Why organizations buy software from commercial companies

One of the things that you hear over and over again is thatorganizations, including universities, often prefer to buy commercialsoftware instead of using open source (or building somethingthemselves). Often the ostensible reason is that when you buy from acompany, there is a legal entity that will provide support, or be heldaccountable when something doesn't work, or the like, and open sourcedoesn't have that.

System administrators often find this laughable, peculiar, andidiotic, and cannot understand why the


女傭的精神力量

文化界要求原地保留皇后碼頭
聯署名單(截至四月十九晚午夜,週末截止,大家請快!)

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A thought about attitudes towards support requests

I would feel a lot more positive about vendorsupport if I didn't wind up wanting to grindmy teeth most times I had to interact with it. And one of the mostteeth-grinding aspects of it is the almost invariable feeling that thevendor support people are interacting with me not to solve the problembut to pawn me off with some (formulaic) answer.

One of the most glaring ways that this shows up is the generalassumption by front line support people that I don't actually have a


囈語

凌晨三點半
失眠作感冒
太太出外公幹
突然有一種很可憐的感覺

深夜讀《沈從文家書》遇上這一段
“我行過許多地方的橋
看過許多次數的雲
喝過許多種類的酒
卻只愛過一個正當最好年齡的人”
真是浪漫到不行

另外讀到沈從文在《抽

苦心經營的Mary

我不美麗,一點都不。

我只不過是個在大多男人眼中有sex appeal像個女人的女人。

除了一把像173熱線的聲音,所擁有的天賦寥寥無幾。

其他的,都需要苦心經營。

我不懂得好好做良家婦女,所知的,該是如何作一個稱職的Mary。

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An advantage of CSS layouts for accessibility

One of the charms of blogging is that you get to make mistakes inpublic. So, I'll start off by saying that I have to retract some of whatI said in CSSvsTables , because a CSS column-based layout can be moreaccessible than a table-based one in some situations.

This is because one important part of accessibility is putting theimportant or changing content first in your raw HTML, and yournavigation and other boring stuff second (so that screen readers andother things that more or less


真的可以有不生病的生活嗎?

雖然我一副殘樣,但託賴,平時實在仍算少生病,大病不用說,平日置身感冒重災區的辦公室,都不常中招,一年內,頂多一兩次小感冒吧。

但近月來,覺得自己的身體開始變得虛弱,精神不振,通一次頂,累足一星期。胃口又


文化界。皇后碼頭。

(名單更新見文末)

「文化人」或「文化界」,這個詞語的模糊和尷尬,像我這種年資學問還得浸淫、但又不時曝光的過河卒仔,感受格外深切。地位尊崇的人也許少遇上、不在意或不便說。在於鄙人,大多數時候,都是被帶著

立此存照



因為受到廿九几中人唆擺(其中最落力的是最不打扮的江康泉!),而且嚮往一種身心脫離的狀態,我今日,炸左個頭。直髮冷靜的樣子暫告一段落,而剛電好之後,那殺氣再濃重了許多,可稱兇狠版的曹汶。以後都不會有人說

文明單位

文明單位: 樂生
嘉賓:agatha、 李智良

做節目前充料,江記買了西米布甸問我吃不吃,我說扭過頭去把臉指給他看,說我而家喊緊好唔得閒。樂生的事,怎麼能不流眼淚呢。然而流眼淚,乃是因為看見有些煽動人民內部矛盾的惡行、