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181.
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Web servers should refuse requests for random, unnecessary URLs
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
86 points
ingve
3 years ago
129 comments
182.
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Daemonization in Unix programs is probably about restarting programs
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
86 points
ingve
2 years ago
59 comments
183.
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Unix's special way of marking login shells goes back to V2 Unix (at least)
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
86 points
ingve
3 years ago
38 comments
184.
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Document your mistakes and then try to block them in the future
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
86 points
zdw
4 years ago
35 comments
185.
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Server BMCs can need to be rebooted every so often
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
85 points
zdw
3 years ago
94 comments
186.
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The appeal of serving your web pages with a single process
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
85 points
ingve
a year ago
61 comments
187.
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Systemd's slowly but steadily increased idealism about the world
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
85 points
synthmeat
9 years ago
58 comments
188.
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OpenBSD PF-based firewalls suffer differently from denial of service attacks
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
85 points
mfrw
3 years ago
28 comments
189.
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All forms of signing email are generally solving the wrong problem
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
83 points
fomine3
6 years ago
57 comments
190.
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Missing TLS intermediate certificates can create mysterious browser problems
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
80 points
zdw
4 years ago
48 comments
191.
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The many load averages of Unix
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
80 points
jsnell
10 years ago
10 comments
192.
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A peculiarity of the GNU Coreutils version of 'test' and '['
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
78 points
ingve
3 years ago
66 comments
193.
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Having metrics for something attracts your attention to it
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
78 points
zdw
3 years ago
18 comments
194.
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The HTTP status code for a web server's default “hello” front page
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
77 points
ingve
3 years ago
89 comments
195.
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The length of file names in early Unix
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
77 points
ingve
a year ago
64 comments
196.
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The evolving Unix attitudes on handling signals in your code
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
77 points
ingve
3 years ago
31 comments
197.
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The Unix API is more than just system calls or Posix (2018)
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
77 points
goranmoomin
4 years ago
22 comments
198.
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Disk write buffering and its interactions with write flushes
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
76 points
ingve
2 years ago
58 comments
199.
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Graphical Unix has always had desktop environments
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
76 points
zdw
3 years ago
53 comments
200.
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Sending DMARC reports is somewhat hazardous
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
76 points
zdw
6 months ago
29 comments
201.
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Some thoughts on OpenSSH 9.8's PerSourcePenalties feature
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
75 points
jandeboevrie
2 years ago
80 comments
202.
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A strong commitment to backwards compatibility means keeping your mistakes
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
75 points
pcr910303
5 years ago
60 comments
203.
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What 'dependency' means in Unix init systems is underspecified
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
75 points
zdw
8 years ago
40 comments
204.
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Large Unix programs were historically not all that portable between Unixes
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
74 points
zdw
5 years ago
43 comments
205.
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Operating system threads are always going to be (more) expensive
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
74 points
ingve
2 years ago
22 comments
206.
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Why Unix kernels have grown caches for directory entries ('name caches')
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
73 points
pabs3
3 years ago
31 comments
207.
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How to write to stderr so people will like you
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
73 points
keyist
16 years ago
29 comments
208.
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TLS certificates specifying hosts via the CommonName field is more or less gone
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
73 points
zdw
5 years ago
22 comments
209.
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How I would automate monitoring DNS queries in basic Prometheus
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
73 points
zdw
2 years ago
11 comments
210.
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Some early praise for using drgn for poking into Linux kernel internals
(utcc.utoronto.ca)
73 points
ingve
3 years ago
4 comments
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