Stories by zdw

U.S. Government creates jobs for data warehouse experts and recent CS grads

Why (special agent) Johnny (still) Can't Encrypt

Legacy

Trimming the money mustache

Anandtech's Haswell review

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What’s really different about “Enterprise”

Dirhelp - CLI tool to describe the linux directory structures (FHS)

Dictionary of Numbers: Putting numbers in human terms

Why Wikipedia's Millionth Russian Page Is Worth Celebrating

A Brief Primer on Digital Certificates and File Types

Ten Tips for an Awesome Open Source Project

49% of Wordpress Devs surveyed use FTP to deploy

Antifragility of disk RAID, the fragility of SSDs and what to do about it

Is Eventual Consistency Useful?

OpenBSD includes ZFS

Tablet OpenGL Gaming comparison, Windows/iOS/Androiod on x86/ARM

Hard disk vendor graveyard - from 221 companies down to 3

A multi-purpose EDITOR variable

Securing ZeroMQ: CurveZMQ protocol and implementation