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Two sides of Internet identity

Wandering Thoughts | Sept. 6, 2005, 1:18 a.m. | Original

The issue of identity on the Internet is a tricky one, and one of thethings that makes it so confusing is that people often want them to dotwo different things:

prove who someone is: the web site really is EBay's.
prove who someone isn't: that email isn't from a well-known spammer.

This is confusing because the issue mostly doesn't came up in the realworld, where physical identities are generally one to aperson. Checking drivers' licenses at the

Why print-based debugging is so popular

Wandering Thoughts | Sept. 5, 2005, 1:18 a.m. | Original

A recent ONLamp article on the Python debugger included the line:

The only time we reach for a debugger is when something goes wrongor breaks and our standard debugging techniques such as print statements (or better yet, log messages) do not reveal the root ofthe problem.

This sparked an insight about why print -based debugging is so popular.(It is; a surprising number of people swear by it, and get good results.The quote got my attention because it made me go 'yeah, the author

20050905網摘 – 愛國與動漫

JackysBlog | Sept. 5, 2005, 12:41 a.m. | Original

愛國與動漫

Web 越來越多服務要取代桌面了

知道的几个Web Office 一些 Web Office 的連結收集
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Weekly spam summary on September 3rd, 2005

Wandering Thoughts | Sept. 4, 2005, 1:18 a.m. | Original

Overall connections are down slightly from last week : 200,000 SMTP connectionsfrom 33,800 different IP addresses. The frontend's highwatermark for simultaneous connections hit 24 this time around.

Top 10 kernel level SMTP rejections:

Host/Mask           Packets   Bytes24.145.152.139        13125    630K213.4.149.11          10706    48

書店

空姐的行李篋 | Sept. 3, 2005, 2:42 p.m. | Original

「這兩年多的相處，未能令您喜歡林山木董存爵，是我的一個小遺憾。將來您走進書店，雖然不再有他們的新書出版，但他們的著作會永遠放在那不顯眼的角落。您偶然見到了，可否拿下來翻一翻，因為我才剛巧離開……」

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雪狼湖國語版 CD

JackysBlog | Sept. 3, 2005, 2:31 p.m. | Original

「天上的雪花白茫茫，遇上有情郎閃亮亮，流傳的神話永不忘，地久天長每個人都會唱！」

張學友的音樂劇《雪狼湖》的國語版年頭在香港演出，而在今個月則推出了國語版雙 CD。

這一次的 CD 封套相當平實：一個凹字封套純藍色

Varying interpretations of improper CIDRs

Wandering Thoughts | Sept. 3, 2005, 1:18 a.m. | Original

What I mean by a 'CIDR' is a network address specification in CIDRnotation (more at the Wikipedia entry for Classless Inter-Domain Routing ).

A 'proper' CIDR is one where the host address portion is all zero.It's easiest to see this for /8's, /16's, and /24's; for example,128.100.0.0/16 is a 'proper' CIDR, with the last two