Weekly spam summary on October 21st, 2006

This week, we:

  • got 14,794 messages from 260 different IP addresses.
  • handled 20,016 sessions from 1,207 different IP addresses.
  • received 186,129 connections from at least 47,733 different IPaddresses.
  • hit a highwater of 37 connections being checked at once.

Volume is around that of last week ; Idon't know what to make of the increasing highwater. The volumedoesn't fluctuate


憂心如焚

那個專欄不可以停啊!不要死啊!!不要忽略或欺負認真而手無寸鐵的讀者……

據說已經是第二次,這次是兩天。某些沒有真正在七十至九十年代專欄文化裡浸淫過的小讀者,完全面對不了常見的脫期,別提消逝。同樣擔心的粉

Why releases are important

Aigars Mahinovs recently wrote in passing in a blog entry :

So, from this perspective, there is nothing bad in money being paidto do this mundane and hard work, if we really, really need torelease in a specific time frame ( IMHO the only reason to releaseDebian in 2006, as opposed to 2008, is the Lars tattoo bet ).

(Emphasis mine.)

This is the kind of thing that makes me reach for my editor and flailat the keyboard. There


To 渣估

渣估:

總會等著你回來的。

Elaine

let go

從巴林回來,多了一點體會。

那些黑衣裹身,只露黑色深邃雙眼的女人,教我感恩。

在酒店池畔,穿著Roxy bikini在享受日光浴的我,想起了那一雙雙眼睛,然後繼續看《紅樓夢》。

但心內悠悠然,因為覺得自己已經太幸運。

我仍是那

A paradox of ignorance

Something that's recently struck me:

Ignorance often makes it easier to do things, because you don't knowenough to become paralyzed with indecision.

If I'd known what I now know about bicycles when I bought my bike , I might never got it. Back then I just went to a localbike shop a co-worker liked with the determination to stop delaying andget a bike that was neither too cheap nor too expensive. These days Iwould probably be trying to make up my mind about


An Ubuntu astonishment

I just discovered that my Ubuntu test machine (running Dapper, not thecurrent bleeding edge), installed with a base level of server packages,does not have cron installed.

It does, of course, have the /etc/cron.(daily weekly) directories, andcheerfully optimistic packages have populated them with various thingsthat they no doubt expect to get run every so often in order to keep thesystem working smoothly.

(Evidently none of them actively depended on cron, or it would havebeen installed.


今日

明報四、五、六「斑駁日常」。謹向這幾日追我稿的所有編輯致歉:鄙人所有時鐘都亂掉了,不好意思。雖然你們未必會看到。


1. 斷裂裡的本源

執拗於打破、擾亂世界認可的規律與秩序,並以個人定義的混亂律法規劃生活的人

世事多變 豈可盡如人意

世事多變,果然不可盡如人意。工作了一大段時間,以為可以見到成果,卻為一些不可控制的事情影響,像有一隻無形之手在操控著每件事情。於是打完一仗又要再打一仗,直到今日才真的可以停下來,想一想這十幾日發生過的

Getting your spam crossed

Received today:

MAIL FROM:
[...]
From: Andrew Bailey.
[...]

Good day partner,

I am Andrew Bailey of International Private Banking at BANK OFENGLAND. I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer and aninvestment he placed under our banks management three years ago. [...]

This spam message apparently can't decide whether it's phish spam oradvance fee fraud spam. Probably some spammer's mailer