Wandering Thoughts archives

2009-07-31:	Using SystemTap to trace the system calls of setuid programs on Linux How fast various ssh ciphers are
2009-07-30:	How we do custom NFS mount authorization on Solaris 10
2009-07-29:	The shift-selection trick in X terminal programs
2009-07-28:	Spammers are quite dedicated in their address scraping
2009-07-27:	Why you should do code reviews for sysadmin scripts
2009-07-26:	The anatomy of a hack to get around `try:`/`finally:` and generators
2009-07-25:	When code in generators runs
2009-07-24:	The usefulness of a syndication feed of your blog's comments
2009-07-22:	Thinking like a security paranoid: an example A peculiar change in Linux `flock()` and `fcntl()` behavior
2009-07-21:	Packages should not contain both tools and policies
2009-07-20:	Minimalistic spam, another annoyance to worry about
2009-07-19:	The importance of making an issue visible
2009-07-18:	Why NFS filehandles fail as access capabilities
2009-07-17:	The hard problem of live major release upgrades
2009-07-16:	Another reason to safely update files that are looked at over NFS
2009-07-15:	A Bourne shell gotcha with `( ... )` command grouping
2009-07-13:	Some stuff on NFS access restrictions Shell scripts should not use absolute paths for programs
2009-07-12:	A brief history of NFS server access restrictions
2009-07-11:	What can go wrong in making NFS mounts
2009-07-10:	An unpleasant surprise about ZFS scrubbing in Solaris 10 U6
2009-07-09:	The high-level version of how mounting NFS filesystems works
2009-07-08:	Fedora and workstations (on Linux distributions for desktops)
2009-07-07:	Why and why not Fedora
2009-07-06:	How you could do a shared root directory with NFS
2009-07-05:	The coming Internet identity problem
2009-07-04:	A side note on the cost of operations
2009-07-03:	How software makes reverse proxying hard
2009-07-02:	Finding out when a command in a pipeline fails

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