tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123026042024-03-22T10:34:27.017+08:00MoonshakerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12302604.post-81301608938349936762016-04-15T10:07:00.002+08:002016-04-15T10:07:33.518+08:00Edible Cutlery, what on earth is this?Well, for some this terms has been known for a while. But, for the most of us this is not an everyday thing that we know. Eating your spoon and fork after finish eating? Well, that sounds okay though. This is one of the effort made by a very optimistic Indian guy who form Bogey, a start up to make edible cutlery. The final aim is to discard plastics cutlery and save the earth. Enjoy the video.
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Here are several images and photos of the opening ceremony on August 8, 2008. The pictures are amazing, elegant and unforgetable. I collected the pictures from various sources in the Internet. I posted them in 2 blogs, the forst one is in <a href="http://teknohikmah.blogspot.com/2008/08/foto-foto-spektakuler-olimpiade-beijing.html">TeknoHikmah</a>, and the other one in <a href="http://madriyanto.blogspot.com/2008/08/saya-kumpulkan-beberapa-foto.html">The World Viewed from Samarinda</a>. Enjoy...<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12302604.post-6098315457062375512008-04-30T12:31:00.005+08:002016-04-15T21:36:58.021+08:00Samarinda City At A Glance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This is a glance of Samarinda, the small city in East Kalimantan Province, where I live and write all these blogs... Write me if any of you wants to know more about it.<br />
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Samarinda is the capital of the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan (Kalimantan Timur) on the island of Borneo. The city lies on the banks of the Mahakam River. As well as being the capital, Samarinda is also the most populous city in East Kalimantan with a population of 562,463 (2000) and as such is used by many as a gateway to the more remote regions of the province such as Kutai Barat, Kutai Kartanegara and East Kutai. Reaching these areas usually involves travel by river as the most efficient means. Although it has status as the capital of kalimantan Timur Province, some of government public service centre is located in Balikpapan, such as Police, Indonesian Army District VI of Tanjung Pura, and Pelabuhan Indonesia (Port Transportation).<br />
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Transport into Samarinda itself is facilitated by an airport, Temindung and a port, however, there are plans to relocate both the airport and port soon.<br />
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The Mahakam River flows 980 km from the highlands of Borneo, district Long Apari to its mouth in Makassar Strait. The city of Samarinda, the provincial capital of East Kalimantan, lies along the river 48 km (30 mi) from the river mouth.<br />
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East Kalimantan (Indonesian: Kalimantan Timur abbrv. Kaltim) is the second largest Indonesian province, located on the Kalimantan region on the east of Borneo island. The resource-rich province has two major cities, Samarinda (the capital and a center for timber product) and Balikpapan (a petroleum center with oil refinery). Ever since Indonesia opened its mineral and natural resources for foreign investment in 1970s, East Kalimantan province has experienced major boost of timber, petroleum and other exotic forest products. The state-owned petroleum company Pertamina has been operated in the area since it took control oil refinery from the Royal Dutch Shell company in 1965.<br />
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The population is a mixture of people from the Indonesian archipelago with Dayaks and Kutai as indigenous ethnic groups living in rural areas. Prominent other migrant ethnic groups include Javanese, Chinese, Banjarese, Bugis and Malays, of which mostly live in coastal areas.<br />
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East Kalimantan heavily depends on earth resources activity such as oilfield exploration, natural gas, as well as coal and gold mining. Balikpapan has an oil refinery plant that was primarily built by Dutch governance before World War II, destroyed during World War II, and rebuilt by Indonesia Governance.<br />
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Other developing economic sectors includes agriculture and tourism. East Kalimantan has several tourist destination such as Derawan Islands in Berau Regency, Kayan Mentarang National Park ini Nunukan, Crocodile Husbandry in Balikpapan, deer husbandry in Penajam, Dayak's (native Kalimantan people) Pampang Village in Samarinda and many others.<br />
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The main problem to developing economic growth is lack of transportation infrastructure. Transportation depends on traditional boats connecting coastal cities and areas along main river, Mahakam River.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12302604.post-21689260234347336412007-07-24T01:05:00.003+08:002016-04-13T22:16:41.028+08:00Google & Phone Industry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I guess this issue will be an important piece in the future. Google is always interesting to watch. Every move it makes will play a significant change in the industry. The latest buzz is about Google taking part in a auction of the 700MHz wireless spectrum in the US. I cut and paste Don Reisinger's article in CNET Blog which is sharp and easy to read.<br />
<span class="fullpost"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Could Google kill the cell phone industry?</span><br />July 20, 2007 11:08 AM PDT<br /><a href="http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9747799-7.html?tag=nefd.only">http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9747799-7.html?tag=nefd.only</a><br /><br />In case you haven't been paying attention, the old 700MHz wireless spectrum is up for auction by the federal government. And under the veil of touting an "open" platform, Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced that the company will participate in the Federal Communications Commission auction for the bandwidth--with a few minor requests for the FCC: open applications for users; open devices that will work with whichever network provider customers choose; open services that would allow for third-party resellers to acquire wireless services on a wholesale basis; and open networks, which would allow third parties, such as Internet service providers, to interconnect at any feasible point within the 700MHz licensee's wireless network. Not bad for a reported $4.6 billion deal, huh?</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12302604.post-55873236534665214712007-07-01T18:01:00.001+08:002016-04-13T22:16:54.395+08:00Trying Joost from Samarinda, Indonesia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Affected by the hype of the next generation TV called Joost, I decided to look over the website and see what I can get. First impression was bad, I have to get an invitation from other person to be able to try the beta version. Shoot... who will be able to give me one? Who else to turn to? Google of course... I search for Joost invitation and I get many links providing invitation, mostly from blogs. Surprisingly, from a hidden link inside Joost.com that you can't find from Joost front page, I found a page that you can get the invitation instantly by typing your email address and woosh I got invited... fool...<br />
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Joost need to be installed in your PC, just like IBM Second Live or Google Earth. I installed it, and its said that my memory was not enough, Joost need 512 MB while I only have 190 MB. But it said I can still proceed and try it. Yes, the installation was completed even though I got less memory than required.<br />
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<a name='more'></a><span class="fullpost"><br />Then came the showdown. Using the ADSL Telkom Speedy, a nation wide ISP promised to deliver 384 Kbps, I start to use Joost, a full screen TV with crisp picture, unlike the previous "fake TV" on PC the can only provide blurred picture in a very tine screen. The interface was great, very Mac-like design. Lots af channels already available, including CNN that I tried.<br /><br />But... but... the picture failed to stream smoothly... I think, the biggest problem might be my Internet connection. The application ran beautifully, but the picture stream is bad. Can't watch it at all. And... I quit trying, but not yet uninstalling the apps yet. Wanna try using it at night when usually the connection is slightly better.<br /><br />Well, from a glimpse of Joost that I just used, I really think that this concept would go all the way and eventually will shape the future of TV. Let's see...</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12302604.post-27180140016455938782006-12-25T03:56:00.005+08:002016-04-13T22:17:15.695+08:00YouTube and The Men Behind<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y8O4Q0a4phk/SMAn4picwoI/AAAAAAAABdg/J6-FDR7iDGk/s1600-h/youtube.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242233820435759746" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y8O4Q0a4phk/SMAn4picwoI/AAAAAAAABdg/J6-FDR7iDGk/s320/youtube.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0 0 10px 10px;" /></a>It's really inspiring to see how tech world has changed many ordinary people into superstars with huge wealth... Imagine having a very simple idea and then creating it into a usable form, take it out to the market, then 21 months later, you get paid for $ 1.65 billion. That' how YouTube story is all about...<br />
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Steve Chen, 28, and Chad Hurley, 29, two of the three founders of YouTube (the other, Jawed Karim, went to grad school last year).<br />
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<a name='more'></a><span class="fullpost"><br />CHAD MEREDITH HURLEY has the lanky and languorous carriage of a teenager who just rolled out of bed. He wears a stubble beard over a complexion that doesn't see enough sun, and he has a habit of pushing his chin-length hair back from his forehead so that by the end of the day it's a bit oily and Gordon Gekko-ish.<br /><br />Raised in the southeastern Pennsylvania town of Birdsboro, Chad is the middle child of Donald, a financial consultant, and JoAnn, a schoolteacher. He was an arty kid, always watercoloring and sculpting, which is not to say he ran with the artsy crowd. There is nothing affected or capering about Chad—his temperature runs so low he comes off at first as a dullard—and it's easy to imagine him as a slightly introverted, earnest boy trying to sell artwork (not lemonade) from his front lawn, as he did in an unsuccessful venture that taught him the difference between art and commerce.<br /><br />Chad was unusual in that his artistic proclivities coincided with an interest in business and technology. In ninth grade, he built an amplifier that won third place in a national electronics competition. By the time he was in college, he would hole up for hours online, doing those things boys do these days—studying Web design, playing games, experimenting with animation. He did not come equipped with a sense of entitlement or snobbery; his brother Brent, 27, told me that to earn money during one summer in college, Chad joined a pyramid-marketing scheme for knife sets. "He would come over to our friends' houses and cut through a soda can or something," says Brent. "One of our family friends, they joke now, 'Hey, you sold us these knives and look at you now.'"<br /><br />STEVE SHIH CHEN has always been something of a risk taker. He left the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign a semester and a half early to work for PayPal. His family was wary: "We told him it was risky; he just had a few months left" in college, says his brother Ricky, 26. "But he was determined to give it a shot." Steve was drawn to PayPal partly because several U. of I. alums worked there, including PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, who in turn was eager to hire Steve because of his educational background. Steve had attended not only U. of I.—which has a well-respected computer-science program—but also the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA), a state-funded boarding school. "IMSA plus U. of I. is generally a very winning formula," says Levchin, who says the combination produces "hard-core smart, hardworking, nonspoiled" young engineers who are perfect for start-ups. "The kind of people that imsa attracts are the kind of people very prone to choose their own path," he says. They also grow up quickly, since IMSA feels more like a college than a high school. It's coed and highly competitive, the schoolwork is college level, and kids spend every possible second on the Internet.<br /><br />Which isn't to say Steve is a geek—at least not an irretrievable geek. Chad gets more attention for his laid-back cool look, but Steve is actually more fun to hang out with, particularly since he started drinking a year and a half ago (right around the time YouTube was founded; he jokingly wonders if there's a connection). Steve seems to wear the responsibilities of the company more lightly than Chad, and he has absorbed less of the heavy p.r. coaching. Steve, for instance, is willing to speculate about what his wealth might mean for him: "It's funny, you know, Chad and I will probably, are definitely at YouTube for the next five years. But you do start wondering, What's next? Now that you have some cash, and it's like, Well, if I could live in any city, where would I live?"<br /><br />Do you want to be a billionaire too?</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12302604.post-79286372105616332212006-12-25T03:42:00.002+08:002016-04-15T21:32:57.818+08:00Hard Drive Gets Smaller & ThinnerSee the picture. We will have in a very short coming future a mega i-Pod with 100 GB capacity?<br /><br />That's a 100 GB hard drive made by Toshiba, see the AA batery size?<br />Hard to believe it's already invented and ready to hit the market...<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Toshiba's MK1011GAH 1.8-inch hard drive has a 100GB capacity and uses perpendicular recording technology to increase how much data can be stored in a given surface area. The drive here is shown next to an AA battery.</span><br /><span class="fullpost"><br />Source: <a href="http://news.com.com/2300-1041_3-6141008.html?tag=nefd.gallery">CNET News</a><br /><br />This is more detail information from <a href="http://sdd.toshiba.com/">Toshiba</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">K1011GAH</span><br /><br />1.8-inch CE PMR HDD 100.0GB<br /><br />Toshiba introduces a 100GB 1.8-inch embedded HDD for consumer electronic (CE) devices based on perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR), the MK1011GAH. Enabling some of today's most exciting, small form factor mobile devices, the new mini-drives offer manufacturers significant storage for consumer, commercial and PC applications - such as music players, handheld PCs, PDAs, wearable computers and laptops. Toshiba is committed to grow with developers and users to provide smart computing solutions, backed by Toshiba-renowned quality and technology leadership.<br /><br />Key Features<br /><br />100.0 Gigabytes*<br />Lightweight, only 59 grams<br />Low Power Consumption<br />15ms Average Seek Time<br />100MB/s Ultra DMA Transfer Rate<br />Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) connector<br />Stores up to 40,000 songs, 200 hours of video or 3,000 photos**<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Y8O4Q0a4phk/RY7YrdgWMwI/AAAAAAAAADk/SaqUcgyXNOE/s1600-h/toshiba.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_Y8O4Q0a4phk/RY7YrdgWMwI/AAAAAAAAADk/SaqUcgyXNOE/s400/toshiba.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5012181676476216066" border="0" /></a><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12302604.post-73460541106584423642006-12-20T03:19:00.001+08:002016-04-15T21:35:42.995+08:00TIME's Person of the Year 2006 - YOU<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Y8O4Q0a4phk/RYg80NgWMvI/AAAAAAAAADY/RzYavsgjgyY/s1600-h/time-you.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_Y8O4Q0a4phk/RYg80NgWMvI/AAAAAAAAADY/RzYavsgjgyY/s400/time-you.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5010321453125874418" border="0" /></a>It's just too hard to resist copying the TIME's report from its website into my blog here. It's against the law, but for me, it's too important to pass. So be it, I copied them here...<br /><br />This is a monumental moment where web services like MySpace, YouTube and the phenomenon of blogging has turned the Internet world into an almost fully user-generated world. So, according to TIME, it is YOU who made all the story in this world, it is YOU who rule the world, set the trend... What a world to be...<br /><span class="fullpost"><br />Just read the story, the complete one is in its original website or buy the printed one with a piece of mirror on its cover, weird isn't it?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">TIME's Person of the Year 2006 - YOU</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">In 2006, the World Wide Web became a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter.</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"><br /><br />The "Great Man" theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that "the history of the world is but the biography of great men." He believed that it is the few, the powerful and the famous who shape our collective destiny as a species. That theory took a serious beating this year.</span> <br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">To be sure, there are individuals we could blame for the many painful and disturbing things that happened in 2006. The conflict in Iraq only got bloodier and more entrenched. A vicious skirmish erupted between Israel and Lebanon. A war dragged on in Sudan. A tin-pot dictator in North Korea got the Bomb, and the President of Iran wants to go nuclear too. Meanwhile nobody fixed global warming, and Sony didn't make enough PlayStation3s.</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"><br /><br />But look at 2006 through a different lens and you'll see another story, one that isn't about conflict or great men. It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"><br /><br />The tool that makes this possible is the World Wide Web. Not the Web that Tim Berners-Lee hacked together (15 years ago, according to Wikipedia) as a way for scientists to share research. It's not even the overhyped dotcom Web of the late 1990s. The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"><br /><br />And we are so ready for it. We're ready to balance our diet of predigested news with raw feeds from Baghdad and Boston and Beijing. You can learn more about how Americans live just by looking at the backgrounds of YouTube videos—those rumpled bedrooms and toy-strewn basement rec rooms—than you could from 1,000 hours of network television.</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"><br /><br />And we didn't just watch, we also worked. Like crazy. We made Facebook profiles and Second Life avatars and reviewed books at Amazon and recorded podcasts. We blogged about our candidates losing and wrote songs about getting dumped. We camcordered bombing runs and built open-source software.</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"><br /><br />America loves its solitary geniuses—its Einsteins, its Edisons, its Jobses—but those lonely dreamers may have to learn to play with others. Car companies are running open design contests. Reuters is carrying blog postings alongside its regular news feed. Microsoft is working overtime to fend off user-created Linux. We're looking at an explosion of productivity and innovation, and it's just getting started, as millions of minds that would otherwise have drowned in obscurity get backhauled into the global intellectual economy.</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"><br /><br />Who are these people? Seriously, who actually sits down after a long day at work and says, I'm not going to watch Lost tonight. I'm going to turn on my computer and make a movie starring my pet iguana? I'm going to mash up 50 Cent's vocals with Queen's instrumentals? I'm going to blog about my state of mind or the state of the nation or the steak-frites at the new bistro down the street? Who has that time and that energy and that passion?</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"><br /><br />The answer is, you do. And for seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, TIME's Person of the Year for 2006 is you.</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"><br /><br />Sure, it's a mistake to romanticize all this any more than is strictly necessary. Web 2.0 harnesses the stupidity of crowds as well as its wisdom. Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"><br /><br />But that's what makes all this interesting. Web 2.0 is a massive social experiment, and like any experiment worth trying, it could fail. There's no road map for how an organism that's not a bacterium lives and works together on this planet in numbers in excess of 6 billion. But 2006 gave us some ideas. This is an opportunity to build a new kind of international understanding, not politician to politician, great man to great man, but citizen to citizen, person to person. It's a chance for people to look at a computer screen and really, genuinely wonder who's out there looking back at them. Go on. Tell us you're not just a little bit curious.</span><br /><br />Source: TIME.com</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12302604.post-3226653052385653792006-12-09T21:42:00.001+08:002016-04-15T21:33:50.498+08:00Google Maps Kills?In the past few days, lots of IT news are covering the death of James Kim, an editor at CNET, the news site I read everyday. I admit that I didn't follow the story too much though. But I was stunned to read a piece of blog entry from Valleywag. You can read it below.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">BOGUS: Google takes flak for James Kim's death</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You'll probably come across this story a few times, because it is superficially compelling. The short version: the death of James Kim, the CNET editor who died this week in the wintry mountains of southwest Oregon, was Google's fault. The argument: Kim may have put too much trust in the search engine's online maps. Do we know he even asked Google for directions? No, but he might have, according to the authorities. And, while a rival mapping service from Yahoo suggests a longer, safer route from Grants Pass, Google Maps recommends a shortcut that's dangerous in bad weather. People: it's a decent search engine, not the omnipotent being.</span><br /><span class="fullpost"><br />I was a heavy user of Mapquest and then Yahoo Maps a few years ago when I was in the US. I travelled quiet a lot driving with my family. We drove almost accross the continent. Must be thousands of miles of roads... Wherever I go, I asked those online map service to "give me directions". I either printed them or store it in my HP Jornada PDA. I never bought a real map, why should I? I think, almost 90% of those electronic computer-generated directions have been right, the rest 5% was just a tiny fraction of mistake, and most mistakes are minor.<br /><br />After reading that blog, I was just feeling very lucky and blessed by the One up there. What can I say, if Google Maps were around at that time (year 2000-2002), I would have been used it, I trust Google, just like everyone did. Gosh... thank God I am now still alive.<br /><br />Now, I feel safer, I use no maps anymore. I live in a small city, I know every single street in it, no maps needed. Hopefully it will save my life a little longer, amin...<br /><br />Source: <a href="http://www.valleywag.com/tech/bogus/google-takes-flak-for-james-kims-death-220555.php">Vallewag</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12302604.post-52490869445444524732006-11-27T01:05:00.001+08:002016-04-15T21:33:50.505+08:00Google Saves My Life Again...I've been working on a project for the last 2 months. It's a research project that involves a lot of field visits and a bunch of writings. The report due in a few days. I've spent hours of tiring nights working on the final report and using a lot of scratch notes stored all over my flashdisk.<br /><br />After a few months working on and on with my flashdisk, I usually do a little maintenance, reorganizing my files, erasing unused or double files. I rely on my flashdisk heavily now since it is as fast as working with your hard drive, and as secure as a CD... so why bother restoring the files into my hardisk? But as we all know, accidents happen... As I experienced this morning...<br /><span class="fullpost"><br />Unintentionally, I deleted the whole folder of the project. All of them!!! Hard to believe how my fingers have done that. No warning what so ever from the system that preventing me from accidently erasing those files. Or I have just ignored it, only God knows.<br /><br />Well, so be it, the files gone. I sat in front of my computer, frustrated. I think nothing and too tired to try to find something to get me out of trouble. After a few minutes, I could only think one source to help me out. Go to Google.com. Then I suddenly face the site and start typing the keywords. I started with "restore file flashdisk" (no space between flash and disk) but didn't get a good result, some are good but not really hit straight on what I needed. Then as we all know how Google has helped millions of people, I saw on top of the page "Did you mean: restore file flash disk?" Yes... I clicked it, and... boom, I got a page full of search results pointing out to numerous sites that offer utility application to restore deleted files from removable disk. Thank God...<br /><br />I went to one site, it says it has a freeware, but it happens to be not. Free download, but you have to pay for $49 to be able to restore files bigger that 64 kb size, stupid limitation. Went back to the search result, I click another convincing link, yes it was a freeware, only 277 kb to download, I installed it.<br /><br />In not later than 15 minutes after I crashed those files. I've been able to recover most of them. What a relief! Not a perfect application though, it still failed to recover my small PowerPoint file, but it's okay...<br /><br />So the day has saved, thanks again to Google...<br /><br />Just in case you want to use that application called SoftPerfect File Recovery, get it at <a href="http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/system/fwdatarecovery.html">Snapfiles.com</a>.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12302604.post-45285928585267873452006-11-20T11:00:00.001+08:002016-04-15T21:33:50.502+08:00Free Email Goes CorporateHave you ever been taken down by your corporate email? I have... I used my student university's email service for 2 years, I relied on it heavily. When I graduated, I was too lazy to update my profile in numerous websites that I've been signed up using my formal email. Then... bang... I got a lot of problems in accessing my accounts in many important sites.<br /><br />I had a terrible problem with my domain registrar where I owned several important Internet domains that is still running at that time. I could not make any changes, they were then taken out from me simply because my university email has been terminated and the registrar could not confirm that the domain names were mine. Then came the problem with my eBay account, it was a great account, many great positive comments about me. But it's gone... Talking to the mail admin guys in campus while I was far away? Forget it...<br /><span class="fullpost"><br />So, I turned to Gmail several years ago, still beta though, and I might be using it for the rest of my life. I copy some good points I just read on the Net.<br /><br />Owen Thomas, writes at Business 2.0 Magazine about this phenomenon titled "<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/15/magazines/business2/corporate_email.biz2/index.htm?postversion=2006111608">E-mail rebels at work</a>". Enjoy it and do turn to Gmail... :-)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Employees aren't just using Gmail or Hotmail to goof off on the company dime anymore. Increasingly, they're using webmail services to do their jobs. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">For years, I had a colleague who adamantly refused to use our corporate e-mail. His coworkers didn't like the nuisance of having to remember to send messages to his personal account.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">But I could hardly blame him for his one-man revolt: In five years, we went through three back-end systems and four e-mail clients. By holding out, he saved countless hours having to learn new software and deal with the inevitable glitches.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Not all corporate IT departments are likely to turn a blind eye to such obstinacy. But there's a quiet rebellion afoot against corporate e-mail, with employees using instant messaging and Web-based e-mail systems from Yahoo, Google, Microsoft, among others, to circumvent annoying policies and work more efficiently.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">And a few companies, like videogame developer RedOctane, are adopting free webmail as their corporate messenger.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Then there's the simple fact that consumer-oriented e-mail and IM are often better than the corporate systems they replace. Google, for example, offers 2-gigabyte mailboxes - ten times larger than those available to most corporate users.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12302604.post-63898957587091262742006-11-18T04:52:00.001+08:002016-04-15T21:34:52.776+08:00The Net Giants' Market CapsThis one is worth commented and stored... It's about the map of the net/tech giants market capitalization. I like reading things like this, it sort of inspires me to move further. There's no limit out there, you have your imagination, go grab them, why worry limiting myself all the time...?<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Google's market cap at around $151.8 billion, compared with Yahoo's $36.2 billion, eBay's $46.4 billion and Amazon.com's $17.6 billion. Among traditional media companies, Disney's market cap is about $69.1 billion and Time Warner's is $81.1 billion. However, Google's market cap is still a far cry from the $289.7 billion Microsoft boasts.<br /><span class="fullpost"><br />Plus...<br /><br />Google's share price neared $500 Thursday, Nov 16 2006, analysts were unfazed by the fact that the search king's market capitalization is greater than its three biggest Internet rivals combined and about double that of media companies Walt Disney and Time Warner.</span><br /><br />Gee... I remember reviewing similar figures years ago in Net boom, it's even bigger and got a huge potential to move far forward. Wanna join the ride? Or... just sit back and relax, why bother...? Hick...<br /><br />Comparing it with my country's central government budget, Indonesia, if I'm not mistaken, has a 2006 annual total budget of $50 billion. This is for around 250 million people. Sometimes, it's just so annoying to see how capitalism has brought us this far today...<br /><br />Ref: <a href="http://news.com.com/Is+Google+worth+its+weight+in+gold/2100-1030_3-6136393.html?tag=nefd.top">news.cnet.com</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12302604.post-32413154390758735072006-11-18T04:42:00.001+08:002016-10-23T01:34:52.359+08:00Bill Gates' InstinctIt feels great in business when you can have a strong instinct on how the business moves forward, what will happen in the future, what the market want, and so on... I have been in "real business" for quite a long time, and I realize that developing my sense of foreseeing the future is still the hardest part. Where to learn? Or is this simply a born talent?<br /><br />
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Here is a statement from Bill Gates on how he has brought Microsoft to on of the largest business entity in the universe, ever...<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Bill Gates is pretty confident that when he spots an emerging technology, it will emerge. Exactly when that happens, though, is sometimes a question mark.</span><br /><span class="fullpost"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Tablet computing and interactive TV are just two examples where Gates has pushed Microsoft to get involved, though the markets have taken a long time to develop.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"My instincts, if they're wrong, it's usually not about what's right," the Microsoft chairman told CNET News.com during a swing through Silicon Valley on Wednesday. "It's about timing."</span><br /><br />Well, what can I say, he's been right for decades...<br /><br />Ref: <a href="http://news.com.com/Gates+on+Vista%2C+Linux+and+more/2008-1012_3-6136350.html?tag=nefd.top">news.cnet.com</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12302604.post-20267876464229680642000-08-06T10:26:00.002+08:002016-10-23T01:31:06.260+08:00The Organization That LearnsThe Learning Organization has become very popular concept in the early 1990s. There were many organizations trying to implement this concept. Some are successfully implementing it, but some are not being able to do so. Many studies have and are being done to evaluate the experiences that those organizations have in implementing the concept.<br /><br />
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This concept is considered as one of the important concepts that colored the 1990s' world of management. This is a concept that challenges the organizations to enhance their productivity significantly through a radical change of their organizational culture within the world of uncertainty.<br /><br />The article from Fortune Magazine written by Walter Kiechel III, on March 1990 is one of the milestones of the long journey of the learning organization concept. We can clearly see how this concept has been developed and discussed in the early 1990s. The writer obviously described some experiences on how the concept of the learning organization has been put into practice from some organization and discussed the problem occurred and sometimes gave some practical solutions.<br /><br />The writer begins his article with the main problem that organization faced at that period of time. The 1980s was the period of "restructuring" where over half of the FORTUNE 500 has tried to restructure themselves. And the shock came in the early 1990s when surprisingly those restructuring process just seems to go on and on, without any tendency to stop. Is there something wrong?<br /><br />The intellectuals then come with the thought that involves a paradigm shift called the learning organization. The concept offered to build organization that accommodates radical change around them and also a solution to increase their capacity in facing the change.<br /><br />The article describes perfectly some thoughts on the ideal form of a learning organization. The first is that an organization that learns is the place where most of employees are empowered, and with their important roles, the organization will have the so-called corporate loyalty. The second, the learning organization will become coping with, and capitalizing on, uncertainty. The model of organization that "will treat the unexpected as an opportunity to learn, not as a mistake." The third, that in such organization, people thoughts are not far from the ideas of continuous improvement because it is believed as the way to increase the efficiency if it is done constantly.<br /><br />The critical points, which should be taken care of seriously in implementing the learning organization, are explained with a wide example taken from some major companies in the US.<br /><br />Sue Miller, a consultant, explained that in order to maximize the individual learning, the organization must design the job that help the holder to develop him or herself to reach the further stage of development, rather than to get a suitable person in a rigidly defined job.<br /><br />The writer than stressed an idea on how important the middle managers are in an organization. These managers play a major role in maintaining the learning process in the entire organization. In the future, managers will have the responsibility more to be a coach rather than to be a boss. Paul Banas, corporate employee development maestro at Ford said, "Middle managers have a wealth of information that needs to be spread throughout the organization." These managers are expected to accelerate the creation of information from above and below their positions.<br /><br />The learning organization will not work, unless people feel free and safe in expressing their ideas about things that they have learned. And at Honda, where the writer claimed as one of the successful enabler of the learning organization, its way of life is characterized with closeness, communication and frankness at all levels. These aspects then are the very basic foundation of the organization that learns.<br /><br />Many challenges appear from this article in achieving the real learning organization. The important one is the involvement of cultural change of an organization. A vast change is needed, from the traditional way of thinking where working is considered as a different part of learning to a new form of working and learning as an integral part.<br /><br />The idea of empowering more to middle managers also regard as a very tough work to accomplish. Since the traditional habits are not in favor of developing them seriously, the priority in competence development is usually for the workers at the lowest level, since the skill is considered as most needed at that level. Again, this effort will not be simple, because it involves the change of habits.<br /><br />Yet, the learning organization is not an impossible dream. Some organization has proved that this concept is applicable to be done, and it also proven to be able to increase the effectiveness of the organization, which Honda has experienced. A little extra effort is required to execute this concept.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Buffalo, August 6, 2000</span><b><br /></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12302604.post-83194024787324526152000-07-29T10:25:00.002+08:002020-09-03T14:25:28.343+08:00Human Resource Management: The Most Neglected Field<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c1BSSsm7a7U/X1CK7VlyANI/AAAAAAAASfk/4Dae0Ws4glsIj1_aRA0QvmQwhCT4uBhcQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/pexels-fauxels-3184291.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c1BSSsm7a7U/X1CK7VlyANI/AAAAAAAASfk/4Dae0Ws4glsIj1_aRA0QvmQwhCT4uBhcQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/pexels-fauxels-3184291.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div>Everybody belongs to an organization. In organization every resource are forced and managed towards achieving the main goal of the organization. These resources mainly are the machine, the money and the human. These resources are in every organization, no matter how big it is. </div><div><br /></div><div>In many modern organizations, the leaders are struggling to complete their organization's goal. There is certainly no shortcut in managing an organization well. Most of the leaders are traditionally follow the path made by their former organization leader, and they also learn how to manage their organization by doing it directly.
But managing a great number of aspects from maintaining and repairing machines to fund raising and counseling employee is definitely needs a lot of competencies. Unfortunately most managers do not have the ability to cover the whole aspect of management. </div><div><br /></div><div>The aspect that is generally have a full concentration of managers are the money and machines, and leave the human side far behind their priority. There are various reasons why they are failed to do so. In most cases I have observed in my country, the time problem is the main cause; managers are running out of time everyday. Their time has wasted for their millions dollar machines and obtaining more funding from the bank.
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But in many other organization the problem is in the lack of competency of managers. Many managers are running away when they have to deal with human matters, they feel safer when they have to deal with technical machines problem.
This situation leads many organization into a declining productivity. </span></div><div><span class="fullpost"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="fullpost"><span style="font-weight: bold;">How a good Human Resource Management can create a brighter organization</span> </span></div><div><span class="fullpost"><br /></span></div><div><span class="fullpost">As the most important asset, human resource in every organization is in fact an aspect, which can bring significant impact to the increase of organization's productivity, if it is managed well.
By managing their human resource properly, an organization can expect to reach any goals they are planned. Through a good management, an organization can have highly productive and highly satisfied workers. Both of them are complimentary, when a worker is satisfied, it is expected that they will be productive. And in the other way, when the workers are productive, then the organization can afford many supporting facilities that can enhance their worker's satisfaction. </span></div><div><span class="fullpost"><br /></span></div><div><span class="fullpost">The basic thing the an organization need to have in order to run their human resource management well is the definite goal and a clear mission of the organization. The goal and the mission are the foundation in arranging a scheme for the human resource activities.
Managing human resource covers the activities within the organization from hiring to terminating the employee in an organization. The whole activities must be done with the spirit of achieving the goal and completing the mission. For example, hiring employee must be in line with them. An organization with a goal to be the leader in computer technology will not hire the same characteristics of the employee hired by a traditional restaurant. They should find a more technology-adapted employee instead of a physically strong employee hired by the restaurant. </span>This goal and mission based management is also adapted into the other human resource activities within the organization. </div><div><br /></div><div>The other important activities of human resource management are developing. The productivity of a worker within an organization is basically limitless, unlike the machines. So, a good scheme of developing the worker could lead an organization into an enormous increase of the productivity comprehensively. Developing human being is different with developing other resource. With human, there are feelings, interest and talent that we have to deal with.
The mechanism in developing human resource must consider those human aspects. Organization can not just push something that is not on the favor of the worker to be implemented. Through a better assessment to workers' needs and interests, the development schemes can be arranged toward a more mutual manner for both the organization and the workers. The development should consist of any efforts towards the increasing of workers' competency to fulfill the needs of the organization.</div><div><br /></div><div>The other important activities to be done are maintaining. Competent workers are too valuable to be ignored and then run away. The organization has spent a lot of resources to enhance their competency, so there must be something to be done in maintaining those workers to be able to contribute of their maximum of their capabilities. </div><div><br /></div><div>Those are several important points as an overview of a neglected field in managing an organization. Through a good understanding and awareness of those human aspects, organization will be able to perform better in achieving their goal and accomplishing their mission.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0