Tag: vietnam

At approximately 9:45 PM last night, the power went out for part of the Phu Nhuan District, Tan Binh District and District 10 (roughly from the canal area south to…

Tet is only 7 hours away. Saigon is very quiet today, hardly any traffic on the streets today. This is the best time of the year to live in Saigon, the only time the…

My poor Dell Inspiron 8100 notebook died on me again today. The same thing happened back in April, 2006. Like before, the power supply unit burned out. It survived just…

Yesterday I went out with some of my friends to get a haircut. Maybe that was a mistake on my part. I just wanted a haircut but I was convinced to get a shave too. This…

See the truck in the far distance? Lately, both cars and trucks have been ignoring the ban forbidding them to drive along the canal during the construction. The police…

Well, six days away from Tet, the Vietnamese New Year. This is the last week of class at the American International School, where I teach computer science, before the…

A lot of drama going around the Gentoo Linux Community these days. Daniel Robbins, the creator of Gentoo, would like some control of Gentoo again. There are a lot of…

Sorry guys for bailing out on Maxim's last night. I have two projects due tomorrow morning and another one to complete hopefully before Tet. I have been burning the…

The weather has been really strange in Saigon lately. For the last three days, it has actually rained which is unheard of in Saigon. It is supposed to be the dry season…

Yesterday I decided to give PC-BSD a try in my classroom. It was probably not the best day to try out PC-BSD since the electricity kept cutting off. My students were…

I have been reading this blog about the Vietnam stock market for some time now. Duy Phung, the maintainer of this blog, does a pretty good job in keeping track of the…

Well, about one and a half hours ago, I finally got my customized desktop running. PC-BSD is now installed and I am currently fetching and updating Ports on my desktop…

Friday night and Saturday was hell for me in regards to my new customized desktop. I spent most of Friday night trying to figure out why my desktop would not reboot. I…

Thanh Nien News puts out some interesting articles on occasion. This morning's lead articles focussed on cars and the possible fuel rises. (Source: Thanh Nien News) Last…

Well, I decided to build another custom desktop in my home again. My last customized system was an AMD64 desktops which is now running as the Vietnam BSD/Linux Mirror…

Well, this probably will not surprise many of you. Last saturday morning, my ADSL line was disconnected again. This time, my ADSL line was severed at the other end of my…

(Source: ViPLUG) Another article passed on by Tracy, http://www.ultraviolet.org/ in regards to Linux in Vietnam. I have been reading about the Communist Party requiring…

Just want to introduce you all to another Saigon Blogger, Lawrence Sinclair. Like Adam (Saigon Files), Lawrence is a Ruby on Rails developer. There seems to be at least…

First of all, "Happy New Year 2008" Everyone. Chuc mung nam moi. Vietnam is off to a good start for 2008. VietnamNet Bridge just published this article about the…

If you are looking for some good fried chicken then head out to SuSu in District 1. SuSu has the best chicken in town at the moment. The local Viet Kieu expats are…