涼風有信
惡的自愛
Robert Downey Jr.於Esquire封面虛擬現身？
一齣Iron Man 後再來一齣Sherlock Holmes，令全球不少大中細女對Robert Downey Jr.頓然翻叮又嗒糖，封為新一代型佬。
12月號的美版Esquire，他除了成為了封面人物外，有關方面更乘著他的上位人氣，來了一個封面上的創舉，是為2009年在網絡界大
Chicago Street Lights
Michigan Avenue lights (photo taken this weekend atop the Hancock Building in the northern part of Chicago):
君子絕交
這麼多年來先後跟幾個本來要好的朋友斷絕來往，當年自
Turning synchronous channels asynchronous
(This is likely obvious, but since I keep working it out again in myhead I'm going to write it down once and for all.)
Suppose that you have a CSP -likeenvironment, with lightweight processes and synchronous communicationchannels with no buffering. Synchronous channels are simple but veryinconvenient for many real-world things, where you need to haveasynchronous channels. Fortunately, you can turn synchronous channelsinto acceptable asynchronous ones as follows.
To send an asynchronous message, you spawn a new process and
Some thoughts on battery backup for RAID controller cards
In a comment on my entry on software RAID's advantages I was asked what I thought about sofware RAID'slack of battery backup units, as you can get on better RAID controllercards. To answer that, I'm going to start by asking my traditionalquestion: how does having a BBU RAID card improve your systemperformance?
A RAID card with a battery backup unit effectively turns synchronousdisk writes into asynchronous ones, by buffering such writes in itsbattery-backed RAM and immediately telling the host OS
充滿”Sweded”味的Chrome Features影片
有看過Michel Gondry拍的Be Kind Rewind嗎？多得香港有個爛到暈的譯名「低清老翻王」，難怪此好片在港上畫時，落得無聲無色的下場。
話說片中有條怪橋，就是鼓勵大家善用手頭上僅有的資源，不要計較用最低能的技術最Cheap的手法，但求開心
姊姊的守護者
姊姊患了絕症，父母為了救她而用試管嬰兒技術生了妹妹，妹妹出生的任務就是為姊姊供應各種DNA能完美配合的器