The problem with ZFS, SANs, and failover

The fundamental problem with Solaris 10's current version of ZFS in aSAN failover environment is that it has no concept of locking or hostownership of ZFS pools; instead, ZFS pools are either active (imported)or inactive (exported). So, if a host crashes and you want to failover its ZFS pools, the pools are still marked as active, which meansyou must force pool import, which has catastrophic consequences if something ever goes wrong.

But it gets worse. Because hosts don'


中女-nization(持續閉關中)

1. 竟然想聽鄭秀文了。竟然覺得「如能為你哭/哭得出眼淚/失眠至少能睡/想起你如何不對/怎麼我還要追」這種歌詞不刺耳了。竟然還扯起條筋想聽鄭秀文了(而身邊竟然沒有可以提供曲目和file的人!)。


2. 大家都還記

閉關。留一篇長文。

記憶與書


偵探小說女王阿嘉莎.克莉絲蒂(Agatha Christine),陪我渡過少年時代。幾乎在所有公立圖書館,台灣遠景出版社的克莉絲蒂小說系列都會佔去整整一個書架。白色整整齊齊一排排,因過膠而光滑的折角,書名類似老式外國電影

Tabs versus windows, or why I usually want windows

Tabs versus windows is one of those eternal debates (well, now thatwe can have the debate at all). For a long time I was strongly on thewindow side, to the point where I didn't use tabs in Firefox at all, butI've recently relented a bit on my dislike.

For me, the core difference between the two is that windows can overlap,can be moved independently, and can be organized freely (in twodimensions). Tabs are inherently non-overlapping,


Designing a usable DNS Blocklist result format

It's relatively common for DNS blocklists to want to encode a certainamount of information in their results, ranging from the source of theinformation to how reliable they consider the results. For sensiblereasons, DNS blocklists have to encode this information in the IPaddress or addresses that they return.

As it turns out, there is a useful way and a not so useful way to encodethis information, because of the limitations of mailer support for DNSBLlookups. Most mailers can ask only two questions: 'is this


Reading

Should doctors or medical students read more literature? No, I am not referring to medical literature published in the New England Journal of Medicine here, but literacy reading in the area of humanities.

This question comes to my mind partly because I am currently reading Ian McEwan ’s novel about a neurosurgeon who knows literally nothing outside the lens of his dissecting microscope within the operating theatre. His tale helps shed light on the mess of a doctor's life immersed in a universe of Latin and Greek names (running through the

攻殼機動隊 2.0

Gits 2.0

攻殼也來 2.0 了。

攻殼 2.0 不是《Innocence》,也不是漫畫《人機介面》,而是原裝電影版的「更新版本」,更新的地方有:

  • 新的 CG 和特效
  • 6.1 音效
  • 音樂由 Randy Thom (Innocence, 超人特攻隊) 操刀,將結合當年川井憲次的音樂
  • 傀儡師的配音

少爺仔@search engine

文明單位: search engine
嘉賓:justin

少爺仔一個屈尾十成為美國大學博士生,我無限期待他有朝一日名成利就帶契我。少爺仔是我的電腦顧問歷數年,雖然我不明白他為什麼要給我裝英文WINDOW,但每問問題,他總是可以給我簡單清晰的答案。

文學時刻


上個周未在 邊度有書 買了 印刻的余光中專號
余光中 是令我一度沉迷的作家
我讀大學的年代澳門難以買到他的文集
我經常在大學圖書館反覆讀他的書
後來索性影印了 望鄉的牧神 逍遙遊 聽聽那冷雨 天狼星 等書

很奇怪
我喜歡余光

錯誤

周日無聊,上網看了一晚新聞和時事討論區,從種種社會事件及人們對事情的討論中,想到一些有趣的問題:

問題一:澳門人是否能坦然接受他人的批評,哪怕是善意的批評?

問題二:批評者如何可以令被批評者口服心服,被批