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I was at a Starbucks outlet recently. It was not for just a simple coffee break. I was going to sit there for several hours to get some work done with a colleague. We could have gone back to office, but it was the weekend, and I ...
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It’s really awesome that, for the first time, those who have completed their national service duties, including all their “ORNS training cycles”, are properly recognised for their contribution. The announcement ...
| Lifestyle & Family
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The Western Digital WD TV Live Streaming Media Player is really fascinating. It’s such a small box, but it packs so many features, and it does them all so well. I just got hold of one and I’ve quite impressed. ...
| Technology
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Windows 8 is going to be officially launched in two days! If you haven’t yet taken a sneak peak at it, it’s time to prep yourself, because it is more different than any other upgrade of Windows since Windows 95. In ...
| Technology
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Today’s post is about my pfSense installation. It’s not the usual pfSense setup. First of all, instead of running in a standalone PC or some sort of embedded computer, my pfSense runs in a virtual machine. Then, it ...
| Miscellaneous
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The National University of Singapore (NUS) has emerged as number one in global ranking. This is in the Dropbox Space Race, a competition amongst schools for eternal glory (according to Dropbox). Furthermore, NUS has also become ...
| Technology
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I’m not new to Google Drive. I’ve used Google Docs previously. It’s the predecessor to Google Drive. One of the greatest features touted of Google Docs then, and the thing that most attracted me to the platform ...
| Technology
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For a long time I had been planning to capitalise on the free cable broadband, albeit a slow one that barely qualifies as broadband speed these days, to provide a failover uplink for my home network. My primary network access ...
| Technology
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PC hardware virtualization is getting quite common place nowadays. There was a time when this was something done on server environments and by computer techies, but these days, end-users with desktops and notebooks are equally ...
| Technology
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I bought the Cisco Linksys E3200 High Performance Dual-Band N Router recently, and it now serves as the primary wireless access point for my wireless network. Like its many other E-series siblings, the E3200 has a minimalist yet ...