Al Hoang

Very cool. Who says NetBSD is dying? Check the specs at the bottom and you’ll see NetBSD listed.. Thanks Engadget

Here is one explanation why Google will eventually become evil… companies are at different stages of a standard software business model, which goes like this: build market share lock in customers profit from lock-in Read it yourself

Here is an article describing a fairy tale (sadly) idea of how one would run a project for creating a product from DSP chips. I’ll have to say it makes a lot of sense but what would be more interesting is some hard data on anyone that has actually managed to apply this idea: This […]

For an Apache user, coming to IIS can be a little disorienting. One thing you’ll eventually come across is wanting Virtual Hosts. Here are some links I found useful in telling you where in the forest of menus you can enable it: IIS Answers MSDN’s very own

I’ve been playing with JOnAS lately and have been puzzling out how to get RMI working through a firewall. Normally RMI uses dynamic ports which represents pain and suffering if you want to use JMX. The documentation for JOnAS is located here. After glancing at the JOnAS config I was disheartened to find it wasn’t […]

Here’s one expat’s impressions after spending a year in Vietnam. He compares it to life in China… In China, the most common observations were: No one speaks Chinese to foreigners No such thing as lining up Spitting Read it yourself

If you are one of those waiting to get onto the HD bandwagon I’m sure you’re now wondering which format will win out. Blu-Ray or HD-DVD. I have no answers but Cracked.com has a rather tongue-in-cheek breakdown on the format wars My personal opinion? Stay away until the dust clears if you can live without […]

This looks very cool If the picture doesn’t seem clear, it’s a little robot that acts as a portable mini speaker for your music devices Thanks to Gizmodo for digging this up from Quick Journal.