An unpleasant thing about system administration

One of the unpleasant things about system administration is how it canturn me into a petty authoritarian, full of irritation with users thathave the temerity to 'break the rules' and not follow directions, evenif (or especially if) the rules are themselves impositions from outsidethat I myself dislike and object to. Instead of cheering on the users, Ibecome angry with them, apparently merely because they have the temerityto not do what I told them to. In some dark place in my mind, people not


2007 個人電影列表

戲是看不完也寫不完的,這是上年看過的戲:

Jan

  • The Holiday 緣份精華遊
  • Deja vu 時凶感應

Feb

  • Night At the Museum 翻生侏羅館

March

April

May


Eavesdropping

Like it or not, Facebook has expanded from a website exclusively for college students to embrace each of us – professors and students alike. Whilst the social networking by Facebook has become addiction in our society, there is recent uproar about the intrusive nature of its News Feed. It’s as if our activity and personal affairs are suddenly broadcast everywhere, grabbing away our privacy and leaving us naked in front of nosey parkers.

I made a casual comment on this question last week during the lunch with my interns. When I

There are really two GPL v2 licenses

While is only one GPL v2 license, there are effectively two versions ofthe GPL v2 that programs are licensed under: programs licensed under theGPL v2 (only), and programs licensed under 'GPL v2 or (at your option)any later version', depending on the license verbiage that the programitself uses. The FSF encourages the 'GPL v2 or any later version' one,but some people have not been so open ended.

When there was only one GPL license in common


《再看日常》聯展 (Daily Preview Exhibition)


This is a bowl of rice. Or a sheep on grass.

Daily Review reexamines the everyday with an artistic eye. After one year of art training, 23 students from Hong Kong Art School present what they find special in the trivial.

Participants

Chan Shi Chi, Kako Chan Ting Wai, Chan Wai Lam, Chow Kwok In, Heman Blue, Ho Ka Ki, Phoebe Hui, Kong Wing, Ophelia Kwong, Lam Ka Yan, Lau Nga Ting*, Lau Wai Kuen*, Ricky Leung, Terry Lo

假如讓我說下去

近來被譽為「正面到有d變態」、「真係好construstive」——本來自命gothic loita,正大感尷尬,誰知不旋踵,壞狀態就襲來,突然被負面情緒充滿,覺得世界與自己正以相反方向急速消逝,看見每個人,都想到「我要和這人毫無關係」或「「

台灣照片

好像很多人去台灣哦!今次是我第一次到台灣,到過台北、十分、九分、北投、淡水、士林… 拍的照不多~ 全屏幻燈片

用金打造也不保《Elizabeth: The Golden Age》


看過《Elizabeth: The Golden Age》, 終於明白影片為何會得到惡評....

平心而論, 影片成績不算差. 如果當年Shekhar Kapur食正《Elizabeth》的水尾, 乘勝追擊, 還可. 只可惜他追不回《Elizabeth》時應有的水準, 《Elizabeth: The Golden Age》缺乏了上一集的緊湊, 覆水難
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平安夜 色戒夜

平安夜 色戒夜

上文提到零晨三時,我與同事們在蘭桂坊喝完紅酒,突然接到一個SMS。這麼晚了,會是誰呢?想不到,竟然是Philip!他邀請我在平安夜一同出席Christmas ball!

不得了!現在該怎麼辦?Okay okay,冷靜!讓我立即發個短訊給他答應

The importance of killing processes in the right order

In the old days, we had a mail system with two problems: receiving SMTP mail took a couple of processesper connection, and the SMTP server had no timeout. The result thatour central mail server would slowly accumulate more and idle SMTPsession processes waiting on zombie PCs that had just yanked theconnection away, all of them chewing up memory, swap space, and so on;at the height of things, we might have more than a thousand idle SMTPconnections.

(Specifically, there was a process per