這是一篇我給 《明報》 寫的稿件,刊於 2007 年 5 月 19 日「星期日生活 – In Internet」版 ,原題是「自由的代價」。這次題目原本是討論 Blog 的「道德危機」,但下筆時漸漸變成寫網絡欺凌、起哄等等現象,已算是蠻離題…
Linux is a Unix
There used to be a meme going around to the effect that Linux isn't Unixand you shouldn't call it one (I say 'used to be' because I haven't seenit recently). This has always irritated me; not particularly because I'ma Linux partisan, but because it's such a small minded claim for Unixpeople to make.
When you ask people to support this, they generally point at tworeasons: Linux is not entitled to use the Unix trademark,
20070521 推介網誌
Cute Overload
可愛的東西,有誰不愛? (當然,除了「懶可愛」) Cute Overload 就是一個專門搜集可愛東西的地方,主打動物照片影片,最常見的有貓仔、狗仔、兔仔、省仔,也有較冷門馬仔、刺蝟仔、魚仔、松鼠仔等等,
Properties relevant to finding what class supplies a method
For my own future reference if nothing else, here's someproperties relevant to finding what superclass supplies a method :
On super() objects, we have:
__self__ | the object you are calling super() about,ie the second argument. |
__self_class__ | the actual class of said object; equivalentto .__self__.__class__ but more convenient. |
__this_class__ | the class that super() was invoked for |
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如此時代,怎樣作家?
作者不是一個穩定單元的身份,「作家」更是由許多不同單位介入、而集體塑造出來的一種想像中的形象。如此時代,大眾傳媒、出版社、文化評論人以至整體社會,如何看待「作家」這身分?作家又如何
本週斑駁日常
本週斑駁日常追趕時事,於是貼在這裡。星期六(即今日)的照片裡,是我和謝某未經約定而同款的timberland拖鞋。在捍衛學術及創作自由集會裡,二人也未經約定穿上一樣的鞋子。
1. Ticklish
Weekly spam summary on May 19th, 2007
This week, we:
- got 10,112 messages from 256 different IP addresses.
- handled 17,652 sessions from 1,101 different IP addresses.
- received 154,723 connections from at least 52,588 different IPaddresses.
- hit a highwater of 10 connections being checked at once.
Volume is definitely down compared to last week , although the connection highwater is the same.In fact I believe this is about the lowest it
兩個「移植」
最近在玩 PC 版的《生化危機4》,Capcom 移植作品一向「懶鬼」,搬字過紙就算,此作也不例外,玩的時候極不順手,例如:
- 這一集的設計以槍擊為視點,但在 PC 版上竟然沒有 Mouse support,上下左右超難瞄準
- 如果用鍵盤玩的話,除了要記著