The Blog of Ivan

Sindrom hari kamis di Jakarta

2007-09-06T09:14:00.000+07:00

Pantesan aje hari ini jalanan rame banget. Baru nyadar kalo selain hari Senin, Kamis juga hari rame. How come ah?

Dari detikcom:

Jakarta - Jika Anda memperhatikan baik-baik, maka lalu lintas terpadat di Jakarta jatuh pada tiap Senin dan Kamis. Seperti Kamis (6/9/2007) kemacetan di jam berangkat bekerja telah terlihat sekitar pukul 06.30 WIB.

Pada pukul 07.00 WIB,kemacetan di Buncit-Mampang dari arah Ragunan biasanya baru terjadi di depan Polsek Mampang. Tapi hari Kamis ini, macet sudah terasa sejak di depan gedung Inti Fauzi dan mengular terus hingga perempatan Mampang.

Tidak cuma pengguna jalur reguler yang menjerit. Pengguna Transjakarta pun sama tersiksanya. Penyebabnya, jalur khusus bus (busway) diserobot seribuan kendaraan roda empat dan roda dua.

Sekitar 6 bus tampak berjajar rapi menjelang halte Warung Jati, di sela-sela motor-motor dan mobil pribadi. Seorang polisi yang mengatur putaran di depan gedung Yakyf tidak bisa berbuat banyak mengatur kendaraan yang hendak berputar atau pun kendaraan yang memasuki busway.

Ruwetnya putaran gedung Yakyf (menjelang Polsek Mampang) membuat arus dari Mampang ke Buncit ikut tersendat. Padahal jalur sebaliknya ini biasanya lancar car.

Kepadatan lalu lintas di hari Kamis ini juga terpantau di jalan tol. Infotol PT Jasa Marga menyebutkan, kemacetan terlihat di tol Jatibening, Taman Mini dan Kebon Jeruk-Tomang.

Anda juga menjadi korban sindrom hari Kamis?

Baterai menggunaan air kencing

2007-09-05T22:21:00.000+07:00

Salah satu penyakitnya pake baterai tuh kalo udah abis tapi gak ada tempat buat nge-cas (lagi di mobil, ato lagi di luar dan ga bawa charger/colokan). Tapi kini ada teknologi baru yang memungkinkan batere bisa di-cas ulang menggunakan beberapa macam cairan, termasuk air kencing!

Nama batre ini adalah NoPoPo, ukurannya AA dan AAA jadi cocok banget buat discman atau peralatan elektronik lainnya. Sayangnya batre ini baru dijual di Jepang.

Baca berita selengkapnya di reghardware.co.uk.

Tarif operator seluler makin mantap

2007-09-03T11:00:00.000+07:00

Dengan adanya kebijakan baru dari pemerintah, maka tarif operator seluler bakal turun terus. Hal ini terlihat dari para operator yang terus menggoyang harganya. Bahkan XL setelah menurunkan tariff Bebasnya ke Rp 10/detik (sesama XL), sekarang diturunin lagi jadi Rp 1/detik (tapi setelah 2 menit).

Apalagi sekarang bakal ada operatur baru, Smart Telecom dari grup Sinar Mas. Mereka sih mau main di FWA CDMA. Bakal tambah seru nih perang-perangan harga di CDMA. Moga-moga sih tariff CDMA maupun GSM bakal terus turun khan yang untung kita-kita konsumen. Asal jangan dimurahin tapi kualitas jeblok (umumnya seh geto).

Registrasi domain Indonesia

2007-09-03T09:45:00.000+07:00

Sedihnya registrasi domain di Indonesia. Setelah permasalahan rebutan jadi registrar terselesaikan dengan diambil alihnya registrasi domain .id oleh PANDI, gw pikir semuanya akan menjadi normal dan lancar. Ternyata? Masih sama payahnya dengan waktu 4 tahunan yang lalu ketika dipegang idnic.

Gw maintain satu domain sch.id untuk sekolah gw. Sekarang khan domain .sch.id kudu bayar, jadi gw e-mail wakepsek untuk segera transfer duitnya. Transfer sih udah dari awal bulan Agustus cuma baru dikabarin tanggal 23 kemaren. Yasudah gw langsung e-mail balik ke register.net.id beserta scan dari struk transfer ATM BCA. Ampe sekarang sih ga da balesannya, dan status di control panelnya masih Pending Renew.

Jadi inget sekitar 4 tahun yang lalu ketika gw register domain tersebut. Udah pake form ala kadarnya (download textfile trus edit2), trus balesnya lama. Surat dari kepalah sekolah juga sudah disertakan. Tapi tak kunjung aktif juga setelah beberapa hari.

Berhubung gw waktu itu kerja di gedung yg sama dengan idnic, langsung aja gw meluncur ke kantornya hehehe. Nah gw ketemu sama seorang mas-mas (abis masih muda), dia lagi ngutak-ngatik PC-nya yang pake linux (ga tau linux apaan). Trus dia tanya ada apa, gw bilang aja "mau registrasi domain pak". Trus balik lagi dia ke PC-nya, di restart, ternyata PC-nya dual booting. Dia pilih Windows tercinta, trus kalo gak salah dia buka program spreadsheet. Canggih bener dah nih orang... Dalem hati gw bilang, gw bikinin deh aplikasi registrasi domain web-based beserta backendnya, gratis juga gw mau asal ada copyright nama gw di footernya hehehe.

Ga nunggu lama untuk urusan administrasinya, gw balik deh ke kantor. Setelah beberapa hari domain .sch.id langsung aktif! Sekarang sih udah lumayan lengkap tuh aplikasi registrasi domain di register.net.id. Tapi kayaknya SDM-nya masih sama aja deh. Apa mereka terlalu sibuk urusin domain yang bejibun gak tau juga yah. Cuma menurut gw bener-bener parah sih kalo e-mail dari customer gak di respon dalam waktu 1x24 jam, apalagi ini uda lebih dari 7x24 jam. Capek d...

Memilih Internet Service Provider

2007-09-02T12:32:00.000+07:00

Anda belum punya koneksi internet dan berencana berlangganan? Atau koneksi internet anda benar-benar payah dan punya pikiran untuk berganti ISP (Internet Service Provider)? Jangan sampai salah pilih!

ISP adalah perusahaan yang memberikan sambungan ke internet untuk para individu dan perusahaan. Salah satu bentuknya yaitu terhubung ke ISP lewat line telepon menggunakan komputer dan modem (cara seperti ini sudah mulai ditinggalkan karena kecepatannya tidak memadai). Sang ISP kemudian mengatur lalu lintas data menuju internet.

Memilih sebuah ISP memang susah susah gampang. Sebelumnya anda harus bertanya kepada diri anda terlebih dahulu: "Untuk apa saya menggunakan internet?" Jika anda bisa menjawab pertanyaan ini, maka anda bisa langsung memulai hitung-hitungan kebutuhan anda.

Lalu ada juga pertanyaa-pertanyaan lebih detail:

Seberapa banyak saya menggunakan internet setiap bulannya?
Jam berapa umumnya saya menggunakan internet?
Apakah customer support penting bagi saya?
Berapakah harganya?

Pertanyaan lainnya adalah "Sudah berapa lama ISP yang diincar berjalan?" Pertanyaan ini kelihatannya tidak begitu penting tapi industri ISP di Indonesia cukup cepat turn-overnya. Sejak perkembangan internet mula-mula di Indonesia, saya sudah melihat beberapa ISP yang datang dan pergi. Membuka perusahaan ISP memang membutuhkan pengetahuan komputer yang cukup, pengalaman dan juga peralatan yang memadai. Apalagi untuk mendatangkan bandwidth skala besar ke Indonesia masih relatif mahal, yang membutuhkan modal yang tidak sedikit.

ISP biasanya memberikan banyak jenis layanan.

Dial-up: Koneksi ke ISP menggunakan modem dan jalur telepon. Ini adalah yang paling umum, namun sudah mulai ditinggalkan. Kecepatannya paling tinggi hanya 56kbps. Tarifnya pun tidak bisa dibilang murah. Contoh telkomnet instan yang memberikan tarif Rp. 165/menit, atau Rp. 9900 perjamnya. Saya menggunakan koneksi seperti ini hanya kalau benar-benar "kepepet". Mendingan ke warnet deh.

DSL: Koneksi tipe ini sangat populer. Dengan menggunakan jalur telepon rumah seperti dial-up, tapi dengan kecepatan yang jauh lebih cepat. Anda juga tetap dapat menggunakan telepon seperti biasa berbarengan dengan koneksi internet. Tipe koneksi ini cocok untuk pengguna rumahan yang cukup banyak menggunakan internet dengan tarif sekitar Rp 200.000 - 350.000 per bulannya. Untuk pengguna kantor dan warnet yang tidak terlalu besar juga cocok, dimana tersedia layanan SOHO yang berkisar 1.7 juta hingga 2 juta. Para pemakai kantoran "kelas berat" dapat memilih layanan yang lebih cepat dengan membayar tariff lebih mahal, sekitar 4 sampai 5 juta.

Cable: Jika anda bisa menikmati TV kabel di rumah, anda dapat juga berlangganan internet dengan menumpang jalur TV kabel ini. Harga yang ditawarkan sekitar Rp 350.000 - 500.000 per bulannya untuk personal, dan sekitar 1.5 juta untuk pelanggan SOHO.

Satelit: Layanan ini menggunakan piringan satelit untuk terhubung ke ISP. Harganya cukup mahal tapi cocok bagi mereka yang berada di tempat yang terisolasi, seperti daerah pedalaman yang belum terjangkau layanan internet.

Wireless: Saat ini layanan internet wireless sedang populer di Indonesia. Menggunakan wireless radio cocok bagi mereka yang ingin mendapatkan layanan internet cepat tanpa kerepotan kabel. Biasanya ISP yang menyediakan layanan ini karena mereka dapat menyediakan koneksi internet cukup murah tanpa adanya pihak ketiga seperti DSL dan cable. Anda membutuhkan sebuah wireless radio dan antena yang memadai. Harga untuk koneksi tipe ini sangat bervariasi. Untuk personal umumnya sekitar 200-500 ribu rupiah. Untuk para warnet dan kantor yang membutuhkan jalur lebih lebar, ada berbagai pilihan sesuai kebutuhan.

GPRS/3G: Koneksi tipe ini juga bisa dibilang wireless. Dengan menumpang jalur operator seluler, koneksi tipe ini dapat memberikan layanan internet yang cukup memadai bagi pemakai rumahan dan mereka yang sering bepergian. Dengan bermodalkan laptop dan handphone 3G atau modem 3G, anda bisa mengakses internet dari mana saja, kapapun anda mau. Harga yang ditawarkan untuk layanan GPRS unlimited berkisar 275 hingga 350 ribu rupiah per bulannya. Untuk layanan 3G sangat bervariatif dan umumnya dihitung berdasarkan pemakaian (quota).

T1: Jika anda sangat serius menggunakan internet untuk kantor yang sangat besar, atau ingin memiliki sebuah data center, koneksi tipe ini adalah pilihan anda. Namun harganya juga cukup mahal.

Langkah berikutnya adalah mulai mendapatkan informasi tentang ISP di daerah anda dengan melihat informasinya di website mereka. Jangan ragu untuk bertanya tentang suatu ISP pada orang lain yang sudah menggunakannya, atau di forum-forum. Jika anda mencoba untuk berlangganan ke sebuah ISP dan tidak puas, segera layangkan komplen anda dan bila tidak ada tanggapan yang baik, segera cari ISP lain!

Makan dan makan lagi

2007-08-26T00:53:00.000+07:00

Hari ini gw makan lumayan banyak. Dimulai di pagi hari menyantap seporsi bakmie A Yung plus setengah porsi limpahan dari LiSan. Walhasil perut berasa kembung dan leher rada-rada kering.

Siangnya makan lagi di Ta Wan, nenggak bubur plus chicken kung pao... yummy!!! Trus begitu sore sesampainya di rumah LiSanku ternyata ngga ada lauk. Jadi aku, LiSanku dan cicinya pegi deh ke warung nasi si ngko. Di perjalanan ada banyak kerumunan dan musik berisik banget, ternyata ada pagelaran 17an... capek dhe... Uda gitu pake acara nutup jalan lagi, kasian deh orang-orang yang tinggal disini yang punya mobil.

Sampe di tempat si ngko, ada si ieie ketawa-ketawa bilang nasinya habis, uda masak nasi dari sejam yang lalu tapi lupa nyolok magic jarnya huhuhuhu. Jadilah kita beli lauk doang dan makan di rumah.

Malemnya cicinya si LiSan yang paling gede dateng ama nyokapnya, bawa duren gede-gede banget, harum, manis, lembut, pokoke uwenak banget dah. Trus waktu nonton kung fu hustler ga lama cicinya juga nyuguhin apel di potong-potong kasi garem buah, uh enak juga nih. Trus bonyok & cici-cicinya si LiSan bobo, ehhh baru inget tadi waktu beli buah ke si ngko ada beli pepaya dua potong. Jadilah kita berdua ngemutin pepaya tadi.

Fiuh kenyangnya... Tapi ga lama kemudian, berasa laper lagi! Pas balik ke kos gw langsung embat deh hokaido yang dibeli kemaren. Wah sebelum gw laper lagi dan makan trus makin gede nih perut, mendingan gw molor dulu dah...

Peta Online

2007-08-24T10:50:00.000+07:00

Berhubung saya bekerja di perusahaan pemetaan & GPS, saya tertarik untuk membuat satu website peta Jakarta. Tapi bukan untuk menyaingi Streetdirectory.com, karna konsepnya sangat berbeda.

Saya ingin membuat website peta berbasis komunitas. User bisa mencari suatu tempat di peta dan membaginya dengan orang lain. User juga bisa membuat review dan memberi rate dari suatu restoran, hotel, dan tempat wisata.

Moga-moga sih website ini bisa terlaksana dalam waktu dekat. Sukur-sukur kalau bisa jadi sumber penghasilan, jadi juragan website deh. Aminnn!!!

Shoutbox Forum

2007-08-23T20:20:00.000+07:00

Akhirnya sempet juga pasang shoutbox di forum SMA Marsudirini Bekasi. Tadinya saya pikir bakal repot ngutak-ngatik FUDForum. Tapi dengan adanya yshout saya tinggal rubah sedikit trus edit template FUD dan jadilah shoutbox di halaman depan, halaman forum, dan halaman thread. Saya tidak taruh di halaman posting dan lain-lain karena menurut saya kurang relevan. Sampe saat ini sih baru ada beberapa yang coba chat disitu. Moga-moga bisa bikin forumnya lebih ramai.

Akhirnya nge-blog lagi

2007-08-22T08:30:00.000+07:00

Setelah sekian lama vakum, akhirnya saya memutuskan untuk ngisi blog lagi. Entah narsisnya lagi kumat atau lagi pengen curhat (maklom hampir ga pernah curhat sama orang), saya bertekad untuk mengisi blog paling enggak seminggu sekali. Bisa tiap hari lebih bagus, entah apa yang mau diisi.

Sekarang saya bekerja kembali di Streetdirectory.com. Udah banyak kisah yang terjadi. Nanti saya mo isi deh cerita-cerita di masa depan di blog ini.

Instalasi Apache2+PHP5 menggunakan mod_fcgid

2007-01-26T12:51:00.000+07:00

Selama ini saya sudah cukup puas menggunakan Apache2 dengan metode prefork (apache2-mpm-prefork) digabung dengan modul PHP5 (libapache2-mod-php5). Sampai suatu saat web server saya kedut-kedutan kehabisan resource karena dikeroyok banyak user. Apache dan modul PHP banyak mengkonsumsi memori karena setiap request dihandle oleh satu proses sendiri.

Ketika saya googling, saya menemukan bahwa Apache2 dengan metode worker (apache2-mpm-worker) lebih efisien & hemat resources karena satu proses bisa menangani banyak request (multithreading). Tapi apa daya, ketika saya mencoba menginstall apache2-mpm-worker, si Ubuntu ngomel minta uninstall libapache2-mod-php5. Ternyata modul PHP5 tidak kompatibel, dia maunya cuma sama si apache2-mpm-prefork.

Saya googling lagi, dan ternyata saya harus pakai PHP dalam bentuk CGI. Hiiy saya dulu punya pengalaman buruk menggunakan PHP CGI, banyak error gitu deh. Tapi ternyata jaman sudah berubah, sekarang ada FCGI, yang lebih handal dalam soal menangani aplikasi CGI. Salah satu kelebihan FCGI adalah sudah multi-threading, jadi sekali lagi seperti si apache2-mpm-worker, lebih hemat resource. Lagipula Apache jadi lebih enteng, karena hanya menangani request halaman statis (html, gambar, css dan lain-lain). Semua request PHP ditangani oleh PHP sendiri.

Oke lah kalau begitu kita langsung saja mulai nginstallnya.

Instalasi Apache2 dan mod_fcgid
Pertama-tama kita install dulu Apache2 dan modul FCGI:
$ sudo apt-get install apache2-mpm-worker libapache2-mod-fcgid
Setelah itu kita harus menyalakan modul FCGI terlebih dahulu:
$ sudo a2enmod fcgid

Instalasi PHP5
Setelah itu install paket-paket PHP5. Dibawah ini adalah modul-modul standar, silahkan tentukan sendiri modul-modul yang diinginkan:
$ sudo apt-get install php5-cgi php5-curl php5-gd php5-ldap php5-mysql php5-mysqli php5-sqlite php5-xsl

Konfigurasi Apache
Edit file /etc/apache2/sites-available/default, lalu taruh teks dibawah ini di bagian sesudah “NameVirtualHost” dan sebelum
:
AddHandler fcgid-script .php FCGIWrapper /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5 .php

Kemudian pada masing-masing lainnya, tambahkan opsi ExecCGI pada baris Options.
Contoh:
Options ExecCGI Indexes

Nah kalau sudah selesai semua, tinggal restart apache deh:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload

Silahkan ditest menggunakan phpinfo(). Selamat menikmati Apache+PHP yang lebih mantab!

Cara cepat compile kernel ala Ubuntu

2006-05-03T20:22:00.000+07:00

Salam semuanya! Saya ingin berbagi pengalaman dalam meng-compile kernel di Ubuntu. Ok mungkin sekarang anda memakai kernel bawaan dari Ubuntu, dan sudah cukup puas dengan kinerjanya. Tapi kemudian anda baru saja beli VGA card atau gigabit ethernet card, dimana drivernya baru ada di kernel terbaru. Atau anda mungkin sudah terbiasa compile kernel sendiri, cuma anda ingin kernel yang baru terinstall itu terpasang dengan rapih pada sistem Ubuntu kamu. Nah tanpa banyak basa basi lagi mari langsung aja kita kerjain:

Ok pertama kali anda siapkan dulu paket-paket yang dibutuhkan:

$ apt-get install kernel-package libncurses5-dev build-essential fakeroot

Terus ambil deh kernel linux yang mau di compile. Bisa aja sih ambil dari paketnya Ubuntu, tapi saya lebih suka ambil langsung dari kernel.org :

$ wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.16.13.tar.bz2

Anda bisa saja mengambil dari mirror lokal (kambing & komo), tapi kalau anda adalah orang yang nggak sabaran seperti saya, mending langsung ambil dari www.kernel.org karna kedua mirror tersebut suka rada lama updatenya.

Kemudian extract source kernel tersebut:

$ tar -jxf linux-2.6.16.13.tar.bz2
$ cd linux-2.6.16-13

Ok berhenti dulu sampe disini. Mungkin anda mau pakai konfigurasi kernel yang lama, atau sebelumnya sudah pernah compile kernel dan anda masih punya file konfigurasinya (file yang bernama .config). Anda bisa gunakan konfigurasi itu pada kernel yang baru.

Sebagai contoh anda mau menggunakan konfigurasi dari kernel yang ada di /boot/config-2.6.10-5-386. Tinggal copy saja:

$ cp /boot/config-2.6.10-5-386 ./.config

Setelah itu jalankan perintah berikut untuk menyesuaikan konfigurasi yang lama dengan konfigurasi yang baru, karna di kernel baru biasanya ada tambahan modul-modul baru.

$ make oldconfig

Setelah itu akan ditanya modul-modul yang baru, untuk amannya sih tekan saja enter terus kecuali mau lihatin satu-satu, lumayan panjang bok…

Nah kalau sudah selesai, baru deh kita utak atik konfigurasinya:

$ make menuconfig

Setelah selesai dan konfigurasi yang baru disimpan, mari kita compile kernel yang baru dengan perintah berikut:

$ fakeroot make-kpkg –initrd –bzimage kernel_image

Penjelasan perintah:

fakeroot untuk menjalankan suatu perintah dengan berpura-pura sebagai root, karena perintah make-kpkg harus dijalankan dalam mode super user, tapi bisa kita tipu sama fakeroot he he he
make-kpkg untuk membuat paket kernel dari source kernel linux
–initrd adalah switch untuk membuat file initrd.img
–bzimage adalah switch untuk membuat kernel yang terkompresi dengan bzip2
kernel_image adalah perintah untuk make-kpkg supaya membuat image kernel

Nah sambil nunggu compile kelar, silahkan ngerjain hal-hal lainnya, misalnya masak indomie, nelpon pacar, liat liat profil di friendster, atau apa aja soalnya lumayan lama bok…

Kalau sudah selesai dan compile berhasil, kamu akan menemukan hasil file paket kernel di direktori diatas direktori kerja kamu.

$ cd ..
$ ls -l *.deb
-rw-r–r– 1 ivan ivan 12627902 2006-03-18 04:06 kernel-image-2.6.15_10.00.Custom_i386.deb

Selamat! Anda sudah berhasil meng-compile kernel anda sendiri. Sekarang tinggal menginstallnya:

$ sudo dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.15_10.00.Custom_i386.deb

Kalau sudah selesai, anda bisa langsung mencoba kernel terbaru tersebut dengan me-restart sistem anda. Mudah bukan?

2005-11-20T16:49:00.000+07:00

Malming kemaren gw chatting di IRC... biasa lah lagi capek & bosen coding. Trus ada cewe yg ngajak gw kenalan. Gw pikir boleh juga lah daripada gw bosen abis coding terus. Seperti biasa deh tanya asl ini itu bla bla bla basi deh. Trus abis itu, dia nanya agama gw. Duh koq gw uda males ya klo uda nanya2 begini. Ya udah gw jawab aja. Trus dia bilang agamanya sama ama gw. "Ok." gw bilang. Chatting pun berlanjut sebentar aja, katanya temennya udah dateng dan dia mo pergi. Trus dia minta no hp gw, dan dia kasih no hp nya. Lanjut! Gw langsung sms aja sekedar kasitau dia klo no gw bener.

Kira2 sejam kemudian ada sms masuk, nomornya nggak ada di hp gw. Rupanya tu cewe tadi, katanya dia gak ada pulsa jadi kyknya itu nomor hp temennya. Dia bilang mau beli pulsa dulu nanti. Yasu lah, gw nggak bales karna toh dia gak bisa langsung bales. Mungkin dia nanti abis isi pulsa mo kirim sms ke gw.

Eh dia baru sms besok siangnya. Lumayan panjang juga. Udah deh gw jadi cowok smsan kayak abg aja. Gw lagi males nelpon2 bisnya sinyal disini juga payah bgt. Udah bbrp kali smsan, eh dia ngeluarin pertanyaan "aneh" lagi: suku gw. Males banget nggak sih? Nanyanya gini: "Van kl g blh tau lo org apa? ******* kan?"... geesh... So lame...

HARE GENE masi pentingin bgt suku? Uda tadi nanyain agama segala... Gw gak tau deh motivasi dia chatting beda kali ya ma gw. Gw mah cuma mau cari temen ngobrol aja. Gw gak pernah mo milih2 deh segala agama ato suku apa. Mo orang dari belahan dunia mana juga gw gak peduli, yg penting maw temenan ma gw. Entah knp gw ngga bisa hangout sama org2 yg masih sukuisme. Makanya gw ampe skr paling males nongkrong ama sodara2 ato sama kumpulan orang2 batak. Mungkin ini karna gw lahir & gede di jakarta dan kebiasa dikelilingin orang ber macam2 suku.

Oh iya, gw bales smsnya bilang kalo gw bukan suku yg dia tanya itu. Guess what? Dia sms balik, nanyain apa gw serius & beneran gw bukan suku yg dia tanyain itu. Haiz... dah males banget de. Tapi mood gw masih terlalu bagus hari ini jadi gw masih bisa bales dengan ramah "Hehehe ga penting bgt si pertanyaannya... Gw beneran bukan ******** koq." Gak gw sangka, dia bales lagi nanya gw lahir dimana, trus dia blg uda mo pergi, dan dia bilang "Next time lanjut lg ya". Yalah... gw bales aja singkat jawabannya. Mungkin ntar malem gw sms dia. Mungkin...

Da ah mo lanjut coding lagi...

2005-11-19T06:16:00.000+07:00

Haiz quite long ah since I wrote my last post. I've been really busy on my project I dont even have the time to go back my house. Phew I really miss my mom's cooking. The food on apartment really sucks yet so expensive. Even tho now we have cathering, some time at night I suffer of hunger! Back in the times when I was in kost-kostan, I can always go over the street and order some roti panggang and iced chocolate milk! Oh I miss the times when Pipi and I go to this Roti Panggang place at 2.00 am in the morning...

By the way, last night... I mean, like, 2 am in the morning, when I was busy setting up my server, a friend of mine on IRC asked me if I available all the the on IRC. I said yeah, then I asked why. He said that he wants to entrust his channel to me, that he only trust me. I wonder where do he want to go but he said nothing. After we chat around he then confess that he want to commit suicide. It came to my mind that this got to do with the case of her girlfriend getting pregnant, and he confirmed it. Her girlfriend was OD, and he want to die the same way...

I just dont understand... you are only live once. Your life is very prescious. We humans DO NOT have the luxury to be reborn. If you die, you just plain dead. If you want to die just to escape your suffer, you are really such a loser. Everybody make mistakes. We get really sad of making those mistakes. But dont get drowned on your sadness. Get up and put up all the pieces. Dont get fall twice. We might heard this thing before and I wont tired to tell this over and over to these kind of people.

This friend of mine, he said he's really bored of his life. At night he goes to the discos, getting drugs, go home in the morning, and then sleeps all day. It goes and on and on. I said what kind of life is that. Go get other activities. Go get some work (he doesnt go to college anymore). Leave your stupid, unsupportive, asshole clubbing friends! If you find your surrounding friends making you getting low or negative, leave'em and find another one!

Wah lau... I just hope he listens for what I said. At least he continues his life and may God help him!

I just want to tell this one more time. Dude, your life is very precious. You can only have one lifetime. Do not waste it. Whatever mistakes you have made, suicide is not the solution. As long as you live, you have the chance to make it up again. If your surroundings make you down, go find "another surroundings". Find positive ones! I've tried that and it really works. Good luck!

2005-10-10T01:22:00.000+07:00

I’ve just downloaded a new file sharing program called Ares Galaxy. I came to it when I see it appear on SourceForge’s Top Downloads. I really like it because it’s lightweight. It doesn’t have those bells & whistles like in Shareaza or Kazaa, but it doesn’t consume a lot of memory, and it’s fast! I tried to find a rare song and I got it downloaded.

2005-10-09T18:56:00.000+07:00

Dang! I am a confirmed geek by BBC! LOL! You should do the survey too.

2005-10-03T21:16:00.000+07:00

Gila gw bete banget! Angkot… eh kamsud gw mikrolet pada mogok beroperasi… gw jadi jalan kaki dah dari batusari ke kos. Whua udah lama gw gak jalan jauh gene…

2005-10-01T22:25:00.000+07:00

My cat is having her babies. There are five kittens. I helped the birth of the last kitten. I named her Lili. I give my brother and sister to give names to the other kittens. Haiz… they are so cute!!!

2005-09-30T22:07:00.000+07:00

NuSphere PHPEd 4.0 is out. I’ve downloaded the demo version. It got some cool stuff such as:

SFTP support… finally…
Oracle and MSSQL databases, even tho I wont need it for the time being
Enhanced Code Insight including Code Completion. I really enjoy this feature.
Project-wide code explorer. Very useful when you got API on many files

Well I think it’s more stable than the previous one. But it still lack one thing I greatly needed: Subversion support! It still only support CVS. And the code-folding feature like in Zend Studio 5 would be very nice.

Zend Studio 5 does these things better than NuSphere PHPEd. But the frickin’ java-based application is driving me nuts. It makes my Pentium 4 PC looks like an old 80386!!!

Speaking of Java, a few days ago when I was talking to my friend about his Java assignment, I found this anti-java site. The front page contains a big forbidden mark with a text “Java” in it. Suddenly I feel a deep strong primal urge to put the link on my Yahoo Messenger status since many of my java-geek friends are on YM.

I still cant understand why some Java programmer is very cocky about their language. It’s like their god. They worship it. They embrace it. And they say all other languages are lame.

Now name me a website that contains a java applet that works fast, stable, and do the job flawlessly! There are none! From what I see, Java is not better than a language designed for a simple applet on your homepage. A language designed just for a tic-tac-toe game!!!

And what’ss making me becoming the fanclub of anti-java, their apps consumes a lot of resources. The VM becomes a memory hog, and if your computer is not fast enough, it will make your head burns you feel want to blow your computer.

2005-08-20T22:58:00.000+07:00

I spent my Saturday night with a friend at McDonald's. She just broke up with her boyfriend after two years of relationship. She was very sad and disappointed. She said that she’s having trauma of getting relationship.

Well, this is not the first time I see people on such situation. I myself have been there, or maybe still…

I’m kind a forgot how it feels like to be so close to a person, and then when she walk out of my life, it hurts so bad. Sometimes I want to have that feeling again, but many times I feel that it’s better this way. Even though, sometime I feel there’s something is missing, like there’s a gap deep inside, needed to fill in. But each day I only find that feeling fading away.

I don’t know lah, I don’t care. I always think that someone is there for me, waiting for me to pick her up. That day will come, but I don’t think it will going to come soon. Meanwhile, I want to be prepared, to be a better person, and, of course, a richer guy :).

Darn, thinking about this whole thing making me hungry (again)…

2005-08-18T23:04:00.000+07:00

It was about 11:30 and I’m excited working at my computer and suddenly *puff* … power failure!!! I thought it’s only in my office building, but when the power turned on again (with gensets, of course), I read on detik that it happens on almost every place in Jakarta. It was really sucks, the air conditioner doesn’t working because it was on genset, so it was very hot in the office.

I was a bit worried that this power failure would happened for a long time. I was beginning to imagine, I have to spent the whole night without electricity... yay... Luckily, when I called my mom she said that the power went off only for about two hours. Thank God!

2005-08-13T00:25:00.000+07:00

This is the last day of Zainal my team leader. I found it quite sad to not have him around. He is my mentor, manager, and best friend. He has many great skills, and bright ideas. He thinks more advanced than anyone in our office. Too bad my boss doesn't do anything to keep him. I cannot think what will happen with our e-commerce site.

Anyway, it was 6 pm and raining therefore I cannot go home. So I moved all Zainal's data from his computer to a safe place, and then cloning my harddrive to his, since I will be using his computer now. I do not want to reinstall everything from nothing, and my current desktop is quite comfy. Btw it is a 80GB so I'm planning to install Linux there.

Ah I'm really tired... tomorrow I have to go to Marsoed. Better sleep now.

2005-08-10T16:10:00.000+07:00

From PHP Internal List, there has been a discussion about the next major release: PHP 6. The biggest changes will be made are Unicode and Namespaces. I just hope that it will come soon since namespace will be very great to be in PHP.

2005-07-20T23:25:00.000+07:00

Woohoo!!! My internet connection is getting stable & fast again. Thanks to this antenna, i can get a 16KB-20KBytes per second download. Once gain, I can have my Azureus downloading again!!!

Actually I am kind of surprise with the speed since I only gain 1 bar with my Nokia 6225, which totally I get 3 bars. I was hoping to get at least 5 bars, but now 3 bars is all I need to get the speed baby! Oh I'm really so happy. You see, as a geek, your internet connection is really really important hehe.

Anyways, today I work until 9.00pm in the office since my boss is in the town. He orders pizza like usual. I remember my coworker ask me, until when we will stay at the office. I said, "whenever he's tired" lol. Well I can enjoy working until late, but since my house is very far away at the other side of the galaxy, I really don't wanna go home after 9.00pm cause it's really hard to get a bus. Getting taxi is quite pricy. I remember going with taxi from Semanggi, costs me about Rp 45.000. Thats quite a money for me u noe.

Hmm I miss everyone in "kos2an binus", specially Pipi. I wonder when will I go back there again. It looks like I'm going to stuck in Bekasi for at least 3 months again. I can't really complain since this is the best for everyone right now.

2005-07-17T10:41:00.000+07:00

Yeah baby! I spent this Saturday nite coding for my project codenamed Tonic hehe. It was named after my favourite Irish band. I guess if Therry knows she will be more excited calling me a nerd or geek lol. I'm so excited doing it that I build it from scratch, dumping the old codes that IMO sucks a lot.

Anyway, my portable harddrive crashed because of the power adapter's broken. Oh well, there goes my Stargate Atlantis season 1 collection. Luckily I have moved all the Battlestar Galactica to the server at my office. Darn, it is the second harddisk I made crash this year. I can't think to buy a new one since I will just buy a DVD writers for backup all my data and movie collections.

My Mom just told me stories about Lombok island. She said that hotels rate in there is twice as in Bali. No wonder Therry wants to run a hotel in Lombok. And I'm starting to thinking the same too. I really want to leave this city. It's almost every day, I'm imagining (a.k.a "bengong" lol), myself wake up in the morning, jogging at the beach. And then ending my day sitting by the beach, watching sunset, seeing cute chicks, and having myself some cold beers. Mmmmm... No more traffic jams, rude peoples, and all pathetic things in this city that makes me crazy.

Hah! Gotta back to my codes.

2005-07-12T15:48:00.000+07:00

I read a blog about a girl who is dating a developer guy. It’s quite funny since most of them are true lol. If I’m having a girlfriend I’ll definitely ask her to see this hehehe.

Home sweet home!

2005-07-08T23:47:00.000+07:00

It's been a month since I moved to my new house ah. At first I thought that I wont be feel homy here, but then I kinda like it. Even tho it's still messy everywhere, the room at the front is not finished yet, and the kitchen is still quite messy.

Anyway it's kinda fun to manage your own house. Yeah... my very own house. It's small, but I love it! And I love the feelings when doing plans for my house. I want to have a small garden with flowers, decorates the walls with paintings, having a small & cute wash-stand, make up the toilet, minibar, and the list go on...

Oh, and also I want to make the floor with black & white tiles, just like a chessboard muakakaka I think it's goin to be really cool! Whoa I really have a lot of plan, but it's not goin to happen soon since I still have to focus my expenses on more important things.

I also need to buy a new microwave oven, the old crusty one is unrepairable. I've seen some of them at Metropolitan Mall. It's quite cheap tho, about Rp900k-1200k for branded ones, but it consumes a lot amount of electricity. I saw a small one - I forgot the brand - that requires 1100W. Since my new home is still at 1300W, I will have to turn off all the stuff in my house! What happens if I wake up in a middle of the night and I'm starving? Ooh I think I have to raise the electricity.

Anyhow, I get bored easily lately. Perhaps it because I spent a lot of time on my way to office and home. Sometimes I miss the times when I still renting a room at Binus. I can work in the office until 9.00 without worrying about transportation. I'm thinking to buy a motorcycle (again)... Mom offer to use her car, but I dont really feel to ride a car in this messy town.

Hoaahmmm it's late oredi ah... I think I want to finish up my 3rd season of Smallville...

2005-05-26T23:51:00.000+07:00

I hate Jakarta! Horrible traffic, violent people, corrupt cops, criminality, you name it! I really really hate this stupid city.

If I can choose, I'd rather stay in Kuta, or at least Denpasar... It feels so peaceful there. Pedestrian-friendly roads, nice people, great beach, and from what I've heard from mom, there are many business opportunity. No wonder mom really wants to move there.

Shiny Sunday

2005-05-22T23:06:00.000+07:00

Whoa... it's been a while since my writing on this blog. My e-commerce project is taking me a lot. Sometimes I code until 4.00 in the morning. The result is obvious: I get sleepy, dizzy, and a bit grumpy in the office. It's like having drunk with beers.

Talk about beers! Couple of weeks ago, after meeting in Alila, me and Iyus go to some bar at Jalan Jaksa. Well it was my first time to go to the "real" bar. It was just like in the movies. Full of whitemen drinking beers, speaking nonsense loudly, having this almot-fighting conversation... phew... But I enjoy the beers (I got drunk with maybe 4 or 5 bottle of beers). The bar girls was nice, they make me laugh a lot, or perhaps because I was drunk hohoho. I'm planning to go there again. I'm just hoping my project will finish soon so I can take care my other abandoned projects.

Ah... my friend Lexy just come, bring me a portion of 'bakmie lily'... yum...

2005-04-12T13:24:00.000+07:00

There's a little nudges in office. This stupid person wants the CD-RW drive, instead asking me for it, my teammate do it. What the...?

Heck! Are you trying to avoid me? Why don't you go talk straight to me huh? You coward or something? Oh man... where did he get his manner? Now I really don't like this guy. Now I get a big reason for that, other than he think he knows everything.

*phew* I don't care lah. As long as he don't stand in my work, I won't give a damn about every thing he do.

2005-04-11T23:25:00.000+07:00

Another nite alone. She's not coming. SMS her twice but haven't receive any delivery reports yet. I bought her the thumbdrive, so I want to give her today. I don't think tomorrow I'll be able to meet with her, since my boss is comin' to town. Geesh... it's gonna be some busy days...

*yawn...* Dang! It's 23:30 and I'm already sleepy! Well I've only watching Smallville all night. At first I quite enjoy the story. But after some episodes I'm getting bored. Oh well I think I'm gonna finish my Battlestar Galacticas.

Fools like me

2005-03-31T11:57:00.000+07:00

Fools Like Me by Lisa Loeb

Everybody go
The party's over
I want to be alone in my head
In my bed tonight
You never show

You must really love her
You think I don't know
But I do, yeah it's true
I think over is over

I'm right back where I started
(when it comes to wanting you)
I can't have what I wanted

But I did, I can
I was, I am
Only human, living, dying
Just like any fool who ever breathed
If love is blind
If love's a drug
It always is
It always was and
Love was surely made for fools like me

I know where I'm going
I'm tripping I'm sliding around
That's ok
At least I'm excited
It wasn't how I planned it
(wasn't how I planned it
Feet are where I landed
At least I understand it now)
My feet are where I landed
(feet are staying on the ground)
[Chorus]

Fools like me
Fools like me

I did, I can
I was, I am
Only human, living, dying
Just like any fool who ever breathed

Maybe it's the sanest thing
Or just the sweetest kind of dream
But love was surely made for fools
(Love was surely made for fools)
Love was surely made for fools
(Love was surely made for fools)
Love was surely made for fools like me

2005-03-31T00:21:00.000+07:00

Darn... I'm so sleepy... Last night me and my buddies playing bridge until 3am. It was fun, they want to continue after having dinner... wait... breakfast? Whatever... Anyhow, dunno they continue playin' or not, I go to bed lah. I really like to continue to play but I still have many things to do tomorr...no, in the morning.

Well, I woke up in the morning with this dizzy feeling. Before I go out, Denny called. He said that he's sick so I can't go to office with him. Geesh! I have to go on this public transportation, the big red car called 'Metromini'... The worst is yet to come: the BatuSari street is totally jammed! While it should only took about 5 minutes, I spent almost 40 minutes on that car. Fiuh...

Gempa lagi???!!!

2005-03-29T12:34:00.000+07:00

Ade gw baru aja nelpon! Katanya gempa lagi! Duh duh duhhhh... Tapi katanya gak sekeras yang semalem. Cuma orang2 udah pada panik, pada berhamburan keluar katanya. Duh moga2 ngga ada pake tsunami segala deh.

Btw gw abis ngobrol2 ama temen gw, dia nanya kenapa gempanya selalu selisih sehari ama hari raya kita yach (natal & paskah)? Wah ada benernya juga... Wonder why...

Wadow

2005-03-29T11:24:00.000+07:00

Gempa lagi di Sumatera Utara!!! Gile gw langsung kelimpungan! (FYI: ade gw jadi perawat sukarelawan, tugas di kota Meulaboh) Telpon ke HP ade gw, gak bisa masuk... mailbox mulu! Telpon ke rumah juga gak ada yg ngangkat!!! Hua... jantung gw dag dig dug duer dah. Yg gw denger sih gak ada tsunami. Tapi khan serem juga, ade gw gitu loch...

Tapi tadi dah telpon lagi ke rumah, trus diangkat nyokap. Katanya jam tengah dua abis gempa itu ade gw nelpon dan katanya bae2 aja. Trus pagi juga ditelpon lagi. Fiuh lega banget deh... Thank God!!!

Sate Padang

2005-03-28T19:46:00.000+07:00

Tadi malem diajak Pipi ke sate Padang yg di Srengseng. Mmm yummy loh. Gila deh kita ampe abisin 45 tusuk sate! Si Pipi girang gitu liat gw demen tu sate, ampe ketawa2 gitu. Cuma bt pas pulangnya, ujan gitu. Dia juga ragu2 gitu, mo maen ke tempat gue ato kagak. Pas uda mo deket rumah gw tiba2 dia mo langsung pulang. Ya uda gw anterin deh ke kosnya sambil ujan2an. Pulangnya gw pinjem payungnya, duh warna payungnya tuh ya... jreng abis dah.

Anyway, ampe kos uda jam 10an ya kynya, trus dia nelpon... ampe jam tengah 2 gitu deh. Tu anak lagi hepi bgt kynya. Eh berapa kali pas nelpon ngedrop. Pas dia nelpon lagi suaranya gak ada. Gw iseng teken tombol2, eh gak ada suara tonenya. Gw restart deh hp, eh bisa lagi. Kesimpulan: hp gw mulai error nih. Duh males banget... blon juga setengah taun ni hp, masa dah mulai rusak... Gw pengen banget beli Nokia 6255. Gw skr jadi demen hp clamshell nih sejak liat samsung si pipi punya. Kapan yach bisa beli...

More uneg2

2005-03-26T19:10:00.000+07:00

I was just cleaning up my room, have the floor cleaned too lorrr :D. I was planning to take out my bed, but it's quite heavy. So I think I'll do it tomorrow morning with my friends lah. Doh I really hate cleaning up, it drains lots of energy. So I take a rest, sitting around, have my computer playing my favorite music... and then suddenly my cellphone screams! It's Zainal! I picked up the phone, and then just as I expected: there's an error in website. The worst is yet to come: he said that user cannot login! Arrgghhhh!

I put up some perfume because I know I must be smell very bad, then I took a t-shirt. I burn some application that might be needed in warnet. Yeah, I haven't pay my cell phone bills so I cant get on the Internet. I have to go to this freaky, gloomy place called 'warnet'! This place brings me lots of bad memories.

First I go to this place called 'Multiplus'. The place quite comfy, but there are no CD-ROM Drive! And when I open more than 4 window of Internet Explorer, the PC begins to choke or I used to call it "kedut-kedutan".

Oh, when I open friendster, I get into someone else's account. She must have been forgot or maybe don't know to logout her account.

Well, after about 15 minutes try to figure out the problem, I give up. The PC is just too slow! And I really need PuTTy. So I finish my session, and I moved to the another warnet across the street called 'I-point'. Well, they don't have any CD-ROM drive installed on each client either, but the operator ask the cd and share it across the network. The access is quite fast! The air conditioner is cold. Darn! Why I sound like I'm reviewing this place?

Zainal said that he has to go to a marriage, he asked me to look into the problem. So I begin to crawling around in my console. Checking here, checking there... there are no problems, except that the session is won't recorded in database. I suspect that there's a database query error or something, but there are none. I remember that I was just register an account when I was in Multiplus. When I check it in Slave Servers, it wasn't there! And then I make sure by writing something to the Master Server, then I check again in Slave Server, it doesn't replicate!!! What the @#( $*&&#$@))!@!@#!!!^>@#<@#@#! (doesn't worth to put in here lah)...!!!!! So I concluded that the replication doesnt work! I decided to wait for Zainal to come back.

After a while, and the Bills has grown to Rp. 6000, I cant stand it anymore! I'm so hungry. I leave a message at Zainal's Yahoo Id. Hmmm what will I eat huh?

Bosan!

2005-03-24T13:38:00.000+07:00

Today is so boring! I got no money, and I havent pay my cellphone bills so I cant make phone call, nor sms, nor internet! At this time, 7 days to pay day feels like forever...

We had lunch at "Sup Iga Sang Timur" again. I don't see anything special in it, but why does everybody seems to like it so much? The soup is a bit pricy, and I really hate it when it comes to pay. There's only one person handling payment and she's not handy. Ah, next time I'll go to Binus or TA folks lah.

Well, time to get back to work...

2005-03-23T23:07:00.000+07:00

Darn! Today is so messy! The admin at my office is take a leave today, so I take the responsibility to manage all uploads to the server. It's not a very enjoyable task since the internet in my office is TERRIBLY slow! I should've finish my application today, but everyone gets buggy to upload this, upload that. Argh! I can only write few lines of code. Phew! Nevermind lah... it will be tomorrow's problem...

Mr. Sonny and Dera confirms that our office will be moved to Gading! I don't know if I supposed to be happy or sad about this. Well I should be happy lor, since I will get closer to home. What??? Back to Bekasi??? Oh no...

But I found it quite unsettling, to know that I won't be seeing much of my friends in this place again. Especially her, I really hate to know that we will be apart again.

Oh... I haven't tell you the worst thing happened today: my 20GB harddrive dead! Yup! Just dead! Dang! I put a lot of stuff in there. Luckily I have made some backups last night, especially my new 4 episodes of Battlestar Galactica Season 1. Well... I think it's time to buy a new hard drive. Geesh... a 120GB cost about Rp. 750.000. Hmm I think I'll buy a DVD+/-RW lah...

Oh man! I've just eat about one and a half hour, and I just get hungry again! There must be something wrong with my stomach! I really need to see a doctor. Hmmm I think I'm goin' to make a cup of hot chocolate...mmm yum...

2005-03-23T10:11:00.000+07:00

Friendster create blogs? Well it's better to be late than having none at all. But I don't see any reason at all for paying this service. I already have my own blog at blogger.com, and it's BETTER, BIGGER, and it's even FREE!

This my the third month in the new office. My boss gave me review form, but I haven't fully fill it yet. I really hate writing those kind of things. Maybe later lah, I still got many things to do. A coworker said that I was quite fast for having review in three months. Well I thought it was a standard procedure, but he said that it is based on employee's performance. Hmm I hope I get my salary increased fast too hehehe.

Pipi just called. She ask about whether to go home or not. She keeps asking the same question when it comes to near weekend *sigh*. Well I told her to stay, to accompany me, of course I don't mean it lah. But she refused by telling me that why should she accompany me. I asked if she still got anything to do but she said no. So I tell her to go home. I think it's better for her to stay at home, she will have many times to talk to her brother... I hope...

Ah I'll continue this later lah... got lotsa work to do...

Woi bacin mana loe?

2004-05-27T01:28:00.000+07:00

Bacin mana yaa??? Padaal gue uda ngebut balik dr kantor, tp pas nyampe tempat die, kaga ade tu batak+cina atu. Mana gue kelaperan. Ude ampir sejam ni gue disini. Untung gue bisa maen internet gratis tempat die hehehe. Lumayan buat ngobatin kesel gue gara2 ga bisa browsing di kantor.

The cables continued...

2004-05-25T23:56:00.000+07:00

Its 23:42 late and im still at this freakin' office!!! Darn, ive been waiting fax for hours, and when i call this Mr Suwandi, he said he still typing it! What the heck did he do all this hours???!! I suspect he've been talking with the other CS girls. *Hmm...hmmm...*

Hmm... i kinda start to like this hi5 thing. But its quite hard to get my fs friends to get here. One of them ask me to join other community site like this. Oh well, i had enough for this bloody fs. Just tryin to maintain links with my ol' friends, and makin new ones.

Heh...ive better go upstair to check the fax machine...

Malasnya...

2004-05-25T04:53:00.000+07:00

Heck! The internet link goes down! Ktnya sech... kabel FO nya putus... ??? Loh koq bisa putus yak? Oji nyeloroh "Digigit ikan hiu kali!". Mozes nimpalin "Loh lu kagak nyelem benerin kabelnya?".

Bete dech!!! Cuma bisa browsing content lokal doang. Males bet liat detikcom, ada juga paling gue baca Kho Ping Ho. Bentaran lgs abis. Mo ngapain lagi ya... Owya... nonton Star Trek dolo ach...