Bill Gates has been babbling about the idea for years now – but he has been beaten by the Japanese, without much noise.

Computing newspaper (16 Dec 2004) on page 12 carries an article titled “Japan welcomes the arrival of the ‘ubiquitous society’”, where IT is everywhere, integrated, seamless, and enabling things for people.

The revolution was achieved with killer technologies (most IT geek knows that Japanese have access to the coolest gadgets), enabled by brave innovations (3G is old news in Japan, etc), and supported by the government (broadband ? we’ve got 100 Mbps fiber to your home for years, etc).

This also means serious savings for businesses – NEC said that they have cut meeting time by 20%, and travel expenses by 15%. I think these are achieved by doing teleconferences and telecommuting. And NEC said that they haven’t done this aggressively yet – imagine the potential savings once they do.

I must admit that I envy the Japanese for these

Very interesting – [ in this post ], Harry Fuecks discusses various useful PHP libraries. And there are still more suggestions in the comments. Check it out.

WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) adalah salah satu solusi server-based file storage yang bisa ditawarkan oleh Linux, misalnya dengan menggunakan mod_dav.

Beberapa kelebihan WebDAV :

• Solusi yang “open”, tidak “proprietary”/tertutup.
• Mempermudah development / maintenance website, karena memungkinkan akses ke folder-folder situs secara aman
• WebDAV banyak didukung oleh berbagai software
• WebDAV bisa diakses dari berbagai platform – Windows, Linux, dst

Namun sayangnya, implemetasi WebDAV client di Window Explorer seringkali mengalami masalah jika mengakses server WebDAV yang bukan Windows penyakit Microsoft nih.

Tapi jika Anda menemui masalah ini, syukurlah ada solusinya – NetDrive dari Novell adalah software WebDAV client yang gratis dan bagus.

Solusi yang saya pasang saat ini untuk mengatasi para spammer WordPress adalah dengan memasang fasilitas preview untuk komentar.

Ternyata, sekarang para spammer sudah bisa mengatasinya.. mungkin karena sudah banyak yang pakai juga, sehingga cukup insentif bagi mereka

Yah, kelihatannya saya terpaksa harus pasang Trencaspammer dulu, sambil menunggu solusi semacam RBL untuk blog seperti yang diusulkan oleh Harry Fuecks [ disini ]