Wandering Thoughts archives

2020-11-30:	Our monitoring of our OpenBSD machines, such as it is (as of November 2020) Link: wtfpython
2020-11-29:	Some thoughts on how I still miss DTrace (and also mdb) The death and life of postmaster@anywhere
2020-11-27:	Setting up self-contained Go program source that uses packages
2020-11-26:	The better way to make an Ubuntu 20.04 ISO that will boot on UEFI systems Making an Ubuntu 20.04 ISO that will boot on UEFI systems
2020-11-25:	Firefox's WebRender has mixed results for me on Linux
2020-11-23:	What containers do and don't help you with My views on when you should use the official upstream versions of software
2020-11-22:	Sometimes it's best to use the official upstream versions of software
2020-11-21:	Github based projects have RSS syndication feeds for their releases
2020-11-19:	Firefox on Linux has not worked well with WebRender for me so far Apple Silicon Macs versus ARM PCs
2020-11-17:	Grafana and the case of the infinite serial number
2020-11-16:	POSIX `write()` is not atomic in the way that you might like Unix doesn't normally do short `write()`s to files and no one expects it to
2020-11-15:	I don't expect to have an ARM-based PC any time soon
2020-11-14:	Linux servers can still wind up using SATA in legacy PATA mode
2020-11-13:	If you use Exim on Ubuntu, you probably want to skip Ubuntu 20.04
2020-11-11:	The problems inherent in building your own copies of software packages Logging fatal exceptions in my Python programs is not enough
2020-11-09:	Seriously using virtualization clashes with our funding model Getting the git tags that are before and after a commit (in simple cases)
2020-11-08:	Thinking about two different models of virtualization hosts
2020-11-07:	Turning on console blanking on a Linux machine when logged in remotely
2020-11-06:	Console blanking now defaults to off on Linux (and has for a while) It's possible that the real size of different SSDs is now consistent
2020-11-04:	In Python, using the `logging` package is part of your API, or should be You shouldn't use the Linux `dump` program any more (on extN filesystems)
2020-11-03:	Fixing blank Cinnamon sessions in VMWare virtual machines (on Fedora)
2020-11-01:	Python's `global` statement and imports in functions

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