The technical problems with 'sender stores messages' schemes

For some reason, people have an enduring like for new schemes foremail where the sender stores the message until the recipient wants toread it (the most well known is D. J. Bernstein's Internet Mail 2000 ). Such schemes tend to handwave the socialproblems involved in a transition, but let's set that aside (alongwith why they won't stop spam ) and talk aboutthe practical technical problems, because from my perspective they arepretty bad.

If the sender stores


Handling ssh to generic hostnames

(This idea is not from me, it's from R Francis Smith . It is just sufficiently nifty and wrong thatI'm going to write it up for posterity.)

Suppose that you have a generic hostname, a hostname that either ismultiple machines (with multiple IP addresses) or a virtual host thatgets pointed to different physical machines from time to time. Furthersuppose that inside your environment, your users ssh to that machine,or at least want to. The traditional problem with this is that


樂天香口膠一百萬(Yen)舞王大募集

FIT’s 係日本樂天的香口膠,最近在網上搞左咗單舞王大賽,叫各路舞林高手一齊較量,齊齊條佢地果隻FIT’s舞。

廣告由曾飾演幪面超人電王的佐藤健,以及CM女王佐々木希演出,留意後面伴舞隻狗同埋個模特兒公仔,好頂癮


馬傑偉﹕為何港式臥底英雄歷久不衰?

【明報專訊】Laughing哥熱潮有兩點可談,其一是網絡打散了電視劇的結構,其二是港式臥底英雄歷久不衰。前者有關網絡新潮與劇集敘事形式,後者有關97前後的感情結構,論述起來比較複雜且迂迴。先談一下網絡與電視劇。

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樂天香口膠一百萬(Yen)舞王大募集

FIT’s 係日本樂天的香口膠,最近在網上搞左咗單舞王大賽,叫各路舞林高手一齊較量,齊齊條佢地果隻FIT’s舞。

廣告由曾飾演幪面超人電王的佐藤健,以及CM女王佐々木希演出,留意後面伴舞隻狗同埋個模特兒公仔,好頂癮


An interesting hardware mystery

As I've written about, I have a problem machine . I have recently had the opportunity to stopusing it as my office workstation and thus do some systematic testing onit, which has turned up some interesting yet mysterious results.

(It's remarkable but perhaps not surprising how much my mood has improved fromgetting a stable primary workstations and setting up these tests.)

The short summary is that the machine reliably crashes if I dosignificant disk activity and I am not running something thatburns up CPU.


Grandpa

My father asked me to go with him paying respect to our grandpa this Ching Ming Festival. His eyes were hopeful, his face eager. His son was ambivalent.

I'm sentimental about many things concerning my grandpa: the memory of going out with him when I was young, the time when I went to his home every day to have wound dressing for his foot ulcer, the night I accompanied him to have foot amputation at the operation theatre, the scene of buying him beer (alas, by the doctor

哀樂人狗情《小露與我》(Wendy and Lucy)


《小露與我》(Wendy and Lucy) 的故事很簡單, 卻很沉重. 漫長人生的其中一頁, 瀰漫著淡淡哀愁.

以下有劇情披露:





年輕的Wendy (Michelle Williams) 為生計遠走, 與愛狗Lucy (導演的狗) 共同上路. 車子走不動、Wendy偷狗糧被捕, 一波三折、Lucy失了蹤

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《寧靚莫叻》


有日,我與朋友A先生於網上閒聊,他在MSN問我:「喂,你之前咪幫朋友K先生登咗個徵友廣告既,佢搵到女朋友未呀?」

我的答覆是:「未呀,你係咪有好介紹先?」

他就說有一位「好女仔」現正單身,可以介給

Why I don't expect ARM-based netbooks to be a success

I saw yet another story recently on how low-powernetbooks are finally going to lead to ARM -based machinessuccessfully challenging the x86 hegemony in general purpose computers.As the story goes, netbook makers don't need much CPU power or to runWindows, but they do need very low power consumption, and so they willturn to Linux-based ARM machines.

This is a fine theory and a fine story, but I don't think it's going towork out in practice.