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The upcoming Singapore General Election looks set to become the most exciting ever since the founding years of modern Singapore. I hadn’t planned to write anything political on this site, and I still don’t, lest I ...
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My Nexus One is over a year old now. My mobile contract is up for renewal. The Nexus One’s hardware specifications are still pretty good, even considering the second Google flagship Nexus S. But there’s always room ...
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If you’re a network techie like me, you will probably be very interested to know how Singapore’s OpenNet fibre-to-the-home network works. What is the technology that runs the fibre-to-the-home network? How is it ...
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I recently renewed a bunch of SSL certificates. I actually use a reseller, Namecheap.com, but the actual SSL certificate authority is RapidSSL. I’ve bought RapidSSL’s SSL certificates for several years. They are cheap ...
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Earth Hour in 2011 is observed on 26th March, from 8:30pm to 9:30pm. People around the globe will switch off lights and commit to actions that go beyond the hour. At https://zitseng.com/, I will observe Earth Hour by switching to ...
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I was setting out to upgrade the firmware of my Samsung ST550 digital compact camera when I realized I hadn’t mentioned about it at all on this blog. So, here’s a quick mini-review of it. The camera was launched ...
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At the risk of sounding like I’m technophobic, distrustful of the Internet, and terrified of online money transactions… I am indeed starting to find online banking and online payments rather worrisome to some extent. ...
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Then, after installing Gentoo Linux yesterday, today I had a go at Ubuntu. This time, instead of a spare PC, I installed it in a virtual machine in my MacBook Pro. I know, this is hardly a fair comparison, but let’s just ...
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I spent a part of today installing Gentoo Linux in a spare PC. If you’ve not heard of it, Gentoo is yet another Linux distribution. It stands out from the rest in that practically everything you install is actually compiled ...
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I’ve long found driving in NUS to be very frustrating. There are too many reasons. One of my long-time complaints is with the internal shuttle bus services. My chief gripe with them is that they often drive in such a manner ...
