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20Mar/060

Stop Asking When I Come Back To Indonesia!

Geess... I'm starting get tired with people asking "when You (Me) come back to Indonesia?" or "how long You (Me) will be stay in Netherland?" It just like no other question to be asked.. Not only people here in Netherland but also friends in Indonesia.. Thanks for Your concern but no thanks :(

So let Me answer that question for the last time here: I will be in Indonesia on 29 April 2006 and I stay in Netherland for about 3 months.

Thats it, satisfied? X-( or should I write the answer on My forehead :-/

I can understand if My friends want to know when I came back and I would like to answer it, but if the same question asked by the same people again and again.. it sucks!

Markus

15Mar/060

Job Market CWI

This afternoon I'm going to a Job Market CWI with Johan. We going there as QnAp representative.

CWI is the organisation that manage jobless people in Netherland. They held the job market to "match making" between people who looking for a job and company that seeking for employee.

QnAp does have 2 vacancy, a Quality Assurance Officer and Software Engineer. When I see the requirement for Software Engineer, it is very simple, just ability to work with Visual Basic and MS Access. Thats it.. no other thing :D except Johan's personal requirements :P - female, good looking, sexy, single and bla.. bla.. bla.., hey actually He have another vacancy, a secretary :D - it's very different with job requirement in Indonesia where an employee candidate must have several skills that actually combination of 2 or 3 different job :p

The job market only held for 3 hours, thats true.. different again with Indonesia that usually a job fair - the way Indonesian call it - held almost a half day, may be because alot of unemployment in Indonesia. The people that came to the job market is not much - for Me - so I'm a little bit bored there, so do Johan because from several people that talk with Us only 2 that seems interesting and fullfill Our requirement. Other than that 2 candidate there is a woman that have alot of experience and from technical requirement She is very good, but She doesn't fullfill other "Johan's requirements" :D

Another different thing is that unemployment people in Netherland get some money or loan from the goverment so there is almost no people in Netherland that didn't have money. The bad thing is if the unemployed person is a lazy person, His motivation to go working get low and low, thats why there is rules about the loan.

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14Mar/060

Dji Sam Soe Advertising :D

This post will mainly in Indonesian, so sorry for readers that can't speak Indonesian :D

Indonesian friends, please read paragraph below using the rythm of Dji Sam Soe advertising :p

Semalam Aku melihat CD kenangan
Teringat Aku akan teman-teman kuliah
Cowok-cowok yang keren lagi ganteng
Cewek-cewek yang cakep lagi seksi
Tak sabar aku pulang ke Indonesia....
Bulan depan...

:)) cool poem huh? tonight when I see again photos of My friends in college - suddenly I want to see it again, because alot of beautiful girls :) You know... :D - I also remember the advertising of Dji Sam Soe kretek about a guy that live in foreign country suddenly remember about His family in a village in Indonesia just because smelling the aroma of Dji Sam Soe kretek on a party. He then writing an email to His brother to acknowledge His brother that He will come back to Indonesia next month.

I'm also will come back to Indonesia next month, but actually I don't want to come back to Indonesia :D I want to stay in Netherland for a few months more :D

Whether you are looking for flight deals that are cheap or expensive, you will find them all on the indian airlines. The aloha airlines on the other hand specialize in flights to rome in particular. The orlando flights also are usually a part of many travel deals with travel trailers.

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13Mar/060

Installing APC

Today I installing APC - Alternative PHP Cache - it's another caching software for PHP to speedup the interpreting time by caching it in binary form. APC are maintained by the creator of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf.

Different with eAcceleator that I try to install before - see My post "Tweaking RevTI's Server" - APC seems working with PHP that installed as CLI or CGI (said people from a forum I joined).

Let Me see the result..

Markus

11Mar/062

Updating a Post

I was thinking about how to update a blog posting that I posted before, some times I need to update a posting because the story didn't correct again or there is an update for that story. There are 3 posibilities:

  1. Create a new post
  2. Adding comment to that post
  3. Editing the post

Ok. For the first choice - create a new post - I think it is improper, because: I'm not posting a new story, I just updating the story because something happens after I post that story. So this choice I'm not going to use for the sake of post counter :D

Second choice, I think its wierd to giving comment to a story while I actualy not commenting it - again, I update it - This choice I use on a post on the past and I feel its not correct, so that is - I hope - the last commenting on My post that I do. Of course I still can comment on a comment that posted by a friend or visitor that reading My blog :D

Third choice, I think this is the most suiteable because I edit (update) the story, but then the problem is how to differentiate the old post with the addition post? choice number 2 give an idea :D I just edit the HTML of the post - WP have a feature to edit the post's HTML manually - and add a

tag with the same CSS class of a comment, You can see the result on My post before this post.

Markus

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11Mar/060

Move It.. Move It.. Move It..!

Just finishing moving all account to the new server, it took more than 7 hours in total #:-S just hoping that the new server, the new datacenter, the new network and the new beginning :D works fine and didn't get DDOS'ed again. Wish Me luck! O:-)

Markus

  1. on March 11, 2006 at 07:43

    The new server was not accessible this morning for 4 hours X-( I investigate the problem and found that I misconfigured the DNS. Fixed now :D

    Markus

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9Mar/061

Unpleasant Birthday Gift

I'm very unhappy these days.. RevTI server went down for 2 full days + 2 days down and up again and again X-( I emailed the tech support of the datacenter and they said that their network currently under DDOS attack. After long waiting without knowing when does the technician can tackle the DDOS attack I decided to buy a new server from other datacenter just for backup server.

This is surely an unpleasant birthday gift for Me X-( but gladly tonight the server is back online again. As soon as I know the server is back online I do make a backup and will restore it to the new server.

Happy Birthday to Me :D

Markus

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6Mar/060

Backpacker in Luxemburg

Last Friday Me, Ki and Ferdi are going to Luxemburg, there is a Mineral Expo there that Ki and His friend A Min selling stones. We are at Luxemburg for 3 days.

We went from Nuenen at 18.00. On the way from Netherland to Luxemburg We got a traffic jam, totally jammed until the cars really stop! Its the worse traffic jam I ever experience. We stuck for more than 4 hours X-(

We arrived in Luxemburg about 01.00 in the morning I-) so tired. We go to the hotel, check in and go to sleep I-).

Day 1

On saturday We go to Luxexpo, the place where the Mineral Expo is held. While Ki is selling stones, Me and Ferdi are travelling to the city. Luxemburg is beautiful especially the buildings there its very european.

When We walking around, there is a bridge, its very big and beautiful, Me and Ferdi want to take picture together, because We dont have a tripod so We need other people to take picture for Us. Luckyly We met with Mr. Guy - spoken as "Gi", French spelling - He is very nice guy, He help taking picture for Me and Ferdi.

Guy, Ferdi, Me

After that Mr. Guy taking Us see around, We even do some hiking :D We go to the hill to have better view of the city. It was very beautiful. Mr. Guy said that, that day is the most snow ever after 50 years ago, so I think We are very lucky because the white of snow is making the city more beautiful.

Luxemburg

After walking for a couple hours, We then say good bye and thank you to Mr. Guy because He is going home. Then Me and Ferdi continue walking around the city again while waiting Ki for picking Us back to the Hotel.

Day 2

On Sunday Me and Ferdi go to the city again, actually We a little bit bored walking in the city because We already done it yesterday. But.. when We walk to other side that We didn't see yesterday We found something new, a public park! We take some photos there. Then I saw a black guy, He is acting very suspicious - I think He is a criminal - Ferdi saw Him to and feel the same, We a little bit scared if Our feeling is true, so We leave the park as soon as possible.

We are not travelling for long on 2nd day because at 17.00 We must back to Luxexpo to packing the stones and go back to Netherland.

Ki did succed selling a big stone to Miss Natalie :D its a big money.. at 18.00 We deliver the stone to Miss Natalie's house, its an apartment with 2 floor and She want to put the stone on the 2nd floor, the problem is.. the stone are very big and very heavy - more than 100Kg I think - and Me, Ki and Ferdi must lift it up to the 2nd floor :D but We manage it.

Around 20.00 We going back to Netherland, this time no traffic jam, We arrive in Netherland on 23.00. At last I have internet connection again :D checking email time :p

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