john’s log

Wow!

Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by john.
Categories: fun, jcnet, weblog.

1. Blog ini udah 3 tahun (lebih)! 2005, akhir Januari.
2. Banyak yang komen di posting yang panjang dan ‘tua’ ini, bikin tambah prihatin aja.. udah 2 tahun tapi masih eksis juga
3. Posting terakhirku tentang Esia sudah terlalu basibanget, karena konon Esia di Makassar saat ini koneksi lintas-operatornya malah lebih bagus daripada StarOne/Jagoan
4. WordPress 2.5 udah keluar! dan blog jelek ini masih pakai 2.3.x… Tapi Fantastico De Luxe di Singcat nggak apdet.. malah masih versi 2.2.2
5. Ada yang bisa kasi info GIMANA CARANYA upgrade WordPress yang tadinya pake Fantastico trus diubah jadi WordPress ‘manual’ tanpa Fantastico dan jadi yang TERbARU (v2.5 gitu..)? (jangan bilang ‘instal ulang’ ye!)
6. Posting kali ini kayaknya postingku yang paling ‘ancur’, dari segi tata bahasa, kadar narsisme dan pelanggaran terhadap sepuluh hukum menulis blog yang baik… (ada yang mau buat 10 hukum itu?)
8. Nomer 7 itu sengaja dikosongin, soalnya 7 itu lucky number… ehh 8 juga ding… ah tapi nggak lah, gw gak percaya ama lucky number

PS.  HI OY!

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Esia di Makassar

Posted on January 3rd, 2008 by john.
Categories: General, Makassar, fun.

Kayaknya belum banyak blogger makassar yang mendengungkan ini.. ‘Gak terlalu penting sih..

Dengan kode awal 91xxx… ESIA MASUK MAKASSAR.. tapi masih sux, secara dia hanya bisa nyambung ke sesama esia. Seperti waktu StarOne/Jagoan dulu baru masuk Makassar, hanya bisa sesama Indosat saja.

Anehnya Fren dengan 0888-nya kok nggak nemuin masalah seperti itu ya? Apa karena nomor Fren itu berlaku nasional, seperti nomor GSM, sehingga telkom Makassar mau gak mau ya harus koneksi ke sana, sementara Esia & StarOne pakai nomor lokal Makassar (prefix 0411)?

Artinya, bukan Telkom yg SUX, tapi TELKOM MAKASSAR yg SUX?

ah Monopoli ekonomi memang sux dalam berbagai bentuknya. KPPU mana ya, kok kalo perusahaan asing (singtel_lupa nama perush. gedenya-telkomsel-indosat dsb yg sempat heboh2 itu) dipersoalkan, sementara yang gede kaya gini malah didiamkan ya…

Yang menarik dari Esia adalah caranya menjual nomor perdana. Tinggal nongkrong di salah satu terminalnya, pilih nomor di komputer, catat, ke kasir lalu bayar. Jadi nomor tersebut benar-benar pilihan kita. Bukannya kita diberi daftar nomor-nomor (biasanya paling banyak 10) lalu disuruh pilih salah satunya. Walaupun ada daftar, tapi kita tidak diminta pilih langsung dari daftar itu. Daftar itu hanya jadi acuan saja. Memang masih agak lambat karena nomor pilihan kita baru bisa diambil beberapa jam kemudian, malah saya ambilnya keesokan harinya, tapi cukup menarik karena nomor tersebut jadi lebih personal dan punya arti buat pembelinya. Minimal membuat pilihan menjadi lebih banyak. Nice Touch, secara saya udah borong beberapa nomor yang punya arti buat sekelompok orang di Makassar hehehe.

Eniwei, Congrats buat Esia yang dah masuk ke Makassar.. atau congrats buat Makassar yang udah dimasuki Esia?

catatan: Bukti visual nyusul…

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Announcing the release of Fedora 8 (Werewolf)

Posted on November 9th, 2007 by john.
Categories: FOSS, fun.

(To the tune of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”)

It’s close to midnight and something cool is coming through the “tubes”
It’s looking real tight, a distro for the experts and the n00bs
With Live CDs* so you can try it out before installing
Or DVDs so you can have the packages you choose
No way to lose

‘Cause it’s Fedora, Fedora 8
We’d love to have you join us and together we’ll be great
Using Fedora, Fedora 8
Just click the link and rescue your computer’s future today

Hotplugging speakers, you realize PulseAudio is sweet
You feel the power of kernel 2.6.23
You close your eyes but then you can’t see all the gorgeous artwork
You want online? New NetworkManager helps you explore
And try out BigBoard

‘Cause it’s Fedora, Fedora 8
This is the leading edge of free and open source today
You’ve got Fedora, Fedora 8
A brand-new shiny desktop with the latest, greatest awaits

(BRIDGE)
Now firewalls, you will find, are a ball to configurate
Virtual hosts you can manage the most secure way
(It makes your day)
Now you can authenticate

They’re out to get you, security enhancements stop them cold
You want your codecs? Codeina is the legal way to go
We’ve got the spins — developers, electronics, and gaming
And that’s not all, we wanted to make sure your Java’s free
So we’ve got IcedTea

Inside Fedora, Fedora 8
We promise Number 9 is no more than six months away, world
Fedora, Fedora 8
So get aboard the torrent, share Fedora, score a new Fedora, by next May
‘Cause it’s Fedora, Fedora 8
You get to keep both pieces anytime that something breaks, girl
Fedora, Fedora 8
If only Vincent Price could read this killer filler:

“Werewolf” moves across the land
Router meltdowns close at hand
Sysadmins in search of blood
For those who caused this bandwidth flood
And whosoever took the risk
But failed to make an extra disc
Must face the Bastard Op from Hell
And lose his access to the shell

The best of Linux now is here
To kill the FUD and strike with fear
The hearts of those who steal your rights
And hide their code far from your sight
Closed source takes away what’s yours
But you’ll never shake the horror
Until you taste the freedom and
The power of FEDORA!

[*Note: Some Live images are actually too big for CDs and require DVDs
or USB storage for use. Refer to
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CustomSpins for more information.]

= WANT FEDORA? GET FEDORA! =

To get Fedora, visit:
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora

= WHAT’S NEW? =

To read about all the latest changes, visit:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/

For a summary, visit:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/8/ReleaseSummary

= JOIN US! =

To find ways you can help and participate, visit:
http://fedoraproject.org/join-fedora

*) This mail was brought to you by the Fedora Docs team.

—-

john: HORRAAYYY!!!

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Makassar Solar Halo

Posted on October 29th, 2007 by john.
Categories: Makassar, fun.

My wife called me this morning, about 10.50 AM. I thought she wanted to remind me to pick her up and together go and pick up our son from school, but I was wrong.

“There’s a solar eclipse right now!!!! People here are all outside, watching the sky, using sun-glasses. People are taking pictures. Just go outside and see it for yourself.”

“What? A solar eclipse? It’s impossible, there’s no news about it, and it isn’t dark outside.”

I was near the entrance door of my office, I looked outside, everything seems OK, no sign of supposed-to-be dark solar eclipse situation. But, I step outside, and look up to the sky, there’s something strange allright, there’s some sort of rainbow near the sun. Curious, I step further outside, to the street in front of my office, look up, and while trying to block the sun with my hands, I see a big Halo, surrounding the sun.

No, it wasn’t a solar eclipse this morning that appeared to everyone in Makassar, but it was a Solar Halo. People aren’t familiar with this phenomenon and almost everyone refer to it as an eclipse, they thought that the big round thing was the moon, covering the sun.

Anyway, I took a great picture of it. I tried to take the picture near my house, but there are always electrical cords hanging all around and ruin my picture. So, after picking up my son, we decided to go to an area called Tanjung Bunga, which I know has no electrical cords hanging in the streets, specially along the Metro street. So, I stopped a while, open the car door a bit, and look straight up with my (new) camera.. and here’s the best picture i’ve got:

I took a total of 75 pictures of the halo, and this is the most round and full of the halo. Using ISO 100 and -1 Exposure, this image is still disturbed by my car door at the right-up corner and left-bottom corner. My eyes are still uncomfortable now, specially when I close it

BTW, I also wanted to take pictures of people taking picture of the halo, but I only got one:

So, enjoy the halo as I and Makassar people did this morning

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The New Ones

Posted on October 29th, 2007 by john.
Categories: fun, personal.

A new Sony Ericsson w880i (15/9/07), quite an upgrade from Nokia 6600
A new Canon EOS 400D (26/10/07), a cure for the broken S2IS, an upgrade of class, an upgrade waited since 2006, an upgrade with a lot more costs to come

Screenshots as follows:

both picture are taken just an hour ago.

The Phone was pictured using the 400D, an the Camera (and the great halo behind it) is taken using the w880i.

And coming up next.. the Halo itself.

btw, thank you Daeng Rusle for visiting me

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Quit Complaining About Your Job

Posted on June 28th, 2007 by john.
Categories: fun, internet, work.

Stumbled at:

http://www.sunbelt-software.com/stu/quitcomplainingaboutyourjob.htm

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Entry Lomba Poto

Posted on June 22nd, 2007 by john.
Categories: Makassar, fun, weblog.

Since this is originally an english written blog, and my ‘real’ blog is temporarily STUPID, I’ll just post the entry here, of course with a proper translation of the post in english

Ehm.. tidak seperti teman-teman lain, yang pada pinter2 bercerita untuk entry lomba foto, saya mah tu de poin aja …

FOTO 1 ======================
Tanggal Pemotretan: 17/11/2005
Lokasi Pemotretan:
Obyek = Sunset di Makassar, Pulau Lae-Lae dan Benteng/Fort Rotterdam.
Fotografernya = Crane bangunan gedung baru Kantor Walikotamadya Makassar –> yang ini yang seru nih. Foto ini betul-betul tidak terlupakan, bukan cuma hasilnya yang IMHO cantik, tapi proses sampai bisa dapat fotonya yang unik *padahal ceritanya cuma kaya gini: waktu itu kita lagi pasang antena/bts/subscriber module canopy di kantor walikota … hehehehe*
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FOTO 2 =====================
Tanggal Pemotretan: 04/03/2007
Lokasi Pemotretan: Jl. Somba Opu, Makassar (di event Karnaval Budaya Nusantara 2007)
Ceritanya: Siapa yang nggak ingat Makassar dengan Sultan Hasanuddinnya kalau ketemu ama pria-pria kekar, gondrong dan bertopi merah seperti ini? Padahal Sultan Hasanuddin dari Gowa di’
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