How much lower can they go?
While I am not surprised that it happened, the fact remains that once a business feels that it’s status as
Month: April 2008
Ignoring the MSM (main stream media)
Let me put this out: in the Singapore context, does ignoring the MSM do the country a favour? The MSM,
A wongkanseng moment
I think I just had a wongkanseng moment, you know the ones where you had no idea what was happening,
It is a war between IBM and MS?
Today, April 29th 2008’s, Digital Life’s “Hot News” section has a blurb about failed ooxml tests. That blurb is reproduced
My post to www.p65.sg
[This was posted to: http://www.p65.sg/2008/04/23/accountability-responsibility-culpability/; the http://www.p65.sg site is too kiddish, a laughable attempt at the p65 (meaning those MPs
Fedora for Ammuma (grandma)
The PC at my mom’s home running Fedora (albeit older version) and the machine finally failed – the harddisk locked
F9 and bringing Linux even further
Although I am not a big fan of KDE, it is probably something that a lot of folks like and
Really pleased with Fedora 9
I have been spending a lot of time with F9 beta and all I can say is that it just
ooxml conformance test fails for ms office 2007 – well done
I guess this is a reasonable test to call the bluff that is the ooxml specification and of MS’s implementation
“Patent-protected and open source” MSspeak
What a bunch of croc! This story is amazing. I appreciate that this is a story being spun out of
So, did they win fairly?
If you look at the ongoing spins, it appears that the Microsoft camp is still trying to justifiy that they
Couple of nice tools
Just came across a nice CUPS plugin to print to a PDF directly -. On Fedora 8, a simple yum
Looks like streetdirectory.com is back – sort of
Looks like they are back online but minus the street directory info. Try looking for anything and all you get
Broken (again) tax filing site!
Ah, another screw up by the “tax authorities” in continuing to depend on “ncs, avandae, microsoft” for building their mytax.iras.gov.sg
What an inspiration!
Many excuses can be offered for not doing or missing out on something. But I think this chap is clearly
Nice to hear that …
People at the areas that matter have nothing good to say about a certain set of products from a certain
code::XtremeApps 2008
The ITSC will be launching this year’s 24-hr programming contest next week on April 18th. I think this video will
More baby steps
It is nice to read that atleast some parts of Microsoft are willing and keen to engage FOSS on FOSS
Happy Birthday OSS!
It will be reported all over the net today. While I prefer to say “Free Software”, English, unfortunately, is horrible
Open Source Decade: 10 years after the Free Software Summit
On the tenth anniversary of the Free Software Summit, the event where the term “open source” was introduced to the
Thanks for being a friend, Andrew!
My good friend and mentor, Andrew, stood down from the Singapore Computer Society council after serving in it for about
New Acquisition
’nuff said. Props to AF for the artwork!
streetdirectory.com hosed?
This is what I get from http://www.streetdirectory.com. Looks like they are front-ending their Windows 2008 server with a FreeBSD machine.
Tell me the difference!
View Album Get your own
Halloween documents redux?
Looks like ten years hence, the spectre of leaky email systems seems to have hit MS, again. In the Halloween
Two new DIS’ get approval
Close on the heels of the DIS 29500 (or was it DIS 29600 as two of Singapore’s foremost IT associations