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• Convenient Password/OTP SSH 2022-11-22
  Sweeping password+OTP for SSH under the carpet [updated]
• If You’re Not Using SSH Certificates You’re Not Necessarily Doing It Wrong 2022-06-16
  What an oft-referenced post omits about SSH authN; you can use Kerberos [updated]
• Increasing Gromacs Throughput with CUDA MPS 2022-05-26
  Worthwhile gains from running multiple instances per GPU
• Firefox and Brave SPNEGO Setup for Authentication with Kerberos 2022-05-13
  Attempted clear configuration instructions [updated]
• OS4000: An Old, Fast, Micro-kernel-ish Operating System 2022-04-06
  A system from the 1970s with micro-kernel characteristics was fast
• Make Installing Your Software Sane 2022-03-09
  Listen to Kenneth Hoste, and make life easier for us with Autotools
• Customizing Debian-based Systems for an Organization 2022-03-02
  Configuration management with config packages [updated]
• Hakyll Draft Posts 2022-02-11
  Simple drafts
• Building Container Images for Foreign Architectures 2022-01-21
  Cross-building images with Charliecloud and QEMU [updated]
• Performance of CUDA-based Substitute BLAS 2022-01-11
  Various measurements of NVBLAS and ESSL on V100s
• High Performance GEMM in Plain C 2022-01-03
  Assembler or intrinsics may not be essential [updated]
• Send text in problem reports, not screenshots 2021-12-30
  Graphics of non-graphical output are unhelpful
• Threat Models, We've Heard of Them 2021-11-12
  The first question about security, that's typically ignored
• GCC Code Generation v. Manual Vectorization and Proprietary Compilers 2021-11-05
  Doing better than manual vectorization and competing with proprietary compilers [updated]
• Building OS Packages the Right Way 2021-10-21
  You need isolated roots to start with
• Free BLAS Isn’t Rubbish 2020-12-17
  OpenBLAS, and maybe BLIS, has competitive, portable performance [updated]
• Avoiding Proprietary VPN Clients 2020-08-20
  Suggestions for better, free software options, especially on GNU/Linux [updated]
• Phone-less, Token-less Duo 2FA 2020-08-10
  Using Duo without hardware or (proprietary software on) a phone [updated]
• A System Management Principle 2019-10-28
  Preempt the problem reports, and questions about bugs
• Replacing ELF shared libraries 2019-10-20
  Making .so shims to substitute a library with the same ABI [updated]
• Simple Configuration of GNU/Linux Clients for Kerberized NFS 2019-09-26
  A HOWTO for standalone Kerberized NFS clients [updated]
• On Missing the Point (of the WWW) 2018-03-20
  Unfortunate failure to appreciate the significance of the new WWW thing
• Random Stuff for Monte Carlo 2018-03-18
  How to be differently random in various languages