SCGI versus FastCGI

SCGI and FastCGI are both CGI 'replacements', in that they areprotocols for forwarding HTTP requests to persistent daemons instead ofstarting a possibly big, heavyweight program for each request. Ideallyyour web server will have a built in gateway for them; less ideally youcan run a tiny, fast to start CGI program to talk the protocol toyour persistent daemon.There's discussions around the Internet about which one is better; youcan find people on both sides, and to some extent it depends on whatyour


Weekly spam summary on May 6th, 2006

This week, we:

  • got 11,443 messages from 213 different IP addresses.
  • handled 15,802 sessions from 820 different IP addresses.
  • received 219,841 connections from at least 43,156 different IPaddresses.
  • hit a highwater of 50 connections being checked at once, reachingit Monday.

Connection volume is up significantly from the extrapolated levelsof last week . All of this is despite usbeing down for about half of


夢中見


我睡到甚麼朝代去了?唉,又是同一個夢。
哪一個夢?
自妳去後,我每晚都夢見妳。
我,我有離開你嗎?
如果可以再來一次,我一定不會讓妳走。
請告訴我事情發生的經過。
這件事我不想再提起。
我走了之後,你有沒有嘗試聯絡

Using a stock kernel.org kernel on Fedora Core 5

If you like initrds, the stock Linux kernels from kernel.org should just compile and work. Install the kernel-devel RPM, copy the .config from /usr/src/kernels/ to your source tree to duplicate the normal Fedora Core kernelconfiguration, make oldconfig , and go.

I don't like initrds, though. So one of the usual benefits of compilingmy own kernel is not needing one, so there's one fewer moving part inmy system environment. Unfortunately,


化妝掃

一月一次的清洗化妝掃行動,

初步盤點,

我有17支化妝掃。

17支不是問題,

問題是每早我在車上化妝,

是不需用任何化妝掃的。

那麼,

我買來幹甚麼?

Link: Readable colour text combinations

Color Test Results is a summary of the results of surveying a bunch of Internet users aboutwhat colour text on what background they found the easiest to read. Thesummary quote:

As you can see, the most readable color combination is black text onwhite background; overall, there is a stronger preference for anycombination containing black.

Not coincidentally, most of my text is black on white (or black onslightly off-white). I was interested to see that white on blackactually rates fairly highly, because


Peeking under mount points with NFS

Normally, one of NFS's irritating features is that when you mount afilesystem from a server, you don't automatically get access to anysub-filesystems mounted on that filesystem; you have to know about themand mount them yourself.

(Yes, yes, some NFS servers offer features to do this for you; suchfeatures have their own problems.)

But there's an old sysadmin trick that turns this into a feature. If youNFS mount a filesystem, such as / , you can


Jarhead平頭日記


早前看了這齣另類戰爭片,心中的感覺跟片中男主角一樣滿不是味兒。

電影開頭的集訓場面明顯變奏自 Stanley Kubrick 經典越戰片 Full Metal Jacket(烈血焚城) ,不過發展到後來,主角上戰場,在沙漠上的無聊與無奈,最後一鎗未開黯然回國,都跟

天見可憐 (將此篇獻給我的守護天使)

人地好地地一對小情侶,原本諗住去7仔買罐Coke Light同柑桔檸檬,唔覺意行錯左去 Lee Gardens既Gourmet,就俾我親愛既守護天使如此奚落 (大意如下):

「我唔係話要分等級,只係,佢個樣係平平地lor。」

所以呢,做人最緊要o係right time right place do

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