Geek Camp in Philippines with Fedora 10!
Happy to see Fedora 10 cds making it’s way into the Philippines! Well done, Herson!
Month: April 2009
MS Silly Patents
Pertinent article about the Tom Tom bullying by Microsoft. Linux Defenders 911 for anyone being threatened by patent suites.
ZDnet covers the MS “interop” event
Unfortunately, ZDnet is not quite accurate in their reporting. See my response at http://harishpillay.livejournal.com/154849.html. #fb
Cloud computing’s IaaS video from gogrid
Interesting video about cloud computing from the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) perspective. Need one each for for SaaS and
Testing true app api
testing to see if this post makes it to twitter and then to #fb
MS Interoperability event – summary
[Updated on April 29th because of ZDnet’s inaccurate reporting] The OIN gets assigned all the patents that then come under
Singapore ranked 16th in the Open Source Index!
Red Hat and Georgia Tech did an academic study about how Open Source fares around the world. The site has
Wonder who will attend?
Got wind of an interop event next week. Looks like it is about document standards, but it is not entirely
Instruction Manual for Life
This is right up my world view. Kudos to the authors!
What a delight!
I am really delighted to read about Ushahidi, Swahili for testimony. It is a Kenyan open source project that was
BSA Wins (again) on sleeze
I am not going to provide the link to the BSA’s site that has some videos and photos (I am
Beware the Bearer of April Fools tools
Is this an April Fool’s offer? So, MS is kind enough to offer a “stripped down” version of their “server
Yet another reason why software patents are stupid!
While it is a windfall for the person mentioned, and it is nice to see Microsoft paying out more money
MS continuing to block sales of Linux on Netbooks?
I think this article is a rehash, but I am sure that there is still some grain of truth in
[Singapore] Open Government and Open Parliament
I posted a very cynical comment but there is a bigger issue at play. There has never been any degree
[SG Politics] How many ministers does Singapore have?
I continue to be amazed by the utter waste of tax-payer monies that goes to pay the ministers who, on
DiaS’pura!
Just stumbled upon DiaS’pura. Love the play on words – diaspora + singapura. For the non-Singaporeans, Singapura is Singapore in