The peculiar effects of grant funding at universities

One of the things that makes universities such peculiar computing environments is grant funding.

The straightforward effect is to inject uncertainty into the year toyear budgeting process, since few grants have a sure renewal. Evenwhen the total amount of grant funding stays more or less the same,who gets it (and thus what projects are funded) can vary a lot, withthe attendant localized lurches. (The uncertainty of grant money maybe one reason that people are often far more willing to pay forequipment and consulting than to


網絡服務的個人化

我自己算是一個 RSS 狂,這個早已在「 RSS 養懶我 」一文已談及。而 Bloglines 已經成為我的收料站,是一個小小互聯網視窗。女友不是常常到處看 Blog 的人,也不太使用 Bloglines ,她常常跟我說讓她登入我的 Bloglines 戶口看就好了,反正她就是不懂 Subscribe 新的


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訪問之後

大哥:
星期六接受完你的訪問,心情舒暢,當然也有反省,以下幾個問題,可以向你更進一步的交代。

關於澳門文學“走出去”
我一直鼓吹大家多向外投稿,多作嘗試。你問我為何沒有這樣做,我只能說是時機未到,我在等我最

絕不闢謠.謠

薦文扮封筆,將氣氛推高,俗稱博出鏡。

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最近很多朋友都將自己的影評整理成一個blog,然後票選自己的05十大電影。下,我唔記得自己睇過咩戲喎。(只係記得冇睇過《如果.愛》囉。)所以只有薦人的份兒。
這裡薦兩個

緩慢前行.流水.賬

如果不是當日實在太多遊行傳媒應接不暇,你該會有更多機會知道:1月8日遊行其實是相當有趣的,並不例行,並不沉悶。趣味是來自貼近那些權力的邊緣,輕而穩重地與之爭持。我們走在龍尾,警察就想收窄遊行線,亞偉不

How Linux names network interfaces

The usual explanation of how network interfaces get their names isthat they're named based on what's in /etc/modprobe.conf ( /etc/modules.conf if you're still running a 2.4 series kernel).You'll have lines like:

alias eth0 sk98linalias eth1 3c59xalias eth2 e100

And indeed this usually works, and when your system boots nicely the3Com 'Marvell' gigabit card is eth


公共知識分子何處尋


“公共知識分子”又比"知識分子」起碼多出兩個條件:
一是他們的識見須有「外向」的特色,不是躲起來的鑽研或自得其樂的興趣;他們之所長,若非公眾關心的題材,便是足以吸引公眾追隨的學問;公共知識分子的議論,接

胡言亂語上網台

由於寫了 2005 Blog 事回顧 ,所以得到 開台 男人部落 的邀請,講講今年 Blog 人 Blog 事,考慮一番後「膽粗粗」應了約。

自己聽過男人部落一、兩集,覺得其表現方式有點怪,一句一句的,在做完訪問後知道了那是因為資源所限。不


Towards assessing SORBS' false positive rate

I was somewhat surprised to read in Chris Linfoot's blog that he uses SORBS ,because I've always considered the top-level dnsbl.sorbs.net blocklist a little too aggressive. (Considering that I use SPEWS,this may be a little bit of throwing rocks in glass houses.)

(Update: Chris Linfoot does say that you need a goodwhitelist to use SORBS.)

Out of curiosity I decided to get a very broad sense of the potential'false positive' rate for using dnsbl.