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Credit Cards, VPNs and Fraud Detection
I rely a lot on VPN services, primary to masquerade myself as being located in another country, specifically, pretending to be from US and Europe to bypass content filters, allowing myself to access the likes of Hulu. Another use is … Continue reading
Singapore rolls out FTTH
It looks like Singapore is beginning to roll out Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) networks, upgrading the current Hybrid-Fibre-Coaxial (HFC) network, which currently constitutes a large part of Singapore’s broadband delivery medium. In FTTH networks, fibre cables are run all the way down … Continue reading
Nexus One
My Nexus One arrived in the morning yesterday. From placing the order to receiving the product, it took about 3.5 days. I’m impressed. Why did I not get an iPhone like everyone else? Although rumored to arrive in the next … Continue reading
I fail at tech support
Without the slightest trace of shame, I consider myself being very good at troubleshooting technical issues that arise on my own systems. I can dig rather deeply, analyze process calls and determine which program is loading what module that’s faulting. … Continue reading
Apple's reason for ditching flash
Apple CEO Steve Jobs told WSJ staffers to ditch Flash and replace Flash-based content with other web standards—a move that’s doable, but not necessarily trivial. via Steve Jobs to WSJ: ditch “dying” Flash technology. I’m seldom in agreement with Apple’s … Continue reading
High performance and affordable router with m0n0wall and Atom
Intel Atom is a powerful little platform for it’s cost. It works well as an office productivity or Internet access desktop, as a Home Theatre PC (HTPC) for watching and recording videos, storage server, and a even a small network … Continue reading
Digital clutter and storage costs
Previously, I mentioned about ridding myself of clutter. Being a modern day geek, I’m also a digital packrat rather than physical one. I have a staggering amount of approximately 2 TB worth of data consisting of movies, application installers, pictures, … Continue reading
Do I really need this level of connectivity?
If Linus Torvalds can still rely on a text-based email client as his primary form of communication, and yet achieve so much, do I really need all these new medium of communications that has been offered to us in the … Continue reading