Some problems with iSCSI on Solaris 10 (on x86)

The basic operation of iSCSI goes something like this:

  1. poke things to discover what iSCSI targets you have available, then
  2. login to each target, creating sessions and discovering whatiSCSI devices (eg, disks) they have available, then
  3. talk to those iSCSI devices over the sessions you've createdto actually do things.

There are three sorts of discovery: static configuration, SendTarget,and iSNS. Static configuration is the least convenient, because itrequires you to know the target's full iSCSI name as well as its


The VPN routing problem

An end node machine connecting in through a VPN has two IP addresses;one IP address that is inside the VPN (call it I), and its normal IPaddress outside the VPN (call it O). The outside address is sometimescalled the wild side address, because it is accessibly by the wildInternet.

A lot of writing about VPNs assumes that I and O are disjoint from eachother, effectively on completely isolated networks; I talks to thecorporate network behind the VPN and only the corporate network,


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Quality Solaris 10 software:

Very interesting things can turn up while you are testing Solaris 10iSCSI support make sure it behaves nicely in the face of dead logicaldisks. Like, say:

# format
Searching for disks...
Mode sense page(3) reports nsect value as 63, adjusting it to 0
Error: can't open selected disk '/dev/rdsk/c2t1d0p0'.
Arithmetic Exception - core dumped

(I was running format to see what disks it still saw; format


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銅鑼灣某個巴士站。

一條長長既人龍。

女:「咦~ 做咩要人地搭巴士喎,我情願搭的士。」

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女:「頂住對腳鬼死咁辛苦。」

我望一望個女仔。

佢著住一對兩吋高既短boots。

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我好

心聲

老曾租巴士落區謝票,電視街訪的一位市民,說出大家心聲: 「他哪用多謝我們?他去多謝那些選委就行啦!」

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姨媽的後現代生活 – 真實的悲哀

yellow moon

《姨媽的後現代生活》是一個平平實實的故事,寫姨媽的晚年生活。電影開始時輕輕鬆鬆,但結束時卻是沉沉重重。這當中沒有使用甚麼的煽情手法去撩撥觀眾情緒,只是描寫現實,但也是這套電人令人傷感之處。

打著「現代化


Fitts' Law and edge-flipping in window managers

Simplified and summarized a lot, Fitts' Law says that the four ofthe five easiest locations to reach with the mouse are the fourcorners of the screen, because they require very little precision.(There's a lot more to it than just that, of course; see AskTog .)

A number of window managers, fvwm2 included, have virtual screensand a feature called 'edge flipping': if you move your cursor toa screen edge where there's another virtual screen beyond it andkeep