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Observations of a former Staff Engineer in platform (Linux & AWS; formerly Windows and NetWare in hardware). This started as an academic blog and just kept going. Now retired.

DevOps / SRE / infrastructureLinux / UnixStorage / filesystems

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282 from 1 Jan 2004 to 30 Oct 2026
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2026 12

  1. Proton and the case of product brain
  2. Calling it quits on ServerFault
  3. sysadmin
  4. October 2026
  5. What the coding AI revolution isn't
  6. opinion
  7. August 2026
  8. The people critique of AI
  9. July 2026
  10. Growth vs throughput mindsets
  11. culture
  12. February 2026

2025 23

  1. The tech community needs so much repair
  2. The desperation of Windows
  3. microsoft
  4. November 2025
  5. Paul Cantrell's Treatise Against Efficiency
  6. October 2025
  7. ServerFault spam issues
  8. Stats
  9. September 2025
  10. Where "software telemetry" fits in the observability ecosystem
  11. telemetry
  12. Nostalgia over blogging vs the current social media hellscape
  13. blogger
  14. June 2025
  15. Storage, DoGE, and cognitive biases against tape
  16. storage
  17. April 2025
  18. Applied risk management
  19. disasters
  20. March 2025
  21. Blog Questions Challenge 2025
  22. Incident response process for the big stuff
  23. January 2025

2024 11

  1. The power of columnar databases for telemetry
  2. November 2024
  3. Linux
  4. September 2024
  5. Backup
  6. July 2024
  7. June 2024
  8. networking
  9. May 2024
  10. exchange
  11. January 2024

2023 10

  1. November 2023
  2. September 2023
  3. August 2023
  4. passwords
  5. July 2023
  6. June 2023
  7. Budget
  8. May 2023
  9. April 2023
  10. February 2023

2022 7

  1. November 2022
  2. October 2022
  3. September 2022
  4. opensuse
  5. July 2022
  6. June 2022
  7. May 2022

2021 10

  1. December 2021
  2. netware
  3. Novell
  4. October 2021
  5. September 2021
  6. July 2021
  7. monitoring
  8. June 2021
  9. March 2021
  10. January 2021

2020 4

  1. November 2020
  2. October 2020
  3. March 2020
  4. January 2020

2019 7

  1. December 2019
  2. November 2019
  3. October 2019
  4. September 2019
  5. August 2019
  6. February 2019
  7. January 2019

2018 7

  1. October 2018
  2. virtualization
  3. September 2018
  4. August 2018
  5. June 2018
  6. May 2018
  7. March 2018

2017 10

  1. security
  2. December 2017
  3. November 2017
  4. Spam
  5. August 2017
  6. May 2017
  7. February 2017
  8. Edir
  9. hyperthreading
  10. January 2017

2016 7

  1. December 2016
  2. September 2016
  3. July 2016
  4. April 2016
  5. March 2016
  6. February 2016
  7. January 2016

2015 13

  1. December 2015
  2. Lopsa
  3. November 2015
  4. October 2015
  5. September 2015
  6. August 2015
  7. July 2015
  8. June 2015
  9. May 2015
  10. April 2015
  11. March 2015
  12. February 2015
  13. January 2015

2014 12

  1. Gender
  2. December 2014
  3. November 2014
  4. ediscovery
  5. October 2014
  6. September 2014
  7. July 2014
  8. June 2014
  9. May 2014
  10. April 2014
  11. February 2014
  12. January 2014

2013 15

  1. clustering
  2. December 2013
  3. November 2013
  4. October 2013
  5. September 2013
  6. August 2013
  7. Rights
  8. July 2013
  9. June 2013
  10. May 2013
  11. April 2013
  12. March 2013
  13. February 2013
  14. Sata
  15. January 2013

2012 15

  1. December 2012
  2. brainshare
  3. November 2012
  4. October 2012
  5. September 2012
  6. August 2012
  7. vacation
  8. July 2012
  9. Crypto
  10. June 2012
  11. May 2012
  12. April 2012
  13. March 2012
  14. February 2012
  15. January 2012

2011 16

  1. December 2011
  2. November 2011
  3. October 2011
  4. September 2011
  5. blackboard
  6. August 2011
  7. July 2011
  8. Nss
  9. June 2011
  10. hp
  11. May 2011
  12. April 2011
  13. March 2011
  14. February 2011
  15. Oes
  16. January 2011

2010 16

  1. December 2010
  2. November 2010
  3. pcounter
  4. printing
  5. October 2010
  6. September 2010
  7. August 2010
  8. July 2010
  9. June 2010
  10. May 2010
  11. April 2010
  12. benchmarking
  13. March 2010
  14. Know your I/O
  15. February 2010
  16. January 2010

2009 17

  1. December 2009
  2. November 2009
  3. October 2009
  4. September 2009
  5. August 2009
  6. Sled
  7. Sles
  8. zenworks
  9. July 2009
  10. June 2009
  11. May 2009
  12. April 2009
  13. Msa
  14. March 2009
  15. February 2009
  16. Apache
  17. January 2009

2008 14

  1. shadowvolumes
  2. December 2008
  3. November 2008
  4. October 2008
  5. September 2008
  6. coolsolutions
  7. August 2008
  8. July 2008
  9. June 2008
  10. May 2008
  11. April 2008
  12. March 2008
  13. February 2008
  14. January 2008

2007 13

  1. December 2007
  2. November 2007
  3. October 2007
  4. September 2007
  5. August 2007
  6. Suse
  7. July 2007
  8. June 2007
  9. May 2007
  10. April 2007
  11. March 2007
  12. February 2007
  13. January 2007

2006 15

  1. December 2006
  2. malware
  3. November 2006
  4. October 2006
  5. September 2006
  6. August 2006
  7. Sp5
  8. July 2006
  9. June 2006
  10. May 2006
  11. April 2006
  12. March 2006
  13. February 2006
  14. January 2006
  15. OES-NW vs OES-Lin Benchmark

2005 12

  1. December 2005
  2. November 2005
  3. October 2005
  4. September 2005
  5. August 2005
  6. July 2005
  7. June 2005
  8. May 2005
  9. April 2005
  10. March 2005
  11. February 2005
  12. January 2005

2004 12

  1. December 2004
  2. November 2004
  3. October 2004
  4. September 2004
  5. August 2004
  6. July 2004
  7. June 2004
  8. May 2004
  9. April 2004
  10. March 2004
  11. February 2004
  12. January 2004

Undated 4

  1. Archives
  2. Speaker Resume
  3. Writing good internal documentation
  4. Archives