道長得道之前

梁文道是中港台文化界的紅人,雖不算文采燦然,下筆大多清通多姿;他的文章見解獨到、題材多樣,從政治、時事、社會現象到電影、音樂、飲食和讀書心得,長寫長有,而且能保持水準,更難得的是字裏行間透發出的誠意。

Another demonstration of SSL Certification Authority (in)competence

Every so often, another SSL CA provides a demonstration that they arerun by baboons, and not very smart ones at that. Past demonstrationshave involved security, or the lack of it ; the currentone involves terrible business practices, which is arguably worse (atleast in terms of how large a failure it is).

Put simply, the current root CA certificate for ipsCA expires onDecember 29th. This will orphan and invalidate all SSL certificatessigned (directly or indirectly) with it, which is almost


冬風冬意艷煞人–驚艷的Hermès櫥窗裝置

絕對就是驚艷,我找不到另一個更恰切的詞彙來形容這個櫥窗裝置,不,這根本超越了一個櫥窗裝置的界限,這已經是一件藝術品,你更可視之為品牌營銷的一部份,這個年代,任你多賣多兩個Print Ad或拍多兩條TVC,相信也未必及

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Lady First 專欄(69)- 等待愛情

好多嘢可以用錢解決到,好多事可以憑努力去成就出嚟,但係,愛情係唯一嘅例外。

錢買佢唔到,努力亦唔係大晒,愛情唔肯現身,你做咩都冇用。

除咗求上天跌一位愛人俾自己,仲可以做啲咩呢?

只有等待,唯有等待。

同時,

Pi

Recent reading the novel Life of Pi brings back my overseas training memories that are engraved in a way I know will never fade.

Yann Martel's Life of Pi chronicles the tale of a 16-year-old Indian boy moving to Canada. One time, during my training in Montreal eight years ago, I started reading this novel, and never got the chance to finish it before coming back. I know I won't remember the story and will have to go back to page one again.

Wait

聖誕剪報

趁聖誕佳節, 心血來潮找出多年前在『公信力第一報』上剪回來保存的玩具剪報. 刊登日期是1993年12月26日前後.


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啖蟹、品酒、聽雨聲

妻兒出外幾天,只剩我一個人在家,像這樣的,上一次已是五年前的事了。有家的人,即使是個溫暖的家,應該也會享受這種間中和短暫的孤獨吧。

今天早上和下午都在批改學生的期終論文,其實絕不是享受。這次要學生寫的是

打我?未驚過!

Bernice從英國回港度聖誕,竟然約我出來晚飯。Frankly,I'm surprised。我從沒料到她會找我。畢竟,我們是翻過臉的,即使那已是中學時代的事。那時候,我們在學校裏就像糖黐豆,幾乎每個weekend都一起騎馬。然後有天,說翻臉就翻臉!Well of

How not to set up your DNS (part 20)

I call this one the case of the non-redundant redundant MX; it's muchlike the first time except more thorough:

; sdig mx mumble.utoronto.ca.0 mail.mumble.utoronto.ca.0 jackson.mumble.utoronto.ca.5 mail.mumble.utoronto.ca.; sdig a mail.mumble.utoronto.ca.128.100.X.Y; sdig a jackson.mumble.utoronto.ca.128.1

Do you have a network layout diagram?

Here's a not entirely hypothetical question: suppose that your machinesare coming up after a building-wide power outage, except that ascattering of them (on various different networks) are either not up ornot reachable. Could you look at what machines are failing to appear andidentify whether there's likely to be a switch that's failed, and if so,where that switch would be?

(This happened to us yesterday. There was some confusion, because guesswhat we don't have