香港懷舊日誌
潮流興懷舊、興集體回憶。其實香港人的集體回憶何止石硤尾邨、天星和皇后碼頭呢？大家還記得「阿蟲介紹嚟！」的殺蟲水廣告嗎？會不會還記得牛仔和兒童樂園這些刊物呢？現任加拿
立此存照
因為受到廿九几中人唆擺（其中最落力的是最不打扮的江康泉！），而且嚮往一種身心脫離的狀態，我今日，炸左個頭。直髮冷靜的樣子暫告一段落，而剛電好之後，那殺氣再濃重了許多，可稱兇狠版的曹汶。以後都不會有人說
文明單位
五十萬種活法
美國偵探小說家勞倫斯．卜洛克其中一本代表作名叫《八百萬種死法》。卜洛克這本小說寫的是紐約，紐約有八百萬人，八百萬個故事，當然，也就有八百萬種死法。讀這本小說前我首先想到的是：澳門有五十萬人，可是，我們
謹問好
贏
我一向都是贏家
但贏得那樣慘澹
比輸了更淒涼
但贏得那樣慘澹
比輸了更淒涼
A disappointment with ZFS
According to the ZFS documentation for the current official Solaris 10release (I don't know about the state of OpenSolaris builds, and they'renot of interest to us anyways), you cannot make a storage pool that is amirror of RAID-Z2 pools.
(You can indirectly construct a mirror of RAID-5 pools, by building theRAID-5 pools with the Solaris Volume Manager instead of ZFS itself.)
We want some form of RAID-6 instead of RAID-5 because
Why the University of Toronto can't just use Google Mail
A lot of people like Google Mail, and it's not hard to see why; theyhave the best webmail interface, offer lots of storage, and so on. Sowhy not just cut to the chase and make our users happy by outsourcingour email to Google Mail?
The answer in a nutshell is that we'd like a Google Mail Appliance, butthe university is not in any position to make Google Mail our emailprovider.
There's a bunch of pragmatic reasons why outsourcing email would be
是日機艙金句
「噯！那個服務員長得漂亮卻那麼兇。」
Using CSS instead of tables is still using a hack
It's an article of faith in modern web page creation that using tablesfor layout, especially column-based layout, is an evil hack and thatusing CSS instead is virtuous, proper, and accessible. (These peopleprobably turn up their noses at WanderingThoughts ' table-based layout,which has its reasons .)
I have news for these people: it isn't so. Using CSS floats for layoutis still using a hack. In fact, it's using a worse hack; at least