Monthly Archives: December 2008

Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft

Riiiiiiiiight …

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Fedora 10 w/ Aptana Studio 1.2 & RadRails

Here’s a short recipe for getting Fedora 10 up and running, with RadRails. Fedora 10 comes with Eclipse 3.4, so for this we’re going to use the stock MySQL & Eclipse from the repositories, then add the Aptana Plugin to … Continue reading

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Fedora 10 co-operating with Windows XP – part3

OK … trying to get MS Office to run within Linux is do-able … just not easy to do for someone who doesn’t have the Office CD’s (i.e. me). I might have to drop by our local Microsoft distributor’s and … Continue reading

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Fedora 10 co-operating with Windows XP – part2 (Updated)

If you plan to use Linux on your Dell Latitude E-Series (E6400, E6500, etc), make sure you can live without suspend. 3D graphics support also seems very iffy. [Update: Both 3D graphics and suspend works now, after I installed new … Continue reading

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Fedora 10 co-operating with Windows XP – part1

Right after my laptop went blue screen of death on me … I received a replacement laptop. Unfortunately the replacement is paired off into a Windows domain that has very restrictive policies. Which means, no installing extra programs, no playing … Continue reading

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Showcasing Brunei talent … 2008 Asian Beach Games

I recently Dugg this article on the 2008 Asian Beach Games. I’ve never heard of these 2x awesome pesilat … Eddy Ratno Haji Abu Bakar and Mohd Khairul Bahri. And boy! It’s really funny that these guys are being showcased … Continue reading

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Windows flaked out on me … perma-blue screen of death. Linux to the rescue …

Just when I was stumped by Windows … it throws me the ultimate curveball, Blue Screen of Death. I was just trying (struggling more like it) to get Windows and my RoR environment to play nice (I’m using the Aptana … Continue reading

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Brunei in the Mbps per capita rankings

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/int_int_int_ban_mbp_percap-international-bandwidth-mbps-per-capita some comparative rankings: Singapore #16 Brunei #70 Malaysia # 75 Thailand #79 Vietnam #99 Philippines #103 Indonesia # 132 Laos #150 Cambodia #161 Myanmar – not listed These statistics are a little dated – they list Brunei as having … Continue reading

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Score, for OSS, IBM and ADempiere

ADempiere has been ported to IBM i Operating System and IBM WebSphere Application Server. This port was done by Grant Quick, a student at the University of Technology, Sydney in collaboration with the IBM Innovation Centre for Business Partners. Grant … Continue reading

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