New Ubuntu Animal

Maverick Meerkat is codename for the new Ubuntu 10.10 which I’ve just Installed on my laptop. Here are some useful links I collected while searching information on configuring this OS:

Opera Rapidshare Link Checker and Installation Java applet

• http://my.opera.com/Contrid/blog/2007/02/11/how-to-greasemonkey-in-opera
• http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9467
• http://my.opera.com/ruario/blog/2010/06/18/java-still-not-working

Testing Java in Web Browser

• http://java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml

Install uTorrent under linux (using wine)

• http://www.securenet.net/members/jeanpelo/linux_guide.html

How to Remote Ubuntu Desktop from Windows

• http://tonydwicahyanto.web.id/2010/10/06/how-to-remote-ubuntu-desktop-from-windows/

How to Remote Windows Desktop from Ubuntu

• http://sultonhar.blogspot.com/2009/06/remote-desktop-windows-server-dari.html

About VNC Server

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VNC/Servers

Learning Ubuntu 10.10 (Ubuntu 10.10 Essentials)

• http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Ubuntu_10.x_Essentials

Zekr Installation and JRE Installation

• http://zekr.org/wiki/Installation#Ubuntu.2FDebian
• http://zekr.org/faq.html#linux

Overcome Audio Player Bug in Zekr

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zekr/+bug/604093

Dewa 19 – Satu (One?)

I’ve just surfed on inet and foud this video. Even your most beloved artist perhaps is illuminatist or forced to follow its agenda or just following trend. Hope you are aware that its undergroud organization is  “everywhere”.

Last Exorcism – Kayang

Devil is doing “kayang” move in Last Exorcism.. Hilarious! )

eSign

Adobe released adobe eSign. Now you can sign your document digitally, send you ducument to be sign online, and make sure that your document is not changed.

Check out https://esign.adobe.com! Have fun..

final project’s struggling time

many obstacles I encounter during my final project. aghh.. I’m next to crazy now! I’m using OPNET Modeler to simulate network for calculating QoS in different queuing discipline. Here are the unresolved/resolved obstalces:

• My simulation won’t work because of configuring VLAN. so I must set no-VLAN, crap! [UNRESOLVED]
• contemplating which is good to use: exponential inter-arrival time, or poisson inter-arrival time to generate arriving data in markovian process. Then I made conclusion that exponential distribution is the one..[SOLVED]
• My simulation result (in basic sense) always gives bps much more above than the reasonable result! at the end, I was wrong in determining simulation statistics.. [SOLVED]
• transmission line’s bps limit is always exceeded! what did I do wrong?? this is confusing.. [UNRESOLVED]
• my professor wanted me to change my final project’s TITTLE! I have fixed it in one day, but writed chapter 2 AGAIN in 4 days.. [SOLVED]
• and many more..

despite of my problems, I always believe that God will give me the best if I TRY HARD! Let’s TRY HARD guys and make your time PERFECT!

RUNNING TO THE EDGE OF THE WORLD

This Marilyn Manson’s video is full of explicit content of violence and nudity. It’s like watching (s)aint and heart-shaped glasses. For those who ‘s not appropriate or do not want to see this video, I can describe it because It’s very simple and artless video. Directed by Manson and Nathan “Karma” Cox, the video starts off with Manson singing the song behind a cloth for more than 4 minutes, it’s pretty boring. As the bridge of the song progresses, the disgusting part comes where he can be seen in a hotel room attacking a young blonde girl (playing Evan Rachel Wood) and she starts to bleed heavily and manson is seen writing a suicide note.

Can Our Earth be Homey Again?

This documentary film tells about our Home and why we should  treasure it, earth’s exploitation and the fact that earth can’t keep it up. Because I care, I’m obliged to show you the fact about our extreme exploitation to meet our need and its influence to our earth. Here are some points I collected:

• Captured by more than hundred million ago, million of plants. Oil. Began the era of human.
• In 50 years, in a single lifetime, the worls has been radicaly changed more than by all previous generation in all of our 200,000-year history.
• The last 60 years, the earths’s population has almost tripled.
• Shenzen in China with hundreds of skyscrapers and millions oh inhabitants, was just a small fishing vilage barely 40 years ago. Shanghai, hundreds towers and skyscrapers have been built 20 years ago, more are under construction.
• In America, 3 million farmers are left to feed 2 billon people. But grain is not only used to feed people but also for biofuel and livestock. In LA, the number of cars is almost equal to the number of inhabitants. 80-100 liter water was consumed per person per day in Las Vegas. Las Vegas was built out of the desert. Million lives there. Its inhabitants are the among the biggest water consumers in the world.
• Since 1950, the wolume of international trade has increased 20 times over. 90% of trade goes by sea. 500 million containers are transported every year.
• Dubai has built artificial island in the sea. Dubai has few natural resources,  but with the money of oil it can bring milions of tons of material. Dubai has no farmland but it can import food. Dubai can afford the machine to desalinate seawater and build world’s highest skyscrapers. Dubai has endless sun but it has no solar panel.
• 1 of 10 rivers no longer flow into the sea for several months of the year.
• Level of the Dead Sea goes down by over one meter per year.
• Water shortage could affect nearly 2 billion people before 2025.
• the world’s largest rain forest has been reduced by 45% .
• Barely 20 years ago, Borneo, the 4th largest island in the world was coverd by a vast primary forest. But at the current of the deforestation, it will have massively plummeted within 10 years. One of the explanation was that it was provoked by the decision to produce palm oil. The forest diversity is replaced by a singles species, the oil palm.
• Another example of  forest deforestation is the use of Eucalyptus that it used ti make paper pulp.
• The city of Lagos has 700,000 population in 1960, that will rise to 16 millions by 2025.
• We don’t change our model. Oil might run out, we can still extract  oil from tar sand in canada.
• Process of heating and separating bitument from the sand requires millions of cubic meters of waters.
• In few decades, the carbon that made our atmosphere a furnace, and that nature captured over millions of years, allowing life to develop, will have largely pumped back out.
• The north-west passage that connect America, Europe and Asia via the pole is opening up. The arctic ice cap is melting and lost 40 % of its thickness in 40 years. Around the north pole,  the ice cap has lost 30% of its surface area in 30 years. Greenland’s ice contains 20% of the fresh water of the whole planet. If it melts, salt water will rise by nearly 7 meters. 80% of glacier in mount of Kilimanjao has dissapear.
• 5000 people a day die because of dirty drinking water. 1 billion people have no access to safe drinking water.
• Over 50% of grain traded around the world is used for animal feed or biofuels.
• 40% of arable land has suffered long-term damage.
• Every year, 13 million hectares of forest dissapear.
• 1 mammal in 4, 1 bird in 8, 1 amphibian in 3 are trathened with extinction. Species are dying out at a rhythm 1000 times faster than the natural rate.
• There may be at least 20 million climate refugees by 2050.
• The average temperature of the last 15 years has been the highest ever recorded.

Inspiring Classical Music: Cum Dederit

Having listened to the astonishing soundtrack from movie Home, I am dazed by its simplicity, and beauty. The title is “Cum Dederit dilectis suis somnum”, sung by Sadrine Piau originated performed by Vivaldi, and in Latin.

Here is the lyric:

Cum Dederit dilectis suis somnum
Cum Dederit dilectis suis somnum
ecce haereditas Domini
filii merces
fructus ventris
fructus ventris

Cum Dederit dilectis suis somnum

ecce haereditas Domini filii merces
fructus ventris

fructus ventris
fructus ventris
fructus ventris

for He gives sleep to His loved ones.
Behold, children are a heritage of God.
The fruit of the womb is His reward.

I think the relation of this song with the film is that, God have given many things in this world, including the earth. The earth is a miracle from God, we share the same earth, we breath the same air, we drink the same water, there are may animal and grain, mineral and oil, until we doze and sleep. Nonetheless, in the last 50 years, we have radically change our world, also disrupted its balance. We don’t have time to wait, our children crave for fruit we plant in the humus. so this is the time to conserve our only earth and care for ourselves, biodiversities, and earth itself.

2012?

This film is fantastic! Many Visual Effects you can enjoy from this film. It’s like watching Transformer2, the story is not that good, but you are served by more-than-2-hours visual effects.. Cool..

So, let’s talk about Hollywod film. Hollywood makes such a great film with great actor, sound, effect, and off course with the great cost. They make films so serious that you are interested to watch them and . But, be careful of hollywood film and say Basmallah before watching as there are bunch of propagandas you dont think they are, such as:

• People from every religion pray, but something bad still happen. That implicitly tell you that every religion is a false teaching in order to point your mind to be an atheist or it can direct you to think that every religion is the same, each of them pray to their God, but misfortune still reach them.
• Do not believe in premonition or end-of-the-day type that holllywood make in the film because no one know when and how the end of the day will happen. In addition, end of the day is not just the end of the world, it is the end of UNIVERSE.
• Sometimes in the war film, you may find that Arabians are brutal and not smart. Hollywood wants to make you believe that Islam is underdeveloped religion. So be careful!
• There are some mystical activities such as voodoo, possession. And when God (through religion) fight for them, the demon/intellectual win. In this case, film maker wants to make you think that God is weak, or imperfect, or suprisingly is there God?

I think you can think of more examples of shrewd propagandas in Hollywood film. That’s why you have to be carfeul!

Useful Link from Wireless Net Seminar

just found some interesting web in one of seminar I attended:

http://www.wndw.net – you can find free ebook here about wireless network in developing world.

http://www.opensource.telkomspeedy.com – it’s open source forum for Indonesian community.

have fun..