Laporan awal Ubuntu Karmic HP Mini 1013

Kemarin saya berhasil melakukan fresh install Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala di netbook HP Mini 1013 (seri 110). Saya melakukan booting dari USB drive dengan ekstraksi file ISO Karmic desktop (dengan bantuan Unetbootin). Setelah instalasi hampir semua berjalan lancar kecuali Broadcom wireless driver. Ini celakanya karena saya sedang berada di warnet Wifi yang tidak memiliki kabel LAN. Untungnya saya punya simpanan USB dongle TL-WN322G, tinggal tancap dan langsung berfungsi. Dari sini saya bisa mengakses Administration >> Hardware Drivers untuk melakukan aktivasi driver internal wlan saya. Jadi pesan moralnya untuk instalasi awal HP Mini 1013, IMHO, sebaiknya jangan tanpa ketersediaan kabel LAN atau modul wlan eksternal yang diketahui sudah otomatis terdeteksi oleh kernel pada versi Ubuntu sebelumnya.

Sisanya instalasi berjalan lancar, apalagi modem Smart-Telecom ZTE AC2726 bisa beroperasi lancar di sistem Ubuntu Karmic Koala. Termasuk juga untuk loader Vista pada booting netbook, berhasil tanpa masalah dengan Grub.

Maaf baru sampai di sini saya bisa menulis, berhubung "dikejar" tugas yang belum selesai maka semua screenshots dan setting lain (misalnya wvdial.conf) belum sempat saya kerjakan untuk blog ini. Sekedar memberi semangat untuk rekan-rekan dan testimoni saja dulu. Happy install

Normal atau tidak, tergantung siapa yang menilainya

Normal dan tidak normal itu seringkali tergantung dari cara memandangnya. Kadang cara pandang itu fungsional kadang tidak, hanya memuaskan perasaaan saja. Sebagian besar kita pernah berada di dua sisi uang koin itu, dinilai tidak normal dan menilai orang lain tidak normal. Kebetulan artikel dari the Atlantic ini saya temukan. Seri tentang orang-orang yang berfikir berani...semoga menjadi pencerahan dan inspirasi

Name: Thorkil Sonne
Job: CEO and Founder of Specialisterne
Why he’s brave: He launched a software-testing company and staffed it with employees who have autism spectrum disorder.
Quote: “I think normality is whatever the majority decides it will be, and in our company people with autism are the norm.”

After his son Lars was diagnosed with autism in the late 1990s, Sonne had an epiphany. Autistics tend to have poor social skills and difficulty responding to stress or changes, which makes finding work a challenge (one study suggests that only 6 percent of autistic adults have full-time employment). But Sonne realized that they also tend to be methodical, possess excellent memories, and show great attention to detail and tolerance for repetition—in other words, they might make excellent software testers. With this in mind, Sonne launched Specialisterne, in Copenhagen, in 2004.

Thirty-seven of its 51 employees have autism (though most have a mild form called Asperger’s syndrome). The firm now pulls in $2 million a year in revenue and serves clients like Microsoft and CSC. Sonne refuses to run the company like a charity: he competes in the open market and aims to make a profit. This makes government support unlikely, but it may lead to a sustainable new model for companies with disabled employees: Harvard Business School now uses Specialisterne as a case study in social-enterprise business. People on the autistic spectrum are not superhuman memory machines; but neither are they incapable of work. Sonne treats them as employees with strengths and weaknesses that smart employers should respect—and capitalize on.

link ke artikel aslinya the Atlantic : Brave Thinkers

Peringatan dari seorang ibu

Entah saya yang kurang banyak membaca, atau lainnya, yang jelas ini sungguh unik. Baru pertama kali ini saya temukan buku non-fiksi yang dedikasinya sejujur ini. Lucu, tetapi tragis ...

In memory of

My uncle, Mr. Mak Chung Lun, a kind-hearted gentleman, who
was separated from his wife after only a few years of marriage +.

DKM

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His observant mother, Ms Chow Chu, repeatedly cautioned him not to marry his wife. Even on the night before his wedding, she pleaded with him, “It is still not too late. I cannot stay with you for the rest of your life. You are the one who will be living with your spouse.”
Her scientific premonition proved to be true.

Dari buku :

Solving everyday problems with the scientific method : thinking like a scientist

/ by Don K. Mak,
ISBN 978-981-283-509-3 (hardcover)

Intinya si emak sudah punya firasat tentang si calon mantu, hati-hati dengan scientific premonition dari ibu ...

Listrik tanpa kabel, prototipe by Sony

Sony prototype sends electricity through the air

by Martyn Williams

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Sony has developed a prototype power system that can send enough electricity to power a television set wirelessly over a short distance, it said Friday. In tests the company succeeded in sending a conventional 100 volt electricity supply over a distance of 50 centimeters to power a 22-inch LCD television.
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Secuplik rahasia kesuksesan ekonomi China

Exploring The Secret Of China's Economic Success

by Anthony Kuhn

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The country's economy has continued to grow quickly despite the global recession. This has some observers wondering whether China's authoritarian political system has given it an advantage in promoting economic development.

Scholars such as Wang Zhengxu, a senior research fellow at England's University of Nottingham, see a pattern.

"In the early stage of economic takeoff, you normally need a strong government that can mobilize resources, that can concentrate government priority to the sectors that are important for the economy," he says. "In that case, a one-party or a more centralized system will have an advantage."

But Wang says it is the policies that matter more than the type of government.

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