The appeal of GNU tools

I admit that every so often the freakish superintelligence of the GNUversions of programs has its appeal. Consider, say, units :

You have: 7 feet + 2.5 inchYou want: mm        * 2197.1        / 0.00045514542

GNU date is another good one:

; date -d 'last sunday'Sun Apr 13 00:00:00 EDT 2008

Or even better:

; date -d

My secret mouse fear

One of my little computer terrors is that someday I won't be able tofind good quality plain three button mice any more, because everyonewill have stopped making them. In fact it may already be too late to getdecent USB three button mice, which worries me; although I have a stashof PS/2 ones, I may someday have to migrate to a USB-only machine.

(Searching the web is basically no help in finding out, and since I havea reasonably large stash of suitable


「沒有玫瑰的花店」主題曲

日本樂壇真的有趣,很難想像,一位像山下達郎這類的創作歌手,可以由60年代唱到今時今日,還要久不久為年輕偶像度身訂造新歌,又或者親自出手,主唱人氣日劇主題曲,真係Out都未Out過。

能夠受到跨年代樂迷的喜愛,正


恐怖的人群

反對輸入外勞的勞動者心聲,我們聽過。反對同工不同籌的呼籲,我們也聽過。但很少人會聽聽外勞的心聲,也很少人會了解他們在澳門面對的是厚待還是剝削。不了解他們的生活,不明白人家的文化,卻總是對他們仇視或歧視

在迷宮中


近日工作很忙


但我同時忙於寫小說


這個故事


我寫了七年


我最終把它設計成迷宮


其實我有辦法用很短的時間將之寫完


但我喜歡在迷宮中閒逛


坦白說我現在是不捨得把故事寫完


不捨得決定人物的結局


雖然我對每一個細節都有了計劃



跑馬地的回憶

莫太︰

你那些關於跑馬地的故事,全看過了。

在你生命一個接一個重要的時刻,似乎都與跑馬地連上,我也傾向相信,這是你前生已種下的緣。

如果前生是尼姑的你,今生回到這裡,是為了甚麼呢﹖會否因捨棄前塵,今世註定要

Titanic

The New York Times ran a story describing the discovery that the shipbuilder of the Titanic struggled for years to obtain enough good rivets and riveters and ultimately settled on faulty materials that doomed the ship, which sank 96 years ago Tuesday.

The selection of the rivets has been a subject of interest. Great ships like Titanic require three million rivets that acted like glue to hold everything together. In the case of Titanic’s rivets, the builder company ordered No. 3 bar, known as "best" — not No

Management interfaces as isolated interfaces

Setting up isolated interfaces can seem like a lot of work that has relatively little point, butthere is at least one important case for them: management interfaces onmachines that route traffic.

Consider your typical garden variety routing firewall. Let us assumethat you do not want to make it directly accessible on its outsiderouter IP, because then the outside world could attack it, or any of itsnormal inside IPs, because then compromised machines inside your networkcould attack it. So you give it a connection to your management


EVA 的左右割裂

EOE hand

上星期五晚上到了網台節目 《動漫廢物》 做嘉賓,談談新的 EVA 劇場版、整個系列和其影響。節目氣氛不錯,熱熱鬧鬧,加上大家都很熟 EVA,所以有很不錯的討論。

記得其中討論過一點,就是 EVA 是要用右腦看。因為 EVA 本身將故事說


走得麼新郎哥: 英式幽默 笑中有汗

這類苦中帶甜的英式幽默小品,最宜作為週末的調劑小品。

先不要來和我爭論,究竟有沒有人可以用兩三個星期時間狂谷後就能參加馬拉松比賽,因為我覺得,這不是整齣戲的重點所在。

講愛情、講父子情、講友情、講人與人之