Installing Firefox Aurora binary

I rarely use Firefox these days. I usually use Chrome, Lynx or Opera for web browsing. I think it’s because the latest Firefox version on BlankOn repository is 3.6 (or is it 3.5?). It’s still quite a good one, but I didn’t have any reason to use it while I got other browsers on their [...]

Gong Xi Fa Cai

恭喜发财. Congratulations, and be prosperous


Model rambut

Dari era ’80-an? Rasanya sekarang hampir tidak ada lagi mematut rambutnya seperti model-model ini. Tapi kok posternya masih beredar di berbagai tukang pangkas rambut ya? Semacam penglaris?

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Wikipedia planned to do anti-SOPA blackout

I’ve heard the news for couple weeks, but only this morning I read official announcement from Wikimedia foundations about their Wikipedia blackout plan. It’s quite an unfortunate decision, but I agree that Wikipedia must make clear of their…


Ubunchu #006

After long hiatus, Indonesian translation of Ubunchu #006 is finally released. The zip file is hosted at ubunchu.dompu.info, along with previous issues. Neat. Thanks for Mr Farhan Perdana for doing the translations (and inserting random local jokes her…


Happy birthday, Yen

Selamat ulang tahun, Jeni singkek


The Piratebay switch to magnet link as default options

The Pirate Bay has announced that they’ve decide to make magnet link as default replacing torrent files. The torrent files would be still available as usual. I really had no idea what significance this change would bring. Some say this means TPB …


Pesta duren massal di Air Mesu

http://bangka.tribunnews.com/2012/01/13/desa-air-mesu-gelar-pesta-durian Gosipnya, target 30ribu duren sudah terkumpul berkat campur tangan cagub-cawagub tertentu. Gosipnya, ada kontes cepat-cepatan makan 25 buah duren, berhadiah entah 2,5 juta, 5 juta atau 25 juta rupiah. Gosipnya, seluruh ambulans di Pangkalpinang disiagakan ke Mesu untuk mengantisipasi jatuhnya korban mabuk-duren massal. Gosipnya, bahkan yang dari Mentok, Belinyu dan Toboali akan menyerbu Mesu


screenfetch: Skrip informasi sistem

Dapat link bagus dari pak Willy SR tentang screenfetch. screenFetch is a “Bash Screenshot Information Tool”. This handy Bash script can be used to generate one of those nifty terminal theme information + ASCII distribution logos you see in everyone’s screenshots nowadays. It will auto-detect your distribution and display an ASCII version of that distribution’s


Mercury – Gemini: Journey to The Moon

Compared to Apollo missions, Mercury and Gemini missions really not on the same par of popularity. Still, it must’ve feels great for the astronauts participating on those missions.

NASA and Arizona State University have released collection of images …


Apa itu koncek?

This:


Lucky me, instant wealth

Waaait, that doesn’t seem legit…
Joke aside, I wonder if the scammers has any common sense at all. People alarm would instantly go off just by looking at the sender name and email address; Why would Western Union rep sending email using Zarouni Fo…


Rambutan

Di belakang rumah. Asem, daging tipis, ndak ngelotok. *mengasah kapak

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Update to WP 3.3.1

There’s notification from WordPress.org that WordPress 3.3.1 is available. As it contain fix for XSS vulnerability that affects WP 3.3, I immediately update this blog WP installation. The update went unusually smoothfast; maybe because it’s…


Only "can’t do" just once

A good article from mas Vavai, “If you can’t do things, only “can’t do” just once”. Learn so you can do it the next time you had the chance.

ps: not sure if I’m translating it right


Why "New Year" is irrelevant

Phil Plait a.k.a Bad Astronomer wrote about how years “work” and why astronomers are less enthusiasts about New Year :)

Some excerpt:
Let’s say we used a stopwatch to measure the elapsed time. We’ll see that it took the Earth 31,558,149 seconds…