Migrating Speedy

On Saturday, i went to Plaza Telkom to migrate my Speedy into multi speed which is now available on Jogja. I browsed the website before i went there and finally i decided to take the Game package, which has 1 Mbps for downstream and 256 KB/s for upstream (even though i didn't use it to play Online Games).

At first, i really wanted to take the LOAD package, but there is a major limitation of this package. You will only get full speed (theoretically) when you have consumed less than 3 GB. After that, your maximum speed will be reduced to 128 KB/s until the end of the month. The counter will reset at the beginning of the month.

The migration took less than 24 hours, since at night i have been migrated to Game package.

Beta Removal

It has been few days since Google release their beta label on several products, such as GMail, GTalk, Google Docs, and many others. For me, as an individual users who used GMail everyday, this change doesn't have too much effect on my daily activities nor my decision on using Google's products as i have found them quite stable for years. I believe many users agreed with this opinion as well (well, they have glitches sometimes, but it's still considered minor and it's very rare to happened).

This might not be true for corporate who wanted to have a solid status of a product before they decided to used them. That's why Google release Beta label on Chrome just to make Chrome can be used on corporate instead of IE or Firefox or Opera.

For some people, Beta can be big different, as Beta is still considered on public testing and most software engineering text books do not recommends beta products to be used on a production situation.

Enabling Video Call

This is just a reminder for myself, but i hope you will get the benefit of this short (very short) tutorial on enabling video call.

It happened when i bought my new E71 few months ago. I have set it up correctly and i'm able to set up a video call with other people who have used 3G-enabled mobile phones. Unluckily, my girlfriend's phone are unable to receive 3G signal even though we uses the same provider and her phone is capable of using 3G networks (since she is using the same model that my father used and i have tested with my father's phone).

So here's the simple tutorial for enabling the video call on your phone.

1. You must have 3G-enabled phones with front-camera
   
2. Make sure you have GPRS (and optionally MMS) activated. In some providers, you must asked them to activate this features (mostly done via SMS OTA).
3. Make sure you have selected UMTS or dual mode on the Network settings. On my E71, this can be done via Tools > Settings > Phone > Network > Network Mode. The path may differ for each phone models and vendors, but i think most phones do have this settings if it's capable of using 3G networks.
4. Make sure there's a 3G label under your signal strength bar
5. When calling your friend, use Video Call instead of Voice Call
6. When the receiver accepted your call, you will have a video call

On my experience, using video call is cheaper than voice call, so use it more frequently if you can. Besides, you can see receiver's face instead of hearing only his/her voice

Getting colder?

In the last few days, Jogja were getting colder at night. I don't know whether it's just my feelings or not, but lately i felt so. But it's getting hotter at the afternoon, so the amplitude is very high. No wonder many people got sick lately. Keep the stamina up and be healthy

Firefox 3.5 and Libsafe

I have had problem with Firefox 3.5 on my Linux box (laptop). I finally solved this problem by commenting libsafe entry on /etc/ld.so.preload (Thanks to olego from LQ who posted the solution).

What makes me curious is that why does Firefox does not work with libsafe? Libsafe works by replacing insecure C functions with secured one, and with libsafe installed, it does not work at my system. Does that mean Firefox has used insecure functions on the code? Or is it libsafe that is considered outdated and does not work with newer applications?

MTIX

Today i register myself to MTIX service at Empire XXI due to many movies are now being played only in Empire XXI and no longer played at Amplaz (Studio 21). I also took this chance to watch Ice Age 3. It has been played since last week, but i didn't have a chance to see this movie due to many reasons, but today i finally managed to see it.

Two Sites Down

Planet Terasi has been a good source of other people's blog for some time as it aggregates many blogs on a page and displays them. But since late last month, the site stopped aggregating after there was some problem with the hosting site. I just hope it would recover soon and it will soon publish other people's blog again.

Also, Slackware's main site is also down for now. Let's just hope it will be up again in no time and we should hear a good news from Pat and the crew about the next development cycle of Slackware Current which will eventually be Slackware 13.0.

Firefox 3.5 is a Disaster?

Some people have waited for Firefox 3.5 for some time and when the final version was released few days ago, some people were disappointed due to many bugs that should not be there for the final version.

That's why Mozilla team decided to release 3.5.1 as soon as possible (which is supposed to be released by this month, but no date has been confirmed yet). I found it very stable, unless for one problem that only occurred on my laptop which is under Linux where it couldn't do anything as no output comes from firefox invocation. This is the first problem i encountered with Firefox since i have used it before 1.0 has come out.

Type Firefox 3.5 Bugs on Google and you will get lots of information saying that Firefox 3.5 is too premature to be released due to lots of regression and unfinished features.

101st Marriage Proposals

I have just finished watching an old Japanese drama, called 101st Marriage Proposals. Actually lately i have been watching several old Japanese drama (they were broadcasted back in 1991, but they were a great movie), such as Love Generation and Star No Koi and they all ended with a happy ending, but i think this movie gives me better impressions.

I would recommend you to watch it if you have some spare time. For those who had trouble finding a good source, you can watch them by streaming via this link. It's so good to have those kind of movies archived up to now (it's been 18 years).

Looking for another great old Japanese drama

Rsync Service

One of my students who have finished his final project presentation wanted to test the Slackware Current and he had trouble downloading all the massive updates to -Current since he hasn't following -Current for some time.

I asked him to grab the packages from my computer at my office, since i have a copy of Slackware-Current packages on my computer and i ran Samba to share it. He asked me to ran a rsync services in order to make sure that every packages are downloaded on his computer.

This is a new experience for me, as i have never set rsync services before, but after reading the manuals and finding some HOWTOs on the Internet, it's quite easy and it should be running less than 10 minutes.

I will post the simple tutorial shortly and i will publish it on my web, so stay tune. If you can't simply wait, just go to Google and type "setting up rsync daemon". You will get lots of good resources on how to do that