Wandering Thoughts archives

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)

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