NUS MBA BMA 5013 Corportate Strategy Special Term 1

BMA 5013 Corportate Strategy is a core module in NUS MBA program, class date was from 18/05/2019 to 22/06/2019, the special term 1, this course was taught by Professor Brian Tan. Text book usage was Strategic Management: Concepts: Competitiveness and Globalization, 12th Edition Michael A. Hitt | R.Duane Ireland | Robert E. Hoskisson (H/I/H). Workload： […]

PC/SC Winscard SCardTransmit error 0x00000016 returned

Use PC/SC Winscard SCardTransmit function, it returns error 0x00000016 when using Contactless card reader, found the 2nd parameter of SCardTransmit( ) was wrong. If I replace the 2nd parameter from SCARD_PCI_T0 to SCARD_PCI_RAW under PC/SC contactless mode, the problem was resolved. The change was as below, lErrCode = SCardTransmit(m_hSCard, SCARD_PCI_T0, send, sendLen, NULL, recv, &recvLen); […]

My son is half year old now

My son was born in February 2019, a few days before Chinese New Year, it was still dog year, we stayed at KK Women’s hospital during the Chinese new year. It was busy work and life during the past half year, and the little boy brought us so much joy and happiness. Below photo was […]

Oracle under Linux – emctl start dbconsole command failed

After certain time of the testing on the Oracle 11.2.0.1.0 on Linux, encountered below errors. [tom@ocp ~]$ emctl start dbconsole Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Database Control Release 11.2.0.1.0 Copyright (c) 1996, 2009 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. https://ocp:1158/em/console/aboutApplication Starting Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Database Control ………………………………………………………………………………… failed. —————————————————————— Logs are generated in directory /u01/app/tom/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/ocp_orcl/sysman/log Check […]

Embedded Linux S3C2440 – USB Gadget Drivers

Summary Tested on Embedded Linux S3C2440 target board to be configured as USB device, like USB mass storage and serial cable, the test result was successful. And tried to test S3C2440 board as USB Host, I didn’t get successful result. Basics S3C2440 supports 2-port USB host interface as follows, – OHCI Rev 1.0 compatible. – […]

2018 Mid Autumn Day Lunch with NUS Business School Mandarin Alumni

On 22nd September 2018, Saturday, lunar calendar was 13th August 2018, I joined the Mid Autumn Day Lunch with NUS Business School Mandarin Alumni (新加坡国立大学商学院中文校友会中秋节联欢午宴). The location was at NUSS Kent Ridge Guild House. Most of people are EMBA alumni. Table group photo of the table, the left was Professor Tan. There was a big […]

Embedded Linux S3C2440 – Partitions an FileSytem (YAFFS2)

Summary Tested embedded Linux S3C2440 for partitions and YAFFS2 FileSystem with successful result. Embedded Linux S3C2440 booted up on Linux kernel with YAFFS2 FileSystem support and root_yaffs root file image downloaded to a partition of NAND flash. S3C2440 NAND flash 4 partition The NAND flash of S3C2440 board has been divided into 4 partitions. The […]

India Mumbai, Pune trip – 7 – Chembur railway station at Mumbai

I had India trip from 30th Nov. to 14th Dec.2018. When I was staying at Hotel Plaza at Mumbai for a few days, I visited the Chembur railway station nearby for curiosity as it was walking distance, it was on 13th Dec. 2018. I am not sure if Chembur railway station is Metro station or […]

Embedded Linux S3C2440 – QEMU and Graphic

Summary Tested QEMU and Graphic application on Embedded Linux S3C2440. QEMU is open-source software, can be run on Windows and Linux host, it is software based emulator and instruction set simulator to be used to simulate the embedded processors. QEMU supports the emulation of several target architectures like ARM, PowerPC, x86. QT for embedded linux […]

India Mumbai, Pune trip – 6 –Encounter wedding event at hotel

I had India trip from 30th Nov. to 14th Dec.2018, and stayed in hotel Club Emerald at Mumbai, it was a relatively new hotel. On 11th Dec., there was a wedding event in hotel, and I was just curious and chose to be an uninvited guest, to have a look how Indian people have their […]