華麗一族


近來追看日劇《華麗一族》( 華麗なる一族 ). 兩個年代的電視劇(74年和07年) , 以及電影版, 都是群星濟濟一堂. 想起美亞多年前曾推出74年電影版本VCD, 可惜沒有買來欣賞. 日本DVD公價折實要港幣400多元!

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The only way you can stop spam with money

The corollary of the funding capture issue isthat the only way for an anti-spam scheme involving money to work is forthe people receiving email to pay for it; only then are the economicinterests kept aligned. Naturally this is not very popular with peoplegetting spammed, which helps to explain the enduring popularity ofproposed schemes where someone else pays.

Unfortunately, this creates a perverse incentive that's familiarfrom the anti-virus world: if spam goes away, so do the anti-spamorganizations. Their


燈火欄珊處

燈火欄珊處

二月十四日,我過了一個難忘的情人節。你可能已經猜到這又是一個關於Philip的故事。Fine fine,我承認所有令我難忘的事,幾乎都與這個男人有關,但這可不代表我已忘了平安夜那天在他車上發現的女人頭髮。

自從《平安

心事

你知道嗎?

你是別人的一樁心事。

你以為他早早將心事包好,寄往很遠的地方,沒有return address。

日復一日,平靜如湖。

然後,終於,露了端倪。

你只能裝作甚麼都不知道,因為這不是一道選擇題。

平白錯過了的,就不再。

記得這句嗎

A weird routing mystery

Once upon a time, we had a machine that wound up with a default routethat pointed straight to the local network, basically what you'd get ifyou did route add default dev eth0 .

(Disclaimer: I have no idea if your system would actually accept that route command or if it would demand a gateway.)

That this worked to some degree is not too surprising in retrospect;there actually is a straightforward meaning to this, namely to arp for alldestinations on the local Ethernet, and that


情人節獻禮之黛玉小劇場!!

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在豆瓣看見有人貼《紅樓夢》




因為看《紅樓夢》時太小了,一直不覺得它是一個愛情故事,需知寶黛在第三回「林黛玉拋父進京都」,寶玉說「這位妹妹好生眼熟」暗示姻緣前定之後,就是一大串賈府故事,寶黛如何青梅
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和不太熟的人結婚 應該會很開心

前陣子朋友傳來張亞東版的〈只愛陌生人〉;想當年王菲推出《只愛陌生人》,我們粉絲都悽然,〈開到荼縻〉說一個一個偶像都不外如此、心有餘悸,〈催眠〉裡重覆的虛無,第一口蛋糕的滋味,第二口蛋糕的滋味。王菲是,

Why does anyone buy iSCSI TOE network cards?

We're (still) looking for a new SAN , so I haverecently been doing some work with a homebrew iSCSI testing environmentbuilt from ordinary servers. The experience leaves me with a simplequestion: why does anyone buy special iSCSI accelerator networkcards?

(These are sometimes called 'iSCSI HBA cards'.)

I ask because my ordinary test environment, with commodity server NICsand no tuning besides 9,000 byte jumbo frames, can basically saturategigabit Ethernet doing bulk reads over iSCSI. Through the


Heath Ledger的《Monster's Ball》



Heath Ledger走了, 留下19套電影. 在《斷背山》前, Heath Ledger還演過《孽愛傷痕》(Monster's Ball, 2001). 據說李安就是看了他《孽》片中的演出, 決定讓他飾演《斷背山》的Ennis. Heath Ledger在《孽》並不是主角, 出場約四分一時間, 便在影
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悲悼.憂鬱.工作狂

安撫寵物逝世的主人之彩虹橋網頁(rainbow bridge),列出悲悼(mourning)的五個階段:一、否認事實、自我孤立;二、因為無力而產生的憤怒(隱含罪疚);三、希望重掌主導權而討價還價;四、抑鬱(depression),因失去而悲傷和後悔,進而擔