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Why Do Blackberry Apps Suck So Much?

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(21 September 2011) The Problem The problem with the Blackberry App (or AppStore App (or whatever...

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Why Build From Source?

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Question: Why would anyone in their right mind build and install software from source code? (orig...

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When Tools Just Work

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(12 January 2007) This is just a little story illustrating what happens when you use the best too...

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User Environment Churn

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or, It Will Happen To You Too, Kid (15 November 2011) I had to laugh the other week. Some Ubuntu ...

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The Tennents Of Buellerism

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Get along with everyone. Strive to be welcomed by all: the sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bl...

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The War On Email

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(11 January 2012) There seems to be an almost-declared war on email going these days. I have read...

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Superstitions

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(2013-08-15) 11:03:49 < xdroop> I just pulled another private /24 out of my ass for overlapping u...

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Seriously, Oracle?

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(May 6, 2010) Recent History At one of my customer sites, I have a pile of Sun X2200-M2 systems. ...

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Networking 10 Commandments

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Thou shalt above all, maintain the integrity of the network. Thou shalt have a long term strateg...

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Dave's Tao of Network Documentation

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This is a page which includes my thoughts on documenting a live, running network. It will be perp...

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Notes About Network Attached Storage

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You have multiple places for problems to occur. Performance areas are: how fast can your disks (...

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Mixed-Mode Filesystems Still Suck

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Problem Doing an rsync to a filer, the user gets gratuitous errors: rsync: mkstemp "$LONGPATH/$FI...

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Mixed-Mode Filesystems Suck

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Problem Mixed-mode file systems suck. You'll have to be a bit more specific. Someone applied a CI...

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Know who you are paging

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(5 October 2011) So a long time ago, the company I worked for at the time decided that the head o...

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IT Will Be A Utility

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(written back in 2005) IT Is A Utility For most companies, IT is just as much a utility as HVAC, ...

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Dave's Law Of Internet Measurement

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Law Anything which can be measured, will be measured on the Internet. 1st Corollary Anything meas...

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Dave's Law Of System Administration

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Law There's always an easier way. Corollary Things frequently get done sooner if you just do them...

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Dependency Hell

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(7 September 2012) Poul-Henning Kamp writes about A Generation Lost In The Bazaar: Here is one e...

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Buying Monkeys

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Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy mo...

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Interface-based VPNs

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(2015-03-10) Something which I realized a few years back and have not read anywhere before or sin...

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