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Sunday September 18, 2005

Locked by applications I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday. He told be about a problem he is facing now. He is a IT manager in a local ship building company. These is a department of about 200 people doing design work on CAD-CAM on PC. The problem he has is how to enforce security. There been report that people "leak" out design works, via copying thru the PC. He ask me how we can help him. The first thing I can think of is our SunRay product, it is a dump graphic terminal, no harddisk. The network, USB port, the access right, can be central controlled. Which PC Windown can't do that. Look like a very suitable solution to him. But, his CAD-CAM application don't run on UNIX. IT only run on Windows. Now, he start to see how he is being lock down by Windows. (2005-09-18 22:13:24.0) Permalink Comments [5]

Thursday September 15, 2005

age of Participation Scott was in Singapore a couple of days ago as a Distinguished speaker. He spoke on the age of "Participation". This is a concept which had been maturing over the years. 2 years ago, he was here too. He spoke of "Many devices connected", and now "Participation". This suddenly make sense to me. People form communities, communities communicate, people participate and we (Sun) provide the equipments ( infrastructure ) to do so. This is how we make money. (2005-09-15 23:51:38.0) Permalink Comments [0]

Sunday August 01, 2004

Hello, world ! Hi, My name is Nathan Phan. I am a Backline Service engineer, specialise in Kernel. I hope to reach out to more people via this blog. Hopefully, people will find my bloging meaningful. Nathan Phan (2004-08-01 23:33:01.0) Permalink