Ng Khai Computer Solutions Blog

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A Chinese company whose name few outside Asia had heard of has nevertheless managed to become the world’s fourth-largest largest PC manufacturer, made possible by its purchase of IBM’s PC division,
writes Karlin Lillington . IN ITS THREE years of existence, Lenovo Ireland has come a long way since managing director Fiona O’Brien lay in a hospital bed with pneumonia, signing company documents brought in by bemused couriers. O’Brien, who had been a 10-year veteran of IBM, became director of Lenovo Ireland when the Chinese electronics giant became the surprise purchaser of IBM’s personal computer division in 2005.

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A few thousand pages of that belongs to me (grin)….

Google: We Have 1 TRILLION Pages Indexed - Mixx

“Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days — when our systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!

What this article says is simple - if you lose power, you will lose data. Systems and databases now still can’t handle an abrupt power outage….

Why power failures are bad for your data

what happens to your precious data when there is a power outage? Will your file system recover? Properly? Are you sure? Or, will you resort to your backup, just to be safe? Maybe you need a UPS. Then again, maybe not.

Instead of Blacklisting, vendors are talking about Whitelisting.

Will you be ditching your antivirus app anytime soon? CNET News.com

Antivirus programs, as we know them today, are based on 20-year-old technology of pattern matching. Pattern matching may have worked in the days of the Micheangelo virus and even as recently as Netsky, but methodically matching each and every file on a computer against a list of known malware is getting tedious, if not archaic. In 2007, Symantec detected more than 1 million viruses, with two-thirds created within the calendar year. Loading 1 million signatures, or even a percentage of that if generic signatures are used, is a pretty serious undertaking.

Yesterday, a research firm noted that IT staff would be one of the more recession proof jobs.

Maybe not, according to this.

3rd party professional services seems like the place they would be cutting….

Study: IT jobs will drop in 2009

IT staff jobs are at increasing risk — both for contractors and in-house workers — according to a survey of top CIOs by Goldman Sachs & Co. released last week. Global services companies will also feel the pinch because of the slowing economy.

A second survey showed that basic PC and network hardware, as well as professional services providers, would bear the largest proportion of spending cuts. It also showed that CIOs planned to emphasize economizing measures over investments in new technologies, with cloud computing emerging as the last item on their priority lists, despite the hype around it.

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It does seem that people are still buying computers

PC shipments grew faster than expected in 2Q - Yahoo! News

Computer shipments rose faster than expected in the second quarter, fueled by exceptional demand in emerging markets and a decline in prices in the U.S. and Western Europe, two research groups said Wednesday.

Worldwide shipments increased 16 percent from a year ago to 71.9 million PCs, according to Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Inc. The company had predicted 11.2 percent growth.

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From left : Ms. Rovie Codiñera, NK-Microsoft Product Manager for Academic, Ms. Cheryl Larosa, NK Enterprise Account Manager, Mr. Erick Olavides, Microsoft Sales Manager, Mr. Johnny Lee Sy, CEC Board of Trustee - Liaison Officer, Ms. Antonia Tiu, CEC Head Cashier, Mr. Sotero Cabanes, CEC Elementary and High School Principal

Cebu Eastern College, a Filipino-Chinese school established in 1915, recently partnered with Ng Khai and Microsoft in the acquisition of Genuine Microsoft Licenses for its computer laboratory. Cebu Eastern College or CEC, as it is commonly called, has a student population of 1,100 and is located at Leon Kilat corner Dimas-Alang Streets, Cebu City.

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Microsoft Corp. will begin selling its Office programs to consumers on
a subscription basis starting mid-July, in a bid to reach thrifty PC
buyers who would otherwise pass on productivity software.

Subscription pricing for software has become commonplace in businesses
but is a relatively new concept for consumers. The Microsoft Equipt
bundle – formerly code-named “Albany” – includes Word, Excel,
PowerPoint and OneNote, plus OneCare and a handful of existing free
Windows Live applications.

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This year, we were part of the Cebu Business Month, and now I’m involved in the Mandaue Business Month celebrations. This is normally held in August, and is hosted by the Mandaue Chamber of Commerce and Industry in celebration and to coincide with the Mandaue City Charter Day.

Mandaue is an industrial city, and in many ways is a different city than Cebu. Thus, we are trying to work out some events that would be also different from the traditional Cebu Business month.

One of the events that we are going to do is virtual - that is something to do almost wholly on the web. This is an event which we named Sugbu Kini photo/video tag contest. Let me try to explain why we think this will be important, and also fun.

As you may probably know and can easily surmised, the onset of digital photography which we don’ tneed to buy film, and pay for development anymore has resulted in the explosion of photography and video.
Sometimes, in one day, I can easily shoot thousands of pictures, and why not? It costs almost nothing. The same picture using film and development could easily have cost me an average month’s salary already!

Anyway, as a result of the explosion, there are probably millions of photos about the various towns of Cebu in thousands of websites, and computers worldwide. Scores of them are uploaded to social networking sites like Facebook or Friendster, and more are put into public photo libraries like Picasa, Photobucket or Flickr. Millions of videos are in YouTube, and other sites.

However, many of these photos are not properly labelled or tagged or uploaded to the internet, thus making them inaccessible to search engines, and making it difficult to locate such photos except to the immediate user

We figured that if we can just somehow label and properly describe these photos or videos, and also have people to upload such photos to the internet, it will tremendously increase the ability of internet surfers worldwide to find photos about Cebu and its countryside.

So we are launching this contest in which we are encouraging people to either upload their photos and tag or label them properly and/or simply go around to the internet, find photos about any of the 44 towns and cities of Cebu, and then note their URL and submit their labels or keywords in our website.

In return for identifying the Cebu photos and labelling them, we will be doing a raffle. So the more photos about Cebu that you find and label properly, the more chances you have to win. The contest is open from July 12 to August 20, 2008.

The website is currently in the works, and it is on www.ccebu.net/mandaue

This is a contest where the winners will be chosen by raffle. After the contest close, There will be a count of all entries (each entry has a number), and a randomly generated number will be generated. The entry of the winning number will then be verified:

- is it really a picture taken in a Cebu town or city?

- is the picture of acceptable quality depicts the Cebu town life or culture heritage?

- is the description or keyword an apt one that successfully describes the picture.

Only if it conforms to the quality will the winner be declared.

There are prizes totalling close to 20,000 pesos for the lucky winner.
Please check into the website in a few days!

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