Wandering Thoughts archives

2006-12-13:	A SMTP implementor's conundrum
2006-12-08:	Why I don't expect result-oriented work hours to work out
2006-12-04:	How SSH achieves forward secrecy
2006-11-27:	Why I don't rip my CDs
2006-11-18:	Should you care about whether you can upgrade hardware?
2006-11-13:	People aren't suspicious
2006-11-12:	Some ways to break your syndication feed Broken syndication feeds are worse than no feed
2006-11-11:	A thought about disaster recovery planning
2006-10-25:	Another advantage of distributed version control systems
2006-10-24:	Google and YouTube
2006-10-22:	Why cursors blink
2006-10-08:	A reason to read blogs in reverse chronological order
2006-10-05:	Thoughts on machine identity
2006-10-02:	The longevity of old hardware
2006-09-20:	A peculiarity of hardware at universities
2006-09-13:	The really irritating thing about voicemail
2006-09-10:	A thought on iTunes and similar online services
2006-09-08:	I hate hardware (AMD CPU edition)
2006-09-06:	How fast an LCD refresh rate is going to be fast enough?
2006-08-30:	How to lose readers of your syndication feed
2006-08-21:	Most new products are upgrades
2006-08-15:	Hardware RAID versus software RAID
2006-08-08:	Slashdot's tacit admission of failure
2006-07-17:	Thesis: SMP is a failure for most Internet servers
2006-07-08:	The problem of IT winning arguments
2006-07-01:	Another annoying RSS feed trick
2006-06-27:	Microsoft has a problem
2006-06-17:	Metrics considered dangerous
2006-06-12:	Why charging for things is deadly at a university
2006-06-05:	People are ordinary
2006-05-27:	Today's dilemma: wiki page or blog entry?
2006-05-26:	The problem with treating RAID arrays as single disks
2006-05-14:	Absolute versus relative URLs in syndication feeds
2006-05-04:	A subtle advantage of simple wikis
2006-04-27:	A picture of what university IT is like
2006-04-24:	People are social
2006-04-20:	The spread of syndication
2006-04-15:	The problem of the growth of syndication feeds
2006-04-13:	An obnoxious RSS feed trick
2006-03-31:	The perfection trap: a lesson drawn from Worse is Better The difficulty of punishing people at universities
2006-03-23:	Atom versus RSS
2006-03-01:	Unicode is not simple
2006-02-26:	The hassle of email (as compared to RSS)
2006-02-22:	Peter Drucker on the Five Deadly Business Sins
2006-02-03:	Van Jacobson illustrates the importance of cache effects
2006-02-01:	A suggestion: read your own syndication feed
2006-01-23:	Why case independent filenames are a bad idea
2006-01-17:	The economics of CPU performance
2006-01-10:	The peculiar effects of grant funding at universities
2006-01-02:	Universities are peculiar places

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