Wandering Thoughts archives

2010-12-31:	The only way to really be secure with SSL
2010-12-28:	A modest proposal for fixing your bug tracker
2010-12-27:	Users don't care about security
2010-12-24:	The jurisdiction problem with making SSL CAs liable for things
2010-12-15:	Always remember that people make mistakes
2010-12-03:	Asking users questions never increases security
2010-11-29:	Why low quality encryption is not better than no encryption Why 10G Ethernet is not a near-term issue for us
2010-11-20:	Why I avoid DSA when I have a choice
2010-11-18:	Thinking about how long our infrastructure will last
2010-11-14:	The ordering of SSL chain certificates
2010-11-07:	When you should care about security
2010-10-29:	What problems the Maildir mail storage format solves
2010-10-18:	The cache eviction death spiral
2010-10-17:	Read IO is generally synchronous (unlike write IO)
2010-10-12:	Why non-linear directories have not been popular in filesystems
2010-10-07:	In universities, you often buy hardware when you can
2010-09-29:	A surprise about random IO versus unnecessary IO
2010-09-13:	Why you want a recursive-forwarding caching nameserver
2010-09-12:	Keyword expansion: why RCS rewrites files when you commit them
2010-09-05:	A plan to deal with my feed reader problem
2010-08-21:	A sudden realization about Unix access time updates and disk mirrors
2010-08-15:	Why I change font sizes
2010-07-31:	The other peculiar effects of grant funding at universities
2010-07-25:	iSCSI versus NFS
2010-07-14:	The challenges of shared spares in RAID arrays
2010-07-10:	People forget exceptions
2010-07-03:	Returning to the era of 'duplicated' Ethernet addresses
2010-06-22:	Why feed readers are not good for skimming things
2010-06-20:	How my mail notifier avoids interrupting me
2010-06-04:	How disk write caches can corrupt filesystem metadata
2010-05-30:	The end of university-provided email is probably nigh
2010-05-29:	UPSes: defense against problems, or sources of them?
2010-05-25:	Watch out for quietly degrading SATA disks
2010-05-16:	A theory about our jumbo frame switch firmware bug
2010-05-15:	Why we don't use jumbo frames for iSCSI: a cautionary tale on testing
2010-05-12:	'Borrowing' IPv4 netblocks to get around address space exhaustion
2010-05-03:	Keeping track of filesystem consistency
2010-04-25:	An observation about Twitter (and Google)
2010-04-13:	The impact of single-disk slow writes on mirrors (and other RAID arrays)
2010-04-03:	A DVCS advantage for open source development
2010-03-23:	No DSL is 'human-readable' as such
2010-03-21:	The power of 'I like this' in social applications
2010-03-12:	End results versus what's inside the black box
2010-03-06:	Pushing code changes upstream is hard work
2010-03-03:	All syndication formats use XML
2010-02-28:	Why XML is terrible for configuration files The dividing line between supporting code and forking it
2010-02-12:	The many IPv6 addresses of an IPv4 machine
2010-02-10:	Some thoughts about 6to4
2010-02-06:	Why a laptop is not likely to be my primary machine any time soon
2010-02-02:	What charging credit cards doesn't prove
2010-01-31:	Thinking about syndication feeds and spoilers
2010-01-29:	A theory about Apple's new iPad
2010-01-26:	Why the modern age is great
2010-01-20:	One of the things that killed network computers (aka thin clients)
2010-01-04:	Some thoughts on battery backup for RAID controller cards

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