Ng Khai Computer Solutions Blog

Its stupid! Its dangerous! people should not be doing it, andthey shold be warned….. so says my head.

But that said, yes, I must admit, I still do it…..

Slashdot | Text-Messaging Behind the Wheel

TIME interviews 21-year-old Taylor Leming, creator of the 600-member Facebook group I Text Message People While Driving and I Haven’t Crashed Yet!
While Alaska and Louisiana just became the latest states to pass laws
banning text-messaging behind the wheel, Virginia resident Leming is
still happily texting away while driving despite some near-accidents.
‘Sometimes it just seems easier to text ‘Be there in 5′ instead of
calling,’ explains Taylor.”

In this study, Cliffski noted that his printer uses only 2 watts, the monitor 30 watts.

The hungry beast - its the PC. It uses 160 watts mostly, and 189 watts at peak. However, at Vista sleep mode, it uses 3 watts.

Cliffski’s Blog » Computer stuff and power requirements

Gartner counts over 1 billion PCs served | Green Tech - CNET News.com

The number of personal computers in use around the world has exceeded 1 billion and will double by 2014, with most growth coming from developing markets, according to Gartner research released Monday.

A 12 percent annual increase would amount to more than 2 billion PCs in use by 2014, according to a report that counted installed machines rather than laptops and desktops sold.

Emerging markets will account for 70 percent of the next billion PCs to come online, Gartner analysts suggested. They named dropping prices and improved Internet access as factors driving that trend.

Behind the scenes look at the NBA from tech perspective.(Photo from Laptop Logic)

Move over Kobe, you’re not the only MVP powering the NBA finals. The MVP of the NBA Finals (Most Valuable PC) is Lenovo. The Chinese company that bought IBM a few years ago is the official PC Partner of the NBA for 2 consecutive years. This means Lenovo provides computer desktops & laptops, Lenovo Stat, and other means of support. Read more.

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Visit Lenovo Concept Store at the 2nd Level Cyberzone, SM City Cebu or call (32)236-2961 to 62 and avail NK888  at 15 promo for a chance to Win a brand new Suzuki Alto on August 8, 2008. Promo mechanics here.

Last month, i posted my eNGy business cartoons ebook for free download, and decided I would do an experiment.

How does design and ease of use impacts people usage?

for myself, I always believe that convenience is key. when reading news, or using it, normally I would click and expect to read it immediately. I don’t click on news that demands subscription anymore, and normally, most of the time, even if i have to go into a site, and it allows me to read the news but I have to register ( even for free), I don’t do it.

so how much traffic are we losing if we insist on them leaving something behind first before offering the service?

My free ebook can be downloaded at a click but it is the black and white cartoon version. I put in a clause that users may download also the full color version if they are willing to subscribe to the daily newsletter.

so here was the offer - you get a black and white cartoon free ebook if you click download, or you get a full collor ( still free) version if you leave your email and subscribe to our list.

so far, over 900 in opted the black and white, and only less than 40 opted for full color download.

does that tell me something about how people respond ?

Most Web developers know better than judging a
Microsoft product by its first iteration. For this reason, I was
intrigued by the recent beta release of Silverlight 2.0.
Silverlight
provides a platform for Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) to build
dynamic user interfaces that are platform and browser agnostic. It
competes in the same space as technologies such as Adobe Flash and OpenLaszlo. Here’s a quick overview of what you’ll find in the latest version of Silverlight.Read the rest of this entry.

Larry Ellison of oracle.

Ellison tops tech exec salary list | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

There were a few surprises as well as the usual cast of well-compensated characters. Second on the tech list was Nabeel Gareeb of MEMC Electronic Materials, a little-known silicon wafer manufacturing company in Missouri. Rounding out the top 10 were Cisco’s John Chambers, Hewlett-Packard’s Mark Hurd, Nividia’s Jen-Hsun Huang, IBM’s Sam Palmisano, Corning’s Wendell Weeks, EMC’s Joe Tucci, Agilent’s William Sullivan, and Intel’s Paul Otellini.

Just missing the top 10 were Apple’s Steve Jobs at No. 11 and Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz at No. 12.

Intel provdes big market with smaller PC hardware.

Intel, the biggest provider of computer processors, is
definitely going small. The chip company announcedon Thursday new
motherboards for small form factor computers called Nettops, in line
with the upcoming launched of Atom, Intel’s latest and smallest
CPU to cater the growing demand for ultra-portable mobile Internet
devices.

Asustek plans to launch a new version of the Eee PC armed with Intel’s Atom microprocessor at the Computex trade show in Taipei this June, Asustek’s CEO said Monday.Atom
is the name of the processor formerly called Diamondville. It was
designed for low-cost laptop PCs, ultramobile PCs, Mobile Internet
Devices (MIDs) and other small devices aimed at connecting to the
Internet. The processor is tiny, less than 25 square millimeters, will
be priced low, and run at a battery-efficient 0.6 watts to 2.5 watts
thermal design power, according to Intel.Read the rest of this entry.

the following were ray Ozzie’s comments on the Microsoft MVP summit in Seattle.

Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie commits to more open source - CNET Blogs

My position toward open source generally is that it’s a part of the environment. It’s very useful for developers to be able to get the source code to certain things, to modify them. Microsoft fundamentally, as a whole, has changed dramatically as a result of open-source as people have been using it more and more….

Open source is a reality….We tactically or strategically…will take certain aspects of what we do and we will open-source them where we believe there is a real benefit to the community and to the nature of the growth of that technology in open-sourcing it….The bottom line is we believe very much in the quality of Microsoft products and we are an (intellectual-property) based business. But we live in a world together with open source, and we have to make it possible for you to build solutions, or customers to build solutions, that incorporate aspects of that.

The chip maker will debut the first of its Atom processors for mobile Internet devices at its 2008 Developer Forum in China.Intel is thinking small at its 2008 Intel Developer Forum in China. The spring IDF, which kicks off April 2 in Shanghai, will mark the debut of the chip maker’s much talked about Atom processor—formerly called Silverthorne—for a new category of MIDs (mobile Internet devices) that Intel and its OEM partners have been developing for the past year. As reflected in their name, the Atom chips only measure 25 square millimeters.EWeek

Next week, we are anticipating the first eNGy Business humor Cartoons to be released.

This is an initial 72 pages of humor, and our first print run of 3,000 copies will be mainly given out to customers, friends and partners, as well as to be sold in our own retail stores.

Here is the front cover.

If we don’t get overwhelmed by work, and continue to see humor amidst all the seriousness in the office, we are hoping that Book 2 will be coming out by June 2008….

Intel has unveiled five Atom processors for
Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), and Intel CEO Paul Otellini said the
Atom may become as important to Intel as the Pentium was. Announced at
the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, Intel’s Anand Chandrasekher said
the Atom will change consumers’ Internet experiences.Read the rest of this entry

What Can Open Source Learn from Microsoft?

So, what exactly can the open-source community learn from Microsoft and the proprietary world?

Quite a lot it would appear, if the discussion of the topic at a session here at the annual Open Source Business Conference March 25 is anything to go by.