魔幻藍詩幻景成真


去年 撰文 介紹印度電影《 Saawariya 》, 美國Sony Pictures有份負責發行, 香港居然也推出了附有中文字幕的《Saawariya》的DVD和Blu-ray. 當我看到電影的 中文戲名 時, 打了個突. 《Saawariya》中譯竟然是《魔幻藍詩》, 正是我寫《Saawariya》時所杜撰的副題. 以為

只差一點那就是我

《為 保 銀 包 10 元 與 手 提 電 話 抗 賊 少 年 被 捅 四 刀 命 危》

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那地點,亦是我從前回家的

Automation changes as systems grow

Over the time I've worked in system administration, I've observed acommon pattern that I will summarize this way:

As your system count grows, you wind up automating the automation.

Here is the levels that I've seen people (myself included) go through:

  • managing systems by hand, one by one.
  • using tools that let you run a command on all of your systems orclasses of your systems.
  • automating things for clusters, so that you don't have to explicitlyrun commands on

無論人數


一系列拒絕入境行為,一概回以「不評論個別事件」。這就是去除雜音的行為。無線前日報導了北京拾荒者的命運,這就是在全城被買起時,新聞工作者的一點心意吧。

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年青人不熟識中國現代文學史,我便描述童年時一
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What the co_names attribute on Python code objects is

As a trap for the unwary, Python code objects have both a co_names and a co_varnames attribute. Since I just confused myself aboutwhich was what the other day , here is what the co_names one is.

Put simply, co_names is a tuple of names of globals and attributesthat are used by the function's code. For example, if you have ' a =self.bar() ' in the function, the ' bar ' will show up in co_


《海灘的一天》, 我所知道的二三事...

看罷《海灘的一天》, 本來想寫些甚麼影評的. 但網上能找到的都寫得詳盡仔細, 無謂生安白造, 自暴其短. 但還是想到一些有趣的.





首 先想到的是張艾嘉. 大家都覺得她是香港導演, 事實上她是不折不扣的台灣人, 不論導或演

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Why apt is always going to be faster than yum

One of the things that people report (to put it politely) when theyswitch between a Debian-derived distribution and Fedora is that apt isfaster than yum . This is indeed the case, and it is always going to bethe case, because yum is simply doing far more work than apt is.

(Whether or not the speed difference matters in practice is anotherdebate. It doesn't bother me, but then I use fairly fast and beefymachines.)

As I understand it, the different amount


Why you can't stop 'abuse' of file sharing services

I hope that everyone will agree that filtering 'banned' content(whatever that is in your local jurisdiction) is in practiceimpossible. Users are happy to rename files and otherwise obscurethem in order to evade machine inspection, and no one can afford tohand audit everything that is being shared.

(Arguing that people must hand audit things anyways basicallyamounts to arguing that no one can run a file sharing service.)

This means that the only thing you can really do to deter this bannedcontent is to make your


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四月蘋果

《Clubbing 進 化 史》

已 八 百 多 年 沒 去 clubbing 了 , 大 概 , 以 後 都 極 少 機 會 再 去 。 每 次 經 過 時 裝 店 , 聽 到 那 些 熟 悉 的 音 樂 , 總 會 出 奇 地 懷 念 從 前 的 星 期 三 四 五 六 。 今 夜 收 到 一 個 「 Prive tonight, wanna join? 」 的 sms , 沒 有 心 動 , 但 會 想 起 … … 吖, 那 英 俊 的 臉 的