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Moving Out

2006-09-30T06:02:00.000-07:00

Now we're moving here : http://blog.ngoprek.web.id

Powering Data Center Cost A Lot

2006-09-28T10:23:00.002-07:00

This might be interesting since we're in Lampung we run out power so that the light must be off almost every day now. Do you know how much costs you to power on data center?

The average data center uses the equivalent of about 2 tons of coal (or 80 barrels of oil) per day; a datacenter with 2,500 servers uses enough electricity in a month to power 420,000 homes for a year. A 30,000 square foot data center with 1,000 racks needs $4.2 million a year to power and cool the computing processing power you are using (including maintenance and amortisation costs).
computerworld.com

Blogger Longer?

2006-09-28T09:38:00.000-07:00

Is it me or blogger gets longer to publish today?

Bandung as top Religious City

2006-09-28T09:08:00.001-07:00

Is it? well at least that's what Google trend told us. Just type this in your URL :

http://www.google.com/trends?q=islam

Bandung comes up on the top cities which doing this search.

Google to bypass Proxy

2006-09-28T08:52:00.001-07:00

For you who live behind proxy, and can not access some website, maybe this old tips can help you out. Just put your destination url in google language tools.

For example, if you want to access http://cleanpick.blogspot.com, and your proxy doesn't allow you to do it (daah...), just use this url:


http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://cleanpick.blogspot.com&langpair=en|en

See, your proxy would assume you're accessing google.

Ok, another example here, if you want to access yahoo.com, just try this out:


http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.yahoo.com&langpair=en|en

Have a nice try.

Add islamic Link to your blog

2006-09-26T07:37:00.000-07:00

In the spirit of Ramadhan, i'd like to share how to add islamic links to your blogs.

Link from Khilafah.com

If you want to add link from khilafah.com, all you need to do is copy the following code into your own blogs,

For KCom News:


<link href="http://cleanpick.ngoprek.web.id/js/pick.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="http://cleanpick.ngoprek.web.id/js/pick.js?site=kcom&cat=news&limit=10" type="text/javascript"></script>

For KCom Journal:


<link href="http://cleanpick.ngoprek.web.id/js/pick.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="http://cleanpick.ngoprek.web.id/js/pick.js?site=kcom&cat=journal&limit=10" type="text/javascript"></script>

For KCom Magazine:


<link href="http://cleanpick.ngoprek.web.id/js/pick.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="http://cleanpick.ngoprek.web.id/js/pick.js?site=kcom&cat=magazine&limit=10" type="text/javascript"></script>

Link from Hizbut-tahrir.or.id

If you want to add link from Hizbut-tahrir.or.id, all you need to do is copy the following code into your own blogs,

For Buletin Dakwah Al Islam:


<link href="http://cleanpick.ngoprek.web.id/js/pick.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="http://cleanpick.ngoprek.web.id/js/pick.js?site=hti&cat=alislam&limit=10" type="text/javascript"></script>

For Majalah Al Waie:


<link href="http://cleanpick.ngoprek.web.id/js/pick.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="http://cleanpick.ngoprek.web.id/js/pick.js?site=hti&cat=alwaie&limit=10" type="text/javascript"></script>

For Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia Headline:


<link href="http://cleanpick.ngoprek.web.id/js/pick.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="http://cleanpick.ngoprek.web.id/js/pick.js?site=hti&cat=headline&limit=10" type="text/javascript"></script>

Technorati one of web 2.0 losers?

2006-09-25T05:18:00.000-07:00

After Michael Calore take on the list of web 2.0 losers, people form wisdump make another brief explaination of their own list of web 2.0 losers. I don't know about the rest, but they also includes technorati as number ten on the list.

I wouldn't surprise if delicious is on the list, who need it anyway if you have nice firefox bookmark, and reddit for determining what's hot, but technorati? I like it, and i believe lots of people like it too, since it's constantly growing.

I think we need to define the meaning of losers here.

Golden Rules for Bad User Interfaces

2006-09-25T05:08:00.000-07:00

People often propose how to's for good thing. But that seems not enough if you cann't find the bad examples of how to not do. That's why this golden rules for bad user interface might be a good reference for web developer like me. :)

The SAP Design Guild Website is full of guidelines and tips for good user interface design, and it's not the only one on the Web. Nevertheless, we see examples of bad user interface design everywhere – many more than users would like to see. As people like to do just the opposite of what one is proposing, we thought that it might be a good idea to promote bad user interface design. Therefore, we collected "Golden Rules for Bad User Interfaces" on this page – please help yourself (and do the opposite). We started this page with ten rules and are continually expanding our collection.

An App A Day

2006-09-24T15:13:00.000-07:00

Paul Graham mentioned in his essay that if you ask a good hacker how good he is, he might replay "i don't know". He's not being modest, he really doesn't know. But i think it's not a bad idea to test your skill of coding and find out how good you are. How about if you challenge yourself to make a new application every day?

Well, that might sound hard to do. But not really. At least not for her. So this blog goes to anappaday.com.

Don't worry, you haven't miss anything. By the time i write this, she is in 10th day of 30 working days she planned. You can also chat with her while she's working on an app.

MWN Secure Control Panel, is it really secure?

2006-09-23T10:51:00.000-07:00

I was trying to acces control panel from one of the largest web hosting in indonesia using HTTP Secure Connection, and it showed this,

is it a joke? does www.example.com sound familiar to anyone? :)