古魯達特的抗爭


今屆香港國際電影節回顧古魯達特(Guru Dutt, 1925-1964) 的四套電影,部份影評人巧合地一同將這位Bollywood Guru (Guru是他真正的名字,並非自我吹噓) 與薩耶哲雷並列而談,介紹古魯達特之餘,不忘質疑古魯達特的藝術成就與

One problem with testing system changes

One of the strange things about system administration as compared todevelopment is the general lack of testing that sysadmins do. I believethat one reason for this is that sysadmins have a hard time testingchanges, especially on a budget.

Now, I will admit that I have a biased viewpoint on this; I work in arelatively complex environment (although one that's fairly small by thestandards of large systems). As is common in multi-machine environments,we effectively have hierarchies of machines and systems, with


Mac OS X Mail App: Deleted Messages Showing in Inbox

Earlier today, when I was working on fixing a few little inconsistencies in my mail inboxes (I currently sync 5 different accounts (with a plethora of email addresses feeding into the various accounts)), deleted messages started showing in some of my inboxes in Mac OS X's built in Mail app. They were greyed out, but not enough so that I could easily distinguish non-deleted messages...

After looking around online for a while, and not finding any fixes for this problem (I get so

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混亂地反對政改

很多人反對政改。基本上,反對政府已經是一種習慣,一種潮流,一種壓力,特別關於改革問題,基本上只要你反對,就自然是社會的大多數,或至少是網上的大多數,所以這個年代,醫療改革、教育改革、政制改革,從一開始

Bio Hazard 4 / Resident Evil 4 寶物售價 (Treasure Price)

遊戲中所有寶物的售價

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虛 • 謙

「謙虛」和「虛偽」都有個「虛」字,可見兩者藕斷絲連的關係。

當然,你可以說「謙虛」的「虛」和「虛偽」的「虛」並不同義,前者是空和無的意思,後者是不真實的意思,不宜混淆。不過,明明是有,卻說自己是空是無,

希慎道1號的Starbucks

2010年6月6日。

銅鑼灣希慎道1號Starbucks的最後一天。

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於我來說,那是個充滿回憶的地方。

那些回憶,都美好。

戀愛時,在那裡等待男友下班。

逛街覺得累,又會坐下來,鬆一鬆腿。

晚飯後,和友人一人一杯,繼續未完
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The quiet death of postmaster@anywhere

I like following RFCs, by and large, and I like being a good Internetneighbour, and I have been behind one or another postmaster@ addressfor a very long time. But I have to face reality and admit something;regardless of what the RFCs say, the postmaster address is dead andhas been for years, and basically no one would notice if we quietlyturned off ours.

It would be one thing if postmaster addresses didn't get any email atall, but of course this isn't


變了味的希望

楊絳《幹校六記》裏有這麼一句:「據說,希望的事,遲早會實現,但實現的希望,總是變了味的。」我個人的經驗與這吻合。

這句話的上半,很多人會認為不對,因為他們有不少希望遲遲不能實現,而且實現的機會極微。不過

讀得痛快的《人形軟件》

剛拜讀了 譚劍 的《人形軟件》,以香港為背景的科幻,充份發揮這城的 cyberpunk 感覺,加上佈局巧妙的偵探故事,引人入勝,讀起來相當痛快。

這個痛快的感覺一部份是來自閱讀的「快感」,因為小說讀起來很暢順, 故事推進很快,可