07:	Why your main program should be `import`able
2008-09-06:	Why negative DNS caching is necessary
2008-09-05:	Something to remember when using DTrace on userland programs
2008-09-03:	Why SMTP needs a way of communicating partial success for message delivery How to reject at SMTP time without enabling dictionary scanning
2008-09-01:	Accept-then-bounce is no longer acceptable in mail systems

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