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I was recently involved in delivering a Unix workshop to the new freshmen intake of AY2011/2012. It’s something that the freshmen attend every new academic year. The idea is to expose them to Unix, particularly since many ...
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It’s been quite a long while since I last built my own PC. My last desktop PC was built some time around 2005. I was reasonably familiar with PC components at that time. Technology has changed so much, and even though I do ...
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I was recently at The Regent Singapore for a workshop. Lunch time came, and I had expected that it would be a standard buffet setup in the reception outside, or perhaps in an adjacent function room. That’s the typical lunch ...
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I’ve got a new MacBook Pro. Again. Oh well, a “new” old MacBook Pro. There was a hardware problem with my previous MacBook Pro… again. It’s the trackpad… again. It sounds like Apple’s ...
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I hadn’t really planned to visit the KTM railway tracks. At least not in the sense that it was a “must do” activity. The railway tracks actually run by just behind where I stay. It’s really close by, and ...
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I wasn’t planning to be such an early adopter of Mac OS X Lion. After all, there wasn’t anything glaringly wrong with Snow Leopard. I’ve read about the nice things that would come with Lion, but I could wait. ...
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Google’s launch of + (Google Plus) is just a little over two weeks ago. They already have some 10 million users signed up. With all the buzz and excitement surrounding it, it looks set to push much farther ahead than ...
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I’ve been transferring my domains from GoDaddy to Namecheap as the time came up for their renewals in the last couple of months. I have another domain that is coming up for renewal now. Just coincidentally, Namecheap is ...
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For some time, I’ve been thinking and telling people about how not happy Google must be that everyone seems to be spending more time on Facebook than on Google content. For a company that depends on Internet users to ...
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I’m attending a course again this week. I looked at my calendar and realized that in this period of approximately six weeks, I seem to be involved in far too many courses. Nine days for a Lean Sigma course spread across two ...
