At every release upgrade of Ubuntu, I seem to get into more and more issues, even with the most basic ones. Once upon a time, Ubuntu was the smoothest of all Linux distros. But in the last two years, that was not the case anymore. After every upgrade, I always need to sit down for [...]
Not only do I like to travel to visit different places, I also like to live in different countries for a while, and experience a different life style, get a deeper understanding of a different culture, get a broader view of the world, etc. Whatever the reason is, the ultimate goal is to experience changes. [...]
Having worked in the software industry for almost 20 years now, I don’t count myself to be the smartest or most skilled in the trade, but I always had a lot of opportunities to work among the brightest and talented people. And unfortunately, I had also worked with idiots and jerks. I had the opportunities [...]
There is one thing the Canadian government has done right, at least in the field of computer programming, is banning computer programmers to call themselves engineers. In Canada, engineers must be certified. And if you are not certified, regardless of your qualification, you are not an engineer. Normally, I’m not for more government involvement as [...]
Baidu, the giant company with a firm monopolistic grip on the search engine market in China, is playing dirty with us. Our new cloud storage startup was registered in 2011, along with the trademarks Yunio and 云诺. We released our first version in November last year, and although we have received rave reviews, we felt [...]
After many many (too many!!!) months of hard work, the cloud storage Yunio 2.0 is finally released this week. A big applause for the whole team, and many thanks for sticking together during all this time. We had our lows and highs, but we finally achieved the major milestone. The only regrets are that there [...]
I haven’t used Windows for quite a long time, the last versions I’ve installed were XP and 2003 server, although I still keep a VM of Windows XP around, just in case I need to do something. Today, someone has asked me for help with his machine, with Windows 7 installed. Since I’m the computer [...]
I’ve been working for some times on a distributed storage project, with Erlang as the main programming language. We use the RADOS API to access the storage, which is based on Ceph. As librados does not have an Erlang binding yet, so I did some binding for some of the APIs that we really needed. [...]
In the last two weeks, under the invitation of two friends, I have taken over a development team in disarray. The planned release date of the project was set for April 1st (no, it was not a joke), but by mid April, less than 20% of the work has been done. To be honest, I [...]
One great thing about smart phones, and those mobile devices, is that, sometimes, we get really quiet public space. People are always busy tapping on their phone or tablet. At this moment, at the Beijing Airport, the room is packed, with no empty seat, but I can almost hear a pin drop. Well, obviously, mobile [...]