Two approaches to Unix environments

There are two general approaches to coping with the various environmentsof Unix accounts that I've seen people adopt. The first is taking thedefault environment that each system comes with (perhaps with minimaland easy customization for stuff that really bugs you); the second isbuilding a completely customized personal environment that you then drageverywhere.

(To stereotype, people who follow the first sort feel that life is tooshort to spend futzing with your environment when the one that someoneelse worries about works well enough, while the


我哭了

由A上演非正式失蹤的那天開始,我很堅強,一直都沒有哭過。

但今天晚上,我在的士車廂內,忍不住哭了。

我看著自身,無助地返回了20歲的那些日子。

每天喝酒跳舞至天明,然後哭著入睡。

一顆心,越玩越無聊,越玩越寂

GBA 加劉華

gba and andy lau

上個星期二,GBA 參演了劉德華一個小型音樂會,這次主要唱的歌,是《觀世音》。

這次的演出選址在理大的綜藝館,比起一般通常可容納多人的紅館會展,有比較好的音響效果,不知道是不是大會想有一些突破,做個靚聲演唱會


我知道寫作只是手作仔,我相信書寫自有力量


網上世界,無奇不有。

如無意外,我會在某網絡供應商的網頁內開設網上專欄。

我以前是小說作者、專欄作者、雜誌編輯,這些身份對我來說都很熟悉,今次合作卻不是因為這些身份,原來,在一些讀者眼中,我“只是”一個博

寂然世界,只賣$14,113.50


My blog is worth $14,113.50 .
How much is your blog worth?



案內人隨筆 看到這樣的一個為blog計算價值的 網站 ,據這個網站的計算,“寂然世界”值$14,113.50,低低地,都叫做有個價啦!

當然這玩意得啖笑,且不論計算方法
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A NFS mount accident on Linux

Something that you can do on a modern Linux system by accident:

mount -t nfs -o hard,intr,rw localhost:/ /

(instead of mounting it on /mnt , as I had intended.)

It is surprisingly hard to recover from this. In fact, I don't think Isucceeded, and I wound up having to reboot. At the same time, I don'tthink anything broke, so I theoretically could have kept on running themachine like that.

(Why you


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An amusingly truthful hostname

We got email today from a machine called 'server1.ghettowebhosting.net'(IP address 72.29.85.194).

It was advance fee fraud spam. Truth in advertising strikes again!

(I have to wonder about the mindset that makes anyone name theirbusiness something like that. Especially when they are apparently abranch of 'Complet-Inet', and say they have multiple data centers withOC-48 connections; this doesn't sound too 'ghetto


The danger of relying on Javascript for input validation

I've run into a few websites that do some of their input validation onforms and the like entirely in Javascript. If you are tempted to dothis, please don't; not only is it dangerous to you, it's annoying tousers.

It's annoying to users due to what can happen to innocent users whotry to use your forms with JavaScript turned off; if your forms arestill submittable, the user can wind up unintentionally creating baddata in your system. This is usually


A peculiarity of hardware at universities

One of the peculiar things you find atuniversities (and probably almost nowhere else) is expensive hardwarewithout any sort of maintenance contract. This is usually not the resultof insanity combined with cheapness, but instead the result of companiesdonating hardware to researchers.

Computer makers love to donate hardware, because the cost to them isjust the manufacturing cost (at most), but they get credit (probablyincluding tax writeoffs) for the full list price, even if no one isactually buying the hardware at that price.