Siang ini saya tiba di kantor sudah kebelet. Tidak berusaha mencari toilet di jalan karena lebih nyaman toilet di kantor (iya lah).
Ternyata setiba di kantor sedang mati lampu. Buka toilet, duh gusti, gelap total. Nggak kelihatan “nembak”-nya musti kemana.
Sedangkan “kebutuhan” makin mendesak.
.Sedang stress begitu tiba2 dapat ide. Buka hape, set brightness-nya maksimum, lalu taruh di tempat yg agak tinggi. Eureka!
Phew…ploongg… đ
It’s to my great surprise when I [ found this news ]. It’s nice to find your work acknowledged so highly like that.
Of course this can only be realized with team work, so kudos to everyone who has made it possible. Well done guys!
I’ve been using LVM, which is the default for Fedora Code installations. FC developers have managed to make it to “just work” in all of my installations. I understand that this is being pushed aggressively by RedHat, and I think it’s the right thing to do.
It’s another initiative which makes another enterprise computing feature to be available on ordinary / off-the-shelf hardware; which is always appreciated.
In case the “autopilot” doesn’t work, here’s a few notes on LVM. You just may find it useful.
Subject: [ISOC-ID] Laporan Meeting di Gedung Cyber
From: Irwan Effendi Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 12:10 AM
Hari ini, Jumat jam 10:30 pagi, saya menghadiri rapat informal di Gedung Cyber lt. 7, tepatnya lokasi kantor IDC dan ccTLD.
Pembicaraan berkisar tentang bagaimana eks chairman kita, Teddy A P telah memanipulasi publik mengenai sejarah berdirinya ccTLD, yakni dengan mengatakan bahwa rekan Budi Rahardjo diberikan mandat oleh IANA atas rekomendasi APJII, padahal yang dimintai rekomendasi oleh IANA pada saat itu adalah bapak Joseph Luhukay dan bapak Sanjaya dalam kapasitas mereka sebagai pribadi yang pionir kegiatan internet di Indonesia, bukan dalam kapasitas sebagai anggota APJII.
Bagi rekan-rekan yang tidak mengetahui sejarah internet Indonesia, bapak Joseph Luhukay yang sekarang adalah eksekutif Lippo, adalah orang Indonesia pertama yang mengikuti konferensi di internet (silahkan di google untuk detailnya), sedangkan Sanjaya adalah orang yang dikenal aktif di APNIC di awal masuknya internet di Indonesia. ccTLD sendiri dulu awalnya akan dikelola oleh bapak M. Samik Ibrahim yang nota bene adalah mentor bapak Budi Rahardjo, namun mengundurkan diri karena alasan pribadi.
Mengenai tindak tanduk TAP, dulu sewaktu dia non aktif di APJII, ditawari oleh bapak Marcelus untuk mengembangkan Chapter Indonesia di ISOC, yang mana kegiatan awal dan segala informasi teknis diurus oleh Marcelus, sedangkan TAP bertugas mengumpulkan fotocopy KTP untuk charter member. Sebagai catatan, dari 25 orang yang didaftarkan sebagai Charter Member pada saat itu, salah satunya tadi mengatakan sendiri bahwa dia baru sadar bahwa namanya dipakai untuk mendirikan Indonesian chapter sekitar 2 bulan yang lalu.
Selanjutnya, selama dua tahun, TAP sibuk menggunakan nama ISOC untuk mematikan kegiatan-kegiatan APJII dan mempublikasikan bahwa APJII seharusnya tidak mengelola IP, dan bahwa ia ingin mengambil alih pengelolaan IP atas nama ISOC. Saking sibuknya, sehingga tidak mengembangkan organisasi, bahkan tidak membuat mailing list untuk anggota. Mailing list member@isoc-id.org baru dibuat sekitar 4 bulan setelah milis yang ini aktif.
Sekarang, setelah dia kembali di APJII sebagai sekretaris, dia memutarbalikkan semua perkataan dia selagi “ngambek” terhadap APJII dan malah menggunakan nama APJII untuk mengambil alih ccTLD, yang akan disusul dengan mengambil pengelolaan server ENUM (dikatakan sendiri waktu pertemuan terakhir di Tulodong).
After 6 months back in Indonesia, I realize that sometimes I was more mobile than I expected. There have been occasions where bringing my laptop was causing problems.
So I bought a Nokia 9500 Communicator, and fingers crossed this will be of significant help for my work.
First thing’s first – I installed SSH (MidpSSH) pretty much straight away onto it. Installation couldn’t be easier, I just browsed to http://xk72.com/wap, and follow it from there. Very nice.
Let’s see how productive I can be with this thing. (not at all ??? đ )
Syukurlah kini telah terbentuk situs [ Indonesian Media Watch ], terimakasih kepada [ Anthony Fajri ] atas kontribusinya.
Barusan saya sudah memposting beberapa artikel disitu, dari berbagai bahan yang sudah ada di weblog saya. Kebetulan mengenai Kompas semuanya, mungkin akan menyusul beberapa lagi mengenai Republika & Koran Tempo (kebetulan itu beberapa yang kadang saya baca).
Sudah terlalu banyak pembodohan yang dilakukan, baik sengaja maupun tidak sengaja, oleh media massa selama ini. Sudah saatnya sekarang ada yang bisa mengkoreksi mereka. Dan kini kita semua bisa melakukannya. Jadi, mari …
Hari ini saya men-setup (lagi) koneksi Internet [ RADNET ezytry ]. Di-setup sebagai koneksi Internet utama, dengan Telkomnet instan sebagai koneksi Internet cadangan.
Koneksi Internet PAYG (Pay As You Go), seperti radnet ezytry dan telkomnet instan, ini sangat menyenangkan, karena sangat praktis. Bisa langsung digunakan, tanpa perlu berlangganan terlebih dahulu.
Memang kita jadi membayar agak mahal, tapi kadang kita lebih memerlukan kepraktisan daripada harga murah. Karena itu sudah berkali-kali saya memasang radnet ezytry di berbagai tempat.
Tapi siang ini saya tidak bisa lagi browsing kemana-mana dengan koneksi ezytry ini.
Setiap kali saya mencoba mengakses suatu situs, langsung dibelokkan ke [ halaman registrasi RADNET ] tanpa izin dan tanpa diminta sama sekali.
OK, mereka mungkin tidak suka duit, ya sudah jadi saya ubah saja koneksi Internet utama menjadi Telkomnet.
RADNET baru saja kehilangan satu lagi customernya.
Today I looked at my browser in awe, seeing that there have been [ 3 (three!) Linux distros and 1 billing software released ], all GPL-licensed.
It’s made possible thanks to collaboration of Indonesian Ministry of Research and Technology, Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Information, PT. Pasifik Satelit Nusantara, and many other parties.
The 3 distros are: Igos Berdikari (stand alone Linux distro), Igos Laba-laba (Linux thin-client distro, based on LTSP.org), Igos Kwartet (1 PC, but 4 keyboards/mice/monitors)
Igos Kwartet is quite intriguing, with 1 PC, 4 VGA cards, and 1 USB hub (8 ports), you can have 4 people to use this single PC together, without interrupting each other.
Igos Laba-laba is a must if you want to have better chance of success with the Internet Cafe business. By using old / cheap workstations, you can minimize your investment. Thus enabling faster ROI (return of investment).
Indonesian Linux scene is very interesting now.
However, I hope that the parties will realize that their work has just begun. They’ll need to maintain, promote, and continue to enhance this. Otherwise, this project may fade away in the future, which I’d really hate to see.
Kudos to everyone involved in this.
Budi Rahardjo sounded the alarm on .id domain management, with his post titled [ Just say NO to APJII ].
To those following the topic, this actually has been going on for quite a while now (ok, this is the first time I heard about the litigation threat though)
I freely admit that I don’t know all the details about this issue. However, I’d like to testify that to my knowledge and experience, Budi Rahardjo is a person that cares. He has done much good to Indonesian IT community, and without hidden (selfish) agenda like many others. Indeed he sometime speaks rather harshly, but I think he’s somebody that you can trust.
If you agree, let’s help spread the word.
Oh, one more thing – I HATE backstabbers. (been there several times myself)
You, mr / ms backstabbers, discourages people from doing The Right Thing. The world sucks because of people like you.
Ini isi file /etc/wvdial.conf saya :
[Modem0]
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
Baud = 115200
SetVolume = 0
Dial Command = ATDT
Init1 = ATZ
Init3 = ATM0
FlowControl = NOFLOW[Dialer StarOne]
Username = starone
Password = indosat
Phone = #777
Stupid Mode = 1
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Inherits = Modem0
Untuk konek, cukup ketik perintah berikut ini dari console / terminal :
wvdial StarOne
nb:
1. Baud harus persis 115200, kalau tidak maka komputer tidak bisa konek ke SC-7090
2. demikian juga setting FlowControl harus NOFLOW
Akhirnya, bisa juga setelah mengikuti petunjuk disini:
[ Linux – Nokia 6820 ]
Jangan lupa ganti internet.com dengan satelindogprs.com.
Juga, di Fedora Core 3 Anda perlu mengganti /dev/input/ttyACM0 dengan /dev/ttyACM0
Selamat mencoba.
If you still don’t understand why people all over the world hates America so much, then you owe yourself to read the article below.
I can testify that it’s indeed what’s happening in Indonesia :
1. “Generously” give as much loan as possible, making sure it’s so big that there’s no way the receiving country would be able to repay it
2. Make sure that most of that loans is being used to pay American companies for various projects
3. Enjoy the huge yearly interest payment, which should be used to to make life better for the country’s citizens instead
4. Make the debts as a hostage – demand ransoms; make the indebted country to do American gov’t biddings
5. If the country’s leader ever dared to refure the command, then just kill him / her.
Result:
1. Creation of ultra rich elite class
2. America gov’t enslaving many countries
3. Extreme poverty in the enslaved countries – clean water a luxury, thosands daily death due to hunger, extreme suffering put on the children and babies, and so on.
4. A lot of people hates America, and become terrorists – and terrorize American people
So if you’re an American citizen, most likely you’re a victim as well. Only a few people on the ultra elite class are benefiting from all this.You need to do something to change this, and you’re the ones most likely will be able to do something about it.
Please, help us all.
AMY GOODMAN: John Perkins joins us now in our firehouse studio. Welcome to
Democracy Now!
JOHN PERKINS: Thank you, Amy. Itâs great to be here.
AMY GOODMAN: Itâs good to have you with us. Okay, explain this term,
âeconomic hit man,â e.h.m., as you call it.
JOHN PERKINS: Basically what we were trained to do and what our job is to do
is to build up the American empire. To bring — to create situations where
as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations,
and our government, and in fact weâve been very successful. Weâve built the
largest empire in the history of the world. It’s been done over the last 50
years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It’s
only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last
resort. This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been
built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through
fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic
hit men. I was very much a part of that.
AMY GOODMAN: How did you become one? Who did you work for?
JOHN PERKINS: Well, I was initially recruited while I was in business school
back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation’s
largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for
private corporations. The first real economic hit man was back in the early
1950’s, Kermit Roosevelt, the grandson of Teddy, who overthrew of government
of Iran, a democratically elected government, Mossadeghâs government who was
Time’s magazine person of the year; and he was so successful at doing this
without any bloodshed — well, there was a little bloodshed, but no military
intervention, just spending millions of dollars and replaced Mossadegh with
the Shah of Iran. At that point, we understood that this idea of economic
hit man was an extremely good one. We didn’t have to worry about the threat
of war with Russia when we did it this way. The problem with that was that
Roosevelt was a C.I.A. agent. He was a government employee. Had he been
caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very
embarrassing. So, at that point, the decision was made to use organizations
like the C.I.A. and the N.S.A. to recruit potential economic hit men like me
and then send us to work for private consulting companies, engineering
firms, construction companies, so that if we were caught, there would be no
connection with the government.
AMY GOODMAN: Okay. Explain the company you worked for.
JOHN PERKINS: Well, the company I worked for was a company named Chas. T.
Main in Boston, Massachusetts. We were about 2,000 employees, and I became
its chief economist. I ended up having fifty people working for me. But my
real job was deal-making. It was giving loans to other countries, huge
loans, much bigger than they could possibly repay. One of the conditions of
the loanÂlet’s say a $1 billion to a country like Indonesia or EcuadorÂand
this country would then have to give ninety percent of that loan back to a
U.S. company, or U.S. companies, to build the infrastructureÂa Halliburton
or a Bechtel. These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and
build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically
serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries. The
poor people in those countries would be stuck ultimately with this amazing
debt that they couldnât possibly repay. A country today like Ecuador owes
over fifty percent of its national budget just to pay down its debt. And it
really canât do it. So, we literally have them over a barrel. So, when we
want more oil, we go to Ecuador and say, âLook, you’re not able to repay
your debts, therefore give our oil companies your Amazon rain forest, which
are filled with oil.â And today we’re going in and destroying Amazonian rain
forests, forcing Ecuador to give them to us because theyâve accumulated all
this debt. So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United
States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they
basically become our servants, our slaves. It’s an empire. There’s no two
ways about it. Itâs a huge empire. It’s been extremely successful.
AMY GOODMAN: We’re talking to John Perkins, author of Confessions of an
Economic Hit Man. You say because of bribes and other reason you didn’t
write this book for a long time. What do you mean? Who tried to bribe you,
or who — what are the bribes you accepted?
JOHN PERKINS: Well, I accepted a half a million dollar bribe in the nineties
not to write the book.
AMY GOODMAN: From?
JOHN PERKINS: From a major construction engineering company.
AMY GOODMAN: Which one?
JOHN PERKINS: Legally speaking, it wasn’t — Stoner-Webster. Legally
speaking it wasn’t a bribe, it was — I was being paid as a consultant. This
is all very legal. But I essentially did nothing. It was a very understood,
as I explained in Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, that it was — I
was — it was understood when I accepted this money as a consultant to them
I wouldn’t have to do much work, but I mustn’t write any books about the
subject, which they were aware that I was in the process of writing this
book, which at the time I called âConscience of an Economic Hit Man.â And I
have to tell you, Amy, that, you know, itâs an extraordinary story from the
standpoint of — It’s almost James Bondish, truly, and I mean–
AMY GOODMAN: Well that’s certainly how the book reads.
JOHN PERKINS: Yeah, and it was, you know? And when the National Security
Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They
found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the
strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over. I come
from a very old New England family, Calvinist, steeped in amazingly strong
moral values. I think I, you know, Iâm a good person overall, and I think my
story really shows how this system and these powerful drugs of sex, money
and power can seduce people, because I certainly was seduced. And if I
hadn’t lived this life as an economic hit man, I think Iâd have a hard time
believing that anybody does these things. And that’s why I wrote the book,
because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation
understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is
about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will
demand change.
AMY GOODMAN: We’re talking to John Perkins. In your book, you talk about how
you helped to implement a secret scheme that funneled billions of dollars of
Saudi Arabian petrol dollars back into the U.S. economy, and that further
cemented the intimate relationship between the House of Saud and successive
U.S. administrations. Explain.
JOHN PERKINS: Yes, it was a fascinating time. I remember well, you’re
probably too young to remember, but I remember well in the early seventies
how OPEC exercised this power it had, and cut back on oil supplies. We had
cars lined up at gas stations. The country was afraid that it was facing
another 1929-type of crashÂdepression; and this was unacceptable. So,
they — the Treasury Department hired me and a few other economic hit men.
We went to Saudi Arabia. We —
AMY GOODMAN: You’re actually called economic hit men –e.h.m.âs?
JOHN PERKINS: Yeah, it was a tongue-in-cheek term that we called ourselves.
Officially, I was a chief economist. We called ourselves e.h.m.’s. It was
tongue-in-cheek. It was like, nobody will believe us if we say this, you
know? And, so, we went to Saudi Arabia in the early seventies. We knew Saudi
Arabia was the key to dropping our dependency, or to controlling the
situation. And we worked out this deal whereby the Royal House of Saud
agreed to send most of their petro-dollars back to the United States and
invest them in U.S. government securities. The Treasury Department would use
the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi
ArabiaÂnew cities, new infrastructureÂwhich weâve done. And the House of
Saud would agree to maintain the price of oil within acceptable limits to
us, which theyâve done all of these years, and we would agree to keep the
House of Saud in power as long as they did this, which weâve done, which is
one of the reasons we went to war with Iraq in the first place. And in Iraq
we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi
Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn’t buy. When the economic hit men fail in
this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals. Jackals are
C.I.A.-sanctioned people that come in and try to foment a coup or
revolution. If that doesn’t work, they perform assassinations. or try to. In
the case of Iraq, they weren’t able to get through to Saddam Hussein. He
had — His bodyguards were too good. He had doubles. They couldnât get
through to him. So the third line of defense, if the economic hit men and
the jackals fail, the next line of defense is our young men and women, who
are sent in to die and kill, which is what weâve obviously done in Iraq.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you explain how Torrijos died?
JOHN PERKINS: Omar Torrijos, the President of Panama. Omar Torrijos had
signed the Canal Treaty with Carter much — and, you know, it passed our
congress by only one vote. It was a highly contended issue. And Torrijos
then also went ahead and negotiated with the Japanese to build a sea-level
canal. The Japanese wanted to finance and construct a sea-level canal in
Panama. Torrijos talked to them about this which very much upset Bechtel
Corporation, whose president was George Schultz and senior council was
Casper Weinberger. When Carter was thrown out (and thatâs an interesting
storyÂhow that actually happened), when he lost the election, and Reagan
came in and Schultz came in as Secretary of State from Bechtel, and
Weinberger came from Bechtel to be Secretary of Defense, they were extremely
angry at Torrijos — tried to get him to renegotiate the Canal Treaty and
not to talk to the Japanese. He adamantly refused. He was a very principled
man. He had his problem, but he was a very principled man. He was an amazing
man, Torrijos. And so, he died in a fiery airplane crash, which was
connected to a tape recorder with explosives in it, which — I was there. I
had been working with him. I knew that we economic hit men had failed. I
knew the jackals were closing in on him, and the next thing, his plane
exploded with a tape recorder with a bomb in it. There’s no question in my
mind that it was C.I.A. sanctioned, and most — many Latin American
investigators have come to the same conclusion. Of course, we never heard
about that in our country.
AMY GOODMAN: So, where — when did your change your heart happen?
JOHN PERKINS: I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced.
The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for
me. And, of course, I was doing things I was being patted on the back for. I
was chief economist. I was doing things that Robert McNamara liked and so
on.
AMY GOODMAN: How closely did you work with the World Bank?
JOHN PERKINS: Very, very closely with the World Bank. The World Bank
provides most of the money thatâs used by economic hit men, it and the
I.M.F. But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had
to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the
economic hit men are doing. And the only way that we’re going to feel secure
in this country again and that we’re going to feel good about ourselves is
if we use these systems weâve put into place to create positive change
around the world. I really believe we can do that. I believe the World Bank
and other institutions can be turned around and do what they were originally
intended to do, which is help reconstruct devastated parts of the world.
Help — genuinely help poor people. There are twenty-four thousand people
starving to death every day. We can change that.
AMY GOODMAN: John Perkins, I want to thank you very much for being with us.
John Perkins’ book is called, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.
[ http://www.pithrecords.com/articles/showarticle.php?articlenumber=958 ]
Selama ini saya perhatikan, kalau pada saat yang bersamaan kita download email dengan browsing situs, maka biasanya download emailnya seperti kalah prioritas. Kadang jadi melambat luar biasa, atau malah kadang-kadang jadi timeout.
Setelah sebal karena download ratusan email kadang bisa butuh waktu berjam-jam, iseng-iseng kemudian saya setup SSH port forwarding di Putty. Jadi, koneksi ke port 110 di localhost akan di-redirect ke port 110 di mailserver.
Supaya tambah mantap, kompresi juga saya enable di Putty.
Saya cukup terkejut ketika kemudian kecepatan download email jadi naik drastis. Proses download email kini tidak lagi tersendat-sendat.
Wah, memang luar biasa SSH ini ya đ
Dari Slashdot, sebuah aplikasi yang sangat menarik – [ pemanfaatan GPU untuk aplikasi matematika ].
Wow.
GPU (Graphical Processing Unit), atau 3D card, atau 3D accelerator; seperti NVidia GeForce, ATI Radeon, dll; memang sudah lama melampaui kemampuan CPU (contoh: Intel x86, AMD, dll) untuk satu hal – 3D rendering.
Saya jadi teringat dulu memainkan game Quake di Pentium dengan rendering OpenGL. Kecepatan framenya adalah 2 detik per frame đ masih mending kalau 2 frame per detik, ha ha.
Setelah saya memasang card 3Dfx Monster 3D (masih ada yang ingat benda ini?) kecepatan renderingnya naik drastis – komputer yang sama bisa memainkan game Quake dengan kecepatan sekitar 30 fps (frame per second).
Kini, para peneliti komputer mulai melirik GPU untuk melakukan hal-hal yang lainnya. Karena GPU biasanya sangat powerful kemampuan untuk memproses floating point, maka inilah yang dilakukan oleh program GPUsort tersebut.
Hasilnya, dengan menggunakan GPU, maka performa yang dicapai bisa mencapai lebih dari 2x lipat dibandingkan dengan CPU yang paling powerful sekalipun.
Mudah-mudahan makin banyak software yang bisa memanfaatkan GPU, mengingat telah memasyarakatnya ini, sehingga investasi GPU kita tidak hanya terpakai untuk main game saja.
Setelah beberapa hari berusaha menyembuhkan serangan asma dengan beristirahat, akhirnya hari ini saya menyerah. Karena sesak napasnya makin parah, dan kelihatannya sudah dibarengi infeksi, walhasil tadi sore kami pergi ke [ Jakarta Respiratory Centre ] (nomor telponnya adalah 7397494, 7244560, 7228126).
Dokternya kelihatannya cukup ahli / spesialis, penanganannya juga cukup baik. Sebelumnya saya pernah mengobati serangan asma saya di sebuah rumah sakit internasional di daerah kampung melayu, waduh lumayan overkill. Saya langsung disuntik 4 kali, dengan dosis yang kelihatannya cukup lumayan, sampai jantung saya berdebar-debar dan badan saya gemetar.
Di JRC ini saya diobati dengan penguapan dulu, lalu karena kelihatan masih agak sesak napas barulah saya disuntik satu kali saja.
Waktu penulisan resep juga cukup mengesankan, dokternya minta izin dulu karena obat yang akan dia resepkan agak mahal. “Oh, enggak apa dok”, kata saya, sambil jantungan. Soalnya, di rumah sakit internasional tadi itu dokternya tidak minta izin, tapi total biaya yang kami keluarkan nyaris 1 juta rupiah untuk satu kali datang itu (glek). Saya bilang ke istri saya, bayar pakai kartu kredit saja, karena kebetulan sedang tidak membawa banyak uang cash.
Ternyata, alhamdulillah total obatnya hanya sekitar 170 ribu, fiuh đ padahal sudah obat racikan (yang biasanya lebih mahal).
Tapi yang paling mengesankan adalah, ketika kami selesai berobat, dengan ramah dokter itu minta izin untuk memfoto saya dengan handphone Nokia Communicator 9500-nya. Buat apa ya… ternyata, supaya dia ingat kalau saya menelpon dia, saya itu pasiennya dia yang mana.
“Menelpon dia ?” – ya, kemudian dia memberikan 3 nomor telpon yang bisa saya kontak; dua nomor handphone, dan satu nomor telpon rumahnya. “Silahkan pak kalau ada yang ingin ditanyakan, telpon saja saya langsung”.
Coba tebak, kemana saya akan pergi kalau asma saya kambuh lagi ?
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Sayang JRC ini kelihatannya kurang dikenal oleh masyarakat, kelihatannya karena lokasinya yang agak masuk ke dalam dari jalan Arteri (jl. Sultan Iskandar Muda, Keb.Lama), dan papan namanya yang dipinggir jalan agak tertutup / tidak jelas terlihat dari jalan.
Jadi mudah-mudahan posting ini bisa menjadi informasi yang bermanfaat bagi yang membutuhkannya.
Alhamdulillah, sekarang sudah banyak sekali yang mau berbagai pengetahuannya di Internet dengan berbagai cara, yang paling populer mungkin adalah via blog.
Tapi, apakah Anda sudah membuat backup dari blog Anda tersebut ? Kalau sampai blog Anda lenyap karena berbagai hal, maka sayang sekali karena berbagai pengetahuan di dalamnya juga potensial ikut lenyap.
Cara termudah adalah dengan membuat agar blog Anda tersimpan di [ Internet Archive ].
Caranya ? Mudah & gratis ternyata (demen gak loh, he he)
Silahkan [ baca ini ].
Kemudian, kebanyakan orang akan memilih untuk [ mampir kesini ]
Mari kita backup blog kita sekarang juga.
I haven’t visited [ Tom’s Hardware ] for quite a while now. Used to be part of my daily routine, since nearly the beginning of its service. Today I thought I’ll give it a quick peek. My, it’s still as excellent as I remember it.
A few goodies :
There’s a very easy way to log on to your LTSP server from Windows.
Just follow these instructions :
vncserver :10 -geometry 800×600 -depth 16
This will make the vncserver to listen on port 5910, giving you a 800×600 screen with 16-bit (65000+) colors
OK, so it’s not really connecting per LTSP’s usual way, but it still give you access to your LTSP server đ
Enjoy.
I was intrigued when I read that [ our Indonesian IT expert was invited by Microsoft to discuss about “platform” ]. Is this the (early) beginning of a major shift in Microsoft future strategy ? Then [ Microsoft’s Platform strategist launched his blog on the subject ], so I think it’s quite safe to say that indeed they’ll be focusing on this topic more.
About platforms – intererstingly, in IT, the platform has changed several times.
At first, the platform was the computer architecture itself. We have x86 (Intel) architecture, also PPC, MIPS, SPARC, and so on. Microsoft got their fortune by milking the x86 platform.
However, people then started to make their software available on multiple platforms. Then Java made a big splash – it proved to the public that a platform doesn’t have to be based on a hardware infrastructure – a platform can be based on software, which in turn runs on many hardware. Also a few operating systems then started to be available on multiple hardware platforms – Linux, *BSD, and even Windows itself (eg: NT used to be available for MIPS, Alpha, and x86).
Of course we must not forget the web as a platform; Microsoft was wise enough to quickly include Internet Explorer on its Windows95 release, making themselves available on this platform.
One problem though; on these new platforms, Microsoft has realized that it’s not been able to effectively monopolize it. Unlike the Wintel (Windows-Intel) platform, where Microsoft can do whatever it pleases; these new platforms are based on (many) open standards. Although Microsoft has attempted to hijack these standards, I think it’s not as successful as it wished.
When most of your income came from locking your customer on your chosen platform, these chain of events probably have caused the Microsoft high command to start to worry.
Microsoft then tried to create a new platform for its future : .NET
However, this attempt is again at risk from the Mono project, headed by Miguel de Icaza. It looks quite good – I think the only thing that won’t run are ActiveX controls. Otherwise, you should be able to get .NET apps to run on it.
With many alternatives now available for their Windows platform (Linux, etc), and .NET not fully in their grasp, they probably have started to see the possibility of the decline of the biggest software company in the world.
If Microsoft can find another platform to lock their customers in, then they’ll be in for another 10-15 years of joyride. I think, therefore, this is among their highest priority at the moment.
Comments/insider’s info welcome.
Wow… saya speechless, kecuali untuk mengucapkan: well done BPPT.
Republika, Kamis, 23 Juni 2005 9:09:00
BPPT Tawarkan Software Gratis
JAKARTA –Software gratis BPPT itu adalah Komura,
Kantaya, Kasipena, dan Kutahu. Badan Pengkajian dan
Penerapan Teknologi (BPPT) kembali menawarkan software
alternatif. Beberapa di antaranya sudah pernah
diperkenalkan empat tahun silam.
”Ada empat aplikasi yang tersedia untuk beragam
kepentingan,” ujar Sulistyo Suhrowardi, direktur
Pusat Pengkajian dan Penerapan Teknologi Informasi dan
Elektronika, BPPT, kepada wartawan, Rabu (22/6).
Keempat software tersebut adalah Komura, Kantaya,
Kasipena, dan Kutahu. Aplikasi tersebut diluncurkan
sebagai software alternatif bagi mereka yang ingin
menggunakan peranti lunak berlisensi. ”Keempat
software yang dibuat BPPT ini merupakan software
General Public License (GPL),” jelas Sulistyo.
Kendati merupakan software GPL yang semestinya bisa
memungut biaya atas pendistribusian program komputer,
BPPT menggratiskan keempat software tadi. Dengan
sendirinya, keempat software tadi bisa dimanfaatkan
secara luas oleh masyarakat tanpa perlu membayar
sepeser pun. ”Pihak lain diperbolehkan menyalin,
mendistribusikan, dan bahkan modifikasinya,” ucap
Sulistyo.
Peluncuran Komura, Kantaya, Kasipena, dan Kutahu,
lanjut Sulistyo, dilakukan untuk menjawab kebutuhan
software berlisensi di masyarakat. Keempat software
itu diyakini bisa menggantikan posisi program-program
komputer bajakan yang marak dipergunakan masyarakat.
”Apalagi, cara penggunaannya tidak jauh berbeda
dengan software komersial,” katanya.
Sulistyo belum dapat memastikan apakah software yang
dikembangkan BPPT akan dijadikan sebagai software
resmi di kalangan institusi pemerintahan. Sejauh ini,
belum ada komitmen yang tegas soal hal tersebut.
”Pemerintah daerah Ponorogo (Jawa Timur), Bali, dan
Binjai (Sumatera Utara) malah sudah lebih dulu
memanfaatkannya,” ungkapnya.
Perangkat lunak yang disediakan untuk perkantoran itu
bertajuk Kantaya. Ini merupakan web-based groupwave.
”Kantaya bisa dijalankan di sistem operasi manapun.
Programnya mirip dengan Microsoft Exchange ataupun
Lotus Domino,” cetus Sulistyo.
Sementara itu, untuk pengelola warung internet
tersedia Komura. Komura adalah sistem jaringan
komputer murah. Software ini sangat cocok untuk warung
internet yang beroperasi sebagai game center. Sistem
jaringan komputernya terdiri dari server Linux WinBI
dan sejumlah terminal berupa komputer sederhana tanpa
hard-disk. ”Sayangnya, belum semua multiplayer game
bisa dimainkan di Komura,” sesal Sulistyo.
Dari segi skala ekonomi, Sulistyo memaparkan Komura
akan lebih ekonomis ketimbang pembelian komputer
secara terpisah. Kesimpulan ini berlaku untuk
pembelian komputer di atas empat unit. ”Komura
tersedia dalam CD bootable yang bisa langsung dipasang
untuk membangun jaringan komputer yang murah.
Peminatnya juga dapat men-download-nya di
www.software-ri.or.id.”
BPPT juga memperkenalkan Kasipena. Perangkat lunak ini
merupakan Kantaya untuk dunia pendidikan. ”Sedangkan
Kutahu adalah contoh e-learning sederhana,” ujar
Sulistyo. Keempat open source software tersebut
dipastikan Sulistyo kompatibel dengan
aplikasi-aplikasi desktop dari software komersial.
Format file-nya sudah standar. ”Penggunanya bisa
menyimpan file dalam format rtf ataupun pdf.”
Berdasarkan hasil riset, Kementerian Riset dan
Teknologi memantau hal-hal yang menjadi penghambat
penguasaan komputer di masyarakat. Riset ini
melibatkan kalangan pemerintah daerah, usaha kecil
menengah, serta dunia pendidikan. ”Biaya komunikasi
dan perangkat keras masih mahal, terbatasnya
pelatihan, dan kendala bahasa adalah penyebabnya,”
ungkap Sulistyo.
BPPT berharap ketersediaan software gratis dengan
kinerja yang dapat diandalkan akan membuat penguasaan
komputer di Indonesia meningkat. Terlebih, software
tersebut tersedia dalam tampilan bahasa Indonesia.
”Kami tidak memiliki target khusus dalam hal jumlah
pengguna.
(rei )