Wandering Thoughts archives

2016-10-31:	DKMS kind of has a problem with its error messages Link: Linux containers in 500 lines of code Why I'm interested in nftables, the theoretical Linux iptables replacement
2016-10-30:	How modern SSH key exchange provides (strong) protection against attacks
2016-10-29:	More on SSH, public key authentication, and 'man in the middle' attacks
2016-10-28:	How I set up a DHCP client for my backup Internet connection
2016-10-26:	Why I'm unhappy with how Debian builds from source packages right now What I'm doing to use a Yubikey in Fedora 24's Cinnamon desktop environment
2016-10-24:	On classifying phish spam as malware, an update How I've wound up being one of the people who don't update IoT firmware
2016-10-23:	I should keep a released version of the Go compiler suite
2016-10-22:	The `shutdown` program on a modern systemd-based Linux system
2016-10-21:	The `shutdown` command is a relic of BSD's historical origins
2016-10-20:	I like the Python 3 string `.translate()` method
2016-10-19:	Writing in Python 3 has been a positive experience so far
2016-10-17:	Making my Yubikey work reasonably with my X screen locking
2016-10-16:	Why we care about long uptimes How I managed to shoot myself in the foot with my local DNS resolver
2016-10-15:	ZFS's 'panic on on-disk corruption' behavior is a serious flaw
2016-10-14:	Watch out for web server configurations that 'cross over' between sites
2016-10-13:	How I've set up SSH keys on my Yubikey 4 (so far)
2016-10-12:	I have yet to start using any smartphone two-factor authentication
2016-10-10:	How and why the new `iptables -w` option is such a terrible fumble The modern web is an unpredictable and strange place to develop for
2016-10-09:	What I think I want out of CPU performance in a new PC
2016-10-08:	I have a blind spot where it comes to using `chmod`'s symbolic modes
2016-10-07:	Why OmniOS boot environments don't solve our upgrade issues
2016-10-06:	How we could update our iSCSI backends and why we probably won't
2016-10-05:	Linux can be really stable under the right circumstances
2016-10-03:	My take on Git rebasing versus cherry-picking
2016-10-02:	Why I've put a Twitter client on my smartphone The MyDoom worm is still out there

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