Wandering Thoughts archives

2016-03-31:	My initial experience of using NSD as a simple authoritative DNS server
2016-03-30:	I've now used Python's argparse module and I like it My view of Debian's behavior on package upgrades with new dependencies
2016-03-28:	An awkward confession and what we should do about it Why I don't think upgrading servers would save us much power
2016-03-27:	The limits of open source with Illumos and OmniOS
2016-03-26:	The sensible update for my vintage 2011 home machine
2016-03-25:	There's a relationship between server utilization and server lifetime
2016-03-23:	How old our servers are (as of 2016) Wayland and graphics card uncertainty
2016-03-21:	Current PC technology churn that makes me reluctant to think about a new PC When you want non-mutating methods in Go
2016-03-20:	What broad hit rate the Spamhaus DBL might get for us
2016-03-18:	The Spamhaus DBL does get hits even with basic checks Some things I believe about importance and web page design
2016-03-16:	How '`from module import ...`' is not doing what you may expect I wish I could split up code more easily in Python
2016-03-14:	An additional small detail of how writes work on ZFS raidzN pools How RPM handles configuration files, both technically and socially
2016-03-13:	I've started using the Firefox addon Self-Destructing Cookies for some stuff
2016-03-11:	Why it's irritating when Ubuntu packages don't include their configuration files I need to use `getopts` sooner (and more often) in Bourne shell scripts
2016-03-09:	A sensible surprise (to me) in the Bourne shell's expansion of `"$@"` Some thoughts on ways of choosing what TLS ciphers to support
2016-03-07:	Why it makes sense for `true` and `false` to ignore their arguments Apt-get and its irritating lack of easy selective upgrades
2016-03-06:	Firefox addons seem unfortunately prone to memory leaks
2016-03-05:	What happens when a modern Linux system boots without `/bin/sh`
2016-03-04:	Some notes on supporting readline (tab) completion in your Python program
2016-03-03:	My views on clients for Lets Encrypt
2016-03-02:	Some notes on OpenSSH's optional hostname canonicalization

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