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I recently attended a gathering of people who have some interests in Linux. I was quite surprised by the big turnout. I believe the organizers themselves did not think there would be such a big interest, because they had booked ...
Category: Technology
All technology things, computers, networking, IT security, etc.
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They’ve waited a long time. For iPhone customers on the AT&T network, finally, MMS has arrived. You’d have thought that the US would be more technologically advanced in these sort of things, but MMS has only just ...
My Service Port Number from IANA
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Let me hao lian about my personal port number. I was just reading about CARP, the Common Address Resolution Protocol, this afternoon and learnt about how they failed to secure a protocol number from IANA (Internet Assigned ...
Made to Pay for Open Source Software
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I recently bought a copy of Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition. It carries a street price of about S$120 in Singapore, which is about the same as what you can get off from Amazon (US$84.99). I get to install it on up ...
Windows 7 to Launch at US$30
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Apple’s Snow Leopard must really have put the pressure on Windows 7. Microsoft has announced a new educational pricing of just US$30. Yes, that matches Snow Leopard’s retail price of just US$29. But Microsoft’s ...
Monopoly City Streets
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The current hot game on the Internet is Monopoly City Streets. So hot that it crashed on day one. So hot that it had to be reset. So hot that on the day it as reincarnated, it ran into trouble again. If you’ve not yet ...
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At Apple’s special media event yesterday, Apple announced the immediate availability of entirely refreshed family of iPod devices. The new generation of iPod nano received the biggest upgrade, which includes a new video ...
Keeping WordPress Secure
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A hot topic going around in WordPress circles now is a worm making its rounds hijacking vulnerable WordPress installations, and how just a little effort on the part of administrators could have saved the trouble of cleaning up ...
iPhoto ’09
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I know I’m a little late talking about iPhoto ’09. But I just got my iLife ’09 box last week, installed it into my MacBook, and played with iPhoto ’09 for the first time after having read so much about its ...
iWork ’09 or Office 2008 for Mac
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Actually, the question I needed to answer was whether or not to get the Snow Leopard Mac Box Set. I want Snow Leopard, and I want iLife ’09. Do I get the Snow Leopard Upgrade and iLife ’09, or do I get the Snow ...