I was googling myself (was trying to look for some article I wrote on usenet many years ago) and found something else instead, an email I wrote about 11 years ago on BugTraq. Just like to ask a stupid question. Is “5 -> [0301]:24718” a hard link or is it a soft link? (sorry..i dont […]
Patently Absurb
Found this article about RIM and NTP patent lawsuit. (via Slashdot). It is so absurb that I don’t even know where to start. A few million could settle it initially become a billion dollar lawsuit. Through arrogance, blunder and bad advice, RIM’s potential bill had shot up from a few million dollars before the trial […]
Happy Chinese New Year
Update: If you are look for the 2006 ad, click here. Happy Chinese New Year! I was at my folk place in Malaysia for a couple of days for Chinese New Year celebration. No, thank goodness, no passport story that makes it on national paper like last year:P Anyway, I wanted to share this advertisement […]
Killer App for 3G
For several years, people in the telecom industry has been working over this question: “What’s the Killer App for 3G?”. Over the years, numerous applications has been tout as the killer app, the most famous one being “Video Call”, a standing joke in the industry that everyone will try to do but no one in […]
GENI Project
The GENI (Global Environment for Network Investigators) Project recently released their conceptual document. GENI is a 367M USD, 5 year project supported by NSF to build the “next generation Internet”. The document pointed out several good points about the limitation of the current Internet: • The Internet is not secure. We hear daily about worms, […]
A look at IPTV
Triple Play is a wordbuzz in the industry for the last few years, most notable by equipment manufacturers who is trying to justify why telcos and ISPs should upgrade their infrastructure to handle the demand of video or IPTV. Numerous analysis reports from the likes of IDC also predicted a huge growth in demand; a […]
HP Pavilion DV4000 and Dopod 900
Yes, I switched back to the darkside again a few weeks ago. No, I haven’t give up on my Macs but playing WoW on Powerbook for the last few months, the conclusion is: Sorry, it just didnt cut it. So alas, time to went shopping for a notebook with enough juice. Sad to say, none […]
A matter of national security
I could stop laughing at this: Richard Forno, a principal consultant for KRvW Associates and a former senior security analyst for the House of Representatives, believes that Microsoft is a threat to national security. The White House, Congress, and Department of Defense all run Windows and send and receive e-mail on MS Exchange Server—exploitable Microsoft […]
Internet is for Porn
The Internet is for Porn from the Broadway Show Avenue Q, World of Warcraft edition.
Developing the Advance Research and Education Network in Singapore
I wrote an article for the Dec issue of SingaporeWave the monthly newsletter published by IDA. Check out the other issues of Singapore Wave too while you are there. In the early days, Internet is a research and education network among the major universities. It is a “playground†for academics to experiment with network technologies […]