Wandering Thoughts archives

2011-05-31:	The programmer's problem with WikiText systems How to fail at versioning
2011-05-30:	My recent experience with Firefox's speed
2011-05-29:	Getting the stages of the class namespace straight
2011-05-28:	The stickyness of Fedora 8 (despite my better intentions)
2011-05-26:	You can get 'stale filehandle' errors for local files on extN filesystems
2011-05-25:	More not supporting random query parameters in URLs How Django's form field ordering works
2011-05-24:	Proper SQL database design versus the real world
2011-05-23:	An aside on RAID-5/RAID-6 and disk failures
2011-05-22:	Why losing part of a striped RAID is fatal even on smart filesystems
2011-05-21:	One of my irritations: outgoing email that was scored as spam
2011-05-20:	Why the kernel does `mmap()` (beyond efficiency)
2011-05-19:	One limitation of simple bisection searches in version control systems
2011-05-18:	Why open source projects should use '`git rebase`' or the equivalent
2011-05-17:	What we could use 10G Ethernet for in the near future
2011-05-16:	How our network is implemented (as of May 2011)
2011-05-15:	The most interesting reason for an unrouted sandbox network
2011-05-14:	Our environment illustrated: what network cable colours mean what
2011-05-13:	Our network layout (as of May 2011)
2011-05-11:	How ZFS lets you recover from damaged metadata, and what the limitations are
2011-05-10:	An important way to get ZFS metadata corruption A brief summary of how ZFS updates (top-level) metadata The different ways that you can lose a ZFS pool
2011-05-09:	X and the misleading claim of 'mechanisms not policy'
2011-05-08:	Fvwm as a window manager construction kit
2011-05-07:	Email has two faces today
2011-05-06:	A realization about cache entry lifetime and validation
2011-05-05:	Thinking about when not disabling iSCSI's InitialR2T matters
2011-05-04:	Why `xterm`'s cut and paste model is non-standard and limited
2011-05-03:	The importance of `xterm` for X Windows
2011-05-02:	The apparent origins of some odd limitations in the iSCSI protocol

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