In Contrast: Interview in well-written English
Speak up against the odds
Natalie Wong
Bringing glamorous revenue or glory to TVB, the largest local television broadcaster, may be the goal for many of its artists, but a former Miss Hong Kong contestant chose to expose its dark side that the other 4,000 staff members dare not to touch on.
TVB's senior executives considered the young lady a
五個一夜情
盡興而回，但千萬別說再見。
從來沒有別的方式。
只可惜，我沒有成功抽身而退，總是一次又一次延續下去，最後註定落得傷心。
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Backups versus redundancy
By now, everyone knows that redundancy, for example RAIDed disks, isnot the same thing as backups (or at least I hope they do). But I thinkit's worthwhile to talk about why, and thus the fundamental differencebetween the two.
(Note that there are a lot of ways of getting redundancy, far beyondmere RAID. If you are a large operation like Google or a bank, you'reinterested in redundancy across systems and even data centers.)
The two are quite similar
記「路易威登：創意情感」觀後感
展覽不是展出LV 時裝手袋銀包. 路易威登堅持在場館放置歷年旅行手提箱, 以正視聽. 熱愛
What modern email is good for
Suppose that you are creating a service today. What can you reasonably andsensibly use email for, given modern email principles ?
My answer is that the only real use of email today is as a notificationsystem: you send your users email to tell them that there is somethingwaiting for them on your site (whether that is a message, a statechange, or whatever). This is a bit extreme, but I think it's thenecessary end result of the limits .
Since modern email is not reliable
An interesting bit of ssh and sshd behavior
We have a ssh keypair that's used to let an automated script have verylimited access to a remote system. As usual, we set up a whole hostof restrictions in the target account's authorized_keys ; we forcea specific command, we only accept the key from the host we expect itfrom, and we specify the whole raft of no-* options, including no-pty .The command that gets forced for this particular keypair reads variousthings that it needs from standard input (ie
The drawback of using a language with a good interface to the OS
Python generally has a great interface to Unix; through various modules(not just os , but also things like socket , select , and so on) itexposes almost all of the generally useful APIs and does so in a waythat is simultaneously Unixy and Pythonic. The best way of putting itis that everything just works, and just works the way you'd expect itto if you know the C-level API and Python.
(This is one reason that I have never been terribly energized aboutthe ctypes