Watching EPL Live

I don't have Aora at my house, but i can still watch EPL matches live via Internet Streaming. You might find lots of sites which provides those kind of services, but i just found Justin.TV which broadcasted today's big match, which ended a big win for Liverpool

Thanks to Alois W. who posted that URL on his facebook account status.

Another Project Hosting

We now have more options than before. After Sourceforge, Google Code, Microsoft CodePlex, here somes another one from another big company: Sun Microsystem. They have launched Project Kenai that acts like the rest of the project above: provide free hosting for open source projects.

They combine development and some sort of social network site. Look at what we will get when we signed up

• Host Your Code: use SVN and Mercurial
• Collaborate: forums, mailing lists, and wikis
• Squash Bugs: issue tracking is baked in
• Personalize: your home page = your stuff
• Connect: find developers with common interests

This project was started at June and they already got 19 projects so far. Anybody wants to join this?

So It Goes Very Well

Well, the seminar was quite success, with over 300 participants attended this event this morning. Many students were eager to hear the topic about license and most of them asked during the QA session, because sometimes it's truly confusing.

Well, i used Linux most of the time, so i don't get confused with Microsoft's license scheme for now.

YM Contact Limit?

In the last few weeks, i'm unable to add more friend to the YM contact list. When i wanted to add them to specific group, Pidgin always displayed an error saying that it couldn't add it to the group. I'm thinking that it might be YM's limitation. When i count my contact list, there were 1013 person on it

I deleted some contacts and now i'm able to re-add those who hasn't been added before. Any similar experience like this? Or is it just Pidgin's problem? IMHO it's Yahoo's limitation.

In the past, Priyadi already post about this, but then the limit was raised. If i'm not mistaken, it was 600 contacts at that time, and now i have reached 1000. Perhaps i do have to delete some of the contacts.

First Experience

Today, my colleague asked me to be the moderator for tomorrow's seminar at my campus. The topic is about license. Actually, i registered as a participant, but somehow, i will become the moderator .

Becoming tomorrow's moderator will be my first experience as i never do this before (well, i'm used to teach in front of the class, but not as a moderator). Let's hope tomorrow will be just fine.

I should sleep earlier today as i have to pick up the speaker early in the morning tomorrow.

Oh Finally

Finally my Internet connection is back today. The technician came back and bring me a new modem, since my old modem was the root of the problem. My old modem was Shiro and the new one is JKNetworks. The technician told me that Shiro is a bad product, but IMHO, it's more configurable than JK. You can have more feature in it, rather than the simple version found on JKNetworks.

I have no experience with JKNetworks, so any Speedy users with JKNetworks are willing to share their experiences with it?

Oh yeah, i have to pay 220000 IDR for that modem, since the warranty for Shiro was only three months and i have been using Speedy since January.

Wine Support For Chrome

For those who wanted to use Google Chrome on Linux platform, you will be pleased to hear that the latest Wine build (1.1.4) has better support for Google Chrome. I haven't tested this yet, as the Slackware version hasn't come out yet at the time i write this post, but when it's out, i will try it out. Let's hope it works like charm, while waiting for Google to publish the Linux edition (which i think will use Wine like their Picasa product as well).

One Day Without Internet

Have you ever feel one day without Internet? What is it like? Well, i had it today, as my Speedy connection is still unavailable. The technician which should have come this morning couldn't come and they didn't even tell me that they weren't coming. I have waited four hours and it wasted my time. I called Speedy Care and no one answered the phone. I finally got to the operators at 1 PM, and they told me that my ticket was gone, so they couldn't contact me (my problem wasn't solved yet, and they have deleted the tickets, OMG!!!).

This is the second time they couldn't fulfill their promises. First one occurred in Friday, where they should have come at 2 PM, but until 5 PM, they didn't showed up. I asked time to reschedule the maintenance problem on Sunday, as i had to go on Saturday and they agreed. I asked them to get as fast as possible and they said that they usually start dispatching technicians at 9 or 10 AM. I'm OK with that, but four hours of waiting is something unusual.

Even worse, i couldn't connect using dial up connection like yesterday, so it's really one day without Internet (like in the old days). Oh well... I guess i will have to wait for Monday

OOo 3.0.0 RC 1

Good news for people who are eager to see OpenOffice.org 3.0 which is scheduled to be released this month. An RC 1 release is now available through OpenOffice.org Developer Snapshot Builds. You can help the project by testing this RC release and report any bug you encountered to be fixed in the next release and before the final version comes up late this month.

You can see the latest changes here.

Please note that this version is NOT intended to be used on production machine (yet). It's more intended for developers, testers, and users trying to make OpenOffice.org better by giving it a try and report any bugs found.

Internet Problem

It seems that my Internet problem is not on the mass disruption only, since today i couldn't connect whole day, leaving me with a dial up connection (lucky me i didn't throw away my old modem, which i could use to check my emails). I have asked the technicians about the problem and they told me to try put the line directly to the provider's line, bypassing the splitter which splits the data and sound in the telephone cables, but it didn't work out, so meaning that the problem lies on the network.

The technicians were supposed to come at 2 PM, but i have waited until 5 PM and they didn't showed up, so i called Speedy Care once again and asked them to reschedule the maintenance on Sunday, as i have to leave to Kaliurang on Saturday, so i won't be at home. I was quite disappointed actually, since the operator called me and she said that a technicians is ready to go to my house and i should go back ASAP (i did), but none of them came. I have wasted 3 hours of waiting for them and nothing happened. The problem still persists

Finally, A Stable Connection

After having mass disruption for a few days, my connection is now back to stable again. I can get 70-80 KB/s when downloading from foreign site and sometimes i can even get 106 KB/s (the site i know are Microsoft and Symantec). For local site which are connected to IIX or OpenIXP, i can get around 100 KB/s.

Actually, until this morning, my connection was still in bad condition. I called Speedy Care, not 147 (this is Customer Service). I asked them whether the mass disruption has been fixed or not. They said that they have fixed it and there were no complaints anymore about this. Well, mine is still having problem . I asked them whether i have to restart my modem and they said it isn't necessary because the routing will be redirected automatically.

I'm doubt that, since my connection was still very slow. So i turned off my modem and turn it on again, but my DSL didn't turned on (just like my problem few days ago), so i retry it again and this time, it works and the connection is fast. Now i can do my work, my project, and my thesis again

Let's hope there won't be any problem again in the future.

Google Chrome Book

The idea behind the making of Google Chrome can be seen on the Google Chrome Book which is now available for public. It's adapted from Scott McCloud and they adapted it very well to presents the whole idea why they build this Chrome. You should check it out

RapidShare Upgrade Finished

Rapidshare has finished upgrading their network infrastructure and now it can support higher loads both for premium users and also for non-premium users. They also give better service for both users. More information can be seen on the news section below:

Top Speed: RapidShare Upgrade completed

September 02, 2008
This week we have completed the infrastructure upgrade with the result, that premium users can now enjoy full speed again. Also, we are able to allocate bandwith to free users dynamically: Depending on the overall traffic you can up- and download with up to 2,0 megabit per second. If it is crowded though, you might experience only 0,2 megabit per second, since we always put our premium users first.

Thus, we have raised the daily premium download traffic from 5 gigabyte to 10 gigabyte. Please keep in mind that it is still necessary to limit the maximum download speed for free users to protect RapidShare from congestion caused by automated downloading. To compensate for that, we already eliminated the waiting period before starting a succeeding download.

We wish you a pleasant time using rapidshare.com and apologize for any inconvenience you might have experienced during the transition period.

Hm... i never had problem during the transition period

Google Chrome: A New Rival For Browser Vendors

It's like that there's nothing on this world that can't be made in Google. They have conquered the search engine market, and then they travel throughout other market as well, such as Social network, Image management tools, Local search engine, Earth project, Map project, and many other things on their labs waiting to be published.

Today, they announced another product, which called Google Chrome. It's a web browser (YES, it's yet another WEB BROWSER). Like all Google's product, they tried to make their product as simple as possible, with clean interface. But that's only in the front end. Deep inside the code, they have put Java Script engine called V8 which should give better performance compared to other products available. They are focusing on the JS engine since probably most of their products uses JS. They combined WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox to produce a better product and even better, they make the source code available to public.

Right now, they don't have a Linux version yet, but they are working on it. Mac version is also on their TODO list . The Windows version will be published in 24 hours, so stay tuned

Update (11:15): Screenshots are available on Google BlogoScoped

Back Online

This morning, my speedy connection was down and the DSL light was off and it won't turned on again, even after i restarted the modem several time. I asked 147 and they asked me to look on the DSL splitter. Since i have three classes today, i don't have time to look on it in the morning.

When i was on my way back home, i bought the splitter and i changed the one in my house. No luck. My phone was dead as well, so i finally decided to leave it just for now. What do you know? When i tried to trick the modem so i could get some IP from the modem, the DSL works and now i'm back online again.

I don't know what's the problem, but the good thing is that now i can go online again.