Why there's a bunch of spam from university webmail systems right now

You may have noticed that as of late there's a bunch of spam (usuallyadvance fee fraud spam) coming from various university webmail systems.(When it has real IP origin information, it is often from the usualsuspects.)

Until now, I thought that this was because spammers had workedout how to compromise webmail systems. It turns out that it isworse than that; phishers are specifically targeting universities.And these are not your run of the mill ordinary phish attacks,where you get email about


現代的表層

澳門是一個現代城市嗎?
澳門是一個得天獨厚的城市,擁有舉世知名的賭博龍頭行業,新建的酒店一間比一間瑰麗,澳門半 島的海岸線盡是高樓,澳氹之間有三條宏偉的跨海大橋,路氹新城的金光大道更日漸成形,不久之後我們

都會三角錯《Kal Ho Naa Ho》



《Kal Ho Naa Ho》(Tomorrow May or May Not Be, 2003) 正值Saif Ali Khan和Priety Zinta當旺時推出 (Priety Zinta更贏得Filmfare最佳女演員獎項), 反而SRK聲勢稍微滑落. 也難怪, NRI題材很難取悅一般觀眾, 除非是NRI (Non Resident Indians, 海外印度僑民) 觀眾群. 說實話, 《Kal

An alternate take on availability numbers

The usual way of presenting availabilitynumbers is to cover how much (or how little) downtime you have per year.As another way of understanding them, let's turn that around and ask howmuch less downtime you have as you move from one availability level to ahigher one.

90% to 99%two hours less in a day
almost 33 days less a year
99% to 99.9%three days less in a year
99.9% to 99.

保安

我本身並不討厭保安,在時代廣場也見過一邊執行任務一邊叫人join我地跳大繩的保安叔叔,但以下所見的保安並不是那麼可愛。


(4月7日《蘋果日報》)
與本土行動衝突後扮不適
保安屈人過程被攝錄   片段上載YouTube


【本 報 訊 】銅鑼

明日的記憶


我的祖母患上老人痴呆症已經有十多年,我對這種病一直有不一樣的感覺。

我少年時期曾跟祖母天天見面,一起工作,在我印象中,她是一個極精明的女人,她會做生意,她可以背出"古文觀止"和"唐詩三百首"的任何篇章,

Get statistics

Here is one of the best things you can do to improve your ability tofind and fix problems:

Get statistics .

Over and over I have seen statistics be a big part of solving problems.Not infrequently they are a big part in identifying the problems;sometimes having a reliable way of telling whether the problem ishappening or not is half the battle.

(There is a world of difference between 'sometimes the NFS fileserversare slow' and 'sometimes the new RAID controller has average IO servicetimes of over a


離港數天,回到家中,當然有好事發生 —— 我的Mint雪紡上衣,衫身短了兩吋,衣袖短了吋多,更變成了長短袖。

夠不夠諷刺?一個腰傷久久不癒,已經像半殘廢的人,再穿上這件上衣,可以扮演傷殘乞丐去行乞了。

每次,都會千

The problem with PID files

The problem with PID files is that while you can use a PID to verifythat your daemon isn't running, you can't use it alone to verify thatyour daemon is in fact present. You have to use other mechanisms, liketrying to communicate with it, to verify that whatever has the PIDactually is your daemon, instead of something that has inherited thePID.

Most of the time the risk that people think about with this is PIDrollover: your daemon dies, the system churns through tens


親情大過天《Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham...》(K3G)


印度人注重親情, 大部份電影都滲入許多倫常道理, 教識觀眾百行考為先. 《 Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... 》(K3G, "Sometimes Happiness, Sometimes Sadness") 的導演Karan Johar (《Om Shanti Om》的頒獎典禮司機) 借戲向他的祖父母致敬, 是一套印地版《真情》.

Rahul (SRK)
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