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In an earlier entry I discussed my view on whyUnix vendors never got together and created a standard GUI, the way theycreated POSIX. It's my view that the Unix world had basically one chanceto create a standard GUI but fumbled it through (vendor) greed, althoughsadly understandable vendor greed.

Let's start with a question: why does Unix have a standard graphicalenvironment? Because it does; for at least two decades now, X Windowshas been the ubiquitous Unix way to do graphics (

災情與情

車窗望 | Oct. 22, 2010, midnight | Original

有些事情，在網上和電視上看見，與身歷其中，是兩個層次，例如戀愛，例如死亡，又例如災難。是的，我得承認，我們是未經歷過災難的一代人，我們見過，我們聽過，就是未曾置身過。

甚麼是災難？舉目觀看，四週躺著不認

The Social Network

葉七城的人生音像城 | Oct. 21, 2010, 1:54 p.m. | Original

剛看了 David Fincher 的《社交網絡》( The Social Network )，一部關於 facebook 創辦人Mark Zuckerberg的故事

還沒開始寫，只在facebook寫了一些零碎感受。

不如 add 咗我先啦 ! 我在fb的名字: Ellis Yip , profic pic 是一隻長江七號 ! 騎白馬的，和貓咪照片的，是另有其人。

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如此校長

魚之樂 | Oct. 21, 2010, 3:01 a.m. | Original

星期一下午教完書回到家裏，還未坐穩，便接到兒子的校長打來的電話，告訴我兒子在學校跟同學爭執，弄傷了對方，校方決定罰他停課三天。

我做父親的覺得事態嚴重，但這校長說話時卻沒精打采的，像是做例行公事。據他說

The problems with testing for round-trip capable codecs

Wandering Thoughts | Oct. 21, 2010, 1:18 a.m. | Original

In theory, testing a Python codec to see if it's round-tripcapable is pretty simple:

def willtrip(cname):   c1 = [chr(x) for x in range(0, 256)]   try:       uc = [x.decode(cname) for x in c1]       c2 = [x.encode(cname) for x in uc]   except UnicodeError:       return False   return c1 == c2

(Since it's been a while,

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