Wandering Thoughts archives

2013-12-16:	My computers are increasingly sort of Internet terminals
2013-12-09:	Hardware is weird (disk enclosure edition)
2013-11-30:	Why 'hotplug' approaches to device handling are the right way
2013-11-08:	The spectrum of options when netbooting systems
2013-10-31:	Naming disk devices: drive IDs versus drive locations
2013-10-28:	If you're on the IPv4 Internet, you really are in public now
2013-10-25:	Modern disk write caches and how they get dealt with (a quick overview)
2013-10-23:	Paying for services is not necessarily enough
2013-10-17:	There are two cases for changing SSL/TLS cipher settings
2013-10-15:	Why I'm not looking for any alternatives to iSCSI for us
2013-09-29:	Universities and long term perspectives
2013-09-23:	The FTE pricing gamble (for vendors)
2013-09-19:	Load is a whole system phenomenon
2013-09-15:	Identities, trust, and work
2013-09-14:	A basic overview of SAS and using SATA with SAS
2013-08-31:	Simple availability doesn't capture timing and the amount of warning
2013-08-22:	I've changed my thinking about redundant power supplies
2013-08-21:	Disk enclosures versus 'all in one case' designs
2013-08-20:	The challenge for ARM servers, at least here
2013-08-11:	Multi-mount protection and SAN failover
2013-07-26:	Communication is work and a corollary
2013-07-14:	Why single vendor solutions are a hard sell
2013-07-13:	What we need in our fileservers (in the abstract)
2013-06-23:	'Human error' is not a root cause of problems
2013-06-13:	I don't usually think about IO transfer times
2013-06-07:	My current understanding of 'software defined networking'
2013-06-02:	Security is not the most important thing to most people Why I do IPSec improperly and reduce my security
2013-05-10:	Illustrating the tradeoff of security versus usability
2013-05-05:	The original vision of RISC was that it would be pervasive
2013-05-04:	What I see as RISC's big bets
2013-04-30:	The two stories of RISC
2013-04-29:	My view of ARM versus other RISCs
2013-04-19:	How I want storage systems to handle disk block sizes
2013-04-18:	How SCSI devices tell you their logical and physical block sizes
2013-04-15:	The basics of 4K sector hard drives (aka 'Advanced Format' drives)
2013-04-12:	My view on software RAID and the RAID write hole
2013-03-27:	What checksums in your filesystem are usually actually doing
2013-03-17:	The power of suggestion that documentation has
2013-03-12:	In universities, computers are not an essential service
2013-02-15:	SSL/TLS cipher names (aka 'cipher suites') and what goes into them
2013-02-04:	What good cryptography error messages need to include
2013-02-03:	Systems with cryptography should always have minimal workarounds
2013-01-27:	User mode servers versus kernel mode servers
2013-01-20:	Disaster recovery for computers is a means, not an end to itself
2013-01-12:	Runtime loading of general code usually requires general dynamic linking
2013-01-09:	It turns out I'm biased towards kernel iSCSI target implementations
2013-01-07:	Why bad support matters (war story included)

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