IRAS (Inland Revenue Autority of Singapore) has revised the income tax rate for 2012. Now lower income groups can enjoy lesser tax rate compare to year 2007 to 2011. To accurately calculate the amount you need to pay for 2012, you can download the excel sheet calculator from IRAS (somehow it didn’t working when I [...]

Jhead is a CLI utility to rename large collections of photos with EXIF (Exchangeable image file format) metadata like date and time which saves you the effort to renaming them one by one. To install Jhead: sudo aptitude install jhead To rename the photos to “year-month-date_hour-min-sec” format: 1. Go to the photo folder chenhow@laptop:~$ cd [...]

Kickstart means automated OS installation. Most Linux OS installation can be done via Kickstart and it can be performed using local boot media or over network(FTP, HTTP, NFS and etc). Here, we’re going to talk about using HTTP method to perform Kickstart. Prerequisite: Boot media (for creating a USB bootdisk, you can refer to my [...]

Just got an email from Singtel asking to be ready for the iphone 4. It should be launched in Singapore by as early as next week, which is the last week of July 2010. Despite of the critics the iPhone 4 demand still high. If you don’t mind the temporary fix for “Grip of Death” [...]

Due to budget constraint, my new device doesn’t come with any CD/DVD ROM and PXE compliant NIC. Therefore, I need to rely on the USB hard disk to make it as a boot media to start the OS installation process. Prerequisite: You must have a USB storage device like flash/pen drive or hard disk. In [...]

These days my job mainly focuses on integration works like doing project planning, prepare design doc and implementation, technical work like troubleshooting or setting up new servers/apps has reduced tremendously compare to last time. So in order to keep myself stay up to date for the latest technologies and keep improving my technical skill. Few [...]

Sincerely apologize to all my loyal readers (though there are only a few of you), I’m having some tough times to keep this blog running as I was too busy on my work and I have some tough decision to made over the past few weeks to keep my career going. But fear not, everything [...]

Inspired by one of the article written by my bro, JJ (Dawn Rhythm), a guy who like to watch WWE and UFC., Who’d have thought a violent guy like him in the bottom of his heart actually wanted to do something for the society. And because of him, I came to know this programme called [...]