Wandering Thoughts archives

2011-10-31:	Why 'quiet' options to programs aren't as useful as you think Deduplication is always going to be expensive
2011-10-30:	Why we have a VPN
2011-10-29:	Why ZFS dedup is not something we can use
2011-10-28:	ZFS features that could entice us to upgrade Solaris versions
2011-10-27:	A Wikitext formatting mistake that I made here
2011-10-26:	How to fail at useful cryptography: bad error messages
2011-10-25:	A reason not to automate: policy flexibility
2011-10-24:	Salting passwords compared to slow password hashing
2011-10-23:	Boiling frogs and PC performance
2011-10-22:	Fedora 15 versus me
2011-10-21:	How I'm capturing only the last portion of standard error
2011-10-20:	The kind of computer usage I think Gnome 3 is targeting
2011-10-19:	Defending Berkeley's forced choice in network device naming
2011-10-18:	The Ethernet device naming mistake (or one part of it)
2011-10-17:	What I want out of stable device names
2011-10-15:	Why I say Fedora 15 could get my machine's Ethernet's name right The problem with Fedora 15's consistent network device naming
2011-10-14:	Power consumption numbers for my 2011 home machine
2011-10-13:	The problem with event loops
2011-10-12:	The true cost of sysadmin time (actually, of anyone's time)
2011-10-11:	Why people are attracted to minimal language cores
2011-10-10:	Arranging scopes for `for` loops
2011-10-09:	My view of the state of graphics cards for Linux (in fall 2011)
2011-10-08:	My new Linux machine for fall 2011 (planned)
2011-10-07:	Python's philosophy of what closures close over
2011-10-06:	Thinking about event loops versus threads
2011-10-05:	Understanding the motivations of mail service vendors
2011-10-03:	On CPython, cell objects, and closures My idea of how a modern mailing service should work
2011-10-02:	Another comment spam precaution that no longer works out
2011-10-01:	Understanding a tricky bit of Python generators

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