Week end ini, ada sedikit waktu untuk melepaskan diri dari rutinitas, opensourcing menjadi salah satu alat resfreshing mujarab buatku, melupakan keruwetan pekerjaan, problem kehidupan dan masalah yang kian hari kian rumit di Indonesia. Kebetulan bukan kebenaran, ada satu LCD Monitor berukuran 22 Inchie, rencana ini buat latihan boss yang sudah berumur 50+ dan gaptek habis habis, agar mau berkenalan dengan komputer, karena kami sedang menuju Internet base reporting organization dan Less Paper company.

Spesifikasi hardware, Asus Mobo (Lupa Versi dan Serinya) E2200 Intel Prosesor, ICH-827 bridge family, intel 865 Video Chipset, 1GB RAM, RTL8961 wired ethernet connection, D-Link DWA-130 USB Wireless Adaptor (ralink r71xx). LCD Viewsonic V2235-wm5.

GNU/Linux kernel 2.6.27-7 s/d 2.6.27-14 berjalan mulus, semulus Tampilan Desy Ratnasari dalam acara D'Show, ramping, elegan dan menggemaskan. GNU/Linux distro yang dicoba BlankOn 4, Linux Mint 5, openSuse 11.1 (gnome) dan unbeatable ubuntu 8.10 intrepid-Ibex. Semua berjalas flawlessly dan ZERO Tweaking method, baik Live session maupun di-install di Hard Disk.

From openSOLARIS

Big Screen Viewsonic V2235-wm5 powered by Linux Mint 5 live Sessions

From openSOLARIS

openSuse 11.1 Live Sessions on Viewsonic V2235-wm5

openSOLARIS 2008.11 Live Session
Sedikit mengejutkan, openSolaris 2008.11 mendeteksi dengan tepat resolusi 1680x1050 px, namun tampilan di layar sangat aneh karena tidak memenuhi seluruh layar. Hal yang sama terjadi ketika di-install di Hard Disk.

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osol 2008.11 live booting on Viewsonic V2235-wm5

From openSOLARIS

osol 2008.11 Live X-Session on Viewsonic V2235-wm5

From openSOLARIS

osol 2008.11 Full X-session on Viewsonic V2235-wm5

Selain itu, USB Wireless D-Link DWA-130, sama sekali tidak terdeteksi, barangkali situasinya akan berbeda dengan osol 2009.06 dengan Janji pihak developer untuk menyajikan dukungan terbaik terhadap wifi dan Multimedia. Kepercayaan saya pribadi terhadap Sun Microsystem dibawah Oracle Company dan komitmen mereka terhadap open Source Software masih menumbuhkan harapan bahwa openSolaris akan menjadi salah satu bintang Distro openSource, ditambah keterlibatan komunitas pendukung openSolaris, dipastikan distro ini sangat menjanjikan dimasa mendatang, meski saat ini belum lagi siap dan matang sebagaimana GNU/Linux.

GNU/Linux sudah menjadi sebuah kenyamanan bagi banyak pengguna, bahkan beberapa tukang koprek mulai bosan dengan distro yang terlalu mudah seperti ubuntu, linuxMint, openSuse, BlankOn, mandriva, Fedora, Zenwalk, Mimpi buruk yang menegangkan dalam proses instalasi distro gnu/linux sudah lama berlalu, berganti dengan mimpi membosankan bagi beberapa pengguna. openSolaris hadir dengan tantangan baru dan diyakini tak lama lagi segala hambatan dan problema akan berlalu dengan segera, mengingat antusiasme dan militanisme pendukung openSource.

Mari mencoba pendatang baru ini dan beritahu vendor hardware melalui situs-situs mereka, agar mendukung GNU/openSolaris.

salam

One thing I find very annoying on web pages is when I click a link to open it in a new tab (middle button), and I find it was a JavaScript link and so nothing happens!

The culprit in question

For example, go to http://ur1.ca/049e3 (it was the first one I could find but it is certainly not unique) and middle click on the screen shot of the Ubuntu Website. The desired behavior is to have that image open in a new tab. What actually happens, is that you get a blank page and no image.

jQuery

This problem is down to the developers. Links with href attributes of ‘javascript:doSomething()’ are old and obsolete ways of working. With new JavaScript libraries such as jQuery, you can set a href as something completely different and still have ‘doSomething()’ run when it is clicked.

What the website mentioned above should have, is the href set to the URL of the image, so that when I middle click the link, the image opens up in a new tab, however it should have a bit of jQuery along the lines of:


$("a.image").click( function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
doSomething();
}


It isn’t that hard and it would save us all of this aggravation…

I’ve spent the day trying to figure out what to write for Ada Lovelace Day and, while I’m not much further from where I started, it’s getting to the end of the day so I figured it was time to just write and worry less about how it sounded. So here goes with a few [...]

I'm going to write about two people today. I couldn't pick.

Dianne Martin

Dianne Martin was one of my professors at The George Washington University. No, she's not teaching any of my classes this semester or going forward! I decided to write about her because she has done some pretty cool stuff.

She taught the Team Project Development & Professional Ethics class I took two years ago. It was a class where we were learning how to work in a team for a client (another department of the school) and be ethical about our decisions regarding the project. Lots of those "is it wrong to…" questions regarding things like testing thoroughly, grey hat hacking, deadlines, copyright and licenses (yes, including open source licenses), etc. When explaining reliability issues, she told us about her work writing the FORTRAN code that potentially made the Apollo space ships, well, work. I say "potentially" because she explained to us that they had two separate teams write code meant to do the same thing and rigorously tested. If the testing missed a bug and something bad happened, the other team's code could be loaded up on the fly (failover). Which team's code went into production was not released.

Fast forward a bit, and she ran my school's Cyber Security Policy & Research Institute for a few years. Appropriate, since aside from the security and policy issues she covered in that class, she also taught the Information Policy class I took last year.

In 2005, she became a Dean at Zayed University, which it appears was a school for women at the time, though they've since built a new campus where men are allowed. She wrote Removing the veil: personal reflections on educating women in Dubai about her experiences there (ACM Digital Library access required).

In 2007, she returned to DC, and that's when I met her. She is now the Associate Vice President for Graduate Affairs in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She was very helpful when there was a problem with another student who made frequent comments about women's abilities as regards computer science.

She's also notable for having been one of the authors of the ACM Code of Ethics and for quite a lot of research into computer science education and computer-aided education. One of the interesting things I recall reading about her teaching experience was that she used to ask students to draw what they think of when they hear "computer scientist." The results was a lot of drawings of guys, even coming from girls and young women. She also received the Ada Lovelace Award from the Association for Women in Computing in 2005.

Sue McKnight

Sue is one of my dad's closest friends. She's also the first female programmer I ever knew. I can't give some long list of academic things like I can with the professor above, but I remember visiting Sue each summer since I was really small. She's always been proof that geeks can be cool and have lots of fun.

She and her husband Linus have been very encouraging of my open source activities and general geekiness. I remember a couple years ago, she expressed surprise at my being so technical when my parents are both…um, well they can send email and type things into word processors and spreadsheets… Silly, Sue, I had you!

I remember her saying she was "Code Mom" to the guys she worked with, before she moved into management. She'd have to convince her coworkers that usability mattered, and that even if it'd mean an algorithm was O(10n) instead of O(n), if it was better for the user, that small performance hit was worth it.

For some reason, some Planets bumped last year's posts to the top when I edited their tags, even though they haven't changed spots in the RSS feed. Weird.

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