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The economics of CPU performance

Recently, Intel and AMD have been telling everyone who would listenthat single CPU performance is more or less all tapped out, and thatfuture improvements would come from various multi-* developments;multi-core, multi-processor, and so on. Ominous pronouncements haveemerged about how programmers need to bite the bullet and move to(highly) concurrent programming if they want their gravy train tocontinue.

When reading this sort of news coverage, it's worthwhile to rememberwhat sells CPUs and software. Namely:


20060117網摘 – 人聲扮車聲

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  • Rex V 用 Ajax 寫的 Regular Expression 工具,可以分別使用PHP PCRE , Posix 和 Javascript 本身的 Regexp engine

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Rock 版卡農

對於 EVA 迷來說,對放在《Death》片尾的《Canon in D》 是非常深刻的吧?來個 Rock 版如何? 連結: Rock Canon

Some words of wisdom for all ISPs

Vernon Schryver, in news.admin.net-abuse.email:

Spam complaints must be viewed like complaints from your neighborsthat your children or other pets have again wrecked gardens. Spamcomplaints are evidence of failures, and should be exceptionsinstead of part of the main anti-spam machinery.

(From Message-ID <95cqle $80v$1@calcite.rhyolite.com> .)


The danger of specific errno values

One of the things I've learned the hard way in writing Unix programsis that you should almost never expect to know all of the errno valuesthat system calls can return. In theory it's documented in themanpages, but in practice a manpage's list is never comprehensive.The safest thing to do is to assume that any system call can returnalmost any errno value.

The example I remember most vividly is that our SMTP server daemonused to carefully check the result of accept() . If


到了深夜,仍然有人會令我食慾不振


星期六,我們又要上班了,P、Y、A 由早上工作到深夜一點,我在下午加入,自問貢獻不多,也是極累。

工作就是這樣,到了一個地步,你會不計付出,只希望圓滿結束。

回到家裡已是一點半,準備吃我的“晚飯”,卻被服務

Weekly spam summary on January 14th, 2006

This week we received 12,785 email messages from 208 different IPaddresses. Our SMTP server handled 17,958 sessions from 984 differentIP addresses. Session volume is dramatically down from the levels of last week .

Connection volume is also down: 122,600 connections from at least44,760 different IP addresses. However, we hit a highwater mark of 50connections being processed at once on Tuesday, so we have had


How not to set up your DNS (part 8)

This is one of those amusingly creative mistakes to see in action:

  • microsoftglobal.com lists as nameservers ns1.one-dom4.com andns2.one-dom4.com.
  • both respond with errors if they are sent queries that allowrecursion.
  • sent queries marked non-recursive, both answer all DNS queries forthe domain with no actual data, but with an 'additional authority'section that says they're the nameservers for the domain.

Nameservers normally answer a query for a domain they


遇人不熟 – 玩記憶拼貼

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一套叫《遇人不熟》的日本片上映了,影片宣傳以《 Pulp Fiction 危險人物》和《 Memento 凶心人》相提並論。其實只是形式上有點兒相似,都是玩記憶,至於內容則很不同。《遇人不熟》有趣地將人和事重疊在一起,但故事並沒有深刻的課題


我想身體健康,我想不必服藥,我想我們都命賤


星期六又去做身體檢查,一年之內做了五次,抽血,掃瞄,看報告,吃藥,再抽血,再掃瞄,再看報告。

這一年之內,前所未有的感受到身體支撐不下去,有一段日子主要是靠補藥支持身體,想到這些,也想到持續要食藥之苦,