Wandering Thoughts archives

2013-05-31:	The mystery of `POST`s with a zero `Content-Length` Understanding the MongoDB code that people are laughing at
2013-05-30:	I find Systemtap oddly frustrating
2013-05-28:	How you should package local-use configuration files
2013-05-27:	Understanding SQL placeholders Our situation with ZFS and 4 Kb physical sector disks
2013-05-26:	Empirically, modern mailing list services are spam senders
2013-05-24:	Understanding how CVE-2013-1979 might be exploited My issue with infinite scrolling web pages: the lack of a stopping point
2013-05-23:	Why web robots sending `Referer` headers is wrong
2013-05-21:	Diffbot's bad `Referer` header
2013-05-20:	A serious potential danger with Exim host lists in ACLs
2013-05-19:	Today's comment spammer trick: regurgitated comments The technical effects of being an out of tree Linux kernel module
2013-05-18:	A little habit of our documentation: how we write logins
2013-05-17:	Why I'm not considering btrfs for our future fileservers just yet
2013-05-16:	Why ZFS's CDDL license matters for ZFS on Linux
2013-05-15:	Why I've so far been neglecting functional programming languages
2013-05-13:	My language irritations with Go (so far) and why I'm wrong about them The Unix philosophy is not an end to itself
2013-05-11:	The consequences of importing a module twice
2013-05-10:	Illustrating the tradeoff of security versus usability Disk IO is what shatters the VM illusion for me right now
2013-05-08:	Thoughts on when to replace disks in a ZFS pool How ZFS resilvering saved us
2013-05-07:	Python's relative import problem
2013-05-05:	Unix is not necessarily Unixy The original vision of RISC was that it would be pervasive
2013-05-04:	What I see as RISC's big bets
2013-05-03:	Virtual disks should be treated as 4k 'Advanced Format' drives
2013-05-01:	Two `xargs` gotchas that you may not know about

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