Universities are not businesses: an implication
Part of the peculiarities of the university environment is that universitiesare not businesses. Well, yes, of course. But consider one of theimplications: universities do not directly make money.
In a company, you can justify a more expensive thing on the groundsthat it never the less makes the company more money, either directlyor indirectly (through increased productivity, for example). Because acompany makes money, what matters is not the absolute expense but theprofit/expense ratio.
(It matters so much that
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Weekly spam summary on July 21st, 2007
This week, we:
- got 12,549 messages from 259 different IP addresses.
- handled 19,129 sessions from 1,520 different IP addresses.
- received 291,606 connections from at least 79,247 different IPaddresses.
- hit a highwater of 8 connections being checked at once.
Connection volume is up pretty noticeably from last week . Connection volume fluctuated overthe map over the week:
| Day | Connections | different IPs |
| Sunday | 31, |
可以有多少個人生
手上有條片子，但太大了無法放上YOUTUBE；大家如果可以，就看看能不能趕上星期六晚那場。我是看不到周某打鼓的了，不過他們星期六晚在十點收隊之後，還會到皇后開P，大家自備酒水，一起去吧。
圖：莫言。sorry，小氣。
關於蒼蠅
有些人總是需要通過否定他人，來肯定自己工作的價值。 一邊飾演孤立無援的勇士，一般紥作稻草人冷嘲熱諷；一邊罵人一邊說要大家攜 手；受指責時就反問「除了我的態度之外還有冇實際野講？
澳門書展活動推介：《新生代》雜誌的中學生閱讀習慣調查發布會
澳門的年輕人還看書嗎？他們在看什麼書？他們喜歡什麼作家？
《新生代》早在數年前就計畫進行這個調查，後來因為種種原因，這計畫一直延後。最初，我們的動機很單純：因為鄰近地區不時發表一些有關當
Clubbing partner 與 Clubbing partner 的對話
「So？我幾時缺乏過dating？我一年date過既，隨時多過人一世。」
「但你係拍唔成 ... ... 都有d奇。」
「所以隨緣啦。」
「好難想像你會single。講真，如果唔識你既話，覺
The downside of a unified buffer cache
When vendors started releasing Unix systems with a unified buffercache , people discovered that the new operatingsystem releases tended to perform not so well under load. Generallywhat happened is that programs got paged out madly, so any time youtyped a new command line in your shell session there was a great biglurch as your shell was paged back in and then the program startedand so on, and by the time you got back to your shell it had pagedout again.
The underlying problem is that processes can use up
