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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
