As editors web browsers have all sorts of problems, such as a narrowview of the text (squeezed into a small to tiny text box), only (very)basic editing operations, and a severe lack of features. Some of thefeatures can be somewhat fixed up by the website, like spellcheckingand saving drafts in progress, but even then they tend to be awkward.(You can read one person's grumbles about the problem in the contextof blogging here .)
This makes it puzzling that more
CQUEST 's workstations have a pieceof software that needs a read only 5+ gigabyte set of datafiles. Naturally we put the dataset on the local workstation disks,which works great. (These days it's hard to buy machines with lessthan 40 gigabyte disks, which leaves about 30 gigabytes free even witha generous Linux installation. We don't put user data on workstationsfor all the obvious reasons.)
However, every so often the dataset changes and we need to propagateall 5
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Google 推出了新的 Blog Search 功能，大家可以直接在各大 Blogosphere 裏找資料了。有龐大的 Google 後盾，這個 Blog Search 的速度比起 Technorati 更快反應，而且其 Search Result 也有 RSS /Atom 的導出功能，大家可以在 RSS Reader 訂閱自己有興趣 Keywords 又或者用 link:url 去看對外連結。
不過，以自
今日朝早和今天晚上，看到兩個新的軟體有新介面新抓圖可以看，分別是 Office 12 和 Yahoo! Mail ，而不約而同地，它們都使用了 Tab 為他們的新介面。
先看 Office 12 的工具列，已經完全放棄了 File | Edit | View … 這些 Drop down menu ，取而代之的，是幾個
To quote Glyph Lefkowitz (from here ):
Aah, the singleton. Global variables for the new millennium.
I'm not against global variables, but I am against misleading peopleabout them. The Singleton pattern lies about them; it looks like youhave a normal object, but you really have a global variable withoutknowing it.
(And if everyone knows you have a faux global variable, you are justtarting up a global variable in 'object-oriented' clothes. This islike respecting the letter of
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Today's fire drill was caused by our printing system not printing;since it is the first day of classes, it was not a good time todiscover this. After fixing a couple of small problems, the bigstumbling block was authentication not working.
Our printing system has a central machine that handles quotamanagement and a per-lab machine that handles the actual printspooling and printing. This requires the labmasters to talk to thequota server to tell it about pages that got printed.
Because I am paranoid,
Concurrency may or may not be hard (I know people who disagree with meon that). But I am sure that it is tricky. As an illustration, I justfixed a DWiki concurrency bug that I first spotted in MyFirstCommentSpam .
For simplicity, DWiki stores each comment as a file in a directoryhierarchy that mirrors the page's DWiki path; if you comment on the DWiki page /foo/bar , the comment will be a file in a /foo/bar/ directory (under a separate top
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