A bug reporting paradox: don't put in too much detail

Here's a paradox about bug reporting: while details are good, too muchdetail is bad (and by this I don't just mean too much verbosity).

Specifically, you should not go into too much detail about what is goingon unless you are certain that you know what you're talking about andyou're sure you're correct about it. By what is going on I don't meansymptoms (those are relatively easy, although tedious, to get right) butwhat


Accidental bittorrent on our networks

Several times now we've had cases of 'accidental BitTorrent' on ournetworks (and generally gotten email from the campus network peopleabout it); people running BitTorrent clients on our networks withoutintending to. It turns out that this is an amusing (to me) consequenceof the pervasiveness of laptops and laptop hibernation these days.

(You might reasonably ask why we 'allow' BitTorrent at all. There's atleast two reasons; first, without deep packet inspection (and maybeeven then ) we


大娛樂家

主持人: 蕭定一、袁彌明
嘉賓 ﹕房祖名、吳文忻

袁彌明不能接受裸曬


【本報訊】(記者 梁靜儀)袁彌明(Erica)與郭思琳及名模Rosemary昨日齊穿上性感比堅尼,出席《新地奧運帆船奪金展英姿》記者會,並即場跟04年雅典奧運金牌 得主索菲亞貝卡托羅(Sofia Bekatrou)學習操控帆船技巧,玩得投入的袁彌明和

文章長短


前幾天為《新生代》一位記者朋友改稿,她寫了很長的稿,我知道她很努力寫,也寫得有感情,但作為編輯,就得努力在不影響她文章內容的情況下把稿件改短,我甚至特別跟她商量可以如何改短。在這個過程中,她說採訪得到

A thought about filesystem snapshots

Here is an aphorism:

Filesystem snapshots preserve mistakes, and so public snapshots preserve mistakes publicly.

This isn't an issue unique to snapshots; it's common to any backupsystem that offers public or 'self serve' restores. In theory a systemthat only let you see or restore files that you owned would avoid theproblem, but the simple version would make certain files inaccessible(files you owned inside directories that other people owned, unless thesystem made an exception for that). Plus it only really


It's not over yet – get Firefox 3 now!

Firefox 3

說實在,一般人對於新出版本總不會一推出就下載,總會了解一下更新了甚麼、能否支持舊有功能、穩定性等等,評估一番後再作嘗試升級。雖然 Firefox 3 首日就有超過八百萬人下載,仍然有很多人取觀望態度吧?

在此,向大家再一


閉關哀鳴

上一次忙累到流眼淚是在大騎劫發佈會之後的朗誦會上,聽到葉輝的〈A1頭條〉裡那些燦爛的謊言,忍不住悲從中來。廖偉棠向葉輝取笑:「你一讀詩,她就感動得哭啊。」葉輝叔叔眉精眼企輕描淡寫:「佢攰得滯姐。」都對

較貧賤更淒涼

一直堅信「貧賤夫妻百事哀」,有些人,只要相愛,一起喝水喉水都覺甜。

那不是我,起碼,請給我一樽perrier。

這刻,銀行戶口只剩下不夠一千元,仍未覺彷徨。

原來,當失去信任,將散落的重新拾回來,那漫長的過程,才算淒涼

閒事


1. 這幾天在寫關於八十年代的文章,編輯大哥吹雞,點都要寫,一寫就成一個系列,已經完成兩篇,我都唔知點解,我好想知要寫到最好應該要有幾好。

2. 看了 Charlie Wilson's War ,好平實,睇主角演出,總覺得好睇之中又差少少,