Hong Kong: the livestyle

So what I noticed on Hong Kong is that, the transportation is fast, efficient.

They have a payment system that uses a card, rfid I think. Which is used on many place. Especially on transportation.

It seems that most of my Hong Kong friend use facebook. Instead of friendster.

And the way they subscribe to broadband is on the street. and they have 6 meg. though download have 400k only

hong kong: the study tour and seminar

Got back from Hong Kong, because of the HSBC YEA competition. Mostly it is a study tour, and seminar on entrepreneurship.

Which where we go visits company in Hong Kong and Shen Zhen China. Mostly non tech business. Which give an insight on what business is, and how they start.

Another interesting part is the seminar, which describe what is a VC, angels, how to prepare a business plan, and my favorite is on T people on D-school. Technical people with non technical insight. That's pretty much every thing on business tour and seminar

My Entrepreneur Project: The ending aka the no.2

So the project, we got number 2, and will go to Hong Kong and china. So what happens, have to present in front of the judge, scared the hell out of me. yeah that.

Then we have dinner, with a few ceo, and bank executive. Surprisingly There is a lot of talk. So it is not as bad. They can be funny too.

It just strange that, I didn't really feel much. Not that I'm sad. It just that, I don't really feel much. At least It wouldn't clash with the orientation. And finally I got a chance to escape from Kuala Lumpur for a week.

my obsession with computer history

One of the reason why I got into this sh*t. Which is my study in the Faculty of Computer Science in University of Malaya. Is because of my interest in computer, and one of the thing I'm interested in is the history.

So occasionally I found gems online. One of the one thing i crazy about is unix:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/cacm.html
http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/~acc/docs/unix.html
http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html

some video i found
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7707585592627775409&q=revolution+os
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7941901498664355924&q=pirates+of+silicon+valley

wireless usb ehh

2 days ago, the wireless usb standard is approved by ecma.

wireless usb aka wusb is a new standard where a wireless device is able to connect to computer way faster than bluetooth, which is about 480Mbps at 3 meter and 110Mbps at 10 meter.

in layman term, you know why we don't connect our digital camera to a computer with a bluetooth and uses a USB instead? because bluetooth is not fast enough. the wireless USB standard means that, we don't need to use a cable to transfer file between a computer to let say, a digital camera.

in a nutshell, in the future, our personal device, that uses usb, such as mp3 player,camera, phone,memory stick, etc. will probably use, wireless usb instead. while the standard is just being announced 2 days ago, wusb product is already available in the market. and wusb dongle can be used with usb 2.0.

the news is here:
on ars technica
on wikipedia(for explaination)
and linux already provide tools+driver for wireless usb already