Huge Disaster

This evening, i watched a stunning news about huge tsunami that hit Japan caused by an earthquake with 8.8 richter scale. Japan is known for earthquakes and in one year, it's common for them to have more than 10 earthquakes. The government and the people has aware of this issue and tried their best to do preventions and so far, they have done a great job, until today's disaster.

When i watched TV, i was wondering. What would it be if Indonesia is struct by that kind of tsunami? Few years ago, Indonesia was hit by tsunami in Aceh and it was not as big as this one, but the effect of that disaster was so disastreous.

Even so, i must admit that i admire Japanese's government who already had a contigency plan for this kind of disaster so that the lost can be minimized. They even have so many backup plans to restore their economics after the disaster. I really hope that Indonesian's government is able to do the same thing as the Japanese since Indonesia has the same potential of earthquakes.

Be Strong!!!

Earthquake in the Morning

Another earthquake has strucked Jogja and some other areas in Indonesia. According to USGS, it has 4.8 of magnitude and located south of Java island (8.840°S, 110.986°E) and has a depth of 71.3 km.

I don't feel the shaking, perhaps i'm enjoying my sleep too much . I found out that there was an earthquake through my Plurk account since my students said there was an earthquake and i looked of it when i woke up and check my accounts.

Undelete Files on EXT3

Carlo Wood has made a tool to undelete files on EXT3 filesystem. It's called ext3grep. This tool is available after he accidentally delete data in his home directory (3 GB) with rm -rf (one nasty command -- DO NOT TYPE THIS ON YOUR SYSTEM AS ROOT!!).

He then studied how EXT3 works and created a tools to recover the files. He also provides explanation about basic EXT3 scheme and some demos on the tools he created. The program is still under heavy development and he can't guarantee that it will out for you since he stopped the development as soon as he managed to recover his files.

The source code is not available for download, but you can send him an email and asked for the source code and he probably will give the source code for you.

Update (9 June 2008): Thanks to John C. Young, he gave me this link : http://code.google.com/p/ext3grep/. It contains the project page as well as the source code for this project. Have fun with it