Weblog of Quests » Personal Computing http://www.yyquest.net Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:32:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Home NAS http://www.yyquest.net/2011/08/15/home-nas/ http://www.yyquest.net/2011/08/15/home-nas/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:52:16 +0000 Louis http://www.yyquest.net/?p=1401 Tossing up between choosing FreeNAS, Ubuntu server or Openfiler as choice of OS for my home network storage…

]]> http://www.yyquest.net/2011/08/15/home-nas/feed/ 0 Asus EEE Note http://www.yyquest.net/2011/02/27/asus-eee-note/ http://www.yyquest.net/2011/02/27/asus-eee-note/#comments Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:53:06 +0000 Louis http://www.yyquest.net/?p=1363 Another mouth-watering development in the ebook/tablet world. This time, a new 8″ touchscreen-based LCD tablet from Asus boasting a resolution of 768X1024 (2540dpi) and feature 64 levels of greyscale. For me, the most amazing part is that the touchscreen support almost 256 levels of pressure, potentially able to replace writing with pen and paper, all for the price of US$200! Exciting times ahead indeed!

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Eagerly awaiting for my tablet to arrive so that I can get a taste of the Android magic…

The promotional clip of IBM’s Xoom is pretty impressive too, except the real features seem to buried beneath all the hype.

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Debian 6.0 Squeeze released

I have been using Squeeze for the past 8 months, when it was still in the unstable branch, and before the final code freeze some time in October 2010. I must say, apart from some issues for using an existing RAID-1 array during installation and lack of video driver acceleration for my card, Squeeze has been pretty stable and fast even at that stage. While there is justification for the universal criticism of slow release cycles (and not to mention the older software versions once released), there is a lot to be said for the stability of a Debian system.

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  • OS = Linux (Debian and Ubuntu)
  • Web browser = Chrome, Firefox/Iceweasel
  • Email = Thunderbird/Icedove and (well, this is not quite opensource :-) ) GMail
  • Office = OpenOffice
  • Image processing = GIMP
  • Database = MySql
  • CMS = WordPress
  • …

I can certainly appreciate first-hand the versatility and comprehensiveness of opensource softwares.

If you have not done so, why not dip your hand and try something new today?

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