Wandering Thoughts archives

2013-04-30:	The two stories of RISC
2013-04-29:	My practical problem with preconfigured virtual machine templates My view of ARM versus other RISCs
2013-04-28:	My sysadmin view of Python virtualenvs
2013-04-27:	Some theories on why DNSBLs may be dwindling away
2013-04-26:	Are there less anti-spam DNS blocklists than there used to be?
2013-04-25:	How SuS probably requires the 'run at least once' `xargs` behavior
2013-04-24:	Two mistakes I made with VMs today
2013-04-23:	Goodbye, djb dnscache
2013-04-21:	RCS should not be your first choice for version control Why a free SSL Certificate Authority is not horrifying
2013-04-19:	How ZFS deals with 'advanced format' disks with 4 Kb physical sectors How I want storage systems to handle disk block sizes
2013-04-18:	How SCSI devices tell you their logical and physical block sizes
2013-04-17:	Some thoughts on going to HTTPS by default
2013-04-15:	The basics of 4K sector hard drives (aka 'Advanced Format' drives) Go's friction points for me (and a comparison to Python)
2013-04-14:	Python's data structures problem
2013-04-13:	Classic linked lists versus Python's list (array) type
2013-04-12:	My view on software RAID and the RAID write hole
2013-04-11:	Something I'd like to be easier in Solaris's IPS
2013-04-10:	Some important things about OpenBSD PF's `max-*` options
2013-04-08:	Fedora 18's TexLive packaging failure Why ZFS still needs an equivalent of `fsck`
2013-04-07:	The apparent source of my Firefox memory bloat problems
2013-04-06:	What I needed to do with Grub2 to change my boot disk
2013-04-05:	Authoritative, non-recursive DNS servers now need ratelimiting
2013-04-04:	An irritating OpenBSD PF limitation on redirections
2013-04-03:	How to make sysadmins unhappy with your project's downloads
2013-04-02:	Why `listen(2)`'s backlog parameter has such an odd meaning

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