A limited “unlimited”

Posted by on June 24, 2011 · 3 Comments 

As I’ve wrote at wordpress blog, I got myself a *brand new* USB modem (or so the seller said). I bought a cheap Telkomsel unlimited plan, since the Tri starter pack that bundled with the modem didn’t connect, initially (more on that later).

A 50K rupiah for unlimited plan with 200MB quota seems reasonable at that time, even though Telkomsel didn’t always held the promises. They claimed I could get maximum speed of 384kbps, while in reality it never goes past 50kbps, even on fair usage period. When the fair usage reached, it’s just went downhill. I’d rather refill the prepaid credit and reset the quota than to wait a page load for minutes (sometimes I have to unplug-then-plug-back the modem).
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While sufficient bandwidth is available…

Posted by on October 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

..let’s get LibreOffice :D

wget http://kambing.ui.ac.id/tdf/libreoffice/testing/3.3.0-beta2/deb/x86/LibO_3.3.0_beta2_Linux_x86_install-deb_en-US.tar.gz

I still can’t believe that graph. 100Kb/s? Usually I wasn’t lucky enough to even get 10Kb/s

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You’re idiot or what, lady?

Posted by on March 5, 2010 · 1 Comment 

Spammers just don’t know when to quit. This particular girl has sent me several spams, and this morning I got another one from her in my Gmail inbox.

Just using common sense would let her know that the promotion is fake. Few reasons:

  1. I don’t think Apple would use spam for their promotion
  2. We got Apple branch office here at Indonesia?
  3. Apple officer use other company’s e-mail for official promotion?

But I guess greed make her IQ dropped by few points, eh?

Below is the spam

from Nadya Revalina n4dya.rev4lina@plasa.com
to *list of e-mail adresses here*
cc applecorpjkt@mail2europe.com
date Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:58 AM
subject Fw: Berita Gembira
mailed-by plasa.com
signed-by plasa.com

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Rekan2x..
Gak ada salahnya dicoba.. (baca bawah)
Cuma gratis ini..
Ada beberapa temen di kantor yg udah dapet HP iphone-nya lho..

Regards,

Nadya Revalina
Adm. Staff
PT. Titan Resources
Jl. Gatot Subroto Kav. 31 Blok C7 no. 11
Jakarta Selatan
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RPM Konten: Imposing analog rules on digital era

Posted by on February 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

Internet user on Indonesia got a surprising Valentine gift from Minister of Communication & Information, Mr Tifatul Sembiring, in form of Rancangan Peraturan Menteri Konten & Multimedia. Plenty of people voiced rejection for this draft, as it’s somewhat reflecting the Orba spirit (censorship, privacy breaching). Even companies and organizations like Kaskus, Aliansi Jurnalis Indonesia and Kamar Dagang dan Industri (to name a few) reject this draft.

Just when people already embracing People 2.0 culture, Mr Tifatul still think in Gov 1.0 paradigm. Well, Mr Tifatul, you might want to reflect to this statement

Those folks who try to impose analog rules on digital content will find themselves on the wrong side of the tidal wave
— Mark Shuttleworth

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