http://angga.gpratama.net

Please update your links. Thank you.

Peace. Out.

Anyway, I won’t continue the mumblings or rather to keep it for my personal consumption than to publish it here. I choose not to publish the early part of this second mumblings. Yet to ease the guilty-feeling away and to persuade me in writing another mumblings in this space in the future, here’s how the second mumblings end:

But in women case, choosing the right one to be the one you give all your loyalty, dedication, commitment, is so not the same with choosing the “right” linux distro. Its not like you can just re-format your harddisk to install your new distro then forget the old one. Women indeed have feelings. And it might last until the time you’ll never know.

Then you might ask, can you dual-boot or even triple-boot women just the way I triple-boot different operating systems in my laptop? The answer is definitely not an absolute answer for every person. Unlike linux who can live altogether in the same harddisk with no problem, women, mostly today, have no such characteristics to be able to live with other woman in the same harddisk, no, I mean under the same roof. Or to deal with the fact that the man might have someone else in mind. One worthy lesson for myself is that, indeed, too much love will kill you if you don’t make up your mind. And the credit goes to …

Face this reality, will I tinker with Slackware, Install SuSE, boot-up xubuntu, or get myself the latest beautiful MacBook Air instead? ALL HAIL TO THE MIGHTY BLUE APPLE! :p

Peace. Out.

If you don’t even know what linux is, simply stated it’s an operating system. Computer codes that allows you to have access to the underlying hardware of your computer, the electronic components. With an extended definition, an operating system provides you with some working environment and some programs to support your work on a computer. And if you don’t know what woman is, umm.. uhh.. I think there are no simple explanation for this.. Even Einstein once said that he understands the universe with the laws beneath, but he still doesn’t understand women.. Sorry dude.. :p

And why would I compare women with linux? Because to my opinion, somehow they share many similarities. I’ll start with elaborating linux in a non technical way I hope, and you, readers, may compare, interpret, make jokes or take whatever conclusion you feel is right for the women side. I’ll just show you some hints. I don’t ask you to have a philosophical way of thinking, just a little imagination will do.. :p Here we go..

At the time of writing, there are about 500 different linux distributions or the so called “distro(s)”. I forget where I got this statement, but let’s just follow it. If you don’t like it, stop reading and write your own blog :p This favorite site of mine btw, distrowatch.com shows a hundred distros referred as the most popular ones. Why on earth there are so many different flavour of linux? Because of different environments, different needs, different habits, different tastes from the people who crafted it or from the people the developer targeted to. Well, you name it. There should be about 500 different reasons to answer such question. Every distro usually claimed to be better from each other, but in my opinion, they just simply work best for their intended purpose or target users.

As to myself, I have always been a huge fan and quite a long time user of SuSE linux (openSUSE now). A well-polished distro originated from Germany. I have been using this distro ever since I’m still in high school, back in early year of 2000. But living in the world of open source, to have so many options is very natural. SuSE is not the only distro I ever use though. As a matter of fact, the first linux distro I installed was Slackware. Known as a highly reputable, very stable and the oldest distro ever survived until today, but maybe not the easiest distro to deal with. SuSE on the other hand, in my opinion, has always comes up with the latest stable kernel, well maintained software repositories, modern desktop environment/window manager, easy installation with a wide range of hardware recognition and not to mention the eye-candy and bling-bling stuffs. In contrast, never expect everything will work out of the box when you first install Slackware. Those features are the least expected when you install Slackware. There’re always some extra efforts needed to make everything runs smoothly in Slackware.

SuSE is considered as a modern operating system, a bleeding edge system like other well-polished operating systems. Several names included are Mandriva, Debian, PCLinuxOS, and the emerging Ubuntu and their derivatives. Mandriva is also powerful yet beautiful, pretty much like SuSE, but I don’t like it, maybe because it’s just too “French” to me.. :p On the other hand, I also like Ubuntu and its derivatives especially xubuntu because its simplicity and the work-out-of-the-box sensation, and of course because of the great support from the community.

As the case with my two favourite distros, SuSE and Slackware, I like both distros so much but however Slackware has a special place in my heart. Despite its difficulties and its old-skool techniques, it has become a distro I always come back to. No pain no gain is a perfect proverb to be applied to this distro. I learned so many things about linux and how things in linux work together, because I travel so many adventurous journey with Slackware. The feeling to have something finally runs by yourself like you wanted to, beats the glory of work-out-of-the-box and bling-bling distros.

[to be continued]

Peace. Out.

That night, I can basically ran away temporarily from the burden I had.. After what happened a few hours earlier.. I really became someone else in the night, a nocturnal creature which is quite different from what it is in the day.. To make myself happier, I brought the geeky side out of me and went wild..

God, give me your strength to move on.. To make the right decision.. To give everything in me to the right one..

Peace. Out.

You will shine in my every dark night..
Beautify the gradient of my early morning..
God only knows how much I miss you..
I love you..

Peace. Out.

It’s been a week or so in Bandung, this lovely city *yeah rite* always receive a dark and cold rain. A pouring one mostly. The rain usually comes down in the afternoon, long until the night ends. I just wish that this year there will be no flood in some parts of Bandung (and many other cities) like always in the previous years.

When I heard the word Bandung, I always remember a quote from a blog I read somewhere in the net as follows “Bandung, the city where the border of the road, the sidewalk and the sewer aren’t clear!” Hahaha.. :p Well, to some extent, that was mostly true. But notice that there are still a lot of places with a very clear border, and are nice to walk on especially in the morning or in the afternoon.

Anyway, regarding the rainy season, this year it has proven that indeed i like rainy season more than any other seasons. Well, in Indonesia there are only two seasons anyway, rainy season and the less-rainy season that is. Heheh.. :p Maybe it’s more because the situation that cause my feeling to be more peaceful when it’s raining. That’s not always true actually, especially when I’m around on my bike, I would definitely grumbling all the way heheh..

I like rain, especially when I’m in my room. Alone (well, I like to have companion more, but what can I say :p). I can prepare a very hot chocolate, unplugged musics or maybe the ubiquitous The Corrs. Hold a grip on the long-awaited-hasn’t-read-novels. Dimmed light. With a scene of a beautiful shiny-greeny-little-garden seen through my window, isn’t life so beautiful?

Peace. Out.

And the best out of it: I sure do believe that happiness is (also) a state of mind. All I need to do is just tune the right frequency to have that Happy Radio of ourselves. So, cheer up! Happy being happy! Good luck..

Peace. Out.

As I arrived at the lab and fired up my hackintosh, a bell rang telling me that my sister has her birthday that very moment. Ow yes, 7th October I remembered. Not a very good brother myself, but I try to keep track of at least moment-of-importance of people from my surroundings. I didn’t want to waste time as I texted her immediately and say her a happy birthday, and wish all the best for her.

The girl in mention is the one who laid her left hand over my shoulder. She’s my younger sis, and the one next to her is my older sis. The embraced as the youngest is my li’l bro.

Anyway, I came that bloody Sunday to supervise the last day of the PV installation (read: Photovolataic Installation). All the job done, only mount the PV on the roof that is. There are still some work left including the wiring and such though. But that’s another story since we need an appropriate electric-current inverter to be available to have the system fully functional. Here’s a screenshot of what the mounted PV looks like.

I hope I could write a detailed technical-explanation regarding what this is all about. Included but not limited to what the research goal is, results achieved and such. But later.. :p

Peace. Out.

Tired for sure. But what a great experience indeed.

Peace. Out.

Wow what a life! Yesterday Bama introduced his friends he knows from his primary school! Isn’t that cool, still having contacts with your buddies from that early days of your schooling period?

So, that’s us having dessert in the ice cream shop right in front of our (Me, Pandu & Bama) little shop. There, you can see (part of) our signage in the top-left of the picture. We previously went to break our fast in our favorite Japanese resto, still in the area of CiWalk. From fore-left to right: Intan, Me, Pandu, Dinda, Eva, Bama. And of course, one more person who took the picture: Euis. I know, “Sunda pisan..” :)

This time the picture was taken by Intan, and there’s Euis replacing Intan’s place. Not much of a picture variation indeed. Hehe.. :p

Peace. Out.