Archive for the ‘ Engineering Technology ’ Category
Mesmerising – “Human beings with super-human strength and abilities” – indeed. [ READ MORE ]
Just so you know, I decided to divorce my technology posts from this blog and move them onto another blog. I will keep this blog to personal postings on whatever random stuff amuses me from time to time. You may still find some technology posts on this blog from time to time but they will [ READ MORE ]
As the letter says, I have been recently appointed as a judge for our local LEGO robot competition league! It is something like the Integrated Design Project that we had at Cambridge, where students worked together to build a robot to accomplish a certain task within a certain time frame. However, these are students between [ READ MORE ]
The power of our brain to just get it. Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale, using audience participation, at the event “Notes & Neurons: In Search of the Common Chorus”, from the 2009 World Science Festival, June 12, 2009. [ READ MORE ]
Seems like I am not alone in thinking that power-efficiency is a system issue that includes both hardware and software. A recent article at ACM shows that other leading processor architects are also thinking along the same lines. So, I ask myself what am I going to do about it. Due to recent events, I [ READ MORE ]
Over the weekend, I began to move my home cloud system over from OpenVZ to XenServer. I thought that I should chronicle a few lessons learned here. Some of this information is just not available on the Internet and some of it are my personal opinions about the pros and cons of the two different [ READ MORE ]
My new HP desktop arrived today with a brand new 23″ monitor that is full-HD capable. Unfortunately, it took me a while to set up the monitor for use with my OS because of some issues with the drivers. So, I shall document some of my endeavours here. Firstly, the new fglrx driver no longer [ READ MORE ]
The Internets was abuzz with the launch of the newest Apple hotness, the iPad. However, the message that struck me the most about the iPad wasn’t that it was a well designed table, nor was it because of the iBooks store, nor was it because it wasn’t multi-tasking – it was because it came with [ READ MORE ]
Regardless of what I personally think about whistle-blowers, my curiousity was piqued by the announcement that there is now a whistle-blowing policy for the PKFZ scandal. Looking at the article at TheStar, it mentioned that individuals can use a website to lodge complaints. Seeing that this was something online and rather new for the government [ READ MORE ]
The biggest scandal rocking the technology industry in recent weeks has been Google’s very public stand against China. It is starting to turn into a far more interesting sandiwara to me than the local drivel that is conjured up by our unimaginative politicians. So, I am going to switch over to watching the drama unfold [ READ MORE ]