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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 ...
| Technology
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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 ...
| Lifestyle & Family
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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 ...
| Technology
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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 ...
| Lifestyle & Family
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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 ...
| Technology
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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, ...
| Technology
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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 ...
| Technology
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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 ...
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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 ...
