Some things about smpatch

smpatch is the official Sun thing for dealing with Solaris patches forSolaris 8 and 9 (Solaris 10 apparently has an all new system, hopefullybetter). I got interested in smpatch not just because it's the officialSun tool for this stuff, but because it has one feature that pca doesn't: it can reliably tell whatpatches are safe to be installed on a live multiuser system.

(While pca can skip patches that require reboots, it doesn'tcurrently have a 'skip patches that


小遊東龍洲

假期去了東龍洲,行了兩個小時左右,到了炮台遺址,拍了些沿途風光。現試用 23hq 的服務,相關相簿到 這裏 。

The other dynamic linking tax

I've already talked about one dynamic linking tax , but here's another one.Presented in illustrated form:

; cat true.c#include int main(int argc, char **argv){    exit(0);}; cc -o true true.c; cc -o true-s -static true.c; diet cc -o true-d true.c; ls -s true true-d true-s  8 true    4 true-
                    
                
                
                    
                
            
            
            

Keeping up with new Python features

I have a new resolution: every so often, I'm going to read over thecurrent builtins section ofthe Python documentation.

I've come to this because recently I was reading through a page onPython idioms to see ifit had anything new, and stumbled over the mention of an enumerate() builtin, new in Python 2.3. Well, I'm using Python 2.3, and I hadn'tremembered enumerate() , and I could have used it recently. Whoops


兩生花Double Vie De Véronique, La

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清 明

一年之中最溫馨的節日,其實是清明。寫完以上的句子,連我自己也對於有這樣的想法而感到怪異,不過,如果從我到目前為止的經驗來判斷,清明節的確已經由傷感過渡到一種溫馨的氣氛。

話說我的家人每年都極之重視這個節

CSS Naked Day

噢!網站的設計去了那裏?不用擔心,站上的所有功能仍然可用,內容仍然有條理地表現出來。詳情請看 預告:明天不穿衣

Blog 與媒體報導

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昨天上榆林,才發現 《誠品閱讀》 的三月號的主題是「WE BLOG 當我們部落格」。

這個專題裏面有很多不同文章,討論探討的台灣 Blog 文化的。由「部落格隨便祭」開始說起,談談 Blog 的文化底蘊,講講媒體對於 Blog 的意見,訪問一些 Blogger 的


科大正門直入,有一處露台,乃直徑十米左右的一個半圓, 直望西貢海。我總是向與我一同走入科大的人說,你知西貢海最好是什麼嗎?係串。你看,入夜一片黑暗,無半點光。什麼都不跟你講,但引你凝目去看。幾串。而這樣

Why I don't like resorting to caching

One of my little twitches is that I really don't like putting caching inmy programs. It's not because cache invalidation is hard, although itis. It's because resorting to caching is an admission of defeat: it'sadmitting that I can't make the actual code go fast enough.

In other words, I've failed to write code that's fast enough. Idon't think any programmer likes to fail; certainly I don't. I don'