Ubunchu #006
After long hiatus, Indonesian translation of Ubunchu #006 is finally released. The zip file is hosted at ubunchu.dompu.info, along with previous issues. Neat.
Thanks for Mr Farhan Perdana for doing the translations (and inserting random local jokes here & there 
Anjrit!)
Is repetition mother of skill?
Not necessarily.
On my college years, we were taught how to write simple CRUD application since 2nd semester. We keep on taught (or as one of the lecturers put it, we would only taught) to writing CRUD app on every semester onward till the last semester, where we were required to write a complex CRUD application for our final projects that will be presented on final exam. One would think that after that repetitive coding for three years, the students shall whip out the application rather easily. But no, many were resorting to err….asking other students to code the projects for them.
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Eid Mubarak
Almost a week late, but anyway
Taqabbalallahu minna wa minkum, shiyamana wa shiyamakum, wa ja’alanallahu minal ‘aidin wal faizin
May Allah accept (deeds) from us and you, our fasting and your fasting, and may Allah make us included (to those) who returned (to fitrah) and (get) a victory
Gong Xi Fa Chai
“Congratulations and be prosperous”
Happy Chinese New Year for all of you who celebrates it. Best wishes for you and family 
Pile of photos without good backup plan
Lately I’ve been carrying a camera everywhere. Not an expensive DSLR one, mind you, just a cheap point-and-shoot one. I used it on everything. Literally everything. People, signs, plants, water, lights, leaves, cats, building. I’m not pretending to be an “artistic” photographer. I just feel like grabbing pictures. Like those “alay”, taking pictures every few minutes. The differences is that I’m not taking pictures of myself, with one arm holding the camera 45 degrees slightly left above my head 
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The pictures are so-so; some good, some flat, some really bad. And it filled up the harddisk rather quickly. As I’m writing this post, quarter portion of my netbook harddrives is occupied by those pictures. It’s rather surprising since the filesizes are averagely small, but I guess I underestimated the quantities. I should really resizing them all, to save spaces and all that, but I got more important concern: Backup.
You see, I consider those pictures as important memories, snapshot of my life. Okay, that’s exaggarating, but losing them surely will irritating, at least. I’ve lost 4GB of photos by a formatting “accident”. Now that’s not merely irritating, it worth cursing. And I want to prevent it happen again.
The plan? Not much. I’ve been uploading some pictures to photosharing sites and my blog, but there’s a limit on that. And I’m just uploading a few good ones. The others still intact on the netbook, and I can only pray that no bad stuff happened on them. At least not until I get a good backup media. A good external harddisk will do, I think.
How about old school way: printing them all? While printing is cheap (viva custom infus printer!), there’s no way I’ll spend a big load of money on photo papers. And since there’s no point of printing them on plain paper, I think I’ll skip this alternative.
