About Me
Hi, I am Ian Tam. I am a full time engineering student, studying in Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia. When I am free, I do blogging. I rant about anything from food to my daily life. Other personal interest includes photography, food and Powerball. Speaking of Powerball, I have been playing NSD Powerball 350Hz Pro for some time. On personal record, I can achieve more than 11k rpm.
Since my early teenager, I have developed interest in IT. Currently I am with Open Source Alliance Cyberjaya (OSACyber). My interest with OSACyber is WebOS via thin clients. This is to address the underused PCs available in a small geographically bounded area. For example, in a university libray, PCs are provided for students to browse the Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) and minimal web surfing for academic related matters. Another problem is displaying electronic slides inside lecture halls. There is no need to allocate a few PCs in the library or to put 1 PC each inside the lecture hall. Instead, we can use thin clients which only require a central server with a few dumb terminals to do the job. Having WebOS inside each terminal, allow users to login and customise it according to their preference. For lecturers, they can login to their ‘lecture environment’, where they will have a list of slides they are going to use. For students using OPAC via WebOS, they can have it customised so that their searching will be related to the subjects they are taking or the course they undertake.
Outside of academic interest, I am experimenting with Drupal. I am using it as a framework to develop an online community site. The site will be of self-sustained by the community. Administrators will come from the community itself, the community itself has the power to decide how the side will develop. Imagine the next version of Facebook, MySpace or Friendster, but where users’ voice means democratic.
I can be contacted via email: c e r e a l 8 7 [ a . t ] i a n t a m [ d . o . t ] n e t
