20060824網摘 – Google Base data api

變成「周摘」了,其實可以分開幾天來貼。不過事忙,越積越多~~

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Why I am irritated with evince

Evince is in general a nicePDF viewer (technically it supports other formats too), much nicer andfar less irritating than Adobe Acrobat. (For a start, evince actuallyquits when I click on the 'close window' button; Adobe Acrobat presumesthat I wanted it to clear the current document.)

The problems come in when I tried to do something besides view adocument. (Perhaps evince was jealous that I wasn't satisfiedwith it.)

First, evince silently aborts printing if I have it


An update on impending changes to access to Solaris patches

To update my earlier reporting , here'sthe current state, again as reported on the pca news page .

The new Sun access restrictions only apply to Solaris 10 (andanything Sun releases later). For Solaris 9 and earlier, Sun isn'tmaking any changes for patch access; anonymous access via pca continues to work. (I waswondering about that, since I have been too busy to get around togetting a Sun Online Account, yet my patch access was still fine.)

Since all


筆記《死亡筆記》


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初讀《死亡筆記》,竟然湧現殺人的念頭:走入一個魔幻的世界,殺人易如反掌,只要把名字寫在筆記上即可解決一個人,那分明是謊言,為什麼我們會相信?為什麼我們會讀得津津有味?


在《死亡筆記》裡,夜神月要用

當才俊遇上財經:談《原是物語》及《國金外望》


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接 Tag – 我的桌面

Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

這幾天 bloglines 上出現很多不同 blogger 們的桌面。今次是接 Stannum 的 Tag:

OS為? Windows XP。留意桌面是 800*600,因為老舊 mon 用 1024*768 會閃得不舒服,所以我應該是少數還是用這麼低 resolution 的人吧?

這台是你的個人電腦?還是公司或家


Link: Csh Programming Considered Harmful

Tom Christiansen's Csh Programming Considered Harmful used to be postedto various Usenet comp.unix groups, nigh on ten years ago or so. Iconsider it sort of a pity that it isn't still being posted, becauseevery so often someone still decides that writing shell scripts in csh would be a good idea.

Some of the problems Christiansen identified have since been fixed bymodern versions of tcsh , but not all of them.

(The article can also serve as an interesting catalog of sh programming tricks.


fork(), wait(), and threads

Something I've discovered through (painful) experience is that threadedprograms cannot portably fork() in one thread and then wait() forthe forked process in another one.

This will work in some environments but fail explosively in others; theone I stubbed my toe on was a Linux 2.4 kernel based system (without NPTL , which is the usual state of affairsfor 2.4-based Linux distributions).

Admittedly, mixing threads and fork() is a bit perverse, butsometimes it


How not to set up your DNS (part 11)

Presented in the traditional illustrated form:

; dig +short ns hinet.net.tw.reg.hinet.net.tw.www.hinet.net.tw.hinet.net.tw.

This looks good, except for the fact that they all have the sameIP address, 210.65.1.231. You would think that a large TaiwaneseISP would be able to afford more than one DNS server, but perhapsthey're too busy beefing up their network


那裡有壓迫 那裡就有反抗

近期迷了這個歌喎「那裡有壓迫 那裡就有反抗 」(radioblog=>resistance)
北京樂隊= 痛苦的信仰
講多無謂聽歌啦