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What packages SystemTap requires on Ubuntu 8.04 (and others)

Wandering Thoughts | Aug. 26, 2009, 1:18 a.m. | Original

For my own future reference and because the SystemTap wiki is not the clearest thing onthis, here's what packages are required to be able to use SystemTap onvarious distributions.

We use the -server kernels on our Ubuntu 8.04 machines, so I neededto do:

apt-get install systemtap linux-image-debug-server linux-headers-server
ln -s /boot/vmlinux-debug-$(uname -r) /lib/modules/$(uname -r)

A frame object's f_locals isn't always the locals

Wandering Thoughts | Aug. 26, 2009, 1:18 a.m. | Original

Python frame objects have a tempting member called f_locals , whichis described as the 'local namespace seen by this frame' (to quote the inspect module ). This isslightly misleading, because it is not always what Python programmersnormally think of as 'locals'.

Specifically, if the frame comes from code that is running at themodule level, f_locals is the 'local namespace' of that code,that is, it is the module's namespace. In other words, it'

10男10女的擇偶遊戲---對香港適婚女人的啟示

ericayuen | Aug. 25, 2009, 10:07 p.m. | Original

Discovery Channel 節目《The Science of Sex Appeal》裏的一個小實驗。
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB1oMfs8nWY

實驗：
10男10女。
每個人額頭上貼著一個數字，代表他們的吸引力指數（隨意，與外表無關）。
10分最高，1分最低。
自己看不到自己

人在旅途失業

sopuresotrue | Aug. 25, 2009, 6 p.m. | Original

頭痛得要命！趁木屋主人不在家，我們都睡至十一時才起床。是日女生需要清潔木屋內外的地板，男生則需要繼續掘泥路。我在開始清潔地板前打開手機查看有沒有新的訊息，結果一打開手機，收到的第一條留言訊息竟是．．．

大家都有病

silencemo | Aug. 25, 2009, 1:17 p.m. | Original

有一種想法，在當下的社會最容易得到認同，而且越來越普及，有人甚至以推動這種想法為己任，其具體行為是：狠批、狠批，再狠批。

只要一味挑剔﹑批評﹑標籤﹑嘲笑，並且把這個過程廣為傳播，即足以令任何人和事變得不

瘦虎肥龍爭霸戰‧五

agnesvaria | Aug. 25, 2009, 11:35 a.m. | Original

連日來兩貓關係沒有改善, Ding Ding愈來愈惡, 蜜柑愈來愈弱, 加上主人前仆後繼先後病倒, 沒有閒情逸致理會之.

難怪Ding Ding見蜜柑一次發火一次. 蜜柑表面上示好, 暗地裡不但吃Ding Ding的貓糧, 更在她的砂盤內小便!

昨晚在書房胡亂

Wasabi

drkmchow | Aug. 25, 2009, 11:06 a.m. | Original

There are only two kinds of people in this world: those who believe that the earth revolves around the sun and those who act as if their babies are the centre of the universe.

Having said that, I find myself morphing inevitably from the former into someone who will monopolize conversations with boring baby topics. Simply put, "baby talk" is similar to wasabi: a little at the right time feels good, but we often overdo it. Oh, yeah, isn't this a normal reaction of becoming a