A peculiarity of hardware at universities
One of the peculiar things you find atuniversities (and probably almost nowhere else) is expensive hardwarewithout any sort of maintenance contract. This is usually not the resultof insanity combined with cheapness, but instead the result of companiesdonating hardware to researchers.
Computer makers love to donate hardware, because the cost to them isjust the manufacturing cost (at most), but they get credit (probablyincluding tax writeoffs) for the full list price, even if no one isactually buying the hardware at that price.
迷幻列車
One of the reasons I dislike SELinux
I have a fixed personal opinion that systems should not spew kernelmessages in the course of normal system operation, and especially notover the console. As I am busy finding out, yet again, SELinux failsthis test in at least some circumstances on Fedora Core 5.
(Possibly the circumstances were odd, since my FC5 install hadn'tmanaged to run the 'firstboot' stuff due to the un-upgraded X servercrashing on this machine's hardware. Still, I brought it up in a normal
在饑餓的時候工作
嘉賓：邱梓蕙
香港迪士尼一年生日，讓我們齊齊慶祝迪士尼負面新聞不斷，香港人對之保持清醒和尖酸。
明報今週又有「斑駁日常」，正摑著自己趕稿。下面貼出上個星期的三篇。
〈在獨居裡失去自己〉
脫期
前天哂完幸福，之後忙到甩碌，無法在周日完成星期三的專欄，今個星期要脫期了，有些事真是人算不如天算，如果在以前，昨日的情況下我會隨便寫一篇東西充數的，不過既然有一個系列，一來我不可以亂寫，二來也要顧及整
讀網
裝了計數器一星期，大約知道每日有多少人來看我的網誌，也大約知道讀者的年齡分佈。如果計數器的分析準確，我應該還掌握了每日最多人看的是哪個鐘頭。可能有人覺得這些數據沒有用，但這就是網誌跟報紙其中一個重要分
迷煙
兌換店被劫，店員說是中了迷煙，交出一百多萬，澳門一下子回到古代，打劫都如此文明且有效率，果然是與別不同。這個城市越來越光怪陸離， 可能稍後那些掌心雷、血滴子、隔空取物、破體無形劍氣都會陸續登場，簡直是現
My current view of Linux system filesystem sizes
Here's my current thoughts on how big system filesystems (or partitions,depending on what you like to call them) should be for new systems. Thisassumes that you have lots of disk space to play aroundwith.
Also, note that I run non stripped down Fedora Core systems; in fact, Ihave a tropism towards installing most everything in sight, just so Ihave its documentation handy in case I need to poke at it. A strippeddown system would fit in much, much less.
One
Why /var/log/btmp may be using up a lot of space in your /var
When I was looking around the /var on my Fedora Core 5 scratchmachine to see where all the disk space was being used as part of the last entry , I was startled to discoverthat /var/log/btmp was a 100M file (and by far the largest thing in /var/log ). This was a surprise to me, because I had never heard of thefile before.
It turns out that btmp is used to record bad logins (some of youare already wincing