Wandering Thoughts archives

2018-07-31:	The hidden danger of using `rsync` to copy files instead of `cp`
2018-07-30:	My own configuration files don't have to be dotfiles in `$HOME` Being reminded that an obvious problem isn't necessarily obvious
2018-07-29:	Our ZFS fileservers aren't happy when you do NFS writes to a full filesystem
2018-07-28:	Word-boundary regexp searches are what I usually want
2018-07-27:	Today I saw a spammer parasite itself on another spammer (probably)
2018-07-25:	One advantage of Go modules will be less mess in `$HOME/go/src`
2018-07-24:	I doubt Chrome's new 'not secure' warning about HTTP sites will change much (at least right away)
2018-07-23:	Some notes on lifting Python 2 code into Python 3 code The irritatingly many executable formats of Windows
2018-07-22:	The problem with some non-HiDPI aware applications (is that they're very small)
2018-07-21:	How we're handling NFS exports for our ZFS on Linux systems
2018-07-20:	Linux's NFS exports permissions model compared to Illumos's
2018-07-19:	Sometimes it actually is a Linux kernel bug
2018-07-17:	Some things on Illumos NFS export permissions
2018-07-16:	Why people are probably going to keep using today's Unixes
2018-07-15:	When I'll probably be able to use Python assignment expressions Understanding ZFS System Attributes
2018-07-14:	The challenge of storing file attributes on disk
2018-07-13:	ZFS on Linux's `sharenfs` problem (of what you can and can't put in it)
2018-07-11:	You should probably write down what your math actually means
2018-07-10:	Some thoughts on performance shifts in moving from an iSCSI SAN to local SSDs Remembering that Python lists can use tuples as the sort keys
2018-07-08:	TLS Certificate Authorities and 'trust' We've decided to write our future Python tools in Python 3
2018-07-06:	Having your SSH server on an alternate port provides no extra security today I'm seeing occasional mysterious `POST` requests without `Content-Type`s
2018-07-04:	How and why we sell storage to people here The hardware and basic setup for our third generation of ZFS fileservers
2018-07-03:	The history of our custom NFS mount authorization system (or some of it)
2018-07-01:	Understanding the first imperative of a commercial Certificate Authority

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