Wandering Thoughts archives

2021-04-30:	Discovering outside people attempting to do dynamic DNS updates to us There's plenty of our work that's not being done from home
2021-04-29:	The shift from "two factor" to "multi-factor" authentication
2021-04-28:	Firefox's slow takeover of the address bar's space
2021-04-26:	The question of how to do non-annoying multi-factor authentication for SSH Maybe a local, on-machine caching DNS resolver should be standard (for us)
2021-04-25:	The question of having SATA drives behind modern SAS expanders
2021-04-24:	Why people care about SAS despite not being 'enterprise'
2021-04-23:	How I want to use pip with PyPy to install third party programs
2021-04-21:	Go 1.17 will allow converting a slice to an array pointer (some of the time)
2021-04-20:	PyPy starts fast enough for our Python 2 commands
2021-04-19:	Trying out learning more Vim on demand
2021-04-18:	Using NVMe SSDs over SATA SSDs in basic servers is an awkward sales pitch My view of Wayland here in 2021
2021-04-16:	A Firefox surprise from disabling dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled
2021-04-15:	Learning about the idea of the HTTP self-post Link: `"a2d<C-V>3gE`: Vim normal mode grammar
2021-04-14:	Some things on ZFS (on Linux) per-dataset basic IO statistics
2021-04-13:	Getting NVMe and related terminology straight (for once)
2021-04-12:	SSD versus NVMe for basic servers today (in early 2021) Counting how many times something started or stopped failing in Prometheus
2021-04-11:	Vendors put varied and peculiar things in system DMI information
2021-04-09:	Why NFS servers generally have a 'reply cache' What NFSv3 operations can be in the Linux nfsd reply cache
2021-04-07:	Rust's `rustup` tool is surprisingly nice and well behaved
2021-04-06:	Modern Linux can require a link signal before it configures IP addresses
2021-04-05:	A stable Unix updating its version of Go isn't straightforward
2021-04-04:	Some uses for Prometheus's `resets()` function You need a version of Go with module support (ideally good support)
2021-04-02:	ZFS on Linux is improving the handling of disk names on import Programs that read IPMI sensors tell you subtly different things

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