我沒有看過《傲慢與偏見》這本經典小說，但電影版本確實很不錯。背景落於中古時期英國，講的是貴族男與鄉村女，在種種誤會錯摸後，終由怨家變成襯家的故事。故事內容有趣而豐富，除了男女愛情之外，還可以看到當時社
A sad day for SGI: it's now a spammer
I once quite liked SGI and have been following its slow decline witha certain regret. But I did not expect to see this day come; SGI hasbecome a spammer.
Not directly, of course. Large corporations (which SGI still is, sortof) don't spam people directly. Instead they hire specialized placesto do this for them, like the well known (one could say 'infamous')Responsys Interact.
SGI might argue that we have previously been an SGI customer so theycould spam us
Practical RAID-1 read balancing
If you're doing performance analysis of a RAID-1 setup, one of theinteresting questions is 'which drive gets read from when?'
(Measuring how balanced the current IO load is is useful, but it doesn'ttell you how a changed load will affect the balance.)
Since seeks are the expensive thing on modern drives, you want yourRAID-1 system to deal in requests, not in individual blocks, and to senda sequence of sequential reads off to the same disk. If
A surprising effect of RAID-1 resynchronization
Today I got to run into an interesting performance impact of having aRAID-1 mirror resync running on a big partition of a live system.
An important system was having performance problems today, so we werepoking around it. When we watched the disk statistics, we noticed thatonly the first disk was seeing read traffic; the second disk was loafingalong with just occasional bursts of writes. Looking more closely wenoticed that a RAID-1 resync of a big partition was in progress; becausethe system was loaded
A web spider update: not actually Uptilt's web spider
A while back, I wrote an entry about a bad web spider that at the time appeared to belong toUptilt Inc. About a week after I published the entry, some of thesystem administration folks from Uptilt stumbled across it and got intouch with me to look into the whole situation.
In fact they were pretty puzzled about the incident, because (asthey put it) Uptilt didn't even do outgoing HTTP, much less have aweb crawler; their business is based on email. After I provided
澳門露鋒芒！真的嗎？
【澳門日報2月27日報導】在《外國直接投資》雜誌(fDi - Foreign Direct Investment)首次舉辦的“2005-2006年度亞洲最佳展望城市”評選活動中，澳門榮獲亞洲“最具經濟發展潛力城市”奬項(Best Economic Potential City)。
該雜誌出版人大衛 · 伊
Python's extra-clever function parameters
I'm not sure where I ran across this, but until recently I wasn't awarethat you could pre-explode lists and tuples when you declared whatparameters a function takes. That sounds stilted, so I'll give anexample:
def foo(a, (b, c, d)): print a, b, c, d
This is slightly more compact than the equivalent:
def bar(a, tmp): b, c, d = tmp print a, b,
霍元甲
星期六下午看了“霍元甲”，電影比我想像中好，很久沒有看到這麼沉實的武打片了，而這部號稱李連杰最後一部武打電影，除了打出精彩動作，更拍出了武打片中罕見的深度。
我覺得此片處理得比較好的是後半部霍元甲家破人
Weekly spam summary on February 25th, 2006
Here's how Hotmail stacks up this week:
- 4 messages accepted; unfortunately, one of them was definitely spamand at least two more probably were.
- 21 messages rejected because they came from non-Hotmail emailaddresses.
- 49 messages sent to our spamtraps.
- 4 messages refused because their sender addresses had already hitour spamtraps.
- 6 messages refused due to their origin IP address, all for beingin the SBL ; four from SBL17935 ,one from SBL27471 ,
The hassle of email (as compared to RSS)
In my recent 'give me RSS feeds' entry I wrote in passing '[...] these daysemail is just too much of a hassle'. Which it is. Let me illustrate how.
To subscribe to new mailing lists these days I need to:
- figure out how to subscribe
- make up a new email address to give the list
- go through a multi-stage subscription dance
- make sure our antispam filters won't eat the list messages
- adjust my filters to put the messages somewhere distinct
- remember to check