Spent the last 2 days at work trying to install Ubuntu Server on an old IBM NetFinity M7000 M10 server (2x Pentium III Xeon 500MH, 512MB RAM, 100GB RAID-5 SCSI), and although installation was successful, booting the server was not. Tried many ways to troubleshoot the problem, and finally found something interesting – Fedora Core [...]
Was snickering after reading today’s Digital Life, mainly because of three “strange” things in today’s Digital Life write-up about the UMPCs. In it, they compared the major brands of UMPCs, and was wondering why they awarded the MSI Wind the “DL Choice” award, when the battery life is horrid, and the screen size is the only [...]
Read in the HWZ forums that a Singnet user has recieved a “love letter” from the local law firm, Rajah & Tann, representing ShowGate Inc from Japan. Well, looks like the shit has hit the ceiling fan, quite literally. If this goes to the courts, and a landmark case is set, it spells doom on all [...]
Went to HS’s place after his RT, and CheekyHan was there also (since they were taking RT together). His PC, an AMD Palermo Sempron 3500+ with an MSI motherboard was dead. However, not knowing the full cause of the problem, I insisted that the PC had to be brought to my place, since HS [...]
Sorry for the long delay in posting, its been almost a month since I last posted. Been really busy with the final year project, and the prototype was only submitted last Friday – hope that the assessment would be a good one. On top of that, my subordinate got into a minor motorcycle accident two weeks [...]