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Malaysia says checking Interpol’s database of stolen passports will delay immigration clearance. Interpol rebuts, claims search results take just 0.2 seconds in recent tests. Well, of course, we know that’s not true. ...
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Earth Hour this year is on 29 March 2014. It’s observed from 8:30pm to 9:30pm, local time, wherever you are. In Singapore, it’s just about starting now. Individuals and organisations are encouraged to switch-off ...
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Microsoft Windows XP will reach the end of its support life on 8 April 2014. It’s under two weeks to go. No, Windows XP will not stop working after that day, nor will the world grind to a halt. But many people have voiced ...
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For over the last 30 years, the Internet ran on a suite of protocols, the principal one known as the Internet Protocol version 4, or IPv4. You’ve likely heard of it, and maybe also how IPv4 addresses are scarce, and that ...
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Earlier this year, I shared about my plans to build a storage server. I had been quite excited about Btrfs. Btrfs has very nice features, particularly attractive to home users needing flexibility in growing, shrinking, or ...
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I know the MH370 incident is not over, so it might be premature to talk about lessons to learn from it. But so very much has happened, we can talk about learning points for a long time to come. Flight MH370 will likely be one of ...
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I have been eagerly anticipating the arrival of KitKat on my Samsung Galaxy S4 (SGS4). Unless you have a pure Android Nexus device, or one of those Google Play Edition handsets, you’d typically have to wait for the ...
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While most companies have transitioned from conventional spinning hard disk drives to solid state storage using some form of hybrid storage solution, Western Digital has taken quite a different approach with their Black2. It is a ...
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Since the haze reached record breaking levels in June 2013, and with Singapore’s official PSI readings always giving a rather useless rolling past average values, I decided I needed to get my own haze sensor. The sensor ...
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SSDs are getting pretty mainstream these days. Several years ago, I’ve posted about how SSDs are the best upgrade you can do for your notebook. Today, new Apple notebooks no longer come with conventional hard disk drives. ...
