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Server buying tips

Server buying tips:

  • Check for model number of individual parts.. Check for its compatibility towards each other.
  • Check for a good power supply.. it will be on 24/7
  • Dont fill in all the memory slots of the mobo, it may cause timing problems
  • Test memory using memtest (its either failure of the memory or the board)
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Top 100 Millionaires

Industries of the richest man

1. IT – software, tech, innovation (microsoft)
2. Investments – stocks, bonds (berkshire)
3. Telecom (mexico)
4. Furniture design – (ikea) sweden
5. Steel (india)
6. Casino, Hotels – vegas
7. LVMH
8. Clothing (Zara)
9. Investments – diversified (HK)
10.IT – software, business acquisition (Oracle)
11.Makeups – l’oreal
12.Investments diversified (saudi)
13.Aldi germany
14.Petrochemicals – india
15.Aldi germany
16.Oil – russia
17.Hennes and Mauritz sweden
18.Diversified – india
19.Investments, IT, software
20.Aldi, Trader Joe
21.IT Software – india
22.Real estate – HK
23.Retail – wal-mart
24.Retail – wal-mart
25.IT – web services (google)
26.IT – webservices (google)
27.Retail – wal-mart
28.IT – hardware (dell)
29.IT – software (microsoft)
30.Investments – casinos
31.Real estate – hk
32.Retail – france
33.Stocks – russia
34.Steel – russia
35.Rent-a-car
36.Metals
37.metals
38.retail
39.leveraged buyouts
40.Fidelity
41.Drugs
42.cox enterprises
43.oil, banking
44.oil, commodities
45.media
46.construction
47.eyewear
48.steel
49.real estate
50.banking
51.packaging
52.candy
53.candy
54.oils, metals
55.aviation
56.echoStar
57.chocolates (ferrero)
58.telecom
59.real estate
60.clothing (chanel)
61.bmw, drugs
62.nike sports

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Updates for the t-shirt biz

We just bought a new Digital heat-press machine last Saturday.  We haven’t tested it yet since we still have a printer to buy.  So no t-shirt outputs yet.  We are working on it within the week and we hope to produce sample t-shirts.

The digital heat press machine transaction took about 5 hours since we opted that the merchant teaches us the basics and the fundamentals of t-shirt transfer business.  For reference, we will post the materials in the comment side.

Tasks delegation would be:  I will handle the marketing side.  Jeff will be the finance and Mike will be the operations.  Of course its not done without the output product – we will all be the production workhorse.

Using the Freemind tool, click here for Mike’s todo list.  Click here for mine.

We have updated / created the following for use:

On the side note:

My mixer just arrived last Oct. 17. I was really happy for it.  The transaction was very fast and I didn’t expect it to be – the last time I ordered from the net took more than 1 month to be delivered.  Now, the delivery works wonders – just 1 week.   I tested the Pioneer SE-DJ5000 headset for professional DJ and it wows me – until now I’m exited to test the mixer but I cant since its power input is at 120 volts.  As soon as I find an AVR power regulator, I will test it right away.  Cheers!

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Opensource ERP to consider worthy

Here’s the list of Java-based Opensource ERP that I would like to consider in my upcoming retail biz that uses inventory (any suggestions are welcome):

My criteria would be:

  1. Readiness to use
  2. Has a huge client base
  3. Flexibility in development if I would like to extend
  4. Architecture or design of the tool, and
  5. Scalability and adaptability as your biz grows.

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  • Adempiere – I dont know how it got me into this, but most likely this will be the one that I will use and extend if the functionality is insufficient.  For one, Adempiere is previously Compiere (the pioneer in open source ERP).  Having said that, it has all the functionality of Compiere, uses Application Dictionaries (model driven), uses business rule engine through callbacks (and one can plugin a bash code as a biz rule).  It also is UI agnostic – create additional customization and it will exist as both in Swing and DHTML (AJAX).  This model and flexibility suits me best.

Adempiere lacks a good website and organize documentation.  Its forums and source codes are quite messy and needs a divine intervention.  Resources are many and tend to spread out.  Has books develop for it.  Has a straight one month learning curve.  Posterita (POS) is integrated as much as its client POS.

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  • Openbravo ERP – is an open source ERP solution designed specifically for the SME (small to midsize firm). Developed in a web based environment, it includes many robust functionalities which are considered part of the extended ERP: procurement and warehouse management, project and service management, production management, and financial management. Additionally, this same application seemlessly integrates the rest of the areas, starting with a management scope directly helping clients with its CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and BI (Business Intelligence).

In comparison with Adempiere, Openbravo has a very clean interface, organized workflows, and easily extensible.  But Adempiere is more complete and more business focus.  Also, although they claim that the POS is integrated in the Openbravo ERP, it relies on a third party application, and is not fully integrated.  The business intelligence and reporting tool is top of the class and exceeds any opensource ERP.  Has a huge user and client base.

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  • Apache OfBiz – Apache OFBiz is a foundation and starting point for reliable, secure and scalable enterprise solutions. Use it out-of-the-box (OOTB) or customize to suite even your most challenging business needs. With OFBiz in place, you can get started right away and then grow your operations as your business grows, without the huge deployment and maintenance costs of traditional enterprise automation systems.

OFBiz is more leaning towards e-commerce, has a huge client base, and designed from the ground up to be customizable (but not easily for me).  They have a good and organized documentation, no restrictions of the license, and provides a good architecture for its development; but it lacks user friendliness and readiness to use; it is very huge and requires a massive amount of hardware resources.  Bottomline – OFBiz is a good ERP oriented towards big enterprises that is willing to implement its own IT.  In my case, I am a small one. =(

Here are others that I think did not pass worth considering:

  • JFire – is an opensource (LGPL) ERP Framework, build with technologies like J2EE 1.4, JDO 2.0 and Eclipse RCP 3.2. It is designed to be highly customizable and the core framework can also be used for other purposes then ERP.  However this lacks functionality and readiness of use.
  • JAllInOne – is an open source ERP/CRM java application having a Swing front-end. It is a Rich Internet Application so the front-end can remotely comunicate with the server-side layer of JAllInOne via HTTP protocol. Main features: Sales, Purchases, Warehouse, Bill of materials and production, Accounting, Agenda, CRM, Customers and contacts hierarchies, Callouts and appoinments management, Document management, Users and roles management, database schema management, grids and forms customization, reporting solution based on Jasper Report, reports customization.
  • EBI Neutrino – is a Framework for Enterprise Resource Planing (ERP) and Customer Relation Mangement(CRM) software solution that combines power of distribution, inventory, E-Commerce, accounting and workflow.
  • Wavelet EMP – is a web-based ERP built on J2EE framework that caters for the needs of franchises and chain stores. It includes CRM, Point of Sales, Inventory Management, Warehouse Management, System Administration, Accounting, Finance, Supply Chain, Distribution & Logistic, Trading modules, etc.
  • Opentaps – a fork of Apache OfBiz.

[not completed]

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Wishlist

Here’s my wishlist before the year 2009 ends:

  • Subwoofer (optional since I already have the M-Audio Studiophile BX-5a)
  • Biz
  • Travel to Singapore or Thailand
  • Pistol Gun – Springfield .45 acp Mil-spec (optional since I really don’t need this, just for occasional hobby; but I really love the Mil-spec!!!)

springfield mil-spec

  • Learn to play Tennis
  • Learn to bike – Until now, I do not know how to =(
  • Slim down – I really should be going to the Gym nowadays.