Wandering Thoughts archives

2008-12-31:	Certificate authorities seem to be a real weakness in SSL One of Python 3's fundamental problems on Unix
2008-12-30:	ZFS and crazy dates
2008-12-28:	Discovering things while researching Unix history An advantage of doing test driven development
2008-12-27:	Email marketing is pretty much spam
2008-12-26:	The consequences of the Debian OpenSSL compromise
2008-12-25:	My view of Sun and their history
2008-12-24:	A thesis: Sun should be prepared to give up on SPARC
2008-12-23:	You need major advantages to really move issues
2008-12-21:	Part of why managing firewalls is hard The role of superstition and folklore in system administration
2008-12-20:	The source of spurious `.rpmnew` files
2008-12-19:	Comments and dialogues
2008-12-18:	Why LVM snapshots should really have hooks into filesystems
2008-12-17:	Some reasons why I like `vi`
2008-12-16:	Why XHTML is doomed, at least in its strict validation form
2008-12-14:	Feed aggregators should fail gracefully
2008-12-13:	The pragmatic problem with strict XHTML validation
2008-12-12:	Two-step updates: the best solution to the valid XHTML problem
2008-12-11:	Why syndication feed readers (and web browsers) should fail gracefully Why you should always allow version 1 to be specified
2008-12-09:	What sort of user interfaces the web is good for How Amanda uses what restore program to use, a correction
2008-12-08:	How I split up my workstation's disk space
2008-12-07:	How to help programmers (part 1): the `os.listdir()` problem One of Python's problems with packages
2008-12-06:	On line endings and honesty
2008-12-05:	A little gotcha when implementing shell `read`
2008-12-04:	The rewriting problem on ZFS and other 'log structured' filesystems
2008-12-03:	Mapping IP addresses to ASNs
2008-12-02:	A thesis: Sun should fork Solaris

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