What I want in a caching nameserver

What the world needs is a good caching nameserver. What brought this onis that I am currently flirting with yet another caching nameserver,which is something that I do from time to time because every cachingnameserver I've ever found sucks in its own way. This is actuallysomewhat surprising to me, because at one level the job is not allthat difficult so you'd think that someone would have written a saneimplementation by now.

(Possibly the DNS system actually is sufficiently difficult that itdrives every implementer


事不關己


最近讀到某位文化名人被一位所謂前輩作者「修理」了,那篇修理文章,我讀了很不喜歡,因為的確是為修理而修理,為了否定一個人而努力找出他文章的疏漏之處,並且把幾個錯誤組合起來,加以發揮,竭力證明對方因為受歡

無紙袋日與我的痴線心態

我覺得自己有點痴線。

平常儘量環保,外出時,手袋總掛上Perigot的桃紅小熊環保袋,不理乾濕買了甚麼都扔進去。

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(我的Perigot桃紅小熊)

甚至試過,將在7仔買的哈根大師雪糕杯放入Chanel手袋內。

不是為了慳五毫,而是不想浪費
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不過,生活。

好友說,她的男友對於她與我作伴吃飯逛街,有點保留。

因為,他對我的印象,總是停留於一星期四晚跳舞至天明,周末約會要分上半場下半場,連gals' gathering也硬生生帶幾個男性朋友出席的那些年。

聽了,不覺無辜,只是嘆氣。


被詛咒的才子 Ritwik Ghatak

上半年認識了Guru Dutt, 有網友詢問其他值得推薦的印度導演, 當時找到幾個名字: Bimal Roy (1909-1966) , Mrinal Sen (1923-) , Ritwik Ghatak (1925-1976) , Shyam Benegal (1934-) , 無獨有偶, 他們都是印度孟加拉電影 (
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可憐的猶大

早陣子,兒子忽然說他想讀但丁《神曲》的《地獄篇》(當然是英譯),我覺得奇怪,問他為何有興趣,他說「地獄」這概念很抽象,想看一看但丁怎樣描寫地獄(我後來才知道,原來有個電腦遊戲叫 Dante’s Inferno ,兒子看來是想比

PPP over ssh: solving problems with indirection

There is an old aphorism in Computer Science that any problem canbe solved by another level of indirection (Wikipedia credits it to David Wheeler ). TodayI have an illustration of this.

I mentioned that I was having problemswith USB serial ports on my just upgraded to Fedora 13 machine.Specifically, starting up PPP on such a port would hang the pppd process (and then any other process that touched the serial port).Since my DSL link is still down, this is a problem.It turns out


不必投訴

香港人已經得出結論,沒有錢,就別生孩子。不過他們並不是說優生論,而是對社會和將來已經不抱希望,生下注定受苦的兒女,是惡,是罪過。

有人形容這是仇富情緒。也許法庭新聞已經讓他們証實了這一點,例如法官常常在

取全文油猴腳本@Chrome

N年前寫了個 取全文的油猴腳本 ,是在 Firefox 上配搭 Greasemonkey 插件使用,在 Google Reader 上為某些網站可以按 ‘g’ 取全文。Chrome 也支持油猴腳本,但因為其中 GM_xmlhttprequest 不支持 cross-domain request,所以我也就沒有特別去搞甚麼的。

今天發現了一個叫 TamperMonkey 的 Chrome 插件,


一個關於性的思想實驗

性和道德有甚麼關係?我對這問題思考得不多,沒有甚麼深刻獨到的見解,只是大底上覺得性在很多方面都被不少人無謂地道德化了。自慰、口交、肛交、濫交、召妓、換妻、戀童、SM、同性戀、婚外情、婚前性行為... 幾乎