You won’t learnt much studying in Singapore. This is because you are not educated. You are trained. Critical discussions are not the norm of the curriculum. There are many better institutions to learn from other than Singapore. It is a heavily test-focused system. Most Singaporeans do not remember what they learnt in school as Singapore […]

Whilst grades are not everything, the sad reality is that no matter where you are, grades DO MATTER! They open doors to you that would otherwise not be open (unless you are well connected and people ‘open backdoor’ for you). Recently my kid was looking for his first job after his studies, most of his […]

Turns out, without sudo it is even simpler. Checking a files signature is expensive, and checking the signature of a large application that contains very many files is even more expensive. Which is why MacOS is marking files as to-be-checked on download,  and then checking the file once when executing them for the first time. Unmarking the […]

For the past years, I have been hearing more and more traditional voice technology, including the standard PBX, is going the way of the telegraph key: valuable and functional communications systems being replaced by new, bigger, better, cheaper technologies. Voice and data networks, once separate and distinct, are merging into a single network. The PBX […]

There’s nothing 80s kids love more than a good throwback. Sure, iPads and the latest phones are cool and all – but nothing can beat the days when “cloud” was nothing more than a visible mass of condensed vapour, and the messages we sent to each other had to be written down instead of typed […]