自從電郵的出現，我還以為「開會」是一個可以淘汰的工作了，原來不是。文字始終還是不能取代聲音，語法仍是不能代替情緒，而清楚的一段電郵，依然及不上見面一句「好的」。
有人說印刷是學術發展第一大發明，因為訊息
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas! May you have a blessed day with your family, or with the Holy Family in your heart!
從吃人肉說起
Linux's non-strict overcommit is the right default
I've written before about Linux's overcommit settings and the general background of virtual memorylimits . Several years of experience ofrunning various general use systems with strict overcommit and payingattention to the numbers have convinced me of something: non-strictovercommit is the right default on Linux , and probably on any modernUnix in general.
I have come to this view through experimental evidence, namely thatall of our user login machines generally run with significant amountsof committed address space, yet they have lots of free memory
星戰1977/星戰1997
1992年至1993年, 『公信力第一報』逢星期日的兒童版, 曾有介紹玩具的專欄. 剪報保存至今, 現公諸同好. 繼聖誕老人玩具後, 這次介紹的是《Star Wars》星球大戰玩具.
如以上剪報所講, 當時亞視剛剛播映《The Return of Jedi武
如以上剪報所講, 當時亞視剛剛播映《The Return of Jedi武
命運書
Richard Taylor 在 Metaphysics 一書裏，講了個十分有趣的故事。一個叫 Osmo 的人，有一天在圖書館裏無意中見到一本書，書名竟是 "The Life of Osmo, as Given by God" ！他當然翻開來看，不看則已，一看便心跳加速，接著冷汗涔涔而下，原來書裏記載的真是他的
The advantages of open source software RAID
In light of a recent entry , I feel likesinging the praises of software RAID, especially open source softwareRAID. For the moment, let's set aside the performance and cost issues of software RAID versus hardware RAID, becauseit's honestly not what I really care most about.
Software RAID in general has two major advantages:
- much more of what is going on is exposed, instead of being lockedaway inside a black box. For example, you are guaranteed to seethe raw disk status and error
千呼萬喚之後
聖誕節真是一個神奇的日子，甚麼人都可以在這一日，找到他需要的東西。比方說一個基督徒理所當然將此日作為佈道的機會，即使其實大家都知道，這一日並不是耶穌出世的日子，而最重要的是，對於信徒來說，耶穌不但出了