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HTC Dream: First Android phone in Asia via Singtel

 

Singapore, February 2009 – Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) and HTC Corporation unveiled the first Android™ powered mobile phone released in Asia – the HTC Dream™. Customers of SingTel and its wholly-owned subsidiary in Australia, Optus, will soon be the first in Asia to enjoy this highly anticipated device.

"We are delighted to work with Google and HTC [...]

Nokia e61, apps and ssh client for Symbian Series

Its been awhile since I had my Nokia e61, the so called “crackberry” phone since it somewhat compete with devices made by RIM (Research In Motion), maker of Blackberrys. Actually, it bears more than a striking resemblance to the Motorola Q and the RIM BlackBerry 8700 series.

With all its glory reviewed here and here, I only [...]

Linux-friendly Minimart using Linux POS in Phuket Thailand

I was reading my backlog mails including my PLUG subscription when I stumbled upon a topic that was discuss recently. Someone mentioned that a chain of popular grocery store in the Philippines had migrated to a Linux-based POS when their license agreement has expired.

I remembered to have seen a Linux-based POS in one of chain [...]

Monitoring UNIX Application Performance

Application Monitoring is a very important aspect of a project. Unfortunately, not much attention is being is paid to develop an effective monitoring while the project is not live. Once the project is live, the lack of proper monitoring factors in terms of downtime when the support person is not aware if application [...]

How to Monitor the health of your shared hosting server

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So you got yourself a shiny new web hosting package. In today’s rate, multi-gigabyte storage space and multi-terabyte network traffic is very much affordable.

The thing with this packages is that they are shared-hosting meaning you shared the same physical server with other clients. The ratio of user’s to [...]

Singapore Ubuntu mirror

I was surprised that there is no available Singapore download mirror for Ubuntu as shown here http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download:

 

If you’re in Asia, you can include the FTP server of National University of Singapore (NUS)ftp://ftp.science.nus.edu.sg/pub/ as your download source.

They also host other Linux distros as well as CPAN.

 

Update:

I got an email from Ang Kah Yik that the local [...]

Password-less login using putty on Nokia E-Series (e61)

This document will tackle on how to set password-less SSH login on Linux (Ubuntu) using RSA key

On occasion, I have the need to establish trust relationships between Unix/Linux boxes so that I can administer the box. Because OpenSSH allows you to run commands on remote systems, showing you the results directly, as well as just logging [...]

VMWare Server 2: Unable to build the vsock module

If you encounter the following error after installing VMWare Server 2.0 RCx to Ubuntu:

Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only’
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.24.4-desktop-1mnb/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.24.4-desktop-1mnb’
CC [M] /root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.o
In file included from /root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c:92:
/root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/./include/compat_wait.h:64: error: conflicting types for ‘poll_initwait’
include/linux/poll.h:65: error: previous declaration of ‘poll_initwait’ was here
/root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c:260: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/root/tmp/vmware-config0/vsock-only/linux/af_vsock.c: In [...]

Choppy video when viewing 1080p using VLC

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Do you have 1080p video that your dying to watch only to found out that your high end PC/Laptop seems not up to the task of decoding?

We’ll, there’s quick fix for it but let’s have quick overview on what is 1080p:

1080p is the shorthand name for a category of display resolutions.

The [...]

Open Source password manager (KeePassX)

Let me start this entry by quoting Bruce Schneier, an internationally acclaimed cryptographer and security researcher:

As a cryptography and computer security expert, I have never understood the current fuss about the open source software movement. In the cryptography world, we consider open source necessary for good security; we have for decades. Public security is always more [...]