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• USB hub off the side of my desk

  2 July 2009 Comments (0)

  For a while now, one of my PC has been throw fits at the most irritating moments. It started mildly a few months ago. Randomly about once every few days, the PC would locked up hard. Only a full main power recycle would revive it. I put off trying to fix [...]

• Neighbourhood park

  29 June 2009 Comments (0)

  While taking a long walk around the neighbourhood, I stumbled on a small park hidden among the apartment buildings. It was late afternoon on a weekday; there were few people around, but plenty of mosquitoes.

• Woof

  22 June 2009 Comments (2)

  Woof! Woof woof woof woof woof woof woof… Woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof… whine…

• Changi Boardwalk Singapore

  4 May 2009 Comments (0)

  Changi Boardwalk is located on the north eastern side of the island. Across the straits is Pulau Ubin.

• Tale of a shoe company

  27 April 2009 Comments (0)

  Overheard at a Pasar Malam, as narrated by a TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) master. I paraphrased the story and replaced a few details, but the moral of the story remained unchanged.
  Once upon a time…
  A shoe company was looking to expand it’s business into a new country. Before entering the new market, it sent [...]

• Replacing Roomba battery

  20 April 2009 Comments (0)

  For some time now, my Roomba has been wheezing and failing to complete it’s cleaning cycle. At first, it repeatedly failed to return to it’s base station, having gone low on power before it could do so. However, the deterioration progressed quickly, down from the normal 1 hour run time to 30 minutes, [...]

• Sleeping with the enemy

  5 February 2009 Comments (0)

  It has been a couple of weeks since I jumped back into Windows, and suffered the much maligned Vista. I guess it’s time to list down what I like and dislike about Windows Vista.

  Before I begin, I should mention I was a Windows user from way back. The first computer I owned (but [...]

• Internet connection sharing in Ubuntu Intrepid

  28 January 2009 Comments (0)

  Prior to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10), setting up internet connection sharing (ICS) is relatively tedious and not so straightforward. There were a few methods available, some which were described here.

  Intrepid shipped with Network Manager 0.7, which made it considerably easier to configure for ICS. The instructions in this post explained setting up ICS [...]

• Defeated!

  26 January 2009 Comments (0)

  In the previous post here, I tried to solve running EvilApps in VirtualBox in my eeePC with Intrepid Ibex. I was initially hopeful because the installation of a WinXP guest machine was successful. Furthermore, the freshly booted WinXP virtual machine was surprisingly spiffy. I thought I have conceived a foolproof way to [...]

• Isn’t the CDROM drive E?

  19 January 2009 Comments (0)

  I have an interesting experience recently. I attended a two-hour training on how to use EvilApps. It’s pretty silly, but I have two hours to kill and I was too lazy to explore the software myself. I have also been cooped up in my apartment for too long and need to get [...]