Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. (Andy Rooney)

星島日報冇眼睇

mine's picture
Thu, 2006-01-05 00:24 | mine

InMedia news link (Chinese)

EastSouthWestNorth news link (English)

It could be done on purpose to please the government, or simply sloppy (find the easiest substitutes and nobody would care).  Whichever the reason, this is not good.  Actually, to the programmers, are we also writing programs in this manner?  Give a quick and dirty solution to the customers, get the money, and flee...

..4. Fujitsu's behemoth Itanium server

mine's picture
Wed, 2006-01-04 02:51 | mine

(From The Archive, e-mail in 2005 Feb.  Re-arranged for witness protection.)

The behemoth server news link

With the way that most corporate programmers write sqls, this server will become a necessity very soon for running one sql, minimal configuration 100GB memory (the sql wont' run unless the whole database is cached). 

2005 may not be a happy year...

mine's picture
Sat, 2005-12-31 22:34 | mine

But happy 2006 anyway...

Cheers!

Stop the nonsense!

mine's picture
Sat, 2005-12-31 01:23 | mine

I have seen more serious injuries in one American football match than the whole week of anti-WTO protests in December, and the Hong Kong Police dares to call that a "riot" for justifying the tear gas and arrests on 18 Dec.  Either we are so stupid that the government thought we could be blinded easily, or the government is so stupid that she thought she could treat everyone as 3-year-old.

www.last.fm

mine's picture
Thu, 2005-12-29 01:18 | mine

www.last.fm...  It blows some life back to my dead body...  An exciting music station...  Write more later...  Let me fool around the site first!

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