Wandering Thoughts archives

2012-12-31:	How our fileserver infrastructure is a commodity setup (and inexpensive) GNU `sort`'s `-h` option
2012-12-30:	What I'd have liked to hear about Python 3 from the developers
2012-12-29:	Why I think that stupid spamming is actively wasteful
2012-12-28:	A spammer that is not the brightest light in the box
2012-12-27:	Why I somewhat irrationally have a distrust of ZFS on Linux
2012-12-26:	Does Python 2 need to evolve?
2012-12-25:	A confession: Python 3 has always made me kind of angry
2012-12-24:	Why we're almost certainly staying with ZFS
2012-12-23:	What we (probably) want in a future version of Solaris
2012-12-22:	Packaging in compiled versus interpreted languages
2012-12-21:	Version control comes first
2012-12-20:	Sysadmins should pretty much version control everything
2012-12-19:	Part of good awk programming is getting the clause order right
2012-12-18:	Why I'm still using VMware
2012-12-17:	Should you alert on the glaringly obvious?
2012-12-16:	Alerts should be actionable (and the three sorts of 'alerts')
2012-12-15:	A few small notes about OpenBSD PF (as of 4.4 and 5.1)
2012-12-13:	A drawback of short servers
2012-12-12:	`fork()` and closing file descriptors One good use for default function arguments
2012-12-10:	The general lesson from the need for metrics Things that systemd gets right
2012-12-09:	When I'd use a web server other than Apache
2012-12-08:	Why Apache is such a temptation
2012-12-07:	How I use virtualization (and what for)
2012-12-05:	One way to break down how people use virtualization In praise of KVM-over-IP systems
2012-12-04:	You can't assume that your performance problems will be obvious
2012-12-03:	A reason for detailed commit messages: as a guard against errors
2012-12-02:	What goes into the terminal's 'cbreak' and 'raw' modes

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