Wandering Thoughts archives

2011-12-12: How not to improve your package updater application
2011-12-09: A quiet advantage of the systemd approach to service management
2011-12-04: The current state of GPT, EFI, and Linux
2011-11-23: The many names of Linux SATA devices
2011-11-21: The likely cause of my IPSec dropped packet mystery
2011-11-19: My Liferea crashes are not Liferea's fault
2011-11-10: Praise for systemd
2011-11-09: The disappearance of separate filesystems for /usr and /var
2011-11-07: An IPSec mystery with dropped packets
2011-11-06: Ubuntu does system disk mirroring right
2011-10-26: How to fail at useful cryptography: bad error messages
2011-10-22: Fedora 15 versus me
2011-10-20: The kind of computer usage I think Gnome 3 is targeting
2011-10-15: Why I say Fedora 15 could get my machine's Ethernet's name right
The problem with Fedora 15's consistent network device naming
2011-10-14: Power consumption numbers for my 2011 home machine
2011-10-09: My view of the state of graphics cards for Linux (in fall 2011)
2011-10-08: My new Linux machine for fall 2011 (planned)
2011-09-15: How your Linux installer should help you set up filesystems
2011-09-04: Why true asynchronous file IO is hard, at least for reads
2011-08-12: A Gnome 3 shell extensions failure
2011-08-06: Gnome 3: I'm out
2011-07-25: The risks of using CentOS are split
2011-07-15: Ubuntu, illustrating how to utterly fail at kernel security updates
2011-07-12: Why I'm going to be skipping Fedora 15
2011-07-11: mxiostat: second generation better Linux disk IO statistics
2011-07-03: Why Ubuntu's PAM versioning failure matters
2011-06-17: cgroups: so close and yet so far away from per-user fair scheduling
2011-06-16: My three sorts of (Linux) desktops
2011-06-14: A package dependency failure in Fedora 15
2011-05-31: How to fail at versioning
2011-05-28: The stickyness of Fedora 8 (despite my better intentions)
2011-05-26: You can get 'stale filehandle' errors for local files on extN filesystems
2011-04-24: Notes to myself on the priorities of Linux routing policy rules
2011-04-23: The Upstart dependency problem
2011-04-02: How to use gdb to call getpeername()
2011-03-26: How not to issue Linux kernel security update notices
2011-03-18: How to configure a (PPPoE) DSL connection on a normal Fedora 14 Gnome desktop
2011-03-17: The timing of production Linux deployments
2011-03-06: A fun Linux kernel pty problem, or maybe it's not a problem
2011-02-21: How to get automatic volume management on Fedora 14 without Gnome
2011-02-17: My latest crazy plan to upgrade my home Linux machine
2011-01-16: More on Linux FHS and /var
2011-01-15: Linux's FHS is not the right answer for where to put data directories
2011-01-13: One of SELinux's problems is that it's a backup mechanism
2011-01-11: My problem with SELinux
The optimistic view of SELinux's real purpose
2011-01-03: On improved but less functional versions of things

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