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Linda從英國回港，對我來說是天大的事，原因是她堅持要住在我的家，害我足足花了兩星期去執拾房子。
能夠令我Daisy心悅誠服的女人，世間沒有幾個，Linda肯定是其中之一。單是以九十高齡乘坐十三小時飛機而面不改容，已教我佩
I just rebooted and recovered one of our Linux machines that had hit apanic and then locked up in an endless cycle of ' soft lockup detectedon CPU #0 ' reports. I did all of this from home, through the magic of aserial console, a console server, and Linux's magic SysRq key support.And as far as I'm concerned, one of the best things about this is thatit took hardly any bandwidth and no Java .
(While I'm currently on DSL at
One of the important things about fighting spam, one that may not beimmediately obvious, is that there is no free lunch. Fighting spam cancost in the risk of false positives, or it can cost in people's time(sometimes you can spend money instead), but it always costs; youjust decide where you will pay the price.
(There are many ways that it can cost in people's time; for example,putting together and managing a spam filtering system. As illustratedhere,
這是一溝絕望的死水，
清風吹不起半點漪淪。
不如多扔些破銅爛鐵，
爽性潑你的賸菜殘羹。
也許銅的要綠成翡翠，
鐵罐上銹出幾瓣桃花，
再讓油膩織一層羅綺，
黴菌給他蒸出些雲霞。
讓死水酵成一溝綠酒，
飄滿了珍珠似的白沫；
I recently migrated a fairly important chunk of our mail service from anold mailer on an old server to a new mailer on a new server. It wasn'ta simple process, as it involved moving data from the old server to ourSAN, updating all sorts of configurations, changing scripts, and variousother things. But I managed to do it smoothly, with only one or twomoments of panic, and one of the big reasons for this is I made adetailed checklist .
Well before I started the
星期日到珠海買書，回澳排隊過關時遇上一個打尖的老婦人，婦人極老，是那種老得腰也無法挺直的年紀，她拖着一輛載了兩大箱貨物的行李車，大抵是靠運送貨物往返珠澳兩地維生的人，這“行業”在拱北關興盛了許多年，我