Wandering Thoughts archives

2013-12-31:	Two uses of `fmt`
2013-12-30:	My growing entanglement into `vi`
2013-12-15:	Making large selections in `xterm` (and `urxvt` and Gnome Terminal)
2013-12-06:	The three levels of read-only NFS mounts
2013-12-03:	The three faces of `sudo`
2013-11-20:	`test` is surprisingly smart The difference between no argument and an empty argument
2013-11-16:	Unix getopt versus Google's getopt variant and why Unix getopt wins
2013-11-06:	Modern versions of Unix are more adjustable than they used to be
2013-10-21:	NFS's problem with (concurrent) writes
2013-10-10:	Sun's NeWS was a mistake, as are all toolkit-in-server windowing systems
2013-09-12:	I am not a (Unix) purist
2013-09-09:	A slow realization: many of my dotfiles don't need to be dotfiles
2013-08-11:	The feature (or features) I really want added to `xterm`
2013-08-04:	What's changed in Unix networking in the last decade or so
2013-07-06:	Is it particularly useful to have old Unix source sitting around?
2013-07-04:	My version of the story of universities and Unix source code
2013-07-03:	You can re-`connect()` UDP sockets (portably)
2013-06-29:	`connect()` plus `write()` versus `sendto()` for UDP sockets
2013-06-26:	What I want from a future version of NFS
2013-05-13:	The Unix philosophy is not an end to itself
2013-05-05:	Unix is not necessarily Unixy
2013-05-01:	Two `xargs` gotchas that you may not know about
2013-04-25:	How SuS probably requires the 'run at least once' `xargs` behavior
2013-04-10:	Some important things about OpenBSD PF's `max-*` options
2013-04-04:	An irritating OpenBSD PF limitation on redirections
2013-04-02:	Why `listen(2)`'s backlog parameter has such an odd meaning
2013-03-30:	One irritation in `xargs`'s interface
2013-03-21:	The FreeBSD iSCSI initiator is not ready for serious use (as of 9.1)
2013-03-15:	A dive into the depths of yes `yes no`
2013-02-24:	What limits the number of concurrent connections to a server
2013-02-22:	(Ab)using `awk` on the fly
2013-02-20:	The meaning of `listen(2)`'s backlog parameter
2013-01-25:	Some places where I think that Unix is incomplete or imperfect Unix needs to grow and a consequence of that
2013-01-23:	My Unix is a general purpose operating system
2013-01-10:	The fundamental problem faced by user-level NFS servers

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