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IP SNMP Temperature Probe

April 19, 2011April 20, 2011 | Technology | We’ve been looking for IP-based temperature sensors for some time. Our existing temperature solutions are either of two types: 1) environment monitoring systems or their equivalents from APC, or 2) massive building ...

A Tale of Two Nexus S Phones

April 16, 2011April 22, 2011 | Technology | I was quite intrigued to learn that the Nexus S is carried by our local telcos, and sold subsidized with 2-year contract plans. The Nexus S is made by Samsung, and it is the second Google flagship phone. I decided to hop over to ...

It’s a World of Android Phones

April 4, 2011June 3, 2016 | Technology | 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 ...

Inside Singapore’s OpenNet

March 31, 2011October 28, 2021 | Technology | 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 ...

SSL Certificates: Single-Root vs Chained-Root

March 28, 2011May 26, 2016 | Technology | 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 ...

Samsung ST550 Review

March 26, 2011April 22, 2011 | Technology | 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 ...

Horrors of Online Banking

March 25, 2011April 17, 2014 | Technology | 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. ...

Virtual Ubuntu

March 23, 2011November 30, 2014 | Technology | 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 ...

Revisiting Gentoo Linux

March 22, 2011April 17, 2014 | Technology | 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 ...

Nokia, After Symbian

February 13, 2011May 10, 2016 | Technology | The big news last week, apart from Mubarak stepping down, is Nokia jumping ship. There had already been some speculation, before their Feb 11 announcement, that Nokia would tie up with Microsoft. Yet, I still found their press ...

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