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The Ultimate Business Machine - Archives

List of Categories : Database * Technology * Commentary * Singapore * Travel *

Category: Commentary

Fri 09 Mar 2012

The State of The Ultimate Business Machine

Wed 02 Nov 2011

Steve Jobs

Sun 25 Jul 2010

Books & Co.

Tue 15 Jun 2010

Berlin Wall Comes to Bedok Reservoir

Goodbye, Twitter

Mon 14 Jun 2010

Where did the Time Go?

Mon 18 Jan 2010

Designing Software Cinematically

Sat 28 Nov 2009

"If you have land, how can you not have money?"

Thu 15 Oct 2009

MacBook Pro crashed - it's Nvidia's fault!

Fri 02 Oct 2009

The Art of Pricing

Fri 11 Sep 2009

Snow Leopard 10.6.1

Sun 16 Aug 2009

The brick in the wall

Tue 16 Sep 2008

Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.5 Update

Tue 12 Aug 2008

R & D

Sun 20 Jul 2008

11469 customers in every corner of the world

Thu 10 Jul 2008

"Though I was blind, now I see"

Mon 07 Jul 2008

China Rail - The Importance of Being Punctual

Hangzhou

Idle Distractions

Tue 01 Jul 2008

Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.4

Mon 30 Jun 2008

The China Price

Sat 28 Jun 2008

China's March to Modernity

Fri 30 May 2008

Leaving on a jet plane for Shanghai and Suzhou

Thu 29 May 2008

Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.3

Wed 28 May 2008

My very own Leopard-based Server with Dovecot

Thu 08 May 2008

MailServe Pro for Leopard Manual takes shape

Mon 28 Apr 2008

MailServe Pro, ready for business

MailServe Pro for Leopard with Dovecot

Wed 23 Apr 2008

Going to Shanghai

Luca is going to be Leopard-only

Fri 18 Apr 2008

LDAP Enabler, in the larger scheme of things

Sat 22 Mar 2008

iPhone for the Enterprise

Fri 21 Mar 2008

Beijing

Wed 05 Mar 2008

Sleep Saver

A few nights in Beijing

Mon 11 Feb 2008

Does anyone still use Sendmail Enabler?

Tue 05 Feb 2008

Pain

Tue 22 Jan 2008

10,000 Customers From Around the World

Thu 10 Jan 2008

Things to Do

Tue 08 Jan 2008

"A house is a machine for living in.”

Sat 08 Dec 2007

Way Stations

Sat 27 Oct 2007

Morning has broken

Fri 26 Oct 2007

WebMon for Leopard

Leopard ships but where's my copy?

Leopard Ships

Tue 21 Aug 2007

About the down-time this morning

Tue 10 Jul 2007

Downloads!

Thu 28 Jun 2007

iPhone

Sun 24 Jun 2007

Ideas Made To Stick

Mac OS X 10.4.10

Fri 22 Jun 2007

Updated Maven Documentation

Tue 19 Jun 2007

Learn. Code. Repent.

Mon 18 Jun 2007

The Accounting Game : Basic Accounting Fresh from the Lemonade Stand

Wed 23 May 2007

8000 Customers

Sun 06 May 2007

The White Road Journey

Fri 13 Apr 2007

Leopard delayed. And I get a new lease of life.

Wed 14 Mar 2007

Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.9

Fri 09 Mar 2007

Taking a break across the Causeway

What's right about being a Mac fanatic?

Sun 28 Jan 2007

The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection

Sun 21 Jan 2007

Would you buy a business system from this guy?

Powered by Cutedge Software !

Fri 19 Jan 2007

AEBS Hanging - Theories and Hypotheses

Thu 18 Jan 2007

Seeing a dark cloud in a silver lining

Mon 01 Jan 2007

The Ghost in the Machine

Fri 29 Dec 2006

Airport on MacBook Core 2 Duo

PayPal

Thu 28 Dec 2006

East Asia-to-US Internet Chaos - An Update

Wed 27 Dec 2006

Taiwan Earthquake Disrupts Asia/US Internet Access

Tue 26 Dec 2006

A Leopard Christmas

Fri 22 Dec 2006

A TCP/IP Primer

Wed 20 Dec 2006

"Attack-Neutered Mutant Zombies"

Leopard!

Sun 15 Oct 2006

Why Bother?

Mon 09 Oct 2006

Late for the Sky

Sat 07 Oct 2006

Make Work. And Real Work.

Wed 04 Oct 2006

About Luca, and Tomorrow's Money, and Truth

Sun 24 Sep 2006

Perfection and Simplicity

Mon 14 Aug 2006

6000 Customers

Fri 30 Jun 2006

Google Checkout vs PayPal

Mon 19 Jun 2006

Dying by a thousand cuts

Thinking Different about Thinking Different

Sun 18 Jun 2006

Sinistra

Mon 05 Jun 2006

The Rebel Sell

Sun 04 Jun 2006

Blocked

Tue 16 May 2006

10.4.6 and the latest security updates

The End-to-End Model Gets its Day in the Sun

Sun 30 Apr 2006

One Year On, We've Got 5000 Users

Mon 17 Apr 2006

The Constant Gardener

Sat 08 Apr 2006

Clairvoyance

Fri 07 Apr 2006

"Why should an app developer write for both Mac OS X and Windows if he doesn't have to?"

Tue 04 Apr 2006

OS X 10.4.6

Live In Harmony

Sun 02 Apr 2006

Live Strong

Tue 14 Mar 2006

Comic Life

If music be the food of love

Mon 13 Mar 2006

The Mail We Love to Get

Sun 26 Feb 2006

The Weekend Warrior? No, programmer.

Upcoming Releases/Updates for end February 2006

Thu 23 Feb 2006

DNS Enabler on Version Tracker

Sendmail Enabler lives on

Sun 05 Feb 2006

Amazon Recommends ...

A New World Currency

Fri 03 Feb 2006

A Happy Chinese New Year?

Sun 22 Jan 2006

Who's minding the store?

Tue 17 Jan 2006

From Yoder the Sheepherder

Sun 15 Jan 2006

People are getting it

Thu 12 Jan 2006

Truth Will Out

Wed 11 Jan 2006

The Pundit's Dilemma

Macs on Intel - riding down the cost curve

Thu 05 Jan 2006

Another year over, a new one's just begun

Mon 02 Jan 2006

The Good Books Guide

Tue 13 Dec 2005

To Bangkok, Thailand

Tue 06 Dec 2005

This is us

Wed 30 Nov 2005

MySQL 5.0

Tue 29 Nov 2005

Softpedia

Mon 28 Nov 2005

Requiem for Georgie Best

Mon 14 Nov 2005

Comics & The Art of User Interface Design

Sat 12 Nov 2005

Prescience?

The Crapolla According to Fek'Lar

Sun 06 Nov 2005

Doing IT right

Fri 04 Nov 2005

The Spare Room Tycoon meets the Corporate Orifice

Thu 03 Nov 2005

The Spare Room Tycoon

The Corporate Orifice

Thu 27 Oct 2005

Sky Burial

Wed 19 Oct 2005

The Intersection of Technologies and the Humanities

Fri 23 Sep 2005

Ora et Labora

Sat 10 Sep 2005

A book to be savoured

Fri 09 Sep 2005

The Cliff Walk

Sat 27 Aug 2005

Immortality

My New iBook G4

Wed 24 Aug 2005

Work in Progress

PFE works in Bangalore

Thu 18 Aug 2005

The Chocolate Factory

Sun 24 Jul 2005

Authenticity

Sat 23 Jul 2005

To The Library

Where do you want to go today?

Tue 12 Jul 2005

Bobos in a Flat World

Fri 08 Jul 2005

The Nordstrom of the Software Business?

Sat 25 Jun 2005

Stay Foolish. Because God Rewards Fools.

Alice and Bob Go Public

Fri 24 Jun 2005

Perfect Enough?

Sun 19 Jun 2005

Working Without a Safety Net

Fri 10 Jun 2005

"He who's not busy being born, is busy dying"

Wed 08 Jun 2005

Never a Dull Moment

Mon 06 Jun 2005

Collect All 3

Sat 04 Jun 2005

Life

Thu 19 May 2005

Connections and Inflection Points

World Time

Sun 15 May 2005

Solved it !

The Mystery of the Invalid Password

Sat 14 May 2005

Thunderbolts from Mount Olympus

Steve Jobs Buys a Washing Machine

Fri 13 May 2005

Postfix Enabler 1.1.3 for Case-sensitive Systems

Thu 12 May 2005

Version Tracker

Mon 09 May 2005

What has Escher got to do with this?

Sun 08 May 2005

Postfix Enabler for Tiger (1.1.2) - to be released

All the World's a Web

Sun 01 May 2005

The World

Sat 30 Apr 2005

Postfix Enabler for Tiger Unleashed

Fri 29 Apr 2005

Tiger's come a little too fast

Mon 25 Apr 2005

Flu bug - with love from Shanghai

Sun 10 Apr 2005

Books - Valerio Massimo Manfredi

Shanghai

Sun 03 Apr 2005

How Soccer Explains the World

The Weightless World

Fri 25 Mar 2005

Oops. Forgot to turn off ZeroLink

Wed 23 Mar 2005

Brendan at Five

Sun 20 Mar 2005

On the cusp of ...

Wed 23 Feb 2005

Java on OS X in KL

Tue 22 Feb 2005

Of cults and zealots, or,
The case of the blind leading the blind

Server Down

Sun 20 Feb 2005

Infinite Loop

Will we get an Apple Store?

Sat 19 Feb 2005

An Update on the Next OS X Java Course

Tue 01 Feb 2005

Course Updates

Pursuing the Transcendent

Fri 21 Jan 2005

Follow Your Dreams

Mon 03 Jan 2005

The Sun Breaks Through

Wed 01 Dec 2004

The Geography of Thought

Sat 20 Nov 2004

The Bull and The Vegetarian

Wed 10 Nov 2004

The Job of Art is to Chase Ugliness Away

Thu 14 Oct 2004

Reflections on Man United, iCal, and a life well lived

Tue 05 Oct 2004

A Room Full of Macs

Byzantium

Fri 01 Oct 2004

The HughTrain

AppleCare

Wed 29 Sep 2004

My Mac Life

Tue 31 Aug 2004

Ways of Seeing

One Man's Meat

Spine Tingling Sensation

Sun 29 Aug 2004

Airport Express Close-Up

Sat 28 Aug 2004

Airport Express

Creative Not So Creative

Fri 27 Aug 2004

It's Turning

Tue 24 Aug 2004

Freedom of Choice

Wed 18 Aug 2004

Backfire

Wed 11 Aug 2004

Samizdat

Wed 21 Jul 2004

Contributors to Postfix Enabler

Sun 11 Jul 2004

Crash

Wind

Mon 05 Jul 2004

Last Day in San Francisco

Mon 28 Jun 2004

The Summer of Love

Sun 27 Jun 2004

Moscone West

Celebrate your gay life

Fri 25 Jun 2004

Apple Store SF

Thu 10 Jun 2004

The Tenderloin

Wed 09 Jun 2004

WWDC and Expedia.com

Wed 02 Jun 2004

BookHostel.com

The Journey is the Reward

Sat 29 May 2004

The Axemaker's Gift

Golf GTIs, Neuromancers, and Postfix Enabler Betas

Thu 27 May 2004

Of Systems and People

Wed 26 May 2004

Tools to Think With

Sat 22 May 2004

Code Poetry

Fri 21 May 2004

The book I wanted to write

Tue 18 May 2004

Teach Yourself Accounting

Wed 12 May 2004

A Weblog as a form of Chautauqua

Patents and the Penguin

Features, Functions, and Benefits

Fri 07 May 2004

Bug in Postfix Enabler 1.1 Beta

The Feedback Loop

Wed 05 May 2004

Serendipity

Thu 29 Apr 2004

iTunes

Java-on-Mac Meetup

AutopMac

Looking for Feedback

Sat 24 Apr 2004

Roadstead Domain Down

Wed 21 Apr 2004

The Ultimate Toolbox for Business

Tue 20 Apr 2004

An Industry Icon

Wed 14 Apr 2004

Speaking of James Gosling

James Gosling on the Java Road

Tue 13 Apr 2004

The Mac is so good

Sun 11 Apr 2004

Poetic Licenses

Mon 05 Apr 2004

MacSurfer and why I need to think about what I'm writing

Thu 01 Apr 2004

Panther Server on Xserve

Kamikaze Franchises

Wed 31 Mar 2004

"Tired of working? Be an entrepreneur"

Thu 25 Mar 2004

The Good (Computer) Books Guide

Sun Tech Day

iSight - let me count the ways

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

Mon 22 Mar 2004

The Gift of Travel

Thu 18 Mar 2004

WWDC, Help for the Visually Impaired, and Other Things

The Understanding Business

Mon 15 Mar 2004

The Myth

Sun 14 Mar 2004

Family

Sat 13 Mar 2004

Black Elk Speaks

The Alternative Model

Sat 06 Mar 2004

Mac@Work at Apple Singapore

Computer Wars

Sun 29 Feb 2004

Joy and Verve, and InDesign

If we build it, nine of them will (probably) come

A Web and Mail Server on a Clamshell iBook

Tue 10 Feb 2004

If we build it, people will come

Wed 04 Feb 2004

Courses at Apple : Java on OS X and AppleScript Studio

Mon 02 Feb 2004

The Postfix Enabler Logo

Thu 29 Jan 2004

Friends

Sun 25 Jan 2004

Postfix Enabler 1.0.9 in French

Fri 23 Jan 2004

The Disappearing Masks

Fri 16 Jan 2004

But the good news is...

Postfix Enabler 1.0.9 Released

Thu 15 Jan 2004

Albert's Info-Portal

Sat 10 Jan 2004

iLife

Fri 02 Jan 2004

Talked Too Soon

Fri 26 Dec 2003

Xcode, Java, and AppleScript Studio Talk

Sat 13 Dec 2003

Panther and PDF

Wed 10 Dec 2003

Megnut

Thu 04 Dec 2003

If you have eyes, you will see

Fri 28 Nov 2003

If we build it, will they come?

The Joy of Discovery

Sun 23 Nov 2003

The Woz uses Postfix Enabler

Fri 14 Nov 2003

Airport Extreme and IMAPS and POPS

Sun 09 Nov 2003

QPopper License Agreement

Version Tracker

Thu 06 Nov 2003

Eating our own dog food

Mon 03 Nov 2003

Finding Nemo and AppleScript Studio

Mon 27 Oct 2003

Postfix Enabler - Soft Launch

Sendmail Enabler Update

Wed 22 Oct 2003

iTunes Windows

Mon 20 Oct 2003

Mac Training, for Mac People, the Mac Way

Sat 18 Oct 2003

Random Musings on a Lazy Saturday Afternoon

Thu 16 Oct 2003

Mac Meetup in Singapore, 14th October 2003

Thu 09 Oct 2003

Efficient SpeedStream Model 5260 End-of-Lifed

Mon 06 Oct 2003

The Millionaire Next Door

Fri 26 Sep 2003

News Gothic

Abracadabra

Wed 24 Sep 2003

A Hiatus

Fri 12 Sep 2003

SMTP-AUTH actually works on Postfix on OS X

Yet another PC Guy goes Mac

Thu 11 Sep 2003

Otterman's Blog

Notable Quotes

Will IT see the light?

Sat 30 Aug 2003

Tons of Work

Wed 20 Aug 2003

The Ultimate Business Machine Redux

Tue 19 Aug 2003

Wrapping up sendmail

Mon 18 Aug 2003

Breaking a few rice bowls

Sun 17 Aug 2003

The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions

Fri 15 Aug 2003

Getting Ready to Talk to MUGS

Thu 14 Aug 2003

"If you need this, you shouldn't be using it. Period."

Sat 02 Aug 2003

"It's stuff like this that makes us love OS X"

Wed 30 Jul 2003

The brick only wants to get laid

Mon 28 Jul 2003

Biz Stone, Genius

Turning Night to Day

Fri 25 Jul 2003

Cocoa Notification works in Java

Tue 22 Jul 2003

About Hits and How Artists Work

Mon 21 Jul 2003

The World Wide Web

Sun 20 Jul 2003

Geometric Progression

Fri 18 Jul 2003

Going Round The World

Tue 15 Jul 2003

MacUpdate

Sat 12 Jul 2003

The Circle LIne

Thu 03 Jul 2003

Sendmail Enabler Forum

Another spot for a meet-up?

Testing the Water

Sun 29 Jun 2003

Shenton Way

Fri 27 Jun 2003

A Buying Coalition

Points of Inflexion

Wed 25 Jun 2003

Emotional Connection

Tue 24 Jun 2003

WWDC - Apple's World Wide Developers' Conference

Mon 23 Jun 2003

Comes a Time

Sun 22 Jun 2003

What I've learnt from a Mac Meet-up

Sat 21 Jun 2003

Pictures from the Meet-up

Meetup@roadstead (21st June 2003)

Tue 17 Jun 2003

The Parable of the Talents

Mon 16 Jun 2003

As Dull as Dell

Co-opetition

Sat 14 Jun 2003

Holland Village

Tue 10 Jun 2003

The Grass Grows Taller When It's Grazed On

Fri 06 Jun 2003

Send TUBMac to a Friend

Thu 05 Jun 2003

The Blind Spot

A View from Chengdu

Mon 02 Jun 2003

Why am I writing this weblog, anyway?

Clogged Google

"I Remember May"

Sun 01 Jun 2003

Hollywood

Fri 30 May 2003

The phpbb2 Bulletin Board System

Creating a Community

Thu 29 May 2003

The Ever Resilient Me@ner

Kristian@soundingblue

The Creative Economy

Wed 28 May 2003

The hardest thing in life

Tue 27 May 2003

Making the Trade-Off

Mon 26 May 2003

The Commons

The Tragedy of the Commons

Sun 25 May 2003

The Hair-Cut Machine

Systems Thinking

Thu 22 May 2003

The Third Chimpanzee

Mon 19 May 2003

Speaking of Kiyosaki

Sun 18 May 2003

Passivity

Thinking for a Living

Sat 17 May 2003

The Soul of a New Machine

Tue 13 May 2003

Not all those who wander are lost

Sat 10 May 2003

A pianist doesn't spend time peeking inside the piano

Thu 08 May 2003

The Renaissance Man

Mon 05 May 2003

SingNet Broadband May Support Mac Users, At Last

Fri 02 May 2003

A Gestalt Strategy

We Just Make Stuff

Wed 30 Apr 2003

Simplicity

Tue 29 Apr 2003

Books

Mon 28 Apr 2003

Black Out, Power Off

Fri 25 Apr 2003

Information Anxiety

Linking Back

Tue 22 Apr 2003

Archives

Mon 21 Apr 2003

"If Apple's Dead, It's the Most Productive Corpse I've ever seen"

Sat 19 Apr 2003

The Disappearing DJ Music Cart

Fri 18 Apr 2003

Can Asians Think?

Tue 15 Apr 2003

The Design of Technology

An OS X-on-Broadband Tutorial

Good reads today

The Multiple-Mac Household

Mon 14 Apr 2003

SARS

Sat 12 Apr 2003

Business Interruption Planning

Thu 03 Apr 2003

On Being an Entrepreneur

Conversations with Visionaries of the Digital World

Wed 02 Apr 2003

Catch 22

Tue 01 Apr 2003

"Not for MacIntosh User"

Sat 22 Mar 2003

The Search for the Ultimate Business Machine

Fri 21 Mar 2003

Apple Gored by the Business Press

Wed 19 Mar 2003

Scott McNealy in Singapore

An Enterprise Centre - The Mac Way

Tue 18 Mar 2003

My Whole Life in iTunes

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Mon 17 Mar 2003

Syndicate this

At the IT 2003 Show

Wed 12 Mar 2003

Java Stuff Up Again

Falling Down

Sun 09 Mar 2003

Hello Siva

Mon 03 Mar 2003

Luca - The Romance of Double-Entry Bookkeeping

Fri 28 Feb 2003

How Businesses Could Use Macs

Thu 27 Feb 2003

Are developers coming back to the Mac in droves?

Zen and the Art of Weblog Maintenance

Wed 26 Feb 2003

Perversion Tracker

Mon 24 Feb 2003

Taking Stock

Thu 20 Feb 2003

Weblog

Wed 19 Feb 2003

If you want a nice girl, go get a nice computer

Mac@Work
Put your Mac to Work

Sivasothi.com? Now how would you do something like that?

Weblogs. Download and start a weblog of your own.

A Mac Business Toolbox
A survey of the possibilities

A Business Scenario
How we could use Macs in businesses

VPN Enabler for Mavericks

MailServe for Mavericks

DNS Enabler for Mavericks

DNS Agent for Mavericks

WebMon for Mavericks

Luca for Mavericks

Liya for Mountain Lion & Mavericks

Postfix Enabler for Tiger and Panther

Sendmail Enabler for Jaguar

Services running on this server, a Mac Mini running Mac OS X 10.9.2 Mavericks:

  • Apache 2 Web Server
  • Postfix Mail Server
  • Dovecot IMAP Server
  • Fetchmail
  • SpamBayes Spam Filter
  • Procmail
  • BIND DNS Server
  • DNS Agent
  • WebDAV Server
  • VPN Server
  • PHP-based weblog
  • MySQL database
  • PostgreSQL database

all set up using MailServe, WebMon, DNS Enabler, DNS Agent, VPN Enabler, Liya and our SQL installers, all on Mavericks.