Archives for 2008

The weather has been really strange in Saigon lately. For the last three days, it has actually rained which is unheard of in Saigon. It is supposed to be the dry season. Normally the last sprinkle ends in late November. The next rainfall starts around May. I was riding my motorbike to District 1 from District 5 when I got caught in the rain yesterday. In 5 minutes, I … [Read more...] about Saigon Rain in January???

Yesterday I decided to give PC-BSD a try in my classroom. It was probably not the best day to try out PC-BSD since the electricity kept cutting off. My students were struggling to SSH from PCLinuxOS to my laptop, which was running PC-BSD, as a result. The goal of the class was for my students to create their own website templates on my laptop (makes it easier for me to … [Read more...] about My Vietnamese Students used PC-BSD

I have been reading this blog about the Vietnam stock market for some time now.  Duy Phung, the maintainer of this blog, does a pretty good job in keeping track of the latest English news on the stock market here. He asked to exchange links so I said okay :-) Vietnam Stock Market News website URIs: http://vietstocknews.blogspot.com/ or http://www.vnstocknews.com/ … [Read more...] about Vietnam Stock Market News Blog

Well, about one and a half hours ago, I finally got my customized desktop running. PC-BSD is now installed and I am currently fetching and updating Ports on my desktop. Before I could install PC-BSD, I had to figure out why my desktop would not reboot Friday night. Checking online, I found out that there were many complaints with the new Asus Intel G35 (P5K-VM) … [Read more...] about PC-BSD Installed on Customized Desktop :-)

Friday night and Saturday was hell for me in regards to my new customized desktop. I spent most of Friday night trying to figure out why my desktop would not reboot. I was busy most of Saturday so when I finally got home, I spent another 3 hours trying to get my desktop to run with a new motherboard. No success. Finally, I got a phone call from my friend to join him and … [Read more...] about Maxim in Saigon