Wandering Thoughts archives

2016-01-31:	One thing I don't like about Fedora is slow security updates The tradeoffs of having `ssh-agent` hold all of your SSH keys
2016-01-30:	Some good practices for handling OpenSSH keypairs
2016-01-29:	What SSH identities will be offered to a remote server and when
2016-01-28:	Modern Django makes me repeat myself in the name of something
2016-01-26:	Why my home backup situation is currently a bit awkward Low level issues can have quite odd high level symptoms (again)
2016-01-25:	A Python wish: an easy, widely supported way to turn a path into a module
2016-01-24:	Hostile HTTPS interception on the modern web is now increasingly costly and risky
2016-01-22:	Browsers are increasingly willing to say no to users over HTTPS issues Memory-safe languages and reading very sensitive files
2016-01-21:	One example of why I like ZFS on Linux
2016-01-20:	Illumos's ZFS prefetching has recently become less superintelligent than it used to be
2016-01-18:	Today I learned that a syslog server can be very silent on the network A limitation of `tcpdump` is that you can't tell in from out
2016-01-17:	My theory on how network loop caused the problem we observed
2016-01-15:	Network loops can have weird effects (at least sometimes) Things I learned from OpenSSH about reading very sensitive files
2016-01-13:	What I want out of backups for my home machine (in the abstract) Your system's performance is generally built up in layers
2016-01-11:	The drawback of setting an explicit mount point for ZFS filesystems The benefits of flexible space usage in filesystems
2016-01-10:	Updating software to IPv6 is often harder than you might think
2016-01-09:	The convenience of having keyboard controls for sound volume
2016-01-08:	Getting to watch a significant spam campaign recently
2016-01-07:	The format of strings in early (pre-C) Unix
2016-01-06:	A fun Bash buffering bug (apparently on Linux only)
2016-01-05:	Illumos's problem with its VCS commit messages
2016-01-04:	How I do per-address blocklists with Exim
2016-01-03:	One anti-spam thing I like is per-person (or per-address) blocklists
2016-01-02:	I've realized I need to change how I read Twitter

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