Wandering Thoughts archives

2020-03-31:	My home DSL link really is fast enough to make remote X acceptable
2020-03-30:	It's worth documenting the obvious (before it stops being obvious) Notes on Grafana 'value groups' for dashboard variables
2020-03-29:	I set up Python program options and arguments in a separate function
2020-03-28:	The Prometheus host agent's CPU utilization metrics can be a bit weird
2020-03-27:	OpenBSD's 'spinning' CPU time category
2020-03-26:	Any KVM over IP systems need to be on secure networks
2020-03-25:	The problem of your (our) external mail gateway using internal DNS views
2020-03-23:	How we set up our ZFS filesystem hierarchy in our ZFS pools Why we use 1U servers, and the two sides of them
2020-03-22:	Avoiding the 'dangling else' language problem with mandatory block markers
2020-03-20:	Wishing for a remote resilient server environment (now that it's too late)
2020-03-19:	Make sure to keep useful labels in your Prometheus alert rules Sorting out Go's '`for ... = range ..`' and when it copies things
2020-03-18:	Understanding X mouse cursors (and their several layers of history)
2020-03-17:	A problem I'm having with my HiDPI display, remote X, and (X) cursors
2020-03-16:	How Firefox could support automatically using local DNS over HTTPS servers
2020-03-15:	Why the choice of DNS over HTTPS server needs to be automatic (a sysadmin view)
2020-03-14:	The two meanings of 'DNS over HTTPS' today
2020-03-13:	Sensible heuristics for when to use DNS over HTTPS can't work for us
2020-03-12:	TLS increasingly exists in three different worlds
2020-03-11:	Some notes on the state of DNS over HTTPS in Firefox (as of March 2020)
2020-03-09:	Logging out of HTTP Basic Authentication in Firefox What makes our Ubuntu updates driver program complicated
2020-03-08:	How we sort of automate updating system packages across our Ubuntu machines
2020-03-07:	Linux's iowait statistic and multi-CPU machines
2020-03-05:	The problem of Unix iowait and multi-CPU machines
2020-03-04:	Unix's iowait% is a narrow and limited measure that can be misleading
2020-03-03:	One impact of the dropping of Python 2 from Linux distributions
2020-03-02:	More or less what versions of Go support what OpenBSD releases (as of March 2020)
2020-03-01:	The situation with Go on OpenBSD

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