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If you build your own computer, you’ll know that the enclosure (i.e. casing) is one of the many components that you need to choose. For some people, the enclosure is unimportant, so anything “cheap and works” is ...
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Last week, the Public Transport Council’s (PTC) announced a fare hike. Yesterday, train services broke down again, affecting some 19,000 commuters, according to our mainstream media. Fares have to increase, sooner or later. ...
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We accumulate lots of digital assets these days. Photos, music and movies, particularly, require massive storage. Storage is cheap, so keeping up with our storage needs is not unaffordable. The difficult bit, however, is scaling ...
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The MacBook Air was launched in 2008 without any wired LAN port built-in. Since then, many new ultrabooks have also left out wired LAN ports. While wireless networking options have become more ubiquitous and faster over the ...
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I recently shared about my interest in building a standalone pfSense box. Well, I’ve been planning for that, the parts have arrived, and I’m currently putting together the box. I’ll share about the build over a ...
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What do you do if you have some extra hard disks on-hand, and need a convenient way to connect them to your computers? One popular solution is to buy a portable hard disk enclosure, which will hold and connect a 2.5″ hard ...
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It’s not that I want to defend Singapore Airlines, but I thought some of the passengers on the A380 flight SQ 317 that made an emergency landing at Azerbaijan were unbelievably unappreciative of the situation that they were ...
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I’ve been mulling for some time about the option of building a standalone pfSense box. My current pfSense runs as a virtual instance inside an Ubuntu host. This interest was renewed again recently when, unfortunately, my ...
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If you own or drive a car, you probably know that modern vehicles are mostly controlled by computers in one way or other. One of the most basic computer is the Engine Control Unit, or ECU, which manages the performance of the ...
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I’ve heard that several other people also have gotten confused over flying their Extreme Fliers’ Micro Drone 2.0. Either the assembly line has messed up everyone’s wiring, or the horrendous manual has proven to ...