| 2015-12-31: |
A defense of C's null-terminated strings
How I've wound up taking my notes
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| 2015-12-30: |
Some notes on entering unusual characters in various X applications
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| 2015-12-29: |
Take notes when (and as) you do things and keep them
|
| 2015-12-28: |
The limits of what ZFS scrubs check
|
| 2015-12-27: |
A confession: I find rejecting spam at SMTP time to be more satisfying
|
| 2015-12-26: |
Adjusting mouse sensitivity on Linux, and why you might want to
|
| 2015-12-25: |
I like Magit, the GNU Emacs package for Git
|
| 2015-12-24: |
There is a surprising amount of old SSL code in running MTAs
|
| 2015-12-23: |
Where cryptographic hashes come into TLS certificates
|
| 2015-12-21: |
Some opinions on how package systems should allow you to pin versions
The Apache mod_qos module worked for us
|
| 2015-12-20: |
There are three places spam filtering can happen these days
|
| 2015-12-18: |
A fun tale of network troubleshooting involving VLANs and MACs
Some things about the XSettings system
|
| 2015-12-17: |
Fixing the GTK UI font in my Fedora 23 setup
|
| 2015-12-16: |
I just had another smooth Fedora version upgrade with ZFS on Linux
|
| 2015-12-14: |
Some things that force Go to call the C library for name resolution on Linux
Getting xterm and modern X applications to do cut and paste together
|
| 2015-12-13: |
I still believe in shimming modules for tests
|
| 2015-12-12: |
My views on the choice of Linux distribution
|
| 2015-12-11: |
The ArchLinux wiki has quietly become a good resource for me
|
| 2015-12-09: |
Goroutines, network IO streams, and the resulting synchronization problem
A surprise about cryptographic signatures
|
| 2015-12-07: |
What I like web templating languages for
The old-fashioned and modern ways to remap keys in X (some notes)
|
| 2015-12-06: |
The (peculiar) freedom of having a slow language
|
| 2015-12-05: |
The details behind zpool list's new fragmentation percentage
|
| 2015-12-04: |
One limit to how much TLS can do for you against MITM attacks
|
| 2015-12-02: |
What zpool list's new FRAG fragmentation percentage means
|
| 2015-12-01: |
Red Hat has really doubled down on being email spammers
|
| 2015-11-30: |
My current dilemma: is it worth putting the root filesystem on a SSD
A new piece of my environment: xcape, an X modifier key modifier
|
| 2015-11-29: |
My feelings about my mechanical mini keyboard
|
| 2015-11-27: |
Documentation should explain why things are security issues, at least briefly
A thought on the apparent popularity of new static typing languages
|
| 2015-11-26: |
Some notes on Apache's suexec
|
| 2015-11-25: |
Why speeding up (C)Python matters
|
| 2015-11-23: |
PC laptop and desktop vendors are now clearly hostile parties
Why I care about how fast CPython is
|
| 2015-11-22: |
I should find some good small packages for templates and forms for CGIs
|
| 2015-11-21: |
What I think I want out of autocompletion in GNU Emacs (for Go coding)
|
| 2015-11-20: |
What modern version control systems are
|
| 2015-11-18: |
VCS bisection steps should always be reversible
Increasingly, I no longer solidly and fully know Python
|
| 2015-11-16: |
On public areas on the Net and conversations therein
The problems with creating a new template language
|
| 2015-11-15: |
I should remember that I can cast things in Go
|
| 2015-11-14: |
ZFS pool import needs much better error messages
|
| 2015-11-13: |
We killed off our SunSolve email contact address yesterday
|
| 2015-11-12: |
Don't have support registrations in the name of a specific sysadmin
|
| 2015-11-11: |
No new web templating languages; use an existing one
|
| 2015-11-10: |
Why I spent a lot of time agonizing over an error message recently
|
| 2015-11-09: |
What sysadmins want out of logging means that it can't be too simple
|
| 2015-11-08: |
The great Delete versus Backspace split
|
| 2015-11-07: |
Why I (still) care about SELinux and its flaws
|
| 2015-11-06: |
Revisiting a bit of my X keymapping history
|
| 2015-11-04: |
SELinux's usability, illustrated once again
Outlook.com now has collected some SBL listings
|
| 2015-11-02: |
When setting up per-thing email addresses, make sure you can turn them off
Status reporting commands should have script-oriented output too
|
| 2015-10-31: |
One advantage of System V is that it was available
In practice, anything involving the JVM is often a heavyweight thing
|
| 2015-10-30: |
My discovery that the USB mouse polling rate matters
|
| 2015-10-29: |
USB mouse polling rates under Linux
|
| 2015-10-28: |
System V was kind of backwards for a long time
|
| 2015-10-27: |
Some theories about what spammers get out of using null sender addresses
|
| 2015-10-26: |
The null sender spammers now seem to be entrenched on outlook.com
|
| 2015-10-25: |
More on chroot()'s history, and my blind spot about System III
|
| 2015-10-24: |
How my PS/2 to USB conversion issues have shaken out
|
| 2015-10-23: |
Perhaps it's a good idea to reboot everything periodically
|
| 2015-10-22: |
CPython's trust of bytecode is not a security problem
|
| 2015-10-21: |
Python bytecode is quite heavily trusted by CPython
|
| 2015-10-20: |
Why I never tell people how I voted
|
| 2015-10-19: |
Installing and pinning specific versions of OmniOS packages
|
| 2015-10-18: |
In Go, unsafe.Pointer is a built in type in the compiler
|
| 2015-10-17: |
Do generic stock servers have a future in a cloud world?
|
| 2015-10-16: |
Inside a Go 'terrible hack' in the reflect package
|
| 2015-10-15: |
Some notes on finding package versions in OmniOS with pkg
|
| 2015-10-14: |
OS installers should be easy to open up and modify
|
| 2015-10-13: |
Why I've come to really like git
|
| 2015-10-12: |
Why we hold kernels and other packages on our Ubuntu machines
|
| 2015-10-11: |
Bad news about how we detect and recover from NFS server problems
|
| 2015-10-09: |
How much space ZFS reserves in your pools varies across versions
Our low-rent approach to verifying that NFS mounts are there
|
| 2015-10-08: |
Why you (probably) want to have blog categories (and topics and more)
|
| 2015-10-07: |
The irritation of all of the Ubuntu kernels you wind up with
|
| 2015-10-05: |
How many recent sender domains are in the Spamhaus DBL
I don't trust Linux distributions to leave directories alone
|
| 2015-10-04: |
There's no point in multiple system filesystems any more
|
| 2015-10-03: |
There are two approaches to disaster recovery plans
|
| 2015-10-02: |
What creates a good wikitext dialect depends on how it's going to be used
|
| 2015-09-30: |
There are good and bad wikitext dialects
Why I can't see IPv6 as a smooth or fast transition
|
| 2015-09-29: |
Maybe I should try to find another good mini keyboard
|
| 2015-09-28: |
On not having people split their time between different bosses
|
| 2015-09-27: |
Wikitext not having errors creates a backtracking problem
|
| 2015-09-26: |
I've decided I'll port DWiki to Python 3, but not any time soon
|
| 2015-09-25: |
Do we want to continue using a SAN in our future fileserver design?
|
| 2015-09-24: |
We're probably going to need new Linux iSCSI target software
|
| 2015-09-23: |
One thing I'm hoping for in our third generation fileservers
|
| 2015-09-22: |
The Go 'rolling errors' pattern, in function call form
|
| 2015-09-21: |
When chroot() started to confine processes inside the new root
|
| 2015-09-20: |
Spam from outlook.com has gotten worse (well, for me)
|
| 2015-09-19: |
Experimenting with Firefox's 'Reader' mode (or view)
|
| 2015-09-18: |
Modern Linux laptop suspending and screenlocking makes me twitch
|
| 2015-09-17: |
We know what you are
|
| 2015-09-16: |
There are two different scenarios for replacing disks in a RAID
|
| 2015-09-14: |
A caution about cgo's error returns for errno
Tweaking code when I'm faced with the urge to replace it entirely
|
| 2015-09-13: |
I should have started blocking web page elements well before now
|
| 2015-09-12: |
How NFS deals with the pending delete problem
|
| 2015-09-11: |
ZFS scrub rates, speeds, and how fast is fast
|
| 2015-09-10: |
Changing kernel tunables can drastically speed up ZFS scrubs
|
| 2015-09-09: |
Some notes on my experience using Go's cgo system
|
| 2015-09-08: |
How we disable accounts here (and why)
|
| 2015-09-07: |
Getting gocode based autocompletion working for Go in GNU Emacs
Why we wind up deleting user accounts
|
| 2015-09-06: |
Optimizing finding unowned files on our ZFS fileservers
|
| 2015-09-05: |
Why we aren't tempted to use ACLs on our Unix machines
|
| 2015-09-04: |
Consistency and durability in the context of filesystems
|
| 2015-09-03: |
How I've decided to coordinate multiple git repos for a single project
|
| 2015-09-02: |
Thinking about the different models of supplying computing
|
| 2015-08-31: |
CGo's Go string functions explained
Turning, well copying blobs of memory into Go structures
|
| 2015-08-30: |
Getting C-compatible structs in Go with and for cgo
|
| 2015-08-29: |
The mailing list thread to bug tracking system problem
|
| 2015-08-28: |
The somewhat surprising history of chroot()
|
| 2015-08-27: |
Some notes on using Solaris kstat(s) in a program
|
| 2015-08-26: |
Why I wind up writing my own (sysadmin) tools
|
| 2015-08-25: |
One view on practical blockers for IPv6 adoption
|
| 2015-08-24: |
PS/2 to USB converters are complex things with interesting faults
|
| 2015-08-23: |
I think you should get your TLS configuration advice from Mozilla
|
| 2015-08-21: |
What surprised me about the Python assignment puzzle
What's going on with a Python assignment puzzle
|
| 2015-08-20: |
Using abstract namespace Unix domain sockets and SO_PEERCRED in Python
|
| 2015-08-19: |
Linux's abstract namespace for Unix domain sockets
|
| 2015-08-17: |
Getting dd's skip and seek straight once and for all
Why languages like 'declare before use' for variables and functions
|
| 2015-08-16: |
My irritation with Intel's CPU segmentation (and why it probably exists)
|
| 2015-08-15: |
Spam scoring systems are often not deliberately designed
|
| 2015-08-14: |
My current views on using DomainKeys (DKIM) here
|
| 2015-08-13: |
Enabling services on package updates is a terrible mistake
|
| 2015-08-12: |
What common older versions of free are telling you
|
| 2015-08-11: |
What free is really telling you, and some bits from /proc/meminfo
|
| 2015-08-10: |
My irritation with 'systemctl status'
|
| 2015-08-09: |
One potential problem with cloud computing for us is the payment model
|
| 2015-08-08: |
The ARC now seems to work right in ZFS on Linux
|
| 2015-08-07: |
One thing I now really want in ZFS: faster scrubs (and resilvers)
|
| 2015-08-06: |
Two factor authentication and emergency access to systems
|
| 2015-08-05: |
What I want out of two factor authentication for my own use
|
| 2015-08-04: |
A lesson to myself: commit my local changes in little bits
|
| 2015-08-03: |
Running Fedora 22's dnf as a normal user versus as root
|
| 2015-08-02: |
My view on the potential death of the ad-supported web
|
| 2015-07-31: |
The future problem with Firefox's Electrolysis project
Ubuntu once again fails at a good kernel security update announcement
|
| 2015-07-29: |
My workflow for testing Github pull requests
A cynical view on needing SSDs in all your machines in the future
|
| 2015-07-28: |
Why I still report bugs
|
| 2015-07-27: |
Spammers mine everything, Github edition
|
| 2015-07-26: |
Why I increasingly think we're unlikely to ever use Docker
|
| 2015-07-25: |
Everything that does TLS should log the SSL parameters used
|
| 2015-07-24: |
Fedora 22's problem with my scroll wheel
|
| 2015-07-22: |
A modest little change I'd like to see in bug reporting systems
Some thoughts on log rolling with date extensions
|
| 2015-07-20: |
My brush with the increasing pervasiveness of smartphone GPS mapping
The OmniOS kernel can hold major amounts of unused memory for a long time
|
| 2015-07-19: |
'Retail' versus 'wholesale' spam
|
| 2015-07-18: |
Some data on how long it is between fetches of my Atom feed
|
| 2015-07-17: |
Your standard input is a tty in a number of surprising cases
|
| 2015-07-15: |
Eating memory in Python the easy way
Mdb is so close to being a great tool for introspecting the kernel
|
| 2015-07-14: |
Don't support shortened versions of your domain names in email addresses
|
| 2015-07-13: |
My personal view of OpenBSD
|
| 2015-07-12: |
A Linux software RAID message flood
|
| 2015-07-11: |
OpenBSD and the impact of culture
|
| 2015-07-10: |
What SSH keys in your .ssh/config will be offered to servers
|
| 2015-07-09: |
When SSH needs you to decrypt your keys
|
| 2015-07-08: |
Making GTK applications in alternate locations, settings edition
|
| 2015-07-07: |
The Git 'commit local changes and rebase' experience is a winning one
|
| 2015-07-06: |
My Django form field validation and cleanup pain
|
| 2015-07-05: |
Sysadmin use of email is often necessarily more or less interrupt driven
|
| 2015-07-04: |
Googlebot and Feedfetcher are still aggressively grabbing syndication feeds
|
| 2015-07-03: |
Wandering Thoughts is now ten years old
Some notes on my 'commit local changes and rebase' Git workflow
|
| 2015-07-02: |
Some thoughts on Go compiler directives being in source comments
|
| 2015-06-30: |
My early impressions of Fedora 22, especially of DNF
The probable and prosaic explanation for a socket() API choice
|
| 2015-06-29: |
BSD Unix developed over more time than I usually think
|
| 2015-06-28: |
Faster SSDs matter to companies because they sell things
|
| 2015-06-27: |
The next (or coming) way to connect SSDs to your system
|
| 2015-06-26: |
The status of our problems with overloaded OmniOS NFS servers
|
| 2015-06-25: |
Multiple set matches with Linux's iptables 'ipset' extension
|
| 2015-06-24: |
I've finally turned SELinux fully off even on my laptop
|
| 2015-06-23: |
A Bash test limitation and the brute force way around it
|
| 2015-06-22: |
Modern *BSDs have a much better init system than I was expecting
|
| 2015-06-21: |
Why System V init's split scripts approach is better than classical BSD
|
| 2015-06-20: |
Thinking about people's SSD inflection points in general
|
| 2015-06-19: |
Sometimes looking into spam for a blog entry has unexpected benefits
|
| 2015-06-18: |
The cost of OmniOS not having /etc/cron.d
|
| 2015-06-17: |
Exploring the irritating thing about Python's .join()
|
| 2015-06-16: |
NFS writes and whether or not they're synchronous
|
| 2015-06-15: |
My view of NFS protocol versions
|
| 2015-06-14: |
What I plug into my home Linux machine as far as peripherals go
|
| 2015-06-12: |
My pragmatic view of HTTPS versus caching
Red Hat are marketing email spammers now (in the traditional way)
|
| 2015-06-11: |
HTTP should be dropped even as a pure Internet transport mechanism
|
| 2015-06-10: |
My pragmatic view on switching to HTTPS and TLS everywhere
|
| 2015-06-09: |
How I use virtual screens in my desktop environment
|
| 2015-06-08: |
Exceptions as aggregators of error handling
|
| 2015-06-07: |
You won't get people off Python 2 by making their lives worse
|
| 2015-06-06: |
The security danger of exploitable bugs in file format libraries
|
| 2015-06-05: |
My current views on Rust (the programming language)
|
| 2015-06-04: |
Linux evolution through de facto quiet standards
|
| 2015-06-03: |
What makes for a simple web application environment
|
| 2015-06-01: |
The problem with 'what is your data worth?'
|
| 2015-05-31: |
Unix has been bad before
My view of setting up sane web server application delegations
|
| 2015-05-30: |
What I'm doing in reaction to Logjam (for HTTPS, SSH, and IKE)
|
| 2015-05-29: |
I don't commit changes in my working repos
|
| 2015-05-28: |
I don't find Github pull requests an easy way to submit patches
|
| 2015-05-27: |
The impact on you of making 'bad' bug reports
|
| 2015-05-25: |
One of the problems with 'you should submit a patch'
Email providers cannot stop spam by scanning outgoing email
|
| 2015-05-24: |
A mod_wsgi problem with serving both HTTP and HTTPS from the same WSGI app
|
| 2015-05-23: |
The right way for your WSGI app to know if it's using HTTPS
|
| 2015-05-22: |
Unsurprisingly, Amazon is now running a mail spamming service
|
| 2015-05-21: |
It's time for me to stop using lighttpd
|
| 2015-05-20: |
On the modern web, ISPs are one of your threats
|
| 2015-05-19: |
Converting filesystems from ext3 to ext4, and concerns attached to it (plus bad news for me)
|
| 2015-05-17: |
Why I'm interested in converting my ext3 filesystems to ext4
A bit more on the ZFS delete queue and snapshots
|
| 2015-05-15: |
Your Illumos-based NFS fileserver may be 'leaking' deleted files
The ZFS delete queue: ZFS's solution to the pending delete problem
The pending delete problem for Unix filesystems
|
| 2015-05-14: |
In Go, you need to always make sure that your goroutines will finish
|
| 2015-05-13: |
Go goroutines as a way to capture and hold state
|
| 2015-05-12: |
It's time to stop coddling software that can't handle HTTPS URLs
|
| 2015-05-11: |
The problem with proportional fonts for editing code and related things
|
| 2015-05-10: |
Our mail submission system winds up handling two sorts of senders
|
| 2015-05-09: |
What addresses we accept and reject during mail submission
|
| 2015-05-08: |
Sometimes it's useful to have brute force handy: an amusing IPMI bug
|
| 2015-05-06: |
Why keeping output to 80 columns (or less) is still sensible
Unix's pipeline problem (okay, its problem with file redirection too)
|
| 2015-05-04: |
Monitoring tools should report timestamps (and what they're monitoring)
What I want to have in shell (filename) completion
|
| 2015-05-03: |
Sometimes knowing causes does you no good (and sensible uses of time)
|
| 2015-05-02: |
OmniOS as a NFS server has problems with sustained write loads
|
| 2015-04-30: |
I'm considering ways to mass-add URLs to Firefox's history database
Why I have a perpetual browser history
|
| 2015-04-29: |
The 'EHLO ylmf-pc' plague of SMTP authentication guessers
|
| 2015-04-28: |
There's no portable way to turn a file descriptor read only or write only
|
| 2015-04-27: |
The fading out of tcpwrappers and its idea
|
| 2015-04-26: |
My complicated feelings on abandoning old but good code
|
| 2015-04-25: |
I'm still running a twelve year old Python program
|
| 2015-04-24: |
A DKMS problem I had with lingering old versions
|
| 2015-04-23: |
Upgrading machines versus reinstalling them
|
| 2015-04-22: |
Don't make /opt a filesystem on OmniOS (or probably Illumos generally)
|
| 2015-04-20: |
I don't think I'm interested in containers
An interesting trick for handling line numbers in little languages
|
| 2015-04-19: |
A potential path to IPv6 (again), but probably not a realistic one today
|
| 2015-04-18: |
A core problem of IPv6 adoption is the lack of user benefits
|
| 2015-04-17: |
In practice, programmers mostly understand complexity by superstition
|
| 2015-04-16: |
Are Python dictionaries necessarily constant-time data structures?
|
| 2015-04-15: |
Illusory security is terrible and is worse than no security
|
| 2015-04-14: |
Allowing people to be in more than 16 groups with an OmniOS NFS server
|
| 2015-04-12: |
One speed limit on your ability to upgrade your systems
Spam victims don't care what business unit is responsible for the spam
|
| 2015-04-10: |
I wish systemd would get over its thing about syslog
My Firefox 37 extensions and addons (sort of)
|
| 2015-04-09: |
Probably why Fedora puts their release version in package release numbers
|
| 2015-04-08: |
Your entire download infrastructure needs to use HTTPS
|
| 2015-04-07: |
How Ubuntu and Fedora each do kernel packages
|
| 2015-04-06: |
What adblockers block
|
| 2015-04-05: |
A note on the argument about the 'morality' of adblockers
|
| 2015-04-04: |
An important note if you want to totally stop an IKE IPSec connection
A weird new IKE IPSec problem that I just had on Fedora 21's latest kernel
|
| 2015-04-03: |
Understanding the (original) meaning of Unix load average
|
| 2015-04-02: |
When the Unix load average was added to Unix
|
| 2015-03-31: |
Btrfs's mistake in limiting itself to two-way mirroring
|
| 2015-03-30: |
My preliminary views on mosh
The 'cattle' model for servers is only a good fit in certain situations
|
| 2015-03-29: |
SSH connection sharing and erratic networks
|
| 2015-03-28: |
All browsers need a (good) way to flush memorized HTTP redirects
|
| 2015-03-27: |
Looking more deeply into some SMTP authentication probes
|
| 2015-03-26: |
Why systemd should have ignored SysV init script LSB dependencies
|
| 2015-03-25: |
A significant amount of programming is done by superstition
|
| 2015-03-24: |
What is and isn't a bug in software
|
| 2015-03-23: |
Systemd is not fully backwards compatible with System V init scripts
|
| 2015-03-22: |
I now feel that Red Hat Enterprise 6 is okay (although not great)
|
| 2015-03-21: |
Spammers show up fast when you open up port 25 (at least sometimes)
|
| 2015-03-20: |
Unix's mistake with rm and directories
|
| 2015-03-19: |
A brief history of fiddling with Unix directories
|
| 2015-03-18: |
The real speed advantage static rendering has over dynamic rendering
|
| 2015-03-16: |
Solving our authenticated SMTP problem by rethinking it
Our difficulties with OmniOS upgrades
|
| 2015-03-15: |
The importance of user interface, illustrated by the Go flag package
|
| 2015-03-14: |
Using an automounter doesn't always help with bad NFS servers
|
| 2015-03-13: |
The puzzle of packets to your host that your host doesn't respond to
|
| 2015-03-12: |
My feelings about GRUB 1 versus GRUB 2
|
| 2015-03-11: |
The irritation of being told 'everyone who cares uses ECC RAM'
|
| 2015-03-10: |
Why installing packages is almost always going to be slow (today)
|
| 2015-03-09: |
I should document my test plans and their results
|
| 2015-03-08: |
Why ZFS's 'directory must be empty' mount restriction is sensible
|
| 2015-03-06: |
Our brute force solution for port isolation without port isolated switches
The simple way CPython does constant folding
|
| 2015-03-05: |
An interesting excursion with Python strings and is
|
| 2015-03-04: |
What creates inheritance?
|
| 2015-03-03: |
The latest xterm versions mangle $SHELL in annoying ways
|
| 2015-03-02: |
My view of the difference between 'pets' and 'cattle'
|
| 2015-02-28: |
Sometimes why we have singleton machines is that failover is hard
|
| 2015-02-27: |
Email from generic word domains is usually advance fee fraud spam
What limits how fast we can install machines
|
| 2015-02-25: |
My current issues with systemd's networkd in Fedora 21
My Linux container temptation: running other Linuxes
|
| 2015-02-24: |
How we do and document machine builds
|
| 2015-02-23: |
In shell programming, I should be more willing to write custom tools
|
| 2015-02-22: |
Unsurprisingly, random SMTP servers do get open relay probes
|
| 2015-02-21: |
It turns out that I routinely use some really old Linux binaries
|
| 2015-02-20: |
All of our Solaris 10 machines are now out of production
|
| 2015-02-19: |
Exploiting Python metaclasses to forbid subclassing and where it fails
|
| 2015-02-18: |
I wish Python didn't allow any callable to be a 'metaclass'
|
| 2015-02-17: |
Your example code should work and be error-free
|
| 2015-02-16: |
Web ads considered as a security exposure
|
| 2015-02-15: |
My current views on Firefox adblocker addons
|
| 2015-02-14: |
Planning ahead in documentation: kind of a war story
|
| 2015-02-13: |
The technical side of Python metaclasses (a pointer)
|
| 2015-02-11: |
Good technical writing is not characterless and bland
ZFS can apparently start NFS fileservice before boot finishes
|
| 2015-02-10: |
Our ZFS fileservers have a serious problem when pools hit quota limits
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| 2015-02-09: |
'Inbox zero' doesn't seem to work for me but it's still tempting
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| 2015-02-08: |
The history of commercial Unix and my pragmatism
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| 2015-02-07: |
Trying to move towards Ed25519 OpenSSH host keys: a stumbling block
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| 2015-02-06: |
A thought on containerization, isolation, and deployment
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| 2015-02-05: |
All of our important machines are pets and special snowflakes
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| 2015-02-04: |
How our console server setup works
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| 2015-02-03: |
Why we've wound up moving away from serial consoles on our machines
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| 2015-02-02: |
Why people were enthused about gcc early on in its life
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| 2015-01-31: |
The problem with punishing people over policy violations
Upgrades and support periods
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| 2015-01-30: |
I've come to believe Django's way of defining database tables is wrong
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| 2015-01-29: |
The practical result of OpenBSD's support policy
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| 2015-01-28: |
A thought about social obligations to report bugs
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| 2015-01-27: |
Our current email anti-virus system is probably ineffective now
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| 2015-01-26: |
Some notes on keeping up with Go packages and commands
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| 2015-01-25: |
The long term problem with ZFS on Linux is its license
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| 2015-01-24: |
Web applications and generating alerts due to HTTP requests
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| 2015-01-23: |
A problem with gnome-terminal in Fedora 21, and tracking it down
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| 2015-01-22: |
How to set up static networking with systemd-networkd, or at least how I did
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| 2015-01-21: |
Why I'm switching to systemd's networkd stuff for my networking
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| 2015-01-19: |
A gotcha with Python tuples
Why user-hostile policies are a bad thing and a mistake
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| 2015-01-18: |
Limited retention policies for email are user-hostile
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| 2015-01-16: |
Node.js is not for me (and why)
Using systemd-run to limit something's RAM consumption on the fly
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| 2015-01-15: |
Link: Against DNSSEC by Thomas Ptacek
General ZFS pool shrinking will likely be coming to Illumos
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| 2015-01-14: |
What /etc/shells is and isn't
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| 2015-01-13: |
Our tradeoffs on ZFS ZIL SLOG devices for pools
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| 2015-01-12: |
I've now seen comment spam attempts from Tor exit nodes
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| 2015-01-11: |
The effects of losing a ZFS ZIL SLOG device, as I understand them
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| 2015-01-10: |
Autoplaying anything is a terrible decision, doubly so for video
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| 2015-01-09: |
Why filesystems need to be where data is checksummed
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| 2015-01-08: |
ZFS should be your choice today if you need an advanced filesystem on Unix
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| 2015-01-07: |
Forwarding access to only a subset of ssh-agent's identities
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| 2015-01-06: |
Choices filesystems make about checksums
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| 2015-01-05: |
Today on Linux, ZFS is your only real choice for an advanced filesystem
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| 2015-01-04: |
What makes a 'next generation' or 'advanced' modern filesystem, for me
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| 2015-01-03: |
The effects of our fileserver multi-tenancy
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| 2015-01-02: |
Where we have multi-tenancy in our fileserver environment
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