The advantage of a SAN

It's simple: the advantage of a SAN is that it decouples your storage spacefrom your servers .

This means that you can deal with each side independently; you can addstorage or move storage without having to change the server hardware,and you can replace (and add) servers without having to do anything toyour disks. In turn this means that you can use common garden varietyservers instead of big monster servers that are designed to hold loadsof disks, which means it is much easier to maintain and


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本人髮型的比喻包括:
.曹汶(本人發明,智海引為知言)
.貴婦(想稱讚又要扮cool者如謝某)
.美杜莎(學院派尤其文學系專用,如練仙和蠢材張某)
.戴左棵樹上個頭度(本人發明,受到artist 阿wing大力認同)
.法官(葉寶琳,
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Children of Men – 滄海遺珠

科幻故事最愛預測,如果世球被外星人侵略,如果出現複製人,如果我們活在虛擬世界,如果一打。其中一些則以悲情未來為主題,形容社會在一種表面風光但內裏壓抑的狀態,過度的秩序使人們失去自由,此種題材被稱為「反


流行曲接龍(不置頂了)

在豆瓣那邊看到愛看電影小組裡的 電影名字接龍遊戲 ,覺得好好玩好羨慕,只是因為電影的大陸譯名,有點隔閡。於是在香港文學小組開了一個 文學作品的接龍 ,興奮而混亂,組裡的人沒有參與forun習慣的事一目了然,但我還是覺

良好失眠

1. 友誼差距

我的數碼相機裡保持著兩幅相,讓每個人都爆笑:一是我把葉寶琳拍成這個樣子(如圖):
緊接的一張是她把我拍成 這個樣子 。真是那個樣子的。枉我還送她人皆艷羨的小背心。



2. 按摩的力量大概維持兩天,本人

背影

起初看見這照片,女友的Auntie說,不明白我為何好端端的不從前面拍,偏要拍背面。

可能是小時候讀過朱自清的背影吧,長大後,我總覺得,每個背影,都好像有個旁人未必看得到的故事。

我曾經在這裡說過,這照片,是去年十一


Weekly spam summary on June 23rd, 2007

This week, we:

  • got 10,190 messages from 259 different IP addresses.
  • handled 18,093 sessions from 1,527 different IP addresses.
  • received 223,304 connections from at least 76,627 different IPaddresses.
  • hit a highwater of 10 connections being checked at once.

This is up a bit from last week inboth connection volume and the number of different IPs tryingto talk to us.

DayConnectionsdifferent

One reason why the Debian package format is not my favorite

In their wisdom, the people who created the Debian package formatdecided to allow packages to ask the person installing them questions.By including this feature, they insured that Debian packages do quiz the people installing them about various things.

The problem with this is that questions are landmines . Every timeyou ask one, you are gambling that the person knows enough about theissue to give you an informed answer. When they do not, at best theyjust pick the default answer (fortunately Debian seems to mostly insistthat package


A thought on web server capacity measurement

The traditional way of measuring how much load your web server can takeis to use a tool such as ab to see how many requests a second youcan handle and how fast the requests get handled. People throw aroundnumbers such as their web server serves pages in 0.03 seconds under aload of 50 simultaneous requests, for example.

(Sometimes they just say 0.03 seconds withoutmentioning important information like what sort of pages, on what sortof a system, and with how many simultaneous


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