Wandering Thoughts archives

2018-03-31: Using a local database to get consistent device names is a bad idea
My new Linux home machine for 2018
2018-03-30: My current set of Firefox Quantum (57+) addons
Sometimes, not trying to reject some sort of spam is the right answer
2018-03-29: The problem with Linux's 'predictable network interface names'
2018-03-28: The correlation between Spamhaus Zen listings and attachment types (March 2018 edition)
2018-03-27: My uncertainties around X drivers for modern Intel integrated graphics
2018-03-26: xprt: data for NFS mounts in /proc/self/mountstats is per-fileserver, not per-mount
2018-03-25: Our revised Dovecot IMAP configuration migration plans (and processes)
2018-03-24: Our current ugly hacks to Dovecot to help mitigate our IMAP problems
2018-03-23: Some things about Dovecot, its index files, and the IMAP LIST command
2018-03-22: Why seeing what current attributes a Python object has is hard
2018-03-21: You probably don't want to run Firefox Nightly any more
2018-03-20: Python and the 'bags of unstructured data' approach
2018-03-19: Some exciting ZFS features that are in OmniOS CE's (near) future
2018-03-18: Why I use Facebook (a story of web development)
2018-03-17: Much better ZFS pool recovery is coming (in open source ZFS)
2018-03-16: Wrestling with metrics to get meaningful, useful ones
2018-03-14: What I think I want out of a hypothetical nfsiotop for Linux
Why Let's Encrypt's short certificate lifetimes are a great thing
2018-03-12: A spammer misses a glorious opportunity
Linux is good at exposing the truth of how motherboards are wired
2018-03-11: A bad web scraper operating out of OVH IP address space
2018-03-09: In Fedora, your initramfs contains a copy of your sysctl settings
Some questions I have about DDR4 RAM speed and latency in underclocked memory
2018-03-07: Some things I mean when I talk about 'forged HTTP referers'
The lie in Ubuntu source packages (and probably Debian ones as well)
2018-03-05: Getting chrony to not try to use IPv6 time sources on Fedora
2018-03-04: The value locked up in the Unix API makes it pretty durable
The practical Unix API is more than system calls (or POSIX)
2018-03-02: Frequent versus infrequent developers (in languages and so on)
A sysadmin's perspective on Go vendoring and vgo

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