Another really stupid web spider

I have to take back what I said just the otherday about having seen the worst stealth spider I'd ever seen. The dayafter I wrote that entry, I saw a worse case.

Like the first one , they made two valid requeststo start with and then followed them up with 65 bad ones, all in thespan of 11 seconds. Also like the first one, all their requests were badbecause they couldn't deal with absolute paths in Continue reading...


我係Mac友你唔係之 — 擺明窒你 Window 95

這就是Blog友阿力所講的廣告,當年一出,所有Mac用家都陰陰笑。這亦秉承了Apple的一貫作風,擺明居馬,同你隻揪,吹咩?


自問自答

問:「你好 "支力" 呀?」

答:「我同個假人打左成日茄輪兼摸胸,唔 "支力" 就有鬼啦。佢仲要係一個假人TB,叫Anne。」

問:「你唔開心呀?」

答:「我個普通話水平測試 failed 左。永遠都會記得去考試果一朝,我個心好痛好酸,

命運三帖




一.
我慶幸自己對社會一點興趣也沒有,不然一定要寫很多文章,時時要發議論,事事都要有意見,這樣活著多麼辛苦。

我很害怕看到別人勉為其難在談論一件事,像這個政策有什麼內容,那個現象有什麼要注意。其實是淺白得

Bad patch management at Sun

Today, I tried to use ssh from my Solaris test machine to anothermachine for the first time in a while (I usually push stuff the otherway):

$ scp pca-out.html linux:www/
dlopen(/usr/lib/gss/gl/mech_krb5.so): ld.so.1: ssh: fatal: /usr/lib/gss/gl/mech_krb5.so: open failed: No such file or directory
xmalloc: zero size


我係Mac友你唔係


做了Mac友十幾廿年,雖然平時上班都是被迫用PC居多,當然Mac機還是My飛弗。

喜歡Mac機,也喜歡Mac廣告,剛上Apple網站看到他們的新廣告,擺明向 PC(Bill Gates)對著幹。

賣電腦而不賣電腦Functions卻只賣形象或賣Message,以一貫人性化手法(你


替網摘說句好話

由我這個「罪魁禍手」搞出來的有關 網摘引文 的討論,吹到台灣後已經由本來「引文」合法性,轉變為「商業網摘」是否可以使用 blogger 們的文章,因為台灣 智邦 有專業「網摘師」一職。因為那邊人更多的關係,所以討論更為複雜和


遇見大師


近日不少大作家來澳
可能澳門的名氣真是越來越大
也可能是香港的朋友越來越喜歡帶一些大作家來澳門玩

今日著名小說家李銳及蔣韻來澳
我在編輯小姐的安排下參加了澳門基金會所設的午宴
一睹作家風采

我特別帶了“傳說之死”

Link: an excerpt from On Writing Well

Here are chapters 2 through 4 of William Zinsser's On Writing Well , a classic book on, well,writing well. Just start with the opening of chapter 2 and keep going:

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a societystrangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompousfrills and meaningless jargon.

Remind you of any computer manuals you've read recently? (Hopefully itdoes not remind you too much of WanderingThoughts . I try, but I knowI have a long way to go


A really stupid web spider

Today WanderingThoughts had a visit from the worst stealth spider thatI've ever seen. Given the previous contestants this is a fairly tall order, but I'm confidantI have a winner. The spider:

  • made two requests for directories without the trailing slash, earningit redirections to the proper URLs.
  • followed the redirections, making two valid requests.
  • promptly made 95 bad requests by failing to treat URLs with a leading slash properly.

    I've seen spiders