Wandering Thoughts archives

2010-12-31:	One group that can sensibly use non-GPL'd Linux kernel modules
2010-12-19:	A tale of memory allocation failure
2010-12-13:	Fumbling towards understanding how to use DRBD
2010-12-12:	One problem with the files-in-directory approach to configuration
2010-11-30:	A modest idea on how to get people to use Fedora Rawhide
2010-11-26:	My view on Wayland replacing X in Linux
2010-11-11:	Some `yum` tricks with `distro-sync` and `--releasever`
2010-11-08:	When Linux's rp_filter might make sense
2010-10-31:	How I set up my isolated testing Firefox environment
2010-10-10:	Fixing Upstart's coupling of startup script presence and activation
2010-10-08:	Why I am unhappy with Upstart right now
2010-10-06:	What is going on with Samba's POSIX locking on NFS on Linux
2010-10-04:	Linux, Samba, NFS, and POSIX locking
2010-09-30:	Stopping kernel updates on Ubuntu
2010-09-27:	Why Grub2 doesn't solve my Ubuntu kernel problem
2010-09-22:	The mysteries of video cards for Linux
2010-09-18:	Another reason why I don't like Ubuntu kernel packaging
2010-09-15:	An overview of the Debian and RPM source package formats
2010-09-09:	Go, IPv6, and single binding machines
2010-08-31:	I don't understand how `net.ipv4.conf.*.rp_filter` can work
2010-08-27:	My impressions of Google Chrome so far
2010-08-25:	A Windows moment on my laptop
2010-08-23:	My (probably wrong) assumption about Flash on Fedora
2010-08-19:	Getting Flash to work on my upgraded 64-bit Fedora 13 machine
2010-08-10:	Upgrading to Fedora 13 with my first yum upgrade
2010-08-08:	A personal view of the Fedora versus Ubuntu issue
2010-08-07:	Why buying a Linux machine is not such a simple thing
2010-07-28:	My Fedora 8 problem: upgrading
2010-07-25:	Why sysadmins almost never replace distribution packages
2010-07-24:	Thinking about the implications of your program being successful
2010-07-14:	Making the Linux kernel shut up about segfaulting user programs
2010-06-28:	The great irritation of hidden access controls
2010-06-14:	The practicalities of non-GPL'd Linux kernel modules
2010-06-12:	iSCSI Enterprise Target 1.4.20.1 and disk write caches (and ZFS)
2010-06-10:	What an iSCSI Enterprise Target kernel message really means
2010-05-19:	Why RPM's `.rpmnew` files don't work in practice
2010-05-18:	An illustrated example of how not to do package updates
2010-05-06:	The right way and the wrong way to disable init.d services
2010-05-04:	Dear software packagers, startup scripts edition
2010-04-23:	What per-partition disk IO stats you get from the Linux kernel
2010-04-18:	I think it's time to turn off automatic periodic ext3 fscks
2010-04-06:	How not to set up IP aliases on Ubuntu (and probably Debian)
2010-03-31:	Remote applications and Gnome settings: an irritation
2010-03-25:	The problem with overly verbose package installation
2010-03-11:	Why the pam_mail PAM module is not my friend
2010-02-23:	What Linux's `getaddrinfo()` is doing with IPv6 (on some versions)
2010-02-16:	A Linux gotcha about daemons and `bindv6only`
2010-02-15:	IPv6 with Lighttpd on Linux
2010-02-14:	Brief notes on IPv6 support in some Linux programs
2010-02-13:	Some stuff on dual-bound IPv6 sockets on Linux
2010-02-10:	Beware of using Linux's `hostname -s` switch
2010-01-31:	More vim options it turns out that I want
2010-01-18:	More on mismatched sectors on Linux software RAID mirrors
2010-01-11:	In praise of `crash` (and kernel source)
2010-01-08:	Interesting things can happen when you scale things up

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