Wandering Thoughts archives

2010-10-31:	How I run two Firefoxes at once and still have remote control How I set up my isolated testing Firefox environment
2010-10-30:	A very convenient trick: having a testing browser
2010-10-29:	What problems the Maildir mail storage format solves
2010-10-27:	An extra problem with not documenting things in open source modules A modern VCS mistake enabled by working on live trees
2010-10-26:	Why Python's struct module isn't great for handling binary protocols
2010-10-24:	Why we built our own ZFS spares handling system Why I'm interested in Go
2010-10-23:	My issues with Go's net package
2010-10-22:	My theory on Unix's one chance to have a standard GUI
2010-10-21:	The problems with testing for round-trip capable codecs
2010-10-20:	Round-trip capable character encodings in Python
2010-10-18:	A module that I want in the standard library: Parsing The cache eviction death spiral
2010-10-17:	Read IO is generally synchronous (unlike write IO)
2010-10-16:	The attraction of the milter protocol
2010-10-15:	How big our fileserver environment is (part 2)
2010-10-13:	How big our fileserver environment is (part 1) Why visited links being visible is important for blog usability
2010-10-12:	Why non-linear directories have not been popular in filesystems
2010-10-11:	The Unix directory problem and the history of directories
2010-10-10:	Fixing Upstart's coupling of startup script presence and activation
2010-10-09:	An illustration of how careful and clever spammers are today
2010-10-08:	Why I am unhappy with Upstart right now
2010-10-07:	In universities, you often buy hardware when you can
2010-10-06:	What is going on with Samba's POSIX locking on NFS on Linux
2010-10-05:	Why people combine NFS with Samba servers
2010-10-04:	Linux, Samba, NFS, and POSIX locking
2010-10-03:	An API mistake Unix has made several times
2010-10-02:	ZFS resilvers are a whole-pool activity

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