Improving initial ramdisks

To summarize my earlier entry , the problem withinitrds is that they are both fragile and opaque. To improve them,one needs to tackle both issues.

The easy way to tackle the fragility is to make initrds both morecomprehensive and more dynamic. Since one way initrds break is by notincluding necessary kernel modules, simply include nearly everythingby default (you can exclude modules that are clearly not needed forbooting, like sound drivers); the extra disk space and boot-time memoryspace needed is likely to be


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thank god昨日恒指大升,相信很多人趁勢減磅,平了期指,人心惶惶的日子應該這個星期不會再出現。我說的是這個星期而已。

有時真的很不明白,為何這么多人眼見一日反彈千逾點,就等於股市見了低?這是今年第四次錄得記錄性
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香港的議員,今日是這樣問問題的

香港的官員,今日只能這樣答問題

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The complexity of not lying to Makefiles

So, suppose that you are tired of lying to your Makefiles and want to fix the problem (in the abstract; you can'tcompletely fix your Makefiles, because it's not fixable in anything likeordinary make ). What does this take?

What you really need to capture is the state of the 'build inputs'. Thebuild inputs are whatever goes in to creating the output, which is a lotmore than just the source files involved; it also includes things likethe test of the execution


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雅虎香港的金盾?

昨晚傳出 高登網民發現雅虎香港疑似自我審查 ,網民發現在雅虎香港的圖片搜查裏輸入一些敏感字眼,圖片是找到,但卻不能顯。

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An irritating awk limitation: getting a range of fields

Writing things in awk has a number of little irritations that come upevery so often. One of them is that it has no built in way to retrievea range of input fields as a string, ie there is no equivalent of whatin Python one could write as something like ' r = " ".join(input[2:]) '(which turns everything from the third field onwards back into a singlestring).

Of course, you can do this with an awk function. But it'


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