Wandering Thoughts archives

2012-09-30:	A new anti-spam precaution after our local spam incident
2012-09-29:	A recent spam oddity that I've been mulling over What I would like in colour-specification interfaces
2012-09-28:	`fork()` versus strict virtual memory overcommit handling
2012-09-27:	Microkernels and device drivers
2012-09-26:	Microkernels and modularity: do microkernels ever make sense?
2012-09-25:	The jaundiced C programmer's view of object orientation
2012-09-24:	The wrong way to harvest system-level performance stats
2012-09-23:	How we handle Ubuntu LTS versions
2012-09-22:	Speculation about what comment spammers think they're doing here
2012-09-21:	How I enter URLs in my browser
2012-09-20:	My alternative to bookmarks: a page of links as the browser start page
2012-09-19:	Two views of the argparse module
2012-09-18:	My Python versions
2012-09-17:	The options problem in Python
2012-09-16:	The problem with noise
2012-09-15:	Sensible reboot monitoring
2012-09-14:	What determines how much work a ZFS resilver has to do
2012-09-13:	Why you need mass package rebuilds in some circumstances
2012-09-12:	The core problem with developers doing their own packaging
2012-09-11:	A realization about ratelimit time horizons
2012-09-09:	The core difference between Debian source packages and RPMs When I've interned Python strings
2012-09-08:	When you can log bad usernames for failed authentications
2012-09-07:	What the standard(s) say about the order of `readdir()`'s results
2012-09-06:	A little trick and gotcha with Exim ratelimits
2012-09-05:	Some thoughts on logging failed login attempts (for existing users)
2012-09-03:	People are not ignorant (usually)
2012-09-02:	What I would like: testable mailers Solaris 11 is still closed source (and Oracle is careless with words)

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