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West Papua Cry

West Papua people was convinced by Bung Karno to join Indonesia in the vote between Indonesia and Deutch. They were promised by him to have a better future. Years after, the Indonesia victory was began to fade because of the imbalance development. The gap between east and west became prominent. In 1967, Soehartonian government sign an agreement with Freeport, Inc to mine copper in Tembagapura. Many years, waste from the mine was exported to overseas. The dictactorship of Soehartonian government made people have not enough courage to examine what was happening back there. Independent studies to examine the mine was forbidden. Almost after 20 years, the sneaky play was discovered. The 'waste' was containing gold! Yes, we are deceived for years. Where are the law when they are needed? None of the Indonesian politician dare to sue Freeport for the corruption. None! This is just a game of politics. Wanna prove? How many civil right was taken when the Indonesian army torturing the P...

Watch Your Step (Gnome Review)

At the past, I was convinced to switch my main desktop from Gnome to KDE. A little effect is because of the Torvald flame about that time. My first primary disappointment is because so much dependency just to make Gnome runs, and it sucks if you compile Gnome from scratch. My second primary disappointment is because Metacity do not support composite extension. Instead, it use their own code for composite and give my shiny machine like a 386 running W**XP. After few months switching from Gnome to KDE, I set my eyes back to Gnome. Years of using Gnome as default cannot be beaten just in few months. I was teased to reconsider Gnome after the release of Novell's Compiz, the OpenGL-based window manager. Good Lord, the gnome project have evolved! The Gnome 2.14, the hottest from this project. It is focused on the performance. Yes, it will give my machine the proper manner! YAY! But not only that, improved GUI, integration with Beagle (the best desktop search), etc make me believed this G...

My Own Sport

http://haswar.blogspot.com/2006/02/deadline.html He said something about deadline and he called it the 7 wonders of deadliners. As I thought, Deadline is one of the extreme sports. The danger also has the same effect, only it happens in long term. Hail to the Deadliners!

Say hello to Black Jack

This is where a battle between profesionality vs humanity. This is a battle between self-concious vs self-ego. This is a battle between dreams vs reality. This is a battle to define a profession means. This is a great comic IMO. This comic once a controversial. This comic was protested by the Jap's doctor association. The comic is about a freshmen that graduate from Eiroku University. Being a new doctor, he must attends many divisions before he has his own license. The journey begins when he saw practices that severe his heart. The wounded heart of his pushed a question to his stormy mind: What is a doctor? This manga is greatly drawed with quite artistic style IMO. The way the author draws the chara interpolates with the heart of the chara. The draw just like emphasize the situation. At first glance, it may appears that the author draws the chara not in a constant manner. But, as I read more, I've got the feeling of the artistic being intentionally put into the draw. Well, one...

My Evolution

Usually, I feel glad when a course is cancelled. But, this morning... and the two concecutive monday... I have the feeling of regret of not having the class. What a strange feeling. Is this the feeling of being serius?

A Family: Ungrateful?

Seorang ibu tengah merengkuh pria asing di ranjangnya Sedu sedan hatinya tertutupi oleh lenguhannya Telah lama ia melacurkan diri ke rumah merah itu Ia hanya berpikir untuk anak-anaknya yang telah lama tak sua Ah, andai ia tahu... Anak pertamanya telah lama menjadi belulang di Karawang Bekasi Ia, demi adik-adiknya, telah rela berdiang di batu tanpa nama itu Tak terasa lagi sekujur tubuhnya yang telah lekang oleh waktu Yang terngiang olehnya hanyalah pesan sang ibu untuk jaga adik-adiknya Oh.. anak kedua... Engkau menghilang di dalam realita dunia ditengah nur zaman ini kau berusaha berdiri dengan satu kaki tertempa rajam, engkau terus mencoba dan mati setengah hati telah kau rintangi dengan masam Kalian memikirkan si anak bungsu Ah.. bagaimana si anak bungsu Telah lama ia menyusu pada si ibu Tak pernah ia lihat kakak-kakaknya Tertutup embun madu kenikmatan zaman ini rupanya Tak pernah ia membayangkan jalan berduri Ah.. anak bungsu Tak tahukah kau ibumu di pelacuran sana? Tak tahukah ka...

Psst: Iang Doesn't Know

Iang has posted a teaser about Xgl here . But, he doesn't know about this: It called zoom. Just hold WIN + Right Click :P I think this Xgl will be available next month. Wow!

Freedom as is in Freedom?

I'm not understand what is in those idiot minds, when making fun of someone's belief. That's what I though about the case of Prophet Muhammad SAW cartoon helding a bomb. I am a Christian, I believe in Jesus Christ. I don't like Islam, Budhism, Hinduism, Atheism, and other beliefs other than Christian. But, is there any right for me to desecrated any beliefs that other people, including Moslem, have? -NO- I am an academic person that sees something from rasional thing. But, is there any right for me to disgrace other people that see something from different view? -NO- Those magazine didn't even have shame, saying they have freedom. Does their freedom including to rip off other's freedom? -NO- I don't like a**hole like them saying about freedom. That's not freedom! To dictate someone else is a dick-tatoers (dictator :)). Holocaust to some people is sacred, so does a Prophet to someone else. Can they learn to accept that differences?

The Battle Begins...

I'm excited! This year will be the battle of many OSes in Desktop. Windows Vista with it's drawing almost 3D using DirectX 10. OSX also goin' wild with the 3D Acceleration. Oh, how 'bout Linux? Well, firstly I almost give up with Gnome. I, now, using KDE 3.5 and 3.5. With the kcompmgr, the desktop are goin' wild. Yeah! I enjoyed the effects. Awesome! Just open your control center -> Look 'n Feel -> Application or somethin'. Then, enable the translucent. Restart your X! Boom, baby! Your desktop will be C. O. O. L.! But, wait, how 'bout Gnome? I'm a fan of it, but with current metacity... BLah! *voice from above* Fear not, my son, thou shalt hath Luminocity! *end of voice from above* I have seen the demo from Iang. It's so AWESOME!!! In the next 3 months, it maybe stable enough to be tested. 6 month to be deployed as unstable being. Dunno, open source has rapid dev, it maybe sooner than I thought.

Some Of My Analysis (U Think U R Right: The Prequel)

I do have my own research. Started in highschool, I have study years in advancing Indonesia into better level. I don't expect that I can explain what my study just in a brief description like this one entry in a blog nor few lines where it only valued with 9 points. But, I speak in term of 5 years and more. It is slow, I know, but it can get us in better live. OK, let me write some that I can write. There are parts of this nation that must be fix. Law Enforcement I know my country is the top most corrupted country. This is a fact and let's face it. But the question is how we could fix it? One of the answer is the law enforcement. But as said in socialogy, a law is like deals involving many people. If more sides not bond to the deal, then the deal is off. Why people in Indonesia are not bond into the deal? Maslow and other geeks from psychology, which can be found here , has found that motivation can be predict by the needs that people have. (Bla3x.. this can be long and mislead...

Answering Ramot (U Think U R Right: The Sequel)

Quoting Ramot: Kalau semua ga bisa, ya ud pindah rumah aja sekalian... susah bgt. Ini bukan negara komunis dimana semua orang harus sama rata sama rasa Wah, Mot. Ini bukan masalah itu. Masalahnya seharusnya sebagai pemimpin-pemimpin di bidang IT, kita bisa peka terhadap kebutuhan bangsa ini. Kita bukan cuma memikirkan perut kita doang. Soal makan Black Forest dan menjarah itu adalah analogi yang pengen gw gambarkan mengenai ketidakpedulian kita sebagai pemimpin di bidang IT. Kalo pemimpin seperti kita, hanya memikirkan keuntungan untuk kita sendiri. We buy original softwares, we use that actively. Lalu, para orang awam yang gak ngerti komputer. Yang pengen belajar komputer, yang masih "gaptek", yang berusaha untuk mengikuti perkembangan IT. Mereka secara tidak sadar akan diarahkan untuk menggunakan s/w komersial. Mot, ini poin yang penting: Mereka gak tahu ada solusi yang lain, karena para IT strategist hanya menggunakan solusi s/w komersial. Mereka melihat ke kita! Bangsa in...