Wandering Thoughts archives

2022-03-31:	The awkward timing of Fedora and Go releases
2022-03-30:	Why a (Linux) service delaying its shutdown is a bad thing
2022-03-29:	Fixing Pipx when you upgrade your system Python version
2022-03-28:	We need a way to scan Microsoft Office files for malware
2022-03-27:	Some thoughts on Go's unusual approach to identifier visibility
2022-03-26:	Unsurprisingly, the clock in your server's IPMI drifts over time
2022-03-25:	Some notes on `lslocks`, the Linux command to list current file locks
2022-03-24:	Some notes on Linux's `/proc/locks` listing of file locks
2022-03-23:	Document your mistakes and then try to block them in the future
2022-03-22:	Getting a fixed baud rate on your serial ports for logins under systemd
2022-03-21:	The modern trend of variable DNS results and its effects on troubleshooting
2022-03-20:	Prometheus: using gauge-like things as if they were counters
2022-03-19:	Some problems that Python's `cgi.FieldStorage` has
2022-03-18:	Our limited use of Python's `cgi` module
2022-03-17:	I need to remember to check for ZFS filesystems being mounted
2022-03-16:	People might want to think about saving a copy of Go 1.17
2022-03-15:	How Linux dynamic loaders can be both shared objects and executables
2022-03-14:	Where `cut` comes into Unix (and a bit on the history of `awk`)
2022-03-13:	We do see ZFS checksum failures, but only infrequently
2022-03-12:	I wish ZFS pools kept a persistent count of various errors
2022-03-11:	Filesystems can experience at least three different sorts of errors
2022-03-10:	It would be nice if Linux had a count of disk errors in sysfs
2022-03-09:	Linux disk names you can encounter in your Prometheus host metrics
2022-03-08:	Hardware can be weird, server and USB keyboard edition
2022-03-07:	The convenience of multi-purpose monitoring (in Prometheus)
2022-03-06:	What sort of server it takes to build Firefox in four and a bit minutes
2022-03-05:	Dynamic web pages can be viewed as a form of compression (sometimes)
2022-03-04:	A pragmatic driver of support for serving static files on the web is efficiency
2022-03-03:	Understanding a thing with ZFS on Linux, kernel versions, RPMs, and DKMS
2022-03-02:	A Python program can be outside of a virtual environment it uses
2022-03-01:	The problem of keeping track of hardlinks as you traverse a directory tree

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