I feel very sad today when I read on slashdot that two anti-spammer services are shutting down due to massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on their services. Monkeys.com and Compu.net joins Osirusoft in the antispam blacklists’ graveyard…ahem. Strictly speaking, blacklists aren’t useful in stopping spams due to its high false-positive. Blacklists, is at […]
Author: jseng
Falling in love with Drupal
I haven’t been blogging for a while…this is because I found a new love…Drupal. Drupal is an open-source platform and content management system for building dynamic web sites offering a broad range of features and services including user administration, publishing workflow, discussion capabilities, news aggregation, metadata functionalities using controlled vocabularies and XML publishing for content […]
Software to Service
Eric S. Raymond, working on his latest book The Art of Unix Programming, wrote: Open source turns software into a service industry. Service-provider firms (think of medical and legal practices) can’t be scaled up by injecting more capital into them; those that try only scale up their fixed costs, overshoot their revenue base, and starve […]
“Oops, I did it again” – Verisign
A couple of days ago, New York Times reported that Verisign is going to modify its DNS infrastructure to redirect non-existence .com & .net to its search engine. Acutally, Verisign introduced limited DNS wildcard to do Internationalized Domain Names earlier this year and unfortunately, ICANN has not make any strong stand against it. So it […]
Type A or Type B
There are generally two kind of people in management or leadership: (1) the cool and quiet guy (2) the energetic and charismatic guy. I shall refer the first as Type A and latter as Type B. Asian (particularly Japanese) believes there is a colloration between their blood type and their character. This is not to […]
Predicting the future: Part 1, Outsourcing
It should not come as a surprise that we are in the juncture between industry revolution and information revolution. But what this really mean? For centuries, production of goods are done by artisan usually aided by immediate family members. Yet, within 50 years of industry revolution, this was replaced by factories with unskilled workers. Factories […]
Typo?
This is just plain cool! I am blogging this down so I don’t forget the link!
Turn Left, Turn Right
Finally watch the Turn Left, Turn Right tonight…A beautiful story by Jimmy Liao. I am glad I didnt wait in vain for the show.
Linux: The Future is Open
Heard that IBM is doing a new commerical in US where they compare Linux to a little boy, “growing fast, taught by the best, gaining wisdom beyond his years, and sharing”. You can download the commerical from IBM (or from here) which, no surprising, support only quicktime, realplayer and mpg on Linux (Sorry folks..no .avi […]
Bureaucracy = do nothing
During a golf session with a friend over the weekend, we have a brief but interesting discussion about bureaucracy in the government. Peter Drucker, in his book Managing the Next Society noted that Japanese have encountered 3 economic crisis: 1940s unemployment, 1960 retail inefficiency and 1980s recession. What is interesting is that the government overcome […]