An illustrated example of how not to do package updates
I spent a greater part of today discovering how and why smartd wasnot monitoring our disks on several of our Red Hat Enterprise 5 based iSCSI backends . The quick summary is that if yourRHEL 5 machine was installed some time ago (or installed recently froman old installer disk) and upgraded since then, smartd may not bemonitoring all of your disks; this is all but certain if you've recentlyadded new disks.
What happened to cause this is a badly considered package update. Inthe beginning of RHEL
念在一場親戚
出書無期的疑惑
我人靦腆,不好意思投稿後窮追跟進
Steve Jobs on "Freedom from Porn" [Updated]
[UPDATE: Looks like LifeSiteNews is corroborating this news ...]
Interesting snippet from an email exchange between Steve Jobs and Ryan Tate (from Gawker Media):

While Steve and I might not agree on many things, his (well, Apple's) philosophy on porn has been pretty awesome so far: they'll have none of it... or at least almost.
The App store is happily void of the smut that covers all corners of the Internet. And Apple's OS X,
小說插圖式的繪畫風格
好,首先看一下原圖,這個修改過程嘛,還是要看圖片的解像度來決定一些數值的效果,不可以一概而論,要緊的是,圖片一定要是中間調的最好,反差大,光暗強的相片,效果都不好。

先來基本步,複製相片做多一個圖層,去
商業片的斧鑿痕跡 – 分手的情書

沒有看過原著,去看《Dear John》(分手的情書) 後,覺得普普通通,有點同情男主角,就這樣子。但讀過原著的女友看後破口大罵,她告訴我很多「原來」,此一對照之下,荷里活商業片的斧鑿痕跡一下子就浮現出來了。
Warning, spoiler ahead