矽谷名勝

One preconference vacation,
Two consecutive days,
Three different Fry's.




雖然 San Jose Fry's (Mayan Temple) o的電子o野係齊o的, 但果然, Sunnyvale 係最好o既, 乜都有得買, 仲可以食埋餐晏仔先返屋企, 一流!




"Conservation of Pulse..." I'm not gonna spoil it. See it for yourself.




戰利品... 我應該帶多個吉 gip 唻...

Difference Engine

Charles Babbage's Difference Engine version 2 number 2 at Computer History Museum, Silicon Valley

VMware Server vs. Host Firewall

If your VM is hosting a web server in bridged network mode, if you are using the Windows version of VMware Server, other than the usual hole-poking in the VM's OS's own firewall, you have to also allow inbound stream on port 80 on the VM host even though it has a completely different IP address. Talk about counterintuitive.

Now it seems to me some fine things
have been laid upon your table,
but you only want the one that you can't get...

EeePC 701 Install Notes

1. Install Ubuntu EEE.
2. Install customization script.
3. Install custom kernel.
4. Install Wicd.
5. Edit /etc/wvdial.conf.
   

Singapore

噚晚o係星加坡落機, 順手買些少o野。
店員: What's your flight number?
我: Why do you need my flight number?
隔離睇唔過眼o既鬼佬: They want your passport too if you're buying alcohols...
我: 'coz it's Singapore, eh?
鬼佬: ...and they sent me invitation to Alcoholic Anonymous after three years.
我: What the...

Data Center Staff: 喂? 許生, 你部 server 想點樣呢?
Me: 麻煩你幫我 reboot 佢
Data Center Staff: 嗯, 我 access 到佢咖喎, 如果有 service 行緊, 就咁 reboot 可能唔係咁好
Me: 係呀, 我都 ping 到, 不過佢家下係傻傻地o既
Data Center Staff: 我 remote desktop 到佢...
Me: o個部係 Linux...

Ubuntu's sudo

The Ubuntu way of using sudo, whereby the console user is given ALL=(ALL) ALL access, is worrisome. To 0wn a box you only need to know that console user password, which has a much greater risk area of exposure than a typically well-protected root password.