教授自我保護守則

每次有學生到我的辦公室,無論男女,無論來跟我談些甚麼,我都會叫她或他不要把門關上。這是「大學教授自我保護手冊」的第一條守則,我一向都嚴格遵守。

在我當教授的第一個學期,就有同事提醒我見學生時不要關門;他

The standard format Unix error messages

As a sysadmin, I have developed strong and quite fixed opinions abouthow Unix programs should format their error messages for maximum usefulreadability by harried sysadmins. Today I feel like boiling it down towhat I will grandly call the standard format Unix error message, whichis the format you should use unless you have a really good reason to dootherwise.

The standard format message should be written to standard error, andlooks like:

program: general problem: specific error message

A typical example would be:

mycat: cannot open


Just Upgraded Catholic News Live

I just finished a few upgrades on catholicnewslive.com - check it out! If you have a blog or website, you can now embed a Catholic News Live 'latest news' widget on your blog by clicking on the 'Embed' button at the bottom right of any listing page.


The Ghost Writer 影子滅殺令

亞jerk 去咗睇《The Ghost Writer》既優先場。

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睇之前,佢請我食鼓油西餐。

佢請我食西餐喎,我梗係盛袋打扮啦。

盛袋打扮喎,梗係遲到啦,仲遲成大半個鐘,俾佢屌柒 -___-

唔記得間餐廳咩名,但真係好好食,又平,好食既
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Madonna Sticky & Sweet Tour (Blu-ray+CD)------ Always the Queen of On-Stage Performance!!!



1. 此concert是有史以來concert tour總收入的最高紀錄第二位(第一位是Rolling Stone的Tour,不過以solo artist來計就是第一位),全世界去了32個國家,共演了85場! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_grossing_concert_tours

2. 雖然不及她上一個tour(Confession
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不要笑鳩我之夏日小涼伴

真係好想介紹下呢把風扇:

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唔多好樣的Panasonic風扇一把。

是咁的,話說屋企附近都係食肆同車房,堅嘈,瞓覺要關好全屋既窗再用埋耳塞先瞓到。

之但係,冬天冇問題,夏天會焗死。

唔想成日開冷氣﹐會風濕(係呀我係阿婆)
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The myth of a completely shared knowledge base across sysadmins

There is a quietly pervasive myth in multi-sysadmin groups that therecan be an environment without specialists, where every sysadmin can doevery job that the group does equally well. If you do much work of anycomplexity, this idea is not just false but crazy.

I call it crazy because of what it requires. In general, it invariablytakes a significant amount of research, learning, and experimentation tobecome a (semi-)expert in a technical area such as Exim configuration,OpenBSD firewalls, ZFS,


糾纏的情意結

香港人作為經濟動物,一直以來對政治的興趣僅在於嘴唇上,真正會身體力行爭取的,從來都是經濟上的優勢,值得他們關心的,不是每個人手上有多少投票權,而是銀行存摺內有多少個零。也於是乎,政府的低迷民望,幾可被

當我們討論愛情


美國著名作家雷蒙.卡佛有一本短篇小說集名為 《當我們討論愛情》,書中故事多以極瑣碎的對話拼湊而成,表面看來都是無關緊要的情節,卻深刻地反映出現代人面對愛情和生活的困境。

這樣的小說讓人看到日常生活中各式討


教小豬煮即食麵

兒子由呱呱落地開始,我就對他服侍周到,到現在,他已快十三歲了,我還是每天一早先替他弄好早餐才叫他起床,而且盡量天天吃的都不同,以免他吃厭。他上學帶的午餐也是我預備,也是盡量多元化;放學後餓了想吃點甚麼