I was recently asked to take a survey which authenticated users solely using IC numbers. According to guideline 6 of PDPC's advisory on the use of NRIC numbers, NRIC numbers are widely used for various business purposes and organisations that use NRIC numbers as user names or membership numbers ...

I have recently acquired an electricity usage meter off ebay and decided to measure the power consumption of some of my devices. For a device that costs just 15 SGD, it works wonderfully and can measure voltage, amperage and wattage. It is supposed to be able to calculate electricity cost once ...

My ISP recently gave me a free speed bump from 500Mbps to 1 Gbps. I wanted to test if it was possible to fully utilise the bandwidth on a single file transfer. Firstly, we need to look at the test file size. I settled on a roughly 500MB to 1GB file size to minimise the effect of TCP window size ...