Real world support periods are shorter than they look
Here's something that's important to remember when you're talkingabout vendor support periods (eg, how long a vendor will support an OSrelease): real world support periods are always shorter than what thevendor gives you.
This isn't because the vendor is lying to you or is going to shorten thetime. Instead it is because you can never really use the full supportperiod; you'll never deploy a new version immediately after the vendorreleases it, and you'll almost
重來，與拒絕重來
別出心裁的stop-motion新年e-Card
Elephant Communications 是來自日本的一家廣告公司，最近他們做了這張新年e-Card，用的手法絕非求其做一支例牌飛來飛去的flash animation就了事，而是我最喜愛的頗花心機的手作仔stop motion，加上移軸拍攝手法，小鎮風情效果清新，具有典型的日式精緻，令
犧牲
在電影《十月圍城》裏，那些為保護孫中山而出生入死的販夫走卒究竟算是哪一種犧牲呢？電影
Lady First 專欄（70）－ 今年聖誕
同朋友開house party，玩到整跌晒人哋棵聖誕樹上面嘅裝飾？
同情人二人世界煮飯仔整聖誕大餐？
去咗蒲，轉場又轉場，希望會遇上一個令你心動嘅人，下年有得收佢送俾你嘅聖誕禮物？
定係你同我一樣，
一件關於書的憾事
Solaris is not open source
This is not exactly news to anyone, but I feel like writing it downanyways: Solaris is not open source, and this matters in practice.
You might well ask, 'but what about OpenSolaris?'
As a sysadmin, the two open source freedoms that I really care about are the freedom to inspect the actualcode you are running and the freedom to fix the actual code that youare running . OpenSolaris does not deliver either of those freedoms,as the OpenSolaris codebase is not the same as the Solaris codebase
Pope Benedict XVI Bestows Papal Honor on St. Louisan
From the Saint Louis Review this morning: Pope Benedict XVI Bestows Papal Honor on St. Louisan
Pope Benedict XVI, has bestowed upon Dr. David Mueckl, PhD, DBA, the Papal Honor of Knight Commander with Star of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of Saint Gregory the Great.
The Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great was established on September 1, 1831, by Pope Gregory XVI. It is one of the five pontifical orders of knighthood in the Catholic Church. As part of the reform of