The elements of fileserver infrastructure

As I sort of mentioned in an aside in the last entry , pretty much any sort of fileserverinfrastructure does a number of other things besides just servingfiles. In turn this means that hooking a machine into your fileserverenvironment generally involves a lot more than just some mount commands.

For the purposes of this entry, let's ignore all of the services thatonly care about the fileservers themselves; backup, monitoring, and soon. We'll only look at the services that a client has to be tied


幾時.... (part one)



朋友們都關心我幾時結婚. 我說: 我也不知道.
同居跟結婚生活大概沒兩樣.
還未有打算生仔, 何以趕著結婚.
快30歲, 怎麼沒有生仔的念頭?
實情是:還未找到適合的房子.

剛剛在灣仔置業, 但那是個小單位, 一房一廁, 不
Modern Beach House With White Exterior Paint
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錢穆的邏輯

隨手翻開錢穆的《湖上閒思錄》,看到〈陰與陽〉一篇,只第一段就很不順眼:「陰陽是兩相對立,同時並起的。若必加分別,則應該是陰先陽後。讓我們把男女兩性來講,男女異性似乎是兩相對立,同時並起的。但照生物進化

iphone camera

iphone為什麼可以大賣,當你擁有了,你就知道了。

apple為iphone創造了一種超強的盈利模式,為世界帶來了就的商業平台。

在iphone上設計一個軟件給人下載,收入遠超以往的軟件零售市場。iphone的使用者,最少都有2000多萬,你把軟件放


印度政壇風雲錄《Raajneeti》


政治是骯髒的 . 為政者必須心狠手辣 . 這些在《 Raajneeti 》一一兌現.

我對印度政治認識有三: 一. 小學時代, 從電視機得知前印度總理 拉吉夫‧甘地 (Rajiv Ghandi) 被行刺炸死; 二. 尼赫魯 -甘地家族 (Nehru Gandhi Family) 是印度最具影響力的政治世
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The advantages of separate machines for separate things

Sometimes it seems that system administration goes in cycles. Right nowthe cycle is moving back towards consolidation of services on fewermachines, so I want to talk about the advantages of using separatemachines (whether virtual or physical) for different services, insteadof putting them all on the same machine with various degrees of clevertricks.

(The genesis of this entry was a comment on this entry , talking about how one could use onemachine instead of two to do the job I was tackling.)

First off, it


硬要輸下去

我教哲學導論時,會間中和學生玩遊戲,以增加他們的學習興趣。以下這個就很好玩:

我拿出一張十元美鈔,叫學生競投,由二十五美分(one quarter)起價,每一次叫價加二十五美分,價高者得。假如學生甲叫到三元時便沒有人出價

Vitamin

"Should I give my baby a few supplemental drops of vitamin D?" my sister asked me about the vitamins missing from breast milk. "The American Academy of Pediatrics said so."

"Though it may seem right for you to follow their recommendation," I murmured, not that enthusiastic, "it's optional in my personal opinion." There's really no scientific basis why I came to such conclusion. I have to admit it.

The simplest explanation would be that we're often bombarded

在地獄裏



是日賤精對話

「我飲紅酒一定要飲過千蚊嘅,如果唔係會唔舒服。」

「超~~~ 咁我可唔可以講,住一千呎以下嘅屋我會心胸狹窄?」

「.......................」

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「呢隻十字牌脫脂奶好難搵到嚟買。」