2007-09-092001: A Space Odyssey (1968) English ✍️The slow rhythm of this film is very stylistic. Gravity 0 slows down everything but the sense of emergency is not decreased at all. From the apes are...
2007-04-16公眾人物不自由 中文 ✍️朋友也想架網誌,又是一次關於網誌的後設討論。大家關心網誌的隱私權,以及流言的問題,也提到公眾人物必須要更加謹言慎行。我從心的觀點提出一些看法。 我覺得blog給我很好的反思機會: 我為什麼要寫?要寫什麼?要寫給誰看?要具名還是要匿名?我發現這些問題各各組合我都有不同的答案,背後都透露出我不同的欲望,...
2007-04-12Masculine Music vs. Feminine Music English ✍️A few weeks ago I was watching the video recording of an astonishing piano concert by Friedrich Gulda , Chick Corea , and Nicolas Economou (it was bro...
2006-11-13Musical Iconology 中文 ✍️ English ✍️I've been composing for a local flute ensemble. They have a quite particular instrumentation -- two piccolos, about ten C flutes, two alto flutes, a b...
2006-11-13Waiting for Perl 6 English ✍️I still remember when I first learned Perl in 1999, I appreciated its string manipulation power, but my reaction to its typelessness was not very posi...
2006-07-26SELinux vs. mount English ✍️I needed to share a directory which is actually a mounted ISO image via ftp, but SELinux would assign systemu:objectr:iso9660 to the directory as the...
2006-07-08Music as non-focal point 中文 ✍️ English ✍️I was organizing and rearranging some ceremonial music for a local Buddhist group and a search led me to this site about one of the earliest Taiwanese...
2006-06-23Reading xen guest disk image from the outside (FC5) English ✍️On Fedora's Xen wiki , there's a tutorial on how to read a xen guest OS's disk from the outside. The instruction works for a physical LVM, but when th...
2006-06-05回應「作弊VS.100分的"好"學生」 中文 ✍️在網路上看到一篇「 作弊VS.100分的"好"學生 」的文章,有感而發而作出回應。 也許唯有讀書高的價值觀現已不如從前,唯有分數高才是真的。只求結果不問過程的功利主義在緊密的社會結構下讓孩子們(以及家長們)想跟別人稍稍有點不同都很不容易。更何況,成長中的孩子很需要肯定(那怕是騙來的肯定),在面對驚人...
2006-05-12SELinux vs. ftpd English ✍️Fedora comes with SELinux and by default the settings are quite restrictive, an unfortunate necessity in today's hostile environment. This is particul...