Writing in Silence

Clear, Netty is Easier than MINA

2011-03-09T15:52:00.001+07:00

Note on TCP Server framework: first we examined Apache MINA, then Netty is found easier.

perihal:

"We found everything easier in Netty. Period. While we were trying to reimplement the same functionality we already had on MINA, we did so from scratch. By following the excellent documentation and examples we ended up with more functionality in much, much less code."
- java - Netty vs Apache MINA - Stack Overflow (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

2011-02-04T20:02:00.001+07:00

Taken from Disabled Account FAQ:

My account was disabled and my appeal was denied. Is there any way I can rejoin the program? Can I open a new account?

We understand your concern about the actions taken against your account. Please know that our actions are the result of careful investigation by our team of dedicated specialists, taking into account the interests of our advertisers, publishers, and users. Though you may be disappointed with our decision, we are unable to reinstate your account.

Please also note that publishers disabled for invalid click activity are not allowed any further participation in AdSense. For this reason, these publishers may not open new accounts.

Lastly, please bear in mind that Google does reserve the right to disable an account for any reason, including invalid click activity from any source.

It is clear that I will not be able to rejoin AdSense program. After some weeks never opening my AdSense account, I found Google had disabled it and I never knew what really happened. My appeal was also rejected.

So, good bye for AdSense.

Symbol of Capitalism?

2010-07-06T07:22:00.001+07:00

From Jakarta to Toronto, big brands like McDonalds, Starbucks, becomes "victims" of people demonstrations and riots. In anger, those brands are symbols opponents hate, fight, then destruct.

Not an exception during G8 and G20 Summits in Ontario, Canada.

in reference to:

"Opponents to the G20 demonstrated during 4 days, the larger demonstration taking place on Saturday 26. A group of 200 to 300 "black blocks" split from the peaceful march and went in rampage throughout the city center for a couple of hours, smashing windows of banks and symbolic stores (McDonald, Starbuck, etc.) and burning down a couple of police cars."
- G20 in Toronto - a set on Flickr (view on Google Sidewiki)

2010-05-23T08:09:00.002+07:00

Mr. Hawk explains his math regarding his goal to publish 1,000,000 photos before he dies. A great ambition, and also nice means photo session "all the time."

I myself was inspired by the intention to capture more, more, and more things around, either as raw source or somewhat "historical stuffs" in the future. Surely, a million is very very big number, but ten thousands photo for starting really keeps my spirit up to bring camera anywhere and do exercise anytime.

Well done!

in reference to:

"The math is working ok. I have 40,000 online and am uploading about 44 a day. At this rate I will have 1,000,000 in 59.7 years or when I'm 102. That obviously won't work. Although you never know just how long you might live. But. I've got abou 20,000 photos in a reserve right now that are processed and could be uploaded. My goal is to increase this reserve account over the course of the next 20 years and also to gradually increase the number of uploads per day over time."
- Thomas Hawk on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (view on Google Sidewiki)

Original Kids' Stories -- Free and Share!

2010-05-10T12:41:00.001+07:00

Seen through Eric Setiawan's Buzz today, Smories.com is a nice site for kids to share free original stories. They tell there are 50 stories added every month. The initiative is for kids and read by kids also. The kids world, in short.

I have tried to access one story, it consisted the story itself and also a video. Unfortunately, the video was failed to play. I am not sure if it is about wrong URL or my connection.

Apart from that, I love much the front page of their web. Simple by very short introduction, followed by a full page of kids' face thumbnails. All of them -- you guessed -- are the story tellers themselves.

Want to contribute? Submit yours! -- they invite. How about the language? Seems for today it starts on English.

No serious problem, it is very possible for non-English speakers: it is time to learn English for their kids.

perihal: Smories - new stories for children, read by children (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

"Citizen Journalism" Workshop on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

2010-04-28T14:57:00.000+07:00

"Citizen Journalism" Workshop on Flickr is blogged, narrated with information about Common Room's initiative to spread journalism to public.

That's citizen journalism.

2010-04-26T06:12:00.002+07:00

Hughes Léglise-Bataille wrote on his Flickr profile that he ended his investment banking and started photojournalism. An outstanding decision and a correct one, especially if we see his amazing achievement on his works on Flickr.

Quoted:

"In June 2008, I finally decided to put an end to a 13-year career in investment banking to dedicate myself to photojournalism."

perihal:

"In June 2008, I finally decided to put an end to a 13-year career in investment banking to dedicate myself to photojournalism."
- Flickr: Hughes Léglise-Bataille (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

The Problem with Geolocation-based System Defined by Users

2010-04-07T13:52:00.001+07:00

As Malk wrote:

"Well, you are a Superuser, so it's easy for you to fix things. But us normal users can't even flag a place we know there is a duplicate."

Agree, facing incorrect data made me frustrated; they include (but not limited): duplication (fail on integrity), misspelling and unaware to punctuation (sick to my eyes), and incomplete (oh no, for laziness!).

perihal:

"Well, you are a Superuser, so it's easy for you to fix things. But us normal users can't even flag a place we know there is a duplicate."
- How do I fix a Foursquare location? :: Free Tech Support :: Ask Dave Taylor!® (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

April Fools on DreamHost Horrible Cable?

2010-04-04T19:19:00.001+07:00

It is told that they had changed sea of cable to Wi-Fi. :)

And... how come they are still alive in the bottom of that sea?

perihal: The Official DreamHost Blog! » Datacenter Innovation from DreamHost (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

On Picnik Acquired by Google

2010-03-02T10:38:00.001+07:00

(1) How about Picnik's support on Flickr, a prestigious Yahoo! product? Picnik is today online editing on Flickr; and also remember how Flickr changed Moo printing to Snapfish from HP.

(2) How if Google pays all of us to use Picnik with all features, so there is no need to separate between free and paid users?

perihal: http://blog.picnik.com/2010/03/google-acquires-picnik/ (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

The Problem with Package Manager

2010-03-01T16:35:00.001+07:00

As always, package manager is avoided by at least two reasons:

1. no (or not yet exist) easy and clean easy uninstall. Working directories, configurations, and even package list are all getting difficult to manage.
2. multiple, or perhaps mixed, package managers will have greater possibilities to interfere each other. It leads to unresolved state.

perihal: Lazy Pythonista: Why I don't use easy_install (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

An Expensive Camera is not a Must

2010-03-01T07:09:00.001+07:00

The author explains clearly that there are many elementary things to understand for making good photos apart from expensive camera. Reasonable budget and opportunity to upgrade our skills to match the camera.

Interesting points for some of us having plan on purchasing camera.

perihal:

"Let me in on a secret: Even the cheapest d-SLR cameras on the market today are absolutely phenomenal pieces of equipment, and chances are that you don’t need to spend much money to take phenomenal photos."
- Why I don’t need an expensive camera. :: Photocritic photography blog (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

"Getting Real" but More Expensive

2010-02-25T00:24:00.001+07:00

Agree with their important philosophy that "small in quantity but large in mind" (only five members in a team, but fulfilled with the importance of thoughts) will create beautiful, less noise, output. The development process is also fun for all.

But, I see that the output tends to be more expensive, above average price. Regarding the long tail concept, is that because of their positioning to keep the tail not so long?

perihal: Getting Real: The Book by 37signals (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

Pirate vs. Legit DVD

2010-02-19T17:51:00.001+07:00

Vote with your wallet – the final destination.

LOL.

perihal: http://i.imgur.com/GxzeV.jpg (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

Example of Sketchbook from Lara

2010-02-19T08:34:00.001+07:00

Very impressive!

I have a plan to try "Picture Intelligence" suggesting on exposing things around us using picture. Included path to problem solving.

Lara's sketchbook is one very nice example to see how picture can be so imaginative. I do not have skill to draw like her, but I am sure it is not about pictures, as Dan Roam stressed.

"Picture Intelligence" by Dan Roam: ISBN 602-8224-09-3.

in reference to: Lara Lawton's Sketchbook Life (view on Google Sidewiki)

Social circle and content

2010-02-13T23:10:00.001+07:00

I might be late noticing on Google's search result mentioning "Social circle". Here it is... Visited and found how Google construct my relationship with other people.

Perhaps you, appeared on my connections. :)

in reference to: Social circle and content - Google (view on Google Sidewiki)

Connecting Time

2010-01-27T13:20:00.001+07:00

Inspiring Flickr group that shows even the ordinary photo can be a part of interesting and creative process after time passed.

Everyone can do – just give a try!

in reference to: Flickr: Looking Into the Past (view on Google Sidewiki)

It's Online Nationalism...

2010-01-15T00:42:00.001+07:00

"Get out from here" for Google, responding the latest decision and defense from the Govt. of China. One wrote "the sin" of all giants that "have been killed."

in reference to:

""The sin of Facebook is it makes you touch the people you want to touch. The sin of Twitter is it makes you say what you want to say. The sin of Google is it makes you know what you want to know. The sin of YouTube is it proves the truth you want to prove. So they have all been killed.""
- Google drama stokes online nationalism, regret in China | Reuters (view on Google Sidewiki)

Millions for Goodreads

2010-01-05T14:35:00.001+07:00

A friend gave me good news about Goodreads' receiving millions in venture capital. $2 million for expanding, and...

JC: What cities have the most Goodreads members?

OC: In order: New York, London, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Bekasi [Indonesia], Portland [Ore.], Sydney, Seattle.

Bekasi of West Java is mentioned! Glad to hear.

perihal: What Goodreads will do with its new millions | Jacket Copy | Los Angeles Times (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

Bringing Down Botnet

2009-12-29T14:13:00.001+07:00

a nice success story of bringing down botnet server, though the question arose,

"FireEye did have a major victory," says Joe Stewart, director of malware research with SecureWorks. "The question is, will it have a long-term impact?"

and responded,

"We're definitely looking to do this again," Mushtaq says. "We want to show the bad guys that we're not sleeping."

perihal:

""we're definitely looking to do this again," Mushtaq says. "We want to show the bad guys that we're not sleeping.""
- Good Guys Bring Down the Mega-D Botnet - PC World (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

Goo.gl

2009-12-15T11:02:00.001+07:00

The two "oo" must be kept, a fortune for Google. No sufficient information how to use this service – automatic, options, one-click, or else? Promising the evidence of boringness of extra long URL, but until when?

perihal: Google URL Shortener (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

Entri Google Wikipinggir oleh Ikhlasul

2009-12-09T09:36:00.001+07:00

Nice, finally, Google Chrome for Linux and Mac are available today. Even they are on Beta stage, hope they will work better as any Google's products in Beta version.

My installation on Ubuntu works well. Now I am setting for any extensions needed.

perihal: http://www.google.com/chrome/?hl=en (lihat di Google Wikipinggir)

Nice Web Stats

2009-12-02T10:13:00.001+07:00

Years ago, I believed that web statistics should only be counted using server side tools, not JavaScript (JS) based on clients. The primary reason was: JS is not always executed by user agents (client), while server does.

The easiness of Google Analytics's setup, then its user interface, changed my mind. Soon after that, I always add GA as always installed feature on almost every website I managed. From raw inserted code onto HTML to auto detected as WordPress' plug-in, Analytics ends my Web pages.

Unfortunately, based on efficiency issues, some Net cafés here block access to Analytics' server, make calculation becomes less accurate.

in reference to: Google Analytics | Official Website (view on Google Sidewiki)

2009-10-15T08:56:00.004+07:00

Last monday, I noticed that my Python bot script using FeedParser did not work well. WordPress' feed was read and parsed to its variable, but first entry was wrong. I had tested using Python interpreter using this pseudo code,


>>> import feedparser 

>>> f = feedparser.parse('http://example.com/feed/') 

>>> f.entries[0].title

It did not show correct last entry our blog had, but previous one entry. So, I am sure nothing is wrong with my whole script, because FeedParser itself went wrong parsing first entry. Did FeedParser read from cache (its cache if exists, or maybe our Web proxy)? To ensure, I load that feed on Opera, and entries were correct displayed; W3M, console-based browser resulted the same. Finally I downloaded the feed, saved it as file, then read as file, and still the first entry was wrong.

Bot script itself is installed as cron/scheduler entry, and surprisingly, yesterday, report from bot is shown correct, new entry from feed, and I still do not know yet, how this fix had been done.

2009-10-06T07:05:00.004+07:00

MRTG showed strange graphics, "stable", green filled rectangle with blue line above it. Fixing the problems, I had examining configurations, logs, crontab, but even this morning the graphics showed nothing, just white sheets. The problems lied on network cards (eth0 and eth1), but what were they, really?

Confusing problems eventually come from very small, unnoticed things.

That's it, after about 2 hours do that-and-this (not really all the time used only for MRTG), it is found in /etc/hosts:

127.0.1.1 gerbang

Corrected to 127.0.0.1 and everything is fine.

2009-10-06T05:18:00.001+07:00

It does not mean the connection is stable enough on fixed average, but... something fails with our MRTG. Need to be reconfigured.

2009-07-05T22:59:00.002+07:00

Nice, finally I made my mind up for Google FriendConnect as part of my initiative pushing me to blog again. Writing is still a very good way to keep alive, a lifeboat.

Also I will put FriendConnect for my senior high school alumni blog.

2008-09-08T09:20:00.002+07:00

Up, up, and up!

Today is a good day for me to start many hibernated things!

2008-02-18T08:39:00.002+07:00

Google Calendar is failed, back and forth between redirection on authentication. Seems their login page is trapped inside redirection. Blank page returned.

While I am in doubt choosing between online and offline calendar for my purpose, does this trouble lead me to use Evolution instead?

2008-02-12T03:49:00.000+07:00

I have read simple howto for activating and using OpenID for blogspot, but unfortunately still can not used for commenting on my Movable Type blog. I do not have enough time to hack now, but login using OpenID via my Vox account runs well.

Need extra time to make it active? I'll try later.

2007-05-21T07:38:00.000+07:00

Having registered this blog to Google Analytics, I pasted this code to bottom of template,


<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">

</script>

<script type="text/javascript">

_uacct = "UA-562528-12";

urchinTracker();

</script>

Actually, I do not like to let JavaScript code open to HTML document, so I remarked them to modified version,


<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">

</script>

<script type="text/javascript">

<--

_uacct = "UA-562528-12";

urchinTracker();

//-->

</script>

Saved and loaded...

I read source and found that the remarked lines were all thrown, so it became,


<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">

</script>

<script type="text/javascript">

</script>

Surprised enough. Is this one reason Analytics provides as-is, without JavaScript remarked? Modified again as its origin, all was then correct.

So, do not add extra HTML comment to your template(s). Blogger will cleverly remove them.

2007-05-21T07:21:00.000+07:00

I was invited to join BHTV blog.

Actually, this is temporary blog for Bandung High Tech Valley community after several problems regarding domain name. We are in progress completing new "official" domain name, so this alternative site is used now.

Because hosted in Blogger, it incidentally reminds me about my account, this old in Silence, and I like to mention in this posting.

2007-03-10T19:19:00.000+07:00

Some days ago, I was ever asked by my friend in Yahoo! Messenger about the easier way to write. She was asked for public relation position in her organization, with a resposibility to expose many necessary things out on their website. To her question, I replied that we can tell "almost all" of our activities, also for organizations'. We can start from regular events. It is almost similiar to agenda entries indeed, but completed with narration and quick review those announcements will be more interesting to read by audience. That's public relation works, I think.

Do not stop on that. There will be also internal issues, plan still on the scratch, and even "press release".

Go get writing.

2007-03-09T22:46:00.000+07:00

I like and appreciate the idea of Google Apps for providing various level of their services, range from personal-groups/families to Fortune 500 companies. At last Google integrates all of its public services in a single [supposed to be] "bundled" offering. I have registered my atijembar.net for "hosted" email but not so active using that.

Now I consider to provide proper domain name, activate Apps' basic level -- and even Premiere Edition because it will be free until 30 April this year. I have tried docs and spreadsheets and, for sure, they are nice with collaboration and revision. I wrote my idea and plan, then suggest it to my friend for editing and suggesting.

I will set my Apps desk-style up for some works. Hope it will be nice and I do experience myself.

2007-02-14T15:32:00.000+07:00

Hey, this blue denim template rocks! Stretch Denim Light.

The light blue at the top is nice-cool and still using elements minimally. Its right sidebar is also balance enough to main entry on the left side.

2007-01-01T13:09:00.000+07:00

Sometimes AdSense can be seen as an information panel — more than a place for advertising. For example, on my Rehal blog which talks about booksphere, I saw several interesting ad words appear, i.e. Book Finder, Used Books. Having clicked, they pointed me to useful sites even I did not intend to do transactions.

Do I harm AdSense mechanism when I click my own AdSense merely because it is interesting enough for me?

I hope not simply because I did not intend to abuse.

[Update 2 Jan] Information from Google AdSense,

Please note that clicking on your own ads for any reason is prohibited, to avoid potential inflation of advertiser costs.

How if those links are really interesting?

2006-12-07T13:51:00.000+07:00

Quoted from Google AdSense help:

You can select your site's primary language during the application process. If you're approved, AdSense will serve relevant ads to your pages in the appropriate language, even if your site contains multiple supported languages.

Please also be aware that placing the AdSense code on pages with content primarily in an unsupported language is not permitted by the AdSense program policies.

Unfortunately Indonesian language has not yet been supported until today while I consider to use AdSense for my blogs.

2006-11-13T19:41:00.000+07:00

I love minimalist.

Having changed this blog to very minimal graphics attribute, I am motivated now to post something, indicating it is time to brighten this blog again. In my mind: this will be about writing and some nice picture from Flickr here.

I have a question: do you still remember me?

2005-09-25T07:00:00.000+07:00

With a few clumsy, I switched Coret Moret back to Movable Type — after experimenting with WordPress and Drupal. First, I did installing various tools in order to have spirit making Coret Moret up. It could be done with a new tools or maybe a new theme. After I found some difficulties applying themes both in Drupal and WordPress (actually, I was lazy with PHP-minded themes), I went back again to relatively easy-to-examine MT's tags.

The other reasons are: Movable Type comes now with unlimited blogs licensing even for free- personal installation and I host my blogs in Dream Host which is easy to have one setup Movable Type installation for many blogs using various domain name.

2005-06-02T01:53:00.000+07:00

Hoping that I can cut this waiting time, I tried to dig into Google Cache for the possibility of reconstructing Coret Moret (crazy idea!), but arrrgh... the copies of Coret Moret in Google's cache are so minimal. Many are not yet saved as cache. A little horrible if there is no any solutions for getting backup from my troubled web hosting.

2005-05-30T16:46:00.000+07:00

Considering what has happened to my websites — down, difficult to move to alternative hosting — I am in thinking about reliable solution which drives me (almost sure) to more expensive bills. But this is a must, since my plan is to be more commited into new media (aka. blog and Wiki) for my writings. Really, it is my annoying fault that I did not do last backup from my hosting so nothing can be done with other/temporary solution. *Ugh!*

2005-05-24T16:14:00.000+07:00

ZoneEdit is rock! I have setup for my Coret Moret and find useful for changing DNS records, including their Mail Forward facility. So I do not have to sent request by email to ccTLD ID in case I must change my webhosting. A step further, I create new zone today for #direktif and sure, approval from ccTLD ID I must wait for completing this process.

Note: ugh, about an hour after sending email to ccTLD ID, I realize that today is holiday in Indonesia, Waisak day. So nobody will approve my request in ccTLD ID today.

2005-05-23T08:47:00.000+07:00

After twice getting broken, indeed I am curious that both of my blogs require webhosting that has "professional" specification. Though their visitors per day seems moderate for me, it is possible enough that they have nailed server's daily process. The problem is I have to wait enough resource for migrating my Website to professional service.

2005-05-23T02:14:00.000+07:00

It happened again: this afternoon my Coret Moret was down for similiar "unknown reason" as #direktif got last week. Account was suspended and nothing I can do. Soon after, I created DNS in ZoneEdit and sent an email to CCTLD for updating my record.

Still the problem: I have to wait CCTLD's manual update and my shared hosting provider's assistant to dump my files.

2005-05-12T21:33:00.000+07:00

Regarding to the problem with one of my webhosting:

The recovery process was done by borrowing root account from webhosting reseller, dumped all my stuffs and download to my computer. It can be a real disaster (maybe) if I were in Indonesia and using dial-up connection.
Upload everything to my new webhosting account and unpack in new environment. It is nice to realize that interoperability between two services using CPanel is rock!
Updating NS needed patience for ID domain — five days. Still manual approval!
Cost of this "failure": #direktif was kicked out from Google's PageRank 4 to 0 (it has been back to normal today).

2005-04-30T16:33:00.000+07:00

This entry is written in respons to Yunia Sribudiani's effort to make expandable posting in Blogger. Hope this explanation can help guiding her through a step by step actions.

First, read official explanation from Blogger, How can I create expandable post summaries?. That is brief document and this entry merely provides examples because on several occasions learning by example is somewhat more applicable. Here is how...

Second, open your blog template (menu: Template) and identify stylesheet section (CSS). It is a block of design explanation of website between <style> and </style>. For example, the beginning part of style sheet of this page is (and is ended with </style>),

Insert code from Blogger,


<MainOrArchivePage> 
   span.fullpost {display:none;}
</MainOrArchivePage>

<ItemPage> 
   span.fullpost {display:inline;} 
</ItemPage>

To make "safe" (while this is not a must), insert them before </style>, so

Before saving that template, third step can be done: inserting Blogger's item body tag,


<MainOrArchivePage><br />
   <a href="<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>">Read more!</a>
</MainOrArchivePage>

and as example with my template,

Be careful: after <$BlogItemBody>.

Save the template. The main first step has been completed, and now it is time to get into experiment with a new posting.

Fourth, it is now time to create a new post with a new style. Use <span class="fullpost"> to start a new remaining posting which will be hidden in front page and be shown in individual article. An example for this,

Save, and all is done. There is one suggestion not to use paragraph HTML-tag, <p> outside <span class="fullpost"> to let it works.

2005-04-30T08:38:00.000+07:00

Down without clear reason: #direktif was redirected to suspended information page with a little note: Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible. How can that? I have made one year deal with my webhosting and suddenly (no warning) the entire website is missing.

I did contacting the represenative — first by sending SMS from my handphone; and, trying again today early by asking a help from my friend in Indonesia.

It is annoying because #direktif is the busiest blog I handle so far.

Update: After two SMS (they were so late to reach Indonesia), my web(share)hosting service contact its provider asking the situation that was happened in my site. It is nice to see his response but still I am in waiting for real solution.

2005-04-23T19:46:00.000+07:00

Responding one of "my client"'s tutorial about HTML, I provided all materials in Dan Lain-lain like previous events, but unfortunately for latest several days that website gets less reliable. I heard a complaint from the visitor first about two weeks ago that the material could not be accessed. Okay, give once again chance after several minutes.

But yesterday morning (UTC) everything was broken for several hours. If previously I am worried with extremely high CPU process (sometimes it can reach 40 or more!), yesterday the /tmp directory got collapse with 100% usage. Two of my websites were displayed improperly.

A little horrible when I had to deal with my clients. This seems to be an alarm for me to move into better, reliable webhosting, but I have to be patient for extra buck.

2004-10-20T18:08:00.000+07:00

After second crash, on 14 Oct., I reconsider more than before about my decission depending too much on Atijembar, my home-based desktop computer that was incidentally and magically turned into World Wide Web server. All my blogging activities and my organization's websites suddenly dissapeared from the Internet. Members asked — but can do nothing except waiting — and actual discussions missed one of (hopefully) important node.

In fact, spending extra money for hosting my blogs is not a good idea now, considering my condition. But writing is a must for my daily routine. I also lost my opportunity applying 777-discount from Dream Host, so luck was seemed to go far away.

Friendship came after. Thomas Arie Setiawan offered me his simple-but-very-valuable hosting package. He ran hosting business several months ago, but it is suspended nowadays; and his rest resource is enough for my mostly-text blog pages.

So that was the deal: I can use it for free under his lowest hosting package; and I will keep my promise to pay proportionally with his purchase for global shared hosting. I think this will be fair for his effort for "hosting reseller" (not in correct business sense) and his kindness providing me quick solution with pay in advance.

I was informed by computer shop that Atijembar's motherboard is broken and simply need replacement. Though my organization graciously will pay its bill, I am sure very much that my decision to host my blogs in (more) professional way is on the track. So maybe after this decision, I can use my computer more relax as a workstation.

2004-08-21T17:19:00.000+07:00

I am interested to apply friendlier permalink, title-based. I ever used this method some months ago but desperate with some articles that have too long title. Unfortunately MT does not provide slug field like in WordPress, so tricky keyword field usage as suggested by Mark Pilgrim is not acceptable by me. I use keyword field for real keyword HTML's meta tag.

Also I consider using TrimWordsbyLen plug in, but very sorry, it does not work coexistence with dirifyplus, which I plan for replacing underscore with dash.

Other consideration is about Apache's RewriteRule and Analog's FILEALIAS list that will explode in count as soon as I do permalink modification. Sigh!

2004-07-27T02:08:00.000+07:00

At the same time I restructured Coret Moret's layout, Kliping — small notes placed in the right column — was dumped out. My main reason for that decision was to make my layout as clean as possible. I found that right column was too cluttered by scrambled text, so its main problem was really in layout. And I had limited idea to anticipate this situation, so I turn into my main page as top priority and forget about this not-important-but-interesting feature.

Until someday!

After looking some practical implementation, well run and nice to integrate with main pages, I consider Kliping to appear co-existence with main document. Just another Weblog inside Weblog, and chronicle as an order for showing.

Aside from technical issue, which usually comes first, I feel more enjoyable now writing some less context issue and need no complete work. Just write, for information, comment, or even my standing.

Enjoy my shorter words.

2004-07-08T13:58:00.000+07:00

Maybe this is too late: after my experience launching my first WordPress-based blog, I noticed that it attracted more crawler request than my previous blogs. I understand that in the other side, I did not activate ping feature inside Movable Type — which for other reason, I do not like to be visited by several ugly name crawlers.

Inside WordPress' configuration, there is http://rpc.pingomatic.com for ping. I visited that site and read some of Matt "WordPress" Mullenweg's introduction, and thing to be considered to use. Having fulfilled into all of my Movable Type's blog, everything changed fast: more crawlers came — it means increasing hits in statistics. But, really I can not yet come into conclusion that this is all only because of ping. In other condition, I push #direktif with progressive increasing articles, so it naturally attract more visitors coming due to more and more materials reached from search engine (i.e. Google and Yahoo!).

Other way to keep visitor longer by visiting other entries is by providing related entry box. I used simple and clean approach from Kalsey, and it works very nice for #direktif.

Ah, increasing visitors: I'd like to watch figures about that just as stockbroker gets crazy in front of moving numbers in stock exchange.

2004-07-06T07:05:00.000+07:00

How to deal with several blogs: various topics and different tools?

For some actual reasons, I live around that condition. IT and its related, social and lifestyle, literary and culture, and some short annotations about my country, are some things I want to dump out from my brain. I ever though that with some separations — and actually I use some domain name with also different tools — it will be less effective for writing continuation and the possibility of having delay in one topics.

But let me try. One day I prefer to think and write about one aspect, so I tune into that theme, and the other day I dig into others. One day into another, and I imagine these all are like some pieces of books I am free to write. These books are all open and it is up to me which one looked interesting to be written in a time.

So keep relax. And write.

2004-06-25T16:02:00.000+07:00

YES, the unknown periode is now stopped.

I decide to maintain my account in Blogger live again after some short-but-frequently visiting some of my friends' Blogger. Thinking that it is better not to only furnishing my Blogger profile, I look toward my old blog, and still seems interesting to go on.

Choosing new template (yeah, this is a real magnet regarding what has happened in Blogger), rebuilding all pages, and activating commenting. Thanks very much for Enetation which had been used for months, and now I use Blogger's own. Unfortunately, commenting will be active for a new posting — old messages are left without comment. So, this is also first posting with comment on.

See you after this announcement post. I would like to write some sorts of my busy backoffice. Urusan dapur, that is Indonesian calls.

2004-04-01T05:02:00.000+07:00

For unknown period, I will stop writing at this Weblog, due to the excessive works I must do in my primary Weblog, Coret Moret Amal and its families, and #direktif.

I will still keep my Blogger account alive, but let the status of this site to be archived.

2004-03-07T20:26:00.000+07:00

Once again, I must deal with RAM of Atijembar. After some kernel error reporting segmentation fault, I came into unstable condition yesterday and this morning. Examining log, I found that fatal errors happen when available free space was too low. In the kernel language, that is time to request new page (?) and reallocate unused space. Or I think that is time "high area" of RAM is used.

I reproduced this situation several times and, indeed, that is the problem.

One of Debian experts in #debian channel in Freenode suggested me to use memtest for testing my RAM. I tested using both memtest86 and memtest86+, but the results were somewhat strange. Even with new (again) replacement RAM, it reported some errors. So, which one can I trust?

The old 128MB one is still the best, no error was reported. I tried to install Debian with 128MB (enough, er?), but it was fail at the last stage of installation. Do not know why for a long enough time, and still suspected that it was RAM problem. On Friday, 5 March, after sholat Jumat and talking for while with Ismail Fahmi (unplanned meeting in Super de Boer), I came with idea this was maybe about partition problem which I used to ease (re)installation. The /var partition was mounted from old saved one, so I do not need to back-and-forth moving large size directory there.

I did installation with letting Debian creating its new /var partition, and... ah, successful! Soon after that, both new and old /var were synchronized, and Web server was up and run again.

For a month since now, I will test this RAM with various memory-minded operation to make it sure anything is in order.

2004-03-03T01:54:00.000+07:00

Yesterday I had to fixed my Atijembar again. File system of main partition got corrupt and aah... I want to get stability quickly, so the best thing is saving all important files to data partitions and installing Debian.

As I was surprised — and a little dissapoinment — with my server's performance overall, I was still curious where the problem really exists. And today afternoon, an incident happened and a little explanation satisfied me. I made a backup from one CD using raw method,

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=filename.iso

After minutes of reading and writing, segmentation fault suddenly happened and I had to reboot and did fsck repairment. But I knew that I missed bs (block size) parameter. I tried one more with correct command,

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=filename.iso bs=1k

It is safe and exited normally. So, my little prediction with yesterday's failure is about dumping data in huge size. Because last weekend I helped reinstalling my friend's notebook and I used Atijembar's Samba for backing up notebook's hard disk.

2004-02-27T15:14:00.000+07:00

Since several days ago, I noticed that #direktif is less visited compared with the time before I got trouble with my server. The "search word" recorded by my Analog's statistics is also empty. So, yesterday I checked to search common word from #direktif via Google, and... oops, no result for direktif.web.id!

Ah, this is what I have to pay for last week of January until mid-February problem with Atijembar: Google's crawls were failed to read #direktif (only #direktif) so for now on (until next reindex on their database) #direktif is unreachable from Google. The other major search engines? Unfortunately they are usually too late to update.

2004-02-24T20:30:00.000+07:00

My MRTG that was installed in my firewall had been stopped, following the replacement of degromiest as a router with Sweex broadband router. Beside it is smaller and portable enough, I do not need any additional services in that old computer.

Thanks for degromiest which has replaced lawanggeni for months and did a good job!

2004-02-17T04:53:00.000+07:00

Hope this will be the end of long-to-be-predictable trilogy of my server, Atijembar.

I went to Norrod Computer, Groningen, for RAM replacement, because it is still in their guarantee. The replacement has higher frequency, 400 MHz, and at 15.30 Atijembar has been ready to serve with 640MB memory size. The /var/log/syslog contains no error related to system, such as segmentation fault or part of kernel crash after one day run with its 128MB RAM.

Go, Atijembar, go!

2004-02-16T12:28:00.000+07:00

I was still rethinking about what happens with Atijembar. It is very strange that even simple program run by limited privileges user can make kernel space damage. The other unusual thing is when computer is rebooted: in more frequent occassion than before, it stops seconds after reboot instruction is performed. At first, I thougt this was caused by reboot script which maybe not compliant with APM in my computer. Yesterday I tried to diagnose with utilities from MSI inside Windows XP, no problem, but Windows' restart got similiar, hang, problem!

At first I suspect it was caused by IDE cables that are used by two hard disks and two CD drives. Can't the motherboard handle their total size? Its specification does not tell anything about that. So I assume it must be safe.

Along searching configuration or jumper position inside motherboard user guide, I came into LED diagnostics that comes with motherboard. This is common feature in the lattest motherboard which inform boot steps. I still had not noticed where this LED stands. *Blink* Ah, when computer room is darker, I can see blink red and yellow light in the back side of casing!. And, yes! There are four square LED beside USB!

Accompanied also by Ismail Fahmi (who at that moment he spent his time visiting me) to identify the pattern after reboot's fail case, it stopped in "fail memory testing". I opened again Atijembar's casing, test with one piece RAM and got failed, so it is suspected damage. The other piece (smaller size, 128MB) then replaced this failed memory and reboot process was without problem. I tested for a day, and no segmentation fault happened.

2004-02-14T17:21:00.000+07:00

Getting worse and worse in this week run-and-also-test my Debian Web server. It was somewhat strange that I got failed file system operation in only about half day after file system repairment. Beside that, some applications crashed into segmentation fault and made system unstable. Two most frequent problematic applications were Spamassassin and Jdresolve, which coincidentally were invoked by cron. I tried to debug both of them by executing individually with their proper privilege (for example Jdresolve from www-data account), but still problem arose.

Another way I did was to reinstall some of applications/libraries which I suspected corrupt or misconfiguration. Debian's apt-get install --reinstall is a very helpful command for doing that. But no better result at all!

So I came into an conclusion to reinstall Debian, by first fixing backup script to make it easy saving valuable files in tar format inside safe partition (i.e. FAT32 partition). Finally, on Friday, 13 February I reinstalled Debian again, with one fault I made inside backup script: /var/log/apache is forgotten included.

Today Debian runs in second run-and-test with very limited packages. XWindows is not yet installed and Apache's log is used but untouched by such as log analyzer applications. Yet really, I missed previous one week Apache's log.

2004-02-10T18:58:00.000+07:00

Atijembar still has problem for this week operation (and also test). This morning, with last command was executed on 06.25, the main partition /dev/hda1 is suddenly remounted read-only, so journal could not be written. On startup after reboot, fsck detected some errors and do some i-node repairments.

No additional report in logfiles.

2004-02-06T16:07:00.000+07:00

On Thursday, 29 January, at 04.00, my Web server, Atijembar, got a problem. I was working inside XFree when suddenly Mozilla was interrupted unexpectedly and my Mutt changed its active mailbox into read only status. Checking from console screen, I found mounted partition used by Linux was error, so it was automatically remounted into read only status as written in /etc/fstab.

Actually I got similiar error message some days before, and without too much attention to consider it as a problem, I simply did reboot and computer ran again as usual. But that time, after rebooting, my Debian GNU/Linux asked me to enter single user mode and did disk scan. Having executed fsck with so many i-node corrected and saved it in lost+found, I noticed that Apache daemon is failed, as well MySql. Minutes later I came into a conclusion that something worse than I think, had happened: most of important binary files in /usr/sbin were missing.

I did know exactly what happened inside /home partition, the best I could do was quickly doing backup routine. A slight modification inside backup script is done to accomodate physical storage of MySql's databases. It is needed because last backup was done about a month ago using mysqldump and the days after there were so many database activities.

It is a complete accident: library module for CD writer, ide-scsi got corrupt and no backup into CD operation under Linux can be performed.

The only thing I could do was copying all .tar.gz files into Windows XP's FAT32 partition and burned them into CD later. The rest of that morning was to let my children using Atijembar for games under Windows!

Along investigation I did to my hard disk, I found there was no physical error, so it was a little strange to get I/O error as reported by ext3 journaling file system. Without too long to think, I took simple conclusion on Thursday evening that hard disk was broken and had to be replaced. Even I tried with Windows XP (that uses other partition), the operating system ran well but after that, disk operation was failed, so let alone Windows run using RAM, and minutes later, crashed.

The day after, Friday 30 January, I replaced my hard disk with a new and larger one. Windows installation still got failed with annoyance error messages that my computer is not compliant with some of Windows' hardware specifications. Joking to myself: do I have to replace my complete machine? Do I have to beg in front of Mr. Gates?

I left Windows partition unused, after some broken installations. Skip to Linux installation with Debian. The result was not better at all: installation was in major interrupted in some unpredictable spots and even it was successful, the result is very unstable. The I/O error messages still appeared, so it would be very early to say this computer is ready to operate. I was curious whether a new hard disk is too large to be handled by my computer. How it that comes a two years old computer suddenly becomes out of date? Funny!

Ismail Fahmi, one of my colleague, comes with a suggestion to borrow his old hard disk for testing. Along waiting his coming on Saturday, 31 January, I came into idea to test my computer with Knoppix. This was a second test after my computer broken with different condition: now with a new hard disk. Knoppix detected configuration correctly, but... a moment after XFree initialization, my monitor got flash and blink for several times and XWindows could not be started. Knoppix itself was not broken, it simply reported in console screen that XWindows could not be launced. After twice experiment with Knoppix, I step into new conclusion that the problem seemed coming from VGA card. Duh!

At the evening of Iedul Adha 1424H, I contacted Elfahmi Yaman, other colleague who had PC, and asked him for testing my computer with his VGA card. Not waiting too long, a half hour later I brought Atijembar to Elfahmi's house and performing some tests both with Windows XP installation and Knoppix running directly from CD. Bla and bla... one hour test was enough: the problem was identified more precisely. It came from VGA card and caused some effects into I/O transactions.

I was at home again, finding borrowed hard disk from Ismail Fahmi on my table. Having enough speculation from previous test with VGA card, I just made sure this conclusion perfect by seeing that even with older, smaller size, hard disk, Atijembar with fail VGA card, could not operate well.

A long awaiting until Monday, 2 February, noon, because in Groningen, shops are open usually at 13.00. I chose the cheapest card from available offering in some computer shops: Radeon 7000, 64MB. Fixing hardware configuration and testing its stability using Windows XP, Debian GNU/Linux was then installed, configurations were reset into proper ones, and backup at last was restored.

Tuesday afternoon I opened firewall for Atijembar's service. Some of my friends realized this and notified via email. Wednesday, 4 February, I made announcement to our community that our Website had been activated.

Because this computer is also used by me for working (development), I still fight to install this-and-that to make it comfortable as before. It has some trickies configurations and settings, but that is another story. The most important thing, the web server function, has been reactivated successfully.

My empathy for one of my friends in Bandung who also had hardware problem caused by bad fluctuate electricity that destroyed physically.

2004-01-25T16:05:00.000+07:00

The 30 minutes Thomas' templates added.
Copy and paste is the best method, with some additional new created template; all is now ready to be rebuilt. With EntriesPerRebuild is unchanged from its default (40), rebuid process is performed normally.

2004-01-21T17:26:00.000+07:00

Today I join Thomas Arie Setiawan to dig into his Weblog's problem. I am curious because at the first I did with debugging, it is ended with error message Premature end of script headers. As far as I know from common Perl problem, it is about end-of-line difference between UNIX and Windows. So I made file type checking and ensuring that anything is in UNIX format.

Still that error message appears!

To make sure that there is no file with incorrect file format or permission, I unzip new MT tarball, and upload this new version into Thomas's directory both from my Linux and Windows boxes. Still misterious and error log from Apache does not tell much.

After 2 hours fixing and testing, I went into Google for "500 internal server error mt rebuild" but found nothing except there is one or two guys facing similiar problems but no solutions explained. One statement told that someone has been helped by MT support forum comunity, so — as I planned for the last searching — I looked into Support Forum.

I found Thomas had posted his problem there, but no solution yet. I searched more specific 500 Internal error issue and found a possibility from process mechanism used by MT for building pages.

Having tried to set EntriesPerRebuild into lower value (20 and 5), rebuilding Weblog still got failed. Sure I do not know the limitation from Thomas' hosting server about this process and its effect to how MT works. The best thing I can do is exporting Warnadunia's content into my computer — which does not have such kind limitations :-) — and testing it by rebuliding all.

Bla and bla... it works!
Ups, Thomas's prejudice about the possibility using better hosting service this morning sounds becoming necessity for his hundreds articles in his Weblog.

For me? It seems that if somedays in the future I have to move my stuff into commercial webhosting, I have to deal between cheapest and scalable enough. I remember one discussion thread in Warnadunia Forum telling why MT is less popular in Indonesia.

[Added on 22/01] Thomas tells that he tweaked ThrottleSeconds variable in mt.cfg and got better rebuilding. I will also try to apply Thomas' original layout into my trial in my computer.

2004-01-13T21:11:00.000+07:00

Backup and backup!

Since today is one month after the last backup (10 Dec.), it seems one month regular backup is a well worth to be started. Our websites grow from static to database-minded with more configurations and pictures.

CD Rewritable will be a good solution, at least I can rotate the lattest 6 backups.

2004-01-11T04:20:00.000+07:00

January 2004 — new year! — is marked by renewing my Weblogs' layout. Started before end of December for #direktif, I reconstructed its layout with inspiration from Six Apart's clean and smooth block. So I removed unnecessary entries inside sideblog and changed all bold-style anchor into normal, underlined font. Seems the nature and simple-easy Web page comes again. The red-white combination is, of course, still main color for #direktif with additional golden strip.

31 Dec. is the date for my last post in #direktif for 2003 and this is first entry for new layout.

New year comes and some days after I completed new design for Coret Moret. Similiar with #direktif for global layout, I focused my writing for all pages, so menu is only a sticky note placed in right part. Coret Moret's new design is inspired by this Writing in Silence's template. I also made space for Coret Moret narrower, compacted in the middle with smaller font was choosed. There are so many unnecessary things (mostly experiment part with MT) were removed. Only my articles exist — those are now the focus on my Weblog! I also made it last article is shown in complete form on main page; last articles were displayed fewer.

For these changes, I wrote their spirit, Tata Letak Baru (A New Layout) as first entry for year 2004.

2003-12-09T10:58:00.000+07:00

Since 1 Dec, I pulled my tutorial out from Coret Moret to its own page, or die();. My primary consideration is they need to be arranged into its own more spesific categories, so it will be more flexible to be done in their own weblog. More than that, it is also — hopefully — easier for visitor who comes for that topic, get into suitable location.

Or die(); is a simple behind my mind: I just type my trick and very practical experience in front of computer, especially about configurations setting and programming. So it will be easier for me to repeat reading about some "mysterious" solutions that come incidentally, for example. And, if they are also useful for others, why not to be share?

2003-11-27T04:05:00.000+07:00

Having seen an example from Budsz's MRTG, I think it is an interesting point to have this kind of system's report. Unpacking it from Debian's package, I setup MRTG's page and observing external connection's traffic.

2003-11-19T11:53:00.000+07:00

Having had a dream for a long time, finally I purchased two web.id domain name for my weblogs. Coretmoret.web.id for Coret Moret and direktif.web.id for #direktif. To ease the process and also use their DNS for registering my computer's IP address, I choosed Murih.

Of course, from the old address, as subdomain of degromiest.nl, rewrite rules to a new address are provided.

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName coretmoret.degromiest.nl

RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://coretmoret.web.id/$1 [R,L]
</VirtualHost>

2003-11-15T18:15:00.000+07:00

With generousity from CSS2, and also thank to Nimbus for suggestion, I replace Printed Version from my Coret Moret and #direktif. It is a simple step: all I have to do is providing stripped version from original, screen-oriented stylesheet. Because MT's default template consists of main block such as links for my sideblog and comments-head for commenting part, I can easily hide them in printer stylesheet,


.links, .comments-head { display: none; }

I provide printer feature only in Individual mode, so inside its template, I made this modification

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<$MTBlogURL$>css/styles-site.css" type="text/css"
media="screen" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<$MTBlogURL$>css/styles-printer.css" type="text/css"
media="print" />

The document has two separate stylesheets now, each for specific media.

This solution does not provide separate document for printer version, instead it gives proper view (guided by stylesheet) for printer. To see the result, and not by messing printer, Print Preview menu in browser can be used.

Finally, to provide link for visitor to print, JavaScript will help,


<a href="javascript:this.print()">Print this page</a>

2003-10-28T13:39:00.000+07:00

One day before Ramadan 1424H comes, my router that runs OpenBSD crashed caused by hard disk's failure. I tried to reboot several times, but it still can not be accessed. First I had an idea to use router based on single copy disket, but then I realize that it is somewhat the best time to force all my HTTP service into port 80.

Due to the constraint that I have to inform all about Ramadan's start date and some things around that, I was enforced to stay until late on that weekend. The result, Sunday morning, 26 Oct., the Web server was up and ready again. More surprise, on the first date of Ramadan, that fell on 27 Oct., Serambi deGromiest hit record with 140 unique visitor and 240 page reload in a day. The highest so far.

2003-10-21T16:02:00.000+07:00

Printer friendly feature is required for Coret Moret, because it gives visitors a better page without to be spoiled by some Web pages attributes such as browser-minded layout. It is about stripping unnecessary HTML tags from page and remove layout block. I think this is one advantage of using DIV so removing block is well represented logically inside the document format.

To provide printer friendly pages in MT, I do these following steps:

Create new template for printer friendly. I choose Individual template to be stripped. Remove block layout, comments, and other unnecessary header tags.
Because printed version is attached into individual article, so inside Template section, create Archive-related Templates and use informative name, for example Printer Friendly for my template.
Now, to use that template, in Weblog Config, section Archiving, create new archiving with Add New... button and choose Individual archive type for inserting new template.
Back to Archiving page, create new archive name, in Archive File Template. To distinguish with existing Individual Entry Archive, I add _pf suffix. Because I use my own file name for Individual Entry Archive, so I make it both of them correlate. As the result, file perbaikan_komentar for example, will have printer friendly version namely perbaikan_komentar_pf in the same subdirectory.
Add related URI inside any template that expose printer friendly version. For example, in the bottom of article in individual mode I insert <a href="<$MTEntryPermalink$>_pf">Printer Friendly</a>.

In short, we create a new "stripped" template and make them related in the final document. Another approach I ever read is by using mt-view.cgi that is provided by MT. This approach using dynamic view by manipulating document from database directly per request.

The bad side about my trick is: I can not prevent search engines' robots crawling these printer friendly pages, because it resides in the same directory with the original archive files. I try to save all printer friendly document in other directory with similiar structure and then protect that directory using robots.txt but I can not find any tags for to represent this alternative template. So, the final thing I can use for preventing search engines' indexing is using META tag. I know it is not good idea because the document is still fethced. Any idea?

Added on 1 Nov: In Warnadunia Forum Nimbus suggested using CSS 2's Media Type capability to handle this situation. Nice alternative.

2003-10-11T14:45:00.000+07:00

I made major revision (and perhaps get a risk from lost visitors) to my MT's filename structure. Using number such as 000021.php is less sense to a title such as Perbaikan Komentar. Truly I was inspired by Richard Eriksson's August article titled Plugins Work in Archive File Templates. His short-but-enough tutorial is helpful for me to change my setup. Also do not forget various URL he mentioned that expose some considerations about filename in blog's Permalink. Other important thing I have done is erasing file's extention, php, from URL.

As you guess, visitors who come from search engine will get a real lost because this reconstruction. Next month I hope the situation will be better.

.htaccess in Coret Moret's directory contains

ForceType application/x-httpd-php

And in /scripts and /buttons directory, their .htaccess contain

ForceType none

Added on 21 October: because .htaccess is accessed in each Apache request to that directory (less efficient) and it is easy for me to modify Web server's configuration, I move entries in .htaccess into Apache's httpd.conf.

2003-10-08T18:38:00.000+07:00

One more project: a website for our lovely children, Farras and Safira. I think it will be interesting to write some short memorable words and activities from childage. Memorable and something nice to remember some time in the future.

Once again: I am crazy in using MT, so this is the place for all.

About the layout design, I am inspired by pullovers that are used by Farras and Safira. Bright color but simple, with background in orange — a color that also represents where we live now: The Netherlands. Come to visit, Farras & Safira.

2003-10-06T00:49:00.000+07:00

After being notified by one visitor, I realized that there was a problem in Coret Moret. The POST mechanism for previewing and sending comment is failed and No entry_id found error message returned. Because I only tested this from inside firewall, I just assumed that anything was okay. Until 3 October...

Having bug hunting and finishing all for two days (not full time, folks!), I write small documentation in Coret Moret (Bahasa Indonesia). Now the comment box is ready to accomodate visitors' feedback.

2003-10-02T19:42:00.000+07:00

For last backup, I have performed with scripting both for tar-ing system's most useful configuration and selecting which directories in- or excluded. I tried to report this script here, but getting mess with this Blogger's automatic wrapping inside multi-line text input (<textarea>?) [so, it proves that editing via real editor such as vim is still more appropriate]. Finally I wrote a note about Backup in my Coret Moret.

Backup CD has been created on 20 September 2003.

2003-09-16T23:05:00.000+07:00

To make myself more active, I write my Dutch course in Weblog, NedLeuk. This is also my appreciate to new features offered by Blogger, such as "draft mode" and user-managed time and date. I try to use more Dutch in NedLeuk.

2003-09-07T02:21:00.000+07:00

Coret Moret is changed into PHP file to prepare more flexible, server-side programming in the future. To handle visitors from search engine's results that is still in .html extension, a rewriting in httpd.conf is provided,

RewriteRule ^(.+)\.html$ $1\.php [L,R]

Other major refurnishing is several buttons added: represent common gesture in blog world for any resources have been used. To me personally, I prefer blog button style for its minimalism and simple text expression. I named them as Stiker (sticker).

First PHP's usage is for handling Stiker's more..., so visitors come to see important and less buttons.

Update on 18 Sept 03: I remove Stiker's more because using ?bla=bli&blu seems not so appropriate for blog style. In change, I still need PHP for handling Sideblog, a dynamic block in the right side that is changed more often. About Sideblog, Richard's MovableBLOG is an ultimate inspiration.

2003-09-03T20:26:00.000+07:00

Zumaidi Zainuddin's MT's plug in for converting Gregorian date to Hijriah is useful for promoting Hijriah system, so I add this snippet in Coret Moret Amal.

2003-09-01T17:57:00.000+07:00

After considering among various hot-topics that I am interested very much to make some annotates, I'd like to start maintaining a long awaited #direktif. Months ago, I set up #direktif as my initial self-effort to survive in profitable business model. But I was lack of marketing supporting and my daily condition was very hard to stand up for that business. I am in defence mode; so along my nothing-ness, it is better for me to just create and maintain and having nothing else to be kept in mind.

Why can't I trust [more] in the spirit of knowledge?

The result is I remake my #direktif using MT and spend my time to maintain notes about IT from various source. This will be a suggested writing, motivated expression, and target oriented notes. My next plan after enough notes published is to invite others for joining — thus, it will not be only my private collection.

Welcome to visit #direktif.

2003-08-26T14:30:00.000+07:00

I can not stand for client-side, JavaScript based, hit counter. The spec. that I need most: elegant and simple banner (I hate bigger and too-exposed color) and IP/host exclusion. CQCounter is my favourite, but, unfotunately they do not provide host exclusion, so it will be polluted with my own access when in editing or previewing mode. As a result, from yesterday I furnished our Analog, a web server's log analyzer. Most important things has been done was Virtual Host support. At the time when I first activated Analog, I erased our logs that include Virtual Host [I know, erasing logs is near to criminal activity!], but now I keep in mind that it is a must in an environment like our server.

To avoid me from doing a stupid thing, like no historical awareness, I move old Analog's page in separate directory, and provide necessary link for it. All activities are recorded formally in Atijembar.

2003-08-23T01:33:00.000+07:00

All materials from old Coret Moret have been copied into new site with an explanation about anachronism. So, from now it is time to collect my writing from other archive as well as — more important — write more and more new articles.

2003-08-20T17:42:00.000+07:00

Today I launch Coret Moret Amal using MovableType (MT). Because MT's environment is too heavy using deGromiest server, Coret Moret Amal is hosted in AMD machine — better performance with possible downtime risk because the nature of its usage. But this is the only option to provide better website.

2003-08-12T00:51:00.000+07:00

Digging into MT's template and comparing with some working blog-site, I find that simplicity in style and clear block is more important to my writing site. Want to get into design quickly, but today I have less energy for my innovative mind.

Maybe tonight until tomorrow!

2003-08-08T21:25:00.000+07:00

The heatwave across Europe makes these days get terrible with higher temperature. [News]

2003-08-08T15:10:00.000+07:00

So now the problem comes...

Having tried MT in our deGromiest server, I found that it makes our server works hard — the final point is slow...

It is my plan to use our AMD computer for MT, but how to make it reliable enough not to be used by gamers (aka. The Farras Team)?

Maybe with time pass, there will be a solution, especially if my plan for this project sounds useful and attract visitors.

Go and go!

2003-08-07T06:39:00.000+07:00

I can't resist!

From yesterday evening, I dig into some possibilities for using blog tools — especially MovableType (MT) and WordPress. Both of them were known incidentally from a friend and Ensiklonesia. They both have plus-minus for my condition; even to me personally seems like a long-term fight between Perl and PHP.

This new tools will be used to maintain more-in-layout website such as my Coret Moret and another other that is currently inside my plan.

Finally, minutes to midnight, MT has been installed in my production machine. [MT's kick out: its ready-in-use style is superior. I never sit on design class, so pardon me!]

2003-08-05T07:13:00.000+07:00

Related to my little announcement, I write email describing some statistics to deGromiest. It is archived in Yahoogroups (in Bahasa Indonesia). I have a plan to expose it also in Serambi.

2003-08-04T23:53:00.000+07:00

One of my first and long-maintained website for our moslem community in Groningen, Serambi deGromiest, reach 10k+ hits today. It was built using handycraft simple scripting (perhaps lazy?) Andy Wardley's Template Toolkit. Of course, Perl rules!. This handycraft construction was at first to be choosed for accomodating our free webhosting that does not support server side scripting. But due to complexity (and once again, laziness?), even after currently two months migrating to our own server, I keep this method rocks!

Other point: today I also visit some blog-related sites (production-tools, communities, templates, etc.) and truly, I ever consider (seducted, uh?) to accomodate their easy-maintenance, elegant-style, and multi-users support. Some hours I rethink and reconsider. But at least I will not change my self-hand made web tools by just that reasons. To be truth, I do not want getting too easy to maintain (do you ever think that behind a-to-z of programming, lies down a beauty of satisfaction?); elegant is okay, but... ups, we do not have any commited web-artist (so who will handle elegancy?); and multi-users... hoaaa... I am a single-fighter webmaster — Tukang Web sebatang kara!

2003-08-03T22:24:00.000+07:00

After some consideration what topic should be written, today I complete my first entry to Ensiklonesia, entitle Alun-alun. Hope this is a good starting point for writing in Ensiklonesia.

2003-08-03T06:26:00.000+07:00

This Writing in Silence was started with intro

Anything around me gets hard to be predicted, uneasy to manage, and virulent to be spoken. Bitter and cold. Finally I have to go back into my sharpest weapon: writing!

I know this can be changed sometime in the future, so I archive it here.

2003-08-03T05:51:00.000+07:00

Basically, I am not so agree writing my opinion in curhat mode. It is a little bit sentimental, in a blue passion, and somewhat not easy to be expressed. But I am interested to write all my activities. It is not merely about to be exposed, but to invest a kind of nostalgia ("something nice to remember") for someday. The other reason is to share many useful practical things.

This is also my experience in English writing. My other serious writing is absolutely in my mother language, Bahasa Indonesia, as I can do performing more acrobatic words there.

:: Curhat is a short word from "curahan hati" (heartly speaking) that most Indonesian used when they want to talk something more intense or in private way.