Vista security
I’ve been looking over reviews about Vista. Got some samples from Youtube. Noticed the search-in-start-bar feature. Windows desktop search implanted on it I suppose, which you can achieve also by utilizing any of your favorable desktop search (eg: beagle, strigi, etc) and some DCOP or DBUS saucesage. The new alt-tab (win+tab?) revamp is quite good, 3D live windows list. Even videos is still playing. Usability need to be reviewed though. Kaffeine in the contrary will pause video playback when it’s not in focus. Or so what I experienced sometimes ago. The sidebar? You’ll get a clocky as default, which some said took %30 of CPU power :D. and also, control panel is changed again, thus some people complains for having difficulties finding what they are looking for. Parental control is looking nice though.
Biggest improvement? Mr. Gates said it was security. As what I can read in Slashdot:
From the BBC [bbc.co.uk]:
Windows Vista is “dramatically more secure than any other operating system released”, [said] Bill Gates.
Meanwhile, in other news, several open-source developers in Calgary, Alberta were admitted to hospital for treatment of coffee burns and choking injuries caused on by an acute attack of the giggles.
Well, we’ll hear more reviews along these weeks for sure. Stay tune.
Mozilla Firefox Category Manager
Ever wonder what categories you have in your Mozilla/Firefox platform. Well, you can use this code below to get to know it. I bet the output would be handy for observing purposes.
var catMan = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/categorymanager;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsICategoryManager);
var foo = catMan.enumerateCategories();
while (foo.hasMoreElements()) {
var bar = foo.getNext();
var tmp = bar.QueryInterface(Components.interfaces.nsISupportsCString).data;
dump(’Category: ‘ + tmp + “\n”);
var item = catMan.enumerateCategory(tmp);
while(item.hasMoreElements()) {
var subitem = item.getNext();
var tmp2 = subitem.QueryInterface(Components.interfaces.nsISupportsCString).data;
dump(”\t” + tmp2 + “\n”);
}
}
Result, follows:
Apa yang ada dalam pikiranku hari ini
Seperti biasa, kebiasaan buruk klo mandi, pasti muncul ide-ide ngasal. Hari ini yang muncul adalah ide untuk bikin Geek’s Days Out. Semacam hackfest atau hack day-nya Yahoo. Sebenarnya sudah cukup lama terpendam, tapi baru muncul lagi tadi pagi, sembari menikmati guyuran air dingin di atas kepala *dingin*
Kenapa harus hackfest? Well, karena aku rasa akan menyenangkan untuk bsia berinteraksi dengan orang-orang, mengetahui hal-hal cool apa yang sedang mereka lakukan. Setelah membuat sesuatu inovasi atau discovery, pastilah yang dinanti adalah feedback.
Gimana menurutmu temuanku ini? Menarik?
Gimana, bisa diteruskan lebih jauh gk ya?
Eh, kamu ternyata punya temuan ini ya? Wah keren sekali klo aku bisa plug ke servicemu, bisa jadi mashup keren nih.
Wah iconmu keren banget, minta dong.
Wah klo dibuatin flash interaktif bsia tambah keren inih.
Wew, tinggal bikin website doang ya, habis itu nunggu reaksi user.
Ayo ayo ayo!
Begitulah kira-kira dialog yang terbayang dan terharap di kepala. Suatu event dimana semua orang terakomodasi, bisa berekspresi, bisa mendapatkan feedback dan interaktifitas. Bisa ber-fun ria pokoknya.
terus gimana rencana realisasinya? Chotto, menunggu ide tambahan dan peminat untuk menunjukkan muka dan kesediaan. yang diperlukan sekarang adalah jaminan supaya hackdaynya tidak kosong. Berarti harus ada sejumlah orang yang mau nge-share apa yang telah ada di lab masing-masing. Sebenarnya gampang, tapi kendala terbesar biasanya pada malu-malu. *melototin temen-temen sekantor*
Rebuttal: Linux is dead 2013
Begitulah judul e-mail yang dikirimkan ke info@jogja.linux.or.id dan akhirnya diforwardkan ke milis jogja-linux oleh Willy. Seperti yang diwanti-wanti oleh Willy, jangan dijadikan flame war. Toh, si penulis (Rochmad Budi Santoso) e-mail sendiri juga telah berkata bahwa imel-nya adalah penyemangat dan bukan suatu bentuk pesimisme.
Bukanya saya menakut-nakuti para penguna
linux, Tidaklah demikian tulisan ini saya buat sebagai pemacu pagi komunitas
di Linux supaya terus maju dan berkembang,saya sendiripun adalah salah satu
dari banyak penguna Linux di dunia ini, lalu mengapa judulnya harus demikian
suatu yang ironis bukan
Berikut ini adalah tanggapan saya untuk beberapa hal yang disebut dalam imel tersebut:
Seharusnya ada
penyetandaran ( standarisasi ) nama aplikasi dilingkungan Linux itu sendiri
mengapa demikian supaya ketika kita mengunakan semua distro nama
aplikasinyapun sama sehingga kita tidak merasa direpotkan, mungkin yang
berhak atau yang berwenang dalam hal ini adalah GNU linux,kita tunggu
saja,mungkin.
Saya pikir GNU/Linux tidak punya wewenang sama sekali dalam hal standarisasi nama. Menurut saya, nama aplikasi adalah hak pembuat aplikasi. GNU/Linux, dalam hal ini komunitas dan supporternya, hanya bsia memberikan saran atau usulan standarisasi. dan ini pun tidak dalam tataran pemberian nama. Sejauh yang saya tahu, sudah ada freedesktop project yang berusaha memperjuangkan konsistensi antar dekstop, dengan jalan menaungi para developer dan menyatukan visi guna menyusun konsistensi. Konsistensi di sini bisa berupa aturan spesifik mengenai penamaan atau peletakan direktori sampai dengan konsistensi yang diperjuangkan lewat kompatibilitas (misal komunikasi aplikasi via DBUS).
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..about my dream that you may have not yet known.
I want to work inside a small team, that knows nothing but striving to excellence. That has all things to prevent me from looking for other interesting stuff to hack. No question asked, it must be accompanied with a safe financial environment. To be frank, I have quite a jealous feeling to all those bubbling interesting startups.
Logically, obvious idea is to start my own startup. Unfortunately, I don’t have much capital to put on stake. Other option is joining new bubble with all the new risk to take.
Well, here I am ready to blame myself, yet again, for thinking not like an entrepreneur. Entrepreneur will always find its own way, regardless how hopeless the situation has been.
Maybe I’m just having another boiling point days. Ah, my mind is not here inside my head.
KDE 3.5.6 release
Whoa. I haven’t got myself into 3.5.5, now 3.5.6 is already available. Anyway, there’s some interesting release note there.
- Konqueror: Fix wrong “Couldn’t receive DCOP signal” errors on RMB menu. Fixes bug 122020. See SVN commit 599200. Finally, this annoying bug is fixed.
- KIO: fish:/ kioslave is now able to handle files > 2GB. Fixes bug 79573. See SVN commit 601776. I don’t have any 2GB files though :p
- KWin: Fix X resources leaks in kompmgr. See SVN commits 603872 and 603904. The KDE composite effect may get performance improvent, no?
- Umbrello: Crash when opening a document. Fixes bug 135749. I’m giving up umbrello sometimes ago, due this crashing bug.
Well, I guess that’s all that looks good to me. There maybe many things not listed though, as what the improvement we see during 3.5.4 to 3.5.5 (I’ve tasted it on my wife’s laptop :p ). Drop a comment if you’ve upgrade to 3.5.6, okay 
New theme
Finally, I can create a slight better theme compared to my sexy-lust. This theme was based on redbusiness theme I found in oswd.org. After undergoing a heavy surgery, implants some pngs from Tango gallery, it’s finally beta. Why beta? Well, I haven’t sort the ugly “Google Adsense” text in meta (it was a hack from a long time ago I believe, Adsense deluxe plugin thing). Also the links is not there yet. So no blogroll at all. Gomen ne ..
PS:
Footer looks like shit as well.
What’s your feed reader?
None. What? It’s true. I never read much RSS nowadays. I have only a short list of sites to visit each day. Namely, originalsignal.com, slashdot, osnews, and ajaxian.com.
Why did I give up feed reader? Simple. It’s always got bloated after sometimes. I keep on adding new feed and always confused where to group it into. Ajaxian, where should I put it. blog? planet? web 2.0? news? Finally it ends on a folder named hardly-match-any-appropriate-label. More problems come as my hot topic changes within some week or so.
So, what do I want? Maybe a feed reader that can evolve. Where we can bury or digg stuff with. Maybe we should escalate this idea and make it commercial? STFU, lol.
PS:
My feed reader has changed from feed reader on windows, RSS Owl, Sage on firefox, Akregator when I use linux fully, and then none 
In progress
I keep on making myself busy as hell ..
PS:
Momon said, as my visitor has been regularly see black color here, the mock-up will cost adaptation.
Granular Web
As RW/W has written. Granular web is cool, and can be very useful to reduce application development cost. RW/W wrote about the big granular web player such as Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, OpenID, and other. Wether they are useful or not has been proven. They are useful, thought there are yet significant number of user can be counted. However, these granular web has also gives each app using it a default weakness: dependencies.
I’m not using any of those big boys services yet. My need is nowhere far from converting rss to json for some retarded need of displaying RSS feed in my blog. Nevertheless, I’ve been facing real world issue here. Both the service Iw ant to use is currently, somehow unavailable. rss2json of the famous John ‘jQuery’ Resig is currently generating status 500 Internal Error. And the alternatives, xml2json of Ning’s Badgerfish, is taking a break.
What would happen if such case happened to my 3,1337 user base social network app? I’ll be definitely enjoying quite good number of howler.
So, what’s my point? Hell, I may need to install my own copy of badgerfish. May be I can escalate it into a fullblown reliable service, no?
