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31.

If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling (utcc.utoronto.ca)

230 points

a year ago

32.

We might want to regularly keep track of how important each server is (utcc.utoronto.ca)

226 points

2 years ago

33.

Why V7 Unix matters so much (utcc.utoronto.ca)

218 points

5 years ago

34.

Stack size invisibility in C and the effects on "portability" (utcc.utoronto.ca)

215 points

5 years ago

35.

What has to happen with Unix virtual memory when you have no swap space (utcc.utoronto.ca)

214 points

7 years ago

36.

Linux Certificate Authority root stores have a too simple view of 'trust' (utcc.utoronto.ca)

211 points

3 years ago

37.

Go 1.18 will embed source version information into binaries (utcc.utoronto.ca)

208 points

5 years ago

38.

A surprisingly arcane little Unix shell pipeline example (utcc.utoronto.ca)

206 points

7 years ago

39.

An aggressive, stealthy web spider operating from Microsoft IP space (utcc.utoronto.ca)

203 points

3 years ago

40.

If you use GNU grep on text files, use the -a (--text) option (utcc.utoronto.ca)

203 points

6 years ago

41.

Moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls (utcc.utoronto.ca)

202 points

6 months ago

42.

C was not created as an abstract machine (utcc.utoronto.ca)

195 points

3 years ago

43.

More, less, and a story of typical Unix fossilization (utcc.utoronto.ca)

195 points

10 years ago

44.

I'm unsure of the security of simultaneous multithreading on modern x86 CPUs (utcc.utoronto.ca)

195 points

5 years ago

45.

A thought on JavaScript "proof of work" anti-scraper systems (utcc.utoronto.ca)

194 points

a year ago

46.

A peculiarity of the X Window System: Windows all the way down (utcc.utoronto.ca)

194 points

2 years ago

47.

We got hit by an alarmingly well-prepared phish spammer (utcc.utoronto.ca)

191 points

a year ago

48.

Go 1.21 will (likely) have a static toolchain on Linux (utcc.utoronto.ca)

190 points

3 years ago

49.

How I wound up finding a bug in GNU Tar (utcc.utoronto.ca)

189 points

7 years ago

50.

Why people were enthused about GCC early on in its life (utcc.utoronto.ca)

187 points

11 years ago

51.

PyPy has been working for me for several years now (utcc.utoronto.ca)

187 points

2 years ago

52.

The potential risk to ZFS created by the shift in its userbase (utcc.utoronto.ca)

185 points

7 years ago

53.

How Unix erases things when you type a backspace while entering text (utcc.utoronto.ca)

184 points

9 years ago

54.

OpenSSH versus SSH (utcc.utoronto.ca)

183 points

3 years ago

55.

The long life of Apache httpd 2.4 (utcc.utoronto.ca)

178 points

3 years ago

56.

Intel has screwed up their DC S3500 SSDs (utcc.utoronto.ca)

178 points

12 years ago

57.

Frequent versus infrequent developers, in languages and so on (utcc.utoronto.ca)

176 points

8 years ago

58.

Unix shells are generally not viable access control mechanisms any more (utcc.utoronto.ca)

174 points

3 years ago

59.

Where Linux's load average comes from in the kernel (utcc.utoronto.ca)

172 points

4 years ago

60.

Checklists are hard, but still a good thing (utcc.utoronto.ca)

171 points

10 months ago