China Images, Finally!

Published on Jan. 29, 2007 in Taiwan under Life

I've finally taken the time to rotate, crop and upload the images from our trip to China. There are about 100 that I ended up posting, plus a few from my previous trip to China. If you are interested, you are more than welcome to view them on my gallery.Feel ... Read more.

Computex 2007 Review

Published on June 14, 2007 under Tech Blog

The buzz of Computex is finally wearing off, so I'll finally scribe my account of the event. Yan-Shih was kind enough to go with me, we actually called it a date. The scene was quite similar to the trade shows we ... Read more.

Open Source Video Editing

Published on Oct. 15, 2006 under Tech Blog

In the next year I plan to make a little video, nothing fancy likely, but something that will require an editor. However, I don't own a mac (which rules our Final Cut Pro + After Effect and iMovie, which Ian and I both have had too much fun with. Inside ... Read more.

Building Custom LiveCDs

Published on Jan. 26, 2006 under Tech Blog

I have a feeling we will shortly be deploying many Linux servers to perform certain actions. Maybe we will implement Asterisk to be used as a VoIP interchange between locations, maybe the backup servers will be Linux based, maybe the BDCs. One thing that could speed up implementation at remote ... Read more.

Xen + nVidia

Published on Nov. 2, 2006 under Projects

Status: I've played with quite a bit of virtualization, especially VMWare for ages. About eight months ago I started to play around with Xen, and got it to work great, except for the fact that the nvidia driver wouldn't work with the Xen kernel. That said, ... Read more.

ERP Time

Published on Sept. 9, 2005 under Projects

Status: Currently our ERP setup is a nightmare, both in stability, features and especially administration. A new solution is in order. After collecting goals/requirements we have begun researching, and even started testing some platforms. The "other half" of the IT department and I installed and tested ... Read more.

Track My Hours Please

Published on July 31, 2005 under Projects

Status: Initially all CSRs were hired as temps, which means they had their own timesheets. Some new people have been hired as full/part-time employees, so we need to handle their timesheets -- plus, several people (including myself) are paid on an hourly basis. Perfect time to ... Read more.

Faxing, Hurrah!

Published on July 4, 2005 under Projects

Status: Another line needing to be ported over: fax. Since time is very constrained, I quickly setup an extra server (OS X, actually) to act as a fax server. The fax line inserts immediately into the server, then from there any new faxes are printed on ... Read more.