Gerakan Bawah Tanah - Mr. GBT

firefox 3.6 beta 2 crashing again

2009-11-15T19:53:00.001+07:00

I had problems with Firefox 3.5. Many times it crashed when I tried to tag friends in facebook. (I have more than 4000 friends in the list.)Then, I decided to upgraded to Firefox 3.6 alpha 1 (code name Namoroka). It went fine. Now, it has moved to beta 2 and it crashes again with facebook. It happens frequently. I guess, I am switching to other browsers. Oh well...

Backup Mac: Time Machine or ...

2009-11-14T06:42:00.003+07:00

Let me start by confesing that I rarely backup my Macbook. That said, I occasionally use Time Machine to backup my Macbook to an external disk using USB. This morning it failed because the disk is full. There's only 33.2 GB left on the disk, while my Mac needs 93.1 GB.Last month I bought a 1TB disk. It's a WD Mybook. It came with a nifty backup software. I actually don't use that software. I use

One (book) down, more to go

2009-11-12T15:07:00.002+07:00

I have just finished reading Malcom Gladwell's "Outliers" book. Phew... It's a good book, just like his previous books; "Blink" and "Tipping Point". I should've finished reading it sooner but all the busy work that I've got slowed me down. I am glad it's done. (I hope you don't think that I feel reading is a chore.)Now, the next step is to pick a book from my to-read stack. Apparently, picking

New search engine: duckduckgo.com

2009-11-05T07:44:00.001+07:00

Just found out that there is a new search engine, duckduckgo.com.And what better way to test it than searching your own name. ha ha ha. And the result is ...

Back to School (Work)

2009-09-27T21:58:00.002+07:00

Well, holiday is (officially) over. Tomorrow we're going back to school or work. It feels so short.There are so many things that I wanted to do, but couldn't get it done during the holiday. I wanted to read lots of books, papers, articles, ... I wanted to re-learn coding (computer programming). Sharpening my skills. Alas, time went so fast.I did not regret it though, since I did get some things

Dark Side of Creativity

2009-09-24T22:53:00.004+07:00

I thought creativity is all good. After listening to some TED's presentation, I realized that creativity has a dark side.Once creativity has visited you, you are doomed forever. For the lack of creativity can send you to dark paths. Paths that you didn't think you will thread upon.You just have to have creativity. Gotta have... You life depends on it. I am not joking. You can find the number of (

Yummy ...

2009-09-23T12:31:00.000+07:00

[seafood lamien @ banquet, singapore]

What happened to Formula 1?

2009-09-23T12:22:00.002+07:00

I have not watched Formula 1 closely for a year (or two?) and was surprised to hear that there was a scandal. I was in Singapore and heard it on the news. The incident happened in Singapore last year! Whoa ...So, now, I am searching the internet for more information about this. If I understood correctly, Nelson Piquet was asked to crash his car so that Alonso would win. The thing is, I didn't

Copyrights of old articles

2009-09-19T00:08:00.002+07:00

How long can an article be copyrighted?I was looking for an article of a journal. It is published in 1971. I cannot access (download) the article from the journal's web site. This makes me think, how long does the journal have the "monopoly" of that article?

Can't get getrusage working

2009-09-10T07:04:00.004+07:00

We are trying to measure the amount of resources needed to run our program, written in C. Looking here and there, I found getrusage (2). So, yesterday I tried to write a simple code:#include #include #include int main(){int y[100][100];struct rusage *resource;int x;x = getrusage(0, resource);printf("x = %d\n", x);printf("errno = %d\n", errno);return(0);}The

Presentation Preparation

2009-08-22T23:26:00.002+07:00

I've got (too many) presentation invitations. So, I do quite a bit presentations. Maybe, it is even my main job :)One thing people don't realize is that the amount of effort and time that I have to put preparing for the presentation. Some people think that I can use old presentations and can just wing it. Apparently, each presentation is different. I still need to modify the presentation. Some

Indonesia Independence Day - 17 August

2009-08-16T10:15:00.005+07:00

Tomorrow, 17 August, is our independence day.There are many events in our community to celebrate this. Mostly, they are sports, fun competition (lomba makan kerupuk, panjat pohon pinang, anybody?) and outdoors gathering.That should be great! To bad I don't have photos :(Long live Indonesia.

No picture today

2009-08-09T06:59:00.003+07:00

I have a personal project, in which I plan to take picture(s) from the same spot. The picture looks like this.I enjoy watching the picture, the environment. It is great. Especially, if the weather is great and it shows in the picture. It sets my mood.For the last couple of days, the weather was not great. It was kinda gloomy. So, I didn't take the picture. I didn't want to have gloomy days. This

Hurting

2009-08-05T05:54:00.002+07:00

When you hurt someone, you actually hurt yourself.So, my apology to whoever I hurt.I didn't mean to do it.(I never intentionally want to hurt somebody.)

Backing up personal (junk) files

2009-07-25T12:40:00.002+07:00

I had a quiz the day before yesterday. One of the questions was "what do you if you are bored?" One of the answers was "defrag disks" (or something like that). I didn't realize that this might be true. Yesterday I did defrag my disks :) and right now I am trying to organize (junk?) files.I have so many images (photos) taken with my digital camera and my cellphones. Sometimes to get one good image

Problem with Firefox @ Mac

2009-07-20T10:37:00.005+07:00

I am having a problem with Firefox on Mac OS X (on a Macbook). I was using Firefox 3.0* (forgot the exact version). Then for some reasons, the windows was displayed off the screen.For example, if I press "apple ," there is no configuration window. The screen was just clean. If I press F9 (expose), the screen appeared. So, I know it is there. But, when I tried to get into it the screen went clean

Looking for efficient algorithm to solve x^y mod z

2009-06-30T20:06:00.002+07:00

I am in the middle of coding and suddenly realized that I have to solve (code) x^y mod z, where x, y, and z are large integer numbers. Straight coding, that is by multiplying x by y times before performing mod with z, is inefficient.I know that I am dealing with big integers, but my interest is in the algorithm. I am reading fast exponentiation right now, but just in case any of you know better

American Idol 2009 Finale

2009-05-22T22:29:00.002+07:00

I watch American Idol and enjoying the show. Most of the time. So, I watched the 2009 Finale.I was surprised with the finale. It was excellent. The thing that surprises me is the guests. I could not believe they were able to bring many stars, such as Black Eyed Peas, Cindy Lauper, Keith Urban, Lionel Ritchie, Rod Stewart, Santana, Kiss, and ... Queen! Whoaaa...I love rock music. A long time ago I

Rewiring my brain

2009-05-02T06:35:00.003+07:00

yeah,... it's time to rewire my brain... it needs some refreshing ideas... stuff it with great ideas... some wild ones too... remove sad memories... attach happinescome onhelp merewire my brain[there should be a nifty tunes attached to this? :) ][br, may 2009]

Google and Morse Code

2009-04-28T11:50:00.005+07:00

I've just visited Google.com and got the following page:Ah... It has been a while since I used Morse code.Now, let's give it a try. I put [--. --- --- --. .-.. .] in the search field of Google. The result is ...Your search - --. --- --- --. .-.. . - did not match any documents. How come there's no match? Google should provide the search result in Morse code. Ha ha ha. Any takers out there?-... .

Internetworking Indonesia Journal (Vol.1/No.1) published

2009-04-14T05:40:00.001+07:00

Dear Colleague,The Inaugural Issue (Vol.1/No.1) of the Internetworking Indonesia Journal (IIJ) has just been published. You can get free access to the papers (PDF) at the following location:http://internetworkingindonesia.org/iij-vol1-no1-spring2009.htmlHere is the Table of Contents:The Overhead and Efficiency Analysis on WiMAX's MAC Management Messageby Ardian Ulvan, Vit Andrlik & Robert

Wowed by slideshare

2009-04-13T21:54:00.004+07:00

I was going to create a presentation that I have to do in two days. I've got some ideas but they are still 10% of what I needed. I need inspiration. So, I went to slideshare.net. Boy, ... it was a "bad" decision, I guess.I ended up browsing lots of slides. Just because they are awesome. How could they create great presentations? They are very good in design. Me? I have no idea what "design" is. I

Vote for who?

2009-04-08T22:48:00.003+07:00

Tomorrow is election day. We - Indonesians - will vote for the political party (ies) that will rule Indonesia. Great. But the sad part is that I don't know what or who to vote. Suggestion anybody?Perhaps it doesn't matter anyway?

Free Photos for Presentations?

2009-03-11T07:17:00.003+07:00

I do quite a bit presentations. To make things more interesting, usually I put interesting image or photos in my slides. (I know not to over do with the images and such.) The question iswhere can I get good and free photos for my presentations?I see those presentations at slideshare.net and envy those great images. Aaa...

what a mess (cabling and stuff)

2009-03-09T09:29:00.002+07:00

taken an hour ago at home ...that's not all. the rest? even worse ... ha ha ha