Some wise words from Henry Spencer on backups

Henry Spencer recently wrote some very useful words of advice on backupson a local sysadmin mailing list. They struck me as the sort of thingsthat are useful enough to share more widely, so with Henry's permissionI'm putting his message here. (I thought about running just part of hisemail, but the more I read it, the more I wanted people to see all ofit, so I'm just going to put up the whole thing.)

So, in Henry Spencer's


決戰時刻.每當變幻時

辦戶外活動,遇著驟晴驟雨的天氣,最是頭痛。不過既然可以做的都做了,後備計劃也有了,就看上天安排,這樣也可以印證另一種意義吧。

昨晚在“信報”讀到Spencer Wong的談廣告業的文章<人在變 變在人>,覺得很妙,很有“親切

1.
明天開始,隔週的四、五、六,在明報世紀版會有一個小角落,有一個叫「斑駁日常」的方格。本來以為3-400字是我的極限了,但那天黃茂林還叫我寫些3-40字的。

2.
這個好東西 我一定會去,但一直很忐忑好不

How fast an LCD refresh rate is going to be fast enough?

One of my small peculiarities is that I'm an old-fashioned CRT person.By now this is an unfortunate affliction since it's pretty clear thatLCDs are the future, whether or not I really like them. (If the pricesfor good CRTs haven't already bottomed out and started climbing due todecreased production, it probably won't be long.)

Part of the reason I haven't warmed to LCDs is that they have scary andvisible failure modes, like stuck pixels, that


決戰前夕.雜感

新時代
新賭場開幕,其大陣仗是小城罕見的,前一陣子當局公佈小城的人口已超過50萬,媒介又說這樣的人口數字已經是大城市的規模,可是我們這些澳門街的居民,真的可以接受澳門街在幾年之間變成大城市嗎?年輕人尚且

投資哲學

P從來不會教我投資,

我想,

因為她也了解到我根本不會上心,

說了也等於白說。

不過,

她今天用了另一個方法向我解說投資最重要的theory - Cut Lost。

那即是說,

一個男人不要你了 / 將會拖垮你了,

你不是要一哭二鬧三上吊或上演孝

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Stupid web spammer tricks

I'd call these stupid spider tricks , exceptthat these were so visibly committed by web spammers. (In one casethey left me their spam, clearly visible.)

  • you cannot take a POST form's form elements, turn them intoquery parameters, and then try to GET the result .
  • especially if you remove the existing query parameter on the URLof the form's target.
  • you get modest bonus points if you POST your query parameterladen URL instead of GET 'ing it. Not enough bonus

再度一次過

文明單位:學習
嘉賓:陳景輝

八月在東touch連載的少女短文,一次過貼在下面。其實我是頗喜歡它們的。

〈嘔吐的女生〉

女生們嘔了。

對懶型的肌肉背心男,她們「噁」一聲;對情侶把心心大頭貼紙相放上 xanga ,她們噁一聲;濃粧眼


誰又帶得走,一塊紀念碑



今日是科大學籍最後一天,要搬45本書回去還書。

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