the Life’s Lessons

2012-01-26T09:19:00.001+07:00

The best thing in life is when you do something you like and get paid for it

Edisi Tebakan Permen

2012-01-24T11:17:00.002+07:00

Q: Binatang yang tidak pernah tidur?
A: Ikan, soalnya melek terus

Q: Jumlah bakteri dalam 1 sendok teh?
A: 100 juta bakteri

Q: Organ yang tidak bisa memperbaiki dirinya?
A: Gigi

This is A Very Healthy Lunch

2011-12-26T14:07:00.000+07:00

Simple and healthy, very nice.

Pengajian vs Kepentingan Umum

2011-07-31T10:48:00.001+07:00

Yesterday began with wonderful things.

Going for lunch, watching movies, visiting a friend, having country like dinner but then abruptly ended with the worst traffic jam ever.

Kalau ada yang notice, kemarin itu ada pengajian, dunno who, maybe the assegaf guy, di perempatan tanjung barat.
Selain itu, sepertinya di cibubur junction, arus keluar masuk kendaraan jadi collateral damage, karena jadi bikin macet mulai dari pintu tol keluar cibubur itu sampe ke tanjung barat, hahahaha, massive traffic jam, makes me wonder if the traffic jam in tokyo is as bad as this.

Ternyata, kita ngga sepenuhnya beruntung karena it turned out that, jarak rumah yang hanya 500m, ditempuh dalam waktu 1 jam, huhuhuhu, definitely not moving an inch .... Hahaha okay itu lebay, bergerak 1 meter, diem 15 menit :D. Fieeewwww ....

Mungkin pemerintah kota Jakarta seharusnya memperhatikan hal - hal seperti ini pada saat memberikan ijin. Pay attention to the minority, dan aku rasa, as a moslem, I also knew that this kinda thing shouldn't happen in the first place. Bukannya dulu ada cerita yang masjid dibangun tanpa merusak rumah seorang wanita non muslim? Aku rasa kalaupun ada pengajian, seharusnya diijinkan di lapangan atau di gedung dengan lahan parkir yang mencukupi.

I am a moslem, but I also don't agree with what happened last night. Pengajian ngga seharusnya mengganggu kepentingan umum :)

My Last Day

2011-07-29T21:26:00.000+07:00

Today is the last day for me as an employee of one company which values emotional string between employees.

As a tradition, there is always like farewell party but in a much lighter version, meaning it's a lunch and not that pricey thingy.

As someone who's not really caring, I'm quite surprised to have this present. You could check out the letter. It's probably too tiny to see, so I'm gonna rewrite it and have it commented.

1. Ari : Garfield ... Good luck for you there ... I am gonna miss you my stubborn and clever little sister ... "
Hmm you know what, I'm quite a lil bit relieved staying away from you knowing that you always outsmart me :p and I'm grateful I never once my line of work I've gotta stand against you :p but ... You always able to find out what's gonna happen next, I'd say you'll be good advisor for president ;)

2. Melvi : Hi Man ... Wish you all the best jangan lupa kalau ada lowongan gw daftar ... =))
Kayaknya wish you all the best itu punyaku deh, yah ga jadi trademark lagi deh. However, all the best to you too .. Keep in touch, we have an unfinished business ;)

3. Betma : Yuvi ... Sukses dunia akhirat yah jangan lupa shalat ... Haha, emak mode on. Salam Persahabatan. Ratih Betma, ini nama elo yang marketingin nih yup.
Hehehe yang bikin lo kan, gw cuma mempopulerkan, tapi emang populer ya nama itu? Thanks mba bet, so far that's the wisest from everyone :d surely gw ga akan lupa shalat, tapi bukan karena elo yang ingetin sih, karena biar ngga dosa aja :p

4. Soni : Yuvi ... Semoga sukses di tempat yg baru, semoga bukan sekedar sukses di kerjaan tapi sukses juga ya buat cari pendamping ...
Thanks Mas Soni, ehmm ini yang pertama ttg pendamping, kita liat berapa banyak sampe terakhir :p. Lo juga ya, sukses sama Pak H yang di lantai 2 :d

5. Tyas : Yup .. Yup, akhirnya lulus juga dr UI (Univ IM2) ditunggu traktiran kedua, ke3 dan seterusnya
Yas, lo payah deh, maunya nunggu traktiran mulu :p, kalo mau kedua ketiga, berarti lo kudu sekantor terus dong sama gw, duh bencana :p

6. Dessy the duck : Yup .. Yup .. Ah elo mah yup ... Selama masih penguin berbentuk garfield I know u'll be fine .. He .. He .. He bye now .. Cu later
Ah elo mba des, as long as u keep having someone to hitch ride, I know u'll be fine :p and find someone else to go tasting all those food you're craving with no complain :p

7. Desy : yupi ... Congratz ya, finally lulus wish u all the best n get merried cup cup muahhh ...
Oke ini yang kedua, thanks des. Gw rasa nanti disana ga ada yang seabsurd elo deh

8. Rurie : hay bro ! Gud luck ya ... Gw akan segera menyusulmu ( eh trus ada yang nulis2 menyusul ke ... Itu siapa ya, kayaknya si kerjaan mba tiwi)
Iya rur thanks, in any kind of way, you are broer than me. And jangan keburu nyusul, kasian mba ari ntar jadi kurus lagi dia :d

9. Tiwi : hey u garf (ini sapaan khas mba tiwi), come by sometime ... I'll get u nice cotton ball :d good luck
Hahahaha so if someday there is snow puring down and forming a gigantic snowball in front of my door, I know someone to blame :p and u know what mba, this cotton ball thing always got to me every time :p

10. Acd : hay there, ah, you might be will missing us (me) too much .. Hahaha ... Jump higher & be happy .. Yay .. Yay
Is this hay word a new coolie? Or is it just you guys ... Anyway will be surely missing you because now if I got problem with dress or the likes, I don't have anyone to turn to :p or if i need to know what does this food taste like or if I need to hear those random conversation in the morning

11.Lili : dear yuvi, selamat yeee ... Akhirnya lulus juga dari Ixx semoga sukses kalo dah sukses ajak ajak
:d thanks mba lili, sukses juga buat lo. Lo cocok deh tuh disitu, jadi ibunya anak2 yang bandel2 itu :p

12. Rezha : kak yuvi, sukses selalu "yuvi style"
Ini maksudnya apa zha? Iya deh thanks ya :d

Wow, jempol gw kapalan ngetik segini banyak :d but happy at the same time knowing you guys are actually my friends :)

Shooting my cube for one last time

2011-07-29T18:31:00.000+07:00

2011-07-08T08:37:00.000+07:00

Lesson I've learnt from yesterday life:

1. Turned out that there are many people in world who are a lot more conservative than my parents, sooooo im very much grateful to have them as my parents

2. Turned out that it's a lot easier to mend broken heart than debugging, fixing or documenting code

On an Eventful Occasion of Rurie's Wedding

2011-07-06T09:53:00.001+07:00

Courtesy By Rurie's Wedding

Some Ubuntu Keyboard Shortcuts

2011-07-02T08:51:00.000+07:00

Having used to keyboard shortcuts in Windows, does push me to find more of various keyboard shortcuts in Ubuntu. I'm using Ubuntu from recently, around 2 - 3 months ago.

Workspaces:

1. To move an active window to another workspace : CTRL - ALT - SHIFT - Left/Right Arrow. Why do we need this? Sometimes, we found it too many open windows in one workspace and it comes in handy to be able to organize it a lil neater.

2. Moving between workspaces : CTRL - ALT - Left/Right Arrow

3. When there is no mouse and you need to click on something in the top panel, bottom panel or an icon in the desktop, you can use this shortcut : CTRL - ALT - SHIFT - TAB. Ubuntu will show you the choice, whether it's top or bottom or desktop, and then after one is selected, you can use left/arrow button to choose an icon. Beside this combination, CTRL - ALT - Esc also works.

4. To show desktop, use Windows button and D

5. If you notice, there is a message pane in the top right corner, it contains chat, broadcast accounts and so on, so to choose this, we can use Windows button and M then use arrow down/up to select specific item.

6. Sometimes, we need to access the virtual screen just in case the X window somehow crashes. We can use combination CTRL - ALT - F7 / F8

7. CTRL - ALT - L to lock window

8. CTRL - SHIFT - F10 to give right click mouse effect

9. CTRL - SHIFT - N to create new folder anywhere

10. Last but not least, you can always assign keyboard combination on your own. Like myself, Im assigning CTRL - ALT - T to open up terminal and CTRL-D to open Home Folder

Convenience vs Dollars

2011-03-06T20:51:00.001+07:00

Question of the day will be "which one do you choose? convenience or
financially efficient?"

Just like the trade off between computer security and convenience,
there is always cost for convenience. That's why Air Asia charge you
extra money if you book through their website.

For a multi millionaire, it is a rethorical question. Convenience
never goes away, if it does, because the beholder does actually choose
to not having it. For a multi tenniers like me, it is a question of
life philosophy.

My recent examples will be my shopping preferences. Most often, I
chose to go to a store where you can get everything in one place, even
though the price will be doubled if you dont mind to go to a
traditional market and bargain. For some poeple who are financially
idealistic, finding a place where you can get much cheaper price and
bargain is a must-do no matter what. But for people who are not so
sensible about shopping, getting what you need to have is number one
priority and then you become less sensible about the money.

So, if one asks me, am I sorry if I found out that I can actually get
the same thing a lot cheaper somewhere else with extra effort? I would
say no, I'm not sorry because I know I've made my choices. However,
there are times where I would choose to be financially idealistic and
when that time comes, you will find me count everything to the
smallest amount.

The World's Biggest Gold Reserve

2011-03-01T17:42:00.001+07:00

1. United States
Value of Reserves: $387.32 billion
Holdings Total: 8,965.6 tons

The United States Bullion Depository in Kentucky — otherwise known as
Fort Knox — is the most famous gold stockpile in the world. It holds
the majority of the nation's gold reserves, the remainder of which is
held at the Philadelphia Mint, the Denver Mint, the West Point Bullion
Depository and the San Francisco Assay Office.

Altogether, the total gold reserves of the United States equal 8,965.6
tons and would be valued at approximately $387.32 billion in today's
market.

2. Germany
Value of Reserves: $161.99 billion
Holdings Total: 3,749.8 tons

The Deutsche Bundesbank, Germany's central bank, has 3,749.8 tons of
gold reserves, which are valued at about $161.99 billion. According to
the World Gold Council, Germany's gold coffers account for 70.3
percent of total foreign reserves.

3. International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Value of Reserves: $135.56 billion
Holdings Total: 3,137.9 tons

The IMF oversees international economic operations of 185 member
countries. Its gold policies have changed in the last 25 years, but
the reserves remain to stabilize international markets and aid
national economies.

In one such instance, it sold a portion of its reserves in December
1999 to aid the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative. The
3,137.9 tons of IMF Gold would fetch roughly $135.5 billion in today's
market.

4. Italy
Value of Reserves: $116.75 billion
Holdings Total: 2,702.6 tons

The Banca D'Italia manages Italy's foreign reserves, which have been
reported at 2,702.6 tons by the World Gold Council and comprise the
fourth largest gold reserve in the world.

These holdings are worth $116.75 billion and account for 68.6 percent
of the country's foreign reserves.

5. France
Value of Reserves: $115.97 billion
Holdings Total: 2,684.6 tons

The French National Bank, Banque De France, is home to the country's
gold holdings, which comprise 67.2 percent of its foreign reserves.
With 2,684.6 tons of gold in reserve, France's holdings are worth
approximately $115.97 billion.

6. China
Value of Reserves: $50.19 billion
Holdings Total: 1,161.9 tons

At 1,161.9 tons, the world's most heavily populated country has the
world's sixth largest gold reserve. Expect it to be higher? Well, bear
in mind that China's gold only accounts for 1.7 percent of its foreign
reserves. With a population of 1.34 billion, the country holds about
$37.45 worth of gold per person, totaling $50.19 billion.

7. Switzerland
Value of Reserves: $49.53 billion
Holdings Total: 1,146.5 tons

The Swiss National Bank conducts Switzerland's monetary policy and
manages the country's 1,146.5 tons of gold.

With the world's seventh largest reserve of the precious metal,
Switzerland's supply is worth approximately $49.53 billion in today's
gold market, accounting for 16.4 percent of the country's foreign
reserves. This proportion is down significantly from a year earlier.

8. Russia
Value of Reserves: $36.91 billion
Holdings Total: 854.5 tons

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation is in charge of the
country's 854.5 tons of gold, which are valued at $36.91 billion and
comprise 6.7% of the country's foreign reserves.

In 2009 Russia increased its gold production by 21%, due in part to
the launch of several new mines, and this past year overcame Japan in
total holdings, adding over 140 tons to its stockpile in 2010 alone.

9. Japan
Value of Reserves: $36.43 billion
Holdings Total: 843.5 tons

Although Japan is ninth on the list, its 843.5 tons of gold account
for only 3 percent of total foreign reserves. On the open market,
Japan's gold reserves are worth around $36.43 billion, and are
overseen by the Bank of Japan.

10. Netherlands
Value of Reserves: $29.67 billion
Holdings Total: 675.2 tons

The Netherlands has the tenth largest reserve on the list with 675.2
tons of gold. The Netherland Bank manages the country's national
finances, including the gold reserves, which amount to approximately
$26.67 billion and account for 57.5 percent of the country's foreign
reserves.

11. India
Value of Reserves: $26.56 billion
Holdings Total: 614.8 tons

Shooting up in the rankings in the past years is India. The second
most populous nation in the world maintains the eleventh largest gold
reserves. The size of India's holdings were bolstered in November 2009
by a $6.9 billion purchase of 200 tons of gold from the IMF.

The Reserve Bank of India oversees the country's 614.8 tons of gold,
which are valued at $26.56 billion, comprising 8.1% of its foreign
reserves. India's current ranking may also continue to move upwards,
as the government has asked the Geological Survey of India to mine the
previously untapped gold reserves in many of its states.

12. European Central Bank (ECB)
Value of Reserves: $23.88 billion
Holdings Total: 522.7 tons

Established in 1998 by the European Union, the European Central Bank
is responsible for the monetary policy of the member nations of the
Eurozone and is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany.

The ECB's 522.7 tons of gold accounts for 25.2 percent of the bank's
foreign reserves and would be worth $23.88 billion in today's market.

13. Taiwan
Value of Reserves: $20.17 billion
Holdings Total: 466.9 tons

Renowned for its technology industry and robust economic growth,
Taiwan also boasts one of the largest gold reserves in the world.

The Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan) manages the island
nation's foreign reserves, which have been reported at 466.9 tons.
These holdings are worth $20.17 billion at today's prices and comprise
approximately 4.6 percent of the country's foreign reserves.

14. Portugal
Value of Reserves: $18.21 billion
Holdings Total: 421.6 tons

The westernmost nation in mainland Europe is home to the fourteenth
largest gold reserve in the world. At 421.6 tons, Portugal's holdings
are overseen by Banco de Portugal and are worth roughly $18.21
billion, accounting for 81.1 percent of the country's foreign
reserves.

15. Venezuela
Value of Reserves: $17.33 billion
Holdings Total: 401.1 tons

Banco Central de Venezuela manages the 401.1 tons of gold in the
country's reserves, which amount to approximately $17.33 billion,
representing 52.4 percent of the country's foreign reserves.

Although Venezuela currently has the fifteenth on the list, it has
been increasing its holdings since 2009, when president Hugo Chavez
introduced new policies to promote gold extraction and boost the
country's ranking.

Auto starting your SpagoBI

2010-10-04T14:50:00.003+07:00

We have implemented SpagoBI as one of our monitoring dashboard. It was great so we decided to put it in one of our big screen TV so everyone can watch. We're using a regular desktop PC so regular restart is needed.

One of my main concern is, someone has to maintain it, so everytime it gets started, spago is automatically brought up, authenticate and redirects you to the specific page.

This is really easy. But first, you need to have an access to a webserver. It doesnt have to be a sophisticated one, as long as it could handle 1 KB page.

This 1 KB page we'll use a trigger to authenticate, so basically what will be contained in the 1 KB page is as below:

<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" />
</head>
<body onload="document.forms.form1.submit();">
<form id="form1" action="http://spagoserver:8080/SpagoBI/servlet/AdapterHTTP?PAGE=LoginPage&NEW_SESSION=TRUE" method="post">
<input name="userID" type="hidden" value="yuvi" /> </input>
<input name="password" type="hidden" value="mypassword" /> </input>
</form>
</body>
</html>

As you can see, my server is installed mostly with default setting. The page above will automatically redirect us to the spagoBI page and authenticate, see our hidden input that is automatically submitted.

And we know it aint enough since we need to see one specific page instead of the homepage. So what would you do?

We only need to add additional object label and parameter to above action attribute within form tag. According to the SpagoBI wiki, the complete URL should be:

http<or https>://<your server name>:<your server port>/SpagoBI/servlet/AdapterHTTP?PAGE=LoginPage&NEW_SESSION=TRUE&OBJECT_LABEL=<label of the document you want to be executed>&PARAMETERS=<parameters for document execution>

In my case, it is:
http://spagoserver:8080/SpagoBI/servlet/AdapterHTTP?PAGE=LoginPage&NEW_SESSION=TRUE&OBJECT_LABEL=<CC%20Today>&PARAMETERS=documentLabel

During object creation (by the Spago Admin of course), the parameter is defined, and that is where the documentLabel come from. To know better, you could check out the metadata information for that object.

Now, one more problem to resolve, which is to automatically bring up browser once it is restarted.

In windows, it's quite easy, you just need to add one scheduled task, run everytime the system starts up and the command line interface is quite simple. I happen to use google chrome and it goes this way:
"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --app="http://localhost/autostart.html". As you can see, I'm using local web server. It's not that much of requirement for hardware, run with only 512 MB.

For firefox, you can use this:
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" "http://127.0.0.1/autostart.html"

The autostart.html is the one that contains the above html file.

And that is all.

Belajar Photoshop - Make White from Black

2010-09-30T09:46:00.010+07:00

Pagi ini dari Photoshop Digital Photography School.

Make White from Black, membuat gambar dengan background hitam menjadi putih. Di tutorial aslinya, yang digunakan adalah gambar bunga berwana kuning, pencahayaan terang dengan background hitam. Disitu dibilang, kalau hanya select remove background saja, akan meninggalkan bekas2 karena kalau gambar di shoot dengan hitam akan ada refleksi. Nah, kita akan bikin itu menjadi smooth.

Gambar asli yang akan digunakan adalah dibawah ini. Diambil waktu ada anatomy show di FX.

Kalau kita hanya select background dan remove, akan menjadi seperti dibawah ini:

Ada bekas - bekas hitam dipinggirnya kan? Nah, skrg dengan menggunakan langkah - langkah yang ada di digital photography school:
1. Buat 3 layer dari background copy
2. Layer paling atas, set blending optionsnya 'color', layer kedua set blending optionnys 'lighten'
3. Langkah ketiga, layer terakhir, lakukan apply image (dari menu image), channel red, invert, dan blendingnya normal.
Sekarang hasilnya adalah:

Lebih smooth kan?

Dan ini experiment, untuk bikin dari terang ke gelap. Dengan mengganti lighten menjadi darken, dan pada metode apply image yang digunakan adalah channel blue.

Original Picture:

Dan ini hasilnya:

When there is no way out, find a deeper way in

2010-09-30T09:06:00.002+07:00

When there is no way out, find a deeper way in. Quote from The International, by Skarssen, one hell of a banker ruling the world in his hand.

But unfortunately, the guy end up dead in the movie, so, does the quote actually leads us to success or hell break down?

2010-06-18T13:29:00.002+07:00

Nikkon Lens AF-S DX 35mm f/1.8G on D40 - ISO 800 - f/1.8 - 1/60s : hmmm dunno what to write, just like people say, picture says a thousand words

Perjalanan dari Windows Menuju RedHat

2009-11-03T22:27:00.006+07:00

Sekedar sharing untuk pengguna RHEL 5.

Saya baru install rhel versi 5, dual boot dengan Windows XP, pengen porting [lagi] dari Windows ke GNU/Linux hehehe.

Tantangannya yaitu:
1. Pastinya memastikan ethernet card dikenali dan bisa digunakan. Untungnya, modul ethernetnya langsung dikenalin jadi ga perlu repot2 udah langsung tinggal configure ip address plus sudo ifup hehehe

2. Mengenalkan zte modem yang akan digunakan untuk connect ke internet kalo lagi ngga di kantor. ZTE modemnya tipe MF622 yang berfungsi ganda, yaitu sebagai storage dan sebagai modem. Kalau di Windows, pada saat pertama colokin, pasti akan dikenali sebagai removable disk terlebih dahulu baru kemudian setelah aplikasi dialernya dijalankan, fungsinya akan berubah menjadi modem. Pada GNU/Linux, yang dilakukan mirip dengan yang di Windows, yaitu membuatkan aturan baru di udev.d kalau ada modul storage ZTE tersebut langsung dideregister lalu diswitch ke USB modem. This is pretty simple for me karena udah ada yang berbaik hati bikinin rules duluan jadi tinggal copy aja hehe ... http://pfesto.blogspot.com/2008/09/zte-mf622-e61i-and-wimode-on-fedora.html.

3. Bikin repo lokal :D, thanks to rito (http://blog-rito.blogspot.com/). Awalnya bikin repo dari CD Installer RHEL5 yang dipake buat install, tapi terus terpikir, kan paketnya aku install semua pada saat awal, jadi ngga ngaruh juga :)) ... akhirnya aku bikin repo dari CD installer Fedora yang aku pinjem dari Rito juga. Cuma sayangnya, paketnya mirip2 deh ... jadi, terpaksa bikin repo dari kambing.

[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/master
[master]
name=master
baseurl=ftp://kambing.ui.edu/centos/5.4/os/i386/
mirrorlist=file:///etc/yum.repos.d/local.mirror
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

4. Install2 aplikasi hiburan yang biasa dipake sehari2:
- pidgin
- xine
- realplayer

Agak ribet ya pasang xine-nya. Kalau pasang libxine justru gampang, tinggal yum search hehehe. Masalahnya adalah pada saat pasang xine-ui, maklum amatir :D, bolak balik ./configure, soalnya somehow libxine-nya ngga dikenalin :sigh:
Pas pake xine-ui, libxinenya yang ga dikenalin, karena berbagai macam option configure sudah dicoba, khususnya option CPPFLAGS sama LIBFLAGS ngga ngaruh juga, akhirnya download kaffeine (inget ini soalnya mas tisna pake hehe). Sama juga kasusnya, banyak banget dependenciesnya. Udah install satu2, stuck juga di flag yang sama ... weks.
Pindah ke gxine, sama juga, malah baca2 di forum, makefilenya ada bugnya, manggil function yang ngga ada di header file.
Akhirnya balik lagi ke xine-ui dan coba - coba lagi ganti2 option configure. Hehehe akhirnya berhasil juga.

$ ./configure XINE_LIBS=/usr/local/lib/libxine.so XINE_CFLAGS=/usr/local/include/xine.h --with-readline

One down, udah bisa maenin VCD dan AVI di xine, dan maenin mp3 di real player :D.
Kalo pas install real player ngga terlalu susah kok, tinggal download rpm nya hehehe.
Begitupun pas install pidgin, ga ribet.
Hemmm pas ditulis cuma jadi 1 blok, padahal ngerjainnya 1 hari nih #^%&#^%)@^&$)(@^%*

4. Yang keempat, karena semua data udah terlanjur ada di NTFS partition, berarti aku harus install ntfs kernel module biar bisa mounting. Nah, biar bisa read write, sekalian deh, dipasang ntfs-3g. NTFS-3g butuh fuse dan dkms-fuse (dynamic kernel module) biar bisa dijalanin, karena kalo ngga, pas mounting akan error.
Selesai pasang ntfs-3g, tinggal edit /etc/fstab, bikin auto biar ngga perlu mounting bolak balik.

5. Pasang OpenOffice. Ingat, sekarang counterpart kita adalah Office 2007, jadi OpenOfficenya juga harus versi 3 biar bisa dibaca. Yang ini juga amat sangat gampang, tinggal download dari openoffice.org, selesai deh.

6. Jangan lupa, pasang VMware hehe. VMware workstations yang versi opensource free kok, bisa langsung didownload di websitenya VMware. Buat yang gila debugging, jangan lupa pasang eclipse biar kalo error bisa ditrace.

7. Import semua email dari Microsoft Outlook ke Thunderbird. Kenapa pilih Thunderbird? Soalnya di google dibilang, thunderbird adalah yang paling banyak digunakan, simply that :D, kekurangannya, ga bisa pasang calender, kalo mau pake calendar, harus pake Evolution. Blom coba sih, bisa import dari Thuderbird ke Evolution apa ngga. Yang jelas, untuk import dari MS Outlook ke Thunderbird, kita harus pasang dulu Thunderbird di Windows, import semua email dari MS Outlook ke Thunderbird di Windows, baru deh copy semua file mailboxnya ke folder yang akan digunakan oleh Thunderbird di Linux. Biasanya extensionnya .msf.

8. Pasang httpd, karena pas di awal udah install semua package, jadi tinggal dinyalain ajah hehehehe

9. Edit file sudoers.

10. Pasang wireless adapter. Nah ini yang ngga bisa :D, dari kemarin stuck nih. Buat temen2 yang udah pengalaman mohon arahannya. Yang jelas modul nya udah dikenalin.

[root@localhost ~]# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 19d2:0001 ONDA Communication S.p.A.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0402:5606 ALi Corp. USB 2.0 Camera
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8189 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187B Wireless 802.11g 54Mbps Network Adapter
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
[root@localhost ~]# lsmod | grep rtl8187
rtl8187 34497 0
mac80211 137545 1 rtl8187
cfg80211 30793 2 rtl8187,mac80211
eeprom_93cx6 6337 1 rtl8187
[root@localhost ~]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
vmnet1 no wireless extensions.
vmnet8 no wireless extensions.
ppp0 no wireless extensions.
[root@localhost ~]# ifup wlan0
/sbin/ifup: configuration for wlan0 not found.

Sama pendingan satu lagi, suara sih keluar dari speaker internal, tapi ngga bisa keluar lewat headphone, kenapa ya :D. Kalo headphone dicolokin, speakaer ngga bunyi, tapi tetep ga ada suara yang keluar lewat headphone.

Update status per hari ini, 9 Nov 09. Ternyata, masalah ga bisa bunyi kalo pake headphone, bukan masalah driver and the likes ... instead, it is just a configuration matters. Aku coba - coba kemarin, semua options dibuka2in, dan untuk surround, aku ngga mute ... ehhhh ternyata bunyi loh di headphone :)) ... katro deh.

Jadi, skrg tinggal gimana caranya agar wlan0nya kedetect. Btw, thanks to rito, redhat ku skrg centos flavour :D. Mengikuti saran rito, redhat aku yum-update menggunakan reponya centos, walhasil sekarang centos flavour :D.

2009-11-02T22:20:00.000+07:00

There are so many injustices surround me.
Do they not see?
Are they simply ignorant?
One thing for sure, FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE, YOU DESERVE YOURS, AND THEY DESERVE THEIRS.

Integrating Paypal Checkout to Your Website

2009-10-29T13:17:00.002+07:00

Semalem akhirnya aku berhasil juga mengintegrasikan paypal checkout button ke website. Sebenernya gampang - gampang susah sih, gampangnya karena modulnya sudah ada sih sebenernya, cuma tinggal setting (we are point and click engineers katanya sunil kekekeke). Susahnya, kalo dah nemu problem yang orang2 belum pernah nemuin sebelumnya. Ujung2nya u've got to debug it yourself.

Untungnya, kali ini saya punya banyak clue jadi ngga perlu pusing2 baca codingan orang :D. Ngga sih, tetep perlu juga ding, meskipun useless hehehe.

Website yang mau saya pasangin tombol paypalnya adalah website jualan (ya iyalah masa website perpustakaan, eh tapi bisa juga ya, buat donate atau bayar sewa). Website ini pake osCommerce. Dan para developer yang baik hati itu, sudah membuat modulnya. Jadi, dari web admin, saya cukup klik install. Nah, di settingan tersebut, akan ada isian username, password, signature, server dll. Biasanya, orang yang sukanya coba2 (seperti biasa) ngga akan baca tutorial dulu, tapi akan langsung isi ini itu ini itu ehhh error :)).

Saya juga sempet isi dengan nilai yang salah, cuma sayangnya ngga kedapetan error kalo salah seperti apa ya. Pokoknya, pas di klik tombol paypalnya, diem aja ngga bergerak.

Akhirnya diputuskan untuk MEMBACA TUTORIAL PAYPAL UNTUK DEVELOPER. Here we comes the big stone.

Paypal menyediakan server development yang bisa kita gunakan untuk keperluan testing, namanya server sandbox. So, buat best practice, it's much better to use sandbox first then the live one. Di server sandbox ini, kita bisa create test account yang mewakili buyer and seller, each one account. Dan pada saat testing pembelian, kita bisa gunakan account ini untuk mengetahui customer experience from end to end.

Untuk mengakses sandbox server, urlnya adalah https://developer.paypal.com.

Step - stepnya secara simple bisa dibuat seperti ini:
1. Create test account, satu yang mewakili user, dan satu lagi yang mewakili buyer.
2. Create API credentials. Kita akan mendapatkan API username, API password dan API signature. Kebetulan kemarin coba - cobanya pake yang express checkout, bukan yang payment standard. Dengan payment standard, sebenernya akan lebih aman karena bisa menggunakan certificate. Cuma sayangnya belum sempet maen2 nih sama certificate :D.
3. Setelah mendapatkan API credentials, silakan masukkan values ini ke settingan osCommerce.

Right after this point I got stuck. Kenapa? Karena even setelah saya masukkan API credentials tersebut dengan benar, checkout procesnya masih belum bisa juga. Jadi, setelah klik tombol checkout, browsernya diem aja, seakan2 ngga ada response. Jadi, saya pikir, ini saatnya firebug dan fiddler beraksi. Even dengan menggunakan 2 debugger tersebut, saya ngga dapet apa2 a.k.a mereka ngga nunjukin apa2.

Dengan firebug, it told me that nothing is in error. Trus saya coba inspect element, I got permission denied. Dengan Fiddler, saya dapet error 500, a.k.a page not found. Kemudian, saya coba pikir lagi. Paypal ini kan butuh cURL. Saya coba locate, ternyata emang cURLnya udah keinstall. Trus saya coba pake function - functionnya cURL di halaman test, ternyata ada error funtion not found. So I guess, it must be something with cURL.

It turns out that it needs an additional module to be started on php.ini. Ini dia yang harus dienable:
extension=gd.so
extension=curl.so

Right after that, it went all smooth and clear. Untuk implementasi di live server, you just need to replicate all those steps in sandbox server to the live one. Menunya memang agak berbeda sih, but it's still easy to figure out.

osCommerce Indonesia Translation

2009-10-25T06:51:00.001+07:00

For you all who need the translation of osCommerce language module to Bahasa Indonesia, please do not hesitate to contact me.

I think of uploading it later, still trying to figure out how (please do not laugh) ... If you wish to check it before contacting me, I use the translation for a website, http://easyfind.web.id.

My contact is available publicly at my profile page or you could just googling my full name to get my profile page.

VLAN interface line protocol status

2009-09-25T17:58:00.003+07:00

Ever created a vlan interface and it's showing that the interface status is up-down?

Just now, I've created a vlan interface and its physical link status is immediately up. Unfortunately, the line protocol status is always down.

Come to think, it might need some ports to be assigned, so I assigned an Fa 0/1 to Vlan20. However, the luck has not yet to come.

It turned out that it needs some devices to also attached to that interface. So my conclusion is, if the link of the physical port is up-up, then the vlan protocol status will then go up. Someone else might have an explanation to this, but I don't.

This is the debug:

%LINK-5-CHANGED: Interface FastEthernet0/1, changed state to up
%LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface FastEthernet0/1, changed state to up
%LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Vlan20, changed state to up
RT: interface Vlan20 added to routing tableRT: SET_LAST_RDB for 172.16.71.0/24
NEW rdb: is directly connected

RT: add 172.16.71.0/24 via 0.0.0.0, connected metric [0/0]

See .. my new static route is also added to the table :)

Cron task in 5 minutes

2009-09-11T12:14:00.003+07:00

Wanna run scheduled task in Linux using cron task, but you're having problem in reading the bulky tutorial?

This should work in only 5 minutes:

[root@VM-FC10 etc]# more /etc/crontab
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/

# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly

/etc/cron.hourly itu adalah direktori, jadi untuk yang mau dikerjakan setiap jam, taruhlah di direktori ini. jangan lupa, bahwa semua script yang ada disini, harus merupakan shell script.

nah, yang banyak bintang2nya itu adalah penunjuk waktunya, sebagai berikut:
menit jam tanggal bulan hari command
hari diisi dengan angka 0 sampai 7 dengan 7 berarti hari Minggu

bagaimana kalo kita ingin menjalankan task yang ngga ada di pola diatas? ya tinggal ditambah aja hahahaha ..

tambahnya di /etc/cron.d/ dan sintaksnya sama dengan crontab diatas

gampang kan? yang susah shell scriptnya :D

Lost in doing PHPSurvey?

2009-08-21T20:28:00.047+07:00

Lost in implementing PHP survey?

That happened to me as of NOW. Yes, I'm writing this blog during my work on this script.

I've downloaded the script from Sourceforge, it's available thru http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpsurvey/, you can download it there.

First thing first, check several prerequisites:
- Apache, it's a must, and since I'm using Fedora 10 with complete package installed, it doesn't give hard time in setting it up. To check it, use this command:
/etc/init.d/httpd status
or simply press tab key after keying htt, linux will complete it for you if it's there, much like cisco routers right?
This is what shows up on my screen:
[root@vmfc10 lib]# /etc/init.d/httpd status
httpd is stopped
[root@vmfc10 lib]#
If you see the above lines, you need to start it this way:
[root@vmfc10 lib]# /etc/init.d/httpd start
Starting httpd: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
[ OK ]
[root@vmfc10 lib]#
You see, there is an error about the unqualified domain name. It's ignoreable unless you'd wish to bring it online to the internet. It appears because my hostname was set to 'localhost' which does not meet with the FQDN rules ... but we're not gonna talk about it here, it's too long. For now, it's ignoreable.
After starting the httpd service, now you have to make sure that the web page can be displayed. By default, apache places one test page located under its default document root directory for us to use. Simply point your browser to http://localhost/ then it will show you one test page similar to this:

Okay, now finish for the apache.

- Move on to mysql.
Unfortunately, mysql is not installed by default in Fedora distributions so I have to make a little effort, only a little though, thanks to yum.

Please remember that the service you're searching for mysql service will be mysql and mysql-server. If you're only installing mysql, you will only see some mysql related libraries and will not be able to run it as a daemon.

Just do "yum install mysql mysql-server" as a root, please note the intermediating dash.
Once it said "Completed!" then we can start moving to the configuration.

As root, run mysql by typing /etc/init.d/mysqld start. And afterward, log in to mysql service as root and assign the password for the root:

[root@vmfc10 ~]# /etc/init.d/mysqld start
Starting MySQL: [ OK ]

Please note that to start mysqld service, it took you quite a while, depending on your hardware specification.

[root@vmfc10 ~]# mysql -u root
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 3
Server version: 5.0.83 Source distribution

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql> set password for 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('r00t');
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.18 sec)

The sql statement which says "set password ... " is the line that is used to assign password for the root user in the mysql database.

So far, we have already 2 things set up on our Fedora machine. I don't know about you, but for me, the PHP comes in a bundle when I installed the webserver using the distribution package. So when I do this:

[root@vmfc10 ~]# whereis php.ini
php: /usr/bin/php /etc/php.ini /etc/php.d /usr/lib/php /usr/share/php /usr/share/man/man1/php.1.gz

I already got the php.ini file. Installing PHP in Linux will not be harder than when installing it in Windows. So, I believe you will get to it by yourself. The installation procedure is also quite self explanatory.

Now, we got all the prerequisites in place. Let's do the script.

First thing first, place the script on the httpd DocumentRoot. Open httpd.conf, usually it's located on /etc/httpd/conf/ -- its default installation directory, or if you can't find it, just do "locate" or "find" command.

Find the DocumentRoot directive to get the location to which we should place the PHPsurvey script. As for mine, it shows as below:

#
# DocumentRoot: The directory out of which you will serve your
# documents. By default, all requests are taken from this directory, but
# symbolic links and aliases may be used to point to other locations.
#
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"

So, we know now that we have to place it on the /var/www/html directory. I got mine copied into survey subfolder under html.

[root@vmfc10 ~]# cd /var/www/html/
[root@vmfc10 html]# ls
phpSurvey-2.0-alpha.zip survey

According to the installation guide, we have to make sure the register_global is on. It's located ini php.ini file, so change it to ON, by default, it's turned off:

; You should do your best to write your scripts so that they do not require
; register_globals to be on; Using form variables as globals can easily lead
; to possible security problems, if the code is not very well thought of.
register_globals = On

Next, configure the database. All the necessary statement are in pg_create.sql file. However, these statements are written for PostgreSQL which differs from the MySQL, so you have to translate it to the MySQL version.

First of all, open the mysql prompt:
[root@vmfc10 html]# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 4
Server version: 5.0.83 Source distribution

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql>

The -u specifies the user, and the -p specifies that it requires password. Once you're logged in, create a database and then use it before creating any tables.

mysql> create database survey;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.18 sec)

mysql> use survey;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Database changed

Now, paste the sql statement in pg_create.sql file, located under install subfolder. Mostly, it fits fine, only there are several things that does not go with the MySQL.

1. The TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE statement. I've been looking for this statement in the MySQL documentation but I can not find any, so the only way to make it work, is by deleting the WITHOUT TIME ZONE.

2. You will see an error that said TEXT/BLOB variable used as primary key does not have length defined. As it is used as primary key, of course it has to have a specified length to determine the uniqueness. However, when you set the length for TEXT variable, you will find an error as well. So the only way to work it by refining the TEXT/BLOB into VARCHAR and specified the length.

3. You will also see that BLOB/TEXT can not have a default value of NONE. It's a known bug in MySQL, you have to change it to '' not specifying anything as the default value and MySQL can accept it.

So, we have done configuring the database.

Now, what we're gonna do is tuning the configuration. All the site related configurations are accessible from conf.inc.php under include folder.

$PS_CONFIG["system_url"] = "http://127.0.0.1/survey"; // by default it has a value of http://127.0.0.1:8080/phpSurvey. I changed it that way because my server is listening to port 80, not 8080 and the folder name under /var/www/html is "survey" not phpSurvey.

$PS_CONFIG["admin_email"] = "root@locahost"; // Displayed on the admin login page.
$PS_CONFIG["system_email"] = "root@localhost"; // Email address required in sending invitation.
// Should be a valid email address or leave it empty.
// Also remember to appropriately set hostname system variable.

$PS_CONFIG["dbtype"] = "mysql"; // initially, it was pgsql
$PS_CONFIG["dbhost"] = "127.0.0.1";
$PS_CONFIG["dbuname"] = "root";
$PS_CONFIG["dbpwd"] = "r00t";
$PS_CONFIG["dbname"] = "survey"; // you also need to change the database to the one you set up previously.

Now the guide says I need to invoke install.php to set the password. So let's do it.

Oooppsss ... something went wrong, nothing is displayed. Time for debugging. Open the error.log and here we go:

[Fri Aug 21 23:09:54 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: include_once
(DB.php) [function.include-once]: failed to
open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/survey/include/common.in
c.php on line 3
[Fri Aug 21 23:09:54 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: include_once
() [function.include]: Failed opening 'DB.php' fo
r inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/html/s
urvey/include/common.inc.php on line 3
[Fri Aug 21 23:09:54 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: Class 'D
B' not found in /var/www/html/survey/include/common.inc.php on line 16

Ow ow ... it turned out that I got no DB.php file under my include directory.

Well, it looks like I dont have pear installed. Download it from the web, http://pear.php.net/package/DB/download, extract the file and copy it to the phpSurvey directory. In this case, it will be /var/www/html/survey/.

Try it again ... and oooppssss ... still blank page.

Open error log one more time, and here it goes:

[Fri Aug 21 23:30:39 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: require_once
(PEAR.php) [function.require-once]: failed t
o open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/survey/DB.php on line
30
[Fri Aug 21 23:30:40 2009] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: require_
once() [function.require]: Failed opening require
d 'PEAR.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/html/
survey/DB.php on line 30

line 30 on DB.php is

require_once 'PEAR.php';

Hmmm, I got to also download it. Search the net ... bingo, I've gotta install php-pear, do yum install php-pear ... wait several minutes and completed.

Try again, .... great it shows an error now, the error shows that it failed when connecting to the DB. Well, at least it shows a progress.

Let's take a look at the install.php, what is it actually in there?

I think I've gotta take a rest for now, will continue tomorrow. See ya.

----

it's saturday, it's the first day of ramadhan in 2009 and it's time to continue this ... last time we tried, the page shows a DB connection failed.

Hmmm .... at this point ... let's think of something what might be preventing this ... reviewing all the DB configurations are correct. Hmm I got it, perhaps it's the SELinux thing. Let's go check it out.

Now I gotta disable the SELinux.

Now done, try to browse the install.php again ... and oopsss I got a notification of AVC denial. Check it ... and it looks like the network connection has been denied by SELinux.

See? I've gotta set something for the SELinux, let me resolve this one moment .. as you can see above, the httpd is trying to connect to port 3306 and SELinux has denied it.

Now .. I'm allowing all network access as seen above. I shuld be able to connect and browse the install.php file by now.
Great ... it shows me something here:

Magic Quotes OFF? Let's check the guide. It doesnt help. If we're looking at the code there are lines:

$reg_globals = ini_get('register_globals');
$magic_quotes = get_magic_quotes_gpc();
echo "Register Globals : ";
if ($reg_globals == 1) {
echo "On
\n";
} else {
echo "Off
\n";
}
echo "Magic Quotes : ";
if ($magic_quotes == 1) {
echo "On
\n";
} else {
echo "Off
\n";
}

I assume the reg global shuld be off and magic quotes shuld be on. Let's change it in php.ini and restart httpd. Wonderful, it's all green now.
Fill up all the credentials ... and great ... the root password has been set up successfuly. This credential will be used for the web admin, not for the database.

The INSTALL file stops here. So what's next?

Ow ... great ... it's all done. Point your browser to http://localhost/survey and it will ask you to login. Click admin login, supply your recently created username and password ... and there you go ..

Fiuuuu it doesnt stop here ... it looks like i got some errors due to mismatch statement. All the sql statement here is actually destined for postgre, not mysql. I think I gotta stop here :D, i dont want to crawling all the pages just to find which statements needed to be changed.

As an alternative, I'm gonna yum install postgresql in my linux.

Running Transaction
Updating : postgresql-libs-8.3.7-1.fc10.i386 1/3
Installing : postgresql-8.3.7-1.fc10.i386 2/3
Installing : postgresql-server-8.3.7-1.fc10.i386 1/1
Cleanup : postgresql-libs-8.3.4-1.fc10.i386 3/3

Installed:
postgresql.i386 0:8.3.7-1.fc10
postgresql-server.i386 0:8.3.7-1.fc10

Dependency Updated:
postgresql-libs.i386 0:8.3.7-1.fc10

Complete!

Done with the yum ... now let's start it over.

[root@vmfc10 ~]# /etc/init.d/postgresql status
postmaster is stopped
[root@vmfc10 ~]# /etc/init.d/postgresql start

/var/lib/pgsql/data is missing. Use "service postgresql initdb" to initialize the cluster first.
[FAILED]
[root@vmfc10 ~]# service postgresql initdb
Initializing database: [ OK ]
[root@vmfc10 ~]# /etc/init.d/postgresql start
Starting postgresql service: [ OK ]

Ahhh ... one thing I forgot, I shuld install pgsql as well !!!

Installed:
php-pgsql.i386 0:5.2.9-2.fc10

Dependency Updated:
php.i386 0:5.2.9-2.fc10 php-cli.i386 0:5.2.9-2.fc10
php-common.i386 0:5.2.9-2.fc10 php-ldap.i386 0:5.2.9-2.fc10
php-mysql.i386 0:5.2.9-2.fc10 php-pdo.i386 0:5.2.9-2.fc10

Complete!

[root@vmfc10 ~]# /etc/init.d/httpd restart
Stopping httpd: [ OK ]
Starting httpd: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
[ OK ]
[root@vmfc10 ~]# post
postgres post-grohtml postmaster
[root@vmfc10 ~]# postgres
"root" execution of the PostgreSQL server is not permitted.
The server must be started under an unprivileged user ID to prevent
possible system security compromise. See the documentation for
more information on how to properly start the server.
[root@vmfc10 ~]# exit
logout

[yuv@vmfc10 ~]$

Hemmmm .... what a work !!!! cant make it work. Im gonna take a break now .. see ya later.

Back in action. It turned out that I've made terrible mistake :D which shuld be resolved in just 3 simple steps. See below:

[root@vmfc10 ~]# mkdir /usr/local/pgsql
[root@vmfc10 ~]# mkdir /usr/local/pgsql/data/
[root@vmfc10 ~]# chown postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data/
[root@vmfc10 ~]# su - postgres
-bash-3.2$ initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
This user must also own the server process.

The database cluster will be initialized with locale en_US.UTF-8.
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to UTF8.
The default text search configuration will be set to "english".

fixing permissions on existing directory /usr/local/pgsql/data ... ok
creating subdirectories ... ok
selecting default max_connections ... 100
selecting default shared_buffers/max_fsm_pages ... 24MB/153600
creating configuration files ... ok
creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1 ... ok
initializing pg_authid ... ok
initializing dependencies ... ok
creating system views ... ok
loading system objects' descriptions ... ok
creating conversions ... ok
creating dictionaries ... ok
setting privileges on built-in objects ... ok
creating information schema ... ok
vacuuming database template1 ... ok
copying template1 to template0 ... ok
copying template1 to postgres ... ok

WARNING: enabling "trust" authentication for local connections
You can change this by editing pg_hba.conf or using the -A option the
next time you run initdb.

Success. You can now start the database server using:

postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
or
pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -l logfile start

-bash-3.2$ pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data/ -l logfile start
server starting

Revert back the pg_create.sql from the original archive.
-bash-3.2$ psql
Welcome to psql 8.3.7, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.

Type: \copyright for distribution terms
\h for help with SQL commands
\? for help with psql commands
\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
\q to quit

postgres=# \i /var/www/html/survey/install/pg_create.sql

There are a lot of errors showing up ... but let it be for now. I keep a copy of it in case I'm gonna need it sometimes later.

.....

It's been several days since I left this draft. I must say, I do not finish this. Why? Because there are a lot of sql statements I gotta go thru, and it's one tedious work to do :D. So ... I decided to move my ass to LimeSurvey and now it's running live already.

Just need to customize the webpage a lil so it does not show a real limesurvey. Sorry guys to let you down by writing this but I got a lot more work to do :)

2009-08-19T21:18:00.000+07:00

There are times when we feel wonderful
there are others when we feel awful
it's all up to us which one to choose
.... (msh mikir apa ya lanjutannya that goes with the rhyme)

2009-08-17T06:45:00.001+07:00

And if they belie you, say: for me are my deeds and for you are your deeds, i am innocent to what you did and you are innocent of what i did.

QS-Yunus:41

UFRAW - RAW plugins untuk the GIMP

2009-03-15T11:15:00.003+07:00

Buat temen - temen pengguna Linux yang kebetulan juga suka foto menggunakan RAW, bisa loh buka file RAW pake the GIMP. Syaratnya, tinggal install UFRAW aja, ada di sourceforge.

http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/

Kamera yang di-support juga dah lumayan banyak, lengkapnya bisa dilihat di http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/Cameras.html, dah termasuk Nikon D40, D40x dan infonya sih, kalo RAW nya menggunakan format DNG, otomatis bisa di-support.

GUInya juga lumayan friendly, ini contohnya:

Nice kan? Tadinya sempet bingung gimana caranya mengexport ke jpeg, ternyata gampang si, tinggal kita klik OK setelah editing, trus otomatis, akan kebuka di GIMP, nah baru deh kita save as.

Sekilas tentang UFRAW, quoted dari websitenya:
gimp importer for raw camera images

This is a graphical tool to import raw data from high-end digital cameras into the Gimp.
The Unidentified Flying Raw (UFRaw) is a utility for converting and manipulating raw images from digital cameras. It can be used as a stand-alone tool or as a Gimp plug-in, and images can be batch processed using the command-line interface. UFRaw reads most existing raw formats using Dave Coffin's raw conversion utility DCRaw, and it supports basic color management using Little CMS, allowing the user to apply color profiles.
Homepage: http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/

Sendmail on Ubuntu??

2009-03-01T18:20:00.002+07:00

If I may say, DEFINITELY NOT!!!

Bukan apa - apa sih, pas installnya emang gampang, tinggal apt-get jalan hehehe, cuma giliran udah oprak oprek ... wedew susahnya setengah ampun, sampe2 bikin port 25 nya ga jalan.

Googling sana googling sini, sampe nyasar2 ke iptables segala, hegh!!

Mulai dari connection refused, sampe temporary internet failure

Mar 1 00:37:20 localhost sendmail[2468]: n1SHbAgg002468: from=root, size=1754, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200902281737.n1SHbAgg002468@localhost>, relay=root@localhost
Mar 1 00:37:20 localhost sm-mta[2499]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): hash map "access": unsafe map file /etc/mail/access.db: Permission denied
Mar 1 00:37:20 localhost sm-mta[2499]: ruleset=check_relay, arg1=localhost, arg2=127.0.0.1, relay=localhost [127.0.0.1], reject=451 4.3.0 Temporary system failure. Please try again later.

Di rollback, ngga ngikut semua, packagenya kudu satu2 diremove hiks, untung aja 3Gnya IM2 disini masih lancar jaya, jadi bolak balik apt-get ngga masalah hehehehe

Akhirnya, setelah membaca referensi di inet, pakailah bawaan asli distronya, aku benar - benar putus asa dan beralih menggunakan exim (hihi namanya kayak penyakit kulit), katanya sih singkatannya experimental internet m .... messenger kali ya .. ga tau deh m nya apaan.

Ternyata bener, pake exim meskipun minim referensi (dari pemakai yang lain) dan dokumentasinya juga susah carinya :D, (ngga susah2 amat sih cuma males aja kalo harus baca dokumentasi yang bejibun itu tanpa tahu section yang mana yang harus dibaca), pake exim jauh lebih menyenangkan. Buat ganti2 konfigurasi juga lebih enak, ngga bisa pake yang ini, update-conf sama yang ini, instantly reconfigured.

So, perl script yang tadinya aku bikin buat sendmail langsung rombak semua pake exim4 ;))

Hemmm tapi kayaknya sih mungkin lebih baik ngga pake exim4 ya kalo distronya Fedora or OpenSuse, intinya sih pakailah bawaan asli dari distronya. Mungkin orang2 pembuat distro itu sudah compare sana sini.

Happy mailing .... !

Traffic Monitoring Tools - Linux

2009-02-14T08:06:00.004+07:00

Anda make Linux? Bingung traffic monitoring yang bisa dipake apa? Kebetulan saya juga pake Linux buat dirumah dan kebetulan lumayan jadul hehehehhe

[root@localhost Download]# uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 #1 Thu Jun 2 22:55:56 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Kenapa saya ga mau upgrade? masalahnya sama aja sama yang lain, males lagi install2 semuanya dari awal, setengah mampus soalnya hueheuehuehuehue.

So, back to my initial post. Kalau di Ubuntu, sepertinya gampang sih liat network traffic-nya, lagi2 ada bantuan dari GUI (ini saya dikasih tau temen). Hasil dari browsing2, dapet IPTraf, mungkin singkatan dari IP Traffic. Aplikasinya enteng, saya download dari mana ya lupa :D tapi googling aja, pasti nemu deh hehehhee

Downloadannya sendiri cuma 500-an KB, jadi nggga butuh waktu lama buat nyelesain. Ini saya kasih contoh screenshotnya:

Ssssttttt postnya sambil ditemani wangi masakan tetangga sebelah nih :D, satu bikin lapar, dua bikin mata perih, karena berasa makan di abang2 nasi goreng yang aromanya semerbak ituuh huehuehuehuehue

Nah, cuma masalahya, kalau mau melihat total traffic, jangan sampai IP trafnya ketutup, or pindah menu, karena counternya akan reset from zero. Btw, kalau udah ngga nemu aplikasi IP Trafnya, saya masih simpen kok, bisa nanti saya kirim lah kalau butuh.

Ironi

2009-02-14T07:58:00.002+07:00

Judulnya sok puitis hehehhehe ...

Udah lama ngga posting nih, jadi pengen share, hari ini coba browse ke salah satu website web.id, http://easyfind.web.id, pake 3G IM2, tapi kok lemot ya, ternyata setelah aku lihat, rupanya hostingnya diluar negeri .. ckckckckck padahal domain udah web.id :D

[root@localhost ~]# traceroute easyfind.web.id
traceroute to easyfind.web.id (67.228.58.116), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 202.155.4.210 (202.155.4.210) 974.389 ms 832.901 ms 1042.749 ms
2 ge-0-1-0.gw-01.jkt.indosat.net.id (202.155.27.29) 780.275 ms 1140.822 ms *
3 ge-0-1-0.gw-01.jkt.indosat.net.id (202.155.27.29) 1086.656 ms 1314.284 ms 1236.717 ms
4 * * ge-0-2-0.distri-04.jkt.ipbb.indosat.net.id (202.155.137.17) 1307.366 ms
5 202.93.46.212 (202.93.46.212) 1122.004 ms 1116.183 ms 1186.409 ms
6 202.93.41.146 (202.93.41.146) 941.661 ms 1198.173 ms *
7 * * *
8 ge-0-1-7-0.sngtp-dr2.ix.singtel.com (203.208.151.181) 818.128 ms 812.423 m s 1149.341 ms
9 ge-5-0-0-0.sngtp-cr2.ix.singtel.com (203.208.151.153) 1229.690 ms * 1489.0 66 ms
10 * so-3-0-2-0.plapx-cr3.ix.singtel.com (203.208.182.58) 2001.324 ms 1318.60 6 ms
11 ge-7-0-0-0.plapx-dr2.ix.singtel.com (203.208.183.182) 1710.643 ms 1224.516 ms *
12 * ge6-0-128.IR1.PaloAlto-CA.us.xo.net (206.111.12.45) 3495.180 ms 2509.475 ms
13 * * *
14 te-3-0-0.rar3.la-ca.us.xo.net (207.88.12.62) 1054.709 ms 1507.642 ms *
15 207.88.14.33.ptr.us.xo.net (207.88.14.33) 1435.723 ms * *
16 * * 207.88.14.34.ptr.us.xo.net (207.88.14.34) 1748.165 ms
17 * 207.88.185.74.ptr.us.xo.net (207.88.185.74) 1282.856 ms 1781.618 ms
18 * * *
19 te2-1.cer03.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com (216.52.189.30) 1151.684 ms 952.67 1 ms *
20 po3.dar02.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com (66.228.118.211) 1422.743 ms 1434.16 3 ms 1056.200 ms
21 po2.fcr03.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com (66.228.118.190) 1260.181 ms 1295.60 4 ms 1136.692 ms
22 lemon.dnspropagation.com (67.228.58.116) 1829.819 ms 1108.816 ms 1120.693 ms

Tuh lihat :D, 22 hops. Ini kalau aku bilang, sama kasusnya kayak kosanku sekarang :D, tetangga sebelah cuma ada jarak 50 meter kali ya, tapi karena ngga ada jalannya jadi kudu muter dulu dan jaraknya multiplied jadi 300 meter hehehheheheheheh

Blood Diamond

2009-01-11T22:22:00.001+07:00

Blood Diamond, starred by Leonardo Dicaprio, and directed by Edward
Zwick of the well known The Last Samurai.

They're just people, it's what they do that makes it good or bad.
Inherently, everyone's good, though not applicable in all kind of
situation.

Danny Archer, the main actor, reminds me of our existing situation
here, a contextual criminal, raised by its surrounding. It's touching
by the time Archer turned out to be heroic.
It always happens in the movie, bad guy turns to be the hero. The
difference is, he's initially good person, lost his parents in the war
and humanly needs a piece of the world's indulgence for himself.
Well, probably if it wasn't DiCaprio who's playing Archer, I won't be
so impressed, even if I wasn't a fan. But hats off for Zwick who made
it a perfect combination, Leonardo and Archer, hope to see the living
version of Archer here in this world.

Designer Report in Avaya CMS Supervisor 13.0

2009-01-02T15:18:00.009+07:00

In using Avaya CMS Supervisor 13.0, for non IT people, sometimes quite frustrating. Based on my personal experience, we have to define all the report during the initial period of contract with the vendor. Being a human, most of the time, we dont know all things we're going to need in the next 1 or 2 years, trends could have been changed. Therefore, we have to get used to the designer area in CMS report. We could define almost all report we need.

The center I've been working are now having 4 skills under 1 management, so the manager sometimes need a summarized report from all 4 skills, and sometimes needs the detail. Vendor only provided us with the detailed report, so if we need it to be summarized, we have to export it into MS Excel and then make the manipulation there. Quite tedious for me so I decided to play a lil bit with the designer area.

The above picture is the one provided by the vendor, so everytime I want a summarized report from all the 4 skills, I have to export it into MS Excel and combine it together using Pivot Table.

If we need to make a summarized report template like below:

Use the following steps:
1. Run New Report Wizard from CMS
2. Choose the correct table/database, be it Real Time or Historical Report and when you arrive at the Data Group window, choose No Pre-Selection. This will allow you to select only the data that you need.
3. To make the wizard more effective, dont choose all the data field at the Select Data Items window at once, choose only ROW_DATE and one field that is the most easiest to calculate, it will facilitate you in backtracking if there is any problem or error occured.
4. Choose to edit in designer.
5. To make a summarized report from all the 4 skills, you have to select the data field in sum. So, instead of only selecting CALLSOFFERED, you have to use sum(CALLSOFFERED). It is applied to all data that needed to be sum. For data that need to be displayed in average, you have to add another mathematical calculation, for example, I use (sum(ACCEPTABLE) / (sum(CALLSOFFERED) - sum(ABNCALLS1))) * 100 to display the Service Level. Play your logic here.
6. The tricky part is the total or summary row. Before you add many fields in the table, make sure the total or the summary row displays the correct amount. To display the summary row, first, copy the query. Then from the table format window, select to display the summary row and choose the new query.
7. The total query basically is the same query as the data query. The only difference is there are any reference data, such as date, start time and skill, you have to give it a constant value instead of the data query. In my example above, in the date column, the data will contain ROW_DATE, and the total will contain "ROW DATE", this text function only as header so you have to put double quotes, otherwise, the total value will only display the corresponding date.

Note : sometimes it is not enough for you to just restart the template to check is it displaying the report correctly or not. You have to close it and then choose the template over again from the Report menu in CMS, so dont panic if after updating, you still have the old form.

Now, if you already update and ensure the template has the right query , it is time to add more data to the template.

Mostly, the problem that are found are related with the database table. Just remember, the group by clause only applied to the data, not to total query.
The AND clause withing the WHERE, is matched to the Input. It looks like this:
ACD=$acd and SPLIT = [Splits/Skills:] and ROW_DATE = [Dates:]

The ACD, SPLIT and ROW_DATE are the database field, and the one within [] are the captions of the Input button.

Another problem I found was finding the average value of the incoming calls during certain range of date, displayed per interval.
CMS does not allow count clause, so you can not put "COUNT (CALLSOFFERED)" in the select query. As the workaround, I use this query:
sum(CALLSOFFERED) / (max(ROW_DATE) - min(ROW_DATE))
That way, I can now generate an average value per day for incoming calls to the center.

One last thing, more than never, it will tell you that something must be in the GROUP BY list without letting you know what is actually needed. If that's the case, make sure you have the correct GROUP BY clause in the query. To show the where clause, click on the WHERE button withing the corresponding query.

Well, that's it for now. Hope I'm finding something else to write here. Just let me know if you have any questions. Enjoy designing.

Bad Guy Good Guy

2008-12-20T21:05:00.000+07:00

It wasnt only for police officers to do bad guy good guy routine. I heard someone said yesterday during a meeting that as a leader, sometimes you need to be a bad guy, no matter what it takes.

I somehow doesnt really agree with that statement. Bad or good is not as clear as white or black. It's always been gray.

If you consider yourself a bad guy when you're trying to fix something, it is not bad. Moreover, if you consider this as a bad thing, you're not gonna be fixing things. It will only cause you pain.

Rather than saying yourself as a bad guy, you might want to say that the person that has caused you doing this as a bad guy and time will tell.

Quote of the Day - Linux Challenges

2008-11-20T15:46:00.001+07:00

Two forces in particular are driving changes to Linux. One is a push to develop Linux into a standard, more predictable platform for developers and users. The other is to leverage Linux, and open source in general, as mediums through which innovation gets delivered to users.

Driver Blames GPS System For Car-Train Collision

2008-11-18T18:09:00.000+07:00

Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:34:24 -0800
From: Paul Saffo
Subject: Driver Blames GPS System For Car-Train Collision

On the evening of 10 Nov 2008, a man's car got stuck on the Metro-North
tracks in Bedford Hills, N.Y. in Westchester County because he said his GPS
told him to make an immediate right turn. Police blamed Jose Silva's
overdependence on GPS. He was cited for driving on the tracks and not
obeying signs. Metro-North spokeswoman Marjorie Anders said, "You don't
turn onto train tracks. Even if there are little voices in your head telling
you to do so. If the GPS told you to drive off a cliff, would you drive off
a cliff?"

The same thing had happened in Jan 2008. Apparently the safety features
that were added then were not enough to deter Silva. [Source: KPIX; PGN-ed]
http://cbs5.com/watercooler/gps.beford.hills.2.829797.html

Fwd: [tanya-jawab] Re: sis 191

2008-11-16T20:18:00.001+07:00

Forwarded from milis tanya jawab linux.or.id. Udah dijawab panjang -
panjang, eh taunya ... :))

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:16:51 +0700
Subject: [tanya-jawab] Re: sis 191
To: tanya-jawab@linux.or.id

Terima kasih, nanti kalau ada waktu saya coba. Soalnya ini komputer
kantor dan dipakai bersama. Os nya pake win, dan saya sudah bosan
dengan segala masalahnya (virus, trojan, bsod dsb). Utk sementara
kalau ada yg punya info ttg distro yang bisa mengatasi masalah ini
tolong diberitahu. Atau bagaimana caranya mengkompilasi modul tersebut
dari pc lain ?

On 11/15/08, st SABRI wrote:
>> saya mau tanya, distro apa ya yang bisa membuat ethernet card dengan
>> chip sis 191 langsung berfungsi dengan benar. saya sudah coba ubuntu
>> 8.04, bisa terdeteksi tapi koneksi ke jaringannya tidak bisa. saya
>> cari di google bahkan dengan ubuntu 8.10 juga tampaknya masih belum
>> benar.
>
> Distro apapun tidak akan berpengaruh, karena masalah Hardware adanya
> di kernel. Kernel Linux urusan kernel.org :=)) semua driver yang sudah
> disumbangkan ke kernel Linux akan di-integrasikan ke kernel oleh para
> pengembang dan penjaga gawang kernel.
>
> Saya juga heran dengan sis191, sudah demikian lama tidak juga
> terintegrasi ke kernel Linux. Dibawah ini dengan kernel standar hardy
> heron.
>
> Problem kartu jaringan anda terdapat pada ISA BRIDGE identificator
> yang berbeda antara kernel dengan "kenyataan", langkah yang musti anda
> lakukan setelah menginstall linux, cek dengan : lspci -nn
>
> punya saya menghasilkan sbb
>
> 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82566MM Gigabit
> Network Connection [8086:1049] (rev 03)
>
> angka dibelakang [8086:1049] 1049 itu adalah bridge yang menghubungkan
> kartu anda dengan motherboard.
>
> disini anda "terpaksa" membangun modul sendiri atau tepatnya
> memodifikasi modul karena kernel Linux juga sudah mengandung modul sis
> tapi versinya sis190.
>
> cek drivers anda :
> $ ls /lib/modules/2.6.24-21-generic/kernel/drivers/net/
>
> catatan : saya menggunakan kernel 2.6.24-21-generic. silahkan
> sesuaikan dengan kernel anda. Kalo pakai itrepid kernelnya
> 2.6.27-*(+minor version)
>
> selanjutnya donlot kernel source sesuai kernel anda (misal 2.6.24).
> Nah ini masalahnya, bagaimana mau donlot kernel lha konek internet
> tidak bisa :=)), kalo anda punya koneksi lain (wifi, modem atau apapun
> yang bisa konek i-net), atau ke warnet dan donlot kernel source sesuai
> kernel anda :=))
>
> setelah di-uncompress (kernel source biasanya dicompress dengan *.tar.bz2)
>
> $ tar -xjf *versi-kernel-source
>
> edit source kernel
> (folder kernel source versi anda)/drivers/net/sis190.c
>
> cari baris ini
> isa_bridge = pci_find_device(0x1039, 0x0965, isa_bridge);
>
> ganti angka 0x0965 dengan hasil lspci -nn di ethernet anda.
>
> save
>
> lakukan
>
> $ make oldconfig
>
> $ make modules
>
> $ make /drivers/net/sis190.ko
>
> $ sudo insmod /drivers/net/sis190.ko
>
> cek dengan
>
> $ dmesg
>
> kalo gagal posting lagi ke milis ini :=))
>
> salam
> ./sts
>

Pujiono - Ulfa or Kak Seto ?

2008-11-11T22:06:00.001+07:00

Pernikahan antara Pujiono dan Ulfa Luthfia, sepertinya memang merupakan the most talked-about wedding this year :D, mulai dari detik.com sampe pos kota memuat berita ini, termasuk juga jalur - jalur ngobrol dan diskusi informal, mulai dari forum tanya jawab sampai milis - milis.

Banyak yang beranggapan kenapa sih jadi diributin? Toh, ga ada yang salah. Pernikahan itu kan halal, dan banyak yang justru merasa ini diributin karena kebetulan yang melakukan adalah tokoh yang ada kaitannya sama islam. Well, I dont really agree.

Kenapa ini diributin? Bukan karena modelnya seorang laki - laki yang dituakan dan erat kaitannya dengan tokoh Islam dan dipanggil syekh, dan pasangannya adalah anak kecil lugu. Bukan deh, coba kalo yang melakukan itu adalah laki - laki biasa, tetap aja akan jadi diributn.

In my opinion, kenapa ini jadi heboh adlaah karena yang dilakukan oleh Pujiono dan Ulfa adalah sesuatu yang berada di gray area. Pernikahannya itu sendiri halal hanya saja tidak umum dilakukan kepada seorang anak kecil oleh seorang syekh kaya. Banyak yang berdiri di sisi pujiono tapi banyak juga yang berdiri di sisi kak seto.

And me? where do I stand? I stand against nobody. Aku berpikir jika aku berada dalam posisi Ulfa, mungkin saja Ulfa tahu apa yang akan aku dapatkan jika aku menikah, dan mungkin hanya sedikit justru yang akan hilang. Jadi dalam kasus ini, dengan tidak mencoba mengunderestimate ulfa, bisa dibilang ulfa masih dalam posisi yang bisa kekanan bisa kekiri karena most children kan memang mikirnya hanya mikir whats on the now and perhaps thinking of the future without knowing how's it gonna be.

Aku sendiri ngga tau apa motivasi pujiono untuk menikahi ulfa, tapi if i were him, perhaps i will think twice. Pertama, pasti akan jadi rame seperti sekarang dan ini bukan saat yang tepat untuk menimbulkan keributan mengingat kondisi kita sekarang inipun masih belum stabil - stabil banget. Lagipula, kita tinggal di Indonesia yang punya hukum. Hukum UU Pernikahan menyatakan kalo minimal usia menikah untuk wanita adalah 16 tahun, kalo dinikahi sekarang pasti melanggar dong, dan dalam Islam, itupun melanggar hukum, karena Islam memerintahkan umatnya untuk mematuhi pemimpinnya.

So, bottom line, ini adalah gray area kalo menurut pandangan Islam. Kalo hukum di Indonesia udah jelas salah dan kalo pernikahan ini terjadi yang harus dihukum menurutku bukan hanya pujiono dan ulfanya, tapi juga yang menikahkan mereka secara resmi ;)

Funny Quote (Taken form Gmail)

2008-11-08T17:45:00.001+07:00

Quoted from GMAIL :

Funny Quote of the Day - Tallulah Bankhead - "If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."

The most honest quotation ..

Truth to a Victory

2008-10-27T08:30:00.002+07:00

I dont know how to write it in Arabic, this morning I found one great verse in Al-Qur'an, Al-Anfal:8

That He might cause the truth to triumph and bring falsehood to nothing, even the Mujrimoon hate it.
in Bahasa:
Allah akan memenangkan kebenaran dan akan memusnahkan keburukan, dan orang - orang yang kafir kepada Allah benci akan hal itu.

Just like what I read in one of world's quatition, I'm sorry I forgot the name of who's mentioned it, but it goes "It's the nature of the truth to seek lights". Well, it now has its true explanation that He's arranged it to always bring the truth a victory.

ICCA Award 2008

2008-10-25T23:03:00.001+07:00

Testing testing

ZTE MF622, E61i and Wimode on Fedora Core 4

2008-09-03T20:33:00.004+07:00

Hihi mumpung belum ilang :D

etc/udev/rules.d/15-zte-mf622.rules:
ACTION!="add", GOTO="End"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="2000",
SYSFS{idVendor}=="19d2", GOTO="ZeroCD"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0001",
SYSFS{idVendor}=="19d2", GOTO="Modem"
LABEL="ZeroCD"
RUN+="/sbin/rmmod usb_storage"
LABEL="Modem"
RUN+="/sbin/modprobe usbserial vendor=0x19d2 product=0x0001",
MODE="660", GROUP="dialout"
LABEL="End"

[Dialer zte]
Init2 = ATZ
Init3 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Init5 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","indosatm2"
Stupid Mode = 1
Modem Type = Analog Modem
ISDN = 0
Phone = *99#
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
Username = user
Password = password
Dial Command = ATDT
Baud = 460800

[Dialer nokia]
Init2 = ATZ
Init3 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Init5 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","indosatm2"
Stupid Mode = 1
Modem Type = Analog Modem
ISDN = 0
Phone = *99#
Modem = /dev/ttyACM0
Username = user
Password = password
Dial Command = ATDT
Baud = 460800

[Dialer wimode]
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Stupid Mode = 1
Modem Type = USB Modem
ISDN = 0
Phone = #777
Modem = /dev/ttyACM0
Username = wimode
Password = wimode
Dial Command = ATDT
Baud = 460800

Surprisingly, e61i ternyata langsung detected as ttyACM0 :D senangnya, ga perlu crippled sama so many things hehhee

Now the times for a lil explanation:
sysfs is a new filesystem to the 2.6 kernels. It is managed by the kernel, and exports basic information about the devices currently plugged into the system. udev can use this information to create device nodes corresponding to your hardware.
Creating rules is not a workaround if the device attached or plugged is not having any nodes.

Files in /etc/udev/rules.d/ are parsed in lexical order, and in some circumstances, the order in which rules are parsed is important.

Be aware that udev does not support any form of line continuation. Do not insert any line breaks in your rules, as this will cause udev to see your one rule as multiple rules and will not work as expected.

BASIC RULES :

KERNEL - match against the kernel name for the device
SUBSYSTEM - match against the subsystem of the device
DRIVER - match against the name of the driver backing the device
NAME - the name that shall be used for the device node
SYMLINK - a list of symbolic links which act as alternative names for the device node

Chapter Fundamentals of WAN

2008-08-22T13:13:00.001+07:00

OSI Layer 2 for Point to Point WANS

Wan protocols used on point to point serial links provide the basic function of data delivery accross that one link. The 2 most used protocols are HDLC and PPP.

HDLC
The work done by HDLC : determine if the data passed the link without any errors; if errors occured then the frame is discarded, determine the type of packet to let the receiving device know what type of packet it receives -- therefore HDLC defines framing.
The frame contains an address field and protocol type field and also frame check sequence (FCS) in the trailer.
Standard HDLC frame : 1 flag, 1 address, 1 control, data, 4 FCS.
Cisco HDLC frame : 1 flag, 1 address, 1 control, 2 type, data, 4 FCS.
The identification process of frame type was done the same way as with ethernet process.
Later on, IETF created PPP that is identical with Cisco HDLC protocol. So, when connecting Cisco routers to another vendor routers, PPP is the protocol of choice. Nowadays, it's the wan-rich famous point to point link wan protocol.

WAN key terminologies
Synchronous : the imposition of time ordering in a bit stream. Every 2 devices which are communicating will try to use the same speed, but by examining voltage states, they will notice slight variations with the clock and can adjust the speed accordingly.
Clock source : the device to which the other device adjust its speed
CSU/DSU : Channel Service Unit/Data Service Unit, used as an interface on a digital link to a telephone company. Usually a router is attached to it using a short cable.
Four-wire circuit : a line from telco that is consisted of two twisted-pair wires, allowing to send in one direction and full-duplex communication.
T1 : 1.5 Mbps
E1 : 2 Mbps

International Award of CCAS Best Contact Center 2008

2008-08-21T20:46:00.007+07:00

The competition was held in Singapore from August 11 – 29, 2008 and my turn was on August 20, 2008, at 7.00 pm GST+8.

Day 1, August 19, 08 : Depart to Singapore

Few days before, I’ve made some of my preparation going to Singapore, including buying new clothes, and all that I’m going to need there. Luckily, there were 3 public holidays beforehand, giving me enough time to grab everything.

Early in the morning, I got an sms from my sister telling me that there was one bad traffic jam so I need to leave in a hurry. At first, I intended to get exercise but then I cancelled it. It was 9.00 am and my flight was on 11.20 am. Normally, it took approx 1 hr to get to Cengkareng Airport. I took a cab that I usually don’t, it was Koperasi Taksi, the one with green and orange color. I actually wanted to take a better one, at least the one with better look, but then again, don’t want to be late, I decided to wave at it.

I asked him to stop by the nearest ATM to withdraw some money, I have no money left, but hey you know what happened? It was broke, there were 2 ATMs there from different bank, and all are off. Yaa pasrah aja deh, :D leave it to God, hope for the best, paling2 kalopun ga bisa, driver taksinya suruh nunggu bentaran di airport :D

It was fine, until we reached Pintu Tol Cawang. It’s famous to its worst traffic jam and I got it as well. I was pretty confidence that I’m not gonna be late since you know, I usually take this route and yes, I always got stuck here and another one near Kelapa Gading (don’t know the name) but still I made it on time to the airport. And you know what happen, the car suddenly broke down, DAMN!!! Then there was one guy who tried to help, it’s back on again but then broke down again. It happened 3 times. Thanks God I’m not panic, but the driver was :D. I thought I’m going to call Blue Bird to come over, and at the same time calculating money I got left :D.

Alhamdulillahnya, setelah 3 kali break down, no more traffic jam, taksinya lancar jaya, cuma ya gitu deh, tiap kali ketemu macet dikit deg – degan, tiap kali mo bayar tol deg – degan. Sampe di pintu tol Ir. Soedyatmo, taksi drivernya diomelin sama mas mas penjaga tol, disangkanya mo ngabur ngga bayar taksi, padahal he tried to maintain the machine to keep it on hahahhaha, makanya bang, lain kali kalo mo jadi supir taksi, cari yang mobilnya bagusan. Whew, PELAJARAN PERTAMA, JANGAN NAEK TAKSI YANG GA RELIABLE (BACA: BUKAN BLUEBIRD) UNTUK PERJALANAN YANG TIME-SENSITIVE.
Right at the gate, Pak Nanan called me and told me that Bank Mandiri team has just been robbed, all data that was supposedly brought to the competition, all gone. Gosh ….

So I got to the airport, thanks god I got there on time, and I tipped the taxi driver, I knew it wasn’t his fault and he’s tried hard to get me to the airport. Met Pak Nanan there, check in, pay fiscal, going thru immigration, going in to the gate, and met Bu Tiwi and team.

Not a long wait, we board into Garuda aircraft, I’m seated side by side with Pak Nanan. As always, seating side by side with Pak Nanan has never been bored, since he always has something to talk about :D.

We landed in Changi Airport at 14.00 pm, went directly into immigration. Tried my hotspot service from IM2, turned out unusable.

Funny story at the immigration, the officer asked Pak Nanan to smile because he felts suspicious to Pak Nanan :D. He said the picture was different, so he asked Pak Nanan to smile, then he let Pak Nanan go.

Finish with immigration, getting our luggage, then exchange money. Yesterday the rate was 1 USD = 1.3 SGD. I also got myself one prepaid card from M1, SGD 38, and I got SGD 40 credits.

Ternyata penderitaanku tidak berhenti sampai disini. Sudah antri taksi, oh iya, I split with Pak Nanan since we’re going to stay in different hotel, so Pak Nanan left with Mandiri team and I took a cab. I queue for a cab, there were like 3 passengers ahead of me. I heard the officer told the passenger to take cab no.2 and he told me to take cab on lane 6. But those 2 women going into the same direction with me, kinda suspicious for me, so when they’re trying to open the door,
I said, “I’m sorry, I think this is my cab”
They said, “No, this is not”
“But that man over there told me that I got number six, did he tell u that?”
“Yes, he did”
Three of us looked ridiculous and she was trying to get that officer’s attention. But then I said, “That’s alright, I’ll take another cab”.
I stepped aside and confuse, then another officer came and asked me to line up if I wanted to get a taxi. I was trying to explain my experience before, but he kept asking me to line up, there were 2 lanes there. Alright, I’ll move, I don’t want start any conflicts here, for my own good, I want to keep my mood stayed like this until competition’s over. PELAJARAN KEDUA, SALAH KOMUNIKASI, JANGAN BILANG "DID HE TELL YOU THAT?" TAPI BILANG "WHAT LANE NUMBER DOES THAT MAN TELL YOU TO TAKE?"
I went to another lane, and the officer said, “queue”. I explained what I had experienced. Instead of getting me another cab, that guy shouted to his partner “Hey, …”. I thought, it’s gonna take forever. So I decided to line up. Well, at least I told everyone what was wrong. There was one bule there, looking at me in funny look, yeah I know I look ridiculuous.

Arrived at the hotel, hammm, it doesn’t look like what I expected :D, there were no line for the car to park on since it was located right at the front of bus stop. I opened the door and found no reception desk, quite confused, and I saw a signage, saying Hotel Lobby ahead. Oh, there it is.
“Hello, good afternoon, I made my reservation already”
“Miss Yuvi, this is the rate for one night, and this is for two nights”
“Yes” and I saw number 304 shown.
“So, do you want to pay for 2 nights or one night and one night?”
“2 nights upfront, cash OK?”
“Yes, of course”
“Miss Yuvi, your room is 315, this is the key, the lift is over there, in your right hand side”
“Thank you”

So, this is the room, small, that’s the first impression. Floor is not carpeted, but all are OK, for that price, and uhmmm the view was another wall :D.

Hammm, okey, first thing first, get your stuff out, not much though, get some water, there is a 7-11 store located just right in the front of the hotel. Grab something to eat, it’s also near.

Back to hotel, prepare the presentation. Writing everything, brainstorming, while watching HBO, the subtitle is in Chinese, so no good for me. Waktu ini, coklat GuyLian oleh2 Iks waktu dari Sing kemarin yang setia menemaniku ... halah lebai. And when the clock showed 12.00 pm, I decided to go to sleep.

Day 2, August 20, 2008

Wake up in the morning, shalat subuh, mmmm langsung keingetan materi presentasi belum selesai, duh belum latian juga. LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO …. Langsung tancap gas.

Waduh, mau mandi, air panasnya ga nyala, whew, mandi sekenanya deh. Balik lagi ke meja. Alhamdulillah selesai juga :D. Hmmm skrg latian, whew, the hardest part now. Nyoba 3 kali kok susah ya :D oke break sebentar, cek email, chatting chatting dan semua aktifitas yang terkait dengan internet.

Oke, mulai lagi sekarang pake timing. Wah, first attempt, 25 menit. Okeh, kurangin dulu yang ngga penting. Hummm, second attempt, 20 menit. Waduh, masih lebih. Ayo coba lagi. Third attempt, 19 menit, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah tolong, gimana dong. Baru mau nyoba lagi, eh dapet sms dari Pak Nanan.

“Bu, udah ketemu gedungnya?”
“Hehehe, belum Pak, ini baru mau kesana, saya masih sibuk prepare dari kemarin”
Few minutes later …
“Saya sudah didepan gedung”
“Oke pak”
“Di jalan high street, ada gedung yang belum jadi, disebelahnya itu tempatnya”

Waduh, ternyata kaos yang gw bawa kegedean nih :D, humm putar otak, pake baju yang mana ya … pake kerudung kemarin ajah, sama pake kaos yang ini. Yang ini buat besok ajah.

Jalan sambil bawa sebotol aqua, kamera fully packed, bawa materi presentasi sekalian diapalin, bawa google maps, okeh let’s go.

Pas lagi di jalan, karena kebanyakan konsentrasi sama materi presentasi, yah gw kelewat kayaknya :D. Mo buka google maps kok kayaknya pulsa gw abis ya :D. rate inetnya M1, per kilobyte itu 0.5 cent. Oh iya lupa cerita, semalem karena excited banyak pulsa, tlp pipin lah, sama tlp nyoka, wah ternyata dari 34 dollar sisanya tinggal 4 dollar huahuahuahuahuaha. Balik lagi ke perjalanan menuju High Street Center, pas sampe di tikungan Excelsior, gw ikut turn right. Trus sampe di north bridge road, gw bingung, kalo ke kiri ke City Hall, ke kanan ke Funan. Wah, gw kemana ya, akhirnya gw jalan ke City Hall, wah kayaknya bukan hahhaha.

Sms Pak Nanan,
“Pak, ngelewatin Funan ngga?”.
“Iya, sampe Funan. Ibu dimana?”
”Oooo, itu high street dah keliatan”
“Wah, saya malah di Funan, tungguin ya”
“Saya tungguin di perempatan aja Pak”

Eh taunya, Pak Nanan dah di ujung jalan hahahaha.

Masuk ke High Street, naik ke lantai 6. Oooo disini tempatnya, oke deh asal tau aja. Keluar, ternyata didepan udah river walk dan diseberangnya pas ada gedung SingTel. Foto – foto bentar trus balik lagi ke arah Funan. Masuk Funan, ternyata masih pada tutup, baru jam 10 pagi hehhee. Ngeliat di papannya Nokia, wah E71 cuma dijual SGD 388, waaa sama kayak 2.4 juta. Jadi ngiler, langsung SMS pippin nanya contactnya Dimas, temennya yang kerja di Sing.

Trus kita sarapan di McD, abis itu muter2 aja di Funan, keluar, pulang deh.

Balik ke hotel, oh iya, dr City Hall, gw beli air mineral 1 liter, waaaaa, dibawa ke hotel, 1 liter cukup membuat punggungku berantakan.

Sampe hotel, practice lagi. Siiip, dapet 16 menit. Tinggal tuning dikit lagi. Mandi ah, gerah. Abis mandi, kok ngantuk ya, tidur ah, ketiduran setengah jam taunya dah jam 4. Sholat Ashar, practice sekali lagi trus berangkat deh. Secara juga, Pak Nanan dah sms bolak balik, dia kecepatan naek taksi dari Orchard ke High Street Center cuma SGD 6.00. Dikasih SGD 10.00, and the driver said thanks, tapi celakanya diminta balik kembaliannya sama Pak Nanan hahahha. Aku bilang sama dia, ya dia kan ngeliat tampilan Pak, Pak Nanan kan rapi jali kemarin huehuheuhue, jas, tie wah kayak Direktur deh kkkekkeke.

Pas jalan menuju high street, i dont know why gw diliatin banyak orang hahaha, mungkin karena gw pake sendal sedangkan atasan rapih huehuheu, cuek amat. Pas mo nyebrang ke High Street ternyata sebrangannya sudah gw liatin waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, terpaksa deh nyebrang dulu ke Clarke Quay, trus nyebrang lagi ke High Street hiks, gempor kaki.

Sampe sana, pas mau masuk, pake intercon, mm lupa unitnya, pas liat henpon mo cek unit, eh ada cowok lewat, untungnya dia baik dan sepertinya mengenali kalo gw clientnya ehehhehe.
”Dari Indosat ya Mba?”
”Iya Mas” ... btw kok dia tau ya

Sampe ke Touchbase office, tempat lombanya, ternyata Pak Nanan lagi nungguin sama Bu Wulan, supervisor call centenrya BCA.
”Diundur Bu, delayed”
Waduh, sepertinya gw bakalan dapet giliran jam 8.00

Long story short, gw anxious banget menunggu giliran. SMS kemana mana untuk menghilangkan rasa nervous. Ternyata pas giliranku whewwww ... beneran nervous bow.
Me : ”Good evening Ms. Anne-Marie, good evening Ms. Munirah”
Me : “I’m so nervous”
Ms. Munirah : “We’re nice, don’t worry”
Me: “Yeah I know, but still”
Explain all the materials with you know … it clearly shows that I’m being nervous.
But then I said to Sihombing
Me : “Thanks God I don’t need you”
And they’re laugh together.

Sihombing is the translator for us. He looks like Sultan Djorghi, but probably in younger and mmmm can I say simpler to him? :D. He’s quite smart I guess. He studied electrical engineering, so he’s a consultant to it and also a translation consultant. He usually help Indonesian during Microsoft Competition event. Looks cool aye? But unfortunately I don’t keep his name card :D, yeah just like Iks said, no TP TP at all hahhaha

I don’t seem like unable to answer all the questions, but yet they’re also not impressed by my questions even if I’ve tried my best. Well, lets hope for the best.

After the judging process, I was trying to get some souvenirs by going to Bugis Village. It was 8.35 pm. But I don’t think Bugis Village is the right place for me, I went in for just 5 minutes then I’m out of there. Moving around in Bugis Junction also doesn’t help me much since there are only food there.

Oww I forgot, I dropped by Funan to check on the E71, but then you know, it was a contract with M1, one month will cost you SGD 25. So, in the end of the day, it’ll be more costly than the original price. So, I sent an SMS to Dimas, saying that I cancelled my intention to buy E71 due to the contract.

Back to that night, I mean to go to Mustafa, but it’s already late, I’m all alone, so I don’t think it’s good for me to go out alone. Besides, I can still shop at Changi. So I decided to go back to hotel.

So, I dont think there's much left to tell on the 3rd day, besides going back to Changi, get some chocolates for everyone and back to my home sweet home.

So, that's it all.

O ia, lupa mo ngasih tau, tambahan :D, pas beli beli kemarin di Sing, sempet dikasih kembalian dalam bentuk koin. Koinnya gede sih, disitu ada angka 1 nya, jadi gw pikir nilainya cuma 1 cent. Trus ada lagi yang nilainya 10 cent karena ada angka 10nya. Yang ada angka 1nya ada 5 dan gede - gede, jadi heran, kok 1 cent koinannnya lebih gede dari 10 cent ya ... Sengaja sih ga nukerin, bukan untuk disimpen, tapi kemarin baca di counter money changernya UOB, mereka ngga menerima penukaran koin.
Sampe rumah, baru nyadar ternyata yang koin angka 1 itu nilainya 1 dollar sing, hahaha nyesek deh ... pantes Mba Mba penjaga sweet treat di Changi bilang, itu 1 dollar ada, gw bilang, ngga cukup mba :D, maap ya mba :D

Liburan 3 hari dalam rangka menyambut Hari Kemerdekaan RI ke 63

2008-08-20T21:41:00.000+07:00

Hari pertama : ga kemana2, cari baju buat persiapan lomba, dapet deh 1 stel

Hari kedua : niatnya mo nonton lomba 17an di RT, tapi stuck didepan PC, browsing2 20D, jadi ngilerrrrr, ga jadi belajar deh, and ga jadi bikin report juga :D

Hari ketiga : ayo niatttt, belajar, pokoknya timelinenya adalah, persiapan buat lomba dulu sampe hari Rabu, trus belajar buat CCNA, target bulan Oktober udah certified.

Speaking of persiapan lomba:

Persiapan cari hotel deket tempat lomba.

Lombanya di High Street Center, North Bridge Road, deket Bugis Junction juga, jadi bisa sekalian, jalan – jalan hehe. Dapet hotelnya di Victoria Hotel, di Victoria Street, sekitar 15 menit walking. Tadinya dapet di Fragrance Oasis Hotel, di Balestier Road, untungnya bisa dicancel. Secara rate, memang Fragrance Oasis lebih murah, tapi lokasinya di Balestier which in terms of security, kurang aman dibanding Victoria Street.

Udah dapet hotel, sekarang atur jadwal.

Diputuskan as follow, tanggal 19 Agustus sampe hotel kira – kira jam 2, check in, ganti baju and check perimeters to High Street Center, Bugis Junction, Bugis Village and back to hotel, sekalian cari makan malam, tempat buat makan dan 7-11 atau Carrefour terdekat, buat beli air mineral hehehe. Tanggal 20 Agustus, pagi masih sempet jalan – jalan, karena kan lombanya malem, jadi bisa jalan dulu ke Bugis Village sekalian cari titipan – titipan :D ya kalo sempet aja deh, ga maksa, sekalian isi perut. Sore, balik ke hotel, final rehearse, trus cao ke High Street Center, abis lomba kalo memungkinkan ya jalan, kalo ngga ke Mustafa ya mungkin ke Orchard. Tanggal 21, pastinya udah ga bisa ngapa2in :D, jadi udah pasti beres2, and langsung cao ke Changi, soalnya instruksi big boss kudu balik ke kantor dulu hehehe.

Timeline set, sekarang cari apparels. Mukena ilang, jadi kudu cari mukena. Trus beli baju baru, alhamdulillah dapet pas lagi ke Centro liburan hari pertama, cieeeeh. Ngga beli sepatu deh, abis ga ada yang pas, diputuskan untuk menggunakan sepatu yang ada sekarang. Next to buy adalah oat porridge dan honey, this is good to calm my nerve dan helping me concentrate.

Last but not least, of course persiapan membuat 15 menit lomba nanti menjadi impressive. Jurinya syerem2 gituh, Anne-Marie Cupples, Lulu Espino Ng dan Munirah Looi, ketiga – tiganya expertise di dunia per-callcenter-an, dan min of 20 yrs experience; blom – blom dah … fiuuuu. Oh iya, yang ga boleh dilupakan adalah make up :D, secara ngga ada yang ikut, berarti gw harus belajar dulu sama Pipin :D gimana caranya bermake up agar muka gw keliatan pro. Yaaaa kalo diliat fotonya sih, ketiga – tiganya looks very neat, jadi gw ga boleh kalah and I believe appearance does matter to them.

WISH ME LUCK !!!!!!!!!

Misision Impossible : Puasa Puasa Puasa

2008-08-14T08:43:00.008+07:00

Diganti ah judulnya dari Cobaan Puasa menjadi MI:PPP.
Hari Pertama :
1. Bangun jam 4.00 pagi buat sahur
2. Bangun tidur haus, lupa tadi ga minum lagi
3. Jam 7.00 waktu sarapan, laperrrrrrrrrrr
4. Jam 8.00, sampe kantor, harusnya langsung minum, haus lagi ...
5. Jam 10.00, diajak Invent ke Carrefour, bau makanan
6. Jam 11.00, jalan di Carrefour, berusaha konsentrasi untuk menentukan apa yang kudu dibeli, haus
7. Jam 12.00, ngelewatin Pizza Hut, ngiler, lapar
8. Jam 13.00, sampe kantor, aduh, maghrib masih 5 jam lagi, horeee udah setengah jalan
9. Jam 13.20, disamperin temen kantor, ditanyain kerjaan
10. Jam 14.07, nengok keluar, liat Bang Jeni lagi bawa kelapa muda
11. Jam 14.08, belum solat dhuhur ... Sholaaaaaaaaaaat
12. Jam 14.48, bolak balik ngelirik gelas minuman
Untungnya ada kerjaan dari Bos yang cukup menyita konsentrasi, dan thanks God berhasil mencapai maghrib time
13. Jam 17.55, BUKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Hari Kedua :
Ngga bisa puasa, ada perayaan HUT di kantor, banyak makan - makan, ga enak kalo puasa

Hari Ketiga :
Niat puasa, tapi kesiangan, jadi ngga sahur and blum niat puasa. Itu maksudnya niat puasa yang diawal, niatnya di hari sebelumnya, jadi ga valid kalo puasa hari ini. Lagian udah minum juga.

Silly Conversation

2008-08-11T14:13:00.001+07:00

Yuvi : Eh, Maria Kristin Yulianti itu atlit apa sih?
Hendro : Atlit renang
Yuvi : What? Atlit renang? (sambil mikir, sejak kapan Jerman dan Indonesia punya atlit renang -- Yuvi abis baca news kalo Maria Kristin menang over German di Olympics)
MHD : Iya, atlit renang
Yuvi : Oooo (dalam hati: hebat juga ya Indonesia, diam2 punya atlit renang)

Lokasi Interview Best Contact Center di Singapore

2008-08-11T10:44:00.010+07:00

Buat yang mau lomba Best Contact Center of the Year 2008 di Singapore besok, ini dia rute dan lokasi interviewnya.

FYI, lokasi interview ada di OUB Center, tepatnya 1 Raffles Place #58-00 OUB Centre dan ini rutenya dari Orchard Road.

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Dan kalo dari Orchard Road, kita bisa ambil jalan ini:
Walking directions to Lucky Plaza, 304 Orchard Rd, Singapore, Singapore 3.6 km – about 51 mins
OUB Centre 1 Raffles Pl, City, Singapore
1. Head west on Battery Rd toward Bonham St : 30 m
2. Continue on Chulia St : 0.2 km
3. Sharp right at N Canal Rd : 37 m
4. Sharp left to stay on N Canal Rd : 0.4 km
5. Continue on Merchant Rd : 0.3 km
6. Slight right to stay on Merchant Rd : 0.2 km
7. Turn right at Clemenceau Ave : 1.0 km
8. Turn left to stay on Clemenceau Ave : 10 m
9. Turn right to stay on Clemenceau Ave : 71 m
10. Turn left at Penang Rd : 0.1 km
11. Slight right at Buyong Rd (signs for CTE/SLE) : 64 m
12. : Turn left at Orchard Rd : 1.1 km
Lucky Plaza 304 Orchard Rd, Singapore, Singapore

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Atau by car:
Driving directions to Lucky Plaza, 304 Orchard Rd, Singapore, Singapore 4.7 km – about 11 mins
OUB Centre 1 Raffles Pl, City, Singapore
1. Head west on Battery Rd toward Bonham St : 30 m
2. Continue on Chulia St : 0.2 km
3. Slight right at S Canal Rd : 0.4 km
4. Turn right at Eu Tong Sen St : 0.4 km
5. Turn left toward River Valley Rd : 16 m
6. Turn left at River Valley Rd : 2.2 km
7. Turn right at Hoot Kiam Rd : 0.4 km
8. Continue on Paterson Hill : 0.3 km
9. Continue on Paterson Rd : 0.4 km
10. Turn right at Orchard Rd : 0.3 km
Lucky Plaza 304 Orchard Rd, Singapore, Singapore

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Atau bisa juga naek MRT dari Orchard trus turun di Clarke Quay dan jalan kaki dari situ.

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Walking directions to OUB Centre, 1 Raffles Pl, City, Singapore
0.9 km – about 13 mins
Clarke Quay MRT Station
Eu Tong Sen St, Singapore River, Singapore
1. Head southwest on Eu Tong Sen St toward Tew Chew St : 0.2 km
2. Turn left at Merchant Rd : 32 m
3. Continue on N Canal Rd : 0.4 km
4. Sharp right to stay on N Canal Rd : 37 m
5. Sharp left at Chulia St : 0.2 km
6. Continue on Battery Rd : 30 m
OUB Centre 1 Raffles Pl, City, Singapore

Kalopun mau tinggal di deket2 OUB Center, ada beberapa pilihan hotel:
1. Fullerton Hotel, five-star hotels, rated 4 stars with 93 reviews, located only 300 meters from OUB Center
Address : 1 Fullerton Square Singapore, 049178, Singapore Tlp : 6733 8388
Rate standard room sekitar 500an Dollar Sing.
Web : http://www.fullertonhotel.com/

2. Beach Hotel, rated 3.5 stars with 11 reviews, located only 200 meters from OUB Center.
Address : 95 Beach Road Singapore 189699 Tlp : 65-6336-7712
Rate : 140 - 170 Dollar Sing
Web : http://www.beachhotel.com.sg/

3. Riverview Hotel, i've once stayed here, it's a nice hotel. Located approx 100 meters from OUB Center.
Addres : 382 Havelock Road, Singapore 169269 Tel : +65-6732 9922 Fax : +65-6732
Rate : from 400 to 780 Dollar Sing
Web : http://www.riverview.com.sg/

4. Furama City Center Hotel, located 200 meters from OUB Center
Rate : from 400 to 1250 SGD
Web : http://www.furama.com/citycentre/

Private Collection

2008-08-10T16:16:00.002+07:00

Horeee, selesai juga mengupdate my private collection di web gallery.

Setelah dirunut2, ternyata cuma ada beberapa nama disitu, tapi semua orang yang listed disana adalah orang2 yang buat gw BBB, bukan orang biasa, eh itu BOB, mmmm ..... Bukan Brotherhood Biasa, alah, maksa.

One Hell of a Day

2008-08-08T12:25:00.001+07:00

Huaaaaaaaa ....

One hell of a day for me as a group games team. It didnt go as planned, or I'd rather say, lack of planning.

Tadinya mau bikin surprise dengan ga bilang apa misi permainannya, cuma ternyata, bukan itu yang bikin surprise. Excitement comes from small surprises at any detail pada saat pelaksanaan. The most basic rules and howto must be explained clearly (biar ga buang waktu, karena disitu bukan hanya ada peserta, tapi ada innocent bystanders yang ikut meramaikan suasana, jadinya mereka banyakan bengong instead of cheering their teams).

Tadinya, dengan menyatakan "jika ngga ada di peraturan, berarti boleh", sudah akan sangat jelas, tapi ternyata ngga juga. There's always question. Disinilah peran orang yang detail diperlukan. That's why, choose ur team carefully.

Untuk bikin acara seperti ini sukses memang susah, diperlukan orang yang waktunya banyak dan ngga hanya bekerja sesuai instruksi. It's not one man show and it takes team to do that.

Well, however, I'm still appreciating myself. Meskipun banyak flawsnya, tapi at least I know what's lacking and I've tried my best, though it's not best enough for them :)

Excuse me, for charity please .. Is it for real?

2008-08-06T22:37:00.000+07:00

Alhamdulillah, akhirnya sampe juga di tempat kos tercinta setelah menunggu bluebird yang ga dateng2 di carrefour lebak bulus.
Cerita punya cerita, i've just arrived dari carrefour untuk belanja keperluan HUT di kantor. Yes, that's rite beibeh, akyu dipromosikan menjadi managing director group games and triathlon peringatan HUT RI di kantor - halah, lebai.

Well, it wasnt what I want to write here. Jadi, pas tadi lagi nunggu taksi ga dateng dateng, tiba2 ada seorang lady menghampiri. Mmmm, she wasn't that 'lady' actually, tapi yang pasti dia terlihat rapi dan bersih, dan sepertinya terlihat terpelajar.

Curiganya, dia bawa kwitansi gitu, jd gw mulai berpikir, 'hmmm, typically them, the charity girls'.

'Assalamualaikum'
'Waalaikum salam wr' (tapi muka gw blum senyum)
'Maaf mba, bisa saya jelasin? Kita .....' ---> ga begitu menyimak :D, maaf ya mba, dan mataku masih sibuk melihat2 kwitansi yang dia bawa plus mikir, gw pengen nanya deh
'Ikhlas kok mba, dari hati Mba'
'Sekarang kok banyak ya mba yang beginian?'
'Iya, sekarang kan kita tampil'
'Tampil gimana maksudnya mba?'
'Iya, kita yang datang. Kan kita sekarang dah punya sekolah, rumah yatim piatu juga mba'
'Mmmm, iya itu maksudnya, gimana ya, seperti kurang proper gitu'
'Iya mba, bener, saya kan anak jalanan mba, saya aja ngerasa, kenapa harus saya yang datang, bukan mereka yang datang, padahal kan saya udah kasih alamat juga, yah padahal kan sebenernya duitnya ga ilang ya mba. Bahkan ada yang sampe saya salam 3 kali ngga dijawab. Itulah muslim kita mba, takut banget kehilangan duitnya'
'Bukan karena takut duitnya kurang sih mba sebenernya'
'Iya, banyak yang curiga juga, takut disalahgunakan, padahal kan kalo mau nyumbang, urusannya sama Allah'
'Bener sih mba' ---> di sisi lain, kita juga ngga mau dong mba membantu kejahatan kalo emang itu disalahgunakan, cuma ini ngga gw omongin soalnya baru kepikiran sekarang hehheeh
'Sebenernya bukan karena takut duitnya kurang, cuma gimana ya, kayak ga proper gitu'
'Iya mba, saya juga ga pengen gitu, saya itu juga capek mba di jalan, muter sana sini' ---> at this point, I truly understand it's like buah simalakama, u do it, it against ur conscience, u dont do it, it's about 500 people's life at stakes.
'Emang ga dapet dari DepSos ya mba?'
'Dapet si mba, tapi cuma 15 juta, dikit kan?'
'Iya sih, untuk ukuran pemerintah'
'Iya, kita dulu pernah ketemu sama orang DepSos, dia yang jutek gitu, bilang, saya ini orang depsos mba, saya alirin 150 juta untuk tiap yayasan itu. Mana gedungnya?'

Disini, gw mulai berpikir. Dah lama gw ga melakukan ini, viewing it from another point of view. Selama ini, gw sibuk berpikir, mereka itu ngga melakukan apa - apa, bisanya cuma minta. Ngga tau juga bahwa sebenernya ini adalah pilihan terakhir mereka karena kalo ngga dijalanin, bagaimana dengan orang2 yang sudah ada di yayasan itu? Mungkin mereka memang sudah berusaha, tetapi ngga cukup banyak dan dana dari pemerintah juga banyak potongan.

Tapi, tetap saja sih, bottom line, gw ga suka caranya, karena meminta itu kan memang ngga dianjurkan.

Well, at least, I know another point of view and share it here, kali aja ada yang mau ikutan nyumbang, here it goes the address:
Yayasan Nurul Ihsan
Jl. I Gusti Ngurah Rai Buaran I
RT 007/012 Klender Duren Sawit
Jakarta Timur 13470 Tlp 021 8625728
No Rek BRI Unit Malaka: 0997.01.003230.50.0

Using Fedora on a PS3 Box?

2008-08-04T13:06:00.004+07:00

Just read a wiki article, that mentions we can actually use Linux OS on the PS3 box. Yes, PS2 will do too, but it requires quite an effort to do so.

Sony claimed that it would have Fedora 8 natively installed in their PS3 box, but somehow the Fedora wasnt there when PS3 came out.

Peter Seebach shows us on how to use Fedora 8 on the PS3 box, quite common actions, there's just problem with the memory since Fedora 8 will automatically use Gnome and it will consume a lot of memory which will make the PS3 swap memory even before we got a prompt.

Using top and runlevel, we can actually remove the memory-mafia and got the Fed runnning, but without graphic of course since the first thing to be removed was Gnome.

If we need graphic, we can use X, but only running the client on the PS3, while the server run on the remote computer and the PS3 can actually access the remote computer.

One BIG question I got from reading this is, WHY WOULD THEY USE FEDORA IN PS3 BOX? Well, if it's for development purpose, why PS3? Is there something that PS3 has and others dont?

Below are several link we could relate to:

1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PlayStation
2. More than a toy

Best Quote from Cinchah Laurah

2008-08-04T10:53:00.002+07:00

The best quote from Cinta Laura :
***
Reporter:" so Cinta, what do you think about global warming?"
Cinta Laura: "well... I think global warming is cool!”
***

What does cool mean to yo, sweetheart? Is it cool as in ice, or cool as in awesome? And guess what, none of them are correct.

So, this is how u want to be remembered? GET OUUUUUTTTT !!!!!!

Qur'an for mobile

2008-08-03T17:21:00.002+07:00

Selesai juga ngebersihin gallery gw.

Tadi siang buka Alquran di handphone, ternyata copy-nya dah expired, jadilah harus download lagi dari http://www.guidedways.com. Versi terbarunya versi 5. Not much different from the elder version, kalo ngga salah translationnya kali ya jadi lebih banyak. Itupun hanya tersedia untuk versi Pro, harganya sekitar £14.

Yang baru adalah Quran word for word. Ini adalah produk baru dari GuidedWays.com. Jadi, pada software tersebut setiap kata dari Alquran akan diterjemahkan ke Bahasa Inggris. Pada versi basic, yang dicover hanya surat ke 78 sampai dengan 114. Versi Pro, harganya sekitar £20.

Yang berminat untuk download, silakan ke http://www.guidedways.com/mobile/mobile_download.php.

Independence vs Prosperity

2008-08-02T20:38:00.001+07:00

Ananda Krishna menulis di Jakarta Post tentang independence.

I have to agree with him, independence is about freedom, not to be mistakenly related to prosperity.

Banyak orang yang bilang, meskipun kita sudah merdeka, tapi kita ngga menuju ke arah yang lebih baik dalam hal kesejahteraan ekonomi. Those are 2 different thing.

Merdeka berarti kita bebas mengekspresikan pendapat. Sudah banyak kan forum - forum di Mtero TV yang menyajikan forum terbuka antara pemerintahan dengan masyarakat. Di Cina atau Saudi Arabia, kesejahteraan mungkin memang cukup tinggi, tetapi apakah mereka bisa bebas berpendapat seprti kita disini? Mungkin tidak.

Kemerdekaan adalah sesuatu yang harus kita syukuri. Kesejahteraan sosial dan ekonomi? That's something else that we need to figure out together.

Kemerdekaan memang ngga akan pernah selesai. Banyak pekerjaan lain yang menunggu. Just like Krishna said, independence is always unfinished business. If it's finish, then we are dead as a country.

Eksploitasi Perempuan

2008-08-02T19:43:00.001+07:00

Sore ini ada news di Trans TV, acara Reportase Investigasi. Yang diliput mengenai eksploitasi perempuan di daerah Indramayu.

It's very sad, karena ternyata most of them masih berorientasi pada uang (well, it's merely my opinion).

Para orang tua merasa gifted jika mereka memiliki anak perempuan. Why? Karena pada usia 14 tahun, anak - anak perempuan tersebut banyak yang bekerja sebagai penyanyi yang tampil ... Oh my God, it's like melecehkan diri mereka sendiri. Mereka bersedia tampil sedikit terbuka seperti itu dan menari seperti Beyonce asalkan diberi sawreran. Bahkan ada juga orang tua yang memperbolehkan anaknya menjual diri mereka.

Dari salah satu interview, bahkan ada orang tua yang memarahi anaknya yang pulang karena hanya membawa uang sebesar 5 juta dari menjual dirinya.

Ada juga yang memaksa anaknya untuk menikah muda, teenagers, hanya untuk meringankan sebagian dari himpitan ekonomi keluarga orang tuanya?

Don't they ever think of the life aftermath? Why is it always about money? Well, maybe they're not muslim, but what other religion allow us to do that?

Bersyukur aku punya Mama dan Ayah yang ngga pernah berhenti mengingatkan untuk selalu shalat dan ingat Allah. Bersyukur aku mengenal Islam sejak kecil dan hidup di lingkungan Muslim. Bersyukur aku masih, insya allah, Muslim sampai detik ini.

Jika diperhatikan, eksploitasi perempuan ngga hanya ada di Indramayu, ngga hanya ada dalam bentuk prostitusi atau menari gaya Beyonce itu. Sepertinya, perempuan sekarang sudah dikomersilkan. You want to advertise for a product? Get a sexy woman as the model, padahal mungkin ngga ada juga kaitannya sama produk yang dijual. Semuanya merefer pada kecantikan fisik yang didrive sepenuhnya oleh perusahaan kosmetik. You're not beautiful if you're not lean, if your skin isn't fair, if you're not this and that. And all women do that for what? To please everyone who sees them and to get compliments.

It's not wrong to be beautiful or sexy, but it's wrong to use your beauty to get money.

Well, what can I say? Hope Allah protect me always.

System Fraud on Friendster??

2008-08-02T14:52:00.000+07:00

Just a few weeks ago, one of my buddy told me story about how one of her friend's account got hacked.
Frankly speaking, sepertinya itu kebocoran password sajah ... but it did happen to me.
I can guarantee that nobody knows my password. I dont share, I dont write, that's why I lost passwords often (I guess this is the downside of being too secure :D).

Masa tiba - tiba gw berubah jadi laki - laki :D dan tanggal lahir gw berubah jadi 23 Februari 1987. Trus ada foto ngga dikenal lagi disitu ... weks !!!

Run a search on google gave me nothing. Trus kenapa bisa tiba2 profil gw berubah sendiri ya :-?

My Hometown in Google Map

2008-08-02T11:53:00.007+07:00

Horeee, akhirnya aku berhasil bikin peta kampung halaman di Google Map.
View Larger Map

Wah tapi gilaaaa, updatenya jam 10 pagi nih, hari Sabtu, sengaja ngga pake modem HSDPA dari IM2, soalnya kalo pake itu bisa - bisa banyak SQL slammer hahaha, padahal apa ngaruhnya ya ... yang jelas kalo gw pake itu modem, whew, langsung Firewall gw tereak - tereak hiks ....

Happy Birthday, Dad !

2008-08-01T21:25:00.001+07:00

Hari ini Ayah genap berusia 50 tahun. Satu pesen aku Yah, baik - baik sama Mama.
Thanks for everything that you've done for me.
Wish I could repay it.
Love u Dad, love u Mom.
Anything for your happiness.

Problem vs Challenge

2008-08-01T10:37:00.003+07:00

Menurut dictionary.com:

problem :

any question or matter involving doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty;
a question proposed for solution or discussion;
a statement requiring a solution, usually by means of a mathematical operation or geometric construction;
difficult to train or guide;
unruly;
dealing with choices of action difficult either for an individual or for society at large.

challenge :

a call or summons to engage in any contest, as of skill, strength, etc
something that by its nature or character serves as a call to battle, contest, special effort, etc
a call to fight, as a battle, a duel, etc
a demand to explain, justify, etc.
difficulty in a job or undertaking that is stimulating to one engaged in it.
the demand of a sentry for identification or a countersign.
a formal objection to the qualifications of a particular juror, to his or her serving, or to the legality of an entire jury.
the assertion that a vote is invalid or that a voter is not legally qualified.
the process of inducing or assessing physiological or immunological activity by exposing an organism to a specific substance.
the crying of a hound on finding a scent.
to summon to a contest of skill, strength, etc.
to take exception to;
to demand as something due or rightful.
to halt and demand identification or countersign from.
to take formal exception to (a juror or jury).
to have a claim to; invite; arouse; stimulate
to assert that (a vote) is invalid.
to assert that (a voter) is not qualified to vote.
to expose an organism to a specific substance in order to assess its physiological or immunological activity.
to lay claim to.
to make or issue a challenge.
to cry or give tongue on picking up the scent.
donated or given by a private, corporate, or government benefactor on condition that the recipient raise an additional specified amount from the public

Ternyata emang beda ya artinya, mmm, padahal tadinya mau nunjukin, dont see life as a problem, but rather see it as a challenge. Problem makes you whine, but challenge makes you act.

Dont Stop Trying

2008-07-31T23:04:00.011+07:00

There is always the first time. Don’t stop trying because you never know what live will give you. Pokoknya kalo bilang Just Do It, kalo
yang bilang, hajar bleh !!!!

Hasil utak atik Alfresco ECM Community

2008-07-31T19:32:00.009+07:00

Tiga bulan yang lalu mendapat mandat dari The Authority untuk bikin Knowledge Management Portal. Tadinya kepikiran wiki style, tapi ternyata pilihan jatuh pada Alfresco.

Alfresco sendiri sebenernya banyak featurenya, tapi untuk awal, yang dipake mungkin hanya Document Management saja, blum melangkah ke workflow dan lain - lain.

Step 1, download alfresco dari sourceforge.net dan untuk mesin development (cieeh sok sok gede aja servernya :D) pake Windows (mmm Windows XP maksudnya :D).

Step 2, install (ya iyalah ...), ga terlalu menantang, secara next next jadi. Mungkin kalo mesinnya Linux bakalan lebih banyak lagi ceritanya. Oh iya, alfresco kebetulan menggunakan Apache Tomcat (d'oh maksa gw belajar lagi hiks).

Step 3, gw lupa, MySQL-nya dah langsung ikut keinstall ngga ya waktu install alfresconya, tapi yang jelas nih Abang Alfresco pake MySQL. Kalo ngga salah sih bisa milih, jadinya lah gw millih MySQL, yah lumayan lah dah pernah megang, jadi ga pusing - pusing amat.

Step 4, baru deh customize. Kalo bikin Document Management, pastinya how to organize the documents adalah merupakan hal yang pualiiiing penting. Jadi, biar ngga pusing nantinya, mendingan bikin dulu hirarki knowledge yang akan dimasukin.

User & Group

Bikin user dan group di Alfresco gampang banget, tinggal input nama, login, dan password sama pilih home-space, selesai deh.

One thing to remember, kalo kita mengganti homespace suatu user, privilege dari user tersebut di homespace yang sebelumnya ngga akan berubah. Misalnya, user yuvi awalnya kita set homespace di /User/Yuvi, kemudian kita ganti homespacenya menjadi /User/Yuvi1, privilege user yuvi di homespace /User/Yuvi akan tetap sama, jadi user Yuvi masih bisa create space, create rule, pokoknya all roles yang ada di alfresco bisa dibikin deh sama dia. Nah, untuk menghilangkan ini, lakukan action "Take Ownership" dari user admin pada homespace tersebut.

Next adalah bagaimana kita melakukan admin user creation. Secara default, alfresco akan memberikan user admin sebagai administrator. Nah, berbeda dengan aplikasi lain, kalau kita create user dari web interface, kemudian kita berikan ALL roles pada user tersebut, user tadi ngga akan berubah jadi administrator, jadi, user tadi memang bisa melakuakn editing atau upload content ataupun bikin workspace, rule dan workflow, tetapi sebatas pada homespace paling atasnya, biasanya /Company Home adalah home space paling tinggi. Pada alfresco, ada space lain selain /Company Home yang juga terletak pada root space. Untuk bisa create user admin ini, kita perlu sedikit utak atik pada script alfresconya.

1. Go to /alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco
2. Carilah file authority-services-context.xml
3. Under section property name, dibawah adminUsers, tambahkan user yuvi. Ikuti format baris seperti diatasnya.

Disni, user yuvi yang akan menjadi user administrator tambahan.

Macam - macam ROLE yang ada di alfresco:

Administrator : Has all permissions. For backward compatibilty.
Coordinator : The coordinator gets all permissions and permission groups defined.
Collaborator : Combines Editor and Contributor permission groups.
Contributor : Includes the Consumer permission group and adds AddChildren and CheckOut. They will, by default own anything they create and have the ROLE_OWNER authority.
Editor : Include the Consumer permission group and adds Write and CheckOut.
Consumer : Includes Read

Diatas itu aku ambil dari wiki nya alfresco.

RULES

Kita bisa bikin rule juga di alfresco. Rule ini bisa berlaku untuk direktori itu saja atau bisa juga diberlakukan untuk subdirektorinya. Beberapa rule yang pernah aku bikin adalah

1. Convert dari XLS, WORD, PDF to HTML

2. Convert dari PDF langsung ke HTML (in this case, gambarnya ga bakalan keikut)

3. Bikin Versionable, jadi kalao ada versioned document, track recordnya keliatan

Oh iya, satu hal yang belum ketauan kenapanya, pas gw install di mesin Windows, itu semua jenis import2an berjalan dengan baik, tapi pas dijalanin di mesin Linux, weks .... no conversion available, hiks. Adanya ke Text doank. Kalo diliat di wiki, memang secara resmi, ngga ada conversionnya sih, tapi kok kalo di mesin Windows bisa ya :-?, must do another thinking nih.

Lastly, buat yang mau join alfresco, di facebook, click here. You just need to have facebook account to join. It's totally free and we can share with around 1000+ members.