Colin Charles Agenda - Latest Comments

Re: Information diets and media biases

Khairil Yusof — Sun, 13 May 2012 11:24:31 -0000

Bias is one thing. Total lies (NST and Utusan) and censorship is another. Malaysian Insider does a good job of keeping things unbiased carrying Bernama and even Utusan columns. I don't read Malaysian mainstream news as they may be outright fabrications. Censorship is another. You can have different bias on say Scorpene case, but in Malaysia, mainstream media has total news black out.

Malaysia has no freedom of press.

Re: No longer affiliated with MNCC and TeAM

colincharles — Mon, 07 May 2012 22:12:03 -0000

Greener pastures :-)

Frankly, I'm hardly in the country to justify being on the councils any longer. Can't make useful change.

Re: No longer affiliated with MNCC and TeAM

Yuen-Chi Lian — Sun, 06 May 2012 21:06:39 -0000

What's next?

Re: A few thoughts on the startup ecosystem in Malaysia

Izhar Ismail — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:16:39 -0000

hi ..

my current plan to try to do this sustainable is to adopt a similar model like webcampkl - ie: regular barcamps instead of normal meetup ..

for fedora.my , we'll be doing barcamp style FADs at least once every release .. once every release mainly due to we dont have the capacity to run it monthly .. too frequent ..

not sure how it'll really work out, but worth a try , and fudcon is our stepping stone to accelerate the bi-annual FAD ..

btw fudcon : http://fedora.my/events/fudcon...

(theres also campuscamp.org, but that is a different story)

Re: A few thoughts on the startup ecosystem in Malaysia

colincharles — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 04:23:12 -0000

Now with a list of meetups... how do we ensure that they keep on going? Resources, etc. are required (as well as attendees).
Sustainable meetups are what is required. Then 18-24 months from there, we'll see greater success and intermingling and networking amongst the meetup crowd which can only lead to further excellence

Re: A few thoughts on the startup ecosystem in Malaysia

Felix Leong — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:43:26 -0000

Here's the list of FB group communities that I've compiled. Needs to be updated with several new groups that have been mushrooming lately. (e.g. IGDA, Puppet Malaysia, IXDA etc.)

https://www.facebook.com/group...

Re: A few thoughts on the startup ecosystem in Malaysia

colincharles — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:26:07 -0000

You may get a student, but even a fresh graduate will cost you a lot more

Re: A few thoughts on the startup ecosystem in Malaysia

Muhammad Edwin Masripan — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:19:06 -0000

Awesome post lad! I wish I could add, but you summed it very well. Well done. Will definitely recommend to others.

ps: Paying RM 1.5k per month per employee, do they expect us to hire students?

Re: A few thoughts on the startup ecosystem in Malaysia

colincharles — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:33:36 -0000

Hey, awesome news Khairil. I totally had no idea about fedora meetups or even python meetups. It seems to be that the largest community not spread by language now is webcampkl. I'm glad to see there are still many other meetups. ALso wish there was a list (there used to be, its since gone missing).
And yes, awesome news re:FUDCon APAC

P/S: nothing hip & cool about the startup scene per se. 'tis a lot of hype. Helped by media. And loud voices.

Re: A few thoughts on the startup ecosystem in Malaysia

Khairil Yusof — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:17:29 -0000

I know we're not as hip and cool as the startup scene but don't forget about fedora.my and the fact that the Malaysian community lead by Izhar is hosting FUDCon APAC this May after two recent FADs. There is also python.my meetups by sweemeng. #myoss is still full of lively chatter.

Re: Messenger apps revisited

colincharles — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 03:56:45 -0000

Absolutely. Though persistence is also important with controlling battery life. I've never had a good experience with Google Talk and the battery on my BlackBerry and Android phones...

Re: Messenger apps revisited

Hubert Figuière — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:00:31 -0000

Google Talk is more universal than anything else (it is based on the XMPP standard and is actually interoperable). It just miss a good iOS client to work well on mobile. Even MacOS X has native support for it. Otherwise there is Adium and on Windows, there is Pidgin.

Re: On uniforms

wahlau — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:17:40 -0000

Interesting view - I think having some kind of uniform-like clothings really make life a lot simpler... :)

Re: Is Lenovo Malaysia interested in selling their stuff?

John jake — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:02:22 -0000

This is my first time i visit here. I found so many entertaining stuff in your blog, especially its discussion. From the tons of comments on your articles, I guess I am not the only one having all the leisure here! Keep up the good work.

Re: First hour with Ubuntu 10.10 on a laptop

John jake — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:01:13 -0000

I recently came across your article and have been reading along. I want to express my admiration of your writing skill and ability to make readers read from the beginning to the end. I would like to read newer posts and to share my thoughts with you.

Re: Notes from Granada & Barcelona, Spain

wahlau — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:33:21 -0000

hey, when will you be near .de again and what are chances to meet near our place? :) enjoy .eu :)

Re: New MySQL 5.6 Features by Oli Sennhauser

Stefan — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:23:38 -0000

MySQL 5.0 is EOL already; see: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refma...

Re: Managing MySQL with Percona Toolkit by Frédéric Descamps

lefred — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:56:54 -0000

Thank you for this nice summary, and I'm glad you enjoyed to be for once an "attendee" to a conference.

Re: Reading on the iPad

Batteries Ransome — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:48:35 -0000

great job

Re: On killing Hollywood

khaimano — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:40:21 -0000

Hi, there. Khairil of Relationship Status here. Excellent post and I agree with you wholeheartedly, though I'd like to say that though 'Relationship Status' was released in the cinemas which one would argue is the 'traditional' route, I personally don't see anything traditional about it and the DVD's, digital downloads, even blu-ray will be popping up over the coming months (and surprisingly, digital downloads and streaming are the trickiest ones to pull of at the moment).

New media has always been on the forefront in my mind but there's a reason why the movie was released cinematically first which will be uncovered in a full post on my blog on how the film was released, the upcoming home-viewing formats and all the trimmings. It will be posted this Thursday or Friday, and perhaps that'll give you some hope that some of the indies are attempting in their own ways to go the 2.0 route.

So please don't feel sad, sir, and don't take this comment as a defensive gesture in any way, but I felt the need to comment because I feel that your comment that the indies are thinking the way the studios are thinking is an assumption based on the fact that the movie came out in the cinema first. I can honestly say for myself and my movie that 'thinking like the studios' is the last way I'd go about thinking about Relationship Status, and quite a few of the other indie filmmakers I know would argue the same about the way they go about their flicks.

Re: On killing Hollywood

Antony Curtis — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:55:10 -0000

You said: "But independent films rarely cover comedy, action, etc."
I say: "StarWreck 6 is an example of community created independent film which covers comedy, action, etc."

Re: Growing out of Foursquare

Ron Peled — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:52:43 -0000

I never really got into the foursquare craze... it just seems too trivial: I meet people for the sake of meeting people not playing games or adding points somewhere... cool read.

Re: Growing out of Foursquare

Sabre23t — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:19:41 -0000

Duplicates. Now anyone can mark venues as duplicates via flag problem on clients as well as web. I've been pproving about 20+ venues per day.

Recommendations. I find discovering venues I like on other lists, is good way to find new friends with similar interests.

I find google places, google+, latitude checkins a bit confusing for me ... don't you?

Re: Updating PHP in RHEL/CentOS 5.6 for WordPress 3.2

Discount Wheels — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:34:19 -0000

I have problem with centos server!

Re: How the new Google Reader has stopped me from sharing

nibbyp — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:57:38 -0000

I am missing this feature as well. I used it on my personal blog for items that I have read and recommend. I sure wish Google would not have messed with that feature.