1984是George Orwell 1949年出版的著名小說，內容講及未來世界，人類被極權政府獨裁統治，人類的一舉一動，都備受Big Brother監視和控制。
1984亦正是Macintosh的誕生年份，廣告公司亦以此1984來暗諭彼1984，認為Macintosh的面世
The problem with preforking Python network servers
I've been thinking about ways around the practical cost of forking inPython . There's two common alternatives: preforkingservers and threads in general. However, both of them have issues thatmake me unhappy with them.
The best setup for a preforking SCGI server is a central dispatcher thatparcels new connections out to a pool of worker processes; this requiresthe ability to pass file descriptors to other processes. While Unix cando this (with SCM_RIGHTS messages over Unix domain sockets), Pythondoesn'
APPLE Think Different
除1984之外，這肯定是Apple最經典的另一Advertising Campaign了。
當年第一次在Apple的網站看到這電視廣告，已經覺得毛管戙。
日後，這不僅成為我個人最喜愛的廣告，當中的文案，更成為了我做人的座右銘，每次工作遇上不如意，拿這廣告出
論文偷懶．廉價在地
What will you be after reborn? (translation) created with QuizFarm.com |
香港人、美國人、日本人——哈哈，多麼庸俗、mk味。我心竊喜。
是日training金句
1. 「做咩吹極都唔起ga？」
2. 「係咪大力左D呀？」
3. 「你太鬆啦！」
4. 「你唔得呀！」
5. 「你個 elbow 仲長過你條根。」
2. 「係咪大力左D呀？」
3. 「你太鬆啦！」
4. 「你唔得呀！」
5. 「你個 elbow 仲長過你條根。」
Building a boot floppy for BIOS flashing
Part of today was arranging to flash a new BIOS on my new machine here(in the hopes that the most recent BIOS version would fix a mysteriousmemory corruption problem). This was a bunch of annoyance, because Ihad to come up with a bootable MS-DOS floppy to run Tyan's BIOS flasherprogram from. So that I don't have to go through all the work next timearound, I'm going to put what I found here.
In the old days, it was simple
預言或者報告
死神並沒有說亞瑪蘭塔什麼時候會死，也沒有說她的死期是否比莉比卡還早，只交代她明年四月六日開始要為自己縫製壽衣。那人叫她高興做多麼複雜的壽衣就做多麼複雜的，只是必須跟莉比卡的壽衣一樣實實在在縫製完畢，等
20060511網摘 – 我很喜歡唱歌
K 癮起
任天堂 Wii
- Nintendo E3 2006 Full Press Conference Download 示範使用 Wii 控制器
- Nintendo Wii 任天堂 Wii 的官方網站
Ajax/javascript
- Really easy field validation with Prototype 配搭 prototype 使用的 validation library，使用上很簡單
- AJAX Edit In Place With Prototype Edit-in-place 的 javascript library，配上 protoype 使用
- 60
小事情
開這個blog之初，我曾經考慮用其他可以顯示閱讀人數的空間，不過有過幾年新聞台的經驗，閱讀的人太少會影響寫作的心情，乾脆選一個沒有人數顯示的地方，不必跟人比較，也免除不必要的虛榮。
其實我一直以為這個blog是小眾
其實我一直以為這個blog是小眾
The practical cost of forking in Python
I spent part of the other day working to speed up an SCGI based program, and wound up hitting avivid illustration of the practical cost of forking in Python. I'llstart with the numbers:
- 5.3 milliseconds per request when the program forked a childto handle each request.
- 1.1 milliseconds per request when the forking was stubbedout so each request ran in the main process.
Benchmarking was done with Apache's ab , running on the same machine(and with only one request at a