飲番杯冰凍啤酒……..

來到東京,我暫且要將釣魚台、三年零八個月、南京大屠殺等等國仇家恨拋諸腦後,因為看見的諸多事物與等等細節,都一一教我立即愛上。

沒辦法,飯,還是人家的較香。

沒十年,也起碼有八載沒來過日本。我不是購物狂,也


耐人尋味


放了幾天假

今日才認真讀報

在"明報"A6版讀到這則廣告

真不知道43年296日後那位何老先生看了廣告有何感想

世事紛擾

每個人都有自己的故事

謹以這則耐人尋味的廣告作為豬年的開端

Getting around LiveJournal's new minimum page width

LiveJournal recently started forcing at least some pages,such as the default style for individual entries , to have a minimum width.Worse, the forcing is done in such a way that text is wrapped to thewidth even if your browser is narrow, which makes the pages prettyunreadable. I noticed this change right away, because they picked aminimum page width that was somewhat larger than the width my browser isbasically fixed at.

Today I got irritated enough to do something about it. First I had tofind what


關於空姐的十個謬誤

1. 空姐搵好多錢。(以前,OK啦。宜家入職o既... 陰公豬囉。當然,我都唔明點解咁多同事有錢帶Rolex同Cartier返工。空姐既工作性質,隻錶唔只會撞花,係會撞得爛ga wor。)

2. 空姐係化妝同護膚高手。(呢兩樣o野,係嗜好

RHETORICAL PAIN賀年套裝

在家裡偶然看重播到甩色的《賭俠》。在那個衣冠不整恕不招待的賭場,周星馳用塊紙板畫條呔攝在衣服裡面,坐下來道:「係都要人地打呔喎。(除下紙板寬容晒)俾幾包煙仔唔該!」

雖然對賭戲裡的女性還是太難認同,而且

Another aphorism of system administration

Noticing when something shows up is easy; detecting when it goes awayis hard.

Like all aphorisms, this has exceptions. And if you want to see it thatway, it's a corollary of an earlier aphorism .

(An aphorism brought to mind as I contemplate our DHCP configurationfiles and wonder just how many of those Ethernet addresses are currentlymouldering in a dump somewhere.)


What I currently know about Fibrechannel versus iSCSI versus AoE

We're planning a significant capacity increase for our local SANstorage pool, which means that we've been trying to figure out whichSAN technology we want to go with. We don't have high performance IOneeds, so we're going for bulk storage: large SATA disks in RAID 5 insome sort of SAN RAID controller. We plan to use Solaris 10 on x86for our NFS servers that will use the SAN, with DiskSuite forfailover. DiskSuite has to own full disks


太空漫遊之旅

Star Gate

多得《基地》系列,上一年很多經典科幻作品也重出江湖,我本身不是好讀小說的人,但也因此而看了不少。其中 Arthur C. Clarke 的「太空漫遊」系列更是一次過四本再出:《2001》、《2010》、《2061》和《3001》


Weekly spam summary on February 17th, 2007

This week, we:

  • got 15,925 messages from 244 different IP addresses.
  • handled 23,465 sessions from 1,341 different IP addresses.
  • received 244,268 connections from at least 75,016 different IPaddresses.
  • hit a highwater of 16 connections being checked at once.

This is about the same as last week .The per day figures show some significant fluctuations:

DayConnectionsdifferent IPs
Sunday36,6

Why we do NFS fileserving with a SAN

Our storage infrastructure here has a number of NFS servers sittingin front of a pool of SAN RAID storage boxes using commodity SATAdisks. This is a somewhat unusual setup for a comparatively smallenvironment like ours; a far more common setup is to have the disksdirectly attached to the fileservers.

We have a SAN setup for a simple reason: failover between the NFSserver machines . We consider the server machines to be the things mostlikely to suffer failures, either hardware or software, or just to needdowntime. With