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PPP over ssh: solving problems with indirection

Wandering Thoughts | Aug. 13, 2010, 1:18 a.m. | Original

There is an old aphorism in Computer Science that any problem canbe solved by another level of indirection (Wikipedia credits it to David Wheeler ). TodayI have an illustration of this.

I mentioned that I was having problemswith USB serial ports on my just upgraded to Fedora 13 machine.Specifically, starting up PPP on such a port would hang the pppd process (and then any other process that touched the serial port).Since my DSL link is still down, this is a problem.It turns out

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車窗望 | Aug. 13, 2010, midnight | Original

香港人已經得出結論，沒有錢，就別生孩子。不過他們並不是說優生論，而是對社會和將來已經不抱希望，生下注定受苦的兒女，是惡，是罪過。

有人形容這是仇富情緒。也許法庭新聞已經讓他們証實了這一點，例如法官常常在

取全文油猴腳本@Chrome

JackysBlog | Aug. 12, 2010, 5:55 a.m. | Original

N年前寫了個取全文的油猴腳本，是在 Firefox 上配搭 Greasemonkey 插件使用，在 Google Reader 上為某些網站可以按 ‘g’ 取全文。Chrome 也支持油猴腳本，但因為其中 GM_xmlhttprequest 不支持 cross-domain request，所以我也就沒有特別去搞甚麼的。

今天發現了一個叫 TamperMonkey 的 Chrome 插件，

一個關於性的思想實驗

魚之樂 | Aug. 12, 2010, 3:07 a.m. | Original

性和道德有甚麼關係？我對這問題思考得不多，沒有甚麼深刻獨到的見解，只是大底上覺得性在很多方面都被不少人無謂地道德化了。自慰、口交、肛交、濫交、召妓、換妻、戀童、SM、同性戀、婚外情、婚前性行為... 幾乎

Many programs should provide an easy way to change font size

Wandering Thoughts | Aug. 12, 2010, 1:18 a.m. | Original

Here is a thesis: any GUI program that deals with a substantial amountof text should have a browser-like set of menu options for 'increasetext size', 'decrease text size', and 'reset text size'. Naturally, thisshould really use the same key bindings as browsers do. Browsers haveshown everyone the way, so it is now well past the day that we shouldhave to go into preferences and configurations in order to temporarilychange the text size in our editors, our mail clients