Wandering Thoughts archives

2009-12-25:	Linux's non-strict overcommit is the right default
2009-12-16:	How Linux software RAID is making me grumpy right now
2009-12-11:	A wish for KVM virtualization: simple bridged networking
2009-11-28:	'Conditional restart' in init.d scripts can be dangerous
2009-11-26:	Some notes for myself on `git bisect`
2009-11-24:	An important lesson for me on Fedora upgrades
2009-11-23:	My current unhappy thoughts on Fedora 12
2009-11-07:	A gotcha with Bash on Ubuntu 8.04
2009-10-29:	Why per-process (or per-user) memory resource limits are hard
2009-10-06:	The danger of software suspend on servers
2009-09-20:	Why kernel packaging is so bad in Debian and Ubuntu
2009-09-16:	Some kernel lockd NFS error messages explained
2009-09-03:	An interesting issue with doing NFS over TCP (apparently)
2009-08-31:	The IO scheduler improvements I saw
2009-08-26:	What packages SystemTap requires on Ubuntu 8.04 (and others)
2009-08-24:	The problem with the CFQ IO scheduler and our iSCSI targets
2009-08-18:	Why user programs mapping page zero is so bad news on x86 hardware
2009-08-05:	A feature that I wish Linux package managers had
2009-07-31:	Using SystemTap to trace the system calls of setuid programs on Linux
2009-07-22:	A peculiar change in Linux `flock()` and `fcntl()` behavior
2009-07-21:	Packages should not contain both tools and policies
2009-07-17:	The hard problem of live major release upgrades
2009-07-08:	Fedora and workstations (on Linux distributions for desktops)
2009-07-07:	Why and why not Fedora
2009-06-27:	Possible limits on our port multiplied ESATA performance
2009-06-20:	Using GRUB to figure out the mapping of BIOS drive numbers
2009-06-19:	Fedora desperately needs a better upgrade system
2009-06-18:	A kernel NFS error message explained
2009-06-04:	Another irritation with Gnome's gconf settings system
2009-05-31:	The better way to install Sun's Java
2009-05-14:	Fixing your system after hitting the RAID growth gotcha
2009-05-13:	Booting a Linux system without a root mirror
2009-05-12:	A serious gotcha with growing software RAID devices
2009-05-07:	How to set up your `xorg.conf` for RandR-based dual-headed systems
2009-05-06:	An irritation with Linux's '`mount -t nfs`' output
2009-05-02:	Convenient ssh in Gnome, or 'my sshmenu wish comes true'
2009-04-30:	My standard Gnome customizations Why I would still like MC/S in Linux
2009-04-23:	A Gnome irritation
2009-04-13:	How I went wrong in thinking about `/boot` mirroring
2009-04-06:	An interesting hardware mystery
2009-03-27:	The theoretical advantage of a separate `/boot` filesystem
2009-03-24:	Using fully mirrored system disks on Linux How not to improve your CD player application
2009-03-05:	What seems to use power on a Dell Mini 12
2009-03-04:	The ASUS Eee PC versus the Dell Mini 12
2009-02-28:	What it would take for me to use Fedora Rawhide The potential problems with distribution downgrades
2009-02-21:	How to turn off `gnome-terminal`'s cursor blinking
2009-02-09:	I hate flaky systems, Fedora 10 and/or hardware edition
2009-02-06:	Our SunFire X2100 nVidia Ethernet experiences
2009-02-04:	Why btrfs was inevitable: a corollary to (not) getting ZFS in Linux
2009-01-31:	When can you assume UTF-8 filenames?
2009-01-30:	A surprising lack on Linux: browsers for camera RAW photos
2009-01-29:	An RPM packaging utter FAIL
2009-01-19:	Using iptables to get around the policy based routing limitation
2009-01-17:	Practical issues with getting ZFS on Linux
2009-01-14:	Documenting the `kernel.sem` sysctl
2009-01-07:	Two suggestions for improving Fedora's PreUpgrade experience

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