Author: yenkai
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Setting up your new laptop: Part 2
The most critical part of your laptop is the battery, because it is what gives value to a laptop, allowing you to perform tasks without having to be plugged-in to a power source. At the same time, it is also the component that wears out quickest. If you don’t take care of the battery, it’s…
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Setting up your new laptop: Part 1
As i’ve promised myself, one of the first things i wanted to do on my new laptop was to install anti-theft software. However, as i went about it, i realized that the anti-theft software is only useful if your laptop ended up in the hands of the right people. By “right”, i mean those people…
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How to go about choosing a laptop
If money is no object, the best laptop will just be the most expensive one, which will be one with high performance, long-lasting battery life while being lightweight, plus having looks that will turn heads. Obviously, that’s not how the majority of us choose a laptop. Most of us will try to get the best…
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Stimulus idea floated
Even as stimulus packages were announced for the US and much of Europe, the idea seems to be hinted at for Singapore as news of economic turmoil start to trickle in. Around the region, the Philippines has announced its plans for a stimulus package, and Indonesia has it in the works also, almost in a…
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Bye bye negative rates
A new clause was sighted in the latest SOR repricing letter from my bank stating that SOR/SIBOR will be capped at 0% even if it falls below. By now, all banks should have already put in place such logic in their interest calculation program. So i guess this goes down in history as the…
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What to do when you lose your laptop
Cry. Buy a new one. That’s pretty much what i did and what i’m going to do. Like anyone else, it’s something you thought could never happen to you, but it just did to me, so don’t be complacent. Here are two things i will do when i get a new laptop:
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Label Printing with IDAutomation
Don’t ask me why, but i’ve always been fascinated about label printing, especially when it comes with a barcode. Yes, i actually own a barcode scanner which is collecting dust somewhere. Anyway, barcodes were designed to relieve the need for human data entry (and hence reduce human error as well), which is why they are…
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Rate cuts on the horizon
The 3-Month SIBOR has dropped a notch from 0.44% to 0.31%, bringing it lower than SOR once again. SIBOR-pegged loans are now more attractive than SOR-pegged ones. This is also partly due to the absence of SOR-pegged loans currently being offered. Banks probably withdrew them after being spooked by the negative SOR back in August.
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Printing the ticket line in 2 rows
For those starting out on Openbravo POS, you may have run into the problem, as i have, where very long product names wouldn’t fit onto a single row in a ticket receipt. For me, the solution was to force the printing to be on two rows.
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Return to the mean
Saw this being circulated on Facebook. It’s interesting that just this week i posted an entry titled “Return to normalcy”, and there is a “˜Return to “normal”’ shown in the chart which happens just before everything falls off a cliff. Certainly hope that’s not what we are going to expect! Anyway, a somewhat amusing chart…