Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Memotivasi Mahasiswa Saya Untuk Membuat Blog
Hari ini, di mata kuliah Pengantar Aplikasi Komputer, saya menyampaikan materi tentang Blog. Tujuannya bukan mengajarkan.. melainkan memotivasi para mahasiswa supaya membuat blog, supaya mereka terlatih menulis. Menulisnya bisa tentang apa saja.
Harapan saya sih, sebagian dari mereka (tidak perlu semuanya) tertarik untuk memulai mempublikasikan tulisannya di blog mereka masing-masing, karena membuat blog itu sebenarnya tidak sulit. Dikatakan tidak sulit, karena memang tidak sulit. Yang mungkin agak sulit adalah meluangkan waktu untuk menuangkan tulisannya. Idenya sendiri susah-susah gampang. Gampang, karena ide bisa selalu muncul kapan pun dan pada situasi apa pun. Kendala terbesarnya biasanya mood.
So my student.. Happy blogging!
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Cara Install Mac OS X
Kecuali kalau install ulang atau upgrade ke Mac OS X yg lebih tinggi versinya. Pada tahap awal setelah pemilihan bahasa selama proses installasi, pilih Customize, lalu di dialog berikutnya pilih Archive & Install.
Hal ini membuat proses installasi hanya akan menginstall file-file sistem Mac OS X saja dg membackup yg lama, tanpa menyentuh aplikasi-aplikasi yg sdh terinstall (folder /Applications) dan file-file dokumen kita (folder /Users/nama user. Keuntungannya sdh tentu kita tidak perlu install ulang aplikasi-aplikasi yang sudah terinstall, tidak perlu membackup file-file dokumen kita ke storage external dulu (CD/DVD/hard disk external).
Keren kan? Windows mana bisa begini. He he he..
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
The Decision for My PowerBook 12": Downgrade to Mac OS X Tiger
Last night I followed Arstechnica's live report for Apple's WWDC 2009 Keynote via Twitter. The event started on 00.00 WIB GMT +7. Right after the event, Apple released a press release regarding the upcoming next updates on Mac OS X 10.6: Snow Leopard. The article confirms that Snow Leopard only support Intel based Macs.
I had hoped that Snow Leopard is going to support PPC based Macs. More than that, with Apple's promise to make Snow Leopard lighter and speedier, I really hope it would have more backward compatibility with older Macs, older than the 1st generation PowerBook 12" 867MHz, the minimum system requirement for Leopard.
But alas, Apple has decided not to support PPC based Macs anymore. Even though I love QuickLook, Stacks, Guest User, and easy network sharing features in Leopard, my PowerBook's performance running Leopard feels much more slower compare to Tiger.
So, this fact justify my decission. I'll downgrade to Tiger this weekend. Backup my applications and documents to my external 80GB Lacie's hard drive, and do a clean Tiger's installation.
So, bye bye QuickLook. Bye bye Stacks. Bye bye Guest User account. Bye bye easy network sharing. I'm gonna miss you all, at least until I can afford a new MacBook (in a near future I hope. Amen).
Monday, June 08, 2009
Apple's WWDC 2009 live news update from IRC and Tweeter
If you would like to get hot news tonight from Apple's WWDC 2009 at San Francisco, you could follow it trough IRC channel or Tweeter. I found Arstechnica links to follow:
The event will start at California, June 8, 2009, atapproximately at 10:00 a.m PDT. Calculating 14 hours time difference between San Francisco and Jakarta, so it's on June 9, 2009, about 00.00 West Indonesian Time (WIB).
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Trace Study Lulusan Jurusan Ilmu Ekonomi & Studi Pembangunan, FE UNPAD
UNPAD sedang melaksanakan trace study para lulusannya. Kuesioner
dibuat untuk diisi oleh para perusahaan yang memperkerjakan lulusan
IESP FE UNPAD.
Mohon disebarkan seluas-luasnya. Jurusan sangat mengharapkan kuesioner
ini cukup mendapat respon yang luas. Waktu pengisiannya 2 minggu.
Kuesionernya bisa diakses di http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=9bzKKCGAfdtKQiGl2j54GA_3d_3d
Atas bantuannya kami ucapkan terima kasih.
Wassalam
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Minefield PPC 7450 Optimized Test Result
Without those add-ons, using Mindfield is meaningless. Perhaps I should go back to OmniWeb, a web browser dedicated for Mac user, which I haven't used for a long time. I stop using it when Safari 1.0 debuted on June 23, 2003 as separate download initially and included with Mac OS X 10.3 a.k.a Panther.
I think, recent announcement from OmniGroup, a company who creates OmniWeb, is pushing me to run OmniWeb again as my second web browser.
Or.. there is another alternative: Flock. Flock is a variant of Firefox which concentrates in social network browsing experience.
What do you think? Which web browser is more suited with my needs?
Firefox build optimized for my PowerBook 12" 867 MHz
Until several days since I have to use again Firefox on my PowerBook 12" 867 GHz, with 1.12 GB RAM. I have to admit that those luxuries capabilities of Firefox with its add-ons is a waste. I can't stand with its slowness in responding my basic browsing activity. It's far too slow compare to Safari 3 which I usually use (fyi, there is Safari 4 beta available, both for Mac & Windows). Believe me, I've tried Camino, but it's suffering the same problem with Firefox 3. Why I don't use Safari instead? Well, because my wife is opening her Facebook, and at the same time I want to open my Facebook too. Don't ask me to buy another Mac, this solution is definitely cheaper.
Why Firefox 3 is slower compare to Safari 3? Well it's because Mozilla's team build a generalized version of Firefox 3. Apparently, different CPU requires different way of building such an application to. Fyi, there's different CPUs Apple had used before they use Intel's CPU: G3, G4 7400, G4 7450, and G5. They all RISC's CPU types.
Is there an optimized Firefox 3 for my PowerBook? After googling a while, I finally found a great link: Firefox Mac Community Builds. This page lists all Firefox's builds for G3 to Intel Mac based systems. For you who would like to try an optimized version for Intel machine beside Firefox Mac Community Builds' offering, you could try Neil Lee's build.
Mind one thing, optimized Firefox doesn't named Firefox. Instead, they are named Minefield, considering Firefox's trademark.
And for you who'd like to try an optimized version for Camino, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey, you could find it here.
I'm still waiting for Google Chrome release for Mac OS X. It's still the fastest browser base on recent benchmark compare to Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Internet Explorer.