Wandering Thoughts archives

2020-07-31:	Putting some extra 'obvious' information into our temperature alerts
2020-07-30:	Putting IPMIs on a port isolated network to deal with shared network interfaces
2020-07-29:	The problem of 'shared' IPMI network interfaces
2020-07-28:	Our ZFS spares handling system for ZFS on Linux Digital microwaves show an example of good UI doing what you wanted
2020-07-26:	Linux PAM leads to terrible error messages from things like `passwd` Keeping backup ZFS on Linux kernel modules around
2020-07-24:	My varied types of Firefox windows Some thoughts on us overlooking Illumos's `syseventadm`
2020-07-23:	C's `main()` is one of the places where Unix's user and kernel APIs differ
2020-07-21:	Contrasting the two common approaches to where programs start running
2020-07-20:	An exploration of why Python doesn't require a 'main' function
2020-07-19:	In praise of ZFS On Linux's ZED 'ZFS Event Daemon'
2020-07-18:	Using Go build directives to optionally use new APIs in the standard library
2020-07-17:	Not all sysadmin tools should be silent by default
2020-07-16:	Malware spammers put .exe Windows executables in everything
2020-07-15:	A piece of phish spam with some clever URL obfuscation
2020-07-14:	Today I learned that Python's argparse module allows you to abbreviate long command line options Link: The Anatomy of a PromQL Query
2020-07-13:	How major and minor device numbers worked in V7 Unix
2020-07-12:	Running servers and Fred Brooks on transforming programs to products Linux desktop application autostarting is different from systemd user units
2020-07-10:	The impact on middleware of expanding APIs with Go's interface smuggling Ubuntu, building current versions of Firefox, and snaps
2020-07-09:	Link: Mime type associations (on Linux)
2020-07-08:	"Interface smuggling", a Go design pattern for expanding APIs
2020-07-07:	Some thoughts on Fedora moving to btrfs as the default desktop file system I now think that blog 'per day' pages with articles are a mistake
2020-07-05:	A Go lesson learned: sometimes I don't want to use goroutines if possible
2020-07-04:	How you get multiple TLS certificate chains from a server certificate What a TLS self signed certificate is at a mechanical level
2020-07-02:	The work that's not being done from home is slowly accumulating for us Link: Code Only Says What it Does
2020-07-01:	In ZFS, your filesystem layout needs to reflect some of your administrative structure

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