真係要好浪漫先得(塞班島之旅之一)


我們出發了

過去一個星期,我終於去了那兩個島:塞班島和關島.

這兩個地方,我五年前去過,當時是新婚蜜月,這一次,是再渡蜜月.講明先,呢兩個島,唔抵玩,某程度上係貴,無新奇刺激的東西,亦肯定不是掃貨最佳地點
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簡單的生活


平凡不見得全然是悲哀的。快樂之一就在於可以活得非常簡單。

上班準時,下班更準時,從不把公事帶回家,偶爾會在辦公時間處理私事。工作認眞,遭了挫折,吃了虧,仍然笑容滿臉,這次做得不好,下次一定做好,不抱怨,

目無政府《M*A*S*H* 》(風流軍醫俏護士)


《M*A*S*H*》(風流軍醫俏護士), 37年前的電影, 感覺上仍然很現代. 戲內瀰漫的嬉戲至上、抗衡現實的頑童態度, 至今仍然令人充滿共鳴.

儘管《M*A*S*H*》的情節確令人笑到肚痛. 眾醫護人員除了負責

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Using Linux's magic SysRq feature

The 'magic SysRq' is a feature of the Linux kernel where you candirectly invoke certain kernel commands, regardless of what happens tobe going on at user level and often even if the system is fairly brokenotherwise. Commands are conventionally described by the key that's usedto invoke them.

There are three ways of invoking magic SysRq commands:

  • writing the command key to /proc/sysrq-trigger , for examplewith ' echo >/proc/sysrq-trigger ' in a root shell

    怪物



    早上在電視裡看到曾蔭權扑董建華的頭,頒發榮譽博士學位(劉遵義伺候在旁)。那個場面非常震撼(用周某的講法是淫穢),因為頒發者其實除權位之外無任何資格進行此項行為,受者除之前的權位外無任何資格得此授予,加

    失眠.瘋癲,或治療

    文明單位: 失眠、異常與劇場
    嘉賓: 陳炳釗

    陳炳釗看著我手上那堆書,說,怎麼這堆書竟好像是他的。鄙人暗自沾沾自喜。《N.A.S.D.無異常發現》的創作靈感來源是村上春樹和《瘋癲與文明》,那麼其實入場前都已猜

    Why large ISPs like SPF (the cynical view)

    One of the peculiarities of SPF and related schemesis that many large ISPs are quite enthusiastic about it, especiallyfree webmail places like Hotmail, Yahoo, and Google Mail. However, thisenthusiasm rarely extends to blocking incoming email that fails SPFchecks, although they are happy to encourage you to use SPF on yourown mail.

    The cynical view of this is that ISPs love the idea of SPF because itgives them more control over their customers. With SPF, their customersare not only tied to the ISP for reading


    我喜歡教散文

    (一向很少貼星島的文上來,這篇當作書短介,或者作為同教寫作班的朋友一點分享。)

    散文寫作有什麼可教? ——成為範文之前的範文

    自從高級程度會考課程改革,大幅增加創作比重之後,中學就開始需要相當數量的創作班導

    Safely updating files that are read over NFS

    To elaborate on an old entry a bit, let'ssuppose that you have important system data files that you expose to allof your machines via NFS, and that you need to re-generate and updatethem every so often.

    When you regenerate files locally, you need to make sure that there'salways a version of the file present, and that the file's alwayscomplete. When you add NFS there's a third, subtle requirement: youcannot immediately remove the old version because a


    Dumb switches are now too smart for my good

    Here's an ironic thing: basic switches these days are now too smartfor their own good, or at least for my good. The issue is that eventheoretically dumb switches are VLAN aware, which means that they willonly pass VLAN tagged packets if they've been told about the particularVLAN is tagged for.

    The problem this creates is that it is now impossible to have ageneric traffic monitoring switch. What you'd like to have is asmall switch that's pre-configured with a