The git version control system as a creation of the modern age

It has recently struck me that git (thedistributed version control system that Linus Torvalds created) is verymuch a creation of the modern age. By that I don't mean that it wascreated recently or by modern, Internet-enabled methods; I mean that itonly makes sense in the modern era of really cheap, really large diskspace.

Earlier version control systems were created when disk space was muchmore expensive and not all that large relative to your source code. Inthat era, wasting disk space


An important difference

As a note to myself, there is an important difference between

; timeio 10G somefile; timeio  

and what I actually intended to do for the second command,

; timeio /dev/null 

Forgetting this difference has several times left me wondering whydisk IO read rates on test systems seemed to have dropped by severalorders of magnitude from what they should be for no apparent reason.(Since writing null bytes to your screen is a great way to burn CPU


My view of Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo

Author recently asked about opinions on Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo (hereafter 'Sora Kake'), withspecial concerns over Moogy's comments calling it the successor to My-Hime since he had had a bad reaction toMy-Hime's thematic changes (to summarize Author's entry very briefly and not very well). So let metake a shot at it, from the perspective of someone who's so far watchednine episodes.

I would summarize Sora Kake as entertaining but fluffy, something thatis


我又是在上機前通宵並且什麼都沒做好

1. 但終於做了這件事: 我建立了陳滅的 facebook page 。請加入! 《巿場,去死吧》在序言的銷量持續上升, 在page的討論區中有報導 ,請有關人士幫忙update,逕直打給序言沒有問題,他們已習慣有人查問《巿場,去死吧》的銷量。也請大家

BEN仔上載YouTube片代父搵工

呢位後生仔阿BEN為加入了失業大軍o既老豆,製作了這條短片,硬Sell佢伯爺。

放上YouTube後,一星期便吸引了過6萬的瀏覽人次,聽講話,阿BEN老豆呢個禮拜開始忙於見工,握手握到手軟。

此片製作簡陋,創意乏善可陳,簡單一句:


睇你幾時死


唔係黑心

唔係咒你

在作家袁瓊瓊的網誌看到一個可能很多人已玩到爛的死亡遊戲


如果覺得生活無聊

就來玩玩吧

玩完就當給自己一個提示

大家的生命真是有限期的

好好生活

珍惜自己

文化強者


《一百萬零一夜》(slumdog millionaire),真好!好在簡單直接,好在不作高深,好在用漂亮的影像拍出印度貧民的悲慘狀況。

窮苦孤兒參加“百萬富翁”而取得比大學教授更好的成績,主持人懷疑他作弊報警將他拘留,警員在審訊期間聽他

寂然文學世界

今日心血來潮
把自己當年貪得意開的yahoo blog改頭換面
並準備經營成" 寂然文學世界 "
這個新的空間會集中刊出我的小說,書評和談文學的文章
多年來我對自己寫過的東西都不太重視
現在一把年紀就開始不記得自己寫過些什麼了
因此

斉藤和義—歌うたいのバラッド(歌者之Ballad)

我算是後知後覺,聽了櫻井和壽在 ap bank fes’07 聲嘶力竭地翻唱了「歌うたいのバラッド」這首歌,才第一次聽到這首已經有12年歌齡的好歌,知道斉藤和義這名字。

櫻井和壽與Mr. Children監製小林武史合組的 Bank Band,在其第二張大


Using fully mirrored system disks on Linux

I'm on record as building systems that usemirrored system disks with plain /boot and swap partitions (that is,non mirrored, just duplicated), mostly through ancient caution.

You know what? I was wrong. Totally wrong. I've now built a system witha fully mirrored system disk and not only does it work, it works betterthan my old way. I will henceforth now mirror /boot and swap, inaddition to all of the regular filesystems, on all future systems that I