Informatix

Quick Update

Admin 11:07 pm on 6 November 2009 | 0 Permalink

KDE 4.3.3 has just been released few days ago and today, Slackware-Current has KDE 4.3.3 packages on the -Current tree. That was quick update of Slackware-Current (as always). However, i got some problem after removing phonon package (as suggested by the Changelog). My Amarok won't play MP3 files anymore. In order to solve the problem, i re-installed Phonon package and everything worked just fine as it was to be.

For now, i won't remove Phonon until there is a clear reason i should abandon Phonon and rely to gstreamer.

Ovarian Cancer

Admin 8:22 am on 5 November 2009 | 0 Permalink

Cancer is still one of the most frightening disease in the world. Many people have suffered from many kind of cancer. This statement were taken from WHO report on 2003, and Quick Cancer fact on WHO

Cancer rates could further increase by 50% to 15 million new cases in the year 2020

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide: it accounted for 7.9 million deaths (around 13% of all deaths) in 2007.

This is definitely not a good news, since every year, there has been many report about this and it's growing, meaning that more and more people died from many case of cancer.

There has been a lot of campaign to reduce cancer by doing some activities below:

Reduction of tobacco consumption. Tobacco remains the most important avoidable cancer risk. In the 20th century, approximately 100 million people died world-wide from tobacco-associated diseases
A healthy lifestyle and diet can help. Frequent consumption of fruit and vegetables and physical activity can make a difference.
Early detection through screening, particularly for cervical and breast cancers, allow for prevention and successful cure.

There are so many cancer type and each type will attack different part of our body. One of the example is ovarian cancer. According Wikipedia, 16090 women died from 25580 case of ovarian cancer in 2004. According to Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Ovarian cancer is the fifth leading cause of death from cancer in women and the leading cause of death from gynecological cancer.

Even though it's deadly, there has been a lot of effort to solve this problem. One of the organizations who fight for Ovarian Cancer is BioCancell by developing BC-819 and H19.

For those who wanted to have a first look on the solution provided by BioCancell, please have a look on Biocancell ovarian cancer clinical trials info.

It would be better to know your enemy before it attacked you, just like a good quote from Sun Tzu: If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

Mandriva 2010.0 Released

Admin 7:01 am on 4 November 2009 | 0 Permalink

Even though it's not yet 2010, but Mandriva has released their latest product called Mandriva 2010. Like always, Mandriva brings you the latest update from the Open Source world into your desktop (and servers), enabling you to taste the latest development of many open source application and kernel.

For more information about this new release, please check it here. I'm still waiting until it's ready on the Indonesian mirror. Let's just hope it won't take too long

Domain Expired

Admin 4:49 am on 3 November 2009 | 0 Permalink

I was a little bit shocked when i tried to access Indonesian Linux Forum and the browser returned with a message that it couldn't find the server. Next, i tried to access the main site and i got an expired message

. So this is the culprit.

So, until the domain has been extended, i can't do anything about the forum. Let's hope the maintainer will fix this problem ASAP.

Foundstone’s Free Tools

Admin 10:28 pm on 2 November 2009 | 0 Permalink

For those who need to teach about security-related topic, such as SQL Injection, Buffer Overflow, and so on, you can try to use Foundstone's Free Tools which are available for free from their website. Every tools listed there is for Windows (sadly), but you can always use virtualization tools, such as VMWare or VirtualBox to install another OS on top of your primary OS.

I tried to use the HackMe family (it consists of 4 different applications) to teach in my CEH class. Actually this is for next week class, but i decided to try it on today, so i will have more spare time next week.

Slow Again?

Admin 11:35 pm on 1 November 2009 | 0 Permalink

November started today and one thing i noticed on the first day of November is that Speedy is getting a little bit slower than it used to be. Some friends of mine has posted their complaints on several micro blogging sites, such as Plurk or Twitter.

I experienced this problem also, but since i was out of home since noon and i came back at the evening, i didn't have too much problem with it. At night, when i wanted to browse some pages in the Internet, i realized the problem. No wonder my friends complaint.

Let's just hope it's a temporary problem and it will be fixed asap

Presentation on UPN Veteran

Admin 11:46 pm on 31 October 2009 | 0 Permalink

Today, i'm giving a presentation about OS comparison between Windows and Linux at UPN Veteran, Jogja. The presentation was a little bit delayed, but i managed to finish on time and let my partner, Rachmat Febrianto, the head chair of Jogja Open Solaris Group to give a presentation about OpenSolaris and it's feature.

Thanks to the local students. It was a great presentation and i wish it may give you some insight about how beautiful Linux can be

Culinary

Admin 11:29 pm on 30 October 2009 | 0 Permalink

There will be an annually culinary event at Vredeburg from today until November 1st. You can taste lots of foods there while enjoying some show which was performed by some group (today, it was a group from Sulawesi).

I recommend that you go there if you have spare time or you don't have any plans for tomorrow.

Karmic Koala Release Day

Admin 10:13 pm on 29 October 2009 | 0 Permalink

Today is the day where many Ubuntu/Kubuntu users will be pleased. It's because Karmic Koala, the latest Ubuntu/Kubuntu will be available through all mirrors around the world. For now, the distribution has landed on several Indonesian Mirror, such as UI and UGM. More mirrors will come up in the next few hours up to few days.

So far, i have downloaded Ubuntu and Kubuntu 9.10 for my collection. I'm downloading the netbook version as many people likes to install it on their netbook.

Changed API

Admin 11:03 pm on 28 October 2009 | 0 Permalink

RapidShare has changed their APIs again

. This forces me to update my own script which i usually use to see my account from my local desktop. They have done so in the past and they have done it again this time.

It's kinda frustrating, since people who depends on their APIs will have to check on their documentation daily just to make sure that their code is still working due to unchanged APIs. IMHO, API should be stable and less prone to changes. With a stable APIs, then people will get more benefit of it because they are quite stable and supported for quite a long time. This way, they can work on more ideas on how to provide better service to the clients instead of working with API changes every day.