Archives for "January, 2009"

Posted by ronnie on 22nd January 2009

Using RCLI in Gentoo AMD64

We are operating a VMWare ESXi 3.5 server and is looking for way to perform operation on the VM via command line.
VMWare provides an API (which is a set of perl script) called RCLI (Remote Command Line Interface) and it provides the script in two flavor – Windows and Linux.
We want to issue the command [...]

Posted by ronnie on 14th January 2009

Internet booming in China

Came across an annual report about internet development in China today and notice a significant adoption of internet usage in China.
Also, internet access is no longer for people living in big city. The increment in rural area and villages has outgrown those in the bigger city (60.8 vs 35.6%). What’s more, most of them are [...]

Posted by ronnie on 11th January 2009

The iPhone that never sleep

Mobile Blogging from here.
I like my iPhone, the apps and games are wonderful. But I can only realize the true power after subscribing to a data plan.See the above? I can now blog at anywhere, locate myself at any time and what’s more is to get the latest information on the road.But are we not [...]

Posted by ronnie on 11th January 2009

ForkLift

There are several apps which I come back and forth and deciding if it fits into my usage pattern.
ForkLift is one of them.
The first thing to intrigues me in using it is the 2 panel display. I’ve been grown up from the DOS and Norton Commander is my preferred way of file manipulation. There are [...]

Posted by ronnie on 8th January 2009

Product Promotion – Learn Objective-C on the Mac

There are several website that offers daily deals which I will check everyday, Apress is one of them and today, they are offering a one day promotion on the above mentioned book.
You can own the ebook of “Learn Objective-C on the Mac” for US$10 (regular price is US$27.99).

Posted by ronnie on 8th January 2009

Product Promotion – Timeline 3D

I love MacWorld, definitely because of the keynote by Apple (sad that it’s gonna be the last one this year) for the new product announcement. Apart from that, vendors will usually offer special promotion in this period.
Today, I came across a very nice offer from BeeDocs. They are offering a big discount on their flagship [...]

Posted by ronnie on 4th January 2009

Size Does Matter

HA, don’t worry, it’s not a SPAM.
What I am talking about is the size of screen estate.
Have a look at these images and you can tell.

I’ve bought my own Dell 2408WFP lately and the increase in screen estate enable me to open both an IDE and a PDF reader at the same time! It’s a [...]

Posted by ronnie on 4th January 2009

The Netbook Era

2008 is definitely the era of netbook – low cost but under power laptop, which is good enough for day to day internet surfing and light enough to bring along.
I keep hearing a voice telling me to get one and finally, I could resist this temptation and place my hand on this.

The price of a [...]