Wandering Thoughts archives

2015-12-24:	There is a surprising amount of old SSL code in running MTAs
2015-12-23:	Where cryptographic hashes come into TLS certificates
2015-12-09:	A surprise about cryptographic signatures
2015-12-04:	One limit to how much TLS can do for you against MITM attacks
2015-11-29:	My feelings about my mechanical mini keyboard
2015-11-23:	PC laptop and desktop vendors are now clearly hostile parties
2015-11-20:	What modern version control systems are
2015-11-18:	VCS bisection steps should always be reversible
2015-11-16:	On public areas on the Net and conversations therein
2015-10-30:	My discovery that the USB mouse polling rate matters
2015-10-24:	How my PS/2 to USB conversion issues have shaken out
2015-10-17:	Do generic stock servers have a future in a cloud world?
2015-09-30:	Why I can't see IPv6 as a smooth or fast transition
2015-09-29:	Maybe I should try to find another good mini keyboard
2015-09-23:	One thing I'm hoping for in our third generation fileservers
2015-09-16:	There are two different scenarios for replacing disks in a RAID
2015-09-04:	Consistency and durability in the context of filesystems
2015-08-29:	The mailing list thread to bug tracking system problem
2015-08-24:	PS/2 to USB converters are complex things with interesting faults
2015-08-16:	My irritation with Intel's CPU segmentation (and why it probably exists)
2015-08-09:	One potential problem with cloud computing for us is the payment model
2015-07-29:	A cynical view on needing SSDs in all your machines in the future
2015-07-28:	Why I still report bugs
2015-07-22:	A modest little change I'd like to see in bug reporting systems
2015-07-20:	My brush with the increasing pervasiveness of smartphone GPS mapping
2015-07-11:	OpenBSD and the impact of culture
2015-06-28:	Faster SSDs matter to companies because they sell things
2015-06-27:	The next (or coming) way to connect SSDs to your system
2015-06-20:	Thinking about people's SSD inflection points in general
2015-05-27:	The impact on you of making 'bad' bug reports
2015-05-25:	One of the problems with 'you should submit a patch'
2015-05-11:	The problem with proportional fonts for editing code and related things
2015-05-06:	Why keeping output to 80 columns (or less) is still sensible
2015-04-19:	A potential path to IPv6 (again), but probably not a realistic one today
2015-04-18:	A core problem of IPv6 adoption is the lack of user benefits
2015-04-15:	Illusory security is terrible and is worse than no security
2015-03-11:	The irritation of being told 'everyone who cares uses ECC RAM'
2015-03-10:	Why installing packages is almost always going to be slow (today)
2015-02-11:	Good technical writing is not characterless and bland
2015-02-06:	A thought on containerization, isolation, and deployment
2015-01-31:	The problem with punishing people over policy violations Upgrades and support periods
2015-01-28:	A thought about social obligations to report bugs
2015-01-19:	Why user-hostile policies are a bad thing and a mistake
2015-01-09:	Why filesystems need to be where data is checksummed
2015-01-06:	Choices filesystems make about checksums
2015-01-04:	What makes a 'next generation' or 'advanced' modern filesystem, for me

(Previous year | Next year)

By month for 2015: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec; before 2015; after 2015.