當見到《神探》的神探陳桂彬說他可以見到人們心中的鬼，我即時有這個疑問：甚麼是鬼？
跟據字面的直接解法，我們常說人心中有鬼，似乎想說「鬼」等於是「人的陰暗面」或「心魔」。這符合結尾陳桂彬的自說自話和何家安
Shortening hostnames for fun and profit
Once upon a time I needed to NFS export filesystems to a lot ofworkstations, in a situation where I was worried about size limitsin /etc/exports (and we didn't use YP/NIS, so we couldn't just puteverything in netgroups). In situations like this, one thing to dois to shrink hostnames down as much as possible, and that's what wedid.
(This was back in an era where the existence of such limits were at leastplausible.)
Multihomed hosts and /etc/hosts
As a side note to looking up hostnames from IP addresses for people who use /etc/hosts , note that /etc/hosts lookups work badly in the presence of hosts with multipleIP address, since most gethostbyname() implementations will onlyreturn the first IP address that they find in /etc/hosts . These daysyou really want a minimal /etc/hosts and a reliable DNS server, unlessyou have special concerns .
(The gethostbyname() behavior is sensible, since otherwise it wouldalways have to
Getting a useful persistent VNC session
By a persistent VNC session, I mean a session that you can connect yourVNC viewer to, do stuff, disconnect from, and then later come back toconnect to it again. This makes it the graphical equivalent of screen , at least for me.
(Much like screen , it also gives you a certain amount of immunityagainst network and workstation stability problems for critical tasksthat you don't want interrupted. More and more, systems have to bemanaged graphically instead of through text interfaces, which means that
20071222 網摘 – IE8 通過 Acid2
Barcamp in HK
- 真係學到野: Barcamp 2007
- 從Barcamp看香港體制創新所需 Quote: Barcamp這種對結果完全開放的open-ended形式的投放與思維，以鼓勵和實現意念為本，而非短視地計算回報「斤斤計較」，大概這正是香港真正要發展創意產業的體制創新所需
情陷夜中環
情陷夜中環
眾所周知，公司搞的所謂Christmas party，其實不過是老闆展現皇恩浩蕩的一場show。群眾也許是愚昧的，但也不至於因為老闆唱兩首歌或扮一下聖誕老人，就會被這等「忽然親民」的行為打動。
「女皇」作為公司的最高話事人，
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
偶然發現上司Eric的房間掛著一則「辦公室禱文」：
“Grant me the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill today because they pissed me off, and help me to be careful of the toes I step on today, as they may be connected to the ass that I may have to kiss tomorrow.”
老實說，我的確嚇了一跳。一直以為Eric的交際手段
「泡沫」風波
雖然 Here Comes Another Bubble 在刪除了攝影師 Lane Hartwell 的照片後再上架，但也引來其他攝影師的 質疑 是否應向影片創作者 the Richter Scales 有同樣的要求，刪除相關照片或向他收取費用。
有論者認為，圖片只是用於「惡搞」，其實可以是 Fair Use 而不用通知原作者
A thought about Solaris 10 x86's boot process
In succinct form:
The problem with Solaris 10 x86's boot process is not so much that itis trying to pretend that it has OpenBoot, the problem is that it isdoing such a clumsy and awkward job of faking it.
I will admit that I am not a fan of the Solaris 10 x86 boot process. Iunderstand why it is trying very hard to pretend that it is just likeSPARC hardware with OpenBoot, and I can even sympathize with Sun'smotivations for
豈止廣告
眼前兩星期，香港獨立媒體網及獨立媒體（香港）會就成立三周年舉行一系列的活動。活動的意念，是希望請來平日在其各自領域搞自己的媒體的友好團體和朋友， 交流交流。因為我們相信，獨立自主的小媒體，即使媒介、形式