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 […]
Tag: opensource
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 […]
This is very interesting! (it is proprietary though)
I just came across something called hashgraph that seems to be able to replace blockchains as the basis of distributed ledgers. The hashgraph is wrtten up by Dr Leemon Baird in this paper: http://leemon.com/papers/2016b.pdf is […]
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 […]
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 three libraries. Need to grant permission to SELinux to run the following: #!/bin/sh chcon -t […]
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 affair and we had about 120 or students in attendance – including about 10-20 faculty. […]
Standards meeting today
Looking forward to a meeting on open standards later this afternoon with a couple of people from Microsoft. Should be fun.
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. You can then, based on browsing the portfolio’s contents, decide to commission the artist to […]
Way to go, Mr. McNealy!
Finally, something enormously valuable from Scott McNealy. I think these types of comments are what we need to jolt the governments (even the Singapore government’s InfoComm Development Authority) to snap out of their M$/proprietary software […]
