The web is the best medium to start new solution for any purposes. The web could provide diverse multimedia application and information to its users. The web service could run anywhere without installing new application on users side. User only need to install a browser to connect to the web and not limited to GUI environment. User could accessing the web in Text User Interface (TUI) or Command Line Interface (CLI) using text based browser such as Lynx.

Mobile application isn’t a drop-in replacement to the web and just like its big brother, desktop application, any mobile applications are created for specific environment.

One time, a friend of mine phoned me to sell his old and unused HP ML110 G5 server for good price. I took the offer and upgrade the memory to 8GB. I did a research for free or open-source hypervisor type 1 virtualisation solution on the market. I got three solutions which are VMware ESXi, Citrix XenServer, and Proxmox VE.  I throw off Hyper-V from the list because there is no free “official” client available to manage the host remotely.

I don’t need Enterprise grade feature. This is my pro cons list:

VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi is famous product among IT Pro. You could find plenty tutorial on internet.

PRO

1. Well known.
2. Free license key.
3. Console can be accessed from VMware Workstation or VMware Player with tricks.

CONS

1. Limited support for old server.
2. vSphere Client is Windows only application.
3. vSphere Client have no editing support for vm machine version 10 or newer.

Citrix XenServer

Citrix XenServer is great virtualization product but not for casual usage.

PRO

1. Free.
2. Support GPU PassThrough for Guest.
3. XEN is the best virtualisation by far. It’s fast.

CONS

1. Windows only client.
2. Too complex for Home Lab.

Proxmox VE

Virtualization solution on top of Debian Project.

PRO

1. Free
2. Support KVM (Hypervisor Type 1) and LXC (Container/OS Level Virtualization)
3. Web Based Management

CONS

1. Windows guest performance is slow compared to ESXi / XEN
2. Can’t mount ISO from client side, you must upload to storage.

All virtualization share common problem for importing/converting vm from desktop virtualization software like VirtualBox.

In the end, I am taking Proxmox VE as my virtualization solution because web based management system which I can use it on any operating system without installing desktop application.

Recent day, I found something called Dunning–Kruger effect and quite sure that I was the victim of that phenomenon. I felt superior and over confident but actually I am overestimating my ability which made me wrote an article about Failure is part of freelance life.

Even in very hard time and keep staying under the radar. I am renewing this domain for few years and without no new content because I am afraid to act more destructive to my self. nurasto.com becoming very dull and virtually dead website. This is the main issue that I want to address.

In the near future, nurasto.com will only deliver English content. Any articles already written in my mother language, Bahasa Indonesia, will still exists. I will update the website design and make it mobile friendly.

It’s time to change and fix the problem. nurasto.com will change it’s purpose from freelancer website to be knowledge sharing website.

In this year, the resolution is “POST & Boot”. In this mean time, I will checking my skills readiness and boot a new start.  I have plan to build a IT solutions company in this year. I will be more focus to entering middle and big organization while keeping the small business as a side job.

In the past, I was freelancer. My old friends and acquaintance still thinks that I am freelancer. In 2015, I am making a restart to be an entrepreneur and learn many ways to achieve that. It wasn’t easy and still in progress. Building a new company in Indonesia is quite tedious task. Indonesia doesn’t have OPC (One Person Company) equivalent like in India or some states in USA, in which the owner own all company shares, the company recognized by law and owner’s responsibility is limited by paid up capital.

I am still doing computer programming because it’s a long-time hobby. My company will focus on data center and IT infrastructure development. Software development still on the list and I am still consider whether the software development service will included as core service in the menu.

I am still looking for a jackpot and very happy working on it. I wish the best for 2016. Happy New Year!

In contrast to previous specs, HTML 5 specification facilitate semantic tags. Technical changes specified on that document are more to browser developer. Browsers tends to be permissive to unknown tag, it will degrade gracefully rather than showing errors.

In web developer perspective, we learn the specification and should be not force unnecessary idealism to much except on how the elements should be placed on right place, for example, we shouldn’t put form inside a form. Why? because it state on specification that the form elements can’t be recursive. That kind of idealism should be kept.

Another example, other web developers use header while you are not using it. You are using div tags, with id named header. Wrong? of course not but you’re not utilize the specification to the maximum level. Is it the content will be broken? Well, in short no.

HTML 5 doesn’t give you animation, CSS does. HTML 5 give you canvas place holder but doesn’t give you canvas programming, JavaScript does. Most importantly, HTML 5 doesn’t affect on how you code a web page. It’s still same thing for the last 22 years.

I have no idea why I was decided to take a MacBook to be my portable computer. Well, at least I know what a real mac can do rather than installing hackintosh on my virtual machine. I bought early 2014 13″ Macbook Air and that’s the only model right? preinstalled with maverick.

Working on mac is bit different than PC hardware especially keyboard. I need to learn how to operate it, it’s not simple really. CTRL ALT HOME END are my friends in last 20 years and you didn’t find a backspace button on its keyboard. I was amazed with this keyboard layout but at last I know how to operate them. The most use button is command key represent by this symbol ⌘. That button is a great friend and pressed every time.

Now, about trackpad operation. I have Lenovo and its trackpad mimicking Mac trackpad but it’s only scroll. In Mac, trackpad operation represent as shortcut for almost desktop operation, not only for scrolling. Moving between desktop, showing desktop, switching between apps are very comfortable. It’s just amazing feature.

Macbook air use Intel processor and it’s possible to use Windows over Mac platform. Apple facilitate dual booting by Boot Camp. Honestly, when I installed Windows 8.1 I was disappointed because all goodness I’ve got on Mac OS X are gone. Display brightness is very low and the sound become quiet. I was planned to use Windows 8.1 to present .NET apps to clients when needed but I decided to not use it because it will eat too much space in very limited SSD storage.

Overall, I am pleased owning a mac.

Saya akan membuka sekilas pengalaman pribadi saya. Saya mengenal internet ketika sebagian anda mungkin masih balita atau baru lahir atau bahkan belum ditentukan takdirnya di dunia ini. Sebagian dari anda masih menggunakan mesin ketik dan belum mengenal yang namanya komputer karena komputer pada jaman itu adalah barang yang sangat – sangat mahal. Begitu juga Internet pada jaman dulu adalah hal yang mewah dan untuk mengakses membutuhkan biaya yang tidak sedikit. Saya mengenal internet pada tahun 1995, internet untuk komersil pada saat itu masih balita.

ISP (Internet Sevice Provider) yang dulu dipakai banyak orang secara komersil adalah WasantaraNet, IndoNet, dan CBN melalui dial-up dengan kecepatan yang jauh dari modem GSM/CDMA anda, yaitu 14.4kbps. Sedangkan LinkNet (bagian dari FirstMedia sekarang) dan TelkomNet Instan datang paling bontot.  Dial-up menggunakan jalur telpon dan perlu adanya proses negosisasi yang dikenal dengan nama HandShaking. Seiring waktu berkembang 36kbps, 56kbps, 128kbps dan akhir masuk broadband yaitu 256kbps ke atas. Jika anda tahu hal yang sama, besar kemungkinan anda seumur saya atau lebih senior dari saya.

Dulu orang berinternet untuk bertemu di dunia maya terutama chatting dan forum, mencari MIDI, membaca berita dan membuat website di GeoCities. Search engine Google pada saat itu pun belum ada. Pemimpin pasar search engine saat itu adalah Yahoo dan Altavista. Social media? tidak ada sama sekali. Orang saling berkunjung website dan meninggalkan pesan di guestbook adalah yang sangat menyenangkan. Friendster pun sempat menjadi tempat yang menyenangkan.

Karena sudah tahu bahwa nantinya akan berkembang pesat maka orang – orang saat itu mengenalkan netiquette atau net-etiket. Saling menghargai seperti layaknya di dunia nyata, jauh sebelum adanya UU ITE. ISP waktu itu menekankan untuk membaca net-etiket di website portal mereka dan ini adalah code of conduct sebelum masuk ke internet, karena waktu itu sekali lagi internet adalah barang baru di negeri ini.

Saya tidak berhasil menemukan dokumen net-etiket tersebut karena harddisk IDE sudah jebol namun saya ingat ada satu dokumen yang dikenal dengan RFC (Request For Comment) dengan nomor 1855 dan masih dalam berbahasa inggris. Ada satu paragraph yang menjadi garis besar:

A good rule of thumb: Be conservative in what you send and
liberal in what you receive. You should not send heated messages
(we call these “flames”) even if you are provoked. On the other
hand, you shouldn’t be surprised if you get flamed and it’s
prudent not to respond to flames.

Pada intinya lebih baik tidak mengirimkan pesan – pesan yang akan menimbulkan konflik dan sebisa mungkin tidak membalas pesan panas  dengan mengabaikan atau menyembunyikan pesan tersebut.

Newsgroup/Mailing List dengan Social Media modern sebenarnya tidak ada bedanya. Sebagai gambaran, kita membuat kanal kita sendiri kemudian kita di invite teman ke kanal dia, otomatis teman kita masuk ke kanal kita. Orang yang berada di kanal kita, otomatis orang – orang bisa membaca pesan kita yang kita poskan.

Kasus seperti Dinda dan Florence adalah bahan renungan tentang bagaimana kita memanfaatkan pisau yang ada. Media sosial kita sudah menjadi tempat yang hiruk pikuk (noise) terutama pada saat pemilihan presiden, saya tidak bisa membendung hasrat orang – orang yang mempunyai kepentingan terhadap event tersebut namun saya punya kemampuan untuk mengontrol mereka di kanal saya.

Menghapus koneksi di media sosial hanya membutuhkan sekian detik tapi media sosial saat ini sudah memiliki fitur elegan dengan memblok posting dari orang yang tidak kita inginkan tanpa harus memutuskan koneksi.

Saya berharap bisa menjadi bagian untuk membangun internet sebagai tempat yang menyenangkan kembali. Semoga :). Salam!.

Andyroid basically an application layer which make us possible to touch the Android interface. This application rely on VirtualBox, a virtualization software.

So, do you want to install Andryoid? First, you need to check your hardware before installing it. Why? because not every process have virtualization feature. If your processor doesn’t support virtualization then you will get very very sluggish performance and can’t even bare with it.

Computer Memory (RAM) also important to run Andyroid in your PC. You need at least 4GB RAM installed on your computer. Why? because your PC also needs RAM. In technical term, your PC is a host while Android is a guest. If the host have 2 GB and the guest asking 1 GB from the host. What will happen? performance downgrade because the host start to swap to hard disk and it means very slow. Consider the host have 4 GB and the guest asking 1 GB, then your PC still have a room to process/store any other software in memory.

Take a visit to Andyroid Official Website to download the application. You will need good internet bandwidth because current installer doesn’t work offline, they have plan to make offline installer in future release. Have fun!

The reason I choose my path as freelance because I can’t get a job because of my education background, Computerize Accounting even it’s under Information System Faculty. My degree is S. Kom, computer degree, holding same title like IT graduates. I have good GPA score and I don’t know the exact reason why some companies reject me after last interview. That’s bit of my story why I am started as freelancer.

Now, most people think about freelance is about freedom. According to Oxford Dictionaries, related to this topic freedom is

The state of not being imprisoned or enslaved

For most people, Freelancing doesn’t directly connected to freedom like it should. You must look OK even you’re not OK. You need to find solution mostly by yourself. You’re the boss, you’re the sales person, you’re the designer, you’re the programmer, you’re the accountant and you’re the account manager. No one replace you when you get sick or your family member need attention. You face the risk yourself. Freedom?

I will taking this article into deeper session. Failure. I am facing several failed project. In my personal KPI (Key Perfomance Indicator), fail project reach about 10% which never finished or totally failed. The reason is delivery time is missed but in fact some successful project occurs because client is permissive to deadline which at the end, the project was completed.

You may read somewhere in internet that you should take down payment. Down payment, you take money from your client as initial payment to assert the project is kick off. You client invest their money to your overhead cost. In morality, you will fight with your heart. Whether in worst case, I can’t finish the project what can I do?

My business conduct is to refund the down payment range in 100% – 70% from initial payment. I have few case in 100% refund even I have made some effort to the project but in term of business, it may sound crazy. Again, you can’t buy your state of mind and mood. Returning 100% down payment is risky and client will tell you to not taking the project from beginning.

My client is correct, I shouldn’t take the project. Based on my failure experiences, I am creating my project feasibility flowchart. These are the rule of thumbs indicate you shouldn’t take a project:

1. You are overloaded with on going projects.
2. Project objective is unclear.
3. Project timeline is beyond common sense.
4. You hardly need money to sustain your life.
5. Your client says this project should be easy and asking for lower rate.
6. Your client explicitly compare your service with products or other service provider.
7. Project is too big to handle by yourself.
8. You never do smaller project with likely or same specification.
9. You have no work networks to find who can help you to finish the project.
10. You’re over confident.
11. You didn’t take any notes on every meeting.

Make it as flowchart, when your answer is YES somewhere in the flowchart, you should politely turn down the project. Don’t get too far, know your limitation as freelancer.

Business always contains risks. Don’t always think the best part, you always need the worst part. I was facing financial crisis several times in my freelance life, pawning any treasure and ended by selling my car. I need one full year to recover, working as part time trainer in computer course institution, getting full time job in telecommunication service company as middle developer even I was handling big clients in freelancing, doing network installation for houses. I was doing anything to sustain pay the bills.

I am not giving up yet, I know someday some good opportunities will lead me to better place in this life.

Some publishers report they can still run the games without problem but few Mozilla Firefox release will not work. I was missed the deadline to download games from their server and now I am considering to find new alternatives to Mochi Media. I am pretty concern about games licensing because those games was developed by other party. Mochi Media state on their announcement, publisher should contact developer directly if publisher want to host flash game on their games website.

This is sad moment. The most trusted flash game distributor is game over.