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Quick Setup Synergy in Ubuntu 11.10

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:17:00 +0000

Ever wonder having one mouse and one keyboard to access multiple PC across platform.

Yes, the answer is using Synergy. This free and open source software will easily make your mouse move seamlessly between all of them, no boundaries :).

In this post, I'll show you how easy setting up your synergy in Ubuntu 11.10.

Download Synergy from their website (I prefer the stable version).
Install in both (or more) of your machine. It's using deb file so no worries right :)
After that install quicksynergy (again in both of your machine), it's kinda like GUI for synergy. Just type the syntax below

sudo apt-get install quicksynergy

Now, in the host machine, where your mouse and keyboard attached. type in terminal (again)

quicksynergy

It'll call small window show-up like this

Adjust where the edge that will take you to the next PC

Write the host name on dedicated edge.
Next on client PC, where you want your mouse and keyboard appear. Same with above, call up your quicksynergy using terminal.
Since it on client side, move to 'use' tab in quicksynergy window. It's no use messing around with 'share' tab here, so just move to 'use' okay.
Now fill your host IP address, if you using DHCP just get back to your host PC and type 'ifconfig' in terminal to retrieve that
After you filled the host IP address in client side, move back to host PC and click execute.
Be sure you do the same in client side, click execute.
At this point you should notice that whenever your mouse touch your right edge, Voila ! it'll move to your next machine (client side).

I think that's all. I hope you get benefit from this 'well-written' tutorial :) Credit goes to Arif Widipratomo, who noticing me to use quicksynergy in twitter, it's really helpful suggestion bro.

So, if you have anything that I can help you with, be sure to comment below. Thanks for reading and enjoy your visit.

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Visualisasikan Mimpimu !

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:02:00 +0000

Perkuat mimpimu dengan visualisasi.

Tuliskanlah dan jangan hanya kau simpan dalam pikiranmu.

Rekatkan ia didinding kamarmu agar senantiasa kau lihat.

Maksimalkan ikhtiar dan mohonlah kepadaNYA agar terlimpah keberkahan dan keridhaan. Dan yang paling penting, "pantaskanlah diri kita".

Terima kasih sudah membaca mimpi-mimpi saya. Mohon di doakan agar segera terwujud yah :)

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Some Creativity Done by My Mom

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:10:00 +0000

Below are some photos that I take for an epic flower creation by my lovely Mom.

Gorgeous and so beautiful.

Can you guess it made by what? Let's read your opinion in comment below.

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The Different between Vertex and Vertices

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:11:00 +0000

The term of vertex and vertices are so confusing for me.

At first I think both are so much different, but after googling a lil' bit, I found out that :

Vertex is a single point in 3D space, it has 3 dimensional directions (x,y,z axis). When connected to others, it'll form edge, face, curve, and polygon.

Vertices is a plural form of vertex (that's very brief and clear explanation).

Oh yeah, the source where I learn them are in 3drender.com and blender 3d wikibook.

I think that's all. Pretty easy, isn't it? So, how about you? What is the difficult term that you think is very hard to comprehend in learning 3D? Share it below, so maybe I can help you out.

Thanks for reading.

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Away From Crowd #5

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:48:00 +0000

From the title I guess you already know what is it about :)

SubhanaLLAH...beautiful.

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Panduan Instalasi NVidia CUDA di Ubuntu 11.10

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:30:00 +0000

Berikut ini adalah tutorial instalasi CUDA di Ubuntu 11.10 yang coba saya paparkan lebih detail dari postingan sebelumnya yang berbahasa Inggris. Semoga bermanfaat.

Panduan Instalasi CUDA Di Ubuntu 11.10

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New Year's Gift from Distance Friend

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:54:00 +0000

"AlhamduliLLAH, Praise to ALLAH".

That was the first word I said when I read a message in facebook. It was from distance friend, Oliver Villar, founder of blendtuts.com in Spain.

He wrote :
" Hi there, Aditia! Your name didn't show up in the random selection for the free copies of the hologram project...

Anyway! You've been there for a long time, and this is my way of saying thank you. Contact me please, and tell me your email, so I can send you a free copy tomorrow

Thanks, and keep blending! "

The story was, Oliver held a giveaway and discount for his latest product in social media. It's tutorial for creating awesome hologram animation using blender. Below is the trailer for tutorial.

Actually, my name didn't appear as a winner in his website. But because he was so kind, he sent me a message and give me the tutorial for free. Awesome isn't it?

Oliver, if you read this, then I thank you so deeply. Thanks a billion.

Last year I also got a gift from web design ledger for premium wordpress theme. I've been using that for my site, fossgrafis.com since then.

And my mom also give me a gift. Yesterday when I went home from office, I just a bit surprised that my chair has been replaced by a new one. Thanks mom..love you so much.

So, how about you? What is you new year's gift? Share your experience in comment below, I want to congratulate you too.

Thanks for reading.

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Why Reference is So Important for 3D Artist

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:15:00 +0000

Is it possible to create a great awesome result in 3D software without using any reference? Well maybe, but for me it won't work. To prove it, I've done some experiment to create a scene from scratch using blender without any reference.

And below is the result.

I'm not satisfied with the result

Let's compare with something that I've make using reference.

For any level of 3D artist, reference is needed. I think it's also applied to 3D animator. Reference is like the guide lines, it help us to get understanding with the object that we'll transform into 3D.

Reference can come into any form like :

photo from your phone or SLR
Image from concept artist
your sketch in notebook

To conclude, yes the reference is important for any level of 3D artist. It's good habit to always have reference before we start modeling. So, you have any opinion for this topic? let's discuss it in the comment below.

Thanks for reading.

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When The Rain Comes

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:20:00 +0000

The rain comes when we still pray at the masjid. So to kill the time, I just take a couple of shoots with my phone. This is really irrelevant posting but to let you know that I really love photography even with my phone.

I wish I'll get my Canon 550D soon and Intuos of course.

So, what will you do when the rain comes?

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Holiday Activity

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 15:05:00 +0000

So, what's up for today?

Buy a new magz on Gramedia

Creating a new scene in Blender for upcoming ebook tutorial

And Finally


procrastinating to make it done..save it for tomorrow then :)

Don't force yourself too hard, relax and enjoy your time.

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Another Wallpaper for Sabily Uhud

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:32:00 +0000

Really late posting, but seems okay. So, today I've already made 2 wallpaper for Sabily. Wait a minute, so you don't know what Sabily is? Okay, Sabily is an operating system just like windows or mac, but this one based on the famous Ubuntu, a linux operating system. Sabily's focus on developing operating software for Muslim, or you can say A Linux Muslim Edition.

What is the addition for Sabily? Well, in short it comes with a lot software that benefit muslim, just like Minbar a prayer reminder, Zekr the Quran browser complete with recitation, monajat, thwab, hijra, and much more.

Well, it'll be too much If I explaining the whole Sabily's feature in my blog here. Actually you can go to their website to download the operating system for FREE, yeah I repeat for FREE.

So, if you circle me in google+ then you already know that I post the image just a minute ago. If you don't, so don't worry, you can view it here in my blog and of course it's just for you :)

The Stranger - Done using blender with cycles render

Uhud Battleground - Done with blender using internal renderer

I hope you like it, and if you got some feedback be sure to comment below. Thanks for reading and enjoy your visit.

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Critiques Make You Move On

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:30:00 +0000

So long not post in here, I'm bit busy making tutorial and preparing surprise for 2012. Well, lately I found someone just following my tutorial in my site, FOSSgrafis.com. Below is the screenshot of the tutorial that I make long ago.

That person also leave a link in my site to his photo collection (completed result) in facebook. I just check them and bit surprised to found commentary like this.

Finally, I found critique for what I was doing so far. For me critique is very important, it..somehow give me strength to prove that I can do better next time.

No hard feeling, just keep moving on and prove that you can do better.

So, how about you? How'd you react with some critique that was addressed to you?

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Should I buy a New Mic ?

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:52:00 +0000

If you make a tutorial and using voice narration for it, then you should make it less noise and of course crystal clear sound. But lately after make a several times recording (you know making a screencast isn't easy as you think), my sound was really pretty bad.

This what I've been used for my tutorial.

And after watch this,

I realize that I need to invest for a new mic? So, any recomendation guys?

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It's a 'NEW' Day

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 13:31:00 +0000

Firstly, alhamduliLLAH we reach a brand new year in Islam, 1433 H. I pray for you all to have better achievements in this new year.

So, just an announcement about what I have progressing here. Our latest tutorial finally out after having a hard time recording it with ffmpeg. Eventough there's still a glitch but we'll keep progressing. I'll also updating the new concept for our website.

Other thing that I wanna tell you, finally we have our own Google+ page, be sure to +1 it and of course drag us to your circle.

It's a NEW year, so it's all about a NEW Spirit.

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Start Recording Again

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:46:00 +0000

Okay, for a couple of month I haven't record any tutorial or even write them down. So, now I decide to continue again. And actually I've already make a timelapse tutorial but haven't published just yet.

So, here it goes. Hope you enjoy :)

Timelapse Symmetrical Drawing in Inkscape

Compositing Render Layer in Blender - Video Timelapse

Thanks for watching, and be sure to subscribe to my youtube channel for notification about my latest video.

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Cuda Toolkit has been Installed

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:22:00 +0000

Okay, now I'd like to inform you that Cycles - a brand new blender render engine, works like a charm in my oneiric. Here's a quick shoot.

Thanks to Timo Dickscheid for a brilliant tutorial about Installing Cuda in Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot.

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Another Intro Animation Done in Blender

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:36:00 +0000

If you already notice, my blog was slightly changing from time to time. It's like butterfly which need to pass metamorphosis phase to get a beautiful wing and fly away.

So am I :)

Okay, today post about a new concept animation that already done for my project. I just need to tweak and added another camera to make this happen in blender. Thanks to Kernon Dillon tutorial about animating multiple camera in blender which really come in handy.

Here goes my animation, enjoy and of course share your feedback below.

Thanks for watching.

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Installing Cuda on Ubuntu 11.10

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:19:00 +0000

Installing Cuda on Ubuntu 11.10 - This article originally from dickscheid.net. I haven't try this yet, but I'll let you know once I've done with it. Oh yeah be sure to thank him, by visiting his website, he sure has a lot of things useful there.

Timo Dickscheid's wrote : To install Cuda, I followed some hints on bottom of this thread, but also had to fix a few more issues.

Download the current Cuda Toolkit for Ubuntu and the GPU Computing SDK, and save the .run files somewhere. (I'll make your searching bit easy by visiting this link, you'll be transport to Nvidia Cuda Toolkit download page, choose for your latest current distribution.)

Install and select gcc/g++ 4.4

sudo apt-get install \
    gcc-4.4 g++-4.4 build-essential
sudo update-alternatives \
    --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.6 40 \
    --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.6 
sudo update-alternatives \
    --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.4 60 \
    --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.4

Check with

sudo update-alternatives —config gcc
gcc —version

that you have now version 4.4.x of the compilers.

Install the nvidia drivers

sudo apt-get install \
    nvidia-current\
    nvidia-current-dev\
    nvidia-current-updates\
    nvidia-current-updates-dev

As root, run the two .run files from nvidia (see 1.).

For compiling the SDK examples, you also need to install
```
sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev libxi-dev
```
and create the following links
```
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libXmu.so.6 /usr/lib/libXmu.so
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/nvidia-173/libGL.so /usr/lib/libGL.so
```
Then go to the NVIDIA_GPU_COMPUTING_SDK_... folder. In the file C/common/common.mk change the line
```
LINKFLAGS +=
```
to
```
LINKFLAGS += /usr/lib/nvidia-current
```
Then run make. This should compile everything, indicating that the CUDA stuff works.

Article by Timo Dickscheid

Latest Animation Project

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:15:00 +0000

This is my animation for creating intro title for upcoming LP3I TVC. All animation and compositing stuff done in Blender 2.60a.

Breakdown Screenshot

Also visit my latest project here on behance.net.

Thanks.

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Berbagi Tak Akan Mengurangi

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:43:00 +0000

BismiLLAH.

AlhamduliLLAH, akhirnya berkesempatan juga untuk posting. Okay, kali ini adalah cerita kala weekend.

Hari ini saya terpukau dan salut dengan para mahasiswa yang begitu antusias untuk berbagi. Setelah hari sabtu kemarin saya mengumpulkan mereka dan menyampaikan ide tentang CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) dari kantor saya yang juga merupakan lembaga pendidikan. Saya menyampaikan agar kita sebagai mahasiswa tak hanya belajar untuk diri sendiri namun juga belajar untuk berbagi dengan sesama, dalam hal ini dengan anak-anak penjual koran tersebut.

Dan mereka pun setuju.

Hari ini walaupun cuacanya terik, tapi alhamduliLLAH itu tak menyurutkan semangat mereka untuk mengunjungi lokasi anak-anak yang sering berjualan koran itu. Pukul 14.30 kami berangkat dan tiba di lokasi 30 menit kemudian. Setiba disana kami bertemu dengan sebagian kecil dari anak-anak penjual koran tersebut, karena kebanyakan masih belum pulang berjualan.

Kami saling berkenalan dan menyampaikan niat kami untuk mengajari dan juga menginspirasi mereka untuk sukses dan mencapai cita-citanya. Mahasiswa cepat akrab dan mereka makin bersemangat untuk memulai 'bimbingan belajar' ini.

Video
Sedang di proses dan akan segera menyusul, insyaALLAH.

Semoga langkah awal ini bisa terus konsisten untuk senantiasa berbagi, bagi siapapun, kapanpun dan dimanapun. InsyaALLAH. Aamiin.

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Lost Focus

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:00:00 +0000

BismiLLAH.

Just realized lately when I have to manage community blogs, while I have my own personal blog. I have to decide which one I need to take care first.

The idea is jumping out from my head but I'm reaching my limit. I'm not super-geeks who can code and post content at the same time. I also missed my weekly tutorial as my life getting crowded.

I think, I was too overwhelmed by my own decision. I was lack of understanding about my own capacity. I think I could handle this all alone, but in the end...I was stuck in nowhere.

I need team, I need people who better than me. Where should I find any? Have a clue ...

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Facebook sebagai Media Pembelajaran

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:05:00 +0000

BismiLLAH.

Ide awalnya sederhana, saya ingin agar tetap bisa berkomunikasi dengan mahasiswa saya dan merespon mereka apabila dalam pelajaran saya ada yang kurang dipahami. Akhirnya saya putuskan untuk membuat sebuah group di facebook, mengapa facebook? Karena rata-rata mereka masih aktif menggunakan facebook, jadi lebih memudahkan saja.

Dengan menggunakan group ini, mereka tidak perlu repot mencari-cari saya lagi, cukup tinggalkan status, maka malamnya akan segera saya respon.

Kini mereka lebih aktif menunjukan karya-karya mereka. Padahal tadinya saya acuh, namun salah satu dari mereka memposting hasil belajarnya dan membuat saya apresiatif dengan mereka.

Kini saya memutuskan untuk mengambil nilai dari keaktifan mereka menampilkan karya, antusiasme untuk bertanya di forum, kemandirian untuk mencari media pembelajaran lain (video tutorial, ebook, dll).

Walaupun partisipasi mereka masih kurang, namun cara ini saya rasa sangat efektif untuk memanfaatkan social media untuk pembelajaran.

Bagaimana menurut anda?

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Belajar Mengajar

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:47:00 +0000

BismiLLAH.

Ketika memberikan arahan dan penjelasan di depan kelas, kadang dosen tak sadar kalau para siswa yang mendengarkan tak mengerti apa yang ia jelaskan. Mungkin karena penjelasan yang terlalu cepat, atau terlalu panjang, atau terlalu ‘over-knowledge’ sehingga seolah-olah dosen mengkerdilkan para mahasiswa.

Bicara terus dari awal hingga habis jam akan menyiksa mereka. Hanya memberi tugas dan catatan juga akan membuat jenuh mereka. Belajar itu interaksi. Ada yang menyampaikan dan ada yang merespond.

Bagi pengajar ia harus mengetahui siapa audiencenya, dan bagi para siswa ia juga harus mengetahui dan menghargai siapa pengajarnya.

being knowledgeable is not enough, you have to be wise with your knowledge.

Sekarang saya sedang berusaha menjadi pengajar dan siswa yang baik pula, walau tak semudah apa yang saya tulis disini, tapi saya berusaha. Ganbatte !

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Belajar dari Kekalahan

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:23:00 +0000

BismiLLAH.

Pengumuman pemenang di OMGUbuntu

Beberapa waktu yang lalu saya mengikuti kontribusi komunitas untuk mengirimkan countdown banner untuk rilis terbaru ubuntu. AlhamduliLLAH, hari ini adalah pengumuman pemenang design terbaik, dan design saya tidak masuk nominasi.

Saya kira wajar dan manusiawi banget ketika mengalami kekalahan itu, kita merasa 'down' dan ada penyesalan. Tapi saya jadi sadar bahwa masih banyak orang-orang yang jauh lebih baik dari saya. Masih banyak designer lain yang juga lebih jago dan keren diluar sana.

Walaupun kalah, namun hal ini tidak lantas membuat saya kecewa, dari sinilah saya bisa belajar lebih baik lagi. InsyaALLAH.

It's not about win or lose, it's about how we take a lesson from the process. ~ Aditia A. Pratama

Terima kasih, dan silahkan berbagi komentar di bawah ini.

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Ego, Ego dan Ego

noreply@blogger.com (Aditia A. Pratama) — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 20:25:00 +0000

BismiLLAH.

Masih saja ego itu berteriak lantang di telinga, agar diri ini merasa pantas. Padahal berkaca dari sikap dan motivasi diri, semua itu sangatlah tak layak. Saya masih sering melakukan kesalahan, Terkadang juga tak sempurna dalam beramal. Lalu apa yang di banggakan? Mengapa ego begitu gencar menyoraki diri agar 'merasa paling' ini itu?

Hati pun berucap "Nasehatilah dirimu dengan Al Quran, karena ia adalah Firman ALLAH SWT". Saya jadi ingat sebuah tulisan yang saya baca di tumblr, saya lupa penulisnya. Kurang lebih postingannya

Jika ingin berbicara dengan ALLAH SWT, maka shalatlah. Jika ingin ALLAH SWT berbicara denganmu, maka bacalah AL Quran.

Setelah merefleksi diri, ternyata diri ini jauh dari Al Quran. Tidak seperti dulu. Kemanakah waktu akan membawa diri ini? Dimanakah semangat berjuang dalam keistiqomahan? Apakah semua itu telah berganti menjadi obsesi duniawi?

***

Give up on YOU, nothing to say
Lay down my heart in YOUR hands on my pray
Give up on YOU, I'd like to say

I still believe that truth will find the way
...
I might be right… I might be wrong
This futile fight, it takes too long

Will YOU save me… Will YOU save me from myself
Will YOU take me home…

Poem by Purgatory