Using threading to implement a 'busy' cursor (a tale from long ago)

A very long time ago, I spent a year being an Amiga programmer as partof a small team writing an application. We wanted it to have a busymouse cursor (the general hourglass 'this is going to take a while'cursor good apps put up during long operations), but what with one thingand another, we wound up with two problems:

  • we weren't actually sure what user actions would take a longtime.
  • we got to 'implement a busy cursor' rather late in the whole

Hotmail spam stats revised

It turns out I made a mistake in my Hotmail stats for this week that missed some Hotmail rejections thatwere for @sympatico.ca addresses. There were actually 11 messagesrefused due to their IP origin, from six different IP addresses:

CountIPIn(Size)Listed sinceOwned by
462.166.232.22 SBL15419 March 6thVersatel (Netherlands)
381.199.172.231 SBL

南印公路上的超超超載麵包車


這攝於南印公路上的照片,我不知道有多無敵搞笑,我第一個反應是:唔係丫化咁都得?

事實上,這汽車嚴重超載情景,在印度是隨處可見,而又以這次見到的,最為誇張。

現 場所見,這麵包車內不單已擠滿起碼八九個人,裡面


北京公幹生活


24日中午,赴京公幹,約三小時的飛機旅程,讀書一小時,工作兩小時,很累。晚上,入住東方君悅酒店,先進行一輪聯繫工作,之後躲在房間為開會的事做準備,對於可以見到闊別幾個月的合作伙伴,有點期待。
工作完畢,
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十年又 Phantom

poto

在十年前,《The Phantom of the Opera》來了香港,大規模的宣傳到街知港聞,懂不懂的都去欣賞一下這齣位列四大音樂劇之一的有何厲害之處。當年,窮苦中學生,沒有錢去看,只買了一隻 Highlights ,深深愛上 Michael Crawford 的磁性聲音,整片 CD 聽得滾瓜爛


A helpful Apache safety tip

This is a two part safety tip:

  1. most things that roll Apache logfiles SIGHUP Apache to get it toclose and reopen the logfiles
  2. when Apache is SIGHUP 'd, it closes its current set of sockets andtries to listen on the set that its configuration file says itshould use.

So, if you have changed Apache's configuration of what it should listenon, and something else is currently camped on one of those places,something that is scheduled to be killed off during an impendingreboot, and your logfiles


Weekly spam summary on March 25th, 2006

The basic volume numbers for this week are that we:

  • got 19,744 messages from 236 different IP addresses.
  • handled 19,083 sessions from 955 different IP addresses.
  • received 139,156 connections from at least 43,459 different IPaddresses.
  • hit a highwater of 31 connections being checked at once.

We got more emails this week than usual mostly because of a small mailloop explosion during the week that added several thousand


巴里島的SPA 及溫泉回憶

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享受

上帝賜予我們肉身,

是用來好好享受。

所以,

男歡女愛吃喝玩樂肉身歡愉屬靈感覺良辰美景通通不應放過不要錯過。

為甚麼要怕那些蜚短流長?

那些拘泥的人,

他們根本不知錯過了太多。

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  • feed的意义大于网页 Quote: sayonly说,feed的意义大于blog。我觉得这个说法没错,但有点儿保守了。将来的情况可能是,RSS feed的意义大于网页。

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