Wandering Thoughts archives

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

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