john’s log

another wait is over

Posted on October 26th, 2005 by john.
Categories: fun, personal.

Check this out:
 

Above pictures are taken using a N6600(Nokia 6600)’s camera, in a hurry this morning.

My new Canon PowerShot S2 IS arrived yesterday, It’s just as nice as I expected it would be. This is (one of) my dream come true. I’ve been browsing and hunting for a good camera since I don’t know when, The hunt become more intense in the last year and a half. I have seen many cameras (but not buying one ), but none of them are cheap enough for me to buy hehehe..

So, about a month and a half ago, I receive my BCA(Bank Central Asia) Card bill, and like always there’s a shopping catalog accompanying the bill. To my surprise, this Camera is in that catalog, and here’s the treat: There’s no interest (0%) for 12 months payment plan. I don’t care if the price is not the lowest price on the market, but the 0% and 12 months plan works for me, so I mailed my order to BCA(Bank Central Asia) Marchendising department a few days later. But, out of 3 things I ordered, this camera has a little problem. By e-mail I was told that the camera is out of stock and new stock will arrive in Indonesia at the end of October. Well, there goes my chance. I’ve planned to use this camera on many big occasions during September. For one, there are a lot of events in my Church at that month. Another one, on October 5 there’s a big event that involves a very famous artist in Indonesia, that come to Makassar to join in birthday celebration with my former workplace (Radio Cristy Makassar). The artist was Ari Wibowo (yes, the scream maker ). During his visit in Makassar, I have the chance to pick him up at the airport, take him to the hotel, later on, take him (escort him to be precise) to the birthday event, and later on the next day, take him back to the airport. There’s no screenshot, because there’s no camera! (so, you know why I’m basbang.. I have sometimes violated tao no. 7)

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Haggai Institute

Posted on October 26th, 2005 by john.
Categories: faith, personal.

On October 20-22, I was in Malino, a small town about 70 KM from Makassar. I was there to attend a 3 days seminar of Haggai Institute. It’s an organization with the vision of empowering local leaders to serve God more effectively. At this meeting there were about 30 local participants from Makassar and South Sulawesi Province, all very talented and fruitful ministers of God. They were priests, businessman, worker (like me), medical doctor, and other occupations. They are all local church leaders and workers. The material of the seminar is about leadership, goal setting, integrity and urgency of gospel for the world. At the end of the seminar each of us were asked to write down our vision and mission for our lives and then write down our goals for 2006, in 8 aspects of life. One of the speakers was Christovita Wiloto, a young entrepreneur whose life achievements amaze a lot of the participants. He gave presentation about goal setting, and shows how a good goal setting can change and make life better for one person and his/her environment/family.

This is a great idea and a good community. Rather than sending out (Christian) workers throughout the world, HI vision was to enable and empower local workers to serve God better. A National Seminar will be held in Bali from November 22 till 26. I’ve already registered for this event, It’s quite expensive (from my worker-salary point of view), but I’m expecting more good and wonderful experience there. I myself is not a fully qualified alumni yet (‘alumni’ is a person who have _fully_ finish a series of seminars, like this one in Malino), because I missed out one session, a very critical one also, that is HI vision. I missed it because of my late departure to Malino due to office work and meetings. So, Bali, here I come (and this is also will be my first visit to Bali).

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the wait is over

Posted on October 17th, 2005 by john.
Categories: personal, weblog.

The wait is over,

“http://chendra.wordpress.com/(horray!)”:http://chendra.wordpress.com

not too satisfied…, because john.wordpress.com is already taken
!/images/wpcom.jpg(chendra.wordpress.com)!

Unlike many other “Gajah-ers(the junk machine)”:http://id-gmail.info, who are invited by other users, I got this ivitation directly from “wordpress.com(you can ask for an account here)”:http://wordpress.com. But as I’ve always said, “satu aja bikin pusing, gimana kalau nambah?” or something like that

Another thing, this information came through while I was testing my new Fedora (yes, another Fedora) installation at home, testing the modem actually. My previous attempt to use my Prolink external Modem, had always came to a dead end, a bad and very slow connection. But this time, it’s connected correctly and it’s quite fast. I don’t know if it’s just the “euphoria”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphoria of successfull connection or the wp.com information, but I think my connection now (using FC4(Fedora Core 4)) is faster than using the same connection/ISP(Internet Serivce Provider) in Windows XP.

This is a chance to be more creative, more specific, and demand more writing capabilities from me. Let’s just hope I can use this chance..
And last but not least, I have ONE (for now) invitation, anybody interested? FIFO(first in first out..)

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new theme

Posted on October 16th, 2005 by john.
Categories: fun, personal, weblog.

Okay, let’s try this new theme. More information, see the bottom of every page Got this theme from wordpress’ theme page.

Modified the style.css and sidebar.php a bit. I liked the old composition more. And I added in more information about myself on the Author section.

Good Night

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Update!

Posted on October 15th, 2005 by john.
Categories: FOSS, security.

Salah satu pekerjaan rutin saya adalah..

Updating Windows!
Bulan ini, setidaknya ada 8 Update yang harus di-download oleh pengguna Windows XP Service Pack 2, seperti saya di rumah (dual-boot) dan hampir semua PC di kantor kami. Update ini hampir semua adalah Security Update for Windows XP. Satunya adalah Critical Update for IE for Windows XP SP 2, dan yang terakhir Update untuk Malicious Software Removal Tool, dengan kode KB, KB890830 (sampai hafal, karena tiap bulan pasti ada selama 9 bulan terakhir ini!).

Di Linux, saya juga sering melakukan update, dan jumlah update di linux (Fedora tepatnya) lebih banyak daripada update di Windows. Namun yang membedakan ialah komentar dan jenis updatenya. Di Windows, hampir semua update adalah Update dengan alasan keamanan (Security), yang mana bila tidak di-update, ada resiko untuk terkena virus, worm, spyware, atau sebangsanya. Pasti ada hole ini atau itu, yang memungkinkan tereksekusinya kode berbahaya yang dapat merusak di Windows.

Cukup berbeda dengan update di Linux. Update yang tersedia di Linux tidak melulu bersifat tambalan terhadap kelemahan atau hole software, tetapi lebih kepada update yang benar-benar update , yaitu penambahan fasilitas atau perbaikan fitur dari software tersebut. Lupakan soal worm, virus dan sebangsanya. Jadi update di Linux, benar-benar update, sementara di Windows? Saya lebih suka menyebutnya, Patch, atau Tambalan

Makanya, Pakai Linux!
(susahnya menjadi orang dual-boot )

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hujan pertama

Posted on October 15th, 2005 by john.
Categories: General.

Hari ini turun hujan yang sangat deras di daerah Kumala (kantor saya) dan sekitarnya. Setahu saya, ini adalah hujan pertama dalam musim hujan tahun 2005 ini. Kalau ‘gak ada error lagi ama bumi kita tersayang.

Makassar sudah sangat lama merasakan musim kemarau. Seingat saya sudah lebih dari 6 bulan tidak pernah sekalipun hujan di Makassar. Ah, semoga hujan pertama ini tidak berhenti sampai di sini, semoga berlanjut, tapi jangan sampai banjir dan menjengkelkan .

Semoga juga persediaan Air Tanah bisa bertambah (soalnya di rumah saya dan setahu saya di beberapa kompleks perumahan di Makassar tengah kekurangan air), begitu pula dengan persediaan Air om PDAM(Perusahaan Daerah Air Minum) ..
Semoga lagi, hujan dan musim hujan ini dapat meningkatkan kemampuan PLTA(Pembangkit Listrik Tenaga Air) di Sulawesi Selatan agar lebih banyak menghasilkan listrik, supaya tidak perlu lagi ada pemadaman bergilir seperti yang terjadi beberapa bulan belakangan ini.

Semoga, semoga dan semoga, yang terakhir, semoga tidak ada satupun logika dan tulisan saya yang salah dalam posting kali ini.

Semoga!
(Skrinsut menyusul, gak bawa blutut dongle sih)

Nih Skrinsutnya:
  

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Islam and Chinese

Posted on October 13th, 2005 by john.
Categories: General.

This is a link, check out Hermawan Kartajaya’s BLOG!
and there’s a very good information:
http://hermawan.typepad.com/blog/2005/10/islam_and_chine.html

I’m looking forward to attending this event, if there is one in Makassar. I’m not a real fan of HK, but I admire his work and thoughts.

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