The vibrancy of open source projects/products
On 8th December 2020, the other shoe dropped: the project known as Community Enterprise Operating System (CentOS, and I pronounce
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My ESP8266-01 Adventure
I undertook many projects this year, some that I did not even think would be something I would be doing
Jit.si if you care and Zoom if you don’t.
So, last week, from 8th April onwards, the Singapore Government imposed a partial lockdown (PL) – or as they say
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Change and Opportunity
Change and evolution are hallmarks of any open source project. Ideas form, code gets cut, repurposed, refined and released (and
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
Managing open source skepticism
I had an opportunity to speak to a few people from a government tender drafting committee on Wednesday. They are
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
Cloud for Academics
I am pleased to have an opportunity to speak from both a Red Hat and an open source presective about
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
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
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
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
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
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
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