Malaysia, despite being known globally is typically still referred to or remembered as a place where people live on trees or that is poor in the west. Well they aren’t wrong on the 2nd bit. Despite gaining independence more than half a century ago, the country still fails to perform well to bring itself to… Read More »The mindset that makes Malaysia still a 3rd world country
Do you long for mesh wifi or already have them? Well look further as most mesh wifi products out there are rebadged wifi extenders. Recently where I work upgraded their ISP and got 2 different types of mesh WiFi APs in pairs. The problem of mesh WiFi has been something I mentioned long ago on… Read More »When your mesh WiFi isn’t mesh
Whenever you want to buy a powerbank for your phone, or battery, how do you know the capacity is falsified? After all dealing with fake products and returns can be a pain and at times costly as marketplaces only follow laws if exist. For example in eBay UK, I had to pay to return a… Read More »How to verify manufacturer battery capacity claims
In the tech industry or world, things always move and change but quite often you will find people who will not allow things to be updated or changed because it still works. They’ll say “if it aint broke don’t fix it” to avoid going through the pains and issues if say you wanted to update… Read More »Why the “if it ain’t broke dont fix it” attitude is fatal in IT
Someone once introduced a new practice in india and wrote the book “Employees first” which mentioned to prioritise your employees who will prioritise your customers and business. When he went to china to give his speech, they did not believe him and instead he asked “how would you like to double your profits”. Im guessing… Read More »Reduce your work hours, Double your productivity
So you want to host or offer hosting focused around WordPress based websites? Although WordPress is a php based cms that uses SQL and generates frontend code, WordPress by itself is superfast, lightweight and secure. However most WordPress websites use custom themes and plugins which themselves add their own features with some popular plugins containing… Read More »Creating the fastest hosting service for wordpress
Tar, zip, gunzip and 7zip are compression and packing techniques have long been available for many many years across different platforms with some shipping by default in some OSes while others may be included in some OSes only. Linux tends to ship with tar, gzip and zip while windows now ships with zip only. These… Read More »When to use tar+gz , zip or 7z
On 24th November 10am GMT + 8, Nanosec launched their 2020 conference online via zoom that spanned over 3 days with a practical workshop at the end to increase awareness on security. I wish the event could’ve been at night or on weekends as things did not go well with my job (not to mention… Read More »NanoSec 2020 Conference
Here’s a fun question most people who aren’t aware of underlaying networking is, how is your guest wifi implemented, how does it work? And that it isnt to keep your wifi passwords separate. Before the appearance of guest wifi on consumer home routers, admins wanted to segregate their wifi just like they do with wired… Read More »Your guest wifi is likely insecure
On 9 October 2019, 8am NanoSec had its 2nd Conference at InterContinental Hotel Kuala Lumpur filled to the brim with 250 people with ticket prices from myr 249 to 449 depending on when and where you bought it. This was also the first time i started teasing NanoSec. Schedule of events Keynote I: Extended Intelligence… Read More »NanoSec 2019 Conference