Simply Resting

Sunday is a great day to take some rest before working again on Monday, so that's what i did today, resting and relaxing myself. It seems that my body need a good rest after a full week working with so many events held.

In the next three weeks, it will be another busy week for me. I can't wait until the end of December where i can enjoy a long holidays

KNASTIK is Over

After preparing for more than three months, finally KNASTIK is now over and all the efforts are paid off. The seminar were great and the chairs were almost full (i was actually afraid that the attendance were more than we anticipated, but luckily that didn't happened).

See you on next year's KNASTIK with new topic

Quick Update

KDE 4.3.3 has just been released few days ago and today, Slackware-Current has KDE 4.3.3 packages on the -Current tree. That was quick update of Slackware-Current (as always). However, i got some problem after removing phonon package (as suggested by the Changelog). My Amarok won't play MP3 files anymore. In order to solve the problem, i re-installed Phonon package and everything worked just fine as it was to be.

For now, i won't remove Phonon until there is a clear reason i should abandon Phonon and rely to gstreamer.

Ovarian Cancer

Cancer is still one of the most frightening disease in the world. Many people have suffered from many kind of cancer. This statement were taken from WHO report on 2003, and Quick Cancer fact on WHO

Cancer rates could further increase by 50% to 15 million new cases in the year 2020

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide: it accounted for 7.9 million deaths (around 13% of all deaths) in 2007.

This is definitely not a good news, since every year, there has been many report about this and it's growing, meaning that more and more people died from many case of cancer.

There has been a lot of campaign to reduce cancer by doing some activities below:

1. Reduction of tobacco consumption. Tobacco remains the most important avoidable cancer risk. In the 20th century, approximately 100 million people died world-wide from tobacco-associated diseases
2. A healthy lifestyle and diet can help. Frequent consumption of fruit and vegetables and physical activity can make a difference.
3. Early detection through screening, particularly for cervical and breast cancers, allow for prevention and successful cure.

There are so many cancer type and each type will attack different part of our body. One of the example is ovarian cancer. According Wikipedia, 16090 women died from 25580 case of ovarian cancer in 2004. According to Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of death from cancer in women and the leading cause of death from gynecological cancer.

Even though it's deadly, there has been a lot of effort to solve this problem. One of the organizations who fight for Ovarian Cancer is BioCancell by developing BC-819 and H19.

For those who wanted to have a first look on the solution provided by BioCancell, please have a look on Biocancell ovarian cancer clinical trials info.

It would be better to know your enemy before it attacked you, just like a good quote from Sun Tzu: If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

Mandriva 2010.0 Released

Even though it's not yet 2010, but Mandriva has released their latest product called Mandriva 2010. Like always, Mandriva brings you the latest update from the Open Source world into your desktop (and servers), enabling you to taste the latest development of many open source application and kernel.

For more information about this new release, please check it here. I'm still waiting until it's ready on the Indonesian mirror. Let's just hope it won't take too long

Domain Expired

I was a little bit shocked when i tried to access Indonesian Linux Forum and the browser returned with a message that it couldn't find the server. Next, i tried to access the main site and i got an expired message . So this is the culprit.

So, until the domain has been extended, i can't do anything about the forum. Let's hope the maintainer will fix this problem ASAP.

Foundstone's Free Tools

For those who need to teach about security-related topic, such as SQL Injection, Buffer Overflow, and so on, you can try to use Foundstone's Free Tools which are available for free from their website. Every tools listed there is for Windows (sadly), but you can always use virtualization tools, such as VMWare or VirtualBox to install another OS on top of your primary OS.

I tried to use the HackMe family (it consists of 4 different applications) to teach in my CEH class. Actually this is for next week class, but i decided to try it on today, so i will have more spare time next week.

Slow Again?

November started today and one thing i noticed on the first day of November is that Speedy is getting a little bit slower than it used to be. Some friends of mine has posted their complaints on several micro blogging sites, such as Plurk or Twitter.

I experienced this problem also, but since i was out of home since noon and i came back at the evening, i didn't have too much problem with it. At night, when i wanted to browse some pages in the Internet, i realized the problem. No wonder my friends complaint.

Let's just hope it's a temporary problem and it will be fixed asap

Presentation on UPN Veteran

Today, i'm giving a presentation about OS comparison between Windows and Linux at UPN Veteran, Jogja. The presentation was a little bit delayed, but i managed to finish on time and let my partner, Rachmat Febrianto, the head chair of Jogja Open Solaris Group to give a presentation about OpenSolaris and it's feature.

Thanks to the local students. It was a great presentation and i wish it may give you some insight about how beautiful Linux can be

Culinary

There will be an annually culinary event at Vredeburg from today until November 1st. You can taste lots of foods there while enjoying some show which was performed by some group (today, it was a group from Sulawesi).

I recommend that you go there if you have spare time or you don't have any plans for tomorrow.