Monthly Archives: June 2007

I did not pay particular attention to the Google service at scholar.google.com until I read Luis Villa’s <a href=http://tieguy.org/blog/2006/06/18/crowding-out-of-intrinsic-motivations-aka-the-bounty-problem/blogblog about that site. For kicks, I typed in my name, and viola, a blast from the past – my MSEE thesis … Continue reading →

I like what gregdek observes about the fact that sometimes, to get things done just that little bit guicker, we need to go to the command line. I think the challenge of staying only within a GUI environment is something … Continue reading →

While I still think that the OOXML has to be given a fair hearing, I think we should be constantly vigilant about their primary backers strong arm tactics. See the long list of boiler plate submissions to ANSI. The national … Continue reading →

I am sure the folks at MS monitoring this blog would be glad to read the heading. Yes, by all means, give OOXML a fair hearing. There are well meaning engineers who have spent considerable intellect to work on this … Continue reading →

Or more specifically RHEL 5. To see RHEL 5 gain this type of certification is really remarkable. It is a 100% FOSS OS which has both SELinux as well as Multi Level Security enabled and acceptable at the highest types … Continue reading →

It appears that the fiasco of February 5th is not sitting well with our friends at MS Singapore.Their tactics in trying to bulldoze a cleverly misnamed “Office Open XML” document format specification as an ISO standard is being found out … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago, I bought a new Sony Playstation 2 – the thinner slicker vesion for S$298. I have been resisting this for a loooonnnng time – my sons had inherited a PS1 from their cousins and while … Continue reading →

I had set up a fairly ancient Dell laptop – an Inspiron 3800 (tag XQ4FY) with F7 last week. Did not get to finishing up the setup for all the plugins for Firefox. The machine is not well endowed. It … Continue reading →

In April, the ITSC received a letter from a Singapore company expressing support for the MS OOXML standard. What was amazing is that the letter was so plain and was nothing more than a fill-in-the-template deal. I did a quick … Continue reading →

I have been very pleased so far with Fedora 7. Firstly, it is just common sense that both core and extras have been merged. During the early days of Fedora, it was labelled as Fedora Core and thta was never … Continue reading →