這樣的搞笑斷線法還真第一次見!
Comments (0) 大家肯定都有試過網球拍打斷線，多數是斷Main或者Cross(機會少點)。
打網球超過20幾年了，昨天下午我第一次親身經歷了這樣搞笑的斷線法，好得意的斷法，哈哈。。。
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晨曦中的New York City
天下之大、無奇不有!
第一次的糟鹵魚片失敗了
By admin, July 30, 2012 6:13 pm
薑、蒜、乾粉、正宗的上海糟鹵汁、雲耳，這次還特別買了紐西蘭的青衣柳而不選便宜的龍俐柳，最後竟然還是失敗了。
味道太鹹而且沒有酒香的味道，青衣柳也比較老， 看來各種材料的對比和火候應該出問題了，唯一滿意的是賣相還可以，哈哈。。。
稍後要再請教媽媽才成。
疑幻疑真、掩人耳目的摄影魔法
Dell spills its hot cache Fluid, hopes to beat off rivals (by theregister)
By admin, July 30, 2012 9:22 am
Dell recently lifted the lid on its “Hermes” project, named for the speedy chap from Greek mythology, at the Dell Storage Forum. The product, which Dell hopes will smack down EMC’s VFCache, will carry writes between flash caches in a Dell cluster to make sure they all carry the same data. That’s a big deal, so project “Hermes” has to be quick.
Caching is pretty straightforward; you put hot data from a slow storage medium in a small chunk of faster, and more expensive, storage in front of it. This procedure means that accesses to the cached data are faster than to data in the slow storage. We have flash caches in front of disk drive arrays or in in array controllers to perform this function. They cache data to be read from the array and data to be written to the array.
Currently there’s lots of activity putting PCIe flash caches in servers, such as EMC’s VFCache and Fusion-io’s ioDrive products, to accelerate applications by avoiding enforced waits for data to be fetched from slow disk drive arrays. When the servers have multiple nodes there is a caching problem with data writes. When one server writes data into its cache, such as an updated price for an XYZ dongle, that data is only in its cache. If an application in another server then looks up the price of an XYZ dongle, it gets a different price.
Typically this prevents write caching being implemented across multiple nodes, because the different caches don’t necessarily hold the same data; they are not coherent. Cache coherency problems generally prevent distributed write caches across a server cluster or a group of server blades in a single chassis.
Fast disk arrays with a very high speed controller inter-connect, like the VMAX’s virtual matrix, can solve that problem. But for ordinary x86 server nodes in a cluster it’s impractical, which is where Dell’s Hermes sprints into view. Carter George, Dell’s exec director for storage strategy, spoke about it in a keynote at Dell’s Storage Forum in Boston last week.
He said that a coherent distributed cache needs software technology to detect a write being made to one cache node and replicate it quickly to the other nodes (ie, so there will be a single XYZ dongle price across the cache).
In effect, a single virtual cache is formed from the individual ones. Dell acquired its virtual cache technology by buying RNA Networks [1] in June last year. Its Memory Virtualisation Acceleration (MVX) technology can pool server DRAM or flash into single virtual pools – with Ethernet or InfiniBand carrying the linking messages to ensure coherency across the physical instances of DRAM or flash.
Naturally Dell is calling this Fluid Cache, the “Fluid” tag being applied to most storage concepts on Dell these days, and says it will move its tier 1 storage from its arrays, the Compellent and maybe EqualLogic ones, and put it into the servers. Existing Compellent storage tiering software will be developed to place hot data into the Hermes physical caches for fast read access, and the RNA technology will be used to spread one server nodes’s fresh write data in its physical cache across the separate flash stores to provide a single version of the truth.
These caches will physically be PCIe flash cards. In this scheme there is no shared flash box sitting between the servers and the array, as is the case with EMC’s Project Thunder [2] and XtremIO technology. Dell would say that a networked flash box would not be as fast as a coherent server flash cache scheme because it still slows data access through network latency. This will provide Dell with a response to competition from networked all-flash arrays like those from Nimbus, Pure Storage and Violin Memory.
Dell could also use its RNA technology to aggregate a clustered server’s DRAM into a single virtual pool and so enable apps running in that cluster to use an in-memory database [3].
Going further, “Hermes” could then sprint between clustered X86 controllers in a storage array and give them either a coherent virtual memory pool or a coherent virtual flash pool, or both, and enable them to handle vastly more I/O traffic, meaning support more servers and more applications.
Dell’s RNA technology can support more than 100 server nodes in a cluster. The Hermes coherent distributed cache scheme has a first quarter 2013 target introduction date and should speed up applications significantly – especially those with a lot of write I/O which would not be so accelerated by read-only caching schemes such as VFCache. ®
今日小小收穫 Uniqlo + Adidas Barricade 7 Orange/Black
By admin, July 22, 2012 6:11 pm
頭先去左Uniqlo，見到大減價，買左兩件T-Shirt (每件$149) 同買短褲($99)，真係好鬼抵買!
同埋見到Addias B7係Gigaxports Discount大概$683到(便左近1/4)，即刻入左對，而且仲係自己最鐘意o既顏色。
師兄果然講得o岩，B7鞋頭同B5一樣闊，所以之前放棄左B6挨到依家先換就係因為B6鞋頭過窄同等B7大減價。
現役果兩對B5經過2年右腳鞋頭已經穿左窿，落雨打波會入水。
鐘意o既師兄快D去入貨啦。:)
Hasselblad 哈蘇•賞機 (轉文)
By admin, July 20, 2012 2:37 pm
瑞典人發明的哈蘇 Hasselblad相機被視為瑞典人的光環。既是瑞典皇家空軍採用的相機，連人類第一次踏足月球，太空人也是用哈蘇相機進行拍攝的。
相對今日細小輕盈的相機，採用120格式菲林的哈蘇猶如大笨象。現代人講究方便快捷，偏偏哈蘇02年才推出首部自動機，20世紀出品的全手動極難操控，但他們卻把運作時的機械聲當成音樂，越老越愛。他們都不是專業攝影師，情迷哈蘇只因它半個世紀以來記下許多人情點滴。
記者：黃碧珊 攝影：梁鑑章 謝榮耀
哈蘇是溫申的奮鬥目標。
溫申是名人專用的髮型師，年輕時跟上海師傅學剪髮， 七十年代在銅鑼灣開設上海髮型屋，客戶包括希慎家族成員利銘澤與利榮達、景福珠寶創辦人楊志雲的太太、退休首席大法官楊鐵樑的太太等等。當年想帶女友（現 為太太）去影相，靠問朋友借來哈蘇一用。
37年來的興奮
「試過影哈蘇，知道瑞典製的哈蘇用德國最高級的蔡司鏡，效果不會容易出現鬆郁矇。」試過極品就不甘平凡，當時每月收入約1000元，用了一年時間儲錢，終 於1975年花了2000元買一部當時最流行的500C/M，其後再買廣角鏡 SWC及摩打推動的500EL，到今日仍然收藏着哈蘇具代表性的款式。
第一次買哈蘇已是37年前的事，但仍按捺不住興奮心情說：「買的時候有石利洛洋行（哈蘇的香港代理）的購買證書，上面寫有我髮型屋地址。」
十 年前退下來，用哈蘇相機展開人生另一頁。他擁有兩個天水圍物業，其中一個變成專替長者義務剪髮的地方。「剪完之後會幫他們影張靚相留念。」數百平方呎的客 廳成了迷你影樓，有背幕、射燈、反光傘，旁邊還有30多部古董相機及鏡頭。
影樓變歡樂天地
他天天從大嶼山的家到天水圍影樓替長者剪髮，他給記者看這些作品，個個長者在鏡頭下笑逐顏開，有些更化了妝營造搞笑造型，這個影樓變成了長者歡樂天地。 「上星期便叫我個仔幫我們一班朋友影相，每人手上拿起哈蘇鏡頭。」兒子用數碼儍瓜機拍下一張造型搞笑的照片，為甚麼自己不用哈蘇機影？「手腳不及年輕時靈 活，如測光、對焦、光圈、快門等已搞不來了。」
體能上不能捧着重甸甸的相機四處走，老眼昏花也看不清微細的對焦、光圈、快門，手動的哈蘇自 2000年萬聖節拍過爺孫生活照後已再沒使用，他只能將最大部的哈蘇500EL用腳架放在影樓，偶然過吓影相癮，回味首次用哈蘇替太太拍攝的美好時光。
惟有哈蘇寧死不賣
問香港相機王陳烘，個人收藏有多少部哈蘇，他說數不清不知道。他做相機及攝影器材買賣，但哈蘇罕有的貨色他從不出讓，好像哈蘇 Sonnar250mm f5.6 SuperAchromat鏡頭，採用石英螢石（ quartz fluorite）鏡片代替標準鏡片，超消色差功能讓相片層次更分明，從事相機買賣逾四十年來只見過手上這支現貨，所以怎樣也不會賣出，「就算名攝影師來 到，只會給他們看。」
機械聲是交響樂
他迷戀哈蘇手動機的機械聲，迷足三十年。
「平日也會拿出來拉吓快門，聲音非常響亮動聽。」除以摩打推動的500EL外形稍有不同，其他款式外形相若，但他鍾情六十年代前的出產，「早期的手功較仔細，牌子及鏡頭刻碼是雕上去的，約六十年代開始已改用絲印。」
哈蘇在他眼裏是完美。
「重？這樣才夠穩定，用120格式菲林，質素是最高、最細緻，保存多年再翻曬，相片色彩仍然好靚。」
在他的哈蘇珍藏中，有一部1987年的500C/M金色紀念版，他連用也不捨得，「從來沒用過，連說明書整盒收藏。」這盒當年以2萬元購買的紀念版，現已升值至5萬元，但陳烘的目的不是等升值，而是要豐富個人的收藏。
訪問時有一對內地旅客想買第一部哈蘇，他推介入門版500C/M，客人要求廣角鏡相機，陳烘卻說：「你未曾影過哈蘇，門檻也未入，還是考慮這部入門機。」
在他眼中人和哈蘇的關係要經過揣摩磨合循序漸進，偏偏在這個講求速成的年代，一步登天才合潮流。
2012哈蘇大師
2001年開始，哈蘇每年設哈蘇大師獎，不同類別各設一名得獎者。香港專業攝影師黃偉權，用2007年生產的哈蘇自動數碼相機 H3D拍攝在水底的美女，於時尚或美容類別獲2012年哈蘇大師殊榮。黃偉權說：「10年前擁有第一部500CM。因為哈蘇是專業商用相機，鏡頭及解像度 也是最好，在廣告公司工作時也要買給自己用。」現時自設專門替廣告拍攝的攝影製作公司 HAPLABORATORY
上世紀的哈蘇
《1952》
1000F
單向快門調節轉盤，最高快門為1/1000秒。
配 Tessar80mm f2.8鏡頭，市價約1萬元。
《1954》
Supreme Wide Angle
機頂加入對焦屏，專門拍攝風景的超廣角鏡頭相機，即使是廣濶的北京天安門廣場也可以完整攝入。
配 Biogon38mm f4.5超廣角鏡頭，市價約3萬元。
《1957》
500C
哈蘇最經典型號，為減少快門所引至的震動換上鏡間快門設計，加入1/500秒閃燈同步。
配 Planer80mm f2.8鏡頭，市價約1萬元。
《1962》
Hasselblad1962年起參與美國 NASA太空任務，1968年太空人從阿波羅8號用500C在月球背面拍下地球的相片。 NASA
《1982》
500EL/M
1965年推出首部摩打推動相機500EL，換上通用觀視屏幕後便成500EL/M，1969年跟太空人到月球表面探索。1982年推出與美國 NASA合作20年的紀念版市價約4萬元。
《1987》
500C/M
紀念500C推出30周年，以適用性更廣，較500C增加可調換對焦屏的修改版──500C/M作款式，惟將銀邊改為金邊。
原盒包裝市價約5萬元，普通版則約1.5萬元。
註：相機為陳烘的珍藏非賣品
