The problem with the OpenSolaris source repository

It's nice that Sun has provided the OpenSolarissource in the form of a VCS repository , but inmany ways it's not terribly useful. The problem with it is that theOpenSolaris repo is not a working repository.

By that I mean that it is not what the Sun developers actually workin; instead it is essentially a series of code snapshots convertedto a repository. It's nice that we get a sequence of snapshots ina convenient form, and it's nice that it happens relatively


The mixed directory/unrelated files VCS problem

To follow up an earlier entry , one might sensibly askwhat the problem is with using a modern, whole-directory version controlsystem on a directory full of unrelated files, the classical examplebeing /etc .

What you effectively have in this situation is a directory with multiple'modules' (files and groups of files) that are logically separate andindependent from each other. As they're separate modules, these filesusually evolve and are developed at least somewhat independently.Putting all of these files into a single


理解語言

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Lady First 專欄 (67) - 尋找有帽長身衛衣的故事

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佢知道自己一身打扮同街上嘅其他潮童、型人好唔match,甚至連佢身邊

Lady First 專欄 (66) - 希望之船

你可相信「一切皆是命,半點不由人」?

還是相信《秘密》一書裡頭所講的「吸引力法則」?

「吸引力法則」—— 當你打從心底期盼某些事,只要努力,只要保持正面的態度,而非只表達「我唔想要呢樣、唔想要嗰樣」的負面訊

瑣碎事


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初生之犢

初生之犢不畏虎,總之就是天不怕地不怕,那管是陌生人,見到好玩的撲上去玩個痛快就是了。年輕的心,總是熱情而奔放。在開放的地方,小貓可以到處走到處看。據說好奇會殺死貓,但也令貓成長,幾經歷練後,自然能變成


long long time ago


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然後,我無法不面對的是時光飛逝的事實:我對這位同學的最後記憶,原來停留在很多年以前。

好像

我們面對不同的現實

參與決定未來——如果讓索羅斯面對五區總辭
(刊經濟日報評論版)

五區總辭近日戰況轉折,一時箭在弦上一時口風轉緩,每日都不知明日戰況。說到底,想在沒有明文的公投法的香港,去搞一次變相公投來突顯民意,未算名正

Poking around the OpenSolaris codebase (for sysadmins)

If you do much work with Solaris things like DTrace and mdb -k , youare sooner or later going to want to poke around the OpenSolaris code,both for kernels and for utilities and so on. If you do this very much,you are going to want your own local copy of the OpenSolaris codebase(while you can use the OpenSolaris website, sooner or later navigatingthrough it will drive you mad). You can get a copy with Mercurial; see here for instructions onhow. For spelunking purposes,