Wandering Thoughts archives

2009-12-31:	Why free things are so attractive in universities
2009-12-26:	Things that limit the performance of hardware acceleration
2009-12-24:	The advantages of open source software RAID
2009-12-18:	Secure or useful: pick one
2009-11-29:	In security, you need to stop the root mistake
2009-11-18:	Universities are open environments
2009-11-11:	For universities, the Internet world has fundamentally changed
2009-10-31:	My thoughts on why invented standards succeed or fail The risk continuum for standardization success
2009-10-26:	What I think I understand about how standards get created
2009-10-25:	Some thoughts on a 'modern' university email system
2009-10-24:	Something I have realized about university services
2009-10-03:	One thing that top-posting is good for
2009-09-28:	Two ends of hardware acceleration What I think about why graphics cards keep being successful
2009-09-19:	Why I am not a fan of hardware acceleration
2009-09-13:	How modern CPUs are like (modern) disks
2009-08-30:	Some more thinking about requirements in specifications
2009-08-29:	MUST versus SHOULD in your specifications
2009-08-15:	SSDs and the RAID resync problem
2009-08-06:	A rule for Internet software
2009-07-22:	Thinking like a security paranoid: an example
2009-07-19:	The importance of making an issue visible
2009-07-18:	Why NFS filehandles fail as access capabilities
2009-07-05:	The coming Internet identity problem
2009-06-26:	An advantage for hardware RAID over software RAID
2009-06-24:	Another source of stickyness for social web sites
2009-06-10:	Users are lazy
2009-05-31:	A thought on giving custom redundant storage systems some history
2009-05-10:	Another advantage of disk-based backup systems
2009-05-08:	The problem with tapes (for backup)
2009-05-02:	Why version control systems should support 'rewriting history'
2009-04-29:	Pragmatic issues with hash verifiers for email messages
2009-04-25:	On digital signatures and client security issues
2009-04-17:	Git and 'rewriting history'
2009-04-05:	Why I don't expect ARM-based netbooks to be a success
2009-03-31:	The SSD boom and the theoretical multicore revolution
2009-03-26:	The `git` version control system as a creation of the modern age
2009-03-22:	An outline of a possibly easier IPv4 to IPv6 transition
2009-03-21:	Why the ideal IPv4 to IPv6 transition is impossible
2009-02-26:	What I learned from Google Mail's recent outage
2009-02-23:	A problem with microtransactions
2009-02-22:	Internet scale security: the impact of cheapness
2009-02-18:	My theory on why people wind up using common passwords
2009-01-31:	Why social mudding works
2009-01-26:	How LiveJournal is sticky
2009-01-10:	You cannot ask users to manage their own security
2009-01-06:	The problem of forcing users to make choices (in security)
2009-01-01:	Flaws in the 'web of trust' approach to trust issues

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