Wandering Thoughts archives

2010-07-31:	The other peculiar effects of grant funding at universities It's the indirect failure modes that will get you
2010-07-30:	A little modern Unix twitch
2010-07-29:	Some brief notes on OpenSSH's known_hosts hashing
2010-07-28:	My Fedora 8 problem: upgrading
2010-07-27:	What I would now do differently in a file based blog engine
2010-07-25:	Why sysadmins almost never replace distribution packages iSCSI versus NFS
2010-07-24:	Thinking about the implications of your program being successful
2010-07-23:	A realization about why my inbox keeps being my to-do tracker
2010-07-22:	Why keeping `/etc` under version control doesn't entirely help
2010-07-21:	The easy way to do fast OS upgrades
2010-07-20:	The sysadmin view of messages from programs
2010-07-19:	Why blog calendar widgets are bad
2010-07-18:	How I solve the `configure` memory problem
2010-07-17:	More building blocks of my environment: `tkrxterm`, `tkssh`, and `pyhosts`
2010-07-16:	Realistic blog usability
2010-07-14:	Making the Linux kernel shut up about segfaulting user programs The challenges of shared spares in RAID arrays
2010-07-13:	Sun Support's habit of publicizing private bug reports Single-level list flattening in Python
2010-07-12:	On (not) logging calculated statistics
2010-07-11:	When is using SQL the right answer?
2010-07-10:	People forget exceptions
2010-07-08:	Unix programs should avoid exiting non-zero for clever reasons
2010-07-07:	A gotcha with the Bourne shell's `set -e` and `&&`
2010-07-06:	How `zpool status` reports on ZFS scrubs and resilvers ZFS scrubs and resilvers are not sequential IO
2010-07-05:	A thesis: noisy email addresses are dead
2010-07-03:	`/u`, one of our long-standing Unix customizations Returning to the era of 'duplicated' Ethernet addresses
2010-07-02:	A gotcha with Python's `socket.htonl()` and `ntohl()` A corollary to the limits of anti-spam precautions

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