So, last week, from 8th April onwards, the Singapore Government imposed a partial lockdown (PL) – or as they say euphemistically “circuit breaker” (CB). The Singapore Ministry of Education introduced Home-based Learning (HBL) that they […]
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A tip to play audio (and video) in a browser
So, the teacher in the house, aka my wife, asked me to help with the online teaching she has to do specifically with being able to play audio tracks for her students. She uses Fedora […]
Of NUCs and Bastions
[image above from https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/ssh-proxy-bastion-proxyjump%5D Just documenting the systems I have on my home network so that I know what to do next time as well as being a repository of tips and tricks for anyone […]
The sale of PIR.org (and with it .ORG)
About two weeks ago, the Internet Society announced that their subsidiary, the Public Interest Registry (PIR) will be sold to an external party. Like the announcement of the acquisition of Red Hat by IBM was […]
The Enormous Empowering of Free and Open Source Software Ecosystem
It is quite disappointing to see the escalation of bad behaviour on the part of some of the partners in the technology industry legally pushed on by US politicians who have no idea what they […]
A healthcare IT foundation built on gooey clay
Today, there was a report from the Solicitor General of Singapore about the data breach of the SingHealth systems that happened in July. These systems have been in place for many years. They are almost […]
So, you want to do computer science, huh?
This has been on my mind for a while. Lots of friends are asking me for advise about their interest in pursuing courses on computer science (undergrad or grad). First things first: I do have […]
Quarter Century of Innovation – aka Happy Birthday Linux!
Happy Birthday, Linux! Thank you Linus for that post (and code) from a quarter of a century ago. I distinctly remember coming across the post above on comp.os.minix while I was trying to figure out […]
And it’s live now – SCO Open Server 5.0.5 running in a RHEL 6 KVM
As promised earlier, the final bits of getting an application that runs on the old hardware on to the VM is now all done. I tried to install the app but, I really did not […]
Change and Opportunity
Change and evolution are hallmarks of any open source project. Ideas form, code gets cut, repurposed, refined and released (and sometimes thrashed). Much the same thing happens with teams of people. In the True Spirit […]
Open Source Java all the way
I am really pleased to see that the IcedTea project doing so well that for all the sites that need Java enabled in the browser, icedtea is more than sufficient. It used to be the […]
Managing open source skepticism
I had an opportunity to speak to a few people from a government tender drafting committee on Wednesday. They are looking at solutions that will be essentially a cloud for a large number of users […]
Glad to have participated in the Cloud Workshop in Penang
I am pleased to have spent two days at the National Cloud Computing Workshop 2011 held in Penang, Malaysia April 11-12 2011. Targeted at the Malaysian academic community, it offered some insights to the initiatives that […]
Cloud for Academics
I am pleased to have an opportunity to speak from both a Red Hat and an open source presective about cloud technologies to the academic community in Malaysia. Clearly there is a lot to […]
True Leadership and The Open Source Way
I live in the Free and Open Source World. A lot of what the FOSS movement’s ethos and principles are quite core to me. I think this webinar featuring Charlene Li is a required viewing. […]
FOSS.in Day 2 and feeling sick! Really sick!
Day two of the very last FOSS.in started a little late for me. I was developing a cold, a really bad cold. The one thing I always carry with me when I travel is vitamin […]
FOSS.in day 1 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 launch
FOSS.in in Bangalore (their Xth edition and allegedly their last), started off “in true FOSS.in style” – an hour late [this was what the MC said at the very beginning and is not an editorial […]
Participate in this info-comm survey
I think this survey, being run by the Nanyang Technology University and the Singapore Computer Society could use responses from across the world, not only Singapore. So, please consider participating and making this survey results […]
Reflections of a week of ISO/IEC JTC1 meeting in Belfast
Interesting meeting and great opportunity to meet with people who to me seem to be caught in a world that has seen it’s glory days. I was asked by the Singapore IT Standards Committee to attend […]
Being part of Community Architecture
It is time to tell the world that I have the distinct pleasure to become part of the Community Architecture team within Red Hat. This is indeed both an exciting as well as a deeply […]
Rescuing a SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 machine to run in a VM on RHEL5.4
I received a frantic SMS from an old classmate running a travel agency business saying that his SCO machine cannot now boot. He is running an application written to a 3-GL/4-GL product called Thoroughbred. He […]
