An amusingly truthful hostname

We got email today from a machine called 'server1.ghettowebhosting.net'(IP address 72.29.85.194).

It was advance fee fraud spam. Truth in advertising strikes again!

(I have to wonder about the mindset that makes anyone name theirbusiness something like that. Especially when they are apparently abranch of 'Complet-Inet', and say they have multiple data centers withOC-48 connections; this doesn't sound too 'ghetto


The danger of relying on Javascript for input validation

I've run into a few websites that do some of their input validation onforms and the like entirely in Javascript. If you are tempted to dothis, please don't; not only is it dangerous to you, it's annoying tousers.

It's annoying to users due to what can happen to innocent users whotry to use your forms with JavaScript turned off; if your forms arestill submittable, the user can wind up unintentionally creating baddata in your system. This is usually


A peculiarity of hardware at universities

One of the peculiar things you find atuniversities (and probably almost nowhere else) is expensive hardwarewithout any sort of maintenance contract. This is usually not the resultof insanity combined with cheapness, but instead the result of companiesdonating hardware to researchers.

Computer makers love to donate hardware, because the cost to them isjust the manufacturing cost (at most), but they get credit (probablyincluding tax writeoffs) for the full list price, even if no one isactually buying the hardware at that price.


迷幻列車

壓力時時有,今年特別多。一直以來,職場的暗戰、推卸、太極拳、八卦掌,都很令人頭痛。澳門多口臭、低能、紅眼症患者,很多人講多過做,更多人講的能力高過做的能力,教育只令一代又一代的小朋友有卸膊精神,有認輸

讀書 Tag [改]

Kursk 給我的「讀書 Tag」。小弟小時候多看動漫,近年才多看一些文字書,所以我也跟 HenryPorter 一樣,將題目範圍擴大至動漫和電影吧… 以下的題目,其實很多都有多過一個答案,不過既然是「One」的話,我就抽樣地選其中一本作例子吧


One of the reasons I dislike SELinux

I have a fixed personal opinion that systems should not spew kernelmessages in the course of normal system operation, and especially notover the console. As I am busy finding out, yet again, SELinux failsthis test in at least some circumstances on Fedora Core 5.

(Possibly the circumstances were odd, since my FC5 install hadn'tmanaged to run the 'firstboot' stuff due to the un-upgraded X servercrashing on this machine's hardware. Still, I brought it up in a normal


在饑餓的時候工作

文明單位:迪士尼一週年
嘉賓:邱梓蕙

香港迪士尼一年生日,讓我們齊齊慶祝迪士尼負面新聞不斷,香港人對之保持清醒和尖酸。

明報今週又有「斑駁日常」,正摑著自己趕稿。下面貼出上個星期的三篇。

〈在獨居裡失去自己〉


脫期


前天哂完幸福,之後忙到甩碌,無法在周日完成星期三的專欄,今個星期要脫期了,有些事真是人算不如天算,如果在以前,昨日的情況下我會隨便寫一篇東西充數的,不過既然有一個系列,一來我不可以亂寫,二來也要顧及整

讀網


裝了計數器一星期,大約知道每日有多少人來看我的網誌,也大約知道讀者的年齡分佈。如果計數器的分析準確,我應該還掌握了每日最多人看的是哪個鐘頭。可能有人覺得這些數據沒有用,但這就是網誌跟報紙其中一個重要分

迷煙


兌換店被劫,店員說是中了迷煙,交出一百多萬,澳門一下子回到古代,打劫都如此文明且有效率,果然是與別不同。這個城市越來越光怪陸離, 可能稍後那些掌心雷、血滴子、隔空取物、破體無形劍氣都會陸續登場,簡直是現