中秋.新年.單行

1月10日觀塘法院外百人絕食支援反世貿被捕人士,我沒有參加(因為怕再出糗)。九點鐘到達之時,晚會已經接近完結,傳媒也已撤走。

我以為絕食的都是自己友,我以為已經沒有人關心被拘捕人士的事了。誰知一來到,發

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How not to set up your DNS (part 7)

Presented in point form, because the illustrated form is too verbose:

  • The subdomain bos.netsolhost.com has nameserversNS1.bos.netsolhost.com and NS2.bos.netsolhost.com.
  • according to the nameservers for netsolhost.com, these have IPaddresses 205.178.146.11 and 205.178.146.12 respectively.
  • according to 205.178.146.11

On not logging things

One of the machines I help look after is an open, read-only Usenetserver (details here ; the openaccess is a 'because we can' thing). You might be surprised to knowthat the server logs only minimal information about NNTP sessions, andthis is a deliberate action that required hacking the software a bit.

When I was setting up the machine and planning open access foreveryone on campus, I found myself thinking about how I'd feel if, forexample, some day a department


我應該關心什麼?


立法會明日投票決定是否就東亞運開支問題展開聽證程序,我是關心的。

因為鹹潮,我家的膠樽堆積太多,不利於環保,我是關心的。

媽媽生日,明晚宴請親友,不知新試的酒樓味道如何,收費怎樣,我是關心的。

有傳李澤佳有

Recording attribute access and method calls

Here's a little bit of magic, demonstrated in the Python interpreter:

>>> from record import Record>>> r = Record()>>> r2 = r.a.b('abc').c>>> print r2a.b('abc').c>>> print r.d.e(r2, t=20).f()d.e(Record().a.b('abc

就好似森林入面D大笨象?

innocencedvd

話說最近逛影碟店,終於看到《攻殼機動隊 Innocence》的正版中文代理出來了,由 Panorama 公司製作。今次不單單只是影片,也有當時在日本推出的雙 DVD 豪華版,收錄一些訪談、製作特輯、MTV 等等。影片我已看過幾次,所以就買了這個豪華版


最好的時光


星期日下午,我一個人,躲在家裡看侯孝賢《最好的 時光》。三個故事, 三個時代,戀愛夢、自由夢、 青春夢,害我不能入夢。

侯孝賢的電影從來適合打發時間,通常先要令腦海空空如也,不加思索,才可以裝載那麼慢的節奏,

The peculiar effects of grant funding at universities

One of the things that makes universities such peculiar computing environments is grant funding.

The straightforward effect is to inject uncertainty into the year toyear budgeting process, since few grants have a sure renewal. Evenwhen the total amount of grant funding stays more or less the same,who gets it (and thus what projects are funded) can vary a lot, withthe attendant localized lurches. (The uncertainty of grant money maybe one reason that people are often far more willing to pay forequipment and consulting than to


網絡服務的個人化

我自己算是一個 RSS 狂,這個早已在「 RSS 養懶我 」一文已談及。而 Bloglines 已經成為我的收料站,是一個小小互聯網視窗。女友不是常常到處看 Blog 的人,也不太使用 Bloglines ,她常常跟我說讓她登入我的 Bloglines 戶口看就好了,反正她就是不懂 Subscribe 新的