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I was recently struggling with my home fibre broadband connection when, as it turned out, it was something I had figured out before, but I had forgotten all about it. So to save myself the hassle in case I need to go through that ...
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Today has been a bad “IT maintenance” day at home. There were a few things I’ve been meaning to do for some time. But knowing there’s always the risk of something going wrong, I’ve been putting it ...
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We’re in an era where just about everything can be done online. We also have no shortage of web-based collaborative tools, including those that incorporate audio-video conferencing features. Then, why is it we don’t ...
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I cannot help but start sharing my two cents on the recent incidents involving the purported attacks on the PMO and Istana websites. I had wanted to give our government the benefit of doubt. But now I’m wondering if they ...
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I’m not surprised at all that something has happened to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) website. They had it coming when the Prime Minister threatened the cyber attackers. I wonder did the Infocomm Development ...
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News just in from Tech In Asia, a leaked internal incident report from IDA has revealed that their ISP “routing problems”, coupled with the failure of an Internet router, caused the massive outage last Saturday that ...
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This is breaking news. The Anonymous hacker group had threatened a protest on November 5th. I wonder if they have struck early. A whole bunch of Singapore government websites, including the likes of www.gov.sg, www.ida.gov.sg, ...
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It’s time to look at and compare browsers again. OS X Mavericks was just released last week, and along with all the OS improvements to help improve energy efficiency, there’s also a spanking new version of the Safari ...
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We all expect a certain level of privacy, but many of us know deep down in our hearts that nothing’s a secret on the Internet. So it should not come as too much of a surprise that companies like Facebook have cooperated ...
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We run some storage pods that are built based on BackBlaze design. Our latest build is a chassis containing 45 pieces of 3TB drives, giving us a total raw disk capacity of 135TB. It’s a nice system that provides plenty of ...
