雖然工作比較忙，但也有照常地滑網，自然也離不開 Google 搜尋。我用搜尋器的習慣，是先用 Google Cache 來預覽一下，看到有用才再到真正網站詳細看。可是最近用 Google Cache 看網站，是這個畫面：
原來網絡暴民是偽造網站…
為什麼會這樣呢？原
Google Cache 是偽造網站？
Weekly spam summary on July 8th, 2006
This week, we:
- got 13,932 messages from 204 different IP addresses.
- handled 17,417 sessions from 865 different IP addresses.
- received 161,727 connections from at least 52,444 different IPaddresses.
- hit a highwater of 50 connections being checked at once (hiton Friday).
This is about the same as last week ,allowing for random variation. The per day table is mostly butnot entirely flat
The problem of IT winning arguments
Yesterday I wrote about how sysadmins are overhead . One of the consequences of this is thatIT does not actually have real power. The real power accrues to thepeople who are doing the organization's work, whereas IT is just keepingthe machines dust-free.
Remembering this will make life less explosive, because the people withactual power can usually squash IT flat in thirty seconds if push comesto shove. Generally you don't want it to go that far.
(This is part of the core of
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保守的憤怒
有時我懷疑再有價值的東西都是徒勞無功的，否則怎麼這麼多百年不滅的轟炸兇猛的作品侍立我們身邊如幽靈喃喃囈語我們愈來愈畏縮如康文署的守門員（加之與物推移每個時代的守門員都可能比前時代的更加保守）。而再親近
Sysadmins are an overhead
It's important to remember that system administration is prettymuch just overhead, much like the janitorial staff (but rather lessimportant; the university can run a lot longer without people tendingthe machines than without people taking out the trash).
The people who are important are those who are doing the organization'swork. The actual work of universities is research and then teachingstudents, so the people with real power here are professors (especiallyif they have grant funding ) and,paradoxically, students. (Students
More on tabs
The one thing that changing hard tabstops allows is for the same file tocome out different for different people. This may explain its enduringpopularity, because in theory you can use it to view source files inyour favorite indentation level while letting me view them in mine. Ifyou like two-space indents and I'm a mutant who likes 8-space ones, wecan both be happy.
Of course this is only an illusion; it breaks down explosively any timeyou need sub-tab indentation (and
On tabs
I rarely have violent visceral reactions to things. But I have a few hotbuttons, and here's one of them. Quoting from Joel Spolsky's summary :
Nick Gravgaard : "Ratherthan saying that a tab character (a "hard tab") will move the cursoruntil the cursor's position is a multiple of N characters, we shouldsay that a tab character is a delimiter between table cells..."
Wrong. Wrong wrong wrong. The core wrongness is visible in a singleline