Wandering Thoughts archives

2008-12-23:	You need major advantages to really move issues
2008-12-14:	Feed aggregators should fail gracefully
2008-12-11:	Why syndication feed readers (and web browsers) should fail gracefully
2008-12-04:	The rewriting problem on ZFS and other 'log structured' filesystems
2008-11-29:	Good editors aren't better or worse, just different
2008-11-26:	One consequence of mathematical security thinking
2008-11-25:	The problem with security alerts, and indeed all alerts
2008-11-22:	Why I hate 'security questions'
2008-11-19:	BitTorrent's file fragmentation problem
2008-10-31:	Why realistic UDP bandwidth testing is hard
2008-10-29:	Problems I have seen with switch port mirroring
2008-10-24:	A little neat detail of the BitTorrent protocol
2008-10-19:	The advantages of iSCSI's MC/S for multipathing
2008-09-29:	SSL/TLS and forward secrecy
2008-09-12:	Why you want sysadmins, not users, to be providing the computing
2008-09-03:	Why SMTP needs a way of communicating partial success for message delivery
2008-08-29:	Open source projects and programs versus products We don't really control user desktop machines
2008-08-21:	What you select for when you make something harder
2008-08-16:	Why it matters what users like
2008-08-10:	How to tell when your bug reporting system is at its limits
2008-07-23:	Retracting blog entries in the face of syndication feeds
2008-07-16:	The problem with Usenet
2008-07-13:	The problem with big RAID-5 arrays
2008-07-12:	When overlapping windows do (and don't) make sense
2008-07-10:	Internet software decays and must be actively maintained
2008-07-09:	Detailed usage charges versus simpler charging models
2008-07-05:	How OOXML is a complete failure, even for Microsoft
2008-06-30:	The many problems with bad security patches
2008-06-27:	Fault hierarchies and problem reports
2008-06-26:	Virtual desktops versus multiple monitors
2008-06-22:	The implicit versus the explicit
2008-06-21:	A bug reporting paradox: don't put in too much detail
2008-06-13:	The cost of virtualization
2008-06-04:	Some corollaries to the charging problem
2008-05-31:	What contracts aren't
2008-05-30:	Users are rational
2008-05-15:	What protects the strength of a ssh connection's encryption
2008-05-12:	Some thoughts on tradeoffs between storage models
2008-04-30:	Why you can't stop 'abuse' of file sharing services
2008-04-25:	BitTorrent trackers are not innocent bystanders
2008-04-20:	What FAQs are
2008-04-18:	The two (at least) forms of documentation
2008-04-16:	My secret mouse fear
2008-04-08:	An alternate take on availability numbers
2008-04-05:	Why people are accepting bad uptimes from Internet applications
2008-03-28:	The stages of Bittorrent encryption
2008-03-21:	Journaling filesystems and the `fsync()` problem
2008-03-19:	The problem of charging for things (well, one of them)
2008-03-14:	Why I like definite answers to support issues
2008-03-09:	The difference between a SAN and a cluster filesystem
2008-02-23:	Where the risk is with virtualization (and iSCSI)
2008-02-14:	Why does anyone buy iSCSI TOE network cards?
2008-02-11:	Why commercial support needs to solve your customers' problems
2008-02-09:	How your fileservers can wind up spreading over your SAN
2008-01-15:	What applications are actually crucial at a university
2008-01-12:	A thought about Amazon's S3 and EC2
2008-01-10:	What you don't know about other peers in BitTorrent

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