How I run two Firefoxes at once and still have remote control

Given how Firefox remote control works on Unix , you might wonder how I routinely run twoseparate copies of Firefox and still have my remote control environment work reliablyenough that I haven't pitched one of the copies out the window long ago.

In theory, the answer is Firefox's -no-remote argument. In practicethis doesn't work quite the way you want it to. The problem is that aFirefox instance run with -no-remote will still register itself as avalid target for remote


認識你,真好! –《山楂樹之戀》

《山楂樹之戀》的愛情台詞摘錄 ( 原著小說作者: 艾米)

關於老三和靜秋的愛情故事。

請忘記《英雄》,《十面埋伏》及《滿城盡帶黃金甲》,張藝謀先生,我就是喜歡看《山楂樹之戀》– 喜歡它的老套及純良。電影由艾米原著

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光影情事

( 原刊 AV Magazine 29-10-2010)

人生音像城

光影情事

( 鳴謝 Edward Ching 摘錄的金句 )

在導演姜秀瓊、關本良的《乘著光影旅行》紀錄片中,看到一位謙謙君子,熱愛工作的藝術家–李屏賓。

因為年青時看侯孝賢的電影,開始喜歡李


娛樂學生

早兩天在知識論堂上講到illusion這個概念時,向學生表演了一個紙牌魔術,以作為illusion的現場例子。今天在哲學導論堂上解釋inference to the best explanation時,又表演了一次,以說明選擇explanation時(例如解釋那紙牌魔術的效果)應該用一些甚麼標準。哲學導

$300換來的小奢華—-香港美酒佳餚巡禮

實不相瞞,對於品酒,我只是略有經驗,那些品酒術語,什麼丹寧、回味、酒體或辛辣等等一大堆,我都只是知其名不大知其意。

但正所謂「貴有貴派頭、平有平享受」,一杯在手、來點芝士或麵包小吃,再加上三五知己一起把

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A very convenient trick: having a testing browser

One of the little peculiarities of my personal environment is that Iactually use two different copies of Firefox at once. Well, sort of.What I have is my regular Firefox and a separate 'testing' instance.

There are two important configuration differences between the instances.First, the testing instance uses a standard version of Firefox, insteadof my usual self-compiled and custom-hacked version. Second, it isconfigured to clear all 'history' when Firefox exits, thereby flushingbrowsing history, the cache,


還是柔弱一點數

有個相士告訴我,男人在辦公桌放些家庭照,對事業運很有幫助。女人在辦公桌放家庭照,等於叫老闆「唔好升我」。


Well,這裡有點心理學,有點社會學,相士都是社會學家。讓我Daisy 來說明一下吧,道理非常簡單:家庭照有助男

Rolleiflex 2.8E 首航+ REDSCALE

張相片

ROLLEIFLEX 2.8e 以成萬元收入,貴是貴的,但配件算是齊備。此機在試機的時候所有快門都沒問題的,不知是不是放了點時日,幾星期前帶他出航的時候,竟然發現1秒,1/2秒,1/4秒是壞了的。唉,有點年代的東西,就是麻

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有趣設計收集

生活創意設計

堆起來的杯子,其實就只有一隻杯。 運用視覺錯覺的設計

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Calpurnia

The stories of au pair taking care of kids have formed a genre of their own in Hong Kong.

Too often, the working parents – me included – are hiring domestic maids to look after children at a very young age. As is often the case, the children spend more time with the maid than the parents, whether we admit it or not. While much has been written about the proper way to wean a child from the breast or bottles, neither Dr. Spock nor the parenting guidebook What to Expect the