Final and closing meeting for the Youth Camp 2007 Project this afternoon. Had tons of evaluations and input from internal and external. Hope we all can do more of the best next year.
While the committee is dismissed, I have to do documentation for the Camp. Reports are coming in from each section since 2 weeks ago and I still have video that we recorded to edit.
I made online Google Groups for the Youth Camp here. For those interested in sharing in the community, do not hesitate to do join. It would be a nice cyberspace to play around and discuss in.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Less of Windows, more of Ubuntu
I am starting to line Gusty Gibbon more and more. Have been using it for most things to do with computing tasks at home. I still use Windows at office; still got some .NET programming to do (Yeah I know there is Mono Project, but my team is using Visual Studio and I can't force them to convert).
I like the visual effects in Gusty, seems more robust. I remember using the wobbling windows in Feisty as it was quite unstable.
This Gusty Gibbon is worth to try; doesn't cost much money. ^_^
I like the visual effects in Gusty, seems more robust. I remember using the wobbling windows in Feisty as it was quite unstable.
This Gusty Gibbon is worth to try; doesn't cost much money. ^_^
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Gusty Gibbon is here
The long awaited version of Ubuntu is here now. 7.10 named Gusty Gibbon. I have been looking forward to seeing this one. It has been said that lots of features including dual monitor management without shell command anymore (yeah...)Downloading now... I think I can have it installed in a couple of days.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Youth Camp 2007
Another project finished. This time I feel so exhausted; in fact most of us feel so much exhausted unlike the previous camps. I don't know why.
Anyway, I had this feeling that we've done something great... Hope we (or they or whoever next year) can make it better next time.
Anyway, I had this feeling that we've done something great... Hope we (or they or whoever next year) can make it better next time.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Heaven & Hell
Came across some articles about Heaven and Hell. Just read the hell part and it really freaked the hell out of me. Hell is surely the last place I want to be.
I don't know if these stories are real or not, but I believe and know that it will happen no matter what. It's in the Holy Bible.
Indonesian version available here.
I don't know if these stories are real or not, but I believe and know that it will happen no matter what. It's in the Holy Bible.
Indonesian version available here.
initConflict(Indonesia, Malaysia)
I first noticed the conflict since the Rasa Sayange being used in Commercial Website of Visit Malaysia.
So what? Even the Indonesian cannot prove that the song belong to Indonesia.
But from many problems that Malaysian has caused towards Indonesia, I now have the thinking that Malaysia is trying to cause trouble.
Links:
So what? Even the Indonesian cannot prove that the song belong to Indonesia.
But from many problems that Malaysian has caused towards Indonesia, I now have the thinking that Malaysia is trying to cause trouble.
Links:
Internet @ home
At last.. I'm connected even when I'm home. Telkom finally got their Speedy to Binjai. Not as cheap as TM Net @ Malaysia, but still much better than nothing. In fact, I'm impressed with the speed. 37+ KBps of download speed. I hope it doesn't get worse as time goes.
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Saturday, October 06, 2007
Worship tools for church
I've been wondering if there were any tools/software to maintain songs and slides projected to the screen in churches. How dumb I was not searching it in sf.net as it has tons of resources. I know there were EasyWorship but it's commercial software (not free).
If you are running Microsoft Office PowerPoint just for simple slides (which does not provide great maintenance of your song database), you might want to check out openlp.org and OpenSong, and QProjector and free your church from unlicensed software (that means stealing).
I simply choose OpenSong since it manages the songs in individual files; easier to manage for small churches while QProjector uses MySQL database.
I'm planning to run OpenSong for tomorrow's youth service.
If you are running Microsoft Office PowerPoint just for simple slides (which does not provide great maintenance of your song database), you might want to check out openlp.org and OpenSong, and QProjector and free your church from unlicensed software (that means stealing).
I simply choose OpenSong since it manages the songs in individual files; easier to manage for small churches while QProjector uses MySQL database.
I'm planning to run OpenSong for tomorrow's youth service.
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Tech in Church
I've been browsing sf.net for a while for some open source systems that can be used in church. I myself have been doing some Windows based systems for church using .NET; however, I just want to seek for open source alternatives.
I first came across ChurchInfo for church database and some other similar system, but this one fits the profile much better.
Tested most scenarios in my church and it appears that the system fulfills almost all of the requirements in my church. Might want to implement it using Linux; I like the idea of Open Source especially in church. ^_^
If I want to serve God with my capacity, I want to do the best out of it; and I think this is I do best, putting technology into church. If this project goes successful, I'm making a portfolio to implement in churches.
With this solution, we can have a running and working system with just hardware cost; no Windows license, no buying anti virus, less risk of spyware.
I first came across ChurchInfo for church database and some other similar system, but this one fits the profile much better.
Tested most scenarios in my church and it appears that the system fulfills almost all of the requirements in my church. Might want to implement it using Linux; I like the idea of Open Source especially in church. ^_^
If I want to serve God with my capacity, I want to do the best out of it; and I think this is I do best, putting technology into church. If this project goes successful, I'm making a portfolio to implement in churches.
With this solution, we can have a running and working system with just hardware cost; no Windows license, no buying anti virus, less risk of spyware.
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
The funeral
Had the funeral at 15 PM; short one. Nobody could stand seeing the family mourns too long before the coffin. I'm out of tears for the last 3 days. Almost every church hymn reminds me of my uncle's beautiful voice. I can't imagine how we're going to survive next Sunday's service.
The cousins went to have some snack (the usual meatball) after the funeral as it has been like that since the last 3 funerals of the family. Had some laugh, but still something is missing; just time can heal this.
Be strong everyone.. God did not take him for nothing, He's got a much bigger plan.
The cousins went to have some snack (the usual meatball) after the funeral as it has been like that since the last 3 funerals of the family. Had some laugh, but still something is missing; just time can heal this.
Be strong everyone.. God did not take him for nothing, He's got a much bigger plan.
Monday, October 01, 2007
In Memorial of Daymin Eden (莊達明)
Couldn't sleep yesterday, my mom was ill; and I know it's the burden of loosing the loved one. My dad blacked-out in the hospital. I was so confused when I reached the hospital yesterday morning; shocked by the view of my uncle on the bed, and my dad next to him barely conscious.
Slept late yesterday and woke up early, I decided to browse my photo collection (more than 40 thousand of pictures) and manage to find 43 of my uncle's picture. I just noticed that he's quite low profile that in most family occasion, he stood at the back or at the corner.
Compiled to photos into a short video, and I couldn't watch it myself as it made me cry. Still hope that this is a dream; just that it would be least likely to be a dream. -_-
Higher resolution available here.
I'll see you later, uncle; we'll meet again.
Slept late yesterday and woke up early, I decided to browse my photo collection (more than 40 thousand of pictures) and manage to find 43 of my uncle's picture. I just noticed that he's quite low profile that in most family occasion, he stood at the back or at the corner.
Compiled to photos into a short video, and I couldn't watch it myself as it made me cry. Still hope that this is a dream; just that it would be least likely to be a dream. -_-
Higher resolution available here.
I'll see you later, uncle; we'll meet again.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Sad day of the Edens
Today, the Eden family lost one of the best Eden, my uncle, a decent man, faithful, kind, and loves God.
Literally everyone cannot believe that this is really happening. I couldn't hold myself the first time I saw him lying on bed in the hospital.
I bet almost everyone pops the question: "God, how can this be happening? Why? Doesn't he loves you more than anything? Doesn't he still have so many things to do for you?"
I'm going to miss his beautiful voice in the church, his smile in every Sundays and every family gathering.
I came to know that he just had his 29th wedding anniversary yesterday.
I can say that today is the worst day of my life so far; still hope that this is a dream.
Literally everyone cannot believe that this is really happening. I couldn't hold myself the first time I saw him lying on bed in the hospital.
I bet almost everyone pops the question: "God, how can this be happening? Why? Doesn't he loves you more than anything? Doesn't he still have so many things to do for you?"
I'm going to miss his beautiful voice in the church, his smile in every Sundays and every family gathering.
I came to know that he just had his 29th wedding anniversary yesterday.
I can say that today is the worst day of my life so far; still hope that this is a dream.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Excel 2007 math calculation bug
Microsoft Office Excel 2007 contains a serious bug in its calculation. Try multiplying 850 and 77.1 and Excel 2007 produces 100000 instead of 65535.
OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office Excel 2003 seems to produce the correct result.
You'll never know if there are other calculation bugs in it; imagine having the wrong numbers of your profit and loss sheet in excel. ^_^
OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office Excel 2003 seems to produce the correct result.
You'll never know if there are other calculation bugs in it; imagine having the wrong numbers of your profit and loss sheet in excel. ^_^
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
They'll be back
"The truth of the matter is, we don't want this to happen. And one easy way to stop that from happening, is to continue our work on AutoPatcher. Maybe not in its current shape and form, but still, we will be back soon (that much I guarantee)."
Taken from the post: The next day (What's in store) by Antonis Kaladis
Taken from the post: The next day (What's in store) by Antonis Kaladis
AutoPatcher vs Microsoft
I just went to AutoPatcher after a month to get my monthly patches and guess what, they said that Microsoft is trying to stop them.I have not been so DISAPPOINTED in Microsoft in my whole life. I was so sure to leave Microsoft's Vista for it's bug and now I'm even more committed.
I've used AutoPatcher before and I can't think of any bad out of it; saves my time and bandwidth. Imagine an administrator has to install the patches (hundreds of them) manually won't do any other administration work.
In fact, AutoPatcher has given me the hope to use Windows in a more secure and patched way. Now that the hope is gone, my desire of Microsoft's product is at the lowest level.
I'm now committed to promote Linux more than Windows.
It has been an excellent tools you have been and I thank the developers for helping countless people with your useful patching tool.
In case you wonder what Microsoft wrote, get it here.
More comments from AutoPatcher users.
Too much of HOAX
Got this message a few times in my hotmail inbox:
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Hey, people
Sorry to break the news, but looks like all of those warnings were real!
The use of MSN and e-mail will cost money from Summer 2007 onwards. If you send this message to 18 different people from your list, your little MSN Icon will turn blue and that will make it free for you. If you don't believe Me, go on to (www.msn.com) and see it yourself. Don't forward this message, But copy and paste it so that people will actually read it. It is Andy and John - the directors of MSN - sorry for the interruption, but MSN is really closing down. This is because too many inconsiderate people are taking up all the names (e.g.. Making up lots of different accounts for just one person), and we are only left with 578 names. If you would like to close your account, DO NOT SEND THIS MESSAGE ON. But, If you would like to keep your account, then SEND THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST.
This is no joke, as we Will be shutting down the Servers. Send it on, thanks. WHOEVER DOES NOT SEND THIS MESSEAGE, YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE CLOSED AND IT WILL COST YOU 100.00 (pending) A MONTH TO USE. SEND THIS TO EVERYONE
ON YOUR CONTACT LIST. NOW YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO. PLEASE DO NOT FORWARD THIS OR REPLAY. COPY THE WHOLE E-MAIL. RETURN TO YOUR INBOX AND CLICK ON NEW. THEN PASTE 'THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION'. Hey everyone, I don't normally send this sort of stuff out, but I had a Look on the Internet and its actually true that by the 30th November, we Will have to pay for the use of our MSN and e-mail account(s), unless we Send this message to at least 18 contacts on our contact list. It's no joke, but if you don't believe me, then you can see for yourself -Go to the site
(http://news.BBC.co.UK/1/hi/business/1189119.stm) - and See For yourself.
Anyway, once you've sent this message to at least 18 contacts, your MSN icon Will turn blue. Please copy and paste, but don't forward it, as people won't Take notice of it
]
[Image taken from http://www.librarysupportstaff.com/forwardemail.gif]
Now.. I've seen too many hoaxes going around in e-mails until today, so I feel that posting the real issue won't make any harm.
In this case, if you check the link up there, it was dated Sunday, 25 February, 2001, 11:00 GMT, which is long.. long.. time ago, but then it says that we have to pay for improved services of the MSN portal.
My suggestion, check out the article you want to forward in the Internet for it's truth. There are a few sites that list out hoaxes or truth; Truth Or Fiction and Museum of Hoaxes are two of my favorites while you can obtain more of them here.
So don't simply take for granted everything you read in the email forwards!
Have you ever wonder why your email is filled with spam and unwanted advertisement? Forwarding emails is one of them. Say.. if one forwards one message to all of your contact list in your email, one usually use the [Forward] button and put the recipients in the [To:] field. Now.. try search into your forwarded emails that you receive and tell me how many email addresses that you have (friends and foreigns). What would happen if a spammer receive your email with those active email addresses in it? Use your imagination. ^_^ Here is another article about forwarding and spam.
So if you have done that before, or your friends have sent you such message, congratulations you have been subscribed to a mailing list of spam. ^_^
If you can't live without forwarding, at least use the [Bcc:] field, which will not expose other recipients' email addresses.
[
Hey, people
Sorry to break the news, but looks like all of those warnings were real!
The use of MSN and e-mail will cost money from Summer 2007 onwards. If you send this message to 18 different people from your list, your little MSN Icon will turn blue and that will make it free for you. If you don't believe Me, go on to (www.msn.com) and see it yourself. Don't forward this message, But copy and paste it so that people will actually read it. It is Andy and John - the directors of MSN - sorry for the interruption, but MSN is really closing down. This is because too many inconsiderate people are taking up all the names (e.g.. Making up lots of different accounts for just one person), and we are only left with 578 names. If you would like to close your account, DO NOT SEND THIS MESSAGE ON. But, If you would like to keep your account, then SEND THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST.
This is no joke, as we Will be shutting down the Servers. Send it on, thanks. WHOEVER DOES NOT SEND THIS MESSEAGE, YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE CLOSED AND IT WILL COST YOU 100.00 (pending) A MONTH TO USE. SEND THIS TO EVERYONE
ON YOUR CONTACT LIST. NOW YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO. PLEASE DO NOT FORWARD THIS OR REPLAY. COPY THE WHOLE E-MAIL. RETURN TO YOUR INBOX AND CLICK ON NEW. THEN PASTE 'THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION'. Hey everyone, I don't normally send this sort of stuff out, but I had a Look on the Internet and its actually true that by the 30th November, we Will have to pay for the use of our MSN and e-mail account(s), unless we Send this message to at least 18 contacts on our contact list. It's no joke, but if you don't believe me, then you can see for yourself -Go to the site
(http://news.BBC.co.UK/1/hi/business/1189119.stm) - and See For yourself.
Anyway, once you've sent this message to at least 18 contacts, your MSN icon Will turn blue. Please copy and paste, but don't forward it, as people won't Take notice of it
]
[Image taken from http://www.librarysupportstaff.com/forwardemail.gif]
Now.. I've seen too many hoaxes going around in e-mails until today, so I feel that posting the real issue won't make any harm.
In this case, if you check the link up there, it was dated Sunday, 25 February, 2001, 11:00 GMT, which is long.. long.. time ago, but then it says that we have to pay for improved services of the MSN portal.
My suggestion, check out the article you want to forward in the Internet for it's truth. There are a few sites that list out hoaxes or truth; Truth Or Fiction and Museum of Hoaxes are two of my favorites while you can obtain more of them here.
So don't simply take for granted everything you read in the email forwards!
Have you ever wonder why your email is filled with spam and unwanted advertisement? Forwarding emails is one of them. Say.. if one forwards one message to all of your contact list in your email, one usually use the [Forward] button and put the recipients in the [To:] field. Now.. try search into your forwarded emails that you receive and tell me how many email addresses that you have (friends and foreigns). What would happen if a spammer receive your email with those active email addresses in it? Use your imagination. ^_^ Here is another article about forwarding and spam.
So if you have done that before, or your friends have sent you such message, congratulations you have been subscribed to a mailing list of spam. ^_^
If you can't live without forwarding, at least use the [Bcc:] field, which will not expose other recipients' email addresses.
Monday, September 17, 2007
Audio in Ubuntu
Spent 2 hours in having my Ubuntu upgraded to the power to do audio as in UbuntuStudio. Managed to install the ubuntustudio-audio from apt and running Ardour.
Had me half an hour to deal with the sounds so that I can record, mix, and play especially in mp3 files. Took me few minutes to realize that I have got the LAME encoder in my ubuntu, but still have to run aptitude install liblame-dev on the shell.
Had me half an hour to deal with the sounds so that I can record, mix, and play especially in mp3 files. Took me few minutes to realize that I have got the LAME encoder in my ubuntu, but still have to run aptitude install liblame-dev on the shell.
Sunday, September 09, 2007
Home sweet home, new favorite spot
Since the desk arrived last week, I've been so comfortable working on my desk. Enjoying (still) programming on the bigger screen on my PC (I've got 15" in the office only) for longer code view and bigger design view in the IDE.
Got an extra laptop of my brother (the one that broke, and repaired); not so powerful, but at least I can try out UbuntuStudio on that machine.
Got an extra laptop of my brother (the one that broke, and repaired); not so powerful, but at least I can try out UbuntuStudio on that machine.
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