Wandering Thoughts archives

2008-12-26:	The consequences of the Debian OpenSSL compromise
2008-12-20:	The source of spurious `.rpmnew` files
2008-12-18:	Why LVM snapshots should really have hooks into filesystems
2008-12-08:	How I split up my workstation's disk space
2008-11-28:	Why rootkits targeted at Red Hat Enterprise would make me especially nervous
2008-11-20:	Combining dual identity routing and isolated interfaces revisited
2008-11-16:	Checking systems with RPM verification (part 2)
2008-11-07:	What the timestamps in Ubuntu kernel messages mean
2008-10-30:	How Linux initrds used to be a hack
2008-10-14:	Improving initial ramdisks
2008-10-07:	How we set up our iSCSI target servers
2008-10-01:	Another consequence of the Debian OpenSSL security bug
2008-09-27:	The problem with initial ramdisks
2008-09-19:	Gotchas with IET that I have encountered
2008-09-18:	My experiences so far with Linux iSCSI target software
2008-08-31:	A realization about the recent Red Hat Enterprise security issue
2008-08-22:	Why noting security fixes in Linux kernel changelogs doesn't really help
2008-08-11:	How RPM verification deals with prelinking
2008-08-08:	How to exploit unsigned repository metadata
2008-07-27:	The yum versionlock problem
2008-07-24:	How packaging systems should handle kernel updates
2008-07-18:	One consequence of Linux's dynamic network device naming
2008-07-14:	What some `fdisk` options actually do
2008-06-29:	Why user exposure matters for Linux distributions, especially on desktops Why Ubuntu's LTS releases are inferior to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2008-06-09:	Mirrored system disks should be trivial to set up
2008-06-08:	Recovering my Eee PC from a post-update problem
2008-06-02:	Improving RPM as a packaging system
2008-05-28:	What promiscuous mode does on modern networks
2008-05-21:	Combining dual identity routing and isolated interfaces
2008-05-08:	Getting live network bandwidth numbers on Linux
2008-04-30:	Why `apt` is always going to be faster than `yum`
2008-04-24:	What Linux's RPC queue dump means, sort of A brief mention of some tools for debugging Linux NFS client issues
2008-04-14:	A sysadmin's review of the ASUS Eee PC
2008-04-05:	What I needed to make my custom Fedora 8 environment work
2008-03-20:	Why you should ratelimit messages that outside things can cause
2008-03-18:	Some things I dislike about the ASUS Eee
2008-03-08:	What controls Red Hat Enterprise's ethN device names My problem with Ethernet naming on Red Hat Enterprise 5
2008-03-06:	Software RAID, `udev`, and failed disks
2008-02-22:	Why I am not fond of Ubuntu's management of kernel updates
2008-02-10:	A basic introduction to prelinking on Linux
2008-02-01:	Isolating network interfaces on Linux
2008-01-30:	Linux's IP forwarding settings summarized
2008-01-24:	Running a 32-bit Firefox on a 64-bit Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise
2008-01-23:	Linux's `umount -f` forces IO errors
2008-01-19:	Why the x86 Linux kernel is part of every process's address space
2008-01-18:	What seems to use power on an Asus Eee PC
2008-01-08:	Why I feel that a missing Debian package is a bad sign

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