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Try things out with new machines

Wandering Thoughts | Oct. 13, 2005, 1:18 a.m. | Original

I just gave someone at work this advice today, so I might as wellrepeat it here. We were bringing up a new machine, a nice dualprocessor server with a hardware RAID-1, and I suggested to him thatbefore he even thought about putting it into production he take theopportunity to yank one of the drives and see what happened.

There are occasions where you would do this to a machine inproduction, but not very many. New hardware (or idle hardware) isabout your only chance

IM互通

JackysBlog | Oct. 12, 2005, 2:04 p.m. | Original

不知道大家常用的 IM 是什麼？我自己常用的是 Miranda ，但這並不是因為我有很多各方的朋友在不同的 IM 網絡，而是貪其開得夠快夠簡單。然而，相信有很多人使用這些第三方的 IM 客戶端，是為可以很方便地用一個程式連接不同網絡的

最好的早已來臨

tswtsw | Oct. 12, 2005, 1:43 p.m. | Original

在「最好的時光」這個大題目之下，大家都被吸引去想電影裡三個章節（「戀愛夢」、「自由夢」、「青春夢」）裡哪個部分算是「最好的時光」。謎題與答案之間的巧妙處應當是，太易想到答案就不好玩了。

我最喜歡的是「自

簡易治罪條例（又名：冒險一種）

tswtsw | Oct. 12, 2005, 11:37 a.m. | Original

我們每天睜眼看這世界，但因為某種原因，其實有些東西我們一直看不見；也就是說，我們看見的是具體而精緻的萬物，但它在到達我們的筆尖之前，已經被轉譯成某些過於常見的概念。想到這點，我就同時感到界限的悲哀與未

心理學棄徒的驕傲瞬間

tswtsw | Oct. 12, 2005, 6:13 a.m. | Original

作為曾在心理測驗一科以D級成績傲然碌過又在導修上令助教尷尬不已的心理學系的棄徒，我仍然秉持著心理學系人的部分特徵，包括令各種心理測驗disable。記得以前有一個「真實年齡」的測驗，劉某測出來是11歲，江記測出來

Really understanding availability numbers

Wandering Thoughts | Oct. 12, 2005, 1:18 a.m. | Original

People like to talk about reliability and availability, and throwaround terms like '5-nines availability' and so on. You may have heardthis from server salescritters (alongside their attempts to sell you redundant power supplies ).

At the same time, what the terms really imply is not intuitive andis often surprising, especially at the high end.

The following chart comes from my co-worker John Calvin: