Novell is organizing Novell Linux Day in Singapore next week on 8th Sept. If you are interested, sign up here I was also invited to meet their CTO Alan Nugent but unfortunately, I wouldn’t be in town during that week. It is a pity because I am very interested to to meet with Alan to […]
Category: Open Source
Gmail FS
This is so cool! It turns your Gmail account into a Linux mountable filesystem! (via Slashdot). What this means is you can store files onto Gmail account as if it is like your own harddisk and can be accessed from anywhere :-) Actually I already have this sort of ‘remote harddisk’ on my computer setup […]
Day 3 at IETF
Actually I wasn’t at IETF. Instead, I went out to visit Lindows (aka Linspire) and SIPPhone.com who is based in UTC in San Diego. I met Michael Robertson about a couple of months ago in Singapore and this is basically a courtesy call to catch up on things. Michael is not in town unfortunately, but […]
IX 2004
Okay, it is confirmed: Dave Farber is unable to make it to Singapore :-( I spend the whole morning cancelling the meetings for Dave and looking for a replacement speaker for CommunicAsia 2004. Luckily, Dr. Lawrence Wong agreed to do so on short notice. (Thanks Lawrence! I owe you one! :-) So I missed the […]
LinuxWorld Singapore
Today is the first day of LinuxWorld Singapore which I am chairing. Actually my chair job is pretty simple: introduce speakers, keeping time, doing housekeeping announcement, ask some questions (if there is none which is very likely) and probably entertain the audiences if we have some delay here and there. Not really a joker myself, […]
Munch Munch Linux
Wired ran an article about the problems Munich is facing with its migration to Linux for its 14,000 desktop. Issues cited include (a) resistance to change (b) lack of test plans and (c) lack of linux experience in local vendors. Like it or not, Linux Desktop is about 5 to 10 years away. I wonder […]
Japan Day 3
Today is an easy meeting too. We spend some time to go through the resolution one by one to clean it up. Then we pass the resolutions fairly easily and wrap up the meeting by noon! Yeap! Oh, I also got a pleasant surprising getting an invitation to hook by from Theodore Ts’o who is […]
Japan Day 2
Meeting today was smooth, much smoother and faster then what I expected. In fact, it went so well that we finish at 3pm. I stayed on to help to draft the resolutions but otherwise, things goes well. We also conclude that there is no need to meet again. This is our first participation in SC22-LRG […]
Japan Day 1
I have a bit of trouble waking up this morning after a late night. I was suppose to have breakfast with Michael Clark (part of Singapore delegation) and I got more then I bargain for. I ended up having breakfast with both Michael and Scott McNeil, the Executive Director for the FreeStandards, whom I havent […]
Tokyo and Luggage
I am flying to Tokyo in a few hours time for the ISO/ITC JTC1/SC22 Linux Rapporteur Group. As the name suggest, the group is going to create ISO standards for Linux. I couldn’t wrap my head around this initially, considering most people prefer Linux to be on ISO disk instead. But I think there is […]