The role of superstition and folklore in system administration

Just like users have folklore , system administrationdoes too. Our sort of superstition is a bit different, though ( well , usually ):it is the kind of thing where you say 'I don't know why that's there,but let's not remove it just in case'. When our system environmentsreach a certain level of fragile complexity and westart losing track of the fine details, of course our informed actionsstart descending into rote procedures.

(This really accelerates when new people come


尊重是愛的根本

才 子 子(才子的兒子) 玉 女 故 事 始 末 相 信 大 家 都 很 清 楚 , 不 必 多 提 。 當 然 , 他 們 兩 個 人 的 事 , 沒 有 人 能 為 他 們 講 說 話 , 只 是 大 家 真 的 很 關 心 Vivian , 擔 心 她 傷 心 , 同 時 為 她 不 值 才 聲 援 。 公 眾 七 嘴 八 舌 地 以 自 己 的 價 值 觀 , 提 出 意 見 和 看

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跑步者村上春樹


書名: 關於跑步,我說的其實是……
作者:村上春樹
出版:時報出版社

村上春樹之所以成為成功小說家,不只因為他勤力讀書,更重要的是他努力跑步。有想像過寫小說跟跑步的關係嗎?

1982年,三十三歲的村上春樹在東京

萬芳高中97團朗〈說話課〉

其實我只是想測測嵌入Youtube影片而已...


唔該幫我搬個行李篋上去丫

「唔該幫我搬個行李篋上去丫。」

「小姐,唔好意思呀,根據公司policy,係唔鼓勵我o地幫乘客搬行李o架。」

「我講緊呢個篋喎。」

「呢個呀!得得得得得。」















這個行李篋,多少個也沒問題,搬死我都沒所謂,你話我勢利也不拘

The source of spurious .rpmnew files

I wrote before about how updating RPMs wouldoccasionally leave .rpmnew files behind that were, in fact,identical to the normal version of the file. I believe that I nowunderstand what causes this and what's going on: I think it's anothermanifestation of the RPM multi-architecture file ownership problem .

The .rpmnew files are created when you update a package where you'vechanged one of its configuration files from the default version andthe package also includes a new version of the configuration file.


2008 台灣大學管樂團年度公演

2008 年 12 月 22 日(一) 19:30 /新舞台

傑格:高雅序曲
呂德:呂德第二組曲
酒井格:〈阿爾卑斯山花之盛宴〉
史戴奇利克:〈慶典〉
陳祖威:〈許願書〉handwriting( 詩:羅毓嘉/朗誦:金鼎

票價:100 元/兩廳院售票

黐線。點解要搞到咁。請大家幫忙。

馮炳德在皇后碼頭清場的時候,被警察踏裂胸骨,後來被控襲警,而且坐了幾個月(碰到警察的衣服也會導致襲警罪成的)。他被警察盯上,在爭普選遊行中,有警察插水,又屈佢襲警。實在難以忍受。偏偏失去了目擊證人的聯
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Comments and dialogues

As Author writes ,you don't strictly speaking need to have blog comments in order tohave a (blog) dialog.Well, sort of (at least in my opinion).One of the strong advantages of blog comments, and I think why would-becommentators keep asking for them, is that they are the easiest wayto make sure that the person who wrote the original entry sees yourreaction to their entry. Fairly often the primary audience for yourreaction is the original author, so not getting


是誰拍下了那些照片?

男人被拍下跟陌生女子接吻的照片時,已經醉得死去活來。

其實在派對之中,朋友的朋友和朋友的朋友互不相識,玩作一團,是很平常的事,反正這種酒後的胡鬧不過是刻板生活的小小放縱,誰都不會對這種事太認真。

因此,男