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It's difficult to tell if a Linux kernel bug is a security issue (utcc.utoronto.ca)
1 point by speckx 15 hours ago | past | discuss
All configuration files should support some form of file inclusion (utcc.utoronto.ca)
1 point by ingve 2 days ago | past | discuss
UEFI, BIOS, and other confusing x86 PC (firmware) terms (utcc.utoronto.ca)
44 points by ingve 7 days ago | past | 8 comments
Thinking about filesystem space allocation policies and SSDs (utcc.utoronto.ca)
1 point by ingve 9 days ago | past | discuss
Having a machine room can mean having things (Raccoons) in your machine room (utcc.utoronto.ca)
3 points by zdw 9 days ago | past | discuss
Autoconf and configure features that people find valuable (utcc.utoronto.ca)
16 points by ingve 13 days ago | past | 2 comments
The importance of an ordinary space in a Unix shell command line (utcc.utoronto.ca)
3 points by thunderbong 15 days ago | past
The importance of an ordinary space in a Unix shell command line (utcc.utoronto.ca)
64 points by zdw 16 days ago | past | 8 comments
Pruning some things out with (GNU) find options (utcc.utoronto.ca)
8 points by ingve 17 days ago | past | 1 comment
What the original 4.2 BSD csh hashed (which is not what I thought) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
4 points by ingve 21 days ago | past
Limiting the maximum size of Amanda debug logs with a Linux tmpfs mount (utcc.utoronto.ca)
1 point by rbanffy 23 days ago | past
Some thoughts on switching daemons to be socket activated via systemd (utcc.utoronto.ca)
1 point by voxadam 25 days ago | past
Having IPv6 for public servers is almost always merely nice, not essential (utcc.utoronto.ca)
3 points by speckx 25 days ago | past
It's far from clear how grub package updates work on Ubuntu (utcc.utoronto.ca)
95 points by emegeve83 30 days ago | past | 65 comments
Bash's sadly flawed smart (programmable) completion (utcc.utoronto.ca)
39 points by soraminazuki 31 days ago | past | 14 comments
Bash's sadly flawed smart (programmable) completion (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2 points by ingve 32 days ago | past
Don't require people to change 'source code' to configure your programs (utcc.utoronto.ca)
54 points by ingve 33 days ago | past | 47 comments
GNU Autoconf is not replaceable in any practical sense (utcc.utoronto.ca)
3 points by ingve 34 days ago | past | 2 comments
I think you shouldn't digitally sign things casually (utcc.utoronto.ca)
3 points by rbanffy 36 days ago | past
I think you shouldn't digitally sign things casually (utcc.utoronto.ca)
4 points by todsacerdoti 36 days ago | past | 1 comment
Some notes on Firefox’s media autoplay settings in practice as of Firefox 124 (utcc.utoronto.ca)
124 points by ingve 42 days ago | past | 117 comments
Some questions to ask about what silencing alerts means (utcc.utoronto.ca)
1 point by jyunwai 44 days ago | past
How I would automate monitoring DNS queries in basic Prometheus (utcc.utoronto.ca)
73 points by zdw 46 days ago | past | 11 comments
The Linux kernel.task_delayacct sysctl and why you might care about it (utcc.utoronto.ca)
32 points by zdw 50 days ago | past | 1 comment
Reading the Linux cpufreq sysfs interface is (deliberately) slow (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2 points by ingve 51 days ago | past
Sorting out PIDs, Tgids, and tasks on Linux (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2 points by ingve 51 days ago | past
When I reimplement one of my programs, I often wind up polishing it too (utcc.utoronto.ca)
1 point by ingve 52 days ago | past | 1 comment
Sorting out PIDs, Tgids, and tasks on Linux (utcc.utoronto.ca)
5 points by srijan4 54 days ago | past | 1 comment
Disk write buffering and its interactions with write flushes (utcc.utoronto.ca)
76 points by ingve 55 days ago | past | 58 comments
More notes on Linux's ionice and kernel IO priorities (utcc.utoronto.ca)
22 points by ingve 55 days ago | past

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