Global Economic Recession and Novell Business Opportunity in Indonesia

Several days ago, I got an email from Han Wen Kam (甘汉文), Senior Technology Specialist, Global Strategic Partners,  Asia Pacific Novell Inc. He emailing me after reading my blog and found that I’m currently active building Indonesian openSUSE Community. In his email, Han Wen Kam asked me about Indonesian openSUSE community, it’s activity and about his goal to linking openSUSE community all…

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OpenOffice Novell Edition for Windows

OpenOffice is the leading and most popular open source competitors to Microsoft Office beside another desktop application : Sun StarOffice, IBM Lotus Symphony and Built-in KDE KOffice. The latest version of Open Office, Open Office 3.0 released on October 13, 2008, after has been in development for the past three years. A few days after the announcement, Novell, a company behind openSUSE project also released their OpenOffice productivity suite based on standard OpenOffice 3.0, named as OpenOffice.org Novell Edition, currently available for Windows.
What is the different between OpenOffice Novell Edition and Upstream (community) edition ? Well, The community or upstream edition…

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December 2020 Portfolio Update

This is the third update to my portfolio in 2020. It’s February 2021 now and if I updating regularly, it should be the 14th update and December portfolio is the 12th. I missed regular portfolio update (and also missed to update this blog as well), so I will restart portfolio update in 2021 and looking…

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Tutorial : Building Active Directory Server, Domain Controller & File Server with Excellent Samba 4 Appliance-Part 1

One of an interesting project to be implemented-especially for the System Administrator who still handles Windows Server and Client-are Samba 4. What is Samba 4? Samba4 is a massive reworking of the Samba 3 implementation, with a goal of providing full Active Directory, domain controller and file server support for all current Windows clients. Samba 4 deployment process requires some dependency files on…

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Solved : Error Upgrading VirtualBox 2.0.6 into 2.1.0

I found an error “Inaccessible VirtualBox Image” after upgrading VirtualBox Virtual Machine on my friend’s PC with openSUSE 11.1 installed. The install process went successfully after removing previous version but I accidentally found this message while running old virtual machine created with VirtualBox 2.0.6 on new VirtualBox 2.1.0 : Assertion failed: [!name.isNull()] at ‘/home/vbox/vbox-2.1.0/src/ VBox/Main/NetworkAdapterImpl.cpp’…

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