Thinking about the implications of your program being successful

Recently, some of our Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems started mailingus a message from cron once an hour:

/etc/cron.hourly/mcelog.cron:

mcelog: warning: record length longer than expected. Consider update.

There are two things wrong with this message. The first is a RHELbug; Red Hat should have made sure that this cron job didn't bombardsysadmins with unimportant messages by, for example, redirectingstandard error to /dev/null .

(This is sadly a general problem


計算名場面

每一套經典,都必須要有一個名場面。

就像Terminator中阿諾的那一句 "I will be back",沒有那一幕,就不是經典;又像男兒當入樽裏,三井跪在地哭著說「好想打籃球」;又像楊過苦等十六載,約定之日一夜白頭,悲痛縱身一跳;沒有名

忘年之交


Catholic Programmer's T-Shirt and Mousepad

Reposted from Open Source Catholic :

A few weeks back, after finishing a full day of swimming in PHP, HTML and CSS, I was pondering the great mystery of human existence, but probably had a little too much to drink. The result?

Catholic Programming - Design

You can buy the design on the following products (via Zazzle):

Would you like the design on anything else? I could do a mug, or socks, or anything else in Zazzle's catalog


運動與愛情—home for two專訪

自問沒資格在那些什麼名人家居一類的專題中見報,所以當Modern Home雜誌的記者說要和我做專訪,又不是問我有關於工作上的話題時,初時我也覺得有點兒突兀。

但後來聽記者道明來意,說想我分享一下我對「運動與愛情」的看法,

Continue reading...

A realization about why my inbox keeps being my to-do tracker

I have a problem. It's not a unique or novel problem; I understand it'sone that a lot of people have. My problem is that over time my emailinbox quietly winds up getting used as my to-do tracker, basicallyregardless of how I'm theoretically trying to keep track of this stuff.I leave messages in my inbox to remind me to do things, and the latestgo-round of this has now reached the point where I email myself notesabout things I want


Dark Side Of The Moon ----- Pink Floyd = Classic of the Classic!!!

Original Cover to the LP Album Release

Album Title: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
Band : Pink Floyd (Member: David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason)
Released Date: 10 March 1973
Recorded June 1972 – January 1973,
@Abbey Road Studios, London
Genre: Progressive rock
Length : 42:59
Producer : Pink Floyd
Continue reading...

星期六2-3pm@書展天窗攤位

到時見~

Continue reading...

我是個無神論者嗎?

我是個無神論者嗎?這個問題的答案,可能没有大家想像的那麼簡單。大家見我批評宗教,尤其是基督教,真是不遺餘力,有時甚至很兇,可能認為我顯而易見是個無神論者。可是,我相信不存在的,只是一個全知、全能、至善

Why keeping /etc under version control doesn't entirely help

One of the reasons that I'm not too enthused with various schemes to put /etc under version control is that they don't really give me what Ireally want out of the whole exercise.

First, let's assume that you have somehow divided your /etc repositoryup into a lot of separate modules in orderto keep things straight. Without loss of generality we can look onlyat the evolution of a single module on a single system over time. Theproblem is that you really have three separate