Wandering Thoughts archives

2011-12-20:	SSH, man in the middle attacks, and public key authentication
2011-12-02:	The many ways PCs can dual boot multiple OSes
2011-11-30:	On how PCs boot and hard disk partitioning
2011-11-24:	About SATA port multipliers
2011-11-21:	Mouse scroll wheels versus buttons that you actually want to use
2011-10-31:	Deduplication is always going to be expensive
2011-10-23:	Boiling frogs and PC performance
2011-10-13:	The problem with event loops
2011-10-06:	Thinking about event loops versus threads
2011-09-13:	'Web of trust' is a security failure
2011-09-11:	The weakness of the certificate authority model, illustrated
2011-09-05:	The real reason why true asynchronous file IO is hard
2011-08-29:	Designing services for disengagement
2011-08-08:	An incomplete list of the ways around MAC address blocking
2011-07-28:	Another reason why version control systems should support history rewriting
2011-07-24:	On documenting (or not documenting) binary protocols
2011-07-12:	Some thoughts on creating simple and sane binary protocols
2011-06-30:	Please have symmetric option negotiations in your protocols
2011-06-27:	Formatting information output to make it easy to manage
2011-06-26:	Design systems to be managed
2011-05-23:	An aside on RAID-5/RAID-6 and disk failures
2011-05-22:	Why losing part of a striped RAID is fatal even on smart filesystems
2011-05-19:	One limitation of simple bisection searches in version control systems
2011-05-17:	What we could use 10G Ethernet for in the near future
2011-05-05:	Thinking about when not disabling iSCSI's InitialR2T matters
2011-05-02:	The apparent origins of some odd limitations in the iSCSI protocol
2011-04-30:	Our likely iSCSI parameter tuning
2011-04-29:	Understanding the iSCSI protocol for performance tuning
2011-04-11:	The importance of test suites for standards
2011-04-10:	The evolution of the git tree format
2011-03-28:	The problem with contributing documentation to projects
2011-03-19:	The two sides of (PPPoE) DSL service
2011-03-14:	Why growing IPv6 usage is going to be fun, especially for sysadmins
2011-03-09:	Why feed readers have been a geek flash in the pan
2011-03-08:	My personal hard drive capacity curve inflection point
2011-02-19:	My view on window titlebars and when they are good and bad
2011-02-14:	Thinking about misunderstandings (in systems)
2011-01-31:	There are two sorts of standards in the world
2011-01-10:	Why really high computer security is not interesting to most people
2011-01-07:	More modest suggestions for bug trackers

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