A Genius Says Goodbye
Sickness
Mention that to parents, everyone invariably remembers the first time one's child got sick. I wasn't that impressed with the chapter on "When Baby is Sick" when I first read What to Expect the First Year . I managed to read that chapter again today; I fetched the book whilst packing the bag in a hurry to bring my febrile princess to the hospital last night. (What else could I smuggle when
The problem with overly verbose package installation
We just applied a kernel update to all of our Ubuntu LTS machines. Thisis a quite verbose process; on the machine I captured logs for, itproduces no less than 40 lines of status output (and another 14 linesbefore things start installing). And this count understates thingsbecause some of those are very long lines that wrap around on any realterminal.
(The kernel updating was done with ' apt-get install ... '.)
I'm sure that the authors of the
Nice! (Two Cameras and a Killer Lens Combo)
The kit I'll be wearing at the Deaconate Ordination Mass this coming Saturday. Afterwards, I'll run to the back chapel, where I'll snap some shots with the D3 and a nice kit of SB-26 remote flashes!

Is anyone selling a used D3 for cheap? I gotta get me one of these cameras!
Gear pictured above:
- Nikon D3 (rented from LensRentals)
- Nikon 50mm f/1.4 AF (my own)
- Nikon D90 (
失魂鳥命不該絕
有一天,幾個朋友到我
A Single Man(單身男人) ------- "Living in the past is my future!"
Film: A Single Man (2009)
Directed by Tom Ford
Written by Tom Ford/ David Scearce/ Christopher Isherwood (Book)
Starring Colin Firth/ Julianne Moore/ Matthew Goode/ Nicholas Hoult
Music by Abel Korzeniowski(Additional music by Shigeru Umebayashi)
Running Time: 99mins
1. 除了戲名及cast,入場前我對齣戲又是一無所知!結果是完全是出乎意料之外,想不到是一個這
Vibrator...

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One reason why 'zpool status' can hang
The ' zpool status ' command is infamous for stallingand hanging exactly when you need it the most, namely when something isgoing wrong with your system. I've recently run down one reason why itdoes this.
The culprit is my old friend ZFS GUIDs . Informationabout disks involved in ZFS pools includes both their GUIDs and theirtheoretical device paths. When ' zpool status ' prints out the userfriendly shortened device names, it doesn't just take the theoreticalpath and trim most things off to get the