The optimistic view of SELinux's real purpose

In an entry, Zed Shaw recently wrote :

P.S. I have a long bet that SELinux is an NSA backdoor. Any takers?

I'm an optimist, so I think that there's another good explanation forSELinux and all of the effort that the NSA has poured into it. Mytheory goes like this:

Basically, the government has a problem. Historically and forgood reasons , it is theonly customer for really secure systems (ie, rainbow book level paranoid security).This has


道德之想像 2之2

「推己及人」不過是小學生的道理,與耶穌教訓人「若要人怎樣待你,你便要怎樣待人」一樣,足足二千年,人類到底學懂了多少?

這是關乎想像力的問題。我們會尷尬,會「唔好意思」,會在別人看不到的情況下自律,這些都

WYSIWYG Force Linebreaks - a Module for Input Format/WYSIWYG Zen

A few months ago, I was starting to get fed up with having to manually re-patch the WYSIWYG module on about five of my sites every time it was due for an update, to incorporate functionality that I had hoped would make it into WYSIWYG as a regular button/plugin ( see issue ).

Well, after months of that issue's inactivity, I decided to take the bull by its horns and write up a proper module that would hook into WYSIWYG and allow me to (a) provide the

Don't let your text get messed up - wysiwyg force linebreaks

Articles on Professional Video and Audio Distribution

In the past few months, I've finally had time to post more information about two projects I've worked on in the past year or so at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis—both of them having to do with the sending and receiving of video and audio signals through a very large building.

Click one of the titles to read the article:

XLR over Cat5 - Balanced XLR Mic/Line Audio over Cat5e

In this article, I explain how we sent crystal-clear audio (used


Sending High-Definition Video over Long Distances

I'm working on increasing the quality of video sent through the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis' in-house video distribution system (right now they use passive composite video connections over Cat5 cabling, and video is very blurry with lots of ghosting), and I thought I'd briefly share my findings in this area.

I've decided to go with an 'active' (powered) video send/receive unit, from Knoll Systems:

Knoll US-V3 Sender

Knoll US-V3 Sender


生病

從前,很害怕生病,無論家人男友有否在旁,還是覺得孤苦可憐。

總之,全世界最慘。

所以,更喜歡現在的自己。

生病時,任何人說陪我去看醫生,都會推卻。

除非跟我住在同一條街,否則,自己的士來回去私家醫院更快,別無

Paris,Texas


我想,像《德州巴黎》(Paris,Texas)這樣的電影,結了婚的人看,一定比未婚的觀眾有更深刻的體會。

這電影一點也不高深,而且劇情很簡單,男主角Travis拋下妻兒失蹤了四年,他的兒子已由弟弟收養,妻子也去了另一個地方過新生
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掃街記趣

這次到廣州,是和老婆的二姊和二姊夫同去的。所謂「食在廣州」,二姊夫又是個好吃之人,我們便少不免要大吃大喝一番了。除了幫襯了兩間著名的食府(勝記令人失望,泮溪的晚飯不錯,早點則普通不過),還在有「食街」

Why really high computer security is not interesting to most people

The US government (and to a less public extent other governments) havespent years developing a very robust and theoretically sound model ofcomputer security, complete with rating levels and all sorts of goodthings. They even documented this thoroughly in what is called therainbow series of books .

You might think that a government developed set of computer securitystandards would be widely adopted by industry and broadly used, in thesame way that other government-developed standards generally are. Youwould be wrong; the industry reaction to all of


道德之想像 2之1

前面的女仕很尷尬。尷尬得我也不敢望著她,恐怕會令她更難堪,而事實上,在場幾位人仕都沒有狠狠盯著,最多,也不過是偷偷瞄一下,然後又假裝自己正在看別的東西,或是隨意等待,但誰也知道,前面這位女仕很尷尬,因