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入戲院之前沒有什麼期望,離開戲院也沒有失望。

故事講事業心重的男主角得到一個神奇遙控,可以隨意操控時間,把人生變成看錄像,例如把自己覺得浪費時間的生活細節快速略過,結果他真的把自以為是精華的事業保留了,

Intel

Something I really wish vendor product pages did

Dear vendors:

When I am visiting your fine web pages, I am often most trying to findwhich of your products have a particular feature that I need. Makingme carefully check through all of your products, examining their modelnumbers (if I am lucky) or each of their detailed feature pages (if I amnot) is not productive and does not make me very happy.

(It does make me thankful for Firefox's tabs.)

So what I would really like to see is a product feature


EVA食老本

剛剛在 Newsgroup 看到驚人的消息:Rebuild of Evangelion! 庵野老賊終於不夠錢用了?

Rebuild of Evangelion

最新一期 2006 年 10 月號的《NewType》以專輯介紹《新世紀福音戰士》的新劇場版:

  • 分為前篇、中篇、後篇和最終話四部
  • 預定 07 年初夏公開
  • 時間軸與 95 年電視版

嘔吐

屋子的發洩系統停止了。1 x1.5米的小浴室裡,積水淹過腳背。
我一直不理會它,直至個多小時後,積水依舊,而且水裡有浮游黑斑。那不是漂浮游移的海藻——只是姿態上的模仿,不與自由或流動有關。
我用小盆勺水,直

鬆一鬆

1. One book you have read more than once.

這問題可以有很多答案,工作上的答案是字典,文學一點的答案我會選村上春樹的《聽風的歌》。

2. One book you would want on a desert island.
《小王子》,夠孤獨啊!

3. One book that made you laugh.
《李天命的思考藝術》,唔係扮

Link: IRON File Systems

IRON File Systems [PDF] is apaper from the 2005 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles.To quote from the abstract:

Commodity file systems trust disks to either work or fail completely,yet modern disks exhibit more complex failure modes. We suggest a newfail-partial failure model for disks, which incorporates realisticlocalized faults such as latent sector errors and block corruption.We then develop and apply a novel failure-policy fingerprintingframework, to investigate how commodity file systems react to a rangeof more


A Solaris 8 Disksuite single user mode surprise

If you boot a Disksuite-using Solaris 8 machine into single-user modeto do maintenance and do a metastat , you'll discover that all of yourmirrored metadevices are marked as needing to be metasync'd, even ifthey actually are fully consistent.

What seems to be going on is that Disksuite doesn't update thingsfrom the on-disk metadata state database when the kernel bringsup the metadevices themselves in early boot. Instead, it defers thisuntil you explicitly run ' metasync -r ',


I hate hardware (AMD CPU edition)

I have been trying to spec out a new machine lately, which is remindingme all over again how I hate hardware. This time around, the target ofmy particular hate is AMD CPUs, especially the new AM2 ones, where theperformance picture has become so complicated that you need a largechart to understand it.

Choosing CPUs used to be simple: within a given CPU family, the onlything that changed performance was the clock speed, so you could justbuy the fastest CPU your budget and desires afforded


菊花台

最近在聽周杰倫的新碟《依然范特西》的歌,老實說其實跟他其他的專輯差不多,所有的歌曲都可以找到之前作品的影子。不過這並不緊要,我就是想聽周氏曲風,只此一家的東西。

聽慣了周杰倫,都知道咬字不清算是他的個人


Industrial strength Python

It's not uncommon to have people harsh on Python and similar languagesas being 'scripting languages', not suitable for serious jobs becausethey're not fast enough or they use too much memory, or the like. I haveto beg to differ, because I have a great counter-example.

We use a SMTP frontend daemon to check connections before we bother tostart a real SMTP conversation. This program does our greylisting, ourDNS blocklist checking, connection count limiting, and a number of otherchecks