變成「周摘」了，其實可以分開幾天來貼。不過事忙，越積越多~~
- Gmail Audio Player 原來加了個 player，可以即時網上收聽，不用save 來 save 去了
- Google’s MP3 Embeddable Player 可以直接在網頁使用 google 的 mp3 player
- GTDG mail 使用 gmail 來做 GTD (Getting Things Done) 工具的 Firefox extensions
- Google Base data API
More on the Solaris ssh stuff (part 3)
As an update on the Solaris ssh stuff and to sortof answer a question left in comments on here :
I brought another Solaris machine up to the current patchlevels today,which let me see what the current state of affairs is. The best answeris that it's confusing and not fixed yet.
- patch 112908-24 and 112908-25, the apparently bad versions of the'krb5 shared obj' patch, have been very thoroughly removed.
How not to get our business
From email sent to the University of Toronto's InterNIC WHOIS contactemail address recently, from one vals@capris.com:
Good evening,
Our site monitoring software has alerted us that someone from yourorganization was doing a search on Google.ca for "Toronto collocation"and you visited our site, [deleted].
I was just wondering if your search was successful and if we can helpyou with your current or future hosting or collocation needs?
[...]
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20060824網摘 – Google Base data api
Why I am irritated with evince
Evince is in general a nicePDF viewer (technically it supports other formats too), much nicer andfar less irritating than Adobe Acrobat. (For a start, evince actuallyquits when I click on the 'close window' button; Adobe Acrobat presumesthat I wanted it to clear the current document.)
The problems come in when I tried to do something besides view adocument. (Perhaps evince was jealous that I wasn't satisfiedwith it.)
First, evince silently aborts printing if I have it
An update on impending changes to access to Solaris patches
To update my earlier reporting , here'sthe current state, again as reported on the pca news page .
The new Sun access restrictions only apply to Solaris 10 (andanything Sun releases later). For Solaris 9 and earlier, Sun isn'tmaking any changes for patch access; anonymous access via pca continues to work. (I waswondering about that, since I have been too busy to get around togetting a Sun Online Account, yet my patch access was still fine.)
Since all
筆記《死亡筆記》
一.
初讀《死亡筆記》，竟然湧現殺人的念頭：走入一個魔幻的世界，殺人易如反掌，只要把名字寫在筆記上即可解決一個人，那分明是謊言，為什麼我們會相信？為什麼我們會讀得津津有味？
二
在《死亡筆記》裡，夜神月要用
接 Tag – 我的桌面
這幾天 bloglines 上出現很多不同 blogger 們的桌面。今次是接 Stannum 的 Tag:
OS為? Windows XP。留意桌面是 800*600，因為老舊 mon 用 1024*768 會閃得不舒服，所以我應該是少數還是用這麼低 resolution 的人吧？
這台是你的個人電腦？還是公司或家
Link: Csh Programming Considered Harmful
Tom Christiansen's Csh Programming Considered Harmful used to be postedto various Usenet comp.unix groups, nigh on ten years ago or so. Iconsider it sort of a pity that it isn't still being posted, becauseevery so often someone still decides that writing shell scripts in csh would be a good idea.
Some of the problems Christiansen identified have since been fixed bymodern versions of tcsh , but not all of them.
(The article can also serve as an interesting catalog of sh programming tricks.
fork(), wait(), and threads
Something I've discovered through (painful) experience is that threadedprograms cannot portably fork() in one thread and then wait() forthe forked process in another one.
This will work in some environments but fail explosively in others; theone I stubbed my toe on was a Linux 2.4 kernel based system (without NPTL , which is the usual state of affairsfor 2.4-based Linux distributions).
Admittedly, mixing threads and fork() is a bit perverse, butsometimes it