Solaris patch exit codes and what they mean

This isn't my work; it's from a comment on an earlier entry . I'm repeating it here partly to haveit handy, and partly because DWiki mangled the nice clear plainASCII formatting of the original. So thank you, mostly anonymouscommenter.

The following are the explanation of patchdd script exit codes:

0No error
1Usage error
2Attempt to apply a patch that's already been applied
3Effective UID is not root
4Attempt to save original files failed
5pkgadd failed
6Patch

Atom versus RSS

David Heinemeier Hansson in the comments on one of his entries :

Joe: Atom is just RSS without the bugs. [...]

What he said.

The more I've learned about syndication formats, the more thankful I'vebeen that I picked Atom way back when .(I'm not sure why I chose Atom; possibly because it seemed the more upto date of the choices at the time, since it had an RFC in developmentand all.)

The difference between Atom and RSS


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Google

CSS


V煞 – 齊來看煙花

V for Vendetta

《V煞》講的是一個人的革命故事,在極權的統治下 V 挺身而出,開始他的革命,以炸彈喚醒長久被壓的人民,甚麼才是真正的自由。本片嘗試將這場革命寫得轟轟烈烈,卻只流於華麗畫面和滿口理想,未能震懾人心。

政府以極


Google Desktop and conditional GET (part 2)

When I start grumpily thinking of ways to punish a program's badbehavior is about when it sinks in that I don't like it. Which meansthat Google Desktop has a problem.

Back in December I wrote about Google Desktop and conditional GET and concluded that I didn't have enoughevidence to really know what the heck was going on. Well, I have severalmonths more data and more people using Google Desktop against me, andI've reached a conclusion: Google Desktop doesn't do


上天

竊喜到咭咭聲,如在雲端,全身發軟,向江記豪語曰:「如果我早生幾年……」禁不住臉紅,但毫不退縮繼續跺著腳飄飄然E起棚牙呵呵呵地尖聲怪笑……謝某暴喝:「咪 發姣 啦你!」

超。吹咩。係竊竊狂喜,又唔講架勒。我的

尋找他媽…的故事 – 笑看性別傾向

transamerica

相比起《斷背山》兩個牛仔幽幽的同性愛情故事,《尋找他媽…的故事》想講的東西更多:同性戀、變性人、孌童、家庭倫理等等。誠如片名一樣,主角帶著兒子穿洲過省,在旅途上互相認識,雖然背景複雜誤會多多,但最終還


The backend for our recent mirroring

Since I alluded to it in passing in an earlier entry , I might as well describe what I know about how THEMIS set up their systems to handle theload. (Disclaimer: this is second and third hand.)

To cope with the visitors to their regular web site, THEMISput their ordinary web servers behind eight Squid proxies , which were in turn behind a load balancerbox. This apparently held up very well to the quite a few millions ofextra visitors from Google Mars .The main movie page was on


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Blog

  • Bloginfluence – in the blogosphere 從 backlink, bloglines, technorati, pagerank…. 等等計算你的 blog 的影響力,我的是 2973
  • NanoBlogger! 用 Bash command line 運行的 blog 系統,基本功能齊全,只要進入 telnet/ssh,用 vi / emacs 就可

雜感

to do list
不知是什麼時候開始
每逢星期日下午至星期一早上都會默默想著一個to do list
通常是越想越多千頭萬緒
不過要do的事沒完沒了
到了星期五就會痛恨自己有太多事未do
這樣一來
to do list又有何用

禁煙
報紙近日說很多本澳居民支持