Debian dan Nvidia
2010.01.20 11:02
I’m posting this in Indonesian as I think it would be more useful for anyone reading this… Ini sebenernya sekedar catatan pribadi aja soal ngoprek2 belakangan ini. Siapa tau ntar butuh referensi lagi soal ini: menggunakan kartu grafis Nvidia pada Debian Squeeze… Panduan lengkap soal Debian dan kartu grafis Nvidia sebenernya sudah ada dan bisa [...]
Mozilla Firefox 3.5
2009.07.01 07:09
Just a quick one… As you probably have known, the Mozilla Firefox 3.5 web browser has been released. Versions for various languages and platforms can be downloaded here. So what’s new? Firefox 3.5 is said to be faster with its upgraded rendering engine, and can take on HTML5, the upcoming latest version of the [...]
OK Debian
2009.06.26 15:32
Having been using Ubuntu “Jaunty” 9.04 for my daily computing needs, I then wondered what ever happened to my Debian install… especially after Debian “Lenny” 5.0 went stable… (Yeah, I know it’s a bit overkill –Debian? and Ubuntu? together?– but what’s more overkill for me is still having the pre-installed Windows on my laptop [...]
BlankOn Linux 5.0 “Nanggar”
2009.06.17 01:23
Just a flash post… BlankOn Linux 5.0 “Nanggar” has been released this June 16… The nickname “Nanggar” means “Hammer” in the Batak language of North Sumatra. (The next release will be called “Ombilin”, in reference to the Minang culture of West Sumatra; while the previous release was nicknamed after the Acehnese word of “Meuligoe”.) More [...]
Linux kernel 2.6.30
2009.06.10 14:30
Just a flash post… about the release of the latest Linux kernel: Linux 2.6.30 It will probably be put up on the Linux Kernel Archive shortly as well… Though some of us may have the expertise to config, compile and tinker with this new kernel release, most of us will probably just wait for it [...]
Puppylib
2009.06.08 08:08
A librarian friend of mine just released Puppylib, a remastering of the Puppy Linux mini-distro, tweaked with softwares for library management purposes. You can check it out at: http://puppylib.open-lib.net UPDATE: Download it from: http://118.98.232.10/puppylib/puppylib.iso (261 MB) Great job, mate! Seorang teman pustakawan baru saja merilis Puppylib, sebuah remastering dari mini-distro Puppy Linux, yang khusus [...]
OpenOffice.org 3.1
2009.05.08 10:22
Ternyata udah ada update-an terbaru: OpenOffice.org 3.1 Bisa diambil di sini, atau kalo di Indonesia, ya seperti biasanya di kambing.ui.edu paling lengkap kayaknya. Update-an biasa aja sebenernya; tampilan grafis-nya dibagusin, dan beberapa tambahan fitur lainnya. OK. Selamat mencoba! :)
Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope”
2009.04.23 20:01
Buat yang mungkin belum tau, update terbaru sistem operasi Ubuntu Linux udah dirilis tanggal 23 April… Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” Gua sendiri baru upgrade nih, dan makin oke aja nih Ubuntu :) (Buat yang di Indonesia dan mau upgrade, kayaknya yang paling cepet kalo setting mirror-nya ke kambing.ui.edu) Kalo mau download sendiri CD-nya, bisa dari [...]
From computers with love (resurrected)
2009.04.11 10:16
Now this is so cool. Too cool :p German media-artist-slash-computer-researcher David Link has made an emulator of the Manchester Mark 1 computer, virtually resurrecting it, to run Christopher Strachey‘s “Love-Letters” program –a program churning out randomly different love letters. Here is a link to the emulator. Just refresh your browser to get a different string [...]
Books on (digital) freedom
2009.04.09 22:03
Those already familiar with the following books (and their topic) can probably skip reading this post and move along. I just posted them here as the books recently came up again in a mailing list I’m subscribed to. But for the uninitiated, I’d recommend a read through them. Freedom of information. Freedom of ideas. Freedom [...]
