OpenSolaris versus Solaris

Discussions about Solaris often wind up bringing up OpenSolaris (andsometimes it crops up in other contexts). However, I do not findOpenSolaris particularly interesting.

My view is that right now, OpenSolaris is essentially a technologydemonstrator. You can't use OpenSolaris by itself, because it lackssufficient support to use it directly and sufficient genuine opennessfor sensible people to base stable things on it. You can't use it as thefuture of Solaris, because I'm not aware of any commitment from Sun that


I'd Rather Hear Both Sides of the Tale

Protection for Gangs, Clubs and Nations Causing Grief In Human Relations It’s A Turf War On A Global Scale I’d Rather Hear Both Sides Of The Tale See, It’s Not About Races Just Places Faces Where Your Blood Comes From Is Where Your Space Is I’ve Seen The Bright Get Duller I’m Not Going To Spend My Life Being A Color

~from Michael Jackson’s “Black or White”

高鐵熱燙燙,我的網圈內大都是反對


尋找一個 ______ 男友





心底裡,

我還是情願自己經濟獨立,

尋找一個能令我笑的男友就足夠。






耶穌這個男人

基督教其中一個賣點是耶穌同時是神和人。神沒有性別,耶穌卻是男人。如果耶穌是個真真正正的人,那麼他也要經過一個正常人必須經過的成長階段,由呱呱落地到牙牙學語到青春煥發到血氣方剛;他死時據說只有三十多歲,

More on mismatched sectors on Linux software RAID mirrors

Some brief followups from my first entry on this.

First, the mismatch_cnt numbers are reset from scratch everytime you re-run a check (and probably every time there is a mirrorresync). On many current systems, this means that they will be resetevery week. This makes sense and is even implied by the documentation (in the usual Unixfashion of reading between the lines),but it would have been nice to have it explicitly documented.

(I'm aware that I'm


反戰,因為我們很安全

「黑鷹十五小時」是一套電影,我必須強調,它是一套電影,因為裏頭並沒有索馬里民兵的屍體。

戰爭電影從一開始就註定了是反戰的,這差不多是電影工業的主旋律,只有好像「戰狼300」之類的希臘神話式戰爭,才會對極

家傳秘方

家傳秘方

帶衛兒去茶樓喝茶﹐他的紅臉兒引來不少眼光。光顧這茶樓多次,還是頭一次有這麼多人過來和我們搭訕。可見這天衛兒的臉確是有點嚴重。

~ ~ ~
點心阿姐甲端來我們叫的點心,一見衛兒便說:「他的臉兒怎麼了?一
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MuShower的form factor

產品設計我不在行,只知道一件產品的成功與否,能夠吸引到那類型的消費者,基本上,先不談功能,一件產品的form factor其實已主宰了它一半的命運。

看看以下圖片,你猜這是什麼。

這明顯是一個類似車頭燈的物體,對不?

再來個

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雪 ‧ 前路

2001年暑假後,全家由加州老遠搬到維珍尼亞州,那是二千多哩的距離,為的就是一份為期只有一年的客席教職。這一年很苦,申請居留工作證件時波折重重,到學期開始前的兩三個星期仍未辦妥,雖然最終弄到手了,但期

I do not like Unix's fossilization

I like Unix, but I'm not entirely happy with the modern world of Unix,and not for the reason you might expect. Instead of disliking thechanges from the old days, I find it distressing to see Unix slowlyfossilize.

Unix should be picking up new good ideas. It should be adopting betterways of writing shell scripts, adding more little programs,and all of that. Yes, things like seq and (GNU) stat and (GNU) date and time are not in the Posix specification