Wandering Thoughts archives

2007-12-31:	There are really two GPL v2 licenses
2007-12-28:	Please don't make me pick an account name
2007-12-20:	Virtualization does not eliminate security concerns
2007-12-01:	BitTorrent's protocol is not designed to hide
2007-11-19:	What IPsec being mandatory in IPv6 really means
2007-11-15:	Platform risk and platform (in)security
2007-11-03:	A thought about the speed of IPv6 deployment
2007-10-30:	The problem with big systems
2007-10-25:	Long term storage management in the field
2007-10-15:	The arrogance of trying to design for long term storage management
2007-10-14:	Why I think identity blurs into authority
2007-10-04:	The corollary to who actually benefits from bug reports
2007-10-03:	A basic principle of system design
2007-09-11:	Why I dislike ATX power supplies
2007-09-03:	Why syndication feed readers ignore an entry's 'last updated' time
2007-08-31:	Partial entry syndication feeds and updated entries
2007-08-29:	One limitation of internal charges
2007-08-13:	One problem with distributed identity systems
2007-08-08:	Explaining some university staff peculiarities
2007-07-22:	Universities are not businesses: an implication
2007-07-15:	Problems I see with the ATA-over-Ethernet protocol
2007-07-05:	What OpenID is good for
2007-07-04:	What OpenID is (and is not)
2007-06-25:	The advantage of a SAN Painless long term storage management without disturbing users
2007-06-08:	Some thoughts on Slashdot's moderation system
2007-06-04:	RAID-5 versus RAID-6
2007-05-27:	Paying for security exploits
2007-05-25:	If you want work done, you need to pay for it
2007-05-18:	The difficulty of throwing things away
2007-05-08:	Supporting the real world
2007-05-07:	What computer security is
2007-04-20:	Why organizations buy software from commercial companies
2007-04-19:	A thought about attitudes towards support requests
2007-04-17:	Why the University of Toronto can't just use Google Mail
2007-04-11:	Users don't really benefit from filing bug reports
2007-04-04:	Social problems are the real problems
2007-03-31:	Microsoft has another problem
2007-03-30:	What an Ethernet splitter looks like
2007-03-27:	The VPN routing problem
2007-03-21:	Users are almost always right
2007-03-19:	The three strata of virtualization
2007-03-16:	GRE is a translucent tunnel
2007-03-03:	On useful front-panel LEDs
2007-02-27:	Things I did not know about until recently: Ethernet splitters
2007-02-19:	What I currently know about Fibrechannel versus iSCSI versus AoE
2007-02-12:	Why thin clients are doomed (part 2)
2007-02-07:	Why I think thin clients are doomed
2007-01-24:	An irritation with current GUI interfaces
2007-01-22:	Why host authentication has to check who the certificate belongs to
2007-01-18:	Why I want direct certificate checking instead of having to rely on CAs
2007-01-16:	Why I don't have a GPG key

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