My original plan is this: arrived in Osaka-Kansai airport at 1532, clear custom by 1552, take shinkansei at 1616 and arrived in Kyoto at 1729 so as to get to my dinner appointment at 1600 in Hotel Granvia next to Kyoto station. The (not) surprisingly thing is that this work out perfectly in Japan : […]
Month: February 2005
Off to Kyoto
Off to Kyoto now for APRICOT 2005. Sleep really late last night (3am) and have to wake up at 6am to rush for the flight and almost couldn’t make it. Luckily I did because I have a dinner to rush to immediate upon arrival. Oops, last call now. See you in Kyoto!
GSM – watch VoIP
via Telecom Asia The emergence of VoIP apps like Skype isn’t just bothering fixed-line telcos – the prospect of VoIP over wireless LANs is making cellcos nervous too. Some see it as a threat, some as an opportunity, but many see it as inevitable and something that can’t be ignored. “VoIP is a huge threat, […]
Notmad Explorer
Sick of the crappy music organizers that comes with Creative MP3 players? Well, check out NotMad Explorer, a software companion for Creative Nomad, MuVo, Zen etc. It is not iTunes but it probably make it easier to live with a Creative MP3 players. By posting this, I dunno if I am helping Creative or slaming […]
Streaming is stupid
Via Joi Ito: I’m listening to Andrew Odlyzko giving a talk right now about why Quality of Service (QoS) and real-time streaming is stupid. He showed a slide showing that P2P and other traffic are generally transmitting files at faster speeds than their bit rates. Basically, if you cache and buffer, you can have outages […]
Blue Ocean Strategy
Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne
SHA-1 broken
From Bruce Schneier: SHA-1 has been broken. Not a reduced-round version. Not a simplified version. The real thing. The research team of Xiaoyun Wang, Yiqun Lisa Yin, and Hongbo Yu (mostly from Shandong University in China) have been quietly circulating a paper announcing their result SHA is a US standard hash function which is used […]
Man don’t get it
I been scretching my head for a while what to get for my wife for Valentine – handphones, PDA, Tiffany – been there done that. Used to send her flowers but that was before the wedding. But when my wife hinted to me she wanted a mini-oven, I thought she was joking. It’s so boring […]
Blocking VOIP
The expected has happened: LECs (Local Exchange Carriers) started to block Vonage (or SIP in general) to protect their telephony services. (via Slashdot). What was surprisingly is how stupidly they did this – they could just do a bit of trottling, limited the bandwidth, drop a few packets now and then, and it would take […]
Don’t disable IDN
I couldn’t put it better so I won’t. From Paul Hoffman: Reading the ensuing Slashdot and other coverage gave me the feeling that nearly everyone talking was from the US, UK, or Australia, the three countries that have the least native need for IDNs. It also became clear that few of the folks in the […]