After testing this website thoroughly from a Singnet network, I am now comfortable to declare the problem fixed. The page load times are noticeably faster. There is also no more blank page or “connection reset by server” problem. Kudos to Singnet for their responsiveness in solving this problem. I have been contemplating a new subscription [...]
I got a call from Singnet customer service officer, informing that they have fixed the problem. Singnet users should now be able to access this website without any need to use the Singnet proxy. However, I am not in a Singnet network right now and have not test whether the problem is fully solved. I [...]
So, there I was hiding behind my workbench doing my stuffs, when I got a call. Sometimes if I was having a great day, I would answer every phone call I received. Usually though, if the phone showed “no caller ID” or an unknown number, I would simply let the phone rings until the caller [...]
When I was young many many many years ago, I was excited about the future. I recalled thinking that I would still be young (relatively!) when the new millennium arrived. All those promised new inventions would be common place, and I could finally afford to own them. Then, before you know it, year 2000 arrived. [...]
After installing Debian NSLU2 on usb thumbdrive, there are still a few things to do before I got a fully functional slug ready to be adapted to do whatever I wanted. First boot By default, the slug will beep three times to signal that the boot has been completed and the slug is ready for [...]
As of this post, there has been no update from Singnet about the problem. However, they are still working on it (I hope). On Saturday evening, I got a call from their customer service officer to provide a tracepath output (tracert for those of you familiar with Windows). It was the Singapore National Day, so [...]
The world as seen from the perspective of an engineer is full of strange and alien phenomenons. Arts, fashion, culture; these things defy logic and are undecipherable. There is no equation to explain fashion. It changes by the season, by the year, by which fashion magazine you read, and by who you listen to. Unable [...]
This amazing triangular building is the Aomori Aspam, located in Aomori City of Northern Japan. This photo was taken on 2 Nov 2007. This second photo was taken from the observation deck located on an upper floor of the Aomori Aspam.
If your ISP is Singnet (Singapore) and you are getting intermittent server connection resets, or blank pages when accessing this blog, a temporary solution is to set your browser’s proxy setting to: proxy.singnet.com.sg:8080 I have been communicating with this blog’s hosting provider (GoDaddy) for a few weeks trying to resolve the problem. Finally, they informed [...]
I learn this trick when looking for a way to backup an usb thumbdrive. However, I am pretty sure this method will work for any type of disks. Write zeros to unused spaces before dumping First thing to do is write zeros to unused spaces in the disk. We do this to improve compressibility of [...]
