難以拒絕

羅展鳳寄來書封面的檔案,於是,我便迷迷糊糊地答應了參與。



《出版之門》2008-08-05報道:香港三聯書店“現代中國”系列講座第二講──“70/80中國新人類”定於本周六下午舉行,將由《城市畫報》資深


Scramble

The online puzzle game Scramble has addicted my mind to its fun with alphabets for quite a while. Every now and then I find myself carried away by this remarkable word game, in which we line up the scrambled letters to from a new word.

Although chances are that I am killing time by juggling with the alphabets, there are occasionally good lessons to learn. Trust me, the word game sparkles with amusing examples of life lesson. Think of the word "trust", and drop the letter t – alas,

How to exploit unsigned repository metadata

Courtesy of Don Kaminsky's slides for his Black Hat DNS talk, I wound up reading Attacks on PackageManagers ,which identifies a number of attacks that can be mounted if you canset yourself up as a package repository mirror for your favoriteLinux distribution. A number of the attacks are straightforward,but judging from the Slashdot discussion the dangers of unsignedrepository metadata are not as clear. So here is an attempt toexplain them simply.

Suppose that you are an attacker with a repository mirror (the papershows that


A workaround for the Python module search path issue on Unix

One of the little challenges with writing Unix programs in Python isthe search path problem. The natural structure of Python programs is tosplit functionality up into a bunch of modules and then import themall in the main program, but the natural structure of a Unix program isto put its binary into one directory (such as /usr/bin ) but all ofits helper bits into a second, completely different directory. So theproblem is: how is a Unix Python program supposed to find its modules?

(The


Erica and Mark Spitz!!


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點擊近五萬人次



無剪接的力量,真實比電影更電影。警方什麼都不用再說了。

The pragmatics of language changes

There is a certain view, one that is easy for people to fall into,to the effect that while backwards compatibility in new versions oflanguages is important and should be given due weight, sometimes thelanguage designers can, do, and should decide that the change isimportant enough so that it should be made. Let us call this thelanguage designer view of language changes.

The problem for this view and for the decisions that come from itis simple:

Programmers do not have to accept what you give them.


中國加油?


奧運快來吧


王府井的情況



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心情的好壞變成來去無限

1. 電腦遊戲菜鳥的幸福回憶:
從實驗室到工業大樓——憑弔軒轅劍

「軒轅劍系列」是台灣大宇公司研發的長壽遊戲(以角色扮演為主),一代1990年發佈, 到2007年底發佈五代外傳「漢之雲」,共發佈14個版本。