Interesting things can happen when you scale things up

This is a sysadmin war story.

Once upon a time, there were a bunch of IMAP servers. Since this waslong ago, they were running Linux with the 2.4 kernel. They startedout storing their mail on locally attached 72 GB SCSI disks, organizedsimply with one ext2 filesystem per disk, but then they moved thestorage to a faster and more sophisticated SAN backend with RAID-10arrays (still on small fast enterprise disks), giving each server node asingle logical array (


A brief and jaundiced history of Unix packaging systems

In the beginning (in the days of V7 and BSD Unix), Unix systems cameas a great big tarball or the equivalent that included everything andyou just unpacked it onto your machine. If there were problems, peoplepassed around new versions of various bits of source in various ways;you got some, you put them on your system, you recompiled things, and soon.

Shortly after Unix vendors started selling Unix, they discoveredthat they needed some actual mechanism to deliver bugfixes andupdates to their customers


港版島耕作?

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三叔Book?之唔係Samsung都出e-Reader。

都是Kindle惹的禍。無錯,今次到三叔發威,Samsung剛剛公佈,今年他們將大規模加入e-Reader的戰場。

根據 官方網站 消息透露,Samsung即將推出的e-Reader,共有E6及E10兩款型號,熒幕大小分別為6″(US$399)和10″(US$69

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罪與罰

我喜歡首歌
更喜歡個歌名


自己的聲音

文字風格,首先要是自己的聲音;若見到某人的風格獨特有吸引力,便硬去模仿,不顧是否合乎自己的性情,就算寫得似是那種風格,也會寫得很辛苦。

我曾寫過以下一段文字:

今早一覺醒來張開雙眼,莫名其妙地提不起半點勁

新一輪標籤

這個世界動不動就會標籤人,也動不動就會抗議標籤效應,好像兩父子帶著一頭驢,騎不是,走不是,唯有抬起驢子一起掉進河,不太聰明的群眾,受制於自作聰明的小眾,愚昧地在各個不充份的理由之間擺來擺去,成為香港時

點解Nexus One未出街就會咁多人開始講?

https://www.google.com/phone

「點解Nexus One未出街就會咁多人開始講?」

所以,我不打算湊熱鬧加多兩咀了,好吧好吧,加多一咀便算。

從前一般大廠出新機,例牌首先三緘其口故作神秘,然後等到時機成熟時,才於同一時間,然後以


主持人: 蕭定一, 袁彌明 主題: 大娛樂家-(第81集)


2010-01-06
主持人: 蕭定一, 袁彌明
主題: 大娛樂家-(第81集)

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親愛的大國元首,你們想成為千古罪人嗎?

事前,不少朋友都對這12天哥本哈根世界氣候大會心存希冀,盼192個國家的代表能拼棄一己私慾,眾志成城,為全球減少溫室氣體排放達成共識,分工合作。

峰會期間,綠色和平除了全程在網上直擊外,更推出了這一個系

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