宇多田光 Beautiful World MV

宇多田光的網站特別開設了 Beautiful World 專頁 ,提供 HTML 代碼給 Blogger 可以貼 MV。 (這才是新世紀宣傳之道嘛!)

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捍衛中環價值!

捍衛中環價值!

最近香港流行講「保育」,「中環價值」無端端成了箭靶,被指為沒有深度、唯利是圖、與人文價值相矛盾、是拆走天星與皇后的罪魁禍首……總之罄竹難書。我Daisy身為中環的中堅份子,覺得有必要站出來捍衛一

Weekly spam summary on August 18th, 2007

This week, we:

  • got 12,100 messages from 261 different IP addresses.
  • handled 22,629 sessions from 2,180 different IP addresses.
  • received 434,144 connections from at least 121,837 different IPaddresses.
  • hit a highwater of 31 connections being checked at once.

So much for any chance that volume would go down compared to last week . I believe that the highersession volume is at least partly


A thesis about language niches

Here's a thesis: in the current environment, there are threesignificant ecological niches for general purpose languages. They canbe expressed as combinations of features:

  1. low level, with strong control over what happens when you do things;such a language is above all predictable by default: C, C++
  2. loose control (with features such as garbage collection), butstatically and strongly typed for compile-time assurance: Java, C#
  3. loose control and dynamically typed: Python, Ruby

(There is no '


日月無光


這個星期的生活
完全被工作佔據
只能以日月無光來形容
滿腦子都是工作上的事其實是很可怕的
因為很容易迷失自己
但工作不上心
也是很可怕的
有上司的上司和有下屬的下屬應該對此最有體會
今日又要出門公幹
人在外地無家可歸

免費與自由

在近年來的 Linux 陣營,在用家方向上推出很多很多不同的版本,很多人都以為,在 Windows OS 的空檔期 (即 Vista 未推出前) 裏,Linux 是有機會突圍而出,可是到了今天似乎在形勢上還沒有看到很大的改變,為甚麼呢?

於是有很多人分析 Linux 的各


How not to set up your DNS (part 17)

Here is an interesting one that caused me to go digging into themoderate depths of DNS arcana:

; sdig ns just-dust.comdns1.name-services.com.dns2.name-services.com.dns3.name-services.com.dns4.name-services.com.dns5.name-services.com.; dig mx servidor134.just-dust.com[...];; [...] status: SERVFAIL

How to tell a DNS no data reply from a lame delegation

When you query an authoritative nameserver for a record that doesn'texist, what you get back is a reply with status NOERROR, the aa bit set, no ANSWER section, and the zone's SOA record asthe sole record in the AUTHORITY section. (And no ADDITIONAL section.)

When you query a nameserver for a record in a zone that it doesn'tserve, what you get back is a reply with status NOERROR, no ANSWERsection, some zone's NS records, and some


文明單位:罷工
嘉賓:陳寶瑩

The problem that built C++ (a thesis)

At least at one point, there were a lot of people who loudly couldn'tunderstand why C++ was still around as a going concern. After all,didn't Java have it beat hollow, as Java was a much more productiveobject oriented language to develop in?

Such people implicitly believe that that problem that built C++ is'building object oriented programs'; now that there was a well knownbetter solution to that problem, they couldn't see why C++ didn'