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Gerakan Bawah Tanah - Mr. GBT

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  Posted: August 26th, 2010, 11:49pm WIT by budi

  In the "old age", meaning music was available on records or cassettes, you could play a music backwards. It's not an easy thing to do, but doable. You play the media, physically, backwards.There are stories that you can hear certain kind of messages, weird ones, if you play certain song backwards. I don't know whether it's true or not, but certainly it is interesting.Now everything is available
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  Posted: August 11th, 2010, 1:38am WIT by budi

  School (university) is starting. It's a brand new semester. I started the class today. Actually, I should have started yesterday buy I decided to dismiss the class yesterday (waiting for more students to register - or, to be exact, I wasn't ready. ha ha ha.).My class today is "Introduction to Information Technology." The class is an international class, with students from Malaysia. I was told
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  Posted: July 26th, 2010, 2:08pm WIT by budi

  It has been a while since I updated this page, eh. The thing is I have too many blogs to update :-) Oh well.This morning I thought it is going to rain. A few raindrops have fallen. I went outside to pick up newspaper before it is wet. But then, it's sunny. Whoa. I hope it is sunny the whole day, cause I don't like rainy days (and some people, ... Monday). Wet Monday? It can bring our mood
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  Posted: July 18th, 2010, 12:45am WIT by budi

  I have just got back from a futsal match. It was a good game, but now I've got a pounding headache. In another point in time, I was injured after the game. Now, it got me thinking.The reason I want to do sports is to make me healthy and fit. I am not looking for a headache, or God forbid, injury. But ...What do you think?
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  Posted: June 21st, 2010, 7:19am WIT by budi

  A question just popped in my head; "why do I need new songs?" Why do I buy CDs, download songs, and so on?I've got too many songs already in my computers, in my CD and cassette collections. I don't think I will ever finish listening to all of them.
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  Posted: May 23rd, 2010, 8:12pm WIT by budi

  I love taking a long hot shower. When I was living in Canada, I could stand in the shower for long minutes (I was going to write hours, but I don't think I would spend hours taking shower :)). It felt so good. Now, I cannot do it.In developing countries, although water is perhaps abundance, clean water is expensive (and rare in some places). You just can't spend long minutes taking a shower.
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  Posted: May 14th, 2010, 12:40pm WIT by budi

  I am sorry that this blog has been sidetracked. It's not my intention. It's just my time management has gone awry. Too many things to do, too little time. Oh well. I hope I can write more here.This is just to say that this blog is still alive :)or at least, I want it to be alive ...
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  Posted: March 28th, 2010, 10:33pm WIT by budi

  I am in the process of cleaning my harddisk. It is getting full. One thing I notice is that my music (mp3) collection is not well organized. Well, it is sort of organized but not efficient. Here's a case.I organize song according to the artis' album. What do you do with songs that are the same but distributed in different albums? For example, the song is in the original album and also in several
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  Posted: March 28th, 2010, 6:43am WIT by budi

  We were just finished joining earth hour event. We turned off all electricity stuff in our house for 1 hour. Computers off. Unplugged UPS. Even, we unplugger refrigerator. The only source of light was three candles.Vote earth!
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  Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:04pm WIT by budi

  Yaaayyy. My other blog (rahard.wordpress.com) is nominated for some kind of blog awards.It's kind of deja vu. This blog was nominated as one of the best blog in Indonesia light years ago :) I know you don't believe it, but it's true. I have a scan version of the news (in the media).
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  Posted: March 14th, 2010, 11:55pm WIT by budi

  You know, it is tough to have a bilingual blog. You have different crowds to satisfy.This blog is originally in Bahasa Indonesia, then in English, then Indonesia, then ... well, you know. I kinda indecisive about the choice of language.I know that the choice of language depends on the people reading the blog. But, when you have people with different languages, what do you do?
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  Posted: February 26th, 2010, 5:44pm WIT by budi

  I hate facebook uploading photo "feature".First of all, if I want to update a phone in a certain folder, I have to open that folder first. The thing is, to open the folder means images of the folder must be shown. Granted, the images are smaller versions but they still take time to view. I cannot select the folder without having to go through this process.After uploadin the photo, before it is
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  Posted: February 21st, 2010, 1:45am WIT by budi

  I was interviewed recently. One of the question was, what was the latest book that you have (finished?) reading. I startled. I just could not answer that question. Oh my God. I have not finished reading any book in quite a while.In this current time frame, I just have too many things to do (mostly reading and writing) that I don't have time to read books. I love reading books. I really do, but
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  Posted: February 14th, 2010, 12:59am WIT by budi

  Our band, BandIT, is active again. Gigs are in waiting in line. It's time for us to practice again. Lots of hard work, but we enjoy doing it.We play cover songs. What we want to play is classic and progressive rock, but sometimes we play pop songs as well. Just to make sure that the audience stay put :)[taken from February 2010 practice - Garin is missing in the picture]
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  Posted: February 14th, 2010, 12:46am WIT by budi

  I guess I shouldn't complain that we've got rains every day. Usually, rain starts in this afternoon and it ends in the evening. Sometimes it goes until morning. Sometimes it feels too much.What can I do? This is rainy season in Bandung, Indonesia. Embrace it ... Enjoy it ...
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  Posted: February 11th, 2010, 2:17pm WIT by budi

  One of my students asked me, why I still teach on time even though I have a hectic schedule. The answer is ... when you love what you're doing, you'll make up time to do it. I love teaching. That's it. It's very simple.At one point in my life, I even taught classes without getting paid. Just because I love doing it.So, there ...
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  Posted: February 1st, 2010, 9:58pm WIT by budi

  For some reasons, I am not too excited with the development of ipad. Yeah, it must be a great product, but ... don't know.One of my main concerns is battery lifetime. How long it would last for my regular usage? For example, I am already in the 2nd cycle charging my MacBook today. The same thing with my (old, first generation?) ipod. Its battery already died! oh well ...
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  Posted: February 1st, 2010, 1:56am WIT by budi

  I just thought that I should add books that I have recently read to shelfari.com. I have an account there but have not logged in for quite a while. Now, I am stuck and don't know what to do.It seems that I cannot add a book directly by typing the author and the title of the book. I can do a search, but the book that I was trying to add (Perahu Kertas by Dewi Lestari) was not found. So there's no
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  Posted: January 31st, 2010, 4:00pm WIT by budi

  Just what do you think our world would become?Here's a picture taken from a trash bin near my office (on campus).Oh... all those plastic. :((
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  Posted: January 31st, 2010, 3:51pm WIT by budi

  Last night was my first gig this year. It was tiring … We had to play for more than a dozen songs. My shoulder is still in pain this morning. But, it was fun. Let’s see how many gigs will I have this year … Hopefully a lot ...
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  Posted: January 27th, 2010, 7:43pm WIT by budi

  Greetings from Bandung, from ITB to be exact.This week is the first week of school. This term I am teaching two classes. Originally, I was listed in two other classes. I asked other lecturers to take over those classes. Now, I have two classes only.Well, I was surprised to see the number of students taking my class; 83 (and perhaps more). Oh boy... The class was design to accomodate 40-ish
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  Posted: January 26th, 2010, 6:33pm WIT by budi

  School year has started yesterday. Everybody is on campus. Information (importan and not-so-important) is starting to flow. The gate has been opened. It's time to catch up with this and that. I have to delete lots of stuff (emails) these days.Oh well ...
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  Posted: January 16th, 2010, 8:28pm WIT by budi

  I was told that in terms of number of Facebook users, Indonesia is number 3 in the world - after USA and UK. [reference / url needed] Whoa! This is something that you cannot predict.I can assure you that this is true. In Indonesia, everybody (and his/her pets) perhaps has facebook account. Some even have more than one accounts. (One for each personality? ha ha ha.) The number of Facebook users in
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  Posted: January 16th, 2010, 5:19pm WIT by budi

  Good morning... blue sky... bright heartGreetings from Bandung, Indonesia ...
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  Posted: January 16th, 2010, 6:02am WIT by budi

  It is interesting (and ... believe it or not, nice) that this blog has become irrelevant. Meaning, nobody visited this blog intentionally. :)A few years ago, this blog was in the top 10 of Indonesian blogs! I understand completely if you don't believe it, but it is true. I am not making this one up.I guess, a few years ago there were not many blogs. Today, there are too many good blogs to visit (
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  Posted: January 14th, 2010, 7:36pm WIT by budi

  Two days ago, Hafiz gave me this paper:The Uneasy Relationship Between Mathematics and Cryptography Exportby: Neal KoblitzNotices of the AMS, Vol. 54, No. 8. (September 2007), pp. 973-979.Done reading it. Wow. It's a great article explaining what happened behind the hood. Need more articles like this. Anybody?
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  Posted: January 12th, 2010, 5:24pm WIT by budi

  no, this is not a song list. I’ve just got my coffee … the thing is, i shouldn’t drink too much coffee. there’s going to be two meetings today. so, i have to choose which meeting i will have coffee and which one i will be in a unknown-(unstable?)-state. and … i already have had my coffee (right now). i don’t want to think about the meetings. whatever will be, will be
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  Posted: January 10th, 2010, 11:01pm WIT by budi

  Ideas.... floating around... ready to be captured... written down... imortalizedNow.... spread your net... to catch them... to persuade them... to be imortalized
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  Posted: January 10th, 2010, 4:01pm WIT by budi

  My plan for today is marking students exams. Boy ... there's too many distractions.I've got these new musical DVDs. I took sneak preview of those. Oh boy, they are so good that I want to watch them right now.Then, I wanted to update my blogs. There are so many ideas floating around. I've got to capture them and write them down before they run away.Then, books and stuff I wanted to read. Things I
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  Posted: January 8th, 2010, 2:03pm WIT by budi

  I have just posted in my other blog a question on hazard sign usage. Some people here use it to indicate that they want to go straight. The logic is something along this line; if you want to turn left, give a left turn signal; if you want to turn right, give a turn right signal; if you want to go straight? ... turn left and right at the same time. Turn the hazard lamp on! Wow???No, I am not
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  Posted: January 8th, 2010, 5:30am WIT by budi

  What did I do in 2009?In terms of academic stuff, my students and I produced 5 papers. I wrote 2 books. Not bad.Here are the papersBudi Sulistyo, Budi Rahardjo, Dimitri Mahayana, On Applicability of Chaos Game Method for Block Cipher Randomness Analysis, International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Volume I, Selangor, Malaysia, IEEE Computer Society, August 2009.Budi
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  Posted: January 7th, 2010, 12:27am WIT by budi

  Everyday my other blog (rahard.wordpress.com) is visited by more than 1000 hits daily. Currently, it has reached 1,999,079 hits. Well, tomorrow (hopefully) it will reach 2 million.Who will be the lucky person?(as if it is that important. ha ha ha. but, still... 2 million is not a small number. I am kinda proud of that blog.)
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  Posted: January 7th, 2010, 12:11am WIT by budi

  I have just opened my gmail mailbox using firefox and I was refused with an "untrusted connection". It is said that the site is untrusted and that the certificate is invalid. This is strange. I got scared. I was afraid that I typed the wrong URL (address) and got a malicious site. Phishing?After browsing the internet I found out that the problem is with my system clock/date. When I booted the
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  Posted: January 5th, 2010, 12:46am WIT by budi

  Today is the first Monday of 2010.It's not bad. In fact, it is a great day.So for those who don't like Mondays, perhaps this is an exception.I don't like Mondays ... :)
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  Posted: January 2nd, 2010, 4:50pm WIT by budi

  I have just got a song book from a friend. It's a copy actually. But, what makes this song book so interesting is that all the songs - 400 of them - were written by hand! I am not kidding. By hand!Here's a picture of it.I am enjoying the book right now. Reading the songs one by one. They are popular songs in the 70s and 80s, so I know most of them. Right now, I am adding chords to the songs.This
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  Posted: January 1st, 2010, 2:12pm WIT by budi

  Reading somewhere, I was asked to add this blog to feedburner(.com). To be frankly, I am not familiar with feedburner. So, I followed the instruction and add this blog to it.Since I have just added the blog, there's not much I can do. I wanted to analyze and optimize this blog. I'll wait a few days to see how this one goes. In the mean time, let me read all the docs related to feedburner. In any
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  Posted: January 1st, 2010, 2:01pm WIT by budi

  Happy new year ...This is my first post in this blog in 2010. I hope that this year will bring happiness to all of us.Now, let's start the day ...
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  Posted: December 29th, 2009, 3:07pm WIT by budi

  I think the internet is wonderful. Last night I listened to some (old) songs while browsing the internet for the lyrics of those songs. I knew the melody of those songs by heart, but never knew the exact lyrics.Hey, in those pre-(internet)-historic days, you could only get what's available around you. Most of the songs I knew I listened to the radio or from cassette tapes. Lyrics were limitted.
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  Posted: December 29th, 2009, 5:54am WIT by budi

  I just got back from Jakarta after around 4 hours trip (it should have been a 2 hour trip, but traffic was bad). I thought that I am tired by the time I got home, but strange enough I feel awake. Maybe that's because I slept on the road :)I decided to open my emails (mostly reading and deleting emails) and update my blogs. As usual, there's music in the background. It just so happen that Queen -
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  Posted: December 28th, 2009, 1:09pm WIT by budi

  Holiday is over. Now, it is time to work. We must finish several tasks before we hit another holiday this week :)I hope traffic is not bad today. Not sure how many people are still on holidays though. Do you work this week? Or continue with your holiday?Lord give us strength (and make things fun) ...
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  Posted: December 28th, 2009, 3:12am WIT by budi

  As part of blogwalking, I stumbled upon a list of Indonesian blogs written in English. My eyes caught a reference to this blog (Gerakan Bawah Tanah or gbt). It was mentioned that this blog receives 10 visits a day. Ha ha ha. That low now? (It used to be hundreds and at one time, more than one thousand visit/day.) And, the interesting part is that this blog is still high on many lists, including
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  Posted: December 23rd, 2009, 3:50am WIT by budi

  For some people (and perhaps, I am included) rainy days can create a bad (gloomy) mood. How could that be? I don't know, but it just could.Btw, it was rainy the whole day today and yes you are correct, my mood wasn't pretty.So, now I am searching for the word "rainy" in my iTunes playlist. Let me play those songs! Mind as well.Carpenters - Rainy days and MondaysThe Corrs - Rainy daysJames Taylor
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  Posted: December 16th, 2009, 6:04pm WIT by budi

  My connection is currently behind a firewall (with a user and password). Apparently, uploading pictures (photos) to facebook fails. How do I configure my system to allow uploading photos? Java configuration?
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  Posted: November 16th, 2009, 2:53am WIT by budi

  I had problems with Firefox 3.5. Many times it crashed when I tried to tag friends in facebook. (I have more than 4000 friends in the list.)Then, I decided to upgraded to Firefox 3.6 alpha 1 (code name Namoroka). It went fine. Now, it has moved to beta 2 and it crashes again with facebook. It happens frequently. I guess, I am switching to other browsers. Oh well...
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  Posted: November 14th, 2009, 1:42pm WIT by budi

  Let me start by confesing that I rarely backup my Macbook. That said, I occasionally use Time Machine to backup my Macbook to an external disk using USB. This morning it failed because the disk is full. There's only 33.2 GB left on the disk, while my Mac needs 93.1 GB.Last month I bought a 1TB disk. It's a WD Mybook. It came with a nifty backup software. I actually don't use that software. I use
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  Posted: November 12th, 2009, 10:07pm WIT by budi

  I have just finished reading Malcom Gladwell's "Outliers" book. Phew... It's a good book, just like his previous books; "Blink" and "Tipping Point". I should've finished reading it sooner but all the busy work that I've got slowed me down. I am glad it's done. (I hope you don't think that I feel reading is a chore.)Now, the next step is to pick a book from my to-read stack. Apparently, picking
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  Posted: November 5th, 2009, 2:44pm WIT by budi

  Just found out that there is a new search engine, duckduckgo.com.And what better way to test it than searching your own name. ha ha ha. And the result is ...
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  Posted: September 28th, 2009, 4:58am WIT by budi

  Well, holiday is (officially) over. Tomorrow we're going back to school or work. It feels so short.There are so many things that I wanted to do, but couldn't get it done during the holiday. I wanted to read lots of books, papers, articles, ... I wanted to re-learn coding (computer programming). Sharpening my skills. Alas, time went so fast.I did not regret it though, since I did get some things
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  Posted: September 25th, 2009, 5:53am WIT by budi

  I thought creativity is all good. After listening to some TED's presentation, I realized that creativity has a dark side.Once creativity has visited you, you are doomed forever. For the lack of creativity can send you to dark paths. Paths that you didn't think you will thread upon.You just have to have creativity. Gotta have... You life depends on it. I am not joking. You can find the number of (
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  Posted: September 23rd, 2009, 7:31pm WIT by budi

  [seafood lamien @ banquet, singapore]
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  Posted: September 23rd, 2009, 7:22pm WIT by budi

  I have not watched Formula 1 closely for a year (or two?) and was surprised to hear that there was a scandal. I was in Singapore and heard it on the news. The incident happened in Singapore last year! Whoa ...So, now, I am searching the internet for more information about this. If I understood correctly, Nelson Piquet was asked to crash his car so that Alonso would win. The thing is, I didn't
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  Posted: September 19th, 2009, 7:08am WIT by budi

  How long can an article be copyrighted?I was looking for an article of a journal. It is published in 1971. I cannot access (download) the article from the journal's web site. This makes me think, how long does the journal have the "monopoly" of that article?
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  Posted: September 10th, 2009, 2:04pm WIT by budi

  We are trying to measure the amount of resources needed to run our program, written in C. Looking here and there, I found getrusage (2). So, yesterday I tried to write a simple code:#include #include #include int main(){int y[100][100];struct rusage *resource;int x;x = getrusage(0, resource);printf("x = %d\n", x);printf("errno = %d\n", errno);return(0);}The
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  Posted: August 23rd, 2009, 6:26am WIT by budi

  I've got (too many) presentation invitations. So, I do quite a bit presentations. Maybe, it is even my main job :)One thing people don't realize is that the amount of effort and time that I have to put preparing for the presentation. Some people think that I can use old presentations and can just wing it. Apparently, each presentation is different. I still need to modify the presentation. Some
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  Posted: August 16th, 2009, 5:15pm WIT by budi

  Tomorrow, 17 August, is our independence day.There are many events in our community to celebrate this. Mostly, they are sports, fun competition (lomba makan kerupuk, panjat pohon pinang, anybody?) and outdoors gathering.That should be great! To bad I don't have photos :(Long live Indonesia.
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  Posted: August 9th, 2009, 1:59pm WIT by budi

  I have a personal project, in which I plan to take picture(s) from the same spot. The picture looks like this.I enjoy watching the picture, the environment. It is great. Especially, if the weather is great and it shows in the picture. It sets my mood.For the last couple of days, the weather was not great. It was kinda gloomy. So, I didn't take the picture. I didn't want to have gloomy days. This
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  Posted: August 5th, 2009, 12:54pm WIT by budi

  When you hurt someone, you actually hurt yourself.So, my apology to whoever I hurt.I didn't mean to do it.(I never intentionally want to hurt somebody.)
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  Posted: July 25th, 2009, 7:40pm WIT by budi

  I had a quiz the day before yesterday. One of the questions was "what do you if you are bored?" One of the answers was "defrag disks" (or something like that). I didn't realize that this might be true. Yesterday I did defrag my disks :) and right now I am trying to organize (junk?) files.I have so many images (photos) taken with my digital camera and my cellphones. Sometimes to get one good image
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  Posted: July 20th, 2009, 5:37pm WIT by budi

  I am having a problem with Firefox on Mac OS X (on a Macbook). I was using Firefox 3.0* (forgot the exact version). Then for some reasons, the windows was displayed off the screen.For example, if I press "apple ," there is no configuration window. The screen was just clean. If I press F9 (expose), the screen appeared. So, I know it is there. But, when I tried to get into it the screen went clean
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  Posted: July 1st, 2009, 3:06am WIT by budi

  I am in the middle of coding and suddenly realized that I have to solve (code) x^y mod z, where x, y, and z are large integer numbers. Straight coding, that is by multiplying x by y times before performing mod with z, is inefficient.I know that I am dealing with big integers, but my interest is in the algorithm. I am reading fast exponentiation right now, but just in case any of you know better
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  Posted: May 23rd, 2009, 5:29am WIT by budi

  I watch American Idol and enjoying the show. Most of the time. So, I watched the 2009 Finale.I was surprised with the finale. It was excellent. The thing that surprises me is the guests. I could not believe they were able to bring many stars, such as Black Eyed Peas, Cindy Lauper, Keith Urban, Lionel Ritchie, Rod Stewart, Santana, Kiss, and ... Queen! Whoaaa...I love rock music. A long time ago I
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  Posted: May 2nd, 2009, 1:35pm WIT by budi

  yeah,... it's time to rewire my brain... it needs some refreshing ideas... stuff it with great ideas... some wild ones too... remove sad memories... attach happinescome onhelp merewire my brain[there should be a nifty tunes attached to this? :) ][br, may 2009]
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  Posted: April 28th, 2009, 6:50pm WIT by budi

  I've just visited Google.com and got the following page:Ah... It has been a while since I used Morse code.Now, let's give it a try. I put [--. --- --- --. .-.. .] in the search field of Google. The result is ...Your search - --. --- --- --. .-.. . - did not match any documents. How come there's no match? Google should provide the search result in Morse code. Ha ha ha. Any takers out there?-... .
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  Posted: April 14th, 2009, 12:40pm WIT by budi

  Dear Colleague,The Inaugural Issue (Vol.1/No.1) of the Internetworking Indonesia Journal (IIJ) has just been published. You can get free access to the papers (PDF) at the following location:http://internetworkingindonesia.org/iij-vol1-no1-spring2009.htmlHere is the Table of Contents:The Overhead and Efficiency Analysis on WiMAX's MAC Management Messageby Ardian Ulvan, Vit Andrlik & Robert
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  Posted: April 14th, 2009, 4:54am WIT by budi

  I was going to create a presentation that I have to do in two days. I've got some ideas but they are still 10% of what I needed. I need inspiration. So, I went to slideshare.net. Boy, ... it was a "bad" decision, I guess.I ended up browsing lots of slides. Just because they are awesome. How could they create great presentations? They are very good in design. Me? I have no idea what "design" is. I
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  Posted: April 9th, 2009, 5:48am WIT by budi

  Tomorrow is election day. We - Indonesians - will vote for the political party (ies) that will rule Indonesia. Great. But the sad part is that I don't know what or who to vote. Suggestion anybody?Perhaps it doesn't matter anyway?
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  Posted: March 11th, 2009, 2:17pm WIT by budi

  I do quite a bit presentations. To make things more interesting, usually I put interesting image or photos in my slides. (I know not to over do with the images and such.) The question iswhere can I get good and free photos for my presentations?I see those presentations at slideshare.net and envy those great images. Aaa...
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  Posted: March 9th, 2009, 4:29pm WIT by budi

  taken an hour ago at home ...that's not all. the rest? even worse ... ha ha ha
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  Posted: February 15th, 2009, 11:40pm WIT by budi

  Accidentally, I found the following web site: Indonesian Village. It's an interesting site, because it tells story (and perhaps dreams) of an Indonesian Village. Check it out:http://indonesianvillage.com/
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  Posted: January 30th, 2009, 11:50am WIT by budi

  Last night I was so tired. I planned to take a short nap (say, less than 1 hour) and then worked on various things (finishing marking student papers, editing book drafts, and so son). But, I ended up having a long sleep.I did wake up one hour after started to sleep. I was going to wake up, but I thought ... another 5 minutes wouldn't hurt. Alas. Five minutes turned into an hour! After that I
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  Posted: January 24th, 2009, 2:49am WIT by budi

  ˙˙˙puɐɯǝp ɹɐlndod ʎq ʞɔɐq˙˙˙
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  Posted: January 22nd, 2009, 1:57pm WIT by budi

  You see somebody. You don't like what you see, for example his/her values, attitude, and the like. You said to yourself. I can change him/her.You know what... You CANNOT!S/he must change her/himself. You cannot change somebody. Especially if that person is not willing to change.
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  Posted: January 22nd, 2009, 5:52am WIT by budi

  I've just found out (my accident) that this blog was not listed in Indonesia Matters. Previously, it was listed as part of top 10.Hey, I didn't make this blog just to be a top 10 blog. So, it doesn't really matter anyway.On a side note, I just have to find time to update this blog. I've been focusing my attention on my worpress blog. Time is not on my side this time ...
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  Posted: January 9th, 2009, 2:57am WIT by budi

  I am involved in a research trying to do a packet inspection on a high-speed (10Gb) [ethernet] network. There are many issues that we have to face.First, packet drops. We are using software (tools) that requires all packets to be available before the inspection begins. Unfortunately, our network is not clean, there are packet drops. Some packets are missing. This really creates a problem for
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  Posted: January 1st, 2009, 12:25pm WIT by budi

  it's a brand new day, in a brand new year.first post in this blog.hopefully, we are better (in many ways) this year.
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  Posted: January 1st, 2009, 3:43am WIT by budi

  I've given up on making yearly resolution. I don't know why. Perhaps, it's because I've never really tried to put real effort ini making the resolution (and making it happens). It's just something I wrote (randomly?) at that particular time.So, this year (like the year before), there's no 2009 resolution for me. How about you? What's your new year resolution? What? None???this screen has better
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  Posted: December 29th, 2008, 4:38pm WIT by budi

  I've seen people... live in their superficial lives.... what a sad world that would beDo they (even) realize it?... do they care?I wish... I am not one of them... with you around
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  Posted: December 28th, 2008, 11:42pm WIT by budi

  Everytime I go to a conference, seminar, and the like, I've got a name tag or some sort of identification. Over the years I've been collecting them. Here's a picture of some of them.Now, they're there collecting dusts.What should I do with them?Throw them away?Tell me.
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  Posted: December 28th, 2008, 2:00am WIT by budi

  I can't stand looking at that unempty recycle bin.I just have the urge the empty it.Do you?
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  Posted: December 14th, 2008, 3:27pm WIT by budi

  After almost one month away without internet access, now I am back.For almost one month I went to Mecca for my hajj (pilgrimage). It was a deep religious experience for me. There was internet access in various places. I just decided not to access it so that I can focus on my hajj. In fact, I don't want to think about other things (work-related stuff). Just hajj.I turned out I am fine without
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  Posted: November 13th, 2008, 1:46pm WIT by budi

  Yes ... this exists in our world ... too many, in fact. Do you care?From Campur 2[taken @ cikampek toll, november 2008. budi rahardjo]
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  Posted: October 28th, 2008, 1:59pm WIT by budi

  24 hours... is not enough to finish these tasks24 minutes... is too long while waiting for you
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  Posted: October 27th, 2008, 6:50am WIT by budi

  Last week I was invited to give presentations in Yogyakarta. The venue was in a 5-star hotel. The hotel and the event was great, but ... my (biggest) complaint is internet access.Internet access in this hotel was expensive. For 24-hour access, it costs US$16. Okay, to some of you this might be acceptable but not for me. Not far from the hotel, on the street outside the hotel area, there were
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  Posted: October 18th, 2008, 1:29pm WIT by budi

  Everybody needs attention...... not money...... not things...... not anything...... just a little attention...... that's all!...
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  Posted: October 12th, 2008, 1:19pm WIT by budi

  My iBook G4 (tiger) is having a problem I updated the software. There was an infinite loop of "Your network settings have been changed by another application" pop up when I tried to configure the network.Apparently lots of people had the same problem after the latest security update is applied. Arrrghhh. After following the discussion below, I managed to "fix" the problem. (Basically, I removed
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  Posted: September 27th, 2008, 11:51am WIT by budi

  we exchanged wordsbut we've never talkedcommunicationis not a dictionary searchlooking up for wordsand trying to map our feeling onto themsometimesyou have to paint your feelingwith colors that have no name
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  Posted: September 21st, 2008, 2:28am WIT by budi

  This (Saturday) morning was great. It was bright and cool at the same time. Hey, it's Bandung. What do you expect? ha ha ha. So, I decided to take some pictures in the backyard. Here they are.From IndonesiaFrom IndonesiaFrom IndonesiaFrom IndonesiaFrom IndonesiaFrom IndonesiaGood stuff, eh? Those are the ones in the backyard. There are more in the frontyard, but if I put them in this page, it's
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  Posted: September 19th, 2008, 6:19pm WIT by budi

  After using Google Chrome for a few days (weeks actually), I decided to stick with Firefox. At lest for now. Yes, Chrome seems to be better technically (I like the process vs thread approach), but I am having difficulties managing my blogs with it. I guess blogs won!I know, I know, I know. It's still beta. You're forgiven, Chrome. I am going to try the next version / update. Which is when?
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  Posted: September 7th, 2008, 2:32pm WIT by budi

  I decided to give Google Chrome a spin. I tried to edit one of my blogs which is based on Wordpress. For some reasons, all paragraphs became one (long) paragraph.I tried to edit it again. In the editor, the paragraphs looked fine but when I published the entry again, those paragraphs became one again. In the end I used Firefox to edit that blog entry. It worked.Also, some stylings (like italics,
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  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 12:28pm WIT by budi

  It's that time of the year (again). School is back. I am teaching a couple courses this semester; one for undergrads and one for grads.As usual, I ask my students to create blogs. Assignment should be written in their blogs. They have to have blogs. No option :) Before, I had to bring papers home (and back to the office) if I want to mark their assignments. Now, all I have to do is access the
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  Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 2:22pm WIT by budi

  I am teaching an IT course for non-IT students. It's a challenge, especially for me the teacher!Now, I am trying to teach number conversions. I have to teach them how to convert decimal numbers to binary (octal and hexadecimal) and vice versa. I know the theory, but I need a better explanation. Remember that this class is a non-IT class.I am looking for an animation or some sort to make the
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  Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 1:23pm WIT by budi

  Just to let you know that I am teaching a new course this term. It's an "Introduction to Information Technology" course.You think that this is an easy topic for me, eh? Apparently not so.Well, I am familiar with the topic, but I have to follow the class according to the textbook. This is also a paralel class, which means I have to sync the class with the other classes.Since this is a new class, I
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  Posted: August 19th, 2008, 5:08am WIT by budi

  It's that time of the year. School is on! Tomorrow I am going to teach a new course; an Introduction to Information Technology. I am excited ... but ... here's the story.I've just got the information about the class not long ago. The formal information that I am teaching the class was delivered a couple weeks ago. Now, I am struggling to digest the textbook which I've just got a couple weeks
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  Posted: August 18th, 2008, 4:11pm WIT by budi

  As usual, I went jogging this morning. But this morning was different.Today was quiet. The universe was quiet. ha ha ha. I guess that's because yesterday - 17 August 2008 - was our Independence Day. Everybody was so busy yesterday with their events and competitions that they were tired and perhaps were still sleeping.I took some pictures on my way. Here they are ...My jogging track. Look how
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  Posted: July 29th, 2008, 5:21am WIT by budi

  Here's the deal. I have sooo many reports that I have to read. I am still reading them. Last Friday, a book arrived at my office. It was a textbook for a course that I have to teach next term (which is starting in about a month). I have to read this 600-pages textbook in one month. Not only that I have to read it, I have to understand it. Heck, I am teaching the course. Can you imagine if I
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  Posted: July 19th, 2008, 3:53pm WIT by budi

  The past ... has been dragging us Let us ... move forward I am not saying that the past is not important, but sometimes it keeps us from moving forward. Bad experience in the past, dark history, and what not, are important. I am not saying that we should forget them. It's just that we have to be brave enough to embrace the future. The (bright) future, ready or not, ... here I come! How about
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  Posted: July 16th, 2008, 4:04am WIT by budi

  There are two ways to explore the wealth of information; "Breadth First Search (BFS)" or "Depth First Search (DFS)." In BFS, if you find a new branch of information, you jump into it. In DFS, you dig down deeper before you branch out. It seems that older generations tend to explore knowledge in DFS fashion. They concentrate in a subject and explore that particular subject deeper and deeper. They
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  Posted: July 8th, 2008, 1:51pm WIT by budi

  I am reading a review of a book a few minutes ago. At the end, I came to a conclusion that it was a good book but with too many words. The reviewer was not too excited describing the book. In another place, I found a more raving review of the book. It's a best seller book in Indonesia. (I am not going to give the title. :) ) I've got the book but for some reasons I have not started reading the
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  Posted: July 4th, 2008, 4:46am WIT by budi

  I was pretending to be somebody else so that you like me I am so sorry ... Now, if that was said to you, ... would you forgive? and forgotten? There's one thing that I just don't understand. Why would you lie in the first place? You should give me more credits. I am not that shallow. [posting was inspired by the suite life of zack and cody]
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  Posted: June 22nd, 2008, 3:47pm WIT by budi

  I am looking for a simple MIDI sequencer, something that looks like "Band in a Box" (a product that I had a long time ago). Preferably a free one. The idea is that I can select a rhythm pattern (say, rock, pop, jazz, or variations of them) and then I can enter chords by typing their name (say, "C" or "Dm" or "CM7" and so on). After that I can play the composition. Actually, I need this for my