Are your parents covered by medical insurance? Most Singaporeans are buying personal insurance for work, travel and medical needs. Now for the older generation of Singaporeans, not all of them do.
Farewell Palm
After nearly 10 years of use, from the Palm Pilot 1000 to the Professional to finally Palm Vx, I have given up on the Palm Computing devices and moved on. The straw that broke the camel back was the Palm…
Top 10 things in Project Management
After doing this for the past 4 years, I have come to observe this :
Symantec Endpoint Protection
Also known as Corporate Edition version 11 + Sygate firewall. This is really different product from Symantec Corporate Edition ver 10. It looks more like a McAfee ePO Orchestra. There are groups for clients and packages to go with the…
Always read the fine print
How many times have you bought something and later realized that is “not supported on this platform” or the famous PCIe x8/x16 or 32/64/128 bit interface compatibility.
Symantec Backup Exec 11d Oracle Agent is broken
I was installing Symantec Backup Exec 11d to back up a bunch of servers with Oracle database. After several fruitless sessions to get the Oracle Agent to work, I logged a call to Symantec Support.
OWA Error 503
Recently, a colleague encountered an interesting problem after installing Exchange 2003 sp2. The OWA gave error 503 on the sole exchange server.
Maid or Domestic Helper
1st day of work for the domestic helper. First time in Singapore from Indonesia. Let’s see how she turns out.
Server hardening
To reduce to surface vulnerable to malicious attack. This is accomplished by removing, disabling unused services and/or increasing the encryption level of communication protocol. Microsoft has provided three types of templates: Compatible, Secure and Highly Secure.
Holiday 2007
This year we checked out Swissotel Stamford. The room has a king-size bed and threw in a cot, lots of space for the kids.