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This is too cool!


[harish@phoenix ~]$ traceroute 216.81.59.173 traceroute to 216.81.59.173 (216.81.59.173), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 registerlafonera.fon.com (192.168.10.1) 2.473 ms 2.937 ms 3.902 ms 2 cm1.zeta224.maxonline.com.sg (116.87.224.1) 15.342 ms 15.664 ms 16.515 ms 3 172.20.53.17 (172.20.53.17) 17.175 ms 17.540 ms 18.104

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In a word, wow!


I am not sure if this is a report that contains stuff taken out of context, but if its true that PM Lee thinks that his government did not have clarity in vision, what does that mean to all the justifications

Posted in free software, open source, Singapore, singapore-politics

Doing the right thing and a proposal


I am glad to read the the Prime Minister has decided to probe the sale the applications (built and paid using tax dollars) by the PAP Town Councils to the PAP-owned company AIM. <stand up> <applause> <applause> <applause> <applause> <applause> <sit down> I would

Posted in free software, open source, Singapore, singapore-politics

It’s not a contest per se, it’s a Sahana-moment!


So, my 3 am post from January 3rd 2013 is now on http://www.tremeritus.com, probably not a good thing, but then this is the way things move. For what it’s worth, going by the comments in that post, this is not about scoring

Posted in free software, open source, Singapore, singapore-politics, Uncategorized

Why Open Standards and Open Source Matters in Government


I have offered to the powers that be (TPTB) running the various Town Councils in Singapore an opportunity for the open source community to help build an application to manage their respective towns following the unfolding fiasco around their current

Posted in free software, open source, Red Hat, Singapore, singapore-politics

My Conscience Is Bugging Me


I cannot let the media statement put out by the “Coordinating Chairman of the PAP Town Councils” regarding the sale of the town council management software system to a ex-PAP MP-owned company be left alone without it being shredded apart.

Posted in free software, open source, Singapore, singapore-politics

Software for Public Sector Applications


The ongoing egg-in-the-face of the PAP over the “tender” (thanks to Alex for posting it via an anonymous source) awarded to AIM over the acquisition of a piece of software created for the use of the Town Councils is really disappointing. Looking

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Posted in free software, open source, Singapore, singapore-politics

A helper note for family and friends about your connectivity to the Internet from July 9 2012


This is a note targeted at family and friends who might find that they are not able to connect to the Internet from July 9, 2012 onwards. This only affects those whose machines were are running Windows or Mac OSX

Posted in asean, fedora, free software, open source, security, Singapore, singtel, starhub

And it’s live now – SCO Open Server 5.0.5 running in a RHEL 6 KVM


As promised earlier, the final bits of getting an application that runs on the old hardware on to the VM is now all done.  I tried to install the app but, I really did not want to spend too much

Posted in cloud, fedora, free software, open source, Red Hat

Fedora 17 before it is released


I decided to take the plunge and run Fedora 17 before it’s officially launched in May.  My system has been running Fedora 16 x86-64 since the launch last November and I must say that it has been solid – including

Posted in fedora, free software, Red Hat
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