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Too Clever For My Own Good
(2018 sometime) 15 years ago, I accidentally ran a complicated shell command that muffed a couple...
Unclean
Why the fuck do PC guys think that they can "clean" infected PCs? I'm old-school unix -- if there...
Why Do Blackberry Apps Suck So Much?
(21 September 2011) The Problem The problem with the Blackberry App (or AppStore App (or whatever...
Why Build From Source?
Question: Why would anyone in their right mind build and install software from source code? (orig...
When Tools Just Work
(12 January 2007) This is just a little story illustrating what happens when you use the best too...
User Environment Churn
or, It Will Happen To You Too, Kid (15 November 2011) I had to laugh the other week. Some Ubuntu ...
The Tennents Of Buellerism
Get along with everyone. Strive to be welcomed by all: the sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bl...
The War On Email
(11 January 2012) There seems to be an almost-declared war on email going these days. I have read...
Superstitions
(2013-08-15) 11:03:49 < xdroop> I just pulled another private /24 out of my ass for overlapping u...
Seriously, Oracle?
(May 6, 2010) Recent History At one of my customer sites, I have a pile of Sun X2200-M2 systems. ...
Networking 10 Commandments
Thou shalt above all, maintain the integrity of the network. Thou shalt have a long term strateg...
Dave's Tao of Network Documentation
This is a page which includes my thoughts on documenting a live, running network. It will be perp...
Notes About Network Attached Storage
You have multiple places for problems to occur. Performance areas are: how fast can your disks (...
Mixed-Mode Filesystems Still Suck
Problem Doing an rsync to a filer, the user gets gratuitous errors: rsync: mkstemp "$LONGPATH/$FI...
Mixed-Mode Filesystems Suck
Problem Mixed-mode file systems suck. You'll have to be a bit more specific. Someone applied a CI...
Know who you are paging
(5 October 2011) So a long time ago, the company I worked for at the time decided that the head o...
IT Will Be A Utility
(written back in 2005) IT Is A Utility For most companies, IT is just as much a utility as HVAC, ...
Dave's Law Of Internet Measurement
Law Anything which can be measured, will be measured on the Internet. 1st Corollary Anything meas...
Dave's Law Of System Administration
Law There's always an easier way. Corollary Things frequently get done sooner if you just do them...
Dependency Hell
(7 September 2012) Poul-Henning Kamp writes about A Generation Lost In The Bazaar: Here is one e...