Wandering Thoughts archives

2024-09-30: Resetting the backoff restart delay for a systemd service
2024-09-29: Brief notes on making Prometheus's SNMP exporter use additional SNMP MIB(s)
2024-09-28: Options for adding IPv6 networking to your libvirt based virtual machines
2024-09-27: Brief notes on how the Prometheus SNMP exporter's configurations work
2024-09-26: The impact of the September 2024 CUPS CVEs depends on your size
2024-09-25: Using a small ZFS recordsize doesn't save you space (well, almost never)
2024-09-24: Go and my realization about what I'll call the 'Promises' pattern
2024-09-23: Mostly getting redundant UEFI boot disks on modern Ubuntu (especially 24.04)
2024-09-22: Old (Unix) workstations and servers tended to boot in the same ways
2024-09-21: TLS certificates were (almost) never particularly well verified
2024-09-20: Our broad reasons for and approach to mirroring disks
2024-09-19: OpenBSD versus FreeBSD pf.conf syntax for address translation rules
2024-09-18: Open source maintainers with little time and changes
2024-09-17: My "time to full crawl" (vague) metric
2024-09-16: Why my Fedora 40 systems stalled logins for ten seconds or so
2024-09-15: Why we're interested in FreeBSD lately (and how it relates to OpenBSD here)
2024-09-14: Getting maximum 10G Ethernet bandwidth still seems tricky
2024-09-13: Threads, asynchronous IO, and cancellation
2024-09-12: What admin access researchers have to their machines here
2024-09-11: Rate-limiting failed SMTP authentication attempts in Exim 4.95
2024-09-10: Ways ATX power supply control could work on server motherboards
2024-09-09: How ATX power supply control seems to work on desktop motherboards
2024-09-08: I should probably reboot BMCs any time they behave oddly
2024-09-07: I wish (Linux) WireGuard had a simple way to restrict peer public IPs
Operating system threads are always going to be (more) expensive
2024-09-05: The problems (Open)ZFS can have on new Linux kernel versions
2024-09-04: Using rsync to create a limited ability to write remote files
2024-09-03: TLS Server Name Indications can be altered by helpful code
2024-09-02: Apache's odd behavior for requests with a domain with a dot at the end
2024-09-01: The status of putting a '.' at the end of domain names

Page tools: See As Normal.
Search:
Login: Password:

This dinky wiki is brought to you by the Insane Hackers Guild, Python sub-branch.