New Record

Today is the last day in May and i think i'm gonna make a new record (not a spectacular record actually). Last month, i used around 100 GB in one month and i think i will break that record by making it 180 GB in one month. Yes, you saw that number, 180 GB for single user only (equal to 6 GB/day)

Lately, i have been downloading Asian drama movies from several sources in the Internet. They often have huge size so it would end up draining my portable HD so fast. That's why i needed to buy another new HD for future files.

One Full Day

Since my sister was coming from Jakarta for this long weekend, we spent some time together with my girlfriend and my mother to have one whole day trip today. I was at my girlfriend's house since morning and we had semi lunch at Frez today. It was a new small-scale cafe near my house. Since it's new, they offered 50% off from normal price and it's only valid for May, so one day left

Next, we got back home and we went to the airport to send my auntie and her husband back to Jakarta. We then went to Amplaz and do the about half day shopping there. I was mere a driver for them . We left Amplaz and headed to a small Batik store near Galeria mall. My sister and mother bought some clothes there. They sell handmade Batik items. You can check their websites for more information about their products.

Anyway, it's a great day since it's rarely for my sister to come back from Jakarta due to her busy schedule at the office. She is leaving back to Jakarta tomorrow and i think i can meet her again next October in Bandung where my cousin will held a wedding party there

Portable HD Running Out of Space

For the past two months, my Speedy usage has surpassed 100 GB of traffic (upstream+downstream). This rarely happened in the past, as i only download TV series weekly, but now, i'm downloading Taiwan/Korean drama for long vacation after the semester ends.

So far, my 500 GB portable HD is running out of space due to massive download for these two months. I have downloaded more than 160 GB only for this month, so no wonder it is running out of space so quickly

Registering Google Apps

Finally Google has deleted my previous account at Google Apps and i can re-submit the domain again, but i'm limited to 50 users only, since i'm registering an international non profit organization (Indonesian Slackware Community). I wish Google would consider increase the number of users for standard edition of Google Apps for non-profit organizations.

New Facebook Privacy Settings

Mark Zuckerberg has announced the availability of the new Facebook Privacy Settings on Facebook Blog. He started the stories with a short introduction about how Facebook was born and how it turned to be currently.

In the beginning, nobody complained about it and soon people realized that it was too open even though it was the users itself who give their own information to the public.

Nevertheless, please have a look on the blog and give your opinions about what Facebook has done in order to work on privacy issues.

Indonesian Mirrors for Slackware 13.1

As you probably know, Slackware official sites never published ISO images on their site and users or mirror sites will publish their ISOs created from the repository of the -Current tree.

It took some time to propagate the ISOs as most users are rushing to the main mirrors so it would overload them in the process.

Some of the member of Indonesian Slackware Community has access to several local mirrors and we have coordinated the process of mirroring the Slackware 13.1 ISOs for Indonesian users so that they could download the ISOs faster as they are connected to IIX networks (local Indonesian network which should provide faster access to the server).

Here are some of the Indonesian local mirror sites who has finished mirroring Slackware 13.1 ISOs:

Kavalinux (DVD Only)
Duta Wacana Christian University (CD and DVD)
Kambing @ University of Indonesia (CD and DVD)
ICT PNFI KEMDIKNAS (DVD Only)
Gadjah Mada University (CD and DVD)

Please let me know if you hosted a local mirror sites in Indonesia so i can add them here.

At last, even though the ISOs are provided for free, please consider to help Slackware Project, either by using subscription or buy Slackware merchandise or even donate to Slackware Project via Slackware Store.

Indonesian Slackware Community are planning to do so in short time. If you are interested, please join ID-Slackware mailing list.

Have fun with Slackware 13.1, the best release of Slackware currently

Slackware 13.1 Released

Great news!!! Slackware 13.1 has been officially released. In the last few days, there has been no activity in -Current tree and they have prepared to put the ISO into replication phase which will be used for pre-orders in Slackware Store.

As usual, you will not find official ISOs in any mirrors now, but eventually there will be an ISO on the mirrors site within few days. For now, get the ISOs from torrents located in the main page of Slackware.

Read the ANNOUNCEMENT or the RELEASE NOTES and also CHANGES_AND_HINTS

Spreading Already

Fedora 13 is supposed to be released in a few days from now, but i think the final ISO version has been spread out to mirrors site around the world. I accidentally saw the ISO in one of the Indonesian's mirrors site and quickly i download them to being put on my campus mirror site too.

I'm downloading the last ISO DVD version of x86_64 architecture as i have completed the rest of the ISOs. I have put them there on the ISO Server. Take a look on yourself

Congratulations to Budi and Diana

This morning, i was attending Budi and Diana's wedding party. They were a great couple. I wish them a great new life with a new family are waiting for them

Google Apps

Today, i tried to subscribe for Google Apps for two differents domains. One is for non-profit organization and the other one is for Educational. It's very simple to do the registration and configuration process if you have access to the domain.

FYI, for Educational, Google Apps team requested me to give more detailed information for the administration, but i think it has been resolved by now and i'm waiting for the DNS update next Monday since the administrator is not available until Monday.

When it's done, the email migration will likely to start on Monday

This is my first time using Google Apps and i found it very easy to be done

SlackID Meeting

Today is the day where SlackID meeting conducted. It was supposed to be held last week, but i totally forgot and most of the attendees didn't make it, so it was postponed until today. The attendees are bigger in number than i expected, which is very good and the discussion ended with a great conclusion, which should reflect the next Indonesian Slackware Magazine SlackID #2.

Let's hope it will be released as planned and it should be a great present to be together with Slackware 13.1 release schedule

Unexpected Trip

I had a shocking news this morning. My colleague's father passed away yesterday. My deep condolesence for him and his family. I went to Solo this afternoon with my other colleagues to gave the first and last tribute to his father. We didn't know the funeral home, so we asked some local people and combining it with GPS using my E71 phone and finally we got there safely.

After that, we had dinner near the funeral house. We ate nasi liwet and also corn for about an hour and then we went back to Jogja because it was already 8.30 PM. The trip took us about 1,5 hours, but we managed to arrived safely.

Writing Articles

For the past two days, i have been busy with writing articles for PCPlus. They asked me to write 4 pages of articles. It's not a big problem when my schedule is loose, but last week, my students got their final exam and i'm trying to release the marks as soon as possible, so i have to do the marking and evaluation as soon as they finished doing their test. It surely takes my time, so i didn't have any time to wrote the article.

Luckily, they gave me another day to extend the deadline which supposed to be today into tomorrow. I have finally finished the articles today and i hope they will be satisfied with it

Just wait and see for the upcoming PCPlus magazine for my articles

Rescuing Ubuntu

One of my student came to my office this afternoon after her laptop couldn't boot to X. She's using Ubuntu 10.04. The only thing that appeared on the screen was a xterm terminal. I tried to ran startx and it says that the X is already running. I was confused and i searched Google and found the solution. I ran startx -- :1 and it would work, but when i restarted, it happened again, so i guess it was just a temporary solution.

Luckily, i tried to log out from the session and i found the culprit. Someone changed the session from GNOME into xterm. That's why when she logged on using her account, she only got xterm session instead of full GNOME desktop. After changing the session into GNOME, i tried to restart her laptop and voila... the GNOME desktop has been restored as normal

Linux Kernel 2.6.34 Released

After about three months of development, finally the final version of the next Linux Kernel has been released by Linus Torvalds. What i think very interesting in this release is that it incorporates GPU Switching feature which enables Linux users who have 2 GPUs to switch over. This feature are already implemented in Windows 7 by default, but it's now being merged in Linux Kernel as an official support.

Please note that users will still require to restart their X Server in order to switch between GPUs, but i think it's better than having one GPU detected only (usually only Intel are detected).

Other detailed changes can be seen at KernelNewbies