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What I love about handling systems is that everything is clear cut. Sorting out anomalies may be troublesome, sometimes even bordering on impossible; but given enough time and effort it will be sorted out. Regardless if you’re handling hardware, software, networks or a hybrid combination systems can be sorted out and made to play well with each other.

People on the other hand, are a totally different game. There’s no human being alive that can be categorized as predictable. Sometimes what seems like normal behaviour is really a front to a totally different motive.

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KUALA LUMPUR, 26 March 2008 - Tradenex.com Sdn Bhd (Tradenex), subsidiary of Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) and leading local e-commerce collaboration solutions provider, today announces its strategic alliance with German-based global business integration solutions provider SEEBURGER Asia Pacific Ltd (SEEBURGER).

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I was looking for ideas on how to convert the smallest room in my apartment into a home-office unit. As usual, my mind concentrated fully on work, work work. Suddenly, it occurred to me that my computer system also serves as my entertainment centre.

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KUALA LUMPUR, 28 February 2008 – Green Packet Berhad (Green Packet) today announced a 24% jump in revenue from the previous year to RM122.84 million for its financial year ended 31 December 2007.

However, the company posted a lower pre-tax profit of RM30.99 million as compared with RM58.56 million in FY2006. Profit after tax (PAT) and minority an interest was RM30.16 million as compared with the previous corresponding period at RM55.29 million.

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I’ve been asked a couple of times why I run my web hosting business using servers located overseas. The original reason was purely the lack of expertise and uncompetitive features when it comes to Malaysian web hosting companies. However, this seems to be a thing of the past as lots of Malaysian web hosts are getting rave reviews from customers within and beyond Malaysia.

Nevertheless, there exists a more significant problem that I don’t see going away anytime soon: our precarious Internet backbone. Most people will probably assume I’m talking about capacity issues here. However, it’s more worrying than that: it’s a mindset problem.

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