I have a lot of things I wanted to write, on Dave Farber recent trip in Singapore, on the first ENUM conference which is happening in Miami (I am sorry, I have to bailed out last minute), etc etc. But for reasons that I do not wish to discuss, I am putting all these blogging activities on-hold for the time being.
A group of major companies, IBM, HP, Oracle, Apple, Intel led by Resolvo got together to form a Singapore Open Source Alliance. See ZDNet article:
Spearheaded by Resolvo Systems, a Singapore-based Linux solutions provider, the Singapore Open Source Alliance (Sosa) will also converse with chief information officers in government bodies as well as small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), to accelerate the growth of open-source software in the island-state.
Other than IBM and HP, the alliance also consists of Red Hat, Novell, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Apple and Intel, according to Yap Boon Leong, business development director of Resolvo Systems. “Sosa is possibly the only open-source consortium in the world involving several key industry heavyweights,” he told ZDNet Asia.
Just got back from dinner with Dave Farber and his wife GG. They just arrived in Singapore this evening. This is going to be a busy week for Dave, with a live TV interview tomorrow morning (CNA at around 9am) and a public lecture the day after. The registration for the public lecture is still open if you haven’t sign up.
btw, Dave Farber is also known as Grandfather of the Internet because his students all went on to become pioneers (fathers) of Internet. Like former Jon Postel for his work on IETF, ISOC and IANA and Paul Mockapetris for DNS. Even his younger students like Meng Wong (who btw is a Singaporean) is well-known for his work on Antispam. His other Singapore student is now the CTO of Alcatel Singapore.
Thanks to a friend1 who gave me a Razer Viper last year, my wife is so used to the 1000dpi high precision mouse that she cannot stand any normal optical mouse anymore.
So when I was shopping for a new mouse two weeks ago, she warned me ‘nothing less then 800dpi’. Now, when your wife talks to you about mouse dpi, you better listen cos this is not something you expect from a non-geek. Heck, even geeks don’t talk about the dpi of their mouse.
I was really tempted by the Razor Diamond, 1600dpi mouse but I hesitated because I don’t want my wife to come back next year to tell me ‘nothing less then 1600dpi’. That would be so wrong. Beside, I was also looking for a wireless mouse so Razor Diamond was out.
Anyway, to cut the whole story short, I settled on the latest Logitech MX1000, the world first laser mouse with 20x more sensitivity. Although only 800dpi, it is really really smooth compared to other 800dpi mouse. After using it for World of Warcraft for more then a week, I can vouch for it. And I really love it.
As for my wife, she still stick to the old Razer Her complain? “Too heavy” :P
1 Actually my friend owns Razer (the company). Sorry. I promise the next mouse I buy will be a Razor.
CommunicAsia 2005 finally ends today. After spending a few days running between Raffles City Convention (where they have the conference) and Singapore Expo (where they have the event), and given they are 30mins drive apart, I started to question the IQ of the organizers. But other then that, it has been a great event.
CommunicAsia 2005 is huge, much much larger then last year. It occupies all the six halls in Singapore Expo. To get an idea how big, if you are one of those who attended VON in San Jose Convention Center, multiple the size by a factor of three.
Of course, such a big event means everyone is doing their best to attract attention.
After working on it for almost two years, we finally got our IP Telephony policy framework.
In the bid for lower costs, consumers are increasingly using the Internet and other Internet Protocol (IP)-based networks to make local and international voice calls, together with, or as alternatives to traditional fixed-line telephony. To advance Singapore’s development in this market segment, Dr Lee Boon Yang announced today that the Singapore Government will introduce a new policy framework for Internet Protocol (IP) Telephony.”
I wish I could say more of the two years journey but I rather be careful in this particular case in anycase anyone took my words as been official.
In anycase, I am very proud of this framework: we allows pure service provider to be allocated numbering resources yet “not required to provide number portability, emergency service connection, directory enquiry and printed directory services, or conform to QoS levels“.
Now, contrast that with FCC.
Now with Microsoft announced officially they going into Triple Play (all the while they already in the game) I think the public will starts to hear more about the phrase from now.
I also notice they managed to coin a new term ‘SoIP’ (Service over IP) much like the other term that they are hyping “SOA” (Service Oriented Architecture) all year long. SOA buffled a lot of geeks because it is really more of a marketing message with a little furry technical details. (You have no idea how often I have to explain what is SOA, even to CIOs). So I expect SoIP to go the same way since I don’t really know how you can “pack a service” into a TCP/IP packet, technically speaking. But nevermind that, because the press release is obviously just a marketing hype.
Regardless, I am glad to see more attention on the concept of Triple Play. That’s a game to watch out for.
Jonathan is inviting Steve to use Solaris as the base OS for Mac:
So I’d like to personally invite you to adopt Solaris 10 as the underpinning of the next generation Mac. We both respect Unix, both respect innovation*, and both clearly see volume opportunities in extending choice to developers. We’d love to work together.
No comments yet. I love Solaris many years ago and of cos, I love my Mac today. But Mac & Solaris together, hmm, I need to wrap my head around that. (Okay, maybe because I am more of a BSD person)
SMU, working with my group in IDA, is organizing a public lecture by Dave Farber titled “The Technical and Societal Implications of Networking” on 22nd June.
Involved with networking for over 45 years, Professor Farber has provided extensive guidance and advice on areas of high performance computing, communications and IT. In the year 2000, he served as Chief Technologist at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ). He was the recipient of the 1995 ACM Sigcomm Award for life long contributions to the computer communications field. In 1996, he was awarded the prestigious John Scott Award for Inventions that have contributed to Humanity (previous recipients include Madam Curie, Thomas Edison and The Wright Brothers).
Do not miss the opportunity of the life time to meet the Grandfather of Internet! Registration is now open but do it fast because we only have limited places.
OCED has been talking about a Antispam “toolkit” since last year. Incidently, the “toolkit” isn’t what an engineer would normally expect: it is really more of a ‘guide’ on Antispam for regulators.
After waiting for nearly half a year, I got an email from Suresh (from Outblaze) that the OCED Antispam Toolkit is finally ready.
