乏而厭世

1.睏。對於與年輕人溝通失去信心。<-- body 這種典型的xanga、od句子。飯氣曾有將心比明月,鄙人則野野明月照溝渠,什麼都攤開來講,可惜看來沒人相信我是友善、坦誠又心軟的。以為談得開心,以為對嘴了,過一天開估,完<>

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The return of how to get your web spider banned

Today's entrant is 'Uptilt Inc', uptilt.com, aka 64.71.164.96/27. Let's see how they did on my scale :

Important update : it turns out I was fooled by out of dateWHOIS information and Uptilt Inc isn't involved; for the fullstory, see UptiltUpdate . Remember that when you read thehistorical references to them in the rest of this entry.

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獻給阿爾吉儂的花束

algernon

最近讀了一本舊的科幻小說《 獻結阿爾吉儂的花束 》,作者是 Daniel Keyes。其同名短篇先在 1959 年奪得雨果奬,再在 1966 年以長篇化的版本 (也就是我讀的版本) 奪得星雲奬。對科幻文學有些認識的人都知道,這兩個是很出名


果然是但噏


看了“林海峰是但噏發花癲”,印象不太好,雖然林先生勇於拿身邊事物來挖苦和開玩笑,但我覺得並不好笑。

始終覺得黃子華的棟篤笑處理得比較流暢,黃的表情夠賤,但賤中有情,探討的又是社會現象,大家有共鳴,而且表

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Session IDs and the Birthday Paradox

If you have a database (or in general some writable store), the bestway to do authentication in a web app is with session ID cookies. Everytime someone logs in, you pick a large random number to be their sessionID, give them a cookie with the session ID, and then store all of thedetails in your database under the session ID. When they come back, youget the session ID cookie, look it up in the database, make sure it's(still) valid


The charm of Sun's Freeware collection

Presented on a stock install Solaris 9:

$ cat hello.cpp#include main(){    cout << "Hello World!\n";}$ g++ hello.cpp$ ./a.outld.so.1: a.out: fatal: libstdc++.so.2.10.0: \  open failed: No such file or directoryKilled 

(Line wrapping added for clarity.)

To get the Sun Freeware g++


音樂播放器雜談

foobar

想起以前,自己最初的常用音樂播放器是 Winamp ,那時音樂檔不多,所以單單一個 Playlist 已經足夠應用。但隨著音樂檔越來越多,在管理上有一定的難度,所以需要一個可以好好自動化管理音樂的軟體。

iTunes 的音樂管理做得不錯,除了普通


自覺樣衰

近日自覺樣衰了不少,有衝動做一個問卷調查測試眾人認為我的“樣衰度”增加了多少?

一年一度,跟我最後一班學生聚會,去年暑假只有小貓幾隻回來,今次一來就是二十幾人,都是大二學生了,他們在世界各地讀書,我卻似