Wednesday afternoon, September 30th, 2009 at 17.16 WIB, a magnitude of 7.6 Richter Scale tectonic earthquake rocked West Sumatera, Indonesia. Epicenter located at 00.84 latitude and 99.65 east longitude, with the center located at 57 km northwest of the quake with a depth of 71 km from Pariaman. Padang and Pariaman city were two of the most affected cities and suffered badly by the earthquake.

So far, government reported that until today, there are around 700 people died and thousands wounded. There are about hundreds people still burried under the ruins and thousands lost their home. At Pariaman, 5 villages with a total of 300 villagers were burried by landslide of hills around them which triggered by the earthquake. It’s estimated that no one survives from landslide that burried them for 10 meters deep. The evacuation process still in progress since the locations are isolated by the broken transporation line.

Here are conditions after the earthquake.

What can we do to help our brothers and sisters there ? Do you care of them ?

For all readers and visitors, please send your donation to the following bank account to help people of West Sumatera in recovery.

Transfer your donation to one of the following:

Account Holder: PT. Lativi Mediakarya (tvOne)

• Account No.: 125-000-7926-793         Bank Name : BANK MANDIRI   Branch : JKT PULO GADUNG
• Account No.: 0386-01-000-111-304    Bank Name : BANK BRI            Branch : RAWAMANGUN
• Account No.: 300920095                   Bank Name : BANK BNI 46        Branch : RAWAMANGUN
• Account No.: 275-111111-0               Bank Name : BANK BCA           Branch : PULO GADUNG

Account Holder: P2B PKS

• Account No.: 7600 31 8181                Bank Name : BCA

And for International Readers, you can send your donation to my Paypal account below and I will proceed it to the sepecified account above:

Paypal : netpayhq@gmail.com

I will transfer all the donations through Paypal and report to the donators personally.

Thank you for your attention and your generousity.

Show the the world that you care ! Act Now !

Steps I used to move my blog from old host to the new one:

1. From the old host:

• Make a full backup for your blog (including mysql database) in compressed format (*.zip,*.gzip,*.gz) and download to your local harddrive.
• It’s better to extract the data for easy access.

2. From the new host:

• After registration on the new host, you will get a temporary address for the new blog.
• Login to your Control Panel and setup a fresh Wordpress engine.
• Open your phpmyAdmin, select your new wp database and go to Import menu.
• Upload your old mysql dump file (*.sql) of the old host from step 1 and click Go.
• When finished, you already have your blog database moved.
• Now upload your old blog files (themes, plugins, image upload, etc) under directory wp-content to the new host using FTP or File Manager to the corresponding folder on your new blog directory (eg. all file under wp-content/themes should go to wp-content/themes too).

3. From the old host:

• If you used email hosting also, don’t forget to download your mail right now.
• Go to your domain manager and change the DNS to point to your new DNS as your provider gave you.
• Maybe your blog will not accessible for a while since it will take sometime to propagate your new DNS to the world wide web.

4. From the new host:

• When your blog has been accessible from your domain name, go to your blog Admin area and configure the blog to your old setting (theme used, plugins installed, etc).
• If you used email, go to your CPanel and set up some usernames used for email activity, so you won’t lost contact from the world.
• Your blog has moved to the new host!

5. Done.

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Write a post on your blog about this contest:

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Deadline:

The contest will run until 23.59 GMT on Sunday 14 June 2009, when the winners will be selected via random.org.

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Deadline:

July 10th, 2009 and winner will be drawn on July 11th, 2009.

The next suspect was hardware failure. I tried to check the BIOS for some abnormalities and I could not find it. I opened the case and tried to remove some devices (RAMs,harddrive) to check whether one of them cause this. But nothing change!

So, what to do next? I tried to restart the PC again and watched the Windows loading process. And bingo! At the end of loading, for a second I saw the bluescreen of death (bsod) showed up quickly and the PC restarted again. I repeated that step until I could see the exact error message displayed on the bsod. Finally, the error said, STOP 0×000000ED UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME. I googled the web and found a solution.

Requirement:

Windows XP CD-ROM

Step by step:

1.Insert the Windows XP CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive, and then restart the computer. (make sure your BIOS use CD-ROM as 1st boot priority)
2.When the “Welcome to Setup” screen appears, press R to start the Recovery Console.
3.At the command prompt, type chkdsk /r , and then press ENTER.
4.Wait until the process finish and restart your machine.

This may takes a bit longer, but the system should boot back into Windows.

Reff: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555302

Informatica Pratica è in esecuzione un concorso con un premio di un iPod Shuffle.
Premio: iPod Shuffle
Come Invio:
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- Lascia un tuo commento al post del concorso con il tuo link.
Scadenza: 5 Giugno 2009 e vincitore annuncio su 7 Giugno 2009.

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Informatica Pratica is running a contest with a prize of an iPod Shuffle.

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How to Enter:

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Deadline: June 5th, 2009 and winner announcement on June 7th, 2009.

Kranthi from BloggerTricks is currently holding a contest with a total of $200 cash. This is the second blog contest held by BloggerTricks and sponsored by :

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Deadline: May 16th, 2009.

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Two winners will be selected by Random (Random.Org)

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You’ll get more entries {10 X no. of posts} for posting about the contest in different blogs

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NOTE: Multiple entries are allowed.
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NOTE 1: The posting should be in the correct category in the forum, and should not be deleted before the contest ends.
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First Special Prize:

And the third prize (cell phone leather cover), is for the one who earns maximum entries during the contest period (although luck doesn’t play any role here, but just in case two people score the maximum number of entries, then there will be a lucky draw between the two).

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Deadline:

May 8th, 2009 and winners will be announce on May 10th, 2009.