How To Eject Your Flash Drive

If you ever happened to attempt to eject your flash drive or external hard drive on Windows system, but failed with an error message of "the device 'generic volume' cannot be stopped right now. try stopping the device again later", then there's a process which still "holds" the file or the drive inside.

In Linux, you can use lsof command (short for List of Open File) to see which process holds the file and we can just use the kill command to terminate the process. The same situation is not the same in Windows where Task Manager doesn't give us any ability to see this kind of information.

In order to fix those error, you can use UnLocker or Process Explorer to find out who's process is still holding the drive and you can terminate it in order to make it releaseable from the system.

Last Episodes

Today, the last episodes of Man of Honors will be released to public and the subtitle will follow few days later. It's been a great time watching this KDrama, even my wife liked it too and she became more addicted than i'm on this case.

Thanks to KBS for airing this great KDrama. I'm looking forward for another great KDrama next year.

RC6 Disabled Again

RC6, the power-saving feature that should be one of the promising feature in the next Linux Kernel has (again) been switched off by default (you can turn it manually though) after the developer find it quite unstable on his machine and saying that it's not ready for prime time. RC6 is capable of saving power for mobile (and desktop) systems by allowing the integrated graphics processor to rest in a lower power-state, while at the same time is capable of boosting OpenGL performance (Taken from Phoronix).

The commit by Keith Packard has been approved by Linus and merged into Linux Kernel 3.2. If you prefer to enable this feature on your machine, pass i915.i916_enable_rc6=1 as a kernel command-line parameter.

iOS 5.0.1 Untethered Jailbreak

Finally, the wait is over. The long awaited iOS 5 untethered jailbreak has finally been released by the Chronic Dev team. I have just performed an upgrade to iOS 5.0.1 on my iPad and after that, i performed an untethered jailbreak, thanks to pod2g's work on this exploit which enables users (like me) to enjoy a fully untethered jailbreak on iDevices (except for iPad 2 and iPhone 4S).

It's working flawlessly and it runs smoother even though i had some problems while performing it (most of it because of my lack of understanding, so basically it's my fault), but that has been sorted out and now, i'm running on iOS 5.0.1.

For those who wanted to perform an upgrade to iOS 5.0.1, please visit FreakGeeks for more information about this. Don't forget to always BACK UP your data before performing any of these actions mentioned on the article. Your loss is not theirs or my fault :)

MU is On Fire

Manchester United may not start this season with a good performance, but they has started their engine during this December and got a big win lately. Even more, they performed clean sheet to close their goal difference gap to their rival, Manchester City who become the dark horse this season.

Last night, they out performed wigan with 5-0 match at Old Trafford and week before, they crushed the home team Fulham with the same goal. What a game for sir Alex Fergusson's team.


Let's hope they can be like this for the rest of this season and win the title once again....

Viva Manchester United

KDrama Suggestion

Lately, i have been watching Man of Honor as the only KDrama i followed. In the past, i usually followed 2-3 KDramas per week, but due to busy schedule this semester, i don't have time to watch too much dramas.

Man of Honors is a good KDrama (in my opinion) and it has 24 episodes in total. I would recommend it to all of you KDrama lovers if you haven't watch it yet. Right now, it's their last week, thus the last two episodes are coming this week as it will end their show.

I would like to ask for next KDrama suggestion from all of you. Do you have any suggestion for any KDramas that i should watch for next year? It could be a future KDrama or an airing KDramas as well.

Merry Christmas

Happy holidays everyone... I just want to say Merry Christmas to all of my blog readers wherever you are. Let this joy can be shared to everyone and hopefully you have a great christmas with your family.....

Christmas Eve

Today is Christmas Eve and i celebrated it with my wife by going to the Church at 4 PM and take the first Liturgy that started at 5 PM and ended around 7 PM. As always, this church is always crowded during Christmas Eve and also Easter event.

After that, we went to Amplaz to have dinner with my mother in law and also her aunt. I'm so exhausted right now and i wanted to go to sleep. This is probably the first time i don't celebrate Christmas at midnight and send SMS to my girlfriend because now she has become my wife, i can replace it with a big hug and kiss LOL.....

New Son

I would like to congrats my cousin, Ivan who has just become a dad few hours ago since his wife has given birth to Reuel Alexander Dossugi, their first kid in Australia. I believe this is their biggest Christmas present ever.


We may never meet again until next year, but i'm looking forward to see your son soon (when he's big enough to fly back to Indonesia)

Last Working Day This Year

Today is my last working day on 2011 and starting tomorrow, i will enjoy my holiday with my wife and also my family until next year.

I wanted to inform you that my Plurk emoticon is no longer working as Blogger has removed some of their toolbar in the old editor, meaning that it won't show any more emoticons from Plurk or Yahoo!, so i think it's better to upgrade to the new editor to get the latest version of the WYSIWYG editor from Blogger and good bye to those lovely emoticons. I will miss you.....

Honestly, i don't really like the new editor. I can't preview my post live just like the old one, but hopefully Blogger team will fix this in the future *finger-crossed*

LibreOffice Bug Hunting Session

LibreOffice community is now preparing for the major release of LibreOffice 3.5.0 which will be released next year. For that event, they wanted to make sure that every bug has been fixed before it reached the users. For that reason, they will held a Bug Hunting Session which will be started at December 28 and 29, live from five different continents around the globe.

What can you do? You can help them by downloading the pre-release of LibreOffice from their download page, and then start using it and report any problem you encountered during normal usage. Every information you posted will be a valuable report to the developer to diagnose and fix the problem.

For those who are curious about what will the next major release be, you can visit LibreOffice 3.5.0 Release Note (in Draft).

Regular Classes Done

I'm done with the marking for the regular classes and today, the final exam for the dual degree program started, so my next assignment will be marking those final exams.

The students were only 4 and 9, so it won't take much of my time actually. On the other hands, i have a deadline to catch up tomorrow, so i think it's better to prioritize the deadline first and then i can do the marking later on.

After that, i'm free until next year and i can't wait for the holidays..... yeah.. i need them badly since i had a very busy schedule this semester....

One More Class

Today, my last class has had their final exam and i have finished marking 3 out of 4 classes and that means i'm one step closer to my freedom which should be tomorrow when i have completed all of the markings and send it to the other lecturer to mark (there are two lecturers in charge of this class).

Next will be on IDDIT programs where the exams will start by tomorrow and the day after. I think i won't have problems marking this as there will be only 4 students for BIS 304 class and 9 students for BIS 202 class. I can finish them all in less than 1 hour i guess

Mystery Case Files 8: Escape from Ravenhearst

The latest Mystery Case Files, MCF 8 : Escape From Ravenhearst is now released to public. It's been a while since the previous version of MCF was released few years ago, and it's getting bigger and better in terms of quality, but also it requires higher specifications for the hardware.

It's now up to 1,4 GB in size, so get ready to be stunned by the amazing adventure of MCF

MU is Back

After having bad performance for the last few matches, finally MU gained some momentum by beating QPR in their away match. I think this is a crutial match since they are now in the top of the EPL table for now, giving pressures to Manchester City who will play against Arsenal. City will be on top again if they could held draw or win agains Arsenal.

In the past, MU will be dominating EPL after the boxing day (26 December), so on January, their engine has warmed up and start . Hopefully this season ends with a good result, which is the EPL champion again, for 20th time