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…
Recently, my family and I had the opportunity to go on a holiday to Kampung Sampireun, a beautiful resort or villa built on the edge of a lake or pond in Garut, Indonesia. The scenery was breathtaking; the place was cool and lush greenery surrounded the area. It is suitable as a place to rest…
As I mentioned before, OpenSUSE 10.3 running well like a charm on my personal computer. It has so many great improvements and I quite satisfied with this release. But, I have a problem running 10.3 on my computer at work. This computer have 2 sata hard disc (250 GB and 120 GB) and 1 40GB…
Well, it’s too late to talk about OpenSUSE 10.3 launching (OpenSUSE teams announced OpenSUSE 10.3 on October 04, 2007 and now October 11, 2007 :-D), but I must started with the story about it before post another topics related to OpenSUSE 10.3. I tried OpenSUSE 10.3 since alpha version, beta version, RC version and finally…
As a powerful mail server, Zimbra has some system security features applied by default. We can also applying some additional security policy to increase mail server protection, such as applying PolicyD and Fail2Ban All the above security rule may be sufficient, but there are some additional security tips should be considered, especially in the case…
Recently, I grew sweet potatoes using planter bags. The planting media was a mixture of poultry manure and straw. I filled 1/4 of the planter bag with straw and poultry manure, then filled it with organic waste from the kitchen, such as fruit peels, vegetable stems or leaves, food leftovers, fish bones, etc. I then…
Indonesian openSUSE community (openSUSE-ID) usually organized regular monthly meeting (photo above), an informal event for discuss any openSUSE stuff, describe community plan or introducing and presenting new idea; but with a new year came up, I think it would be better to organized a more serious event, especially for openSUSE-ID activist. After discussion on mailing…
I’m a huge fans of wicd network manager due to it’s feature and stabilty. Actually, I’m having a bad experience with KDE Network Manager in the past and finally 98% satisfied with wicd, although I’m currently using Gnome Desktop Manager and found that Gnome Network Manager doesn’t too buggy like KDE does. One main problem…
Mandriva on October 09, 2008 announced the availability new version of their product, Mandriva Linux 2009.0. Mandriva get it’s popularity as easy-to-use Linux and the new version continue their trade mark for polished Linux distro. Mandriva is proud to present its latest distribution: Mandriva Linux 2009. This new version has been designed to meet the…
PCMAV stand for PC Media Anti Virus, a local anti virus created by PC Media Magazine team for cleaning local virus in Indonesia, although it would also be used for as foreign anti virus removal. PCMAV has officially launched their update for version 1.93. The third update added 12 new virus definition. To help anyone…
