Wandering Thoughts archives

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

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