Wandering Thoughts archives

2007-12-25:	Process memory layout for 32-bit Linux programs
2007-12-19:	How x86 Linux executes ELF programs
2007-12-13:	Doing one-shot booting with GRUB
2007-12-10:	A surprise about Linux serial consoles
2007-12-07:	Using Linux's magic SysRq feature
2007-11-24:	Gotchas with dual-headed X with RandR on ATI cards
2007-11-21:	Linux virtual terminals and the X server
2007-11-20:	A lesson learned: Always upgrade Fedora with a respin CD
2007-11-18:	I love Linux's serial console support
2007-11-08:	How Linux handles virtual memory overcommit
2007-11-06:	A thought about competition between Red Hat Enterprise and CentOS
2007-10-31:	What may be causing my random NumLock issues
2007-10-23:	How we sized the overcommit ratio
2007-10-22:	Vim options it turns out I want
2007-10-17:	Our experience with Linux's strict overcommit mode
2007-09-27:	Fixing Ubuntu's ethN device names when you swap hardware
2007-09-21:	An interesting `bind(2)` failure
2007-09-18:	Linux NFS client kernel tunable settings
2007-09-13:	Limiting a process's memory usage on Linux
2007-09-10:	A small drawback of 64-bit machines
2007-08-26:	A limitation in Linux's policy based routing
2007-08-24:	Linux and accidentally multipathed disks
2007-08-22:	Redirecting traffic to another machine with Linux's iptables
2007-08-07:	A surprise with the Provides header in RPM
2007-07-31:	Consequences of allowing packages to quiz users at install time
2007-07-23:	An interesting issue when `yum` upgraded `gaim`
2007-07-14:	Linux kernel asynchronous IO doesn't work on sockets
2007-07-04:	Problems with EXA X acceleration on ATI cards in Fedora Core 6
2007-06-22:	One reason why the Debian package format is not my favorite
2007-06-14:	Getting source RPMs with `yumdownloader` (part 2)
2007-06-11:	Getting source RPMs with `yumdownloader`
2007-06-05:	RPM's multi-architecture file ownership problem
2007-05-21:	Linux is a Unix
2007-05-11:	Building your own kernel with the Fedora kernel configuration
2007-05-06:	What Linux bind mounts are really doing
2007-05-02:	My view of Ubuntu
2007-04-22:	Why Red Hat 7.3 is (still) so present on servers
2007-04-15:	`chkconfig --add` considered misleading
2007-04-12:	Why Evolution is not my favorite mail reader
2007-04-10:	A limitation of Debian's `/etc/network/interfaces` control file
2007-04-09:	Why indirect xdm probably doesn't work on your Linux machine
2007-03-28:	Dual identity routing with Linux's policy based routing
2007-03-24:	Randomly engaging NumLock considered irritating
2007-03-16:	Things I have learned while doing GRE tunnels on Linux
2007-03-15:	An annoying limitation of Linux IPSec
2007-03-08:	A belated set of more power consumption numbers
2007-03-06:	Why I don't like USB keyboards
2007-03-05:	Some useful new Linux software RAID features
2007-02-16:	I hate hardware (Dell 2950 edition)
2007-02-14:	RPM tricks for dealing with multiarch machines
2007-02-05:	An irritation with `yum localupdate`
2007-02-02:	A modern environment's need for broadband
2007-01-15:	Configuring VLANs on Fedora Core
2007-01-11:	Xen versus VMware for me
2007-01-06:	Fixing up `.rpmnew` files
2007-01-04:	The scars of my NPTL experience

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