Teknik Industri ITB 2002

Menjadi laki-laki

“Aku ingin menjadi laki-laki“Kalimat itu yang terucap saat terakhir kita bertemu di lembah itu. Dan sekejap langsung nafasku terhenti. Kupandang dirimu yang menatap kosong pada rerumputan ilalang di bawah sana. Wajahku serius menenatpnya, menunjuka...

Apa Itu Kesejahteraan?

Saya membaca artikel kompas yang ini. Ini melahirkan pertanyaan: apa itu kesejahteraan? Cerita ringkasnya begini. Pemkab Pati mengizinkan pembangunan pabrik semen gresik di Sukolilo. Untuk kesejahteraan warga, katanya. Namun, ada warga Sukolilo (dim...

Mencari rumah

Bulan-bulan ini saya sedang giat-giatnya mencari rumah di sekitar Jakarta. Inginnya dalam tahun ini rumah tersebut sudah terealisasi. Bukan apa-apa, buat saya rumah itu penting, bahkan lebih dulu di bandingkan menikah (maunya, realisasinya tidak tahu)....

Grab It While It’s Hot!

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 is RTM.

Download at Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fbee1648-7106-44a7-9649-6d9f6d58056e&DisplayLang=en

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Menulis Lagi

Saya benar-benar harus menulis lagi.Rasanya otak ini menumpul.*siyal*

Upgrade Woes

Dear readers, I would like to extend my sincere apologies to lost images on this blog. The hosters last weekend tirelessly upgraded our system to the latest and greatest (and of course, most expensive) infrastructure. I am currently working closely with them to either restore the images, or if they can't find it, I'll have to upload the stuff back.

Well, they never say anything about upgrade/migration woes in marketing materials, right? :D

Cheers!

P.S.: Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is coming today! Subscribers will be able to download tomorrow... This update is required for SQL Server 2008.

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SQL Server 2008 RTM Blocking Issue!

Yes, SQL Server 2008 is released to manufacture (a.k.a. completed) yesterday, so eager people like me eagerly downloaded the whole 3Gb of DVD, and just now installed it.

Well, apparently, I hit a nasty show stopper bug, during installation!

Wah! VS 2008 is not even SP1 yet but this piece of server requires it. I am not going to the route of uninstalling VS 2008 or hacking the system in order to proceed installation.

Good news is, VS 2008 SP1 is coming out very very very soon! I can't tell you when since it's under NDA, but it's definitely soon!

P.S.: this is just a very stupid issue.

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Nikon ViewNX vs. Microsoft Expression Media

In digital photography, there's a concept called raw images. These raw images is the digital analogy of a film. Any information the camera captured during photo shooting is written to this file, no changes are made, that's why it's called raw.

The problem is, different camera vendors uses their own proprietary format. Consumer-level image processing software usually does not provide raw format reading, since they will need to pay for license to each of the camera vendors. Thus, we depend on camera vendors' bundled software (which usually very user unfriendly).

For my shots yesterday, I tried using Nikon's bundled ViewNX software to convert raw files to JPEG, which is the de-facto image format for the web. The problem with it is that it is very slow. I have only 51 raw files, to convert all of them to JPEG allows me to do my nightly chore (taking a bath, brush teeth, recharge my gadgets, etc.) plus some half an hour more.

Just now I remember, Microsoft Expression Studio bundled a media management software called, intuitively, Media. I browsed the Catalog Importers and found out that it capable of doing imports of Nikon raw images! I just now tried importing all my raw images, and it's completed in... 3 minutes! Now, that's what I call performance.

While it's true that raw image processing is more than just JPEG export, I do feel that speed is the ultimate quality aspect for users.

Nikon ViewNX is not without good thing to say though, best of all is that it's free (bundled with the camera), while Expression Media is US$199.

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Old Hobby, New Tool

I was a photographer. While not pro-level, at least I had fun capturing those precious moments on a sheet of paper. I am now restarting this hobby as finally, I've got a hand on Nikon D60. While the results probably won't look as good as Dondy shots, I do invite you to my photostream at flickr.

As a teaser, this is my first shutter count; my lunch.

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Telkomsel, begitu dekat?

Awal bulan lalu, teman kantor saya sumpah-sumpah karena merasa ‘dibekuk’ dari belakang oleh Telkomsel. Ya.., Telkomsel operator GSM terbesar di indonesia itu. Ceritanya, sekitar bulan Oktober 2007 lalu aplikasi Kartu Halo teman saya di approve. Ka...