養兵千日呢一下


衛報報導

中國內地轉播為左要將抗議畫面cut走,突兀動用採火的凹面鏡之碎鏡。無國界記者真係勁,究竟係點樣走到入去仲去到咁埋既呢。呢位係創辦人黎架。

楊春林入獄






東平洲的千層糕

今次放假到了東平洲,特點是有很多像「千層糕」般的岩石,而且相當巨型。不過小弟的相機中途就沒有電了,以下是僅有的一些風景。

假日電影


放假幾天
都在家中看電影
包括以下這些

1. Munich :看當年奧運和政治如何扯上關係,看和平背後的恐怖.

2. Starsky&Hutch :好多年前去中東出差在機上看過,好笑到極,無聊就拿出來重溫.

3. Full Frontal :導演玩深奧,但我奉陪,不過不失

The two sorts of (programmer) certification

When you're talking about certifying people, there are really two sortsof certification; certification of people, and certification of peopleand procedures. In yesterday's entry Iwas implicitly talking about the latter sort of certification, so todayI'm going to explain why.

First, one of the usual stated goals of programmer certificationis to move to an environment where software is more reliable andsecure, like the work that engineers produce.

At the best, certification of people is a stamp of approval that you


突然提起

三月二十一日的港台製作「 香港電影月 」, 有陳志華 !陳一定是不好意思告訴大家了,由我來向各方陳志華粉絲報告吧。節目裡受訪時陳志華向後靠,明顯是不習慣鏡頭,但無損其靚仔啊!
可惜因為版權問題,很多電影不能播出

要事

藝發局招聘審批員

藝發局主要的工作之一是透過不同的資助計劃(例如﹕一年資助、計劃資助)支持藝術發展。由1999年開始,本局透過邀請具專業認識的藝術界人士擔任審批員,協助評審本局接獲的藝術資助申請。審批員

Why software engineering certification may not work out the way people want

Proponents of requiring programmers to be certified generally havein mind the model of engineering and an outcome much like howcertification has worked out for engineers; often this is made explicitwith labels like 'software engineering certification'. In this model,the programming world keeps evolving at almost its usual pace, much likeengineers keep building new sorts of buildings with new designs,but it does so in a (more) disciplined way so that programs don't falldown so often.

But there's another model for how


Why NFS writes to ZFS are sometimes (or often) slow

It's a relatively well known issue that writing lots of small files overNFS to a ZFS filesystem is slow, but I was surprised to discover that ithad a significant slowdown even when doing large bulk streaming writesto single files. Discovering this got me curious enough to dig intothings.

Like most recent filesystems, ZFS is a journaled, usingwhat the ZFS people call the ZIL (ZFS Intent Log) .Also like other journaled filesystems, ZFS has the fsyncproblem . So where do the syncscome from


玄奘精神


在新開的 商務印書館 買了這本書 這幾天都在隨 玄奘 西遊
也上網看 錢文忠教授的講解
然後又讀了一些介紹 錢教授的文章
這位 季羨林 的弟子真的很會說故事
如果他只是講大家都知道 孫悟空 西遊記
他未必會取得成功
但講歷史上真有其人

《警察樂隊來訪時》(The Band's Visit)


再一次證明電影節場刊寫手是招財貓, 一段簡單的文字介紹, 就吸引這麼多觀眾入場, 文章有價絕無講錯. 但 《警察樂隊來訪時》 (The Band's Visit) 並不如場刊所述般大鑼大鼓, 整套電影的節奏和氣氛, 反而平淡低調. 本來很期待
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