delphij's Chaos

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.

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.

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.

David O’Brien has announced the -O2 clean for AMD64 platform. Meanwhile, it seems that alpha has a -O2 clean build now!

It’s our pleasure to see GCC 3.4 import to be listed in FreeBSD 5.3-R todo list. Unfortunatelly, gmake is now a required prerequisite when building GCC 3.4, this may slow down the import progress.

Had signed a keep secret agreement with SixParts, I finally became a member in the alpha testing group and have access to the early access bits. I will test the new version on a private installation.

It’s a common practise to choose a prime number as the hast table size. This article has analyzed Java’s implementation.

Dong CHE has told me that mail from mail.freebsdchina.org has been bounced back because it was listed in rblplus.mail-abuse.org. From the query page I found mail.freebsdchina.org were listed in mail-abuse.org’s DUL by mistake (I believe so because the mail.freebsdchina.org block is not owned by dial up user).

搜索论文时偶然找到的，这让我想起了bbs上的一个人，不知道是不是同一个……找不到真正的原始出处了，所以取了Google PageRank最高的一个。

Well I finally can get this into my blog because Microsoft has publicly announced it :-) The information got from my friend has finally confirmed, and this is really exciting!!