Watch out for quietly degrading SATA disks

In an ideal world, disks would either be working completely normally orobviously broken (either producing errors or being completely dead);if a drive wasn't actively reporting problems, you could assume it wasworking fine. I am here to tell you that sadly we do not live in thatworld, at least not with SATA drives.

What we've now seen several times is SATA drives that degraded quietly;they didn't particularly report errors, they just started performingterribly (by their usual standards)


夫妻一體?

〈創世紀〉第二章第二十四節說:「人要離開父母,與妻子連合,二人成為一體 。」所謂「成為一體」,大概不只是指肉體,否則《聖經》便是強調夫妻的性愛關係,真是豈有此理了。離開父母,人人都不教自曉,然而,怎樣才

回港

回港

回了香港一趟,竟有元氣大傷之感。或許因為要照顧小孩,或許因為不習慣。

原來不過離開了兩年許,站在曾經流連忘返的銅鑼灣,竟有點生疏、慌亂、厭惡。

地方雖然不討好,幸而人還是很可愛。
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I Love You Phillip Morris("基志雙雄") ----- How can a person not exist go on existing?!
























Film : I Love You Phillip Morris (2010) (USA)
Directed by Glenn Ficarra/ John Requa
Written by Glenn Ficarra/ John Requa(screenplay)/ Steve McVicker(novel)
Starring Jim Carrey/ Ewan McGregor/ Leslie Mann/ Rodrigo Santoro
Music by Nick Urata
Running Time : 98mins

1. 其實這戲的trailer不甚吸引,對搞笑基片也興趣不大,同時厭倦了Jim Carrey的人肉表演,結果
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大電影,小熒幕。

將最我們最熟悉的一些影像,改了少許,或作一點點加工。

你細看一下,哈,才感到有點突兀,又或者,赫然發現時爆一聲:「我X,搞乜樹?」

以上就是我們廣告人最愛用的創意技倆之一,從前,我有位老闆一見到我又用呢招

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震懾

有時間的話我會聽唱片聽令人舒服的歌

我不喜歡看唱歌節目

雖然我半集都沒有看過

但真的從來不打算看

上星期在電視預告看到這位小朋友唱"餓狼傳說"

坦白說真的被震懾了

於是我為了他破例看了一次歌唱比賽節目

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It was a Good Year, De Smet!

Coaching De Smet Volleyball Team

...thus ended the glorious 10-2 season for the 2010 boys freshmen volleyball team at De Smet. Thanks for a great year, guys (and Natalie!)—you made it easy for this first-time coach!

I'm looking forward to many more victories with the big D!


Give your personal scripts good error messages

Sysadmins have a habit of accumulating little personal scripts to makeour lives more convenient, often things that make perfect sense to usbut are too peculiar or specific to be worth installing generally.Since these are personal hacks, they're often bashed together in verycasual ways; if it mostly works for us, it's good enough.

From personal experience, I now have a suggestion for these scripts:make sure that they have clear or at least comprehensible errormessages, not little cryptic ones. If you do


我的治身格言

我不喜歡William James的哲學,尤其是他對真理和信仰的看法,但他有一句說話卻令我覺得受用無窮,甚至可以說成了我的治身格言:

「要改變自己的生命,就要當下即改,改得淋漓盡致,絕不破例。」("To change one's life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly

民主都有真假?2之1

這個年代沒有人不講民主,任何政權都會自稱支持民主。但就和所有企圖套用在全人類身上的理論一樣,特例太多的情況下,慢慢就會不斷修改,越來越顛倒原本的意義,於是就出現了更多不同的版本,然後就會有「誰是真的xx