Wandering Thoughts archives

2021-07-31:	Learning that you can use unions in C for grouping things into namespaces
2021-07-30:	Hardware and (Linux) driver quality can be invisible to non-specialists XHTML pages cause problems for some Firefox addons
2021-07-29:	How Go maps store their values (and keys)
2021-07-28:	Modern email is hard to search, which encourages locked up silos
2021-07-26:	Understanding plain Linux NVMe device names (in `/dev` and kernel messages)
2021-07-25:	I should probably learn command-line NetworkManager usage The tiny irritation of ZFS's '`zpool status`' nagging you about upgrades
2021-07-23:	Why it matters that map values are unaddressable in Go
2021-07-22:	Apache's mod_wsgi and the Python 2 issue it creates Improving my web reading with Martin Tournoij's "readable" Firefox bookmarklet
2021-07-21:	It's nice when programs switch to being launched from systemd user units
2021-07-19:	Making a Go program build with Go modules can be not a small change
2021-07-18:	On sending all syslog messages to one file
2021-07-17:	The minimum for syslog configurations should be to log (nearly) everything
2021-07-16:	The WireGuard VPN challenge of provisioning clients Setting up a WireGuard client with NetworkManager (using `nmcli`)
2021-07-14:	Making two Unix permissions mistakes in one Some ways to get (or not get) information about system memory ranges on Linux
2021-07-12:	Problems in the way of straightforward device naming in operating systems Understanding something about udev's normal network device names on Linux
2021-07-10:	Why Bash and GNU Readline's "bracketed paste" mode is not for us University computer accounts are often surprisingly complicated
2021-07-08:	Redirecting paths that start with two slashes in Apache A semi-surprise with Python's urllib.parse and partial URLs
2021-07-07:	The initramfs for old kernels can hide old versions of things
2021-07-06:	Unused hardware in computers can now be distinctly inactive
2021-07-05:	Losing track of part of our Amanda configuration and then recovering it
2021-07-04:	Two ways to have Amanda always make full backups of a filesystem
2021-07-03:	Some brief notes on turning Firefox bookmarklets into convenient buttons
2021-07-02:	Dealing with CSS fixed position headers and footers in Firefox

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