Notes on the compatibility of crypted passwords on various Unixes

For some time, lots of Unix systems have supported better passwordencryption schemes than the basic old crypt(3) salted-mutant-DESapproach that's been used by Unix since V7. This is a good thing ingeneral, but if you have a heterogenous Unix environment with sharedpasswords it creates a very important question: what password encryptionschemes are supported on all of your Unixes, and are thus safe to use?

(Encrypting passwords with an alternate scheme not supported on aparticular Unix version basically means


諷刺的真實

有些人說人生是荒謬的,不錯,因為我們對於人生往往有不合理的期望,而偏偏這些期望,卻使得我們的生命變得好像很有意義。就例如望子成龍,「他來自江湖」裏頭吳孟達鬧他的兒子周星馳,說「點解我會生左你咁既衰仔!

The Messenger("亡情使者") ------ 未能借題發揮!
























Film: The Messenger (2009)(USA)
Directed by Oren Moverman
Written by Alessandro Camon/ Oren Moverman
Starring Ben Foster/ Woody Harrelson/ Samantha Morton/ Jena Malone
Running Time: 113mins

1. 看這戲的主因是Woody Harrelson("Natural Born Killers"),我一直覺得他是個很有character的演員,而且演得出色,只可惜他未能大紅,而此戲亦令他得

善用 Windows Live 的 SkyDrive

Microsoft 為 Windows Live 用戶提供一個共 25GB 的網絡硬碟
並擁有分享、共用等功能讓用戶及各網絡使用者存取檔案
設定不同的存取等級可以讓非 Windows Live 用戶亦擁有存取權限

使用方面非常簡單
只要用戶擁有 Windows Live 帳戶, 並到 https://skydrive.live.com/

我們仨

我有兩本楊絳的《我們仨》,其中一本是朋友送的,他也是一家三口,兩夫婦加一個兒子,「我們仨」這個詞組令他覺得很親切;他亦很喜歡書的內容,記起越洋這邊的另一個我們仨,便把書也寄我一本。雖然我自己已有一本,

Fantastic Mr. Fox ("狐狸先生無得頂") ------ 不過不失!
























Film : Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Directed by Wes Anderson
Written by Wes Anderson/ Noah Baumbach (screenplay)/ Roald Dahl (book)
Starring(Voice over): George Clooney/ Meryl Streep/ Jason Schwartzman/ Bill Murray/ Michael Gambon/ Jarvis Cocker/ Owen Wilson/ Willem Dafoe/ Helen McCrory
Music by Alexandre Desplat
Running Time: 87mins

1. 故事不算突出,不過個flow都順嘅!

2. 不是太精彩,也

全美50「州」,老二大碼細碼排行榜

美國安全套網上店 Condomania 最近公佈了一項有趣的統計數字。

話說自2004年,他們開始出售一款名為TheyFit的產品—一個有多達70個尺碼選擇的安全套品牌,將過去幾年來的銷售數字來個統計,他們粗略地評估了全美國各大州各大城


Lady Gaga俾茅山師傅落降頭?

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Why You Can't Work at Work

I worked from home one day. That day I accomplished about 3x as many tasks as a normal day at the office. Why is this? This post offers a pretty good summary: Why You Can't Work at Work .


深宵抄歌詞時間 - 猶如偶爾想起過氣玩具

從前我會使你快樂 現在卻最多叫你寂寞
再吻下去 像皺紙輕薄 撕開了 都不覺

我這苦心 已有預備
隨時有塊玻璃 破碎墜地

勉強下去 我會憎你 只差那一口氣

不信眼淚能令失落的你愛下去
難收的復水 將感情慢慢盪開去
如果你太累 及時地道別