Trust, Governance and Democracy
As Singapore prepares for the announcement of the dissolution of parliament (sometime next week I think), as a nation we
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
Some thoughts about NS
I was reading some rather interesting arguments against continuing National Service as we have today. While I think there are
Cloud for Academics
I am pleased to have an opportunity to speak from both a Red Hat and an open source presective about
I have a dream
I have a dream that this nation of mine will rise above mediocrity and prove that we are people of
Believing in your own BS
I spend pretty much 100% of my waking hours in the IT world. A world that changes and evolves rapidly.
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
Great way to get a pension for life!
I was reminded when I read the Papsicle post about how we now will have two individuals who were apparently
We, The Citizens of Singapore
We, the citizens of Singapore, pledge ourselves as one united people, regardless of race, language or religion, to build a
Throwing off the GerrymandeRed Constituency (GRC) yoke as independents
If you want to run for parliament you need to fulfill the following requirements (all from Parliamentary Elections Act 218):
What if it was Prime Minister David Saul Marshall?
Growing up in the 60s and 70s, I was not given much of an opportunity (not that I cared then),
The Productivity Gambit
Perhaps the only useful nugget out of last night’s “Political Forum on Singapore’s Future”, was that all the participants agreed
Disappointed, but not surprised!
I watched with disappointment the “Political Forum on Singapore’s Future” on TV. I think the format was so contrived that
Tilting the playing field
I was reviewing the information at the Elections Department site on what are the terms and conditions for standing for
My Wish For Singapore (aka my manifesto-in-making)
I thought it would be useful for me to publish my wish list for Singapore. This is a first draft.
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.
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
As the parliamentary elections approach, should I or shouldn’t I?
Many thoughts run through my mind on this upcoming parliamentary elections (or as some say, general elections). The system we
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
A great blast from the past
The recent approval to increase the salary (“privy purse”) of the Singapore president reminded me of a speech that Ms
SMS spam
Am always tickled to receive spam via SMS. The first one this year came on January 8th and reads as:
Quick analysis of 2006 and 2001 Parliamentary Elections results
A lazy Sunday afternoon google docs analysis of the 2006 and 2001 parliamentary elections aka general elections done here shows
Data analysis sought
I’ve extracted the stats from the Singapore elections department‘s site and set up a tabulated voting results from the very
This is it!
Kudos to Mr Brown for nailing the “hard truths” as opposed to the original half truths. Hard Truths #11 and
A combined Presidential and General Election, perhaps?
So, the Elections Department (a unit of the Prime Minister’s Office – wink, wink), has finally re-drawn the electoral boundaries
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
Setting up the standard Andriod marketplace on the Archos 10.1
I was not a very pleased user of the Archos 10.1 ever since I got it last December. The issue
The magic of brand loyalty
We are all slaves to perception. What you perceives essentially drives your actions. Yes, we can think through the issues
Virtualization and the Internet
I had the privilege of speaking to a great group of network operators as part of the South Asian Network
Temporary fix to StarHub’s illegal code injection
StarHub continues to do their illegal code injection into the return stream and here are four ways to you temporarily
You gotta love StarHub!
So, I had to call StarHub today to sort out a payment issue. Dialed 1637 and their wonderful interactive voice
2010 in review
[Personal note: I moved to wordpress.com from livejournal.com because I was rather disappointed with the lack of community around livejournal.com’s
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
Was I fair?
I read with amusement some of the comments that people made with regards to the chat I had with the
Let’s hope this does not escalate tonight!
I just saw a note on a mailing list that the Radio and Television Malaysia‘s website was cracked. It looks
Security breach of addons.mozilla.org
Thanks to Mozilla for this pro-active reporting of the security breach. If any of you reading this blog have an
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
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
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
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
Interesting stuff this week!
I have the pleasure of attending two interesting events this week – both in India. One is FOSS.in in Bangalore
This is so clever!
When something clever, it deserves pointing out. Google posted a video about their Chrome OS and that video had some
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
Feedback/inputs into the Singapore national budget
I received a note from the Singapore government feedback unit for inputs into the next budget. I think I will
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
Eagerly awaiting the NASA press conference
NASA will be hosting a press conference on December 2nd at 1900 GMT about some important astrobiological announcement. I for
Fedora 14 launched in Singapore
Fedora 14 was officially launched on November 29, 2010 at the Singapore Management University. The event was jointly held with
More twists and turns
News is coming in that Novell is being bought out by Attachmate for about US$2.2 billion along with Novell’s “intellectual
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
Standards work
Not sure how the upcoming week will pan out, but I am definitely eager to learn what are the nuances
Doing the Right Thing
Really nice to see that there are people with the right motivations and ability to live their lives in honesty.
Congratulations Fedora!
Really happy to see Fedora 14 unleased at 1400 GMT today. I had an opportunity today to engage with a
StarHub’s illegal code injection
Some time ago, I decided to get the a cable TV set-top box from http://starhub.com. It works OK. Perhaps recorded one
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
My Dreams for Singapore on this National Day
Majulah Singapura! I am a few years older than Singapore has been an independent country. When I was born, my
This is a fair request for a greater view of how Singapore is to be governed.
The following speech was delivered by Mr Viswa Sadasivan, Nominated Member of Parliament at the parliamentary sitting today, July 19
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
Minor issue with NetworkManager and Fedora 12
Just solved a problem on my Fedora 12 32-bit machine (Acer Aspire One D250). For some reason, the nm-applet is
Automatically connecting to the Wireless@SG hotspots
Thanks to a caustic comment some years ago to Lee Kuan Yew by some visitors to Singapore, we have a
Fonera 2.0n finally!
Finally vpost delivers the Fonera 2.0n I ordered online. Earlier this week, I was suprised to receive a letter (yes,
Xournal
Thanks to Xournal, you can now annotate any PDF and export it out to a new PDF. This is excellent
Brother DCP-135C and Fedora 12
I was disappointed that the Brother DCP-135C is not within the CUPS database. However, kudos to Brother, they do make
Temporary fix to run Chromium in Fedora 12
Filed in BZ: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=550651 Just updated Chromium via Spot’s page using yum update for Fedora 12. SELinux permission issues on
Digital Restrictions Mismanagement or in Microsoft-speak RMS Restriction Mismgt System
Why would anyone continue to put any more credibility with the entire Digital Restrictions (mis)Management that our Redmond friends continue
Deviant Linux? Normal Microsoft computer?
This was on a mailing list and thought I should publish it here for posterity. (Tech Support | California, USA)
The Singapore Dilemma
So, the PSLE results came out today, November 26 2009. My son did well (got 3As and an A*) and
Fedora 12 launch at Singapore Polytechnic
Happy to have helped with the launch of Fedora 12 at the Singapore Polytechnic. It was a lunch and learn
Good to be recognized
Quietly pleased to be recognized with a Merit Award from Spring Singapore for “meritorious service and contribution to the Singapore
Acer Aspire One D250, Fedora and Android
My Mom was asking me for a small laptop for her to use and I figured that the best thing
US PTO Fail – approves sudo patent
I truly wonder how the US PTO can even grant US Patent 7,617,530 in the first place. It is not
Seeing excitement in the eyes of instructors! – Morning of Day 4 of POSSE.
It was a real delight to see the level of excitement when we did the document creation and editing at
Standards meeting today
Looking forward to a meeting on open standards later this afternoon with a couple of people from Microsoft. Should be
Keeping a portfolio of accomplishments – an epiphany
Mention portfolio to an artist, and she will be only too happy to show off the work she has done.
StarHub’s prepaid mobile broadband SIM activation via SMS
This is really a note-to-self because the StarHub website http://www.starhub.com/maxmobileprepaid/selfhelp is horribly broken (aka it needs and works with Internet
POSSE Singapore
Coming to the 2nd half of day 1 of the first ever POSSE in Singapore. Working on how to use
Setting up the HTC Dream to work with StarHub prepaid broadband
StarHub’s prepaid mobile broadband is annoying to use! Urggh. Appended is the settings that I have to add to the
So I was wrong!
In this post done in 2006, I predicted a few things, but the one that is closest to being spot
Run Out Date
Today, October 15, 2009, I complete my obligations to serve my country in the uniformed services. Today, I stand down
Saving Singapore’s SOE – scrap it!
Isn’t something to read that India could save US$2billion if FOSS is adopted at 50% levels in India. Compare that
As SOEasy crashes and burns, Singapore’s Ministry of Education does the Right Thing
What a pleasant surprise to read that the Singapore Ministry of Education has signed a deal to deploy Google Apps
Welcoming to the Right Side of history
I think it is very early to welcome Microsoft to the right side of the history of computing and consumption
MSFT’s analysis of security
I was asked by @tonynewling for my take on “Vista One Year Vulnerability Report”. I finally got time to look
reminder: rescuing an installed Linux machine – Fedora
Last Friday I promised a good friend that I will provide him with a LiveCD that contains a bunch of
Taking the Singapore Pledge at 8:22 pm (1222 UTC) on August 9th 2009
Happy National Day! Here’s the pledge which we can recite at 8:22 pm – the time is chosen because that
My Virtual Chumby!
Ajay’s channel:
Perhaps I should do this!
I have been contemplating getting the LG X110 netbook but without the Windows installed in it. Given that Amazon readily
Red Hat’s CEO on CNBC Asia today
Video clip of interview of Jim Whitehurst CEO of Red Hat on CNBC Asia today in Singapore.
Missing the point about commercial open source
I cannot but emphatize with the post and his sentiment. The key point is in engaging and work with community
Simple yet effective solution!
It is these simple innovations that bring a smile to my engineer heart! I did not quite think of all
LG’s X110 netbook and Fedora
I was roaming around Sim Lim yesterday and came across a LG X110 netbook. These days I tend to carry
So MS has code in the Linux kernel, big deal.
While it is nice to see Microsoft playing nicely (for once) with the Linux and GPL space with their device
It was today 40 years ago!
As I recall and share with my sons and wife about how I felt 40 years ago watching on our
Another silly MS patent bites the dust!
Kudos to Tridge in working to remove another of the MS alleged patents that they claim is infriged upon by
This is so funny!
It is ever so nice to have a good belly laugh and all thanks to @osrin who tweeted that he
Congrats, Viswa!
I am really happy to note that my good buddy will become a Nominated Member of Parliament. The only link
No one gets fired for buying Microsoft? Not at the London Stock Exchange!
Simply a great story reaffirming how the failure of technical leadership and fundamental understanding about the need to have a
Congratulations to the NZ Government!
It is heartening to read that the NZ government’s negotiations with MS for NZgovt to fork out more money to