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How can a nation with hundreds of years in Feudalism can heal itself in few years? As Tan Malaka suggested, Indonesia's problem is not about the corruption, nepotism, or any bad things but minds full of feudalism. Worst, many people even feels like they own this country. They can nullifying the law and they can act as if they are the law itself. The country is rotten. But, where can we run? Or, are we bastards that not have any connection with this country? Some people try to step up and take the path to change this country. KPK, BSE, and FOSS-ID. You should regard them as modern heroes. They may not perfect, but they are trying to do their best. I think they need audience to take step forward more and more. One thing for sure, this country is getting better and I hope these improvements stable enough. My suggestion as a fellow countrymen, let's we embrace whoever that wins 2009 and protect him/her from DPR. They are now in the blacklist and need to fend their role as respected...

I've been using KDE 4 lately and sacrificing the Amarok. Not that I don't like Amarok 2, I do like it and the look is promising but I hate to admit that I don't like its left tabbar. The left tabbar is not a dark-theme friendly. I can't read the blue thing. Yeah, alpha software have its limitation. I think Amarok 2 would just fine to me. The real showstopper for me is the LastFM integration doesn't support proxy. Oh, well, go figure!

As told before in my blog post, [1] I went on to use OSS4 and remove ALSA. The result is FANTASTIC ! Before, I wouldn't notice the difference my default (provided by the office) headset, the Sennheiser m@b 30 with other headset around. But, I can hear crystal clear the different. Well, I suggest that you, especially the Intel HDA one, to use OSS4. Here's my lscpi -v: 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 725a Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 16 Memory at fdff4000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] ...

Arastamar! Waduh, STT Arastamar/STT Setia diserang. Sedih! Satu lagi pertanda adanya orang-orang yang tidak mengenal adanya keberagaman di negara ini. Mereka yang tidak tahu STT Setia mungkin berpikir bahwa STT Setia sama seperti STT lainnya, untuk kristenisasi Indonesia. Tapi coba tebak lagi, STT Setia lebih dari itu, Bung! Benar, STT adalah untuk menghasilkan pengajar-pengajar Kristen. Tapi, Anda harus tahu bahwa 700-an mahasiswa/i yang dievakuasi adalah mayoritas orang Indonesia bagian timur dan Kalimantan. Seandainya aparat kepolisian membiarkan terjadinya pembantaian terhadap mereka, seperti menutup mata pada kasus Situbondo, maka akan terjadi kemarahan yang luar biasa di Kalimantan, NTT/NTB, sampai ke tanah Papua. Sebab, mereka yang ada di sana adalah orang-orang kampung (yang notabene berada di pelosok) yang disponsori oleh pengusaha Kristen dan lembaga-lembaga gereja untuk selain menjadi pendeta juga sebagai pengajar sekolah . Semoga pemerintah bisa arif bertindak terhadap STT ...

Because of Kemp's post [1], I know that there is an interesting post about virtualization related. Gunnar's post [2] that lead to a quite crutial matter about Xen's future in Debian[3]. Will Xen would soon became like OSS, sinking its own popularity because of the far off-sync with Linux kernel? Hopefully this would not lead people to KVM. I know KVM may have the best future, but hopefully don't make mistake like ALSA now. I have switched to OSS4 now, but the blog of OSS developer keeps me worrying of its future. Oh, well, that's life. [1] http://blog.steve.org.uk/i_think_i_ll_take_this_back.html [2] http://gwolf.org/node/1845 [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/07/msg00305.html [4] http://www.4front-tech.com/hannublog/

If you remember how I mumbling about the future of a researcher in Indonesia, this may a good policy.[2] Well, hopefully we don't have those heaven promises (janji-janji sorga). Yup, I hope so. One of the greatest fear of a person is the inability to have existence. To be a nerd for the rest of your life would not only endangering you, but also your family, especially your kid (if you would have). Reference: [1] http://jpmrblood.blogspot.com/2008/04/apakah-upah-kami.html [2] http://www.detiknews.com/read/2008/07/24/135337/977195/10/peneliti-harus-dapat-bonus-seperti-pemain-bola

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