One problem with the files-in-directory approach to configuration

Over the past while, there's been a definite pattern in Linux softwareof moving from a single monolithic configuration file (or a controlfile) to a configuration that is created by scanning a directoryand looking for eligible files. From a packaging system and systemmanagement perspective, there is a lot to recommend this approach;it makes it much easier for packages and sysadmins to add and removeelements to the configuration.

However there is a drawback to this approach as commonly implemented,which is handily illustrated by Ubuntu 1


iphone app Polarize

Polarize 是一個在iphone 3g 年代就出現的一個攝影app,功能很簡單,把想片拍成寶麗萊的風格。不知為什麼,現在已不能下載了,很奇怪。幸好一早儲存在itune中,到現在用iphone 4還可以用。

就是最左上角的那一個app,還是免費的呢,開發者

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With love......From the Age of Reason("穿梭少女夢") ------ 主旨不錯,片子普通!
























Film : L'âge de raison (France) (2010)
Director : Yann Samuell
Cast : Sophie Marceau, Marton Csokas, Michel Duchaussoy
Duration : 90 mins

1. 當然是為了看芳芳蘇菲瑪素啦,此片難得可以見到她的素顏,不過個髮型就好麻麻!
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Iphone 4 玩photo app上癮

中毒了,中毒了,IPHONE 4可以用到更多的apps,所以下載了一大堆,包括別人推薦的,和一些收費的。

總結一下,現在iphone中,近八成的app都是攝影的。像一個人拿著上百台的相機出街一樣,拍攝的效果可以產生驚人的變化,想要玩得

張相片
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古董書之幽情

我有一本哲學書,雖無古董的價值,但我已當它是古董書,因為那是在1871年印刷的,距今已幾乎一百四十年了,那時還是清朝同治年間,光緒皇帝也正是這年出世的。

這是 John Stuart Mill 那部影響深遠的名著 On Liberty ,嚴復譯為《群己

The danger of having system programmers around, illustrated

My little issue the other day with DTrace makes a nice illustration of a variantof programmer laziness . As I sortof alluded to in the entry, although DTrace's function tracing limitationis documented, I didn't actually find it by reading the documentation.Instead I found it the hard and indirect way, by being a systemprogrammer.

When I ran into a kernel function that DTrace couldn't trace, I woundup:

  • using the Solaris kernel debugger to verify that the function wasactually present in the

飲食戰爭

食自助餐,就等如用行動表達一種態度︰「別蝕底」。這是一場戰爭,在手袋放好的一刻,我們就要盡所有能力,食最貴最好最多的食物,當我們感到回本,以後就是勝利的光榮,這亦是停戰的唯一條件。最好飽到辛苦,才是最

I'm (almost) Drupal 7... and so should you!

I've now created three different Drupal 7 sites, and I can heartily state that I'm pleased with where the community has come in the past couple of years—especially from a UX perspective (the admin overlay has actually turned out to work VERY well across all the browsers I use). I will be posting more impressions of Drupal 7 from a themer's perspective in the coming weeks (check out an older post on D7 theming here ).

I'm going to attempt an upgrade of


一日未死,一日仍有運行

我從沒想過原來避孕套有這個用途。舊老闆Lawrence 約了我和Sam 到Mandarin 吃飯。

Lawrence 這種退了休的富貴阿伯,家住山頂天天對無敵海景發呆,悶到抽筋,跟我們這些後生仔女埋堆保持心境青春,好過打botox。

關於避孕套的話題,源於Sam 看了電

[音樂]-林生祥:大地書房(The Land is My Study)

【大地書房】

2010 年,在鍾理和文教基金會的邀請下,林生祥將自己農村的日常與鍾理和的文學場景及題材連結,以歌謠的形式探索,與四位南方作家:鍾鐵民、鍾鐵鈞、曾貴海、鍾永豐,共同改編、重寫、再生鍾理和的文