德国人……
德国人打乱了我们所有的计划，他们已经连续3天没有关灯了……我们不得不关上所有发光的设备等待他们的走掉……
delphij's Chaos
GB18030: To be abandoned?
Rumor said that the GB18030 standardization working committee has been disbanded some weeks ago, and GB (Q) 18030-2000 standard is pending to be abandoned soon. In addition, the new identity card system developed by the Ministry of Public Security has been stuck because of Chinese coding problem.
Discussion on preliminary idea of distributed access control
The idea of our (Grid Distribute) access control’s design is somewhat simple one. To maintain maximum security, it turns out that we must keep the directory highly consistent, to prevent ACL distribution problems.
Dillon to improve DragonFly's build architecture
Matt Dillon always do things which are amazing and earning our respect!! Today he announced a major change in DragonFly’s build architecture, while this will likely to cause some temporary quakes, we believe that the migration will be finished soon and we will have a much better (say, cleaner than FreeBSD’s approach) DragonFly buildworld path!
Robert Watson to merge Networking Locking patches from p4
Robert today has sent a headsup to current@, claiming that he will merge his changes on p4 to cvs soon.
An observation by Dijkstra software engineering Dijkstra on receiving the ACM Turing Award in 1972
What is actually happening, I am afraid, is that we all tell each
other and ourselves that software engineering techniques should be
improved considerably, because there is a crisis. But there are a few
boundary conditions which apparently have to be satisfied:delphij.net disclosed in smth.org
It appears that someone has posted some sort of (advertisment? :-P ) on smth.org, FreeBSD board before I can have the whole www.delphij.net project done…
Helped someone to upgrade FreeBSD installation
Someone (name not disclosed as this is potentially to generate trouble for him) has asked me to help upgrade his FreeBSD 4.3 deployment to a “workable” state.
Oppugn on limitations on forums
It appears that there are more and more limitations applied to forums because the election happening in Taiwan. Recently, one of my friend (Sarah Lau) has been deprived board management privilege at the NetEase Beijing Community because she has some saying which is considered to be harmful.
Different ideas on implementation of GD's distribution set
The “Distribution Set” is an important idea on GridDistribute’s vendor distribution. Here comes different ideas on implementing it, which will influence the search approach we will choose. Personally, I think we must have a final decision before next Wednesday.