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OTW 2 IGOS Summit II: The Path

Yeah, if I wasn't committed to the IGOS Summit 2, I will never come! Seriously, this is the first time I have ever come out myself to a show or something and the first time in history that I would go to many distant places, Campuss -> Home -> IGOS Summit -> Depok. Yeah, call me antisocial but, if it wasn't for the IGOS, I would never go anywhere. At first, I felt reluctant to go to the Summit, especially I have woke up at 5 AM. I always in bad mood if I have to wake up early. But, I have boast to everyone, including Pak Ibam, FT, etc that we must get as a monumental for the open source movement. So, I couldn't take back my own words. Simply not me. The thing that made me even mad along the way is the fare for public transportation ( Angkot ) which increasing fairly high. I have to take at least three terminals before reaching home. Thanks God we have TransJakarta Bus Way System. It save a lot. But, if the fare really this high, I'd rather choose to own my own t...

Indonesian Network System

Iang[1] was messaging me about the map of hyperspeed internet connection [2] found in Global Lambda Facility map publication. [3] As you can see, we Indonesia are in the middle of nowhere. If only government have the urge to push its regulation to have join IT implementation especially in network connection. With the Indonesian government having comitment with IETS to have all of Indonesian area connected with Internet in 2015, Indonesian government have the potential to restructurized the network topology here. Now, the momentum is right. With the Palapa Ring project ongoing[3], we should have build the grand infrastructure to support these gigantic network. This is the time when Indonesia have the long vision to support information-based business. After all, this Palapa Ring should have the vision of many years to come which comes with the need of multimedia capability. At least, can't we just put two lines and become a hub to Australia and Hongkong. Besides, we can bargain that ...

Icon For Browser

You could set an icon for your webpage on your browser (yeah, except IE6-) like Blogger.com or google.com. Put: [html] [head] [!-- What ever... head content --] [link rel="icon" href="images/icon.png" /] [!-- What ever... head content --] [/head] [body] [!-- What ever... body content --] [/body]

Juragan @ IGOS Summit 2

Karena cuma ada di forum id-ubuntu, gak seru rasanya kalo cuma mereka doang yang tahu. Tapi ini ada berita: DH All, Dengan ini kami ingin memberitahukan bahwa seluruh peliharaan KAMBING di UI akan dibawa ke IGOS SUMMIT 2. Garis besarnya adalah kami selaku pengurus POSS Universitas Indonesia akan membuka "lapak" temu langsung pada acara tersebut. Niat kami adalah berusaha untuk menuntaskan segala permasalahan delivery, baik delivery konten yang bisa didownload langsung dari server KAMBING maupun pengiriman pesanan yang bermasalah. Jadi ..... apabila Anda adalah: - penderita kronis internet dengan bandwidth lambat - pemesan juragan.kambing yang tidak mendapatkan pelayanan yang baik - pengkoleksi ISO-ISO linux - administrator server mirror universitas, perusahaan, organisasi yang membutuhkan konten OSS - distributor Linux yang ingin nge-burn gratis (max N keping CD/DVD per orang), dimana N akan ditentukan pada kondisi di lapangan - ingin memesan dan pesanan langsung diambil - in...

Zaman Yang Sama: Lahirnya Demokrasi

Hehehe... gw akhirnya paham. Saat ini sama seperti Era Demokrasi dulu (1955-1959). Partai-partai dipenuhi orang-orang yang pengen tampil. Tapi, seperti kata Bung Hatta: "Bukan dalam Maklumat Wakil Presiden 3 November 45 yang menegaskan adanya demokrasi terletak kesalahan, tetapi dalam partai-partai dan para pemimpin yang lupa daratan" [1] Mudah-mudahan seperti kata Bung Hatta, waktu di mana setiap partai mulai mawas diri akan tiba sehingga bangsa ini mulai melihat masalah dan bangkit tidak hanya berkutat kepada permasalahan siapa yang pantas memimpin bangsa ini. Mudah-mudahan kita juga belajar untuk tidak seperti dahulu, demokrasi yang anarkis yang justru melahirkan kediktatoran. ~lagiGandrungSemangatNasionalisme. Referensi: [1] TEMPO. Indonesia yang Kuimpikan: 100 catatan yang merekam perjalanan sebuah negeri. 2008.

Nasionalism? [Pun Intended]

I've got interesting review of nationalism here: http://cacianqalbukunderemp.blogspot.com/2008/05/nasionalisme-sukuisme-kampung.html What is nationalism? A sense where a person feels belong like home. What is the value of Nationalism? The "Sumpah Pemuda" or Youth Declaration, my free translation, state that there are three values of nationalism: "One blood, Indonesian blood" "A Nation named Indonesia" "A Language named Bahasa Indonesia" But, do I (and some of us) feel like home? Sometimes, I felt like 3rd class citizen. I asked myself, why moslems could build mosque everywhere, yet my own church almost got closed (they failed because my church have legitimate paper from Ministry of Religion). But, how about other churches? Why do we have to rent spaces in stores or Malls just to have our faith? Even those Ahmadiyah, I pitty on them. Just because this nation is Sunni, that doesn't give them the right to judge Ahmadiyah. I mean, whoa, we ha...

A Cry For Help

Indonesia is a capitalists haven. Why on earth education become an industry? If I have children, will I have the ability to provide education to them? Or, will I join the band of people that let their children astray? Is it true that higher education system is no longer reachable? Who will help me? Because this is not a one man show. What would you do? What would you suggest?

Blabber of My Mind

Hmm... today I setup a network which turned to be that the problem was with the network provider. Well, my friend has asked to have 4 public IPs, so the provider allocate new IP range. The important is, when the contact person himself gave up to solve our problem so he gave me direct contact of an Admin. Yeah, this is kinda awkward conversation of remained me of who am I. /me: "Hello, I am directed here by [CP GUY] to ask about our network. We are assigned by you with the [IP RANGE] with gateway [GW IP]." T3h Ub312: "Ow, okay. Are you using [CURRENT IP ADDRESS I USED]." /me: "Yes. What seems the problem" T3h Ub312: "Please wait a moment, I will check the IP." /me: "Okay, when can I call you back?" T3h Ub312: [with higher tone] "I have many things to do, must check firewalls and routers." /me: {omgwtf, I was just asking to ask so that I could hung up the phone} "Urgh... alright then. Thank you." Wtf with the higher t...

He's Right!

Fyi, Rev. Jeremiah Wright is a mentor of Barrack Obama. For these few weeks, Obama popularity has been reduced by media because of Rev. Jeremiah sermont. Apperently, the media takes only some portion of it. But, here's the full sermont: http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=4808fe74-023d-417b-8537-33763c33e399 The sermont is actually made a great point: What we do comes with consequences. The reverant warned the Americans that they have made the world suffer by their judgement and playing cops and now they are receiving the outcome. It means, the reverant just wanted to ask the audience of their responsibility and made a decision to stop and think for a while with their actions and started a new good beginning to help the world. Hmm.. oh, well, politics, just like a saying from a web: "Politics is like Soccer in America, they don't pay attention like the rest of the world".

Name That Shalt Forbidden

If you have a child, don't ever take following names as the child name. Not these names are bad luck, but they can bring misfortune to today's technology, or we call it IT. #1 A Name That Shall Be An Anonymous. Don't name your child as " John Doe " or " Jane Doe ". The name is restricted in use of example and considered by smart IT people as non-existence name. It will not be considered and any forms that required to input a name will reject that given name. Do you wish your son/daughter to have a discriminative act as he/she cannot sign up for the given service because of a name? #2 A Name That Failed To Sanitize Don't name your child as "drop table", "die", "echo", or any reserved words of programming. You will never know when a programmer decided to not sanitize an input. Any names that isn't ASCII would also bring misfortune in these UTF-8, althought a name in name of a foreigner is alright in their own system. ...

A Sweet (Bitter) Life [A Christian Article]

This is a usual conversation: B: Are we alive? A: Yeah, we do. B: How would you know that we are alive? A: Because we are created by God and live by grace. A: What about you? B: So, do you feel alive? B: I'm in a pain. A: Why? B: You know, because I played football yesterday and my finger hurts. :P A: WTF? (*!$(_#@. I thought it was real! B: LOL. :P Well, that's because the person is hurt, but no one have ever listen. The person perceive a sense that nobody should be bother with the person's life. So, the person decide to hide it and change the topic to have the usual subject. The person stays to choose ignoring the fact that the heart is broken. With hope, uneasiness, and delusion that someday will be okay, the person decide to walk forward. Waiting for the day where the person can smile because life embracing the person, making the person to be able to smile again, only at that day it's coming from the deepest part of the person's heart. As for today, the person ...