Wandering Thoughts archives

2018-04-30:	You probably need to think about how to handle core dumps on modern Linux servers Microsoft's Bingbot crawler is on a relative rampage here
2018-04-29:	My new 4K HiDPI display really does make a visible difference
2018-04-28:	What sorts of good email attachments our users get (April 2018 edition)
2018-04-27:	Some notes on Firefox's current media autoplay settings
2018-04-26:	The shifting goals of our custom NFS mount authorization system
2018-04-25:	An implementation difference in NSS netgroups between Linux and Solaris
2018-04-24:	What the core practical problems with HiDPI seem to be on Linux
2018-04-23:	ZFS's recordsize as an honest way of keeping checksum overhead down
2018-04-22:	Thinking about why ZFS only does IO in `recordsize` blocks, even random IO
2018-04-20:	The increasingly surprising limits to the speed of our Amanda backups Spam from Yahoo Groups has quietly disappeared
2018-04-18:	The sensible way to use Bourne shell 'here documents' in pipelines A CPU's TDP is a misleading headline number
2018-04-17:	Link: Parsing: a timeline Go and the pragmatic problems of having a Python-like `with` statement
2018-04-16:	Some notes and issues from trying out `urxvt` as an `xterm` replacement
2018-04-15:	The unfortunate configuration choice Grub2 makes in UEFI configurations
2018-04-13:	For the first time, my home PC has no expansion cards A learning experience about the performance of our IMAP server
2018-04-12:	I'm hoping that RHEL 8's decision on Python 2 isn't Ubuntu 20.04's decision
2018-04-10:	Our real problem with a removal of Python 2 is likely to be our users
2018-04-09:	Power consumption numbers for my 2018 home and work machines
2018-04-08:	The interesting question of whether Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will include Python 2 A learning experience with iOS's fingerprint recognition
2018-04-07:	Some numbers for how well various compressors do with our `/var/mail` backup
2018-04-06:	Using Go finalizers can be a better option than not using them
2018-04-05:	Switching over to Firefox Quantum was relatively painless
2018-04-04:	Today's learning experience is that gzip is not fast
2018-04-03:	Sorting out my systemd mistake with a script-based service unit
2018-04-02:	Link: Closing the Loop: The Importance of External Engagement in Computer Science Research I've retired my filtering HTTP proxy

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