I did not realise that there are plenty of videos of events at which I spoke, interviews I gave and panels I was part of. For my own purposes, I thought it is best if […]
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Working Remotely with FOSS tools
These last few months have been really wonderful in enabling me to catch up on making sure that as much of the technology that I use to be working online is indeed free and open […]
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 euphemistically “circuit breaker” (CB). The Singapore Ministry of Education introduced Home-based Learning (HBL) that they […]
BuildTogether – data, code, people for the world
The Singapore Government Technology Agency released, at the end of last week (Friday 20 March 2020) a mobile phone app, called TraceTogether which uses the bluetooth of the mobile phone to establish tiny database with […]
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 […]
xrandr – note to self
This is really a note to self because every now and then, the external monitor at my desk, a Dell 27″ monitor, gets confused. My laptop – a Lenovo T450s running either Fedora 31 or […]
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 […]
Start-ups and patents
I have been part of a few start-ups and there has always been the conversations around “are we patenting our ideas?”. I understand the nature and purpose of a patent and the lofty principles behind […]
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” – Blaise Pascal
This. There was a time when I was so happy to be able to connect to the Internet with my mobile phone by dialing-in into the ISP. I remember on a trip to Tel Aviv, […]
Simple life hack
Turn your mobile data to the OFF as a default when out and about. Why? Read on. Since about October 2017, I’ve been quite conscious about how my phone connects to the data network via […]
NASA Space Apps Challenge 2018 – Singapore
It was wonderful that Red Hat’s Open Innovation Labs is a sponsor of this year’s NASA Space Apps Challenge event that is being held in Singapore. It was held at LEVEL3‘s offices at the Mapletree […]
Not allowed to code? Really?
[image from: http://cdn.blog.safe.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/no-coding.png%5D Lots of interesting, but not surprising, information is being made public about the Singhealth data breach. The Commitee of Inquiry has been told that there was an IHIS employee who found a […]
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 […]
What I’ve learned in 15 years at Red Hat
[image credit: https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Spock-shades.jpg%5D In September 2003, I was asked by Gus Robertson to consider joining Red Hat – essentially to kickstart the Red Hat office in Singapore/ASEAN. I was at that time running my own […]
You gotta love the UNIX way of doing things
A colleague was asking for some help in a demo he was planning on that would involve him editing a spreadsheet in LibreOffice on his laptop and then the spreadsheet to be saved to a […]
My updated GPG keys: 0x61AFA27B
I have just updated my GPG keys. The fingerprint is: 0x61AFA27B And my public key is: —–BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK—– mQINBFtV24ABEADERsMgNNOOFpzfaYxrmlmYPd0IOjFn3iIba38SvqVyWJxLmuvc[…]
SingHealth, PDPA, Smart Nation, sigh!
Looks like I am clear from the data breach at SingHealth. My Mom’s data, however, is not. This is the SMS received: Yes, I’ve redacted her name, and yes, I use Signal as my SMS […]
ssh tunnel via userspace systemd service
[image above is a screenshot of 0pointer.de – in place of a systemd logo] This is short how-to on setting up a systemd service that is run from a user account. In the /etc/systemd/system directory: […]
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 […]
Seeking a board seat at OpenSource.org
I’ve stepped up to be considered for a seat on the Board of the Open Source Initiative. Why would I want to do this? Simple: most of my technology-based career has been made possible because […]
Wireless@SGx for Fedora and Linux users
Eight years ago, I wrote about the use of Wireless@SGx being less than optimal. I must acknowledge that there has been efforts to improve the access (and speeds) to the extent that earlier this week, […]
Three must haves in Fedora 26
I’ve been using Fedora ever since it came out back in 2003. The developers of Fedora and the greater community of contributors have been doing a amazing job in incorporating features and functionality that subsequently […]
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 […]
Congratulations NUS Engineers Class of 2016!
My speech at the Commencement of NUS Faculty of Engineering on July 12, 2016 at 3:00 pm. Mr Neo Kian Hong, Member, NUS Board of Trustees, Distinguished Guests, Friends and Families of Graduands, Graduating Class […]
This is quite a nice tool – magic-wormhole
I was catching up on the various talks at PyCon 2016 held in the wonderful city of Portland, Oregon last month. There are lots of good content available from PyCon 2016 on youtube. What I […]
UEFI and Fedora/RHEL – trivially working.
My older son just enrolled into my alma mater, Singapore Polytechnic, to do Electrical Engineering. It is really nice to see that he has an interest in that field and, yes, make me smile as […]
A blast from the past
I was searching for advertisements that I recalled seeing in the Linux Journal back in the mid 1990s that was put out by Red Hat about their upcoming release of Red Hat Linux. Fortunately, I […]
Why Open Standards and Open Source Matters in Government
I have offered to the powers that be (TPTB) running the various Town Councils in Singapore an opportunity for the open source community to help build an application to manage their respective towns following the […]
FUDCon Kuala Lumpur 2012
It is wonderful to see the Fedora Users and Developers Conference kick off in Kuala Lumpur today, May 18 2012. The plan was for me to attend, do a keynote and also pitch a talk […]
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 […]
Fedora 17 before it is released
I decided to take the plunge and run Fedora 17 before it’s officially launched in May. My system has been running Fedora 16 x86-64 since the launch last November and I must say that it […]
Microsoft’s “open technology” spinoff
While I would like to stand up and cheer Microsoft on them setting up the “Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc”, I am not convinced that they are doing this in good faith. Microsoft’s founder, Bill Gates, […]
Exposing localhost via a tunnel
I came across this tool, localtunnel, that offers a way to expose a localhost based webserver (for example) to the internet. It is a reverse proxy that brings you to your machine way behind a […]
The Value of being Heard and Consulted
Some of you would know that I am employed by a company called Red Hat since September 2003, it will be nine years with the organization. That’s longer than I have been with any of […]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 comes to the rescue of SCO Open Server in a VM!
After about two years ago to the day (plus or minus), I’ve finally gotten around to moving a friend’s ancient SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 to run on a modern operating system within a virtual machine. My […]
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 […]
Now all machines at home are on Fedora 15!
I spent 30 minutes this morning upgrading my sons’ laptops to Fedora 15. I used a Fedora 15 LiveDVD (installed on a USB) that I had created that included stuff that the standard Fedora 15 […]
Printer/cups tip
Every time I update the OS on my laptops, I have to add the CUPS printer settings for the in office systems. It used to be that there was an internally usable RPM to do […]
Early thoughts on GNOME 3
I must admit, the first time I installed Fedora 15 alpha, I did it only to test out what GNOME 3 was all about. It looked like an interesting interface that would work on a […]
My must-haves on any new Fedora installation
So, I’ve taken the plunge and gone ahead and updated my Fedora 14 to the next rev of Fedora 15. F15 comes default with GNOME 3. I am still finding my way around it, but […]
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. […]
NASA’s inaugural Open Source Summit
I missed the live streaming of the NASA OSS Summit but it is mostly all captured and available on ustream.tv. These are the links to the recordings: Day One: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13644010 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13644386 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13647514 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13650365 Day Two: […]
Taking the higher ground
I am disappointed with the kinds of ad hominem attacks being made at the person from the PAP who is being labelled as the PAP’s youngest candidate to be introduced this time around. It is one […]
Interesting post from a non-techie moving to Fedora
A good friend of mine sent me a note about his friend’s experience in moving to a Fedora and Red Hat desktop environment. That person is a non-techie and this is his report – all […]
Unfiltered feed from Al Jazeera
If you are running Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you can watch the raw feed from Al Jazeera using this script: ======>8=====cut here============= #!/bin/sh rtmpdump -v -r[…]
This is what thought leadership is an example of!
I am pleased to see this note by Michael Tiemann, President of Open Source, Inc. As 2011 opens up, I would not be surprised to see the CPTN Holdings LLC, begin to play the game […]
Interesting to see me quoted
I was pleasantly pinged by someone who said that I was being quoted in an article saying: “The best moment for me was the launch of Fedora 14 (and subsequently Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) Enterprise 6) along with the […]
How to buy a Dell WITHOUT windows
I was asked by a friend to get a Fedora CD to her and her friend so that their children can learn to use Linux. I suggested that I will help by shipping the Live […]
National Convention for Academics and Researchers, Hyderabad, India
I had the distinct privilege of attending and speaking at the National Convention for Academics and Researchers 2010 in Hyderabad on December 17 and 18 2010. The event was held at the Mahindra Satyam Technology […]
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 […]
GPG Keysigning at FOSS.in 2010
I will be attending the FOSS.in event from December 15-17 in Bangalore, India. As part of the Fedora participation at the FOSS.in, I will be running a GPG keysigning party. This will be the first […]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 launch in Singapore
Red Hat is launching the next version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, version 6, on December 3rd 2010 in Singapore at the M Hotel, Anson Road. It starts at 9 am. I would be sharing […]
