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By admin, June 18, 2011 6:35 pm

今天看見一幅法國攝影大師Robert Doisneau在1950年的成名作﹐再次證明永恆的相片是靠攝影師的現場感直接造就出來的。 

就如Classical Music﹐為何莫扎特那麼多的曲子幾百年後還繪炙人口﹐就是因為他擁有與眾不同的靈感﹐所以常說藝術家總得先有些天賦也就是這個道理了。

跟打網球一樣﹐感覺這回事還真的沒法教﹐要親身領會了後技巧才能更上一層樓﹗

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By admin, June 18, 2011 4:56 pm

昨晚與幾位熟悉的中學同學再次聚首﹐感覺恍如隔世﹐大家談了許久﹐但還是有好多想講的話可能因為興奮過度的原因突然又忘記了。

朦朧的記憶裡總覺得大家某時某刻曾經同桌過﹐但如何也再記不起到底是中一﹑中二還是中三﹑中四了。

席間大家回憶了不少當年的趣事﹐巧合地大家當年都是“機痴”﹑“無機不歡”的那一群﹐也就是師長口中好學生的反面教材。“斗快跑去機舖”﹑“走鬼”﹑“比差佬周”幾乎已經成為我們4個人的共通點。而我更為經典﹐一個鮮為人知的秘密﹐就是曾經擁有一個考試前打機打到連書包都給人偷了的“壯舉”。現在想起以前的這些反而覺得大家有些“綠林好漢”一齊共事的感覺﹐看得出﹐現場大家都為年輕時的“瘋狂”流露出一絲得意的笑容。

從前感覺比較漫不經心的L﹐現在完全脫胎換骨﹐變成一個成熟穩重的生意人。想不到數學不是那麼突出的他竟然在大學修讀的是數學Major﹐其實曾經在海外留學過的同學﹐都有同感﹐就是培正的數學真的是名不虛傳﹐早早已經給我們打好了穩固的基礎。

另外老友S幾乎跟記憶中的他沒什麼改變﹐尤其是講電話的時候﹐完全回到了舊時的感覺。之後大家電話談起原來都曾經有同班女生暗戀的事情﹐那青澀甜蜜的感覺現在還記憶猶新。

最奇妙的是同學P﹐大家應該從來都沒有同班過﹐應該是那種“以機會友”的關係﹐但他對我的影象比較深刻﹐我去英國讀A-Level前還送過我一件T-Shirt﹐連款式和顏色他也描繪的栩栩如生﹐而我很不好意思地什麼都忘記了﹐可能當初他在機鋪我全神貫注打機的時候塞給我這份真摯的臨別禮物。

談起以前老師們﹐“滅絕師太”人稱第一﹐沒人敢認第二﹐同學P連“滅絕”“慘無人道”的“陰濕”出題方式也記得﹐想必當年肯定吃了不少“甜頭”。“羅艷貞”這個鼎鼎大名的訓導主任當年可說無人不曉﹐同學L說李瑋曾經是“羅生”的“改過自新”的榜樣﹐這個倒是第一次聽說。同樣令人聞風喪膽的“陳力行”見到都要迴避三舍﹐還有很多﹐但大家記憶中只剩下這些老師的“花名”和那些陳年的趣事了。

培正附近的街道舖子現在已經面目全非了﹐很多以前的兒時記憶已經搬的搬﹑拆的拆﹐“雅閣”﹑“紅寶石”﹑“夏銘記”﹐就連“金鳳”$9的學生餐“窩蛋牛肉飯”L都記得清清楚楚。以前的那些“水滸傳梁山好漢”的聚集腳地如“東寶”﹑“勝利道機鋪”早已消失在歷史記憶中了﹐唯獨機鋪始祖“德樂”多年來依然屹立不倒﹗勁﹗

命運的安排就是這麼奇妙﹐原來同桌有3位曾經在某一段時間竟然一同在北美東岸生活過﹐二個在Ontario﹐另一個在Montreal。這次想必也是在緣份的巧妙安排下﹐大家兜了大半個地球﹐又回到了最初兒時的相識地。

回家以後馬上認真地開了個FB賬號﹐把大家都加了進來﹐希望以後的聚會不需要再等20多年﹐真的﹐“人生有幾多個20年啊”﹐這句話很熟悉是不﹖哈哈。。。

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By admin, June 16, 2011 1:20 pm

Today I’ve encountered a storage shortage problem during updating the Symmantec Antivirus on Windows Server 2003 VM, Symmantec kept complaining my server didn’t have enough space as first it requires downloading 300MB files on to C drive, then another 300MB or more for updating the files.

So I’ve removed all those hidden $service_pack_files (it’s absolutely safe to do so, of course if you do not need to roll back any of those hotfixs), I soon found out that I was still short of space, huh? Finally, I was able to squeeze another 100MB disk space by removing the all those older than 1 month Temporary ASP.NET Files under C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework, do it both for version 1.1 and 2.0 folders.

Of course if that doesn’t work, I still can add some GB to the VMDK, then use Acronis Disk Director to shift the empty space to C partition (as I have D and E drives as well), boot up the VM, then use Dell’s ExtPart to extend it on the fly, but since the above works, I didn’t bother. Obviously if you only have a big C drive, then it’s much easier, just add more space to it and then extend on the fly if it’s W2K8 or use ExtPart if it’s W2K3.

I read it somewhere the best recommended free space for C drive is 10GB for Windows Server 2003 and 20GB for Windows Server 2008.

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By admin, June 13, 2011 10:46 pm

最近喜歡上了Natalie Portman﹐記得讀大學的時候看過一套很Cool的狙擊手影片叫Leon: The Professional﹐想不到多年之後才知道裡面的那個小女孩原來就是Natalie Portman﹗

慚愧真正開始留意她還是今年二月Natalie憑Black Swan拿了奧斯卡最佳女演員之後﹐我才逐漸發現自己以前看過好多她飾演的影片﹐如Closer﹑ New York, I Love You﹑ Paris, Je T’Aime﹐甚至3集的Star Wars﹗

最近一個月巧合地看了她的另外兩套片No Strings Attached和Thor﹐但直至昨天的The Other Woman﹐才發現很多人喜歡她的真正原因﹐原來就是她不經意散發出來的那種迷人又獨有的野性﹗

有時候近鏡Zoom近Natalie的時候﹐覺得她竟然帶有Audrey Hepburn的那種獨特氣質﹗

無論如何﹐小妮子經過近20年的演藝生涯﹐演技早已爐火純青﹐之前說過男的有Leonardo Dicaprio﹐女的肯定非Natalie Portman莫屬﹗

荷里活有了這對金童玉女﹐以後肯定會好片連綿﹐真希望他們兩人一齊拍一套好看的Drama!

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By admin, June 5, 2011 12:29 am

今天見證了娜娜在巴黎贏了法網﹐實在太高興了﹗

記得1989年17歲的張德培也曾在紅土場上捧冠﹐但他是美國人﹐湖北武漢姑娘娜娜則完全是個土生土長的中國球手﹐聽見國歌在Roland Garros中央場奏起的那刻真感動﹗真巧﹐今天也是6月4日﹗

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By admin, June 4, 2011 11:01 pm

昨天的法網世紀大戰Federer對Djokovic完全令我感受到了職業網球技術又向上提高了一層﹐看來Federer極有機會再次奪冠。而後起之秀Djokovic雖敗猶榮﹐這個小伙子在以後的日子肯定有很多機會登上寶座﹐這是遲早的事﹐因為很多人都認為他的正手抽擊已經超越Federer是現在的宇宙最強﹗

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By admin, June 4, 2011 10:46 pm

In order to prevent some abusive clients using all the bandwidth you’ve got, we need to have some kind of capping ability, it was done on our physical switch before, but since we are moving everything into virtual world, we now have a much better and flexible weapon on ESX 4.1. Btw, I don’t know why VMware got rid of the nice traffic shaping capability on individual VM like in the old days (ESX 2.5).

The step is actually very simple, just create a bunch of speed limit/capping port groups, I named them External – 1Mbps, External – 2Mbps, etc, setup VLAN or not is according to your own environment. Then go to each port group, click Traffic Shaping, then Enable, that’s it!

For example, you want to limit a VM with 1Mbps, what you need to set is 1000kbps for Average, 1000kbps for Peak (this eventually makes zero room for burst), 1 Byte for Burst if you like.

You may have more fun with Peak and Burst Size, for example, you can set Average to 500kbps (ie, 0.5Mbps), then you can give 1000kbps for Peak and 8000 Bytes for Burst, this means you actually allow the VM to go up to 1Mbps at peak in step of 64kbps burst size (ie, 64kbps, then burst adds up to 128kbps, then 256kbps until reaching the total peak of 1Mbps from the average 0.5Mbps)

Since the traffic shaping policy applies to each individual vNIC connecting to the same Port Group, this means if you have two vNICs on the same VM, then this VM will get TWICE the capped bandwidth than a VM with only one vNIC.

Finally, the traffic shaping is only for outbound only, if you need inbound, then you need to use vDS and in that sense you need to have Enterprise Plus version.

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By admin, June 1, 2011 5:23 pm

曾經一度沉迷于80年代迷幻的電子音樂熱潮中﹐當年甚至瘋狂到加入PSB歌迷會(Pet Shop Boys)﹐今天偶然間找回了當年的感覺﹐其它喜愛的組合有Depeche Mode﹑ Duran Duran等﹐當然電子音樂的原祖PSB始終是我的最愛﹗

This song still sounds fabulous to my ears even after 30 years!