Wandering Thoughts archives

2018-12-31:	Our Linux ZFS fileservers work much like to our OmniOS ones Thinking about DWiki's Python 3 Unicode issues
2018-12-30:	Our third generation ZFS fileservers and their setup
2018-12-28:	An odd MIME Content-Disposition or two
2018-12-27:	Having metrics has taught me I didn't really know how our systems behave The many return values of `read()` (plus some other cases)
2018-12-26:	The problem of screenshots when you have a HiDPI display
2018-12-24:	Some notes on ZFS prefetch related stats Plaintext parts of email are fading away (in spam and non-spam)
2018-12-23:	How I wound up finding a bug in GNU Tar
2018-12-21:	Moving to Fedora 29 has not been one of the smooth upgrades for me Working around an irritating recent XTerm change in behavior
2018-12-20:	FreeBSD ZFS will be changing to be based on ZFS on Linux
2018-12-19:	My unusual Linux setup of an untagged network and tagged VLANs on the same interface
2018-12-17:	My current trick for keeping reasonably ready virtual machine images Exploring casual questions with our new metrics system
2018-12-16:	The Go 2 Error Handling proposal will likely lead to more use of `error` in return types
2018-12-15:	Python 3's approach to filenames and arguments is pragmatically right
2018-12-14:	Link: Everything you should know about certificates and PKI but are too afraid to ask Why our Grafana URLs always require HTTP Basic Authentication
2018-12-13:	Some new-to-me features in POSIX (or Single Unix Specification) Bourne shells
2018-12-12:	One situation where you absolutely can't use `irate()` in Prometheus
2018-12-10:	Why I'm usually unnerved when modern SSDs die on us A spate of somewhat alarming flaky SMART errors on Crucial MX500 SSDs
2018-12-09:	Firefox, WebExtensions, and Content Security Policies
2018-12-08:	Link: HTTPS in the real world
2018-12-07:	Why we like HTTP Basic Authentication in Apache so much Modern Bourne shell arithmetic is pretty pleasant
2018-12-05:	Some basic ZFS ARC statistics and prefetching The brute force cron-based way of flexibly timed repeated alerts
2018-12-03:	Wget is not welcome here any more (sort of) Linux disk IO stats in Prometheus
2018-12-02:	Checking to see if a process is alive (on Linux)

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