Wandering Thoughts archives

2016-06-30:	Some advantages of using argparse to handle arguments as well as options What makes a email MIME part an attachment?
2016-06-29:	Modern DNS servers (especially resolvers) should have query logging
2016-06-27:	Today's lesson on the value of commenting your configuration settings If you send email, don't expect people to help you with abuse handling
2016-06-26:	How not to maintain your DNS (part 22)
2016-06-25:	What Python 3 versions Django supports, and when this changes
2016-06-24:	Our new plan for creating our periodic long term backups
2016-06-22:	I need to cultivate some new coding habits for Python 3 ready code Moving from Python 2 to Python 3 calls for a code inventory
2016-06-20:	A tiny systemd convenience: it can reboot the system from RAM alone
2016-06-19:	A lesson to myself: know your emergency contact numbers Why ZFS can't really allow you to add disks to raidz vdevs
2016-06-18:	It's easier to shrink RAID disk volumes than to reshape them
2016-06-17:	Why you can't remove a device from a ZFS pool to shrink it
2016-06-15:	How (some) syndication feed readers deal with HTTP to HTTPS redirections ZFS on Linux has just fixed a long standing little annoyance
2016-06-14:	Some notes on how `xdg-open` picks which web browser to use How `xdg-mime` searches for MIME type handlers (more or less)
2016-06-12:	There are (at least) two sorts of DNS blocklists Some notes on adding exposed statistics to a (Go) program
2016-06-11:	I accept that someday I'll give up MH and move to IMAP mail clients
2016-06-10:	An email mistake I've made as a long-term university sysadmin
2016-06-09:	My concern about the potential dominance of the mobile web
2016-06-08:	How dominant is the mobile web (versus the desktop web)?
2016-06-06:	My views of Windows 10 (from the outside) I work in what is increasingly a pretty different sysadmin environment
2016-06-05:	My approach for inspecting Go error values
2016-06-04:	The (Unix) shell is not just for running programs
2016-06-03:	One thing that makes the Bourne shell an odd language
2016-06-02:	Spammers can abandon SMTP connections not infrequently

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