A left-field aphorism

If you don't have the time to say hi to a passing cat, you need toslow down.

If you never have time to say hi to passing cats, you definitely need to slow down.

(Aphorism void where prohibited by allergies. Applications to thetypical sysadmin lifestyle are left as an exercise for the readers.)


Keeping changing systems stable

Back in June, I wrote about how unchanging systems should be stable . There isan important consequence of this:

To control stability, you must control change.

(This clearly follows from change being the only thing can destabilizeyour unchanging stable systems.)

I think that this is subtly different from taking changes carefullybecause the changes themselves could possibly be broken. This is therealization that any change may perturb the overall system, requiringit to be restabilized; it is the need to control what one has definedas the


20051004網摘 – 十大網頁設計錯誤

網上工具


自由音樂

最近香港 Podcast 界漸漸蓬起來,有很多不同的新 Podcast 出現,而也有更多人關心究竟如何可以在 Podcast 裏面播歌。到現在為止,一眾Podcaster 都很守規舉,在 Podcast 裏都是播放外國的 Podsafe 音樂,而遲些日子,他們會和 CASH (香港作曲家及作詞家協會) 開會討


Some important notes on getting all objects in Python

It turns out that I'm wrong about several things I mentioned in GetAllObjects , although the code there is still useful and as correct asyou can reasonably get. However, it does have a few limitations and maymiss objects under some circumstances.

First, gc.get_objects actually returns all container objects .In specific, it returns all objects that can participate in referencecycles; this necessarily includes all container objects (dicts, tuples,and lists), but also include other types as well. (My


淋了雨非常的累。但也要小談兩本小書。

1.《魔鏡,魔鏡,告訴我》,唐莊文化2003

這本本來是上年在牛棚阿麥書房處買的,本打算這兩晚勁煲完就脫手,但看著看著又挺好看,覺得可以拿到中學做教材。數位外國女作家

20051002網摘 – 再創作 VS 抄襲

文化

日本美女遊戲


Weekly spam summary on October 1st, 2005

This week we received 11,661 email messages from 245 different IPaddresses. Our SMTP server handled 49,500 sessions from 5,900different IP addresses. Email volume has held steady from last week , but session volume isdown.

Overall connections are actually up from previous weeks: 251,000, fromat least 41,000 different IP addresses. Our SMTP frontend hit 50simultaneous pending connections early in the week,


公主: 黃金/牛棚/啟悟連連

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其實,我好像對自己的汗敏感(可能嗎?!),只要手臂出汗半小時左右,就會出濕疹。03年開始每年整個夏天都出濕疹,因為七一嘛。說起來,03年的夏天先去七一,八月在牛棚暴曬幾四天(從正午開始啊),兩單野

The many consoles of Linux

People who are considering setting up serial consoles for their Linuxmachines often wind up a little bit confused about what's necessaryand what sort of features are possible. A lot of this is natural,because the PC is fundamentally convinced that the console is the moreor less mandatory video display.

This results in a situation where there are many different consoles ina Linux system. I'll inventory them, in the order that they getencountered during booting a system.

  1. where the BIOS output appears. Expensive servers (