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January 9, 2023January 16, 2023 harishpillay

Open source codebases are the bedrock of today’s enterprise systems

January 2, 2023January 3, 2023 harishpillay

My very first computer lesson/usage – 1976!

December 15, 2020 harishpillay

Let’s Encrypt and self hosting at home

December 13, 2020December 14, 2020 harishpillay

The vibrancy of open source projects/products

December 1, 2020December 2, 2020 harishpillay

My ESP8266-01 Adventure

November 16, 2020 harishpillay

Being part of a tradition

June 21, 2020June 23, 2020 harishpillay

Of trust and obfuscation

June 7, 2020June 7, 2020 harishpillay

Seriously? NRIC for TraceTogether?

June 6, 2020June 6, 2020 harishpillay

Looking forward to a recyclable, open sourced, wearable, contact tracing device

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 harishpillay

A flawed idea. Zoom does not get it (or maybe they are pretending).

May 29, 2020 harishpillay

Curated playlist of videos

May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 harishpillay

Working Remotely with FOSS tools

April 13, 2020April 13, 2020 harishpillay

Jit.si if you care and Zoom if you don’t.

April 12, 2020April 12, 2020 harishpillay

A tip to play audio (and video) in a browser

March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 harishpillay

No. Internet voting is still a No Go.

March 23, 2020April 4, 2020 harishpillay

BuildTogether – data, code, people for the world

December 29, 2019 harishpillay

Of NUCs and Bastions

December 4, 2019December 5, 2019 harishpillay

xrandr – note to self

November 22, 2019November 22, 2019 harishpillay

Handwaving. No surprises.

November 19, 2019 harishpillay

Two statements that I live by

November 15, 2019 harishpillay

Fa(r)cial Recognition + Parliament = Smart Parliament?

June 2, 2019 harishpillay

Standard C150 handheld – manual and schematic

May 20, 2019May 21, 2019 harishpillay

The Enormous Empowering of Free and Open Source Software Ecosystem

April 15, 2019 harishpillay

Good bye and On on!

April 10, 2019 harishpillay

Start-ups and patents

March 28, 2019 harishpillay

Congratulations to the new SCS president and council

March 25, 2019March 25, 2019 harishpillay

Why am I running for the presidency of the SCS?

January 9, 2019 harishpillay

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” – Blaise Pascal

December 13, 2018 harishpillay

Electronic voting and trust

November 28, 2018 harishpillay

Simple life hack

November 10, 2018 harishpillay

Working around censorship

October 21, 2018October 22, 2018 harishpillay

NASA Space Apps Challenge 2018 – Singapore

September 29, 2018September 29, 2018 harishpillay

Not allowed to code? Really?

September 28, 2018September 28, 2018 harishpillay

Happy 35th Birthday GNU!

September 21, 2018 harishpillay

A healthcare IT foundation built on gooey clay

September 8, 2018September 9, 2018 harishpillay

What I’ve learned in 15 years at Red Hat

August 14, 2018August 14, 2018 harishpillay

You gotta love the UNIX way of doing things

July 23, 2018 harishpillay

My updated GPG keys: 0x61AFA27B

July 22, 2018July 24, 2018 harishpillay

SingHealth, PDPA, Smart Nation, sigh!

July 19, 2018July 19, 2018 harishpillay

ssh tunnel via userspace systemd service

June 3, 2018June 20, 2022 harishpillay

And, they are online now

April 8, 2018April 8, 2018 harishpillay

You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep**

March 11, 2018March 11, 2018 harishpillay

Seeking a board seat at OpenSource.org

February 14, 2018July 16, 2018 harishpillay

Wireless@SGx for Fedora and Linux users

July 20, 2017 harishpillay

Three must haves in Fedora 26

August 25, 2016August 25, 2016 harishpillay

Quarter Century of Innovation – aka Happy Birthday Linux!

July 11, 2016July 11, 2016 harishpillay

This is quite a nice tool – magic-wormhole

May 12, 2014 harishpillay

UEFI and Fedora/RHEL – trivially working.

October 21, 2013October 22, 2013 harishpillay

A blast from the past

June 22, 2013June 22, 2013 harishpillay

Getting a good grip on the haze conditions

February 10, 2013February 13, 2013 harishpillay

This is too cool!

January 29, 2013January 29, 2013 harishpillay

In a word, wow!

January 9, 2013January 9, 2013 harishpillay

Doing the right thing and a proposal

January 8, 2013January 9, 2013 harishpillay

It’s not a contest per se, it’s a Sahana-moment!

January 5, 2013 harishpillay

Why Open Standards and Open Source Matters in Government

January 3, 2013October 28, 2018 harishpillay

My Conscience Is Bugging Me

December 30, 2012December 30, 2012 harishpillay

Software for Public Sector Applications

July 8, 2012July 9, 2012 harishpillay

A helper note for family and friends about your connectivity to the Internet from July 9 2012

May 8, 2012June 13, 2022 harishpillay

And it’s live now – SCO Open Server 5.0.5 running in a RHEL 6 KVM

April 29, 2012April 29, 2012 harishpillay

Fedora 17 before it is released

April 16, 2012 harishpillay

ACTA 2.0? Are more secret negotiations underway?

April 16, 2012 harishpillay

Microsoft’s “open technology” spinoff

April 5, 2012 harishpillay

Exposing localhost via a tunnel

March 28, 2012March 28, 2012 harishpillay

What does it take?

March 11, 2012March 11, 2012 harishpillay

The Value of being Heard and Consulted

February 27, 2012February 27, 2012 harishpillay

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 comes to the rescue of SCO Open Server in a VM!

August 27, 2011August 27, 2011 harishpillay

Cool tech tip

July 27, 2011July 27, 2011 harishpillay

OSCON 2011 – Tuesday July 26

July 20, 2011July 20, 2011 harishpillay

Change and Opportunity

June 18, 2011June 19, 2011 harishpillay

Now all machines at home are on Fedora 15!

May 30, 2011May 30, 2011 harishpillay

Printer/cups tip

May 27, 2011 harishpillay

Early thoughts on GNOME 3

May 27, 2011 harishpillay

My must-haves on any new Fedora installation

May 12, 2011 harishpillay

Is Vietnam blocking Facebook?

April 21, 2011April 21, 2011 harishpillay

Managing open source skepticism

April 12, 2011April 15, 2011 harishpillay

Glad to have participated in the Cloud Workshop in Penang

April 11, 2011 harishpillay

Cloud for Academics

April 9, 2011 harishpillay

Believing in your own BS

April 9, 2011 harishpillay

True Leadership and The Open Source Way

March 31, 2011March 31, 2011 harishpillay

NASA’s inaugural Open Source Summit

March 31, 2011April 1, 2011 harishpillay

Taking the higher ground

March 24, 2011 harishpillay

Interesting post from a non-techie moving to Fedora

November 2, 2004February 27, 2011 harishpillay

RMS in Singapore

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