Wandering Thoughts archives

2024-04-30:	The state of Python in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
2024-04-29:	Our likely long term future (not) with Ubuntu (as of early 2024)
2024-04-28:	How I (used to) handle keeping track of how I configured software
2024-04-27:	Autoconf and configure features that people find valuable
2024-04-26:	I wish projects would reliably use their release announcements mechanisms
2024-04-25:	The importance of an ordinary space in a Unix shell command line
2024-04-24:	Pruning some things out with (GNU) `find` options
2024-04-23:	Libvirt's virt-viewer and (guest) screen blanking
2024-04-22:	Making virtual machine network interfaces inactive in Linux libvirt
2024-04-21:	Thoughts on potentially realistic temperature trip limit for hardware
2024-04-20:	What the original 4.2 BSD csh hashed (which is not what I thought)
2024-04-19:	Modern Linux mounts a lot of different types of virtual filesystems
2024-04-18:	On the duration of self-signed TLS (website) certificates
2024-04-17:	Limiting the maximum size of Amanda debug logs with a Linux tmpfs mount
2024-04-16:	IPMI connections have privilege levels, not just IPMI users
2024-04-15:	Having IPv6 for public servers is almost always merely nice, not essential
2024-04-14:	(Probably) forcing Git to never prompt for authentication
2024-04-13:	A corner case in Firefox's user interface for addon updates
2024-04-12:	Please don't try to hot-reload changed Python files too often
2024-04-11:	Getting the underlying disks of a Linux software RAID array
2024-04-10:	It's far from clear how grub package updates work on Ubuntu
2024-04-09:	Bash's sadly flawed smart (programmable) completion
2024-04-08:	Don't require people to change 'source code' to configure your programs
2024-04-07:	NAT'ing on the firewall versus host routes for public IPs
2024-04-06:	GNU Autoconf is not replaceable in any practical sense Solving the hairpin NAT problem with policy based routing and plain NAT
2024-04-05:	Why I think you shouldn't digitally sign things casually
2024-04-03:	GNU Emacs and the case of special space characters
2024-04-02:	An issue with Alertmanager inhibitions and resolved alerts What Prometheus Alertmanager's `group_interval` setting means
2024-04-01:	The power of being able to query your servers for unpredictable things

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