Wandering Thoughts archives

2011-12-26:	Labs versus offices for sysadmins (or at least us) More wiring for sysadmins: sysadmins and gigabit networking
2011-12-25:	Why office switches plus VLANs aren't the answer for sysadmins
2011-12-24:	Wiring offices for sysadmins
2011-12-23:	Disk space in the modern world
2011-12-20:	A little script: `nssh`
2011-12-14:	What makes backups real
2011-12-12:	What debugging info I want from things like SMF and `systemd`
2011-12-08:	Another reason sysadmins should program
2011-11-30:	My mouse button bindings in fvwm, my window manager
2011-11-15:	A scroll wheel experiment
2011-11-13:	Thinking about how to test our UPSes
2011-10-31:	Why 'quiet' options to programs aren't as useful as you think
2011-10-30:	Why we have a VPN
2011-10-25:	A reason not to automate: policy flexibility
2011-10-21:	How I'm capturing only the last portion of standard error
2011-10-17:	What I want out of stable device names
2011-10-12:	The true cost of sysadmin time (actually, of anyone's time)
2011-09-30:	Some thoughts from a close view of catastrophe
2011-09-28:	A multilevel view of DevOps (with more balance)
2011-09-26:	DevOps and the blame problem: an outsider's view
2011-09-14:	Graphs are not enough (for your monitoring system)
2011-09-09:	You really want to put your switches in server racks Things that could happen to your archives
2011-09-08:	Archival storage in the modern world
2011-09-06:	How not to set up your DNS (part 21)
2011-09-01:	Things I will do differently in the next building power shutdown
2011-08-31:	Who is the audience for a trouble ticket update?
2011-08-29:	Devirtualization
2011-08-28:	The problem with busy sysadmins
2011-08-26:	Why we don't use a trouble ticketing system
2011-08-25:	Trouble ticketing systems and the future
2011-08-19:	Visibility: an advantage of automation
2011-08-12:	One reason we install machines from checklists instead of via automation
2011-08-05:	Why sysadmins don't just notify users about compromised machines
2011-08-04:	On banning MAC addresses
2011-07-29:	Deciding the meaning of 'disabling' an account (and the value of procedures)
2011-07-28:	A directory service doesn't make it easy to disable user accounts
2011-07-27:	Why not YP, er, NIS
2011-07-26:	Disabling an account can be kind of complex
2011-07-20:	Why I would like my mailer to have a real programming language (part 2)
2011-07-08:	My view on iSCSI performance troubleshooting
2011-07-07:	An interesting gotcha with Exim and `.forward` processing How Exim makes traditional .forward semantics work
2011-06-13:	An example of the evolution of a real network
2011-06-08:	OpenBSD pf rule numbers and tcpdump filtering
2011-06-04:	Sometimes having a system programmer around is the right answer
2011-05-16:	How our network is implemented (as of May 2011)
2011-05-15:	The most interesting reason for an unrouted sandbox network
2011-05-14:	Our environment illustrated: what network cable colours mean what
2011-05-13:	Our network layout (as of May 2011)
2011-04-25:	An important note about multi-line log message formats
2011-04-03:	Please don't alert based on percentages
2011-03-31:	A really annoying gap in system observability
2011-03-11:	What tools I use to deal with email
2011-03-07:	What terminal emulators I use when
2011-02-23:	A quick tour of my desktop
2011-02-20:	What windows I use window titlebars on
2011-02-18:	Another building block of my environment: `xrun`
2011-02-16:	The myth of isolated, independent sysadmins
2011-02-07:	My brute force email archive
2011-01-16:	Why I don't use either a thin client or a fat client
2011-01-04:	A new building block of my environment: dmenu

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