cat /dev/brain > ${blog}

New Google Reader Design

2008-12-05T08:53:00.000+07:00

Google Reader (http://www.google.com/reader) has a new design, I just noticed it when I logged on this morning.

It’s nice, better than previously. I hope they’ll put themes on this site also just like they did on Gmail.

Dead mail.telkom.net?

2008-12-03T14:44:00.000+07:00

Ada apa dengan http://mail.telkom.net ? apakah sudah tidak berfungsi lagi?

Sudah lama saya tidak menggunakan email saya di domain ini, ketika menggunakannya terlihat tampilan seperti ini.

Ada yang mengalami hal serupa?

Blog Action Day 2008 - Perangi Kemiskinan

2008-10-16T10:29:00.003+07:00

15 Oktober 2008, hari ini blogger-blogger seluruh dunia berbicara tentang satu tema "Kemiskinan". Tinggal di negara yang 17.75% penduduknya miskin (Data BPS 2006) melihat kemiskinan ini sebagai suatu masalah pokok yang menyentuh setiap sendi kehidupan penduduk di negeri ini. Saya bukan pakar ekonomi dan juga bukan pakar sosiologi, namun menurut saya kemiskinan ini semakin diperparah dengan tingkat kesenjangan yang besar antara yang kaya dengan yang miskin.

Pendidikan, pemerataan kesempatan kerja serta sistem ekonomi yang mendukung usaha kecil dan menengah menurut saya adalah cara-cara paling efektif untuk mengatasi kemiskinan di negeri ini. Jadi mari kita jadikan momen ini untuk melihat kembali sekeliling kita dan mulai melakukan apa yang bisa kita lakukan untuk membantu pendidikan dan pemberdayaan ekonomi untuk orang-orang yang membutuhkan.

Let's fight poverty, mari kita perangi kemiskinan!

Review: Telkomsel Flash

2008-08-17T12:05:00.001+07:00

It's been two weeks since I subscribed to unlimited internet offering from Telkomsel branded Flash. I subscribed to speed up-to 512 kbps, but testing with SpeedTest show the following result.

Personal : Chocolate & Strawberry

2008-07-24T18:11:00.004+07:00

Me and my soon to be wife is like chocolate and strawberry. We're both have a different view on things, but when we meet the combination of sour, bitter and sweet just come together in a beautiful combination. Girl I'm glad I found you, and going to spend my life with you.

AWK - Oracle File Descriptor Count

2008-07-24T16:35:00.002+07:00

For my own memory, I should paste this code right here to count number of file descriptor an oracle user open based on the pid number.

lsof | awk '/oracle/ {pidct[$2]++;pidname[$2]=$2;procname[$2]=$1} END {for (i in pidname) {printf ("%s %s %d\n",procname[i],pidname[i],pidct[i]);}}' | tr -s " " | sort -t " " -n -r -k 3,3

This make used of lsof and awk to do the calculation

Masih ingat Kalkulus? Gimana Kalo Pre-Kalkulus?

2007-11-22T17:54:00.001+07:00

Masih ingat sama Kalkulus gak kira-kira sekarang ini? Coba selesaiin soalan di bawah ini tanpa melihat referensi 'just for testing your memory of pre-calculus stuff'

1) Faktorkan polynomial-polynomial berikut:

2) Selesaikan untuk x:

3) Cari nilai-nilai x untuk :

4) Evaluasi:

5) Selesaikan untuk x:

6) Selesaikan untuk x, dimana x :

7) Tuliskan persamaan untuk kurva berikut dalam ruang kartesian:

Parabola
Hyperbola
Circle
Ellipse

8 ) Cari verteks, fokus dan direktori dari persamaan kurva berikut:

9) Cari persamaan untuk lingkaran yang berpusat di dan radius .

Gimana kira-kira? Masih ingat gak :)

Make No Bug!

2007-11-09T08:45:00.000+07:00

Baru saja kemarin selesai membaca ulasan D.J. Bernstein (djb) yang berjudul "Some Thoughts on Security After 10 Years of qmail 1.0". Paper singkat 10 halaman ini membahas bagaimana djb berhasil membuat salah satu Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) yang paling aman. Selama 9 tahun setelah rilis terakhirnya pada tahun 1998 tidak ditemukan satu kelemahan yang dapat di exploit.

Dalam tulisan ini djb tidak membahas qmail secara spesifik, tapi lebih menekankan pada kiat-kiat agar dapat mengembangkan software tanpa bug, atau setidak-tidaknya mengeliminir bug. Sebagai ringkasan berikut adalah tiga jawaban djb untuk mengeliminasi celah keamanan di dalam code.

Eliminating Bug, semua bug adalah kelemahan. Bunuh bug, tutup celah. Bagaimana cara membunuh bug? Automated quality assurance, coverage testing, code review, up front security design. Qmail mengganti beberapa C library era 80an agar "susah untuk menulis code yang salah". Microsoft setelah bergulat dengan masalah security untuk beberapa lama mulai lebih fokus pada masalah security daripada hanya mengutamakan release schedule.
Eliminate Code, hal yang kedua ini mungkin agak sulit untuk dimengerti. Lebih banyak code berarti lebih banyak kesempatan untuk menghasilkan bug. Meminimalisir code footprint berarti mengurangi exposure code terhadap bug. "Complexity is the enemy of security". Jawaban djb untuk masalah ini adalah "reuse" : manfaatkan platform yang aplikasi anda gunakan daripada reinvent the wheel. Qmail banyak menggunakan system call ke kernel daripada membuat ulang seperti untuk access control qmail menggunakan access control dari OS unix/linux, untuk penyimpanan (database) bisa menggunakan filesystem.
Reduce the amount of trusted code, trusted code adalah code-code yang bisa memasuki daerah aman OS. Trusted code ini apabila terdapat epxloit dapat menimbulkan efek kepada sistem/aplikasi lain. Dengan mengurangi jumlah trusted code maka apabila terdapat exploit pun pada code yang dibuat maka exploit tersebut tidak akan mengganggu aplikasi yang lain. Mungkin contoh paling jelas adalah seperti chroot. Atau membuat agar code-code yang sensitif untuk berjalan diatas interpreter.

Menurut saya paper ini pantas untuk dibaca oleh programmer-programmer untuk mendapatkan sebagian ide bagaimana mengurangi bug dan exploit dari code-code mereka.

[Quick] No Thanks, I Prefer SUBString

2007-11-06T11:55:00.000+07:00

Dari worsethanfailure.com

Karena tidak puas dengan fungsi SUBSTR dari Oracle, seorang programmer memutuskan untuk membuat sendiri fungsu SUBStringnya,, sepertinya..

Function SUBString(inputStr IN VARCHAR2,
                 startPos IN NUMBER,
                 endPos   IN NUMBER
                ) RETURN VARCHAR2  IS
      result  VARCHAR2(100);
BEGIN
   result := null;
   SELECT SUBSTR(inputStr,startPos,endPos) INTO result FROM dual;
   RETURN result;
END;

Dan juga sepertinya sang programmer tidak puas dengan operator "!" programmer yang lainnya juga menulis versinya dari operator "!".

PRIVATE void vToggleOnOff(bool_t *pbItem)
{
  if (*pbItem == TRUE)
  {
      *pbItem = FALSE;
  }
  else
  {
      *pbItem = TRUE;
  }


}

Tolong, ya sebagai programmer, jangan ulang kesalahan ini. :)

Quick: Mengapa Masih Hukum Belanda?

2007-07-31T18:30:00.000+07:00

Kebanyakan KUHP kita (setahu saya) masih menggunakan KUHP Belanda (Wetboek van Strafrecht). Baru-baru ini saya baca berita seperti dikutip di bawah ini (via http://www.neatorama.com/2007/07/31/man-walks-free-after-sheep-refuses-to-testify/)

"A dutch man was taken to court for having sex with a sheep, but walked away free after the animal was unable to testify!

Under Dutch law, bestiality is not a crime unless it can be proved the animal did not want to have sex. The sheep couldn’t take to the stand to testify it didn’t want to have sex and that it had suffered emotional stress. As a result the case was thrown out of court.

The ministy of justice is planning to change the laws to make bestiality a criminal offence."
diterjemahkan secara bebas:
"Seorang laki-laki di Belanda dibawa ke pengadilan karena melakukan hubungan intim dengan seekor biri-biri, namun dinyatakan bebas setelah biri-biri tersebut dinyatakan tidak dapat bersaksi!
Di dalam hukum Belanda, 'kebinatangan' bukanlah tindak kriminal kecuali dapat dibuktikan kalau hewan tersebut tidak ingin melakukan hubungan intim dan mengalami stres emosi. Sehingga hasilnya kasus ini dibatalkan dari pengadilan.
Kementerian Hukum merencanakan untuk mengubah hukum untuk membuat 'kebinatangan' sebagai suatu pelanggaran hukum."

Sangat lucu dan membuat kita bertanya-tanya, logika apa yang digunakan ketika membuat hukum-hukum itu. Apakah kita masih perlu menggunakan hukum peninggalan Belanda?

Quick: Dev2Manager Conversation

2007-07-25T13:05:00.000+07:00

Funny, in almost every IT company I've been, I've always had a conversation like this

(taken from http://www.silverstripesoftware.com/blog/archives/59)

Manager: How long will the whole thing take?
Dev: Depends on the requirements and if they change. We’ll estimate on a 2 week basis. That way we can keep the plan close to reality and also adjust easily if requirements change.
Manager: We need to give the board a date
Dev: We can go through the requirements, but the final date will be very uncertain at this point
Manager: Doesn’t matter, lets just fix a date

(...do some estimation and come up with date )

Manager: We cant have that date, the board wants to have it done by the end of the year. Lets just cut the estimate to fit it in.
Dev: :(

(after one week)

Client: We’ve had some project changes here, so use this new requirements document
Manager: Sure.
Dev: We need to restimate all over again
Manager: Lets not, I’ve already committed the date to the board. I’m sure you guys can do it.

(at the end of year)

Manager: So are we done?
Dev: No, we are about 40% there
Manager: What?? Your estimating sucks. What do I tell the board now? That you screwed up?

Do you ever have the same conversation on your project?

Dari 'C' ke 'A'

2007-07-20T11:18:00.000+07:00

Baru saja membaca artikel menarik dari Businesspundit, titlenya "From a 'C' to an 'A' - Can Your Managers Do What This Professor Did?". Kejadian seperti ini memang jarang sekali terjadi, apalagi di Negeriku yang tercinta ini. Ceritanya ada seorang mahasiswa teknik yang diharuskan mengambil mata kuliah "Politik di Negara-negara Ketiga". Singkat cerita mahasiswa ini ditugaskan membuat sebuah paper untuk mata kuliah itu, yang ternyata bertentangan dengan maksud si profesor yang mengajarkan mata kuliah tersebut. Akhirnya si mahasiswa tersebut mendapat nilai C A untuk paper tersebut dengan catatan dari Profesornya. Berikut kira-kira terjemahan catatan dari sang profesor

"Rob, ketika saya pertama kali membaca tulisanmu, kurangnya simpatimu terhadap Rigoberta dan sukunya mengganggu saya. Tapi setelah saya baca kembali, saya sadar bahwa meskipun saya tidak setuju dengan pandanganmu, papermu ditulis dengan bagus dan argumen yang kamu gunakan banyak buktinya di sumber tulisan. Saya pikir kamu pantas mendapatkan A."

Betapa jarangnya kita mendapatkan objektifitas seperti ini. Ini sangat relevan sekali baik dengan lingkungan akademik maupun dengan lingkungan kerja. Seperti seorang profesor, seorang manager seringkali lebih ingin menggunakan kekuasaan mereka lebih daripada mencari kebenaran. Bukankah akan sangat menyenangkan sekali untuk bisa menilai dan dinilai secara objektif tanpa harus memaksakan suatu pandangan tertentu.

Quick: Man Behind the Gun

2007-07-11T14:02:00.000+07:00

Sudah pernah pake Gmail? Kalau sudah maka harus kenal orang di belakang Gmail. He is Paul Buchheit. Orang yang membuat Gmail begitu mudah digunakan bahkan menjadi pelopor buat penyedia-penyedia e-mail lain untuk mengikuti jejak langkah Gmail. Baca blognya di http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/

Public Wireless Internet on Hasanuddin Airport

2007-04-21T06:21:00.000+07:00

I arrive earlier today at Hasanuddin Airport in Makassar on my way home to Jakarta. So I sit there on the waiting room after checking in with my flight and doing nothing. So I thought of reading some ebooks on my notebook. I turn my thinkpad on and without any intention turn on my wireless internet connection. And there it goes, I found a public internet connection, I don't know from where. It's free!! Yippie!
So if you happen to pass Hasanuddin Airport in Makassar try to turn on your wireless networking and spot some free hotspot there.

Desktop Screenshot

2007-02-24T12:01:00.000+07:00

It's been a while since I post my desktop screenshot, so here you go. I'm a fan of Yahoo Widget!

My First PayPal Transaction

2007-02-02T07:59:00.000+07:00

Well, it's the first time I'm doing any kind of money transaction on the net.
I'm buying a sticker from Jeff Atwood Codinghorror which I think very cool sticker for my laptop. The transaction itself without any transaction fee from Paypal. The sticker cost about $3 = Rp 27000, well I guess I just have to see the bill on my credit card next month.

Oracle Warehouse Builder Runtime View

2007-01-31T15:01:00.000+07:00

You can create your own Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) Runtime repository log to view log of mapping execution. It provides easier access rather that using OWB Runtime Audit browser, which in my opinion rather slow and heavy. Using OWB public view API you can create the view using the following query


CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW DWH_RT_V
(MAP_RUN_ID, EXECUTION_AUDIT_ID, MAP_NAME, START_TIME, END_TIME,
ELAPSE_TIME, RUN_STATUS, NUMBER_RECORDS_SELECTED, NUMBER_RECORDS_INSERTED, NUMBER_RECORDS_UPDATED,
NUMBER_RECORDS_DELETED, NUMBER_RECORDS_DISCARDED, NUMBER_RECORDS_MERGED, EXECUTION_NAME, RETURN_RESULT,
RETURN_RESULT_NUMBER, RETURN_CODE, EXECUTION_AUDIT_STATUS, ELAPSE_TIME_TOTAL, RUN_ERROR_NUMBER,
RUN_ERROR_MESSAGE, TARGET_NAME, TARGET_COLUMN, STATEMENT, MESSAGE_SEVERITY,
MESSAGE_LINE_NUMBER, MESSAGE_TEXT, PROC_ERR_MSG, PROC_STATEMENT)
AS
SELECT a.map_run_id,
    b.execution_audit_id,
    a.map_name,
    a.start_time,
    a.end_time,
    a.elapse_time,
    a.run_status,
 a.number_records_selected,
 a.number_records_inserted,
 a.number_records_updated,
 a.number_records_deleted,
 a.number_records_discarded,
 a.number_records_merged,
    b.execution_name,
    b.return_result,
    b.return_result_number,
    b.return_code,
    b.execution_audit_status,
 b.elapse_time elapse_time_total,
 c.run_error_number,
 c.run_error_message,
 c.target_name,
 c.target_column,
 c.statement,
 d.message_severity,
 d.message_line_number,
 d.message_text,
 e.run_error_message proc_err_msg,
 e.statement proc_statement
FROM   all_rt_audit_map_runs a, all_rt_audit_executions b, all_rt_audit_map_run_errors c, all_rt_audit_exec_messages d,ALL_RT_AUDIT_PROC_RUN_ERRORS e
WHERE  a.execution_audit_id = b.execution_audit_id
and a.map_run_id = c.map_run_id (+)
and b.execution_audit_id = d.execution_audit_id (+)
and a.map_run_id = e.map_run_id (+)

Tablespace Check Script

2007-01-31T14:52:00.000+07:00

Want to know your tablespace percentage usage, just type in this snippets


SELECT   dt_ts_name,
       100 -(100 * sum_free_blocks / sum_alloc_blocks) AS pct_used
FROM     (SELECT   tablespace_name dt_ts_name, SUM(blocks) sum_alloc_blocks
        FROM     dba_data_files
        GROUP BY tablespace_name),
       (SELECT   tablespace_name fs_ts_name,
                 MAX(blocks) AS max_blocks,
                 SUM(blocks) AS sum_free_blocks
        FROM     dba_free_space
        GROUP BY tablespace_name),
       (SELECT (VALUE / 1024 / 1024) db_block_factor
        FROM   v$parameter
        WHERE  NAME = 'db_block_size')
WHERE    dt_ts_name = fs_ts_name(+)
ORDER BY dt_ts_name ASC;

Why the heck SQL?

2007-01-31T13:13:00.000+07:00

Berapa orang yang bisa query select lebih dari 'SELECT * FROM tablename' ?? How much do you know about database? Kenapa juga jadi programmer musti tau banyak tentang database? Bukannya itu tugasnya DBA? Well menurut saya pengetahuan tentang database buat programmer itu is a must. I'm not just talking about connecting to the database and do a simple select query. I'm talking about the concept behind the database. How to design the appropriate data structure for your application and what can we do with it in terms of performance and scalability.

Design database berangkat dari konsep himpunan. You got an INTERSECTION, UNION, JOIN, MINUS, CARTESIAN concept on the database. Kalo konsep ini sudah dikenali dengan baik maka kemungkinan besar apapun pertanyaan (query) yang ingin diajukan ke data bisa dilakukan dengan dengan benar. Most programmer don't really care about their ER structure for their applications. They just make the data stands by itself without making any relationship in them. They don't care about indexes, data integrity, referential integrity.

Why should we care about this anyway? Bukannya yang penting aplikasi jalan, user senang, duit dapet and move on to the next project? IT is a services based industry. People trust you because the application you build serve them well. And to build an application that serves user well you must think on all aspect of things.
Ada banyak hal yang bisa dikerjakan oleh SQL lebih baik daripada procedural. Most procedural language bekerja berdasarkan operasi row-based bukan set-based. Untuk menampilkan ranking 10 penjualan terbesar dari perusahaan misalnya, bila dengan prosedural data harus diambil kemudian di sort. Bila memanfaatkan SQL maka cukup dengan query seperti berikut (using Oracle Analytic Function)

select region,
total_sales,
rank() over (order by total_sales) ranksales
from t_sales
where rownum < 10
order by total_sales desc

maka informasi 10 total penjualan terbesar berdasarkan region dapat didapatkan dengan mudah. Mungkin ada yang berargumen kalau sebenarnya kan sama saja, toh database juga melakukan sorting berdasarkan penjualan terbesar.
Memang benar, tapi pada saat programming kita mengambil lagi data kemudian mensortirnya lagi sendiri, kenapa tidak langsung mengambil data yang sudah jadi untuk ditampilkan saja. Database juga sudah dibangung dengan set-based minded untuk memproses data secara set, sehingga kemungkinan proses dapat dilakukan dengan lebih cepat.

Masih ragu untuk perlu belajar SQL dan Database? Don't hesitate, it'll help to make your life easier.

An Introduction to Data Warehouse - Part II

2007-01-30T08:57:00.001+07:00

So, back to my story on data warehouse, on the last post I've given you my opinion on what data warehouse is. Why don't we ask people that are really involved in creating this concept at the first time.

According to Bill Inmon (one of the earliest and most influential practitioners), quoted from wikipedia, defined a datawarehouse as follows:

Subject-oriented, meaning that the data in the database isorganized so that all the data elements relating to the same real-worldevent or object are linked together;

Time-variant, meaning that the changes to the data in thedatabase are tracked and recorded so that reports can be producedshowing changes over time;

Non-volatile, meaning that data in the database is never over-written or deleted, but retained for future reporting;

Integrated, meaning that the database contains data frommost or all of an organization's operational applications, and thatthis data is made consistent.

The main drives behind the creation of data warehouse include (from Mark Rittman):

Integrating data from various sources thus providing a '360' view of the company
Providing a trusted set of figures across all areas
Providing user-friendly graphical view of organization data
Providing access to insight, forecasts and trends
Removing reporting overhead from existing application
Making analysis possible for large amount of data
Adding metadata, meaning and structure for the data

With the availability of data warehouse to the end users, then user can slice, dice, drill, analyze, mine and do other things with large amount of data. Below is a simple architectural view of a data warehouse and the process involved in it.

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Subversion Quick Start Guide

2007-01-29T07:50:00.001+07:00

This tutorial will show you how to create a simple repository on your local computer for versioning control purposes using subversion and turtoisesvn.

1. Install your subversion and turtoiseSvn application

2. Using windows explorer navigate to the folder your created to store subversion repositories, default was C:\svn\ and create a new directory here with the name you want for your repository MyRepository, use the name of your program or project you wish to store in Subversion.

3. Right click on the new folder you just created and select the option TortiseSVN and another context menu will appear. Select Create Repository here.....

4.You will be asked about the type of repository you wish to create, select Native File System,it should be the default. See Repository Data-Stores in the Subversion book regarding information on a comparison of the various repository types. You should be prompted with a message indicating that the repository was created successfully and you should now see that some directories and files were created in C:\svn\MyRepository\.

5. We now need to create the structure of your repository. It is highly recommended that you read Creating a Repositry Layout in the Subversion book. This discusses issues like do I use one repository for all my projects or use individual repositories for each project. For simplicity in this tutorial we are going to assume you are creating one repository to hold one project.

6. Create a directory in your C:\svn\ folder called repos_structure. This directory will contain the template directory structure, used to setup a new repository.

7. Create 3 directories within repos_structure called trunk, branches and tags.

8. Right click on the directory repos_structure and select TortiseSVN->Import.... Only the directories within this directory will be imported.

9. You will be presented with an Import window. For the URL of respository use http://localhost:81/svn/MyRepository if you have installed subversion as a webdav module on apache, if not just select browse and select your file directory, for example file:///c:/svn/MyRepository. Type a comment in the Import Message to signify that this is the initial directory import.

10. Import window successful. You may experience a slight pause and then you will see a log of what has been imported into Subversion

11. That’s it, I guess, from now on you can start playin with the repository using turtoiseSvn. Happy subversioning! J

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A Simple Introduction to Data Warehouse

2007-01-27T08:52:00.001+07:00

When I come home for last vacation, many of my friends ask me what my job is. Because IT consultant jobs is not very popular up there, many of my friends and relatives just couldn't understand what it is I'm doing day in day out. The just think that I'm just a computer guy, you know you could call and say, "Hey dude, looks like I mess something with my computer can you take a look at it", or "Dude, I spill something on my keyboard last night, will the computer be dead?", or more silly things like "Hey don't get close to the computer it has a virus in it, you could get infected, can you fixed it hendra?" while looking desperately to me...arrrggg..

It's just depressing sometimes when people home ask me what I'm doing,, so to make the story short, I'll tell you what I'm doing. I'm currently developing a datawarehouse at a mining company. "Stop right there young man. A data warehouse you said? What is that thing, explain them to me!"

Okay before I start telling more about what I do, first I'll tell you about what I know of data warehouse.

Company stores a lot of data these days, even a small company can store up to hundred thousands of data every day. Thus the question arise, what can we do with that kind of data? Can we draw conclusions out of it? Can we make decissions based on it? Can we make predictions out of it?

Because there's the need to answer all these question, comes in a concept of Data Warehouse. It's a central repository of all the data. It's a consolidation data for the foundation of extraction information out of data. Why the heck do we need to build it anyway? Isn't the data is already there? Yes the data is there, but is it consolidated, hows the performance impact of doing direct analysis to transactional data,

So basically a datawarehouse is a consolidated central repository (warehouse) of data, in which the data is stored in a structure that enables the data to be analyzed without any significant impact on performance.

So there goes, my own definition of a datawarehouse. We'll continue next time.

technorati tags:data, warehouse, flock, datawarehouse

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Women in Society

2006-12-07T08:53:00.000+07:00

Agak-agak gatal untuk tidak berbicara mengenai poligami sekarang-sekarang ini. I can't stop my mind in a last few days from thinking about it. Terutama masalah kedudukan wanita di dalam masyarakat kita. Menurutku gak ada yang salah dengan poligami kalau dilakukan dengan memenuhi syarat-syaratnya dengan tetap mengutamakan salah satu pilar utama dalam Islam yaitu keadilan. It's a little bit hard not to include religious believe in this topic, because it's what trigger almost this entire topic anyway. Menurutku ada beberapa hal pokok yang mungkin bisa menjadi jalan keluar dari kekisruhan opini yang sekarang ini berkembang.

Pertama memperbaiki cara pandang kita terhadap wanita, kedudukannya dan posisinya di masyarakat. Agak sulit mungkin bagi awalnya untuk menerima wanita sebagai partner yang setara, karena pandangan patrialkal yang sudah tertanam sedemikian dalam. Pandangan bahwa wanita hanyalah wadah, pengikut, second-in-command, wakil komandan dalam strata rumah tangga ini yang membuat pandangan ini tertanam begitu dalam. Agak sulit untuk menemukan rumah tangga dimana kedua orang tuanya bertindak satu sama lain sebagai partner yang setara. Ini bukan berarti mengganti peran bapak sebagai tulang punggung keluarga, tetapi menurutku malah melengkapi dengan ibu sebagai otak rumah tangga misalnya. Equal share of the responsibilty. Kemudian pandangan ini dapat diterapkan di lingkungan dengan menempatkan wanita sebagai partner yang sejajar tanpa melecehkan di segala bidang.

Kedua menurutku mengenai masalah poligami itu sendiri. According to what I believe, poligamy diperbolehkan. DIPERBOLEHKAN bukan DIANJURKAN. May NOT Must! Diperbolehkan dengan syarat-syarat, syarat yang paling utama adalah keadilan. Memang banyak yang berpendapat berbeda mengenai penafsiran 'Adil' ini. Tapi anggaplah kita semua orang bodoh yang baru pertama kali belajar bahasa, take it to our deepest sense, our basic instinct. Can we ever be fair when it comes to this? Kalo merasa sanggup dan syarat-syarat kesanggupannya jelas dan ketat, maka silahkan. Jangan diributkan, jangan dipermasalahkan. Karena biasanya mempermasalahkan sesuatu itu DAPAT membuat masalah dari ketiadaan. Hal yang penting untuk diperhatikan adalah syarat-syarat serta perlindungan hukum dari pernikahan itu sendiri. Harus ada semacam proteksi terhadap perempuan dari kekerasan rumah tangga dan keterlantaran. Sebab kita tau kita manusia tidak luput dari kesalahan, maka kita harus dapat membuat sistem yang dapat melindungi kita dari kesalahan itu bukan? Kalo tidak buat apa kita dilengkapi dengan akal sehat dan kejeniusan. Perlindungan ini penting baik untuk istri maupun untuk anak dalam pernikahan.

So there goes, I think polygamy is a matter which must be handle with care. Bila diatur dengan benar dapat menghasilkan kebaikan yang besar, namun bila tidak it's like a double bladed sword, it can kill you both.

Looking Back

2006-11-27T10:46:00.000+07:00

A while ago I read my friend's blog about her lives choices and about looking at the past. It makes me remember about my journey on IT world. At first I was a system administrator, doing an intern on my campus Lab. As a system administrator, I learn alot about networking, system maintenance, UNIX families, Linux, Shell scripting, unattended installation, well just about anything a system administrator daily job is.
Then after a while somebody offer me a job as a web developer on developing a system which I think is huge (for someone who just started developing web professionally at that time). When working at this project I learn the hard way about frameworks, project management and versioning. Good project management, combine with solid framework and integrated versioning will determine almost 75% of the software we will produce. After that one project, I'm almost 100% in the web development and other application development projects. I'm so into software development that I with some friends build our own startup company. During that time, Joel Spolsky (joelonsoftware.com) was one of my favorites site which I visit daily and follow to the heart.
Not so long after that I got into an economic dilema, I have to got some income because my family couldn't support me anymore, while this new startup was in an uncertain state. So I desperately apply to one of IT Consultant company in Indonesia as an application developer. But I guess faith has another plan for me, and I got in on a business intelligence project. In the beginning I hope I can do both thing at the same time, but it didn't work out. I can't continue to support our startup company and bail out from my friends. I feel really bad about this, because it has been my dream since I started my college time to start a company, and build my business from bottom up. But I guess circumstances won't allow it, or I'm not a person who dares take such a risk.
One thing I didn't regret was that this new experience, this new world of business intelligence is great. I've come to love it, now I one to focus on it and be a great business intelligence consultant. It's great because I think it is the forefront of information technology to business users. Building business intelligence is like building a large machine to answer the business question a lot of business users will ask. It has been one great adventure for me in this world of software building, and I'm ready for some more.

Ipaq 6515

2006-11-24T13:37:00.000+07:00

I've got this new gadget to play with, it's a second hand HP Ipaq6500 Messenger Series. I've been using this toy for a while now, and I must say, compare to my previous smartphone this one really has more power and flexibility. Although I must say I can't compare it's size, it's a little bit wide so it's not so comfortable to put on your pocket jeans. One thing I like the most from this PDA is the QWERTY keyboard, which fits nicely on my hand, although the button is a little bit small which makes it a little depressing to type at first, but eventually you'll get used to it. It took me a while to get accustomed to the 'qwerty' keyboard, since previously I'm using a smartphone with only 12 button available. But as soon as I get used too it, I could type messages faster than before.

One other feature which I haven't played a lot with this device is the GPS feature. I've once tried it out with Garmin (a popular GPS mapping software), but unfortunately it caused my ipaq some problem after uninstalling. So now I'm playing with OziExplorer for jakarta map. It's not a dedicated GPS tool, so you can't expect much of it, but for a standard user like me its more than enough. I can in less than 5 minutes now exactly where I am within a range of 8m. It's kind of cool! One of the downside of turning on GPS on this device is that the battery wont last long enough for one day.

So for you geeks out there who knows how to hack this thing apart to use all it's capability, share it with me ok.

Blind Love

2006-11-10T15:47:00.000+07:00

Some say that love blinds us. But is it really true?
I believe that love open our eyes,
to see beyond what other people see.
We can see the goodness in people that perhaps others can't see,
we can see greatness when others see weakness,
we can see wisdom when others see stupidity
I believe that loving somebody makes us see great thing in them.

We don't love people just by looking at their physical characteristics right?
Although at first it maybe become our first attraction, but it's just not enough.
We need other quality, other things that makes her/him attractive to us.
Perhaps their generousity, their attitude, their kindness, their 'macho'
behaviour, and lots of other thing. For me there's one person that I think is the 'one'.

She is my soulmate, my other side, my alter ego.
She's the one that complete me (so Jerry McGuire hahaha.. )
I hurts me the most when somebody else say anything bad about her,
say that I could find someone better (even if not directly),
but it hurts me...it hurts..
Yes, perhaps I could find someone better,
Yes, perhaps she is not perfect,
But I don't want anyone else, I want her,
For all she is,
Even if the whole world says I'm wrong, but my heart says I'm right
Even if the whole world disagree with me, but my heart say she's the one
Can you hear me world? I don't want anyone but her,
You can scream at me and mock me, You can laugh at me and spit me
But not to her, because I will defend her with all I've got

One more thing, the one that can hurt you the most is the one that you love the most,
Why can't you just accept her like I do, why can't you stop complaining, are you that perfect,
is your son's love just another trophy to you, just like every other trophy your son has gave?
I can't hate you, but can't just you love her like I do
Just one big unconditional love..
I love her because I choose to love her,
I love her because I want to love her, can't you at least understand that?

Oh, what mumbling have I wrote, but it's what I really feel right now..
my heart like a little boat on a stormy sea

Human Grief

2006-05-15T12:36:00.000+07:00

We all mourn and grief from the death of our brother, sister, family, friends.
So why must we fight? Why must we hold war? Is it worthed so much that we must shed
blood of other human?
What value that we hold that justify that? On what level human being low itself to be worth killing for?

This question has been burdening my thought for so long..
I haven't found the answer yet. But I hold a strong believe that no man is worth killing for unless he's an animal,
who'se soul existence in this world only cause suffering to others. Is there such a human exist?

Babling with PHP, .Net, Python

2005-03-23T18:21:00.000+07:00

I don't know what shall my focus be, I'm coding in php and python at the same times,
it's a total mess I must say, changing from one language to the other at the same times.
Can one day exist a language that will suffice all, could there be exist a universal language?
hahahaha what am I babling about, we developers have our own personal privileges don't we?
there's one language that we like, and why is that? we can give a lot of reason, but why exactly?
everything have it's own plus and minuses...
talk about language, I'm into learning .Net and C# right now, what do you think?
or should I just deepen my understanding on PHP 5?

have you seen Wimbledon (movie)?
it's story is lite, not so heavy but inspiring, it's about how love can change people.. (hahahaha old stories huh, but they do you know!)
you should try and grab one if you have a spare time

strange journey

2005-03-07T21:02:00.000+07:00

where will I go after this, where will this path lead me
I don't know yet, but I'll faithfully walk it
may it raining or storm I'll stay on my foot and walk

and I see people passing by, with sad smile or sorrowfull laugh
walking through this paved road
this long and exhausting journey

-henz-

Monster

2005-02-19T15:58:00.000+07:00

Monster by Naoki Urasawa
" ..Once upon a time there lived a nameless monster. He was dying to have a name.
So, he made up his mind to set out on a journey to look for a name... "

I've just finished reading this manga, it's great..and scary story
about an experiments to human mind that make a person become a monster...

It's just awful when you think what a human being can do when your feeling's just gone...

finding answer..

2005-01-16T16:07:00.000+07:00

most of us become a believer for a religion when we were born, because of our parents..
but have we try to look for the truth?
to the big question that we mankind ourself can't answer
such as why are we here?
who created us? to whom we must pray?

I myself although has been a muslim since I was born, and raised in a muslim way
had always curious about my own religion...but in my search I've found that this is the right way,
this is the true way, there's no doubt in it.

lately I've been seeing Ahmad Deedat's video of discussion, and it makes me believe that I'm on the
right track...

I hope you'll find your way too...

try this link..

[Listening to: M. ARIFIN ILHAM - 02 Yaa Nabi Salam 'Alaika - M. ARIFIN ILHAM - DZIKIR & NASYID (6:14)]

Security on a system

2005-01-14T13:59:00.000+07:00

I've been installing one faculty's server where I study at, it was attacked by a hacker a few days ago..
I got this kinda strange feeling, the guy who previously installed this server had put a whole shebang of security countermeasure and yet there still some hole that need attention...
was it always human factor?

man and machine

2005-01-10T18:41:00.000+07:00

yahooo....I got myself a new machine yesterday,
just need some processing power, so I bought new AMD Athlon XP 2.6 GHz
a DFI NFII Ultra Lan Party B which is a really complete board for my Athlon,
I got my self a 1.5 Raid, Firewire, SATA, nice 5.1 Dolby Digital Chip, Gigabit LAN
hahahaha
and it's still go on....
Mod PC compatible cabling and mobo, new PC bag, a cool front panel...
this motherboard seems to give everthing you need in 2 years ahead...

well I really like to try J2EE now...hehehe

Do you like firefox?

2005-01-05T14:06:00.000+07:00

Do you like firefox? I do, althogh I think it's still very immature (it's only version 1.0) but it has a great prospect

2005-01-05T13:53:00.000+07:00

can I blog through w.bloggar?

aceh in sorrow, makes you think..

2005-01-05T13:44:00.000+07:00

terkadang kita bingung, musibah yang ditimpakannya merupakan cobaan, peringatan atau bahkan azab. tapi mari kita introspeksi diri, rasanya sudah beberapa kali cobaab diberikan tapi tetap saja kita tidak memperhatikan, berapa peringatan sudah kita acuhkan, mungkin kini saatnya kita menerima azabnya....astaghfirullah

should we just stand and watch or lets do something about it..
cursed the people who takes this moment just to make themself famous...

good intentions will always prevail..