Life's like that

Success

2010-10-08T03:17:00.000+07:00

It is everybody's dream to be SUCCESSFUL individual. Typically, success means that we reached/obtained what we dreamed and what we planned. That actually referring to : without plan, dream or target, we would never succeed.

There's so many people out there living without dream and target, wandering aimlessly in their life. Those kind of people will be the last to reach a successful life. A dream was really important for being successful, it is a source of our will and a foundation of our mentality. Some people were actually afrid of dreaming, they believed that "(dream) higher and the harder you will fall", that kind of thought is not really wrong, but it was incomplete. "... The harder you will fall and you should use that hard-earned lesson to learn of getting higher than you previously were"

Road to success will often be harsh and unfriendly, filled lots of traps and troubles. Always expect the worst, mistakes and failures could be a daily menu for us, who aimed to reach for a place named "success". Play it smart, dream high and mighty (nobody could prevent us from dreaming anyway, aim for being a president and who know maybe one day we could be one), Make a decision carefully and never rely on brute force, since repeating the same actions while expecting a different results are an insanity.

The most important weapon we should carry with us is "patience" and "preserverence'. There's a story of a man who were trapped in a desert, he was so thirsty that he start knocking on a lump of rock, hoping that a water could sprout out from the crevices. 9999 time he knocked before he gave up and walk away, ending up dead. 2 days later, another man was also being in the same situation as the "dead" man. He knocked on the stone only once and fresh water start flowing out if the rock. Just imagine, the previous man was just "one" single step from success before he gave up and ending up dead. If only he had been patient, he wouldn't ended up dead. We don't know when we could succeded. But, if we kept on trying without stopping halfway, good outcome would surely came out.

Well this text were not really accurate and right, since everyone have their own way and method. It might be useful for some people and complete ramblings and craps for some. Good luck on travelling on the road to success.

Psychopath LOVE?

2010-10-06T03:20:00.001+07:00

It's been a long time since the last time I wrote about this topic. Lately wherever I go and whoever I talk to, and in many tweets I read. everybody mentioned "LOVE"; sad love, happy love, psycho love, possesive love, materialistic love, uncertainity in love, etc. One of the most disturbing fact is that people tend to lost their dignity when they had a misconception about love.

First form of "love" I heard so much is "psychopath love". In this case, the subject tend to assume everything in their way of thinking. They believe everything they thought were true. They tend to justify their own wrongdoings. They are living in the world created by their own lies. They will do anything they could to "make" their assumption real. Ranging from : harassing, bullying, using fake ids, badmouthing, stalking, or even killing.

No external help could be done to help people with such "love". Since they will refuse anything other than their own assumptions, regardless of the truth.

Actually, they will need to realize that love is not something predictable. It is all about feeling and there's no single effective method to define whether the people we "assumed" loving us or the people we "assumed" are going to snatch our mate away, are really doing what we thought they were.

The easiest example : I ignored my ex, telling her that I didn't love her anymore. In fact I never loved her, I "used" her; another one is we sometimes say "I like that boy/girl" to a person. The truth is actually "I like that boy/girl, but I liked you better". That's only 2 simple example to tell us that "nothing" is absolute in this world, and we could never tell what one people are thinking, or what they're feeling.

The only way to help such people are to let them think for themselves, whether their behaviour and mind is on the right track or not, they should realize that all their thoughts are wrong and nothing good will result from too much assuming things, any more assumption would only confuse the truth further. But, this method could only be applied for anyone with "mild" psychopath behaviour. If they kept such behaviour for too long, any advice we tell them won't get into their mind. Their sanity had been consumed by their own fantasy and delusion, they're completely hopeless and as good as a "mental health hospital patient".

Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10.04 in EEE 900HA

2010-10-05T03:13:00.002+07:00

First impression of UNR is.. "Depressing". Since the wireless adapter in my netbook won't turn on. That means no "internet" unless I use the direct cable connection to my router.. No way. Modified the config files and modprobe the wlan manually. But the wireless adapter worked suddenly the second time I restart the live OS.. Phew. Luckily there's no problem with either the sound or display. I tried connecting my broadband hsdpa modem, and it worked like charm :D (it's a T-mobile webconnect anyway, OEM : huawei).

The main difference between standard jaunty and UNR version is the "menu" UI that were arranged neatly on the desktop and without separate application bar. Other than that, I didn't really aware of the difference. As one of a command-line user, I tried ctrl+alt+F1 to get to text mode and alt+F2 to launch the terminal. Seems like standard linux shortcuts worked here.

The next problem arise when I want to "install the os permanently". There in the manual, we could install UNR side by side with our windows installation. :/ but the "install side by side" option didn't appear. It defaulted to "erase entire disk". Lol.. I've got 4 partition defined as primary partition already (thanks for the trouble, ASUS). And no disk could have more than 4 primary partition, so resizing the partition won't work for me.

At the last resort, I deleted the first (windowsxp) partition and second (data) partition (backed up the data of course). Leaving the third (sysrecovery) and fourth (sysrecovery boot info) intact. Well I won't erase the whole disk. Genuine windows xp didn't come cheap. Creating one extended partition with 3 logical partition (one for data, one for / and one for swap). Then I create one primary partition for my ol' windows xp. Dual boot ready :D.

Well I'm quite satisfied with the overall performance. Everything worked as I expected. Compared to another _netbook_ optimized os I tried, "jolicloud". I like UNR better, since UNR didn't come with "mandatory" auto-update and that stupid "cloud" application. UNR is simply a netbook-optimized ubuntu.

TDL being raised, another loss for medanese

2010-05-08T01:37:00.000+07:00

Read in the paper that the TDL (Tarif Dasar Listrik / Electricity base prices) will be raised. PLN (Perusahaan Listrik Negara / Nation's electricity company) can't keep up with their loss of income if the TDL is not raised. As the price of electricity being raised, PLN promised to improve the quality of service. Now, there are a lot of stuff that is needing improvements here, especially in Medan.

The problem lies in the QOS in Medan, we get a daily 4 hours blackout everyday. Sum it up, it is around 120 hours of blackout from total 720 hours in 30 day. It is around 16-17% of the total uptime. The blackout gave some really bad impact in production costs and running costs of many companies, shops, and living costs in Medan. Some higher ups in PLN says that they also lost some tremendous amount of profits by the blackout and that it can't be helped since the power generator were old and often not running on full capacity (let's say they loss around 17% of the profit) . Did they ever thought how much money we lost?. Let's say we run an internet cafe, with daily average income around Rp. 300.000.-, 4 hours blackout could cut off the income to around Rp. 180.000.- per day. Pretty cool uh? that's around 40% of the income, not mentioning the loss caused by damaged machinery because abnormal electricity supply. Don't sum the amount, use percentage. They might lost "TREMENDOUS" amount of money from that 17%, but we lost 40+% from our small Rp. 300.000.- income. That's great.

Some funny fact is that the whole country's electricity were produced and managed by one single company. It means that the whole country's electricity supply were monopolized by a single company. That should give PLN some ridiculously huge amount of income per month. It was somewhat illogical to tell that the company's profit are at loss every month. Besides, the fact that the power generator were old. Why didn't they get a replacement?. Medan experienced blackout for nearly 4-5 years already.. getting some new spare parts for the power generator really need that long time? or were that the maintenance team sleep while working? or maybe they plan their company "short-term", one to two months planning ahead?

Now, they are trying to raise the TDL 10% from the original TDL. The raise should give them 10% cut in their profit loss, so that they loss only 7% of the profit. While us, the citizens still losing 40% of the monthly income. They promised us that the QOS will be improved and in june. NO MORE blackout will occur.. It is somewhat funny, they raise their prices BEFORE doing improvements.. FTW?. Raising prices should be done AFTER improvements, since ... "maybe" after the improvements were done, the profit can't no longer cover the expenses. But still, it is very unlikely for such huge company.

The only solution for this matter is a large scale bureaucracy revolution. Destroying and erasing every single corrupted individuals inside the company. For a better future.

Jeritan hati setitik manusia

2010-04-09T02:13:00.000+07:00

Tahun 1945 indonesia memproklamasikan kemerdekaan
Setelah pengorbanan dan perjuangan berabad-abad
Kemerdekaan yang dibayar oleh darah para pejuang dan pahlawan
Tahun 1945 Warga negara Indonesia merupakan manusia yg bebas dari jajahan
Untuk beberapa lama kita semua bersatu padu sebagai sebuah bangsa yang satu
Bebas dari segala bentuk jajahan dan tirani
65 tahun berlalu sejak proklamasi
Kami sebagai rakyat masih juga dijajah
Dijajah oleh instansi negara yang seharusnya bertugas melayani masyarakat
Insentif pelicin selalu menjadi solusi
Tanpa-nya segala urusan yang bersangkutan dengan instansi negara : SELALU DIPERSULIT dan LAMA PROSESNYA
PLN memadamkan listrik sesuka hati
Menyebabkan kerugian besar kepada masyarakat
Dengan dalih mesin rusak dan PLN merugi
Kemana kucuran dana dari negara dan pembayaran rekening listrik seluruh bangsa indonesia
Pajak yang dibayar oleh masyarakat
Tidak jelas hilang dan dipakai untuk apa
Rakyat tidak mendapat simpanan hari tua, ansuransi kesehatan "yang memadai", pendidikan gratis, jalanan yang "memadai" tanpa kerusakan
Yang seharusnya didapat dari hasil membayar pajak
Kepolisian yang seharusnya merupakan penegak hukum
Malah memperburuk kondisi hukum
Damai ditempat dengan pelicin sudah menjadi rahasia umum
Diketahui oleh semua orang tetapi hampir tidak pernah dibicarakan
SIM tembak bukan merupakan hal baru
Menyebabkan kecelakaan lalu lintas yang tinggi
Kenapa? Untuk dapat mengemudi diperlukan rasa tanggung jawab dan kesadaran serta kemampuan tinggi
Karena mengemudi selalu menyangkut dengan nyawa dan keselamatan
Manusia yang tidak "pantas" mendapat izin "tidak" seharusnya dibiarkan mengemudi
Hal tersebut hanya sedemikian kecil contoh dari penyakit kronis "korupsi, kolusi, nepotisme" yang sudah mencapai stadium akhir
Tetapi,
Roda telah berputar kembali
Akhir-akhir ini mulai terlihat
Segelintir pihak pemerintahan yang sudah mulai jenuh dengan semua ini
Mereka berusaha keras melawan penjajahan
Dengan gencar membasmi penjajah dan mengungkap kekotoran penjajah
Walaupun selalu di jatuhkan oleh pihak penjajah, mereka tetap tak gentar
Berpegang teguh terhadap pendirian
Terhadap apa yang mereka percaya bahwa hal itu adalah BENAR
Siapa yang dapat membantu mereka?
Kita semua sebagai rakyat yang sudah jenuh dengan penjajahan ini
Sudah saatnya kita bersatu padu
Tanpa memandang suku,ras,agama
Sebagai 1 bangsa INDONESIA
Untuk melawan yang "salah"
Tanpa dukungan kita semua, seberapa keras pun usaha "mereka", tidak akan banyak perubahan yang akan terjadi
BERSATULAH INDONESIA, dukunglah perjuangan "mereka yang BENAR"
Demi INDONESIA YANG LEBIH BAIK.
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A moment of LOL

2010-04-03T02:15:00.000+07:00

Some of my friends like to tell the stories of their painful love life and whines about the difficulties. Most of the time I will laugh and tell them that "LOL, that's a quite stupid stuff to do".

When I did that, they will curse me with "you don't know how we feel since you've never fallen in love as deep as we are". And I will always respond with "maybe, who knows".

They never know, since I never told a single ppl about how suicidal and painful every moment I've passed, lasting for few months after I broke up with the only one "I don't know why" that made me fallen in a deep shit love. It leave a huge scar in my history and even until now. Since I didn't really understand why we broke up. Hate to admit it, yes she left me, giving me a last souvenir of a big questionmark "?" From the last time I talked to her. She messed my whole life. Not really wanted to put the blame but that's the true Culprit behind my crazy absence list that made me failed once in secondary year (well, she hoped for it before), yes.. Not that I enjoyed being absent, I'm actually in a really fucked up period that I wanted to fist every single ppl that violated my mood (it happened once). That's why, I chose to spend my time sleeping in our "HQ". Hell she made me feel like the #1 loser of the universe. Haha..

Ok quit the whinies, it feels somewhat good to write this piece of crap down. I kept this shit for years, sometimes being manipulative and told ppl fake stories when I'm being asked about :).
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Bolt browser

2010-04-02T02:13:00.000+07:00

I actually know bolt browser right from the first day I bought a bb. A friend suggested me to use the browser for internet banking since default bb browser didn't seem to be capable of running it.

Since I'm using this old curve 8310 with very minimum internal memory available, I always reluctant to try new apps. At least until just now, I'm in desperate need to use internet banking, so I download bolt from the bb app world.

From the beginning, this browser amazes me so many times. The download size of around 500kb amazed me.. Judging from the size, I didn't even believe this browser could run youtube videos. Next, the first run amazed me, the name BOLT really fits this browser. It load up pretty fast. First browsing further amazed me. I could play mafia wars, mousehunt, and my other facebook game. Even netfront browser are slow in loading the contents, not with BOLT though. Lastly, the elements that I love the most from the browser is that.. It didn't use a single kb of the internal device memory for cache. Ohmigosh! I'm delighted with the behaviour, I never saw my 13MB free internal memory could stay intact after I browsed soooo many pages. In fact, reading mangas using bb default browser is suicide :p.

Enough with the positive review, I am somewhat pessimistic that such fine app would stay free. But I really hoped that they will always made the free version available, bolt browser is really my love at first sight.
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Humanoid Warmachines

2010-03-28T02:18:00.000+07:00

The video of a humanoid robots shooting guns and destroying each others have been around for years. The concept come from human imagination to create a high mobility and high flexibility warmachine.

Tanks, warships, fighter plane can't be compared to such incredible machines. Humanoid machines could be used against air or ground target, infantries or tanks, airships or ships. its human shape make it able to move,dodge, jump as human did. With some jetpack modification, we could even fly the machine.

With the technology nowadays, it is almost possible to create such machine. Rough imagination is that The optical feeds inside the cabin could be made by using 360" camera, the joints of the arms and legs could be adapted from industrial robots. Armor plating and frames could use some standard tank materials. To be able to balance the robot to stand up like a human, I believe I've seen some phone with accelerometer, that could be adapted either.

For pilot interface, 2 type of controls are available, the first one is the machine have list of preconfigured stance, so that the pilot would feel like playing video games inside the machine. The other way is to directly connect the nerve system to the control unit, I believe I've seen in youtube a professor managed to use a rat's brain to control a robot's movements, thus, human - machine interfacing is actually possible.

The biggest unsolved problem is the energy source. Our current tech didn't have such compact generator that could produce enough output to power the mech. The only answer would be the discovery of a new energy source, or if we could pack a nuclear reactor into some compact size.

As we saw on the movie, let's say GUNDAM, it uses the preconfigured stance control. In avatar, the mech control are mixed. The arms could move freely according to the control, while the movement are preconfigured. The most fascinating is evangelion, the mech are actually some living being without a brain, wrapped inside an armor, with the controller's nerves directly attached to the mech. That means, while being connected, the pilot themselves are the mech. Compared to human body function, the pilot act as a "brain".

Imagination is always a source of an invention, long before airplanes being invented, people have imagined flying. Talk about flying on a machine before airplanes were invented, nobody would thought that it is actually possible. As this humanoid warmachines, I believe someday people will also managed to realize their imagination.

The rise of humanoid warmachines draws near everyday. ( LOL, I personally would be interested in piloting one :p I've got an abnormal attraction to such machines. I've even tried to fly a plane in a flight simulator with the most realistic setting, since I will never get a chance to fly one ;p )

Humanoid Warmachines

2010-03-28T02:15:00.000+07:00

The video of a humanoid robots shooting guns and destroying each others have been around for years. The concept come from human imagination to create a high mobility and high flexibility warmachine.

Vegetarian

2010-03-24T01:32:00.000+07:00

Lately I've got some quality discussions with some people who are somewhat expert in the field of spirituals. One of our discussion is about "vegetarian".

First question I ask is about vegetarian meaning, sometimes it is just illogical for me that they may eat vegetables but not meat . It's really unfair that plants are not regarded as a living beings. They grow and multiply.

Actually, a true meaning of being vegetarian is not eating anything which could disrupt our calm self. Vegetarian was first practiced by monks, because they need to be calm to meditate. By eating flesh, our blood pressure tends to get higher, and the tranquil state are difficult to attain. One proof that vegetarian were being used to reach a state of tranquility is that vegie ppl didn't eat onion. While onion itself is also a vegetables. Onion could get our breath and body smelly, thus it disrupt the process of meditation.

There are lots of reason why people go vegies. Some wanted their sins to be lighter, some wanted fortune, health,etc. Some fanatics could even discard their food if some portion of the food they ate come in contact with meat. That's not what buddism taught, buddhism always based on kindness and flexibility, if your food come with meats, pick out the meat and eat any other up. Discarding whole plate is a waste and a cruel thing to do. Remember, buddhism is based on kindness.

Another silly thing to do is reading a sutra before eating meat. That's hypocrite, we should act accordingly, when the situation didn't permit us to be a vegie, so be it. Reading sutra then eating meat like we're being forced to, is like throwing away the responsibilities for our deeds.

Being vegie for a reason, should be done after we stated our intention to our deities. For health, family or something. We promise the deities to be a vegie for period of time and hopefully our pledge will be realized. Vegie without any pledge won't do any good besides giving us a better health.. :D

Right or Wrong

2010-03-22T11:31:00.000+07:00

Right or Wrong, those stuff always leave me wondering for very long time. Sometimes we didn't need to think for too long to know that we are doing a right stuff vice versa.

But, do we ever realized that right or wrong are actually our own perception?. Back to relativity theory that everything is relative, right and wrong is also relative to the person involved. Take an example, one assasin raise a child, trained him to kill. For the child, killing will always be the right thing to do. Another example is weeds and some drugs usage, in some country, using weeds are legal (right) while in others, using weeds are illegal (wrong).

What about the religion?, sins? Etc?. Sins.. Let's say it is an abstract measurement of our deeds, nobody really know how much sins or good deeds they did, until they die and being judged (as in stories). By those abstract stuff and some rules where right and wrong are clearly stated, the society are being controlled to be "right" in their perception.

Ok, quit the ramblings, so how should we act if right or wrong is so abstract and relative? It's actually quite simple, do anything as we like without thinking whether it is right or wrong, be flexible. Sometimes, not every right is right and not every wrong is wrong. Don't give a damn about sins or anything else.

Upgrading Blackberry OS

2010-03-11T09:37:00.000+07:00

Disclaimer : WARNING! the tutorial involve flashing the ROM, I am not responsible for any damage you did to the phone, read and use this tutorial at your own risk.

By following this tutorial, you could upgrade / downgrade the OS of your blackberry freely without any error message or some region inavailability problems. Upgrading the OS from Blackberry Desktop Manager often result in error.

Tools and softwares you may need :

Account in Crackberry Forums is a MUST, we will need to download lots of softwares and tools from the site.
Blackberry Desktop Manager Version 4.6 is the best to work with, please use only version 4.6.
Download CrackMEM software.
The OS file, download one from blackberry site or from Crackberry Forums. WARNING! Please make sure that you chose the right type of your BB. Wrong OS could BRICKED your blackberry (Recovery is possible, but we need to do some extra work).

Now the steps :

Install the OS file you downloaded from the site.
Open the back cover, unplug the battery and the MicroSD, then re-attach the battery and Plug in your Blackberry to the computer.
Run the Blackberry Desktop Manager to make sure your blackberry are connected to the computer. You are advised to backup all the data before continuing.
Install CrackMEM software.
Run CrackMEM , if you are running vista / windows 7, make sure the software gets admin privilege. Choose the installed OS. Click on "confirm operating system selection".
Tick the box at the right as you like, but make sure to always tick the "REMOVE VENDOR.XML".
Go to C:\program files\common files\Research In Motion\AppLoader (or the drive / path you installed the OS you downloaded before).
RUN "Loader.exe".
Follow the directions on the screen. It is advised to not selecting any additional softwares or any softwares that you will not use to save some space in the phone's memory.
DO NOT INTERRUPT THE UPGRADE PROCESS WHATEVER HAPPENED, OR THE PHONE WILL BE BRICKED.
Voila, the new OS will be installed

Note :

Please note that after the upgrade, the first initialization of your device will take up some time, the screen will display the loading icon (hourglass or circle). Last time I upgraded my Curve 8310, I left it for approx 2-3 hours. Be patient.. don't do anything stupid.

In next few post, i will write about how to recover the bricked blackberry smartphone and what to do when your USB MASS STORAGE mode didn't work

[Muvee Review] Tim Burton's Alice In The Wonderland

2010-03-10T07:03:00.000+07:00

**Mild spoiler alert**

First impression i get from hearing the title "Alice in the wonderland" was the old bedtime stories about a girl named alice who fell into a rabbithole that connects her into some wonderland. I read and heard same stories many times.. I thought that the movie will be boring. But, when I saw "Tim Burton's".. on top of the "Alice .. ", the first thing that got into my mind is "this will be interesting .. jhonny depp will sure be involved :p".

Who is tim burton? go to his website .. click here

The story is about Alice in her teenage life, once again transported into the "wonderland?". But she happened to have forgotten her childhood memories of being in the wonderland... phew, to reduce the spoiler, let's say that she were needed to end the red queen reign, which she didn't do when she was there in the past.

I don't have too much to comment about the movie, it is indeed illogical, crazy, mad, creepy and dark. Not to mention disgusting..... red queen's head (yuck .. ) .. white queen (yuck .. )..

The special effect involved in the movie are crazy, they could blend "real life" people with animated characters seamlessly, the animated characters seems so real while the real life actress/actor seems so "animated". Well, most of the movie uses high quality effects nowadays, but most of the time the director tend to make it "real" not "real yet animated and weird" like this movie.

The story itself are common fairytale with some twist, fully predictable and not actually special but really interesting since we used to wonder what actually happened in the wonderland after Alice's awakened by her sister in the last story ;)..

Grab the ticket and watch the movie, this movie is really worth watching.

Blackberry Horror

2010-03-09T11:42:00.001+07:00

Rofl, buchan won't be using bb anymore XD LMAO..

He woke up this morning, entering password to unlock his bb. The password r rejected. LMAO..

Next, his bb asked his password until the last attempt (threatening to erase the data after 5 attempts). He's confused that he actually put in the right password but the stupid device keeps rejecting him.

In the last attempt he was prepared to face any consequences of entering 5 wrong continous password. But.. Poof, his bb sprouted some error (java styled :p) about uncaught exception in modules clock or something.

After the last attempt, the bb actually unlocks without erasing any single data. ROFL, leaving the user trembling from fear..

I can't stop laughing watching his expression.. LMAO

life's lesson

2010-02-25T02:43:00.003+07:00

I always believe that i have few really good friends that i could
share the joy and pain of this life. Despite my cousin's statement :
"don't ever trust friends, they're fake. Nonsense..". I never believed
my cousin, i always tell him "my friends ain't those type".

This happened eventually. As we know i was assigned CEO of a company
until month ago. Those time, i enjoy surpluses from my salary, and at
those time, the acceptance of the "so-called friend" rises, hell good,
i've got bunch of nice ppl around me.

Next, i've had some disagreement with the higher ups that caused my
resignment. At the time, i still have sums of money left in my
account. Those time, the friend r still good..

Until few days ago, some friend asked me how much i've got left.. I
told him, "a little.." then he started to spew some "unpleasant
words". I don't know whether he's joking or serious, but still, such
words were too harsh to be spoken.

Those few words etched itself deep into my mind and soul. At the
moment, i know that i won't ever be the same anymore. I come to
realization that the only thing that made our friend is our
achievement and our money. It's funny that he had to spew out those
words. I didn't tell him that i will be lending from him or sth. I
know what i will be doing. With that, i decided to get some money from
selling my stuff, back to hometown to slow my pace down and start all
over.

Friend in need is a friend indeed is a bullshit. Money is indeed our
best friend, come to think of it, earn more than anyone .. Then
everyone will come flocking to befriend us. That's true indeed, ironic
that the statements were told by my cousin many years ago, and i'm
being such a fool to believe in fairy tale. This matter really
awakened me to my sense, goood friends? LMAO..

The only thing that the 'friend' didn't put in mind while saying those
words r ... I'm not the type who succumb and consumed by the fall.
Every fall and disappointment i get, those stuff gave me strength and
determination to stand back up. With new resolve and efforts each
time.

WWW Content Filtering / Blocking

2010-02-13T05:04:00.000+07:00

The talk about content filtering / blocking is always a hot topic everywhere around the World. There are lots of Pros and Contras surrounding the topic. I personally against the policy, but here I will try to be neutral and examine the issues from both sides.

Internet (WWW) is indeed a double sided sword. Information are globally distributed and read. One simple "hello world" could be read by more than million people around the globe. We could post something about "how to make a bomb", or "how to kill" and the next day, the chance are high that someone out there would read our tutorial and start using it to commit murderous act, or we could start persuading people to "plant one tree per person" or "donate 1 cent per person".

The good reason for content filtering and blocking is to limit the information the society would read so that social morale degrading and state of chaos could be prevented. Even the 5 years old kid could access some porn site to learn how to have sex and to try it out tomorrow. But, as we all know "with the great power, comes a great responsibility", the authority to filter and block the content of internet is indeed a great power. Many people tend to defy their ideal of "giving the best to society" to "i block anything that i don't like and i will cover up any bad deeds i have done". So, to put it bluntly, I don't trust that any humans could maintain their morale and unbiased view when they are given such power.

We should never forget that by "having internet around" are already given us immense power. Internet users themselves should access it with a high responsibility. Actually, the best thing to do is to EDUCATE society, to raise their morale so that they would know what is RIGHT and what is WRONG. That's quite a task and many higher-ups would prefer blocking/filtering since it's much simpler and easy to do.

Up until now, country which practiced URL filtering very strictly is China, i'm not surprised, China have been restricting information flow since the Qin Dynasty. But, judging from the government's policy themselves is enough, they executed the corrupt officer without any hesitation, they execute each negative elements that could threaten political stability. that kind of punishment is enough to stop the dirty games in higher-ups. The only problem lies in avoiding casualties from common citizens, that's why china's policy is quite acceptable.

Indonesia?, well, the law itself need improvements. I often heard that "people are being jailed for a year because stealing an egg" while "corruptor are jailed 2 years for their crimes". WTF, Content filtering / blocking won't do any good if the morale of society didn't get any improvement. It's like blaming a good teacher for him to unable to teach einstein's theory of relativity to an idiots with IQ below 80. Why bother with unimportant tasks like fighting software piracy, UU-ITE, etc. While statistically most of the crime were commited by the people who don't have an internet access (kakek-kakek memperkosa anak balita, dll). Despite the appearance, crimes involving WWW in indonesia are often actually of small impact to the society.

For Indonesia at this moment, aggressive campaign to promote personal internet filtering (for parents) and improving citizens morale would do good, since, blocking / filtering contents could give negative impacts on society (raise riots, protests, etc) besides, such method would be broken by society's curious and immoral minds.

Running Linux and Android in SonyEriccson Xperia X1

2009-12-30T10:12:00.000+07:00

Well, as the title says, it actually won't do any good by running linux in the phone. Since x1's wireless card can't be detected, we ended up without any network connectivity. The sound driver didn't work either.
But still it worth some try.

HowTo run linux in X1 - few simple easy steps:

download the package, either one is okay :

Compiled by ARAN
Compiled by AIV
extract the file into the root directory of our phone "my device" in file explorer
run the 'haret.exe' provided in the package (download one here if it didn't included)
the linux should run

To Run Google-Android OS (partially working, i mean "partially") :

download the package

Android X1 by japanfred
extract to your pc
copy all the files inside /tmp/boot/ to the storage card root directory
copy the /tmp folder to the storage card
run haret.exe

I will provide the pics later on

Resources : XdaDeveloperWiki

Google New Interface

2009-12-30T09:51:00.001+07:00

I Stumbled upon Gizmo Freeware's posting about the new google interface.

Here's how to activate it :

1. Open google.com in the browser

2. After it loaded, copy and paste the code below in the url (remove the spaces). Replacing the google.com url.

javascript:void(document.cookie="PREF=ID=20b6e4c2f44943bb:U=4bf292d46faad806:TM=1249677602:LM=1257919388:S=odm0Ys-53ZueXfZG;path=/;domain=.google.com");

3. Hit enter (there won't be change, just hit the enter).

4. Re-open google.com

5. You will see the new interface by now

To Disable, simply enter the code again.

p.s : if you're a localized google user, please note that this trick only work for google.com

Below are the scrshots

Main Page

Try a search

Searching status updates

Search into forums

Reference
techsupportalert : LINK
gizmodo : LINK
mashable : LINK

Moved the domain

2009-12-29T09:18:00.000+07:00

I recently moved this blog domain to custom domain name lanlah.co.cc. LOL.. the name's weird, it is actually a bad word in fu jian language.

The name crossed my mind simply after i searched for available domains for hours without getting any good results. The thought of using badwords crossed my mind. Since international community didn't really aware of this localized badwords, lanlah could mean anything for anybody other than fu jian speaking people.

But still, i'm thinking of moving the blog to more appropriate domain anyway :D.. maybe sometime in the future.

PfSense - introduction

2009-12-21T21:29:00.001+07:00

Pfsense is FREEBSD based firewall and router. It is opensource and free. Despite being free, pfsense are powerful, flexible and reliable.

I personally not really into such distro, prefering doing anything from scratch, but when i need an easy setup (not really easy to customize to what we wanted most of the time anyway), fast deployment and small sized firewall / router. This is the best option i could get my hand on.

It actually runs on some old hardware, embedded version are available for thumbdrive or some small disk drive deployment (haven't tried the embedded version though).

Some features of pfsense :

FIREWALL : highly flexible configurations for firewall (yes, i really mean FLEXIBLE here)
it's indeed a STATEFUL FIREWALL
good NAT with some limitations though
CARP.. kewl
Load Balancing (most beginners will be perplexed and confused with the conception though, that's why most of the time they will state the load balancing as non-functioning..)
Captive Portal, DHCP servers and relay, etc etc etc

give it a shot before i post my documentations ;) .. remember "JFGI"!!

Test mobile blogging

2009-12-13T03:25:00.001+07:00

This post iis to test whether the mobile blogging work or not.

Paper Hole Punch

2009-11-26T15:18:00.001+07:00

As office workers, many of us faced problems in determining the center point of the paper we wanted to make a hole to be filed to our ordner.

The tool I made would help determining the center point fast and easy.

Here's the download : A4 paper

How to use :

1. download the pdf file and print it on the A4 paper
2. when you're punching hole, put the printed tool on top of the paper stack.
3. adjust the indicator line to the center of the hole puncher
4. press the puncher

voila, you got a perfect centered paper position without folding your papers.

note : the tool could be used for A4 potrait or A4 landscape ;).

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2009-11-26T00:02:00.000+07:00

Programmer and geeks "Paradise"

2009-11-04T01:01:00.001+07:00

You're a "green" programmer or geek, or IT admins. And, you don't know where to seek for answers? I won't be answering anything. Too much hassle for me to solve people's problem :D .. Try the sites below

StackOverFlow.com (Software development) for Programmers
ServerFault.com (Servers and Networks) for IT admins
SuperUser.com (Hardware / Software) for Geeks and Techies
Meta for bugs discussions of 3 sites above
Doctype.com (Web design) for web designers

Need to quench the need of reading but don't have enough budget to buy some expensive-shitty-thicky-books? go to

dbebooks Oreily's and many quality books FREE for downloads

Or if you're a complete n00b, try

howtogeek.com for complete noobs

Need reviews of softwares, music, videos or games?.. click rlslog.net and search for the download with our best friend Piratebyran (the developers are in trial)

Extraterrestial life, possilble?

2009-09-16T13:51:00.002+07:00

Speaking of Extraterrestial life, many people are skeptical with this stuff. Things like aliens, UFO, ghost and anything. Is it really possible for such things to exist?

Remember when Einstein said that "our eyes only see what we could see, there are lots of things we don't know about the existence". take an example, bats view this world in a very different way, they sense their surroundings by transmitting an audio wave, which we humans can't see. That's only one example. Imagine how many bacteria and small micro sized virus and organism around us.

Let's see things in different viewpoint. What if, we humans are actually one kind of a bacteria / virus that live on earth surface? ... imagine when we saw bacteria and other microscopic organism, how about that we're actually also being watched by "which we never know" superior extraterrestial life?. Narrow the scope, try not to be too extreme.

Let's say saturn, up until now, we know there are 9 planets including earth. The furthest of our unmanned expeditionary team ever reached and landed is Mars, furthest manned expedition is to the moon. And they found out some astonishing facts everytime they set foot on the other planet (evidence of fluids, streams, etc). But no sign of life afterall..

Now wait a second, how about, the living form in mars and other planet are different with earth, maybe they didn't have form (ethereal) , or they're a microscopic, or maybe they lived inside the planet (we lived on the planet anyway).

This universe is full of mysteries yet to be unfold, stating that extraterrestrial life is impossible (non-existent) will be too soon. even in our own earth, there are still a lot of unexplained phenomenon waiting to be solved.