On the naming of machines (part 2)

I've recently been forcefully reminded of an important thing about naming machines , namely that you should give yourmachines hostnames that are not English words that you will use inyour email and notes. That way you can actually find where you mentionyour machines when you go searching through the same, instead of gettinglost in the clutter.

(For example, we had a machine called 'mix'. I rapidly gave up searchingour work email archive for information about its history.)

This doesn't mean that


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朋友?敵人?

以一種「有機會成為你朋友」的「中立姿態」,再冷言冷語、摑你兩掌再踩住你上,遭反駁的時候就問「你想多一個朋友還是敵人?」——也許還附送「我是講良心話」的委屈模樣。

見太多了。重要的是,認住這種所謂「朋友」

四方鞠躬

1. 他者的帳蓬

模糊得不知真假的記憶:五、六歲的時候,我隨家人到了,很遠的,珠江對岸的別人家裡。我在客廳裡坐著,看到外面,有一個奇異的「窗台」。那稱不上是一個窗台,是用顏色繽紛的傘子、被鋪,嚴密地包裹著

A limitation in Linux's policy based routing

One of the more advanced things you'd like to do with Linux's policybased routing and a dual identity scenario isto be able to make more flexible decisions about what goes out whatinterface. Consider the case where you have two internet connections,one slow but reliable and the other one fast but currently flaky, andyou have a different IP address on each. You would like to send notso important traffic (such as web browsing) over the fast but flakyconnection while still having important traffic like


今日是重要的 智海失敗之作聽證會 ,可惜去不了。還有去不了的重要事。


撐紮鐵工人等如撐自己!

「還我繁榮成果」大遊行

支持紮鐵工人罷工 爭取合理工資工時

紮鐵工人罷工已持續了 16 天,雖然商會仍然拒絕讓步,但已得到市


Weekly spam summary on August 25th, 2007

This week, we:

  • got 10,965 messages from 236 different IP addresses.
  • handled 18,098 sessions from 1,724 different IP addresses.
  • received 376,478 connections from at least 114,062 different IPaddresses.
  • hit a highwater of 18 connections being checked at once.

Things are down a bit from last week ,but we are still being hammered by spammers, mostly using compromisedzombies. The per day


港女為何嫁不出?

港女為何嫁不出?

上期寫「捍衛中環價值」,沒想到竟引來中環人這麼大的迴響,王迪詩的電郵信箱迅速爆滿,有讀者更提議發起「捍衛中環價值大聯盟」。不過,一提起「大聯盟」,我就想起「鮮肉大聯盟」、「倒董大聯盟」

家族遊戲:一幕經典的結局


家族遊戲 森田芳光 在1983年執導的電影,儘管他近年拍出 失樂園 模倣犯 更廣為人知,但森田導演, 已故演員松田優作 主演的 其後 家族遊戲 效果之好,相信是森田後來的作品也難以企及的.

家族遊戲 中 演爸爸角色的也是

Linux and accidentally multipathed disks

We have one Dell 2950 that has a PERC 5/? RAID controller, bought assomewhat of an experiment, and Ubuntu 6.06 has an interesting problemwith it: the kernel sees both the real disks and the PERC RAID devices(in that order), with the RAID devices being slightly smaller (thePERC controller seems to use a bit of space at the end of the disk,presumably to store its setup information.)

As you might expect, having the same disk visible through