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
Archive
PC-BSD Installed on Customized Desktop :-)
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 :-)
Maxim in Saigon
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
More Cars, Higher Fuel Prices, and Enforced Traffic Rules in Saigon
Thanh Nien News puts out some interesting articles on occasion. This morning's lead articles focussed on cars and the possible fuel rises. (Source: Thanh Nien News) Last month, over 12,000 cars were sold in Vietnam, over 80,000 for the year. You can definitely see this now when riding through most of the districts of Saigon. Over a year ago, a motorbike could … [Read more...] about More Cars, Higher Fuel Prices, and Enforced Traffic Rules in Saigon
Building a new PC-BSD System
Well, I decided to build another custom desktop in my home again. My last customized system was an AMD64 desktops which is now running as the Vietnam BSD/Linux Mirror with the Saigon Linux Group. This time around, I decided to build an Intel Core2 Duo system so I could run PC-BSD, a variant of FreeBSD, at home. I really wanted a Intel Core2 Quad or AMD64 Dual Core system but … [Read more...] about Building a new PC-BSD System