This is one of the newest supermarket shopping gadgetry. It’s in NTUC Fairprice. No, it’s not yet another self-checkout kiosk. The idea here is that you scan your shopping as you go along, so that when you reach the checkout counter, your shopping is already all scanned, you already know your total amount due, and all you have to do…
One would have reasonably expected a server operating system to be stable and robust (and secure too, among other things). When you apply patches, and/or upgrade system software components, one would expect things to “just work”. Here, I have a Linux system, running CentOS. I picked a server distribution of Linux because, well, I want the system to be relatively…
I see the price of HDMI cables at stores like Harvey Norman and Best Denki, and I can’t take it anymore. Here’s a public service announcement. HDMI cables are cheap, and they are relatively straight-forward. Granted there are no longer any of those $200+ type of HDMI cables (at least I don’t see them anymore), but they are still plenty…
We’re currently sitting through a record dry spell. You may already have read about it. 27 days of dry weather starting in January before it was briefly interrupted by a little rainfall on 8th and 9th February. If you look around us, you’d see plenty of signs of our vegetation drying up. Green swaths of grass fields are turning brown….
I’ve been on the Raspberry Pi bandwagon for quite a long time. However, I’ve not actually gotten around to doing anything particularly productive with it. Well, it’s never too late to start, and I’m finally embarking on some real projects. One of them is to basically replace a sort of digital clock we have had running at my workplace that…
I was recently at a somewhat “atas” (i.e. high class) hotel, attending a somewhat “atas” meal. I don’t consider myself the “atas” kind, but then, I happen to know how wrong everything was. It’s not so much that I want to nitpick and whine about this place, but hey, they really are reputed to be of very high standard. So…
Western Digital’s My Cloud EX4 is a four-bay network-attached storage (NAS) designed for prosumer and SOHO users. It looks to be pretty capable, packing just about all the features you’d expect from a NAS. In fact, although I would prefer to build my own NAS out of Linux, I did find the My Cloud EX4 to cater to most of…
Nowadays, it’s usually not a question of if, but when. Every organisation, every website, they will all eventually find their IT security compromised one way or another. This time it is Kickstarter. In a message to all it users, Kickstarter revealed that they were informed by law enforcement officials on 12 Feb 2014 about the security breach. They have since…
I’ve been having a bit of a name resolving problem at home. My home network is not the most straight-forward, but it’s certainly not too complicated either. There’s a pfSense gateway, and a Linux server behind it that I want accessible both internally as well as externally. That Linux sever should, of course, ideally be accessible by the same hostname…
This is the Jetway AD3RTLANG, a daughterboard with three Gigabit Ethernet ports for supported types of Jetway motherboards. These are useful when you need to add more LAN ports to your project, such as when you want to build a multi-interface router or other network appliance. The Gigabit Ethernet ports are based on RealTek RTL8110S chipset. This is supported out-of-the-box in FreeBSD…
