Wandering Thoughts archives

2012-08-31:	A realization about one bit of test-driven development A small rant about looking down on Linux users
2012-08-30:	My perspective on why we do in-place reinstalls of machines
2012-08-29:	A realization: install configuration files before packages
2012-08-28:	When Exim generates bounce messages
2012-08-27:	You should log all successful user authentication
2012-08-26:	Some brief information about a local spam incident
2012-08-25:	Some odd behavior from blog comment spammers
2012-08-24:	The theoretical right way to check if an account is in a Unix group
2012-08-23:	Illustrating the Ubuntu clown car, AccountsService edition
2012-08-22:	My view on the understandability of language idioms
2012-08-21:	Another problem with how Debian builds from source packages
2012-08-20:	Sysadmins hate updates (more or less)
2012-08-19:	Why I don't like the Debian source package format
2012-08-18:	What everyone needs in source packages
2012-08-17:	How Firefox performs (and doesn't) for me
2012-08-16:	Why I hate vendors, printers edition
2012-08-15:	The historical background of the *BSD 'base system' versus Linux
2012-08-13:	When and where I fell out of love with Firefox
2012-08-12:	A nice illustration of the cost of creating and destroying objects in Python The CPython bytecode difference between iteration and looping
2012-08-11:	How not to write kernel messages
2012-08-09:	Learning something from not testing jQuery 1.8's beta releases Ubuntu 12.04 and symbolic links in world-writeable sticky-bitted directories
2012-08-08:	Linux ps's problem with login names
2012-08-06:	The theoretical legality of shadowing builtins in Python The (possibly apocryphal) story of System V IPC's origins
2012-08-05:	Reasoning backwards (a story about what can happen to SATA disks)
2012-08-04:	Oracle, ZFS, and Linux (and Solaris)
2012-08-03:	What makes an operating system attractive
2012-08-02:	Can Oracle make ZFS much more attractive?

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