| 2017-12-31: |
Is the C runtime and library a legitimate part of the Unix API?
Understanding IMAP path prefixes in clients and servers
|
| 2017-12-30: |
Some details of ZFS DVAs and what some of their fields store
|
| 2017-12-29: |
To get much faster, an implementation of Python must do less work
|
| 2017-12-28: |
How our IMAP server wound up running out of inodes
|
| 2017-12-27: |
When you have fileservers, they naturally become the center of the world
|
| 2017-12-26: |
I continue to have strong confidence in ZFS On Linux
|
| 2017-12-25: |
There were Unix machines with real DirectColor graphics hardware
|
| 2017-12-24: |
The interestingly different display colour models of X10 and X11
|
| 2017-12-23: |
Our next generation of fileservers will not be based on Illumos
|
| 2017-12-22: |
Our next generation of fileservers will not use any sort of SAN
|
| 2017-12-21: |
Checking RAM DIMM information from inside Linux
|
| 2017-12-20: |
I feel that Firefox forks that would be useful to me are doomed
|
| 2017-12-19: |
Attachment types that we see in email from Zen-listed IP addresses
|
| 2017-12-18: |
What file types we see inside ZIP archives with only a single file in email
|
| 2017-12-17: |
Some questions someone should ask Mozilla
|
| 2017-12-15: |
Mozilla betrays Firefox users and its nominal principles
How we automate acmetool
|
| 2017-12-14: |
How Python makes it hard to write well structured little utilities
|
| 2017-12-13: |
Our Apache file serving problem on our general purpose web server
|
| 2017-12-12: |
Some notes on systemd-resolved, the systemd DNS resolver
|
| 2017-12-11: |
Some things about booting with UEFI that are different from MBR booting
|
| 2017-12-10: |
Let's Encrypt and a TLS monoculture
|
| 2017-12-09: |
You don't have to authorize a machine for Let's Encrypt from the machine
We've switched over to using Let's Encrypt as much as possible
|
| 2017-12-08: |
Some thoughts on what StartCom's shutdown means in general
|
| 2017-12-06: |
My upgrade to Fedora 27, Secure Boot, and a mistake made somewhere
In practice, Go's slices are two different data structures in one
|
| 2017-12-04: |
Some notes on using Go to check and verify SSH host keys
|
| 2017-12-03: |
Some notes and considerations on SSH host key verification
My new Linux office workstation for fall 2017
|
| 2017-12-01: |
I'm basically giving up on syslog priorities
|
| 2017-11-30: |
We're broadly switching to synchronizing time with systemd's timesyncd
The cost of memory access across a NUMA machine can (probably) matter
|
| 2017-11-29: |
Sometimes the right thing to do about a spate of spam is nothing (probably)
|
| 2017-11-27: |
Code stability in my one Django web application
The dig program now needs some additional options for useful DNS server testing
|
| 2017-11-26: |
One way of capturing debugging state information in a systemd-based system
|
| 2017-11-25: |
Sequential scrubs and resilvers are coming for (open-source) ZFS
|
| 2017-11-24: |
Shooting myself in the foot by using exec in a shell script
|
| 2017-11-23: |
Understanding a tricky case of Bourne shell redirection and command parsing
|
| 2017-11-22: |
Delays on SMTP replies discourage apparently SMTP AUTH scanners
|
| 2017-11-20: |
Major version changes are often partly a signal about support
|
| 2017-11-19: |
StartCom gives up on its Certificate Authority business
Getting some information about the NUMA memory hierarchy of your server
|
| 2017-11-18: |
AMD Ryzens, their memory speed peculiarities, and ECC
|
| 2017-11-17: |
When you should run an NTP daemon on your servers
|
| 2017-11-16: |
I think you should mostly not run NTP daemons on your machines
|
| 2017-11-15: |
I've switched from ntpd to chrony as my NTP daemon
|
| 2017-11-14: |
We may have reached a point where (new) ARM servers will just work for Linux
|
| 2017-11-13: |
X11 PseudoColor displays could have multiple hardware colormaps
|
| 2017-11-12: |
The fun of X11 PseudoColor displays and window managers
|
| 2017-11-11: |
What X11's TrueColor means (with some history)
|
| 2017-11-10: |
A systemd mistake with a script-based service unit I recently made
|
| 2017-11-09: |
Why I'm not enthused about live patching kernels and systems
|
| 2017-11-08: |
What it means to support ECC RAM (especially for AMD Ryzen)
|
| 2017-11-07: |
Link: Citation Needed [on array indexing in programming languages]
My new Linux machine for fall 2017 (planned)
|
| 2017-11-05: |
How collections.defaultdict is good for your memory usage
Some early notes on WireGuard
|
| 2017-11-04: |
Why I've switched from GRE-over-IPSec to using WireGuard
|
| 2017-11-03: |
Illumos mountd caches netgroup lookups (relatively briefly)
|
| 2017-11-02: |
I think Certificate Transparency is better for the web than HTTP Key Pinning
|
| 2017-10-31: |
We've now seen malware in a tar archive
|
| 2017-10-30: |
There are two sorts of TLS certificate mis-issuing
The Illumos NFS server's caching of filesystem access permissions
|
| 2017-10-29: |
There are several ways to misread specifications
|
| 2017-10-28: |
Why I plan to pick a relatively high-end desktop CPU for my next PC
|
| 2017-10-27: |
HD usage can be limited by things other than cost per TB
|
| 2017-10-26: |
The 'standard set' of Unix programs is something that evolves over time
|
| 2017-10-25: |
Having different commands on different systems does matter
|
| 2017-10-24: |
Our frustrations with OmniOS's 'KYSTY' minimalism
|
| 2017-10-23: |
I've now seen something doing SMTP probing of IPv6 addresses
|
| 2017-10-22: |
Understanding what our wireless password protects
|
| 2017-10-21: |
Multi-Unix environments are less and less common now
|
| 2017-10-20: |
Ext4, SSDs, and RAID stripe parameters
|
| 2017-10-18: |
Using Shellcheck is good for me
I still like Python and often reach for it by default
|
| 2017-10-17: |
My current grumpy view on key generation for hardware crypto keys
|
| 2017-10-16: |
Getting ssh-agent working in Fedora 26's Cinnamon desktop environment
|
| 2017-10-15: |
Unbalanced reads from SSDs in software RAID mirrors in Linux
|
| 2017-10-14: |
A surprise about which of our machines has the highest disk write volume
|
| 2017-10-13: |
Working to understand PCI Express and how it interacts with modern CPUs
|
| 2017-10-12: |
I'm looking forward to using systemd's new IP access control features
|
| 2017-10-11: |
Understanding M.2 SSDs in practice and how this relates to NVMe
|
| 2017-10-10: |
An interesting way to leak memory with Go slices
|
| 2017-10-09: |
JavaScript as the extension language of the future
|
| 2017-10-08: |
Thinking about whether I'll upgrade my next PC partway through its life
|
| 2017-10-07: |
I'm trying out smooth scrolling in my browsers
|
| 2017-10-06: |
Spam issues need to be considered from the start
|
| 2017-10-05: |
Google is objectively running a spammer mailing list service
|
| 2017-10-04: |
My new worry about Firefox 56 and the addons that I care about
|
| 2017-10-03: |
Some thoughts on having both Python 2 and 3 programs
|
| 2017-10-02: |
My experience with using Fedora 26's standard font rendering (and fonts)
|
| 2017-09-30: |
The origin of POSIX as I learned the story (or mythology)
|
| 2017-09-29: |
Shell builtin versions of standard commands have drawbacks
More on systemd on Ubuntu 16.04 failing to reliably reboot some of our servers
|
| 2017-09-27: |
Putting cron jobs into systemd user slices doesn't always work (on Ubuntu 16.04)
ZFS's recordsize, holes in files, and partial blocks
|
| 2017-09-26: |
Using zdb to peer into how ZFS stores files on disk
|
| 2017-09-25: |
What I use printf for when hacking changes into programs
|
| 2017-09-24: |
Reading code and seeing what you're biased to see, illustrated
|
| 2017-09-23: |
A clever way of killing groups of processes
|
| 2017-09-22: |
Using a watchdog timer in system shutdown with systemd (on Ubuntu 16.04)
|
| 2017-09-21: |
My potential qualms about using Python 3 in projects
|
| 2017-09-20: |
Wireless is now critical (network) infrastructure
|
| 2017-09-18: |
Looking back at my mixed and complicated feelings about Solaris
Sorting out the world of modern USB (at least a bit)
|
| 2017-09-17: |
Why I didn't use the attrs module in a recent Python project
|
| 2017-09-15: |
Ignoring the domain when authenticating your Dovecot users
Firefox 57 and the state of old pre-WebExtensions addons
|
| 2017-09-14: |
Sorting out systemd's system.conf, user.conf, and logind.conf
|
| 2017-09-13: |
System shutdown is complicated and involves policy decisions
|
| 2017-09-12: |
The different contexts of stopping a Unix daemon or service
|
| 2017-09-11: |
Giving users what they want and expect, IMAP edition
|
| 2017-09-10: |
I failed to notice when my network performance became terrible
|
| 2017-09-09: |
Letting go of having an optical drive in my machine
|
| 2017-09-08: |
My view of the problem with Extended Validation TLS certificates
|
| 2017-09-07: |
Systemd, NFS mounts, and shutting down your system
|
| 2017-09-06: |
Systemd on Ubuntu 16.04 can't (or won't) reliably reboot your server
|
| 2017-09-05: |
If spam false positives are inevitable, should we handle them better?
|
| 2017-09-04: |
The idea of 'spam levels' may be a copout
|
| 2017-09-03: |
A fundamental limitation of systemd's per-user fair share scheduling
|
| 2017-09-02: |
Putting cron jobs into systemd user slices
|
| 2017-08-31: |
With git, it's useful to pick the right approach to your problem
People probably aren't going to tell you when your anti-spam systems are working
|
| 2017-08-30: |
We've wound up using the spam scores from some other mail systems
|
| 2017-08-28: |
OpenSSH has an annoyingly misleading sshd error log message
The types of attachments we see for malware-laden email
|
| 2017-08-27: |
Is bootstrapping Go from source faster using Go 1.9 or Go 1.8?
|
| 2017-08-25: |
The probable coming explosion of Firefox 57
Fedora 26 and a font rendering dilemma for me
|
| 2017-08-23: |
Why Go changes its minimum version requirements for OSes (and hardware)
An unexpected risk of using Go is it ending support for older OS versions
|
| 2017-08-22: |
Understanding rainbow tables
|
| 2017-08-21: |
Hashed Ethernet addresses are not anonymous identifiers
|
| 2017-08-20: |
The surprising longevity of Unix manpage formatting
|
| 2017-08-19: |
Subnets and early Unix implementations of TCP/IP networking
|
| 2017-08-18: |
How ZFS on Linux names disks in ZFS pools
|
| 2017-08-16: |
The three different names ZFS stores for each vdev disk (on Illumos)
Things I do and don't know about how ZFS brings pools up during boot
|
| 2017-08-15: |
How to get per-user fair share scheduling on Ubuntu 16.04 (with systemd)
|
| 2017-08-14: |
Chrome extensions are becoming a reason not to use Chrome
|
| 2017-08-13: |
Sorting out slice mutability in Go
|
| 2017-08-12: |
Notes on cgroups and systemd's interaction with them as of Ubuntu 16.04
|
| 2017-08-11: |
Some notes from my brief experience with the Grumpy transpiler for Python
Link: Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery
|
| 2017-08-10: |
On the Internet, merely blocking eavesdropping is a big practical win
|
| 2017-08-09: |
How encryption without authentication would still be useful on the web
|
| 2017-08-08: |
We care more about long term security updates than full long term support
|
| 2017-08-07: |
There will be no LTS release of the OmniOS Community Edition
|
| 2017-08-06: |
Our decision to restrict what we use for developing internal tools
|
| 2017-08-05: |
I've been hit by the startup overhead of small programs in Python
|
| 2017-08-04: |
The problem with distributed authentication systems for big sites
|
| 2017-08-03: |
Imposing temporary CPU and memory resource limits on a user on Ubuntu 16.04
|
| 2017-08-02: |
Why I'll never pick the 'sign in with a Facebook or Google account' option
|
| 2017-07-31: |
Using policy based routing to isolate a testing interface on Linux
Link: How does "the" X11 clipboard work?
Modern web page design and superstition
|
| 2017-07-30: |
Some terrible article page design elements on the modern web
|
| 2017-07-29: |
The differences between how SFTP and scp work in OpenSSH
|
| 2017-07-28: |
Our (Unix) staff groups problem
|
| 2017-07-26: |
The continuity of broad systems or environments in system administration
Why I care about Apache's mod_wsgi so much
|
| 2017-07-25: |
If you're going to use PyPy, I think you need servers
|
| 2017-07-24: |
Trying to understand the ZFS l2arc_noprefetch tunable
|
| 2017-07-23: |
Understanding a bit about the SSH connection protocol
|
| 2017-07-21: |
When the SSH protocol does and doesn't do user authentication
|
| 2017-07-20: |
I'm cautiously optimistic about the new OmniOS Community Edition
HTTPS is a legacy protocol
|
| 2017-07-19: |
I've become resigned to Firefox slowly leaking memory
|
| 2017-07-18: |
Python's complicating concept of a callable
|
| 2017-07-17: |
Link: NASA DASHlink - Real System Failures
Why I think Emacs readline bindings work better than Vi ones
|
| 2017-07-16: |
Why upstreams can't document their program's behavior for us
|
| 2017-07-14: |
Some people feel that all permanent SMTP failures are actually temporary
Link: ZFS Storage Overhead
SELinux's problem of keeping up with general Linux development
|
| 2017-07-12: |
Understanding the .io TLD's DNS configuration vulnerability
Recursive DNS servers send the whole original query to authoritative servers
|
| 2017-07-11: |
The BSD r* commands and the history of privileged TCP ports
|
| 2017-07-10: |
Ubuntu's 'Daily Build' images aren't for us
|
| 2017-07-09: |
Why we're not currently interested in PXE-based Linux installs
|
| 2017-07-08: |
I wish you could easily update the packages on Ubuntu ISO images
|
| 2017-07-07: |
Programming Bourne shell scripts is tricky, with dim corners
|
| 2017-07-06: |
Link: Survey of [floating point] Rounding Implementations in Go
My current views on Shellcheck
|
| 2017-07-05: |
How I shot my foot because the Bourne shell is different
|
| 2017-07-04: |
LinkedIn is still trying to send me email despite years of rejections
|
| 2017-07-02: |
Re-applying CPU thermal paste fixed my CPU throttling issues
Moving to smaller fileservers for us probably means no more iSCSI SAN
|
| 2017-06-30: |
Our current generation fileservers have turned out to be too big
Why big Exim queues are a problem for us in practice
|
| 2017-06-29: |
The TLDs of sender addresses for a week of our spam (June 2017 edition)
|
| 2017-06-28: |
I don't think you should increase ZFS on Linux's write buffering
|
| 2017-06-26: |
Our MTAs should probably be able to create backpressure
|
| 2017-06-25: |
Thinking through issues a mail client may have with SMTP-time rejections
One tradeoff in email system design is who holds problematic email
|
| 2017-06-23: |
In praise of uBlock Origin's new 'element zapper' feature
Links: Git remote branches and Git's missing terminology (and more)
My situation with Twitter and my Firefox setup (in which I blame pseudo-XHTML)
|
| 2017-06-22: |
Why we're not running the current version of Django
|
| 2017-06-21: |
The oddity of CVE-2014-9940 and the problem of recognizing kernel security patches
|
| 2017-06-19: |
Plan for manual emergency blocks for your overall mail system
How I'm currently handling the mailing lists I read
|
| 2017-06-17: |
One reason you have a mysterious Unix file called 2 (or 1)
|
| 2017-06-16: |
Go interfaces and automatically generated functions
The (current) state of Firefox Nightly and old extensions
|
| 2017-06-15: |
Why I am not installing your app on my phone
|
| 2017-06-14: |
The difference between ZFS scrubs and resilvers
|
| 2017-06-12: |
Resilvering multiple disks at once in a ZFS pool adds no real extra overhead
|
| 2017-06-11: |
Why filing away mailing lists for a while has improved my life
How to see raw USB events on Linux via usbmon
|
| 2017-06-10: |
One downside of the traditional style of writing Unix manpages
|
| 2017-06-09: |
My .procmailrc has quietly sort of turned into a swamp
|
| 2017-06-08: |
In practice, putting SSDs into 3.5" drive bays is a big hassle
|
| 2017-06-06: |
A humbling experience of misreading some simple (Go) code
The IPv6 address lookup problem (and brute force solution)
|
| 2017-06-05: |
Another case of someone being too clever in their User-Agent field
|
| 2017-06-04: |
Link: The evolution of Unix's overall architecture
Why the popen() API works but more complex versions blow up
|
| 2017-06-03: |
The Python Gilectomy project's performance problem
|
| 2017-06-02: |
My views on the JSON Feed syndication feed format
|
| 2017-05-31: |
How a lot of specifications are often read
Why one git fetch default configuration bit is probably okay
|
| 2017-05-29: |
Configuring Git worktrees to limit what's fetched on pulls
|
| 2017-05-28: |
My thoughts on git worktrees for me (and some notes on things I tried)
Specifications are ultimately defined by their implementations
|
| 2017-05-26: |
Why globally unique IDs are useful for syndication feed entries
|
| 2017-05-25: |
Using Linux's Magic Sysrq on modern keyboards without a dedicated Syrq key
URLs are terrible permanent identifiers for things
|
| 2017-05-24: |
Exploiting Python's Global Interpreter Lock for atomic operations is fun
|
| 2017-05-22: |
Safely using Python's Global Interpreter Lock is quite tricky and subtle
|
| 2017-05-21: |
We use jQuery and I've stopped feeling ashamed about it
A 'null MX' is also useful for blocking forged senders from non-email domains
|
| 2017-05-20: |
We now have an officially standardized 'null MX' record
|
| 2017-05-19: |
I'm not sure what I feel about this web spider's User-Agent value
|
| 2017-05-18: |
A shift in the proper sizes of images on web pages
|
| 2017-05-17: |
Unfortunately I don't feel personally passionate about OmniOS
|
| 2017-05-15: |
Thinking about how much asynchronous disk write buffering you want
How we failed at making all our servers have SSD system disks
|
| 2017-05-14: |
People don't like changes (in computer stuff)
|
| 2017-05-13: |
People don't patch systems and that's all there is to it
|
| 2017-05-12: |
Where bootstrapping Go with a modern version of Go has gotten faster
|
| 2017-05-11: |
The challenges of recovering when unpacking archives with damage
|
| 2017-05-10: |
Building the Go compiler from source from scratch (on Unix)
|
| 2017-05-08: |
Some things I've decided to do to improve my breaks and vacations
|
| 2017-05-07: |
ZFS's zfs receive has no error recovery and what that implies
A mistake I made when setting up my ZFS SSD pool on my home machine
|
| 2017-05-05: |
The temptation of a Ryzen-based machine for my next office workstation
Digging into BSD's choice of Unix group for new directories and files
|
| 2017-05-04: |
My views on using LVM for your system disk and root filesystem
|
| 2017-05-03: |
Sometimes, chmod can fail for interesting reasons
|
| 2017-05-01: |
When a TLS client's certificate is offered to the TLS server
|
| 2017-04-30: |
Some more feelings on nondeterministic garbage collection
Do we want to standardize the size of our root filesystems on servers?
|
| 2017-04-29: |
Some versions of sort can easily sort IPv4 addresses into natural order
|
| 2017-04-28: |
Hardware RAID and the problem of (not) observing disk IO
|
| 2017-04-27: |
Understanding Git's model versus understanding its magic
|
| 2017-04-26: |
Coming to a better understanding of what git rebase does
|
| 2017-04-24: |
What we need from an Illumos-based distribution
Corebird and coming to a healthier relationship with Twitter
|
| 2017-04-23: |
How I rebased changes on top of other rebased changes in Git
|
| 2017-04-21: |
OmniOS's (suddenly) changed future and us
Link: Rob Landley's Linux Memory Management Frequently Asked Questions
A surprising reason grep may think a file is a binary file
|
| 2017-04-20: |
The big motivation for a separate /boot partition
|
| 2017-04-19: |
Some things on how PCs boot the old fashioned BIOS way
For me Chrome clearly wins over Firefox on Javascript-heavy websites
|
| 2017-04-17: |
Shrinking the partitions of a software RAID-1 swap partition
Link: Introduction to Certificate Transparency for Server Operators
What I mostly care about for speeding up our Python programs
|
| 2017-04-16: |
Migrating a separate /boot filesystem into the root filesystem
|
| 2017-04-14: |
Planning out a disk shuffle for my office workstation
Sometimes laziness doesn't pay off
|
| 2017-04-12: |
On today's web, a local Certificate Authority is fairly dangerous
Generating good modern self-signed TLS certificates in today's world
|
| 2017-04-10: |
How TLS certificates specify the hosts they're for
|
| 2017-04-09: |
A single .jar recognized as several types of malware at once
|
| 2017-04-08: |
Doing things the clever way in Exim ACLs by exploiting ACL message variables
Wayland is now the future of Unix graphics and GUIs
|
| 2017-04-07: |
Spammers probably aren't paying any particular attention to you
|
| 2017-04-05: |
Making your SMTP rejection messages be useful for you
Why the modern chown command uses a colon to separate the user and group
|
| 2017-04-03: |
Some DNSBL developments I've just heard about
Why modules raising core exceptions mostly hurts, not helps, your users
|
| 2017-04-02: |
The Spamhaus CSS includes more than dedicated spam ranges
|
| 2017-03-31: |
I quite like the simplification of having OpenSSH canonicalize hostnames
What I know about process virtual size versus RSS on Linux
|
| 2017-03-30: |
What top's SHR field means in quite modern Linux kernels
|
| 2017-03-29: |
The work of safely raising our local /etc/group line length limit
|
| 2017-03-28: |
What affects automatically removing old kernels on Ubuntu
|
| 2017-03-27: |
Link: The Unix Heritage Society now has the 8th, 9th, and 10th editions of Research Unix
We're probably going to upgrade our OmniOS servers by reinstalling them
|
| 2017-03-26: |
Your exposure from retaining Let's Encrypt account keys
|
| 2017-03-24: |
An odd and persistent year old phish spammer
|
| 2017-03-23: |
ARM servers had better just work if vendors want to sell very many
|
| 2017-03-22: |
Setting the root login's 'full name' to identify the machine that sent email
Making sure you can identify what machine sent you a status email
|
| 2017-03-20: |
Modern Linux kernel memory allocation rules for higher-order page requests
My theory on why Go's gofmt has wound up being accepted
|
| 2017-03-19: |
Using Firefox's userContent.css for website-specific fixes
|
| 2017-03-18: |
Part of why Python 3.5's await and async have some odd usage restrictions
|
| 2017-03-17: |
Overcommitting virtual memory is perfectly sensible
|
| 2017-03-16: |
How we can use yield from to implement coroutines
|
| 2017-03-15: |
Sorting out Python generator functions and yield from in my head
|
| 2017-03-13: |
OpenSSH's IdentityFile directive only ever adds identity files (as of 7.4)
What should it mean for a system call to time out?
|
| 2017-03-12: |
CSS, <pre>, and trailing whitespace lead to browser layout weirdness
|
| 2017-03-11: |
Your live web server probably has features you don't know about
|
| 2017-03-10: |
Malware is sometimes sent through organized, purchased infrastructure
|
| 2017-03-09: |
I wish you could whitelist kernel modules, instead of blacklisting them
|
| 2017-03-08: |
An AMD Ryzen is unlikely to be my next desktop's CPU
|
| 2017-03-06: |
Modern X Windows can be a very complicated environment
|
| 2017-03-05: |
Why I (as a sysadmin) reflexively dislike various remote file access tools for editors
|
| 2017-03-04: |
Should you add MX entries for hosts in your (public) DNS?
|
| 2017-03-03: |
Why exposing only blocking APIs are ultimately a bad idea
Some notes on ZFS per-user quotas and their interactions with NFS
|
| 2017-03-01: |
Cheap concurrency is an illusion (at least on Unix)
|
| 2017-02-28: |
Using Certificate Transparency to monitor your organization's TLS activity
|
| 2017-02-27: |
The conflict between wildcard TLS certificates and Certificate Transparency
|
| 2017-02-26: |
In Python, strings are infinitely recursively iterable
How recursively flattening a list raises a Python type question
|
| 2017-02-25: |
A single email message with quite a lot of different malware
|
| 2017-02-24: |
What an actual assessment of Ubuntu kernel security updates looks like
How ZFS bookmarks can work their magic with reasonable efficiency
|
| 2017-02-22: |
ZFS bookmarks and what they're good for
Sometimes it can be hard to tell one cause of failure from another
|
| 2017-02-20: |
Some notes on moving a software RAID-1 root filesystem around (to SSDs)
Some views on the Corebird Twitter client
|
| 2017-02-19: |
Using pup to deal with Twitter's increasing demand for Javascript
|
| 2017-02-17: |
robots.txt is a hint and a social contract between sites and web spiders
Sometimes, firmware updates can be a good thing to do
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| 2017-02-16: |
Waiting for a specific wall-clock time in Unix
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| 2017-02-15: |
Another risk of hardware RAID controllers is the manufacturer vanishing
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| 2017-02-14: |
Does CR LF as a line ending cause extra problems with buffers?
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| 2017-02-13: |
What file types we see inside singleton nested zipfiles in email
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| 2017-02-12: |
I'm too much of a perfectionist about contributing to open source projects
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| 2017-02-11: |
Different ways you can initialize a RAID-[567+] array
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| 2017-02-10: |
Python won't (and can't) import native modules from zip archives
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| 2017-02-09: |
Malware strains may go away sometimes, but they generally come back
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| 2017-02-08: |
How to see and flush the Linux kernel NFS server's authentication cache
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| 2017-02-06: |
Systemd's slowly but steadily increased idealism about the world
Our advantage in reliable backups is that we get restore requests
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| 2017-02-05: |
Systemd should be better than it is, but it is still our best init system
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| 2017-02-04: |
My views on X (Windows)
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| 2017-02-03: |
What it's sensible to use a bunch of Unix swap space for
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| 2017-02-02: |
Link: Four Column ASCII
Sometimes you get lucky and apparently dead disks come back to life
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| 2017-01-31: |
Email attachments of singleton nested zipfiles are suspicious
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| 2017-01-30: |
Why having CR LF as your line ending is a mistake
How you can abruptly lose your filesystem on a software RAID mirror
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| 2017-01-29: |
How Unix erases things when you type a backspace while entering text
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| 2017-01-28: |
What we still use ASCII CR for today (on Unix)
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| 2017-01-27: |
Conversations, conversational units, and Twitter
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| 2017-01-26: |
Things that make Go channels expensive to implement
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| 2017-01-25: |
I think docstrings in Python are for everything, not just public things
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| 2017-01-23: |
Linux desktops and pre-packaged machines from big vendors
My still-mixed feelings about Python's docstrings
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| 2017-01-22: |
An Ubuntu default Bash setup that irritates me, especially for root
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| 2017-01-20: |
Why tiling window managers are not really for me (on the desktop)
Spam and virus filtering on email is a risk (although likely not a big one)
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| 2017-01-19: |
Thinking about how to add some SSDs on my home machine
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| 2017-01-18: |
Exim, IPv6, and hosts that MX to localhost
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| 2017-01-17: |
Making my machine stay responsive when writing to USB drives
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| 2017-01-16: |
Linux is terrible at handling IO to USB drives on my machine
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| 2017-01-15: |
Link: Let's Stop Ascribing Meaning to Code Points
Some notes on 4K monitors and connecting to them
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| 2017-01-14: |
My picks for mind-blowing Git features
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| 2017-01-13: |
The ZFS pool history log that's used by 'zpool history' has a size limit
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| 2017-01-12: |
Modern ad networks are why adblockers are so effective
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| 2017-01-11: |
ZFS's potentially very useful 'zpool history -i' option
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| 2017-01-10: |
Picking FreeType CJK fonts for xterm on a modern Linux system
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| 2017-01-09: |
Making modern FreeType-using versions of xterm display CJK characters
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| 2017-01-08: |
One downside of a queued IO model is memory consumption for idle connections
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| 2017-01-07: |
How ready my Firefox extensions are for Firefox Electrolysis
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| 2017-01-06: |
Web adblockers and the potential for recreating the Usenet killfile problem
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| 2017-01-05: |
Mail submission by users versus by your machines
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| 2017-01-04: |
Make sure that (system) email works on every machine
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| 2017-01-02: |
Software should support configuring overall time limits
ZFS may panic your system if you have an exceptionally slow IO
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