How not to set up your DNS (part 11)

Presented in the traditional illustrated form:

; dig +short ns hinet.net.tw.reg.hinet.net.tw.www.hinet.net.tw.hinet.net.tw.

This looks good, except for the fact that they all have the sameIP address, 210.65.1.231. You would think that a large TaiwaneseISP would be able to afford more than one DNS server, but perhapsthey're too busy beefing up their network


那裡有壓迫 那裡就有反抗

近期迷了這個歌喎「那裡有壓迫 那裡就有反抗 」(radioblog=>resistance)
北京樂隊= 痛苦的信仰
講多無謂聽歌啦

寫給童年的自己

在“香港仔公國”看到關於“寫給童年的自己”的小廣告,覺得得意就寫了,寫完覺得仲得意。如果你覺得好玩,歡迎你也寫一篇,如果你不介意,留個言讓大家去看啦!


9歲的寂然小朋友:

很奇怪吧,你為什麼會叫做寂然呢?

零座標的疆域






「如果在地文化已變成一種模糊的指涉,作為文化表徵之一的藝術創作領域中,創作者將如何處理自己身份的問題,進而透過創 作,體現並釋放蘊含其中的慾望與能量?這種對於身份的想像是值得思考的,因為當人們面對作品時

How not to set up your DNS (part 10)

This one is a close variation of HowNotToDoDNSIX , but it earns extrapoints for making the reverse error from a common one. Presented insemi-illustrated format:

; dig +short ns system-bank.net.dns01.system-bank.net.dns02.system-bank.net.

(At this point I will pause to note that dns01.system-bank.net anddns02.system-bank.net have the same IP address, 218


Most new products are upgrades

Most new products are upgrades of old ones. I don't mean in the senseof upgrade sales (although that too), but in terms of the code they'rebuilt from; they are revisions of existing codebases, not freshlywritten from scratch.

This has extremely rational economic and developmentreasons, as articulated by Joel Spolsky amongothers; there is a lot of money and value in existing codebases. Butignoring all the arguments about cost and captured knowledge and soon, there's another big reason


不是廣告blog

在我家附近有個 「農墟」 是賣有機農產品的,每星期日開檔9am-5pm(除了第一個星期)。如果知道星期一二都在家食飯我都盡量幫襯一下這些有機菜的,也因為有機菜的成本高所以價格也會高一點,但問題正是越少人幫襯,

狼羊物語 – 撲朔迷離

stormy night

都說純真早已消逝,我看《狼羊物語》時,就是不能當成是簡單的「友情歲月」故事,總是胡思亂想。

《狼羊物語》設定了一個很有趣的題目:一隻狼 (卡夫) 與一隻羊 (阿咩) 在誤打誤撞下成為好友。他們要面對的,不單單是


貼貼貼(或,括號何以必要?)

"It grieves me much, " replied the Peer again,
"Who speaks so well should ever speak in vain."
—— Alexander Pope, " The Rape of the Lock"

(這是一個反諷[irony]的經典例子。但我不知道在剪在這裡是否作為反諷。)

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(這段詩如果抄在後兩篇引文的旁邊,就構成

Finally, a good reason to periodically reboot servers

Recently, we had an interesting fire drill that actually winds up beingthe first decent argument for periodically rebooting good servers thatI've seen.

We have a number of very important servers, the kind of importantservers that are active all the time and that have their downtimescarefully scheduled well in advance. Recently, we (and by this I mean 'aco-worker') had to patch the OS on a couple of them in the pack. Thiswent fine.

As part of patching the OS,