Scott Yang's Playground

It builds, and builds, and builds….

As of this morning, the dual celeron server box that connects my apartment to the Internet (as well as serving this very page) has an uptime of 372 days! It has been the longest uptime I’ve achieved for the 6 years I’ve been running dedicated Linux server box at home. I was quite impressed (and [...]

2 days after the boxing day and I still have no idea why there was a public holiday. Well, I am not complaining (who would complain for having an extra day off from work?), but just curious to find out. According to WikiPedia, it is a holiday for UK and much of the Commonwealth countries [...]

It is about that disturbance. I need to get over it! Seriously, why am I here? I am hoping that by writing it down can somehow bring in some calming effect. I hope. And no. I am not writing about you.

for tying the knot on the 27th of December 2003. That was a great wedding today.

Ross Gittins is one of my favourite columnists writing for the Sydney Morning Herald, and I personally find one of his latest article, “So, Scrooge was right after all“, very interesting. In the article, he pointed out that the economists could not understand why people give gifts on Christmas, because it is not economical at [...]

Aargh. It is that end of the year reflection time again, and even the last Friday Five of 2003 involves much thinking and reviewing. It is Friday night on the Boxing Day – just let me give it a try. What was your biggest accomplishment this year? Maybe purchase a house? House shopping was not [...]

Merry Christmas to all! For to us a child is born,   to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder,   and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,   Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 Work finished early today. By 2:30 pm in everyone was basically out of [...]

This is the command I ran: $ python -c ‘import time; print time.ctime(2**30)’ Sun Jan 11 00:37:04 2004 That makes it 19 days to go before there are 2^30 (a bit more than 1 billion) seconds since the un*x epoch, which is Jan 1 1970. There was a story running on CNET, which is linked [...]

I think Scooter must be hungry. We fed him a bit of chum today, but he did not seem to have enough (Scooter is quite a skinny dog). We tried to teach him to do some tricks. I threw a tennis ball and expected him to bring it back. Indeed he brought the dog back, [...]

As a known fact that the security of a computer system is only as strong as its weakest link. As a system gets more complicated, and more people get involved in designing and implementing, it is also getting easier for that weak link to slip into that system.

It is probably going to be my last “Friday Random Quickies” for the year. AS for the weekend, I can foresee more house work to do. Nothing heavy is happening at the church now days as everyone has turned to holiday mode. A few more days to blog before 2004…

Linux 2.6.0 is here. That was an early Christmas surprise. My 2.4.19 Linux box running on retired Mandrake 9.0 still goes okay after 361 days of uptime, but looking at the history of the early 2.4 kernels back in early 2001, I think I’ll wait for a while before upgrading… Here’s the announcement by the [...]

I found another Christian news related weblog – Christdot, which is described as “News for Jesus Freaks. Eternal matters”. If you are on Internet long enough, you would know where this site get its name from. Christdot features /.-like commenting system (powered by bug ridden phpNuke), and it is fun reading through people’s comments to [...]

<sarcastic>I was having lots of fun yesterday trying to peel off an extremely old wallpaper from a cemented wall! The fun has amplified when I need to soak the paper to wet the glue through two layers of paint!</sarcastic> I am glad that it is finished. But now I need to think about how to [...]