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Google Blogger 聚會 -「搞搞震,無幫襯」

Google Blogger
Meeting

[警告:這篇擺到明是我與 Google 在扯貓尾之作]

Google 搞 Blogger 聚會,已令我覺得有點奇怪。如換轉是「 Sina 搞 Blogger 聚會」,大家應該也覺得很理所當然吧!因此也想一看究竟他們想幹甚麼。經過昨天的聚會,大概知道他們的目的是甚麼了,但


Making user home directories on a stock Solaris machine

I was charmed to recently discover that Solaris 10 still hasn't fixedthat useradd issue I saw with Solaris 9 .For my future reference, since I am likely to wind up doing this a lot,here is how I add users on Solaris 10; this may or may not be theofficially approved way to work around the useradd issue.

  1. useradd -c Whatever
  2. mkdir /export/home/
  3. chown /export/home/

    (This may


    An irony of conditional GET for dynamic websites

    Ironically, dynamic websites are the least served by HTTP conditionalGET , because by the time they've worked outwhether or not a page's content is the same as what you've already got,they may well have generated the entire content. As a result, the onlything conditional GET really gets many dynamic websites is bandwidthsavings, which may go some way to explaining why many dynamic frameworksdon't have very good support for it.

    (The same is true for HTTP HEAD requests, generally


    Users are almost always right

    One of the rules of system design ought to be this:

    When the users keep doing it wrong, the users are right and yoursystem is wrong.

    I don't mean this in the sense that accommodating users is the rightthing to do; I mean this in a very pragmatic sense. If the users keepmaking some error, changing their behavior is going to be very difficultand therefor costly. (In a fight between user inertia and anything else,bet on user inertia.)

    This means that changing


    這是一個無夢的城市


    星爺講過:“人無夢,同條鹹魚有咩分別?”環顧澳門大街小巷,究竟有幾多個是人?幾多個是鹹魚?我們當然理解什麼叫“美國夢”、“香港夢”,甚至“中國夢”。把夢想寄託於某個地方,並且相信這個地方不會辜負人,憑

    英文問題

    在書店看到,給大家玩玩,以下英語有甚麼特別?

    • past experience
    • free gift
    • close proximity
    • empty space
    • frozen ice
    • multiple choice
    • unexpected surprise
    • armed gunman

    應該不難看出吧!


    搶攻離線運作之地

    FineTune (Apollo 的應用之一 FineTune,使用感覺良好,可是好像沒得設定代理?)

    現在很多新的 Web 2.0 服務出現,令我們的生活更貼近網絡世界。通過 Ajax 技術,網絡的服務表現得更像桌面軟件,我們也開始對這些新式 Ajax 應用漸漸熟識。不過用得


    我被點名了

    這兩天雜事多,沒有心情寫新東西,學生點我名要答問題,咁有我心,當然盡力完成,遊戲是年輕人玩的,我老皮老骨,已經不會有心跳的感覺,但願我的答案不會太悶蛋吧!

    遊戲介紹:這是博客裏流行的擊鼓傳花遊戲,傳給誰

    On educating users

    In a context that's not important, someone on our local sysadminmailing list recently wrote:

    I think the bottom line is end-user education.

    I disagree. It is my opinion that any time end-user education appearsto be the answer, we have already lost. People do not change theirbehavior just because we want them to, and they rarely really changetheir behavior because we threaten them. (Although they are very good atfaking it until we are just enough out of sight.)

    The