About Me and This Blog
About Me I’m Shahada Abubakar from Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. I work and play mostly with Linux, Software Development, Electronics, Sensors, Telemetry, Gadgets and DIY stuff. I also have a keen interest in Aviation and...
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About Me I’m Shahada Abubakar from Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. I work and play mostly with Linux, Software Development, Electronics, Sensors, Telemetry, Gadgets and DIY stuff. I also have a keen interest in Aviation and...
Since I live in a 20-year old apartment, Telekom Malaysia’s UniFi Fiber-To-The-Home is delivered only to the riser room in the basement of my building … from there the internet service is carried into...
Up till now I have been using 12V and 5V power supply units on my desk to power various stuff I am tinkering with, from data loggers to sensors and so on. As I...
Retail Therapy: Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 EditionMy three year old first-gen iPad just doesn’t cut it anymore. Actually it stopped cutting it a long time ago, but I’ve finally given up. I still don’t...
*New Toy – Samsung Galaxy Note 3 – My “Initial Impressions” Review*I bought the original Samsung Galaxy Note a few months after it was released (https://plus.google.com/108668143051440297400/posts/8h8VhpvyaFF). The phone originally came with Android ICS, then...
Bought this last month, but only got it now. Prompted by my recent e-book reading experience on the Galaxy Note, it’s an experiment to see if I can justify a dedicated device for book...
This evening I decided to take a short nap before dinner, and since the Galaxy Note battery was low, I slid it into the cradle. When I got up I noticed that the Galaxy...
what? What? WHAT? did you read that right? .sha — the android/google lover has gone and bought an iPad???? Well it all started about 3 weeks ago, when we were in Ipoh and my...
There was a flash of lightning today, and next thing I knew was my UniFI internet was down, and so was my IPTV. Huh? Fiber optic shouldn’t be affected by lightning, what’s all this?...
I’m not sure what Sunway put into the walls in our house, but I have had to put two wifi routers to get full coverage for the entire house. I have a wireless-G in...