Wandering Thoughts archives

2015-12-30:	Some notes on entering unusual characters in various X applications
2015-12-14:	Getting xterm and modern X applications to do cut and paste together
2015-12-07:	The old-fashioned and modern ways to remap keys in X (some notes)
2015-11-08:	The great Delete versus Backspace split
2015-11-06:	Revisiting a bit of my X keymapping history
2015-10-31:	One advantage of System V is that it was available
2015-10-28:	System V was kind of backwards for a long time
2015-10-25:	More on `chroot()`'s history, and my blind spot about System III
2015-09-21:	When `chroot()` started to confine processes inside the new root
2015-09-12:	How NFS deals with the pending delete problem
2015-08-28:	The somewhat surprising history of `chroot()`
2015-08-17:	Getting `dd`'s `skip` and `seek` straight once and for all
2015-07-17:	Your standard input is a tty in a number of surprising cases
2015-07-13:	My personal view of OpenBSD
2015-06-30:	The probable and prosaic explanation for a `socket()` API choice
2015-06-29:	BSD Unix developed over more time than I usually think
2015-06-22:	Modern *BSDs have a much better init system than I was expecting
2015-06-21:	Why System V init's split scripts approach is better than classical BSD
2015-06-16:	NFS writes and whether or not they're synchronous
2015-06-15:	My view of NFS protocol versions
2015-05-31:	Unix has been bad before
2015-05-15:	The pending delete problem for Unix filesystems
2015-05-06:	Unix's pipeline problem (okay, its problem with file redirection too)
2015-05-04:	What I want to have in shell (filename) completion
2015-04-28:	There's no portable way to turn a file descriptor read only or write only
2015-04-03:	Understanding the (original) meaning of Unix load average
2015-04-02:	When the Unix load average was added to Unix
2015-03-20:	Unix's mistake with `rm` and directories
2015-03-19:	A brief history of fiddling with Unix directories
2015-03-03:	The latest `xterm` versions mangle `$SHELL` in annoying ways
2015-02-08:	The history of commercial Unix and my pragmatism
2015-02-02:	Why people were enthused about gcc early on in its life
2015-01-29:	The practical result of OpenBSD's support policy
2015-01-14:	What `/etc/shells` is and isn't
2015-01-08:	ZFS should be your choice today if you need an advanced filesystem on Unix

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