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Singapore’s Optical Fibre Coverage Hits 60%

An optical fiber distribution frame.

As of December 31, 2010, 60% of Singapore’s residential and non-residential buildings are now installed with Singapore’s ultra-high-speed, fibre broadband network. continue reading....

Smooth upgrade from Fedora Linux 13 to 14 using yum

Last weekend I had the urge to upgrade “viasvr”, my headless low power home server which function as file/storage, ftp, squid proxy, torrent and offsite backup pulling my website data from my hosting provider on daily basis. It is also running Hamachi2 which allows me to securely tunnel my browsing session from an unsecured connection like public wifi to my squid proxy server. continue reading....

IRAS SG, an iPhone app to calculate your tax – Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore

Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) has developed an iPhone app called IRAS SG. They said it “offer an alternative mode for individual taxpayers to perform simple transactions on the move.” continue reading....

SCS Interest Group Workshop Series: Open Source Database for Enterprises

The Open Source Software for Innovation and Collaboration SIG (OSSIC SIG) is launching a series of Capability Building Workshops for Singapore Computer Society members. continue reading....

Manually Importing .ics to Google Calendar

Google Calendar allows multiple calendars to be created and shown in the same view. Each can be shared, either read-only or with full edit control, and either with specified people or with everyone (public calendars). It supports exporting calendar data through a permanent HTTP URL containing iCalendar data, either at a public or "private" address continue reading....

CloudCamp Singapore 2010 – where early adopters of Cloud Computing technologies exchange ideas

I just received notice that CloudCamp Singapore is going to be held on Monday night (Sept 20th) at 5:30pm. Its a free event which will be held at PayPal’s office in Suntec Towers (map). I think you’ll love this event because Cloud Computing is hot, and unconferences are a great way to discuss hot topics.  continue reading....

Philippine Information Agency website defaced

Is this related to the recent hostage taking? The website is now back up but no mention of the defacing…. continue reading....

Watch GMA Free Live Streaming

This is for Filipinos (Pinoy) living overseas who do not have access to PinoyTV or TFC, you can watch the two leading Philippine TV network broadcast free streaming via hayag.com. The broadcast is a little delayed by a few minutes and quality is so-so since it is compressed but what the heck, this is what you get for free.GMA Pinoy TV continue reading....

DOST ASTI hosting Centos and Other Linux/BSD Mirror

I was playing with some of the virtual machines running on my “hosted ESX” (ESX running as a guest vm on VMware Workstation 7, that’s two levels of virtualization, trying to gauge the responsiveness and network utilization of the Virtual Infrastructure. continue reading....