Wandering Thoughts archives

2018-02-28:	egrep's `-o` argument is great for extracting unusual fields Using Python 3 for example code here on Wandering Thoughts
2018-02-26:	Meltdown and Spectre have made this a bad time to get a new x86 CPU It feels good to have a fallback option for home computing
2018-02-25:	What Python does when you subclass a `__slots__` class is the right answer
2018-02-24:	The question of what will be sending email spam over IPv6
2018-02-23:	Github and publishing Git repositories
2018-02-21:	Sorting out what `exec` does in Bourne shell pipelines
2018-02-20:	How switching to uMatrix for JavaScript blocking has improved my web experience I've now received my first spam email over IPv6
2018-02-19:	Some consumer SSDs are moving to a 4k 'advance format' physical block size
2018-02-18:	Memories of MGR
2018-02-17:	Using `lsblk` to get extremely useful information about disks
2018-02-16:	How I tend to label bad hardware
2018-02-15:	DTrace being GPL (and thrown into a Linux kernel) is just the start
2018-02-14:	Some things about ZFS block allocation and ZFS (file) record sizes
2018-02-12:	Writing my first addon for Firefox wasn't too hard or annoying
2018-02-11:	Sending emails to your inbox is a dangerous default Access control security requires the ability to do revocation
2018-02-10:	The interesting error codes from Linux program segfault kernel messages
2018-02-09:	My failure to migrate my workstation from MBR booting to UEFI
2018-02-08:	What the Linux kernel's messages about segfaulting programs mean on 64-bit x86
2018-02-07:	Consumer SSDs and their nominal physical block sizes, now and in the future
2018-02-05:	I should remember that sometimes C is a perfectly good option
2018-02-04:	A surprise in how ZFS grows a file's record size (at least for me) More notes on using uMatrix in Firefox 56 (in place of NoScript)
2018-02-02:	Some practical tradeoffs involved in using HTTPS instead of HTTP X's network transparency was basically free at the time

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