Why you should always allow version 1 to be specified

This is one of those things that is easier to discuss in specific,so I want to say that I'm not picking on ZFS here. Well, not toomuch.

Like a number of other filesystems, ZFS has several different versions,with later ones adding new features not supported by earlier code;this change is marked with an on-disk version number. Sensibly, ZFSallows you to explicitly set the version of a new filesystem when youcreate it, so that you can use a new system but


Why syndication feed readers (and web browsers) should fail gracefully

There are two schools about dealing with errors in pseudo-XML formatslike syndication feeds and XHTML : strictfailure (the Firefox model, where the user gets a big BZZT dialog)and graceful failure (the Universal Feed Parser model, where you try toget as much as possible out of things). Which school is better is oneof those frequently argued things on the Internet.

(Yes, yes, theoretically both syndication feeds and 'XHTML' are real XMLand there is only one valid failure mode. This


[轉] 花旗銀行涉嫌挪用共享創意授權圖片

真要好好地教育一下這些商家… 另外,CCHK 其實也的確沒有能力幫大家打官司,她只是設立好法律條文讓你打官司時可以更有明確的理據,不過也許可以提供多一點資料,如被侵權的人應/可如何做?

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個景好靚啊!D燈打得好靚啊!
又一次幫電盈打工!

袁彌明十大港聞選「裸照風波」


明報超詳盡,大贊!

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經濟不景,不少機構都在明在暗開始裁員行動,最近都聽聞一些朋友突然被公司裁掉了,也有人因為所屬機構結束營業而無奈失業,在某個小圈子中形成傷感且恐怖的氣氛。

失業的恐怖,不在於三餐不繼,也不在於頓失地位,失


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她的一生



來得及. 今年是羅美雪妮黛 (Romy Schneider) 七十歲冥壽.

偶然重看《義薄雲天》(Once upon a time in America) 尾聲片段, 男主角重遇舊愛. 女主角的老相不是沒有說服力. 鬆馳的臉孔, 令我想起雪妮黛. 如果她能活多幾年, 會是何模樣? 以雪妮黛
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對科技的信念

最近一集的 Talkonly 請了一個在香港開 Startup 的 Ken 做嘉賓,他的 Startup 叫 Motherapp ,是用來幫人開發 iPhone 應用的。節目由 Startup 談到 IT 文化,討論了不少香港與外國之間的分別,例如香港 IT 從來不是一間公司的主角,很多時都是支援角色,西方則很多都視 IT


How Amanda uses what restore program to use, a correction

In AmandaRestorePrograms I wrote, about what to do if Amandadidn't recognize properly recognize which sort of dump program it had used to back up a filesystem:

  • put a ' restore ' program (either a cover script or just a symlinkto ufsrestore ) somewhere in our $PATH when we do Amanda restores.

Allow me to correct myself: this doesn't actually work as I wroteit. (When I wrote the original article, we hadn't had to actually testthis; we have since then.