Why apt-get is not my favorite application

In a nutshell:

# apt-get upgradeReading Package Lists... DoneBuilding Dependency Tree... Done3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not upgraded.Need to get 1351kB of archives. After unpacking 77.8kB will be freed.Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Truly, the count of packages to be fiddled with is more important that telling me what they are , by default. Here, apt-get


約翰.伯格的《看》(About Looking)

我喜歡讀書或許是因為我總是在 做論文 ;而非相反,即我會因為 做論文 而不喜歡讀書。因為, 做論文 的好處是:期間無論看什麼書,都會覺得格外好看,與論文無關的書尤甚。——由此推之,寫作(對己)的寬容與閱讀上(對人

七月必殺

回科大借書時遇見了老細。本來說好了七月前給她論文浪漫主義的部分。我以一貫帶著慌亂的嬉皮笑臉說,又失敗了。美麗的老細臉色一變。說,我明天走了,八月初給我吧,八月初。前所未有的一變。 看來,第五年畢竟是第五

What RSS can learn from Usenet

If you look at it in the right light RSS is a lot like Usenet, withRSS feeds taking the place of newsgroups and entries taking the paceof articles. And they both have similar issues of organizing,selecting, and filtering massive amounts of information.

The big difference is that decent Usenet newsreaders have much bettertools for dealing with this than RSS readers seem to. At one levelthis isn't too surprising, since Usenet newsreaders have been around alot longer than RSS readers. At another level it really


六月

就這樣,

綿綿的六月過去了。

就這樣,

2005年一半的日子也過去了。

這一百多天的日子,

你做過些甚麼?

你牽掛過誰?

可有銘心的刻骨的事情發生過?

在玫瑰的故事內,

家敏跟咪咪說,

如果他們的女兒在六月出生,

便叫她做

網摘與資訊過濾

yhmyweb

我想有大部份的 Blogger 都會不定時「調查」一下自己的文章被誰連結了,雖然說有 Trackback 的機制,但事實上也有很多不同的連結沒有用 Trackback 連了過來。還好的是, Bloglines Technorati Google 等等都可以很有效地幫助尋找這些連結。我自己也不例外,定時會


Mozilla versus SeaMonkey

I still use Mozilla as my browser, built from the CVS source codebecause I use several custom hacks (hacks that the Mozilla Project isnot going to want back). However, I only upgrade my binaryperiodically. Today I had the unfortunate experience of trying toupgrade to the latest CVS source code version.

For those not current on the whole story, there has been a little bitof a fissure in the Mozilla Project community. When Firefox (andThunderbird et al) started getting good, it was decided


痛改前非?

ierss

Microsoft 宣佈 IE7 ,大家都抱著懷疑的態度,究竟在支持 Web Standards 這一方面 IE7 會如何呢?大家開始時,都估計應該大部份都是保安方面的升級。然而,在 IE Blog 裏面,則常常有新的消息,會進一步支持標準,支持使用 PNG、修正 css positioning 的 Bug 等


Fedora Core 4's buggy Anaconda

I am quite irritated right now, because Fedora Core 4 has the mostsignificantly buggy Anaconda installer that it has ever beenmy displeasure to have to try to make work. These are bugs that areboth serious and obvious, one of them even introduced because oflast-minute change. (Have people learned nothing from history?Hasty last-minute changes always have bugs; that's why you don'tmake them .)

  • You cannot repartition drives, because Ananconda holds open areference to an old partition,

咽不下玉粒金蓴噎滿喉

上個星期六開始,在咽東西時喉嚨很痛,每吞一下,都痛得好像用刀割了一下喉嚨一樣。結果,這幾天吃飯時相當辛苦,每次都是一場忍痛大戰,實在不敢叫太大碟的東西。先甜後苦,食物先經過舌頭,感到了食物的美味,但一