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DLL Hell on Linux, but not Solaris; also: POSIX file locks are insane

• February 14, 2012 • Comments Off on DLL Hell on Linux, but not Solaris; also: POSIX file locks are insane

More on what’s wrong with PAM

• February 13, 2012 • 1 Comment

All that’s wrong with PAM

• February 10, 2012 • Comments Off on All that’s wrong with PAM

ZFS ACL/chmod interactions in Solaris 11

• November 15, 2011 • Comments Off on ZFS ACL/chmod interactions in Solaris 11

find | xargs idiom — or higher order shell functions

• October 11, 2011 • Comments Off on find | xargs idiom — or higher order shell functions

$EDITOR wrapper for use with cscope and screen(1)

• October 11, 2011 • Comments Off on $EDITOR wrapper for use with cscope and screen(1)

Crypto (secret) – nector (bind)

• January 30, 2011 • 1 Comment

On Unicode Normalization — or why form insensitivity should be rule

• April 13, 2010 • 5 Comments

Ever wanted to be able to write C function calls with arguments named in the call?

• January 11, 2010 • 4 Comments

Using DTrace to debug encrypted protocols

• August 24, 2009 • Comments Off on Using DTrace to debug encrypted protocols