Two different usage patterns

Recently, for my version of recently, a shell history meme has beengoing around various places .Thinking about the meme and what it would look like for me has ledme to thinking about two different usage patterns in Unix graphicalenvironments; I will call these persistent and disposable.

People who follow the persistent pattern like long-lived, multi-purposecontexts; for example, they are inclined to leave a terminal window or ashell session active for a long time, and over its lifetime such a shellwill wind


1. 文明單位: 文學深水埗
嘉賓:胡燕青

《更暖的地方》以秀麗的文筆談草根地方,胡燕青那麼溫婉也品味到並寫出了草莽節奏。

2. 文明單位:michael haneka
嘉賓:陳志華

好啦,我真是挺迷漢尼卡的,但因為工作,又一場都看不到。漢

不是超級英雄


電影世界中的蝙蝠俠,來到Christian Bale這一系列,像個悲劇人物多於超級英雄,但這正是他更為引人入勝的地方。

看過Jack Nicholson演活了Joker這角色,但Heath Ledger卻把Joker的陰暗面提升了另一層次,他有本事能夠喚醒我們每個人心中都有的那隻鬼(像


So long, Jab We Met... Life in a ...Metro


SUMMER IFF 宣佈取消《Jab We Met》(收錯風, 嚇親Donald Kwan真不好意思...被中譯名所累!), 改由兩年前在電影節, 同樣因故取消的《都會愛情故事》( Life in a...Metro , 2007) 取代. 真是意料之中的意外.

《都會愛情故事》電影陣

新 秀 演 員 選 拔 大 賽


電 視 台 需 要 新 演 員 , 電 影 也 需 要 新 演 員 , 但 是 整 個 娛 樂 行 業 之 中 卻 沒 有 一 個 磨 練 新 演 員 的 平 台 。


靠 TVB 藝 員 訓 練 班 ? 八 十 年 代 藝 員 訓 練 班 是 演 藝 母 校 , 那 是 不 爭 的 事 實 。 但 請 問 近 十 年 藝 員 訓 練 班 出 過 甚 麼 人 ? 古 天 樂 92 年 只 是 旁 聽

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The Dark Knight

我對蝙蝠俠向無好感,主要原因是小孩時代看過陳年的電視真人版,我覺得,蝙蝠俠同羅賓,不但造型搞笑,而且毫不英明神武,加上當時的蝙蝠俠又真實打鬥又無特技,如果真係貨比貨,同期日本仔出品的一系列特攝超人片係
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冷靜光榮三國志

生命只有六週,見星期日明報。刊在古典音樂專欄下面,實在偉大。情感滔滔,一動筆就超字,發篇釋題只能刊在此處。

電腦遊戲菜鳥的幸福回憶

本欄與一般電腦雜誌上的懷舊遊戲欄真正不同之處在於,它是由一個不懂遊戲的編

Why I'm mostly out of the email (anti-)spam game

I was once fairly interested in and involved in anti-spam stuff; I spenta bunch of time on anti-spam precautions here, followed news sources,and so on. These days, I find myself much less involved, and althoughI still care about various spam issues, I don't spend very much timeinvolved with the whole field.

What happened is simple: somewhat to my surprise, the spam problemhere was pretty much solved when we deployed a commercial anti-spamsolution in combination with greylisting


Thinking about uses for (system) activity tracers

System activity tracers are a hot topic, with the best known one beingSun's DTrace. In thinking about this issue recently, I believe thatthere are three sorts of questions that they can be used to answer,or at least that I'm interested in having answered:

  • what is my system doing?

    Performance related tracing is one obvious subset of this, both inthe 'what is taking all the time' sense and in the 'how long doessome operation take' sense.

  • why is my system

周日一個人在冠男軒飲早茶


周日早起
寫稿讀報看電視
好不容易消磨到七點
肚餓
貪得意
去了多年沒去的冠男軒飲早茶
叫了著名的叉燒飯
拿出相機來拍照
引來幾位叔叔伯伯的注意
於是大家就非常街坊式的吹起水來
我們之間的談話
由梁朝偉點解要娶劉嘉玲
到政府