Weekly spam summary on January 14th, 2006

This week we received 12,785 email messages from 208 different IPaddresses. Our SMTP server handled 17,958 sessions from 984 differentIP addresses. Session volume is dramatically down from the levels of last week .

Connection volume is also down: 122,600 connections from at least44,760 different IP addresses. However, we hit a highwater mark of 50connections being processed at once on Tuesday, so we have had


How not to set up your DNS (part 8)

This is one of those amusingly creative mistakes to see in action:

  • microsoftglobal.com lists as nameservers ns1.one-dom4.com andns2.one-dom4.com.
  • both respond with errors if they are sent queries that allowrecursion.
  • sent queries marked non-recursive, both answer all DNS queries forthe domain with no actual data, but with an 'additional authority'section that says they're the nameservers for the domain.

Nameservers normally answer a query for a domain they


遇人不熟 – 玩記憶拼貼

stranger

一套叫《遇人不熟》的日本片上映了,影片宣傳以《 Pulp Fiction 危險人物》和《 Memento 凶心人》相提並論。其實只是形式上有點兒相似,都是玩記憶,至於內容則很不同。《遇人不熟》有趣地將人和事重疊在一起,但故事並沒有深刻的課題


Writing HTML considered harmful

The other day a weblog I read had a post (and their RSS feed) blow up because of invalid markup: an entry wasquoting some text that had bare '<'s in it, nothing escaped them, andinvalid HTML tags got generated and ate part of the entry. (Theproblem's now been fixed.)

There's nothing noteworthy about this, and that's the problem: peoplemake this mistake all the time. HTML has a bunch of picky rules tokeep track of


20060114網摘 – Blog在香港不成氣候?

Web Dev

Resources


An unconventional reason for large RAID stripe sizes

Here's a surprising reason to have a really large RAID stripe size: toreduce per-spindle IO loads for random IO.

How and why this works is going to take some explanation. First,modern disks read and write very fast; what costs time isseeks. Random IO means lots of seeks. In random IO on a striped RAID,this means that any time you have to touch a new disk you pay anadditional seek cost. And you switch disks every time you cross astripe boundary.


我都知下面篇文又突然地長左

所以呢個post短d。淨係薦文。

1. 呢篇文的heading不甚吸引 ,但文章中後段談了很多傳媒運作的內幕,留言中更有署名心戈的一段留言,討論傳媒客觀中立的問題,請各位留意,copy低做日後論辯的資源。行家一伸手,便知有沒有。

2

電台訪談

再次因為 2005 Blog 事回顧 而接受了訪問,這次是香港電台的 原林部落 ,主持人在 Hong Kong Bloggers Group 看到 Sidekick 貼了我的文章,所以想找我做了一個電話訪問。與 上次開台 不同的,今次只談十數分鐘,比較輕鬆。

在錄音前,主持說不會全部事


2005 個人電影列表

回看一下 2005 年看己看過的上映電影:

Jan

Feb

March


中秋.新年.單行

1月10日觀塘法院外百人絕食支援反世貿被捕人士,我沒有參加(因為怕再出糗)。九點鐘到達之時,晚會已經接近完結,傳媒也已撤走。

我以為絕食的都是自己友,我以為已經沒有人關心被拘捕人士的事了。誰知一來到,發