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Lessons from Kodak bankruptcy

Posted on January 20, 2012 by hanneng

Today, I read the news camera pioneer Kodak files for bankruptcy with great interest. Kodak is a well known name. Kodak has great products. There are many lessons in Kodak’s failed today. This event prompted me to another story: Who … Continue reading →

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I’m opposing the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)

Posted on January 18, 2012 by hanneng

If you see this site blackout in next few hours, I’m opposing the US Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). What I’ve done to support the movement? 1) Moved all domain from GoDaddy to NameCheap.com 2) Highlight the awareness: Imagine a … Continue reading →

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Auto FTP Scripts

Posted on December 5, 2011 by hanneng

From time to time, I would need to transfer large amount of files using FTP. I doesn’t like to do it manually. And always let the scheduler/cron handle the file transfer automatically. This is the batch script for Windows platform. … Continue reading →

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Backup MySQL on Amazon EC2 to Amazon S3

Posted on November 26, 2011 by hanneng

As I’m running hanneng.sg on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. The WordPress is running quite stable. The next thing on my mind is about backup. Amazon Cloud is offering 10GB of Elastic Block Storage (EBS) plus 1 million I/Os for … Continue reading →

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VMware Workstation 7.1.5 on Fedora 16

Posted on November 18, 2011 by hanneng

Due to licensing issue, I need to downgrade VMware Workstation 8 to VMware Workstation 7.1.5. While launching the VMware Workstation 7.1.5, that caused an error message: Nov 18 21:20:43.159: app-139682775324416| Trying to find a suitable PBM set for kernel 3.1.1-1.fc16.x86_64. … Continue reading →

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