20060613網摘 – GBuy

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A web validation aphorism

There's a famous folk-rule on Usenet and mailing lists to the effectthat a spelling flame usually has at least one spelling mistake itself.There seems to be a related rule on the web, which I will put this way:

Websites that boast about validating often don't.

(The corollary is that a certain amount of people agitating for validweb sites don't have valid web sites.)

Now, HTML validation is certainly picky (arguably morepicky than spelling), but I'd


向反面認同

記憶是流動的,它在講述中見證主體當下與過去的差異。換言之,它是一個存在修改的敘述過程。我想我這麼討厭別人沒有記性,是因為失憶現象證明的是,你現在面前的這個人,已經是另一個人了。換言之,我的神經過敏,不

Why charging for things is deadly at a university

There's a really simple two-part recipe for failing to create usefulubiquitous services at universities. It goes like this:

  1. come up with an important service that should be ubiquitous.
  2. fund it by charging its users.

The moment you start charging people for things at a university, youenter into a competition for their money. People start asking 'whyshould we spend money on this?' and 'why should we pay you for this?'and 'is this the best use for this money?'


被未來決定的現在

素有求簽之癖,連西九、學聯、中大國際化都求過。在寶蓮寺,西九求到「棋盤大會」,中大國際化求到「唐三藏西天取經」,你都咪話唔驚。還有素來的 軍事比喻姻緣簽 都是城中笑料,不在話下。

今年沒有求過簽,計劃最近出

Link: The Unix Heritage Society

The Unix Heritage Society has a nice statementof its aims on its front page, but let me skip straight to the neatbits: complete source code for early Unix versions , such as V7 andV6. You can browse things online, or get your own personal mirror. Fora long time, having this sort of thing was a Unix geek dream, and now Ihave my own (legal!) copy of it all.

One of the neat things I like doing with TUHS is browsing to see


Weekly spam summary on June 10th, 2006

Our SMTP listener died on Tuesday evening and was restarted, so some ofthis week's statistics are incomplete. This week, we:

  • got 12,614 messages from 245 different IP addresses.
  • handled 17,611 sessions from 882 different IP addresses.
  • received 95,812 connections from at least 38,234 different IPaddresses since 21:10 Tuesday. (And about 43,000 connectionsfrom at least

城市的幽默感?

森小風波大家都有各種不同的看法,其中令我印象深刻的有這麼一句「森美小儀真正的錯誤,是在一個偽善、缺乏幽默感、以道德口號管治的城市開這個壞品味玩笑。」不談森小錯在哪裏 (也沒有什麼再好談,大家都看得非常透


清理:《賴小子》

我無法忘記電影節看的第一套戲,賈樟柯監製、韓杰導演的《賴小子》。 這個名字多麼具喜劇性——與影片相比起來。韓杰看起來很像賈樟柯,矮小、衣著隨便,他重覆了好幾次:「電影並沒有給這些孩子帶來什麼改變」。或者

Fixing the bad Solaris ssh patch

It turns out that there are actually three ssh problems introduced bythe bad Solaris ssh patch . Since it's been wellover a month with no sign or prospect of a fix from Sun, I gave in andapplied workarounds. Fortunately, it turns out that all of problems canbe made to go away with changes to /etc/ssh/ssh_config .

Ssh problem one is:

$ ssh host
dlopen(/usr/lib/gss/gl/mech_krb5.so): ld