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Salah paham pengertian "Free Software": Kasus Job Posting di Jobsdb

2008-08-26T20:33:00.000+07:00

Berhubung lagi berburu kerjaan ( :D ), saya jadi sering buka berbagai situs lowongan pekerjaan, diantaranya yang saya baca tadi pagi adalah JobsDB. Meskipun merasa saya nggak selevel untuk bisa masuk sebagai Territory Manager, saya toh tetep iseng aja buka lowongan untuk Territory Manager - West Java. Wah disitu saya membaca hal yang mengasyikkan ( :D ) diantara beberapa key responsibilites:

Be responsive to all competitive threats from NCS (Non-Commercial Software) movement, in particular Linux and StarOffice and ensure proactive plan to combat this threat in all accounts

Disitu dikatakan deskripsi perusahaan sebagai berikut:

Our client is an excellent company to work with, as it is one of the biggest names in IT industry worldwide

Hmm .. wah ada beberapa hal yang perlu dibicarakan disini:

Bagaimana mungkin perusahaan dengan nama terbesar di dunia IT tidak memahami perbedaan software komersial dengan software bebas? Atau memang mau menyesatkan dengan membuat istilah NCS (Non Commercial Software) untuk software-software yang jelas komersial? Lihat di FAQ dari StarOffice: ... StarOffice 8 software is a commercial product built on the open source code of OpenOffice.org.... Setahu saya, setiap key responsibilities, diambil dari client yang memerlukan pegawai jadi mestinya ini bukan dari Monroe Consulting. Tidak ada juga yang mewajibkan Linux harus gratisan.
Barangkali mereka harus belajar membedakan arti dari free software (di Indonesia diterjemahkan sebagai "software bebas"). URL berikut ini bisa digunakan untuk mempelajari pengertiannya: The Free Software Definition dan Debian - What Does Free Mean?. Software bebas sama sekali tidak berkaitan dengan harga, tidak harus non commercial.
Barangkali penyesatan istilah dari Free Software menjadi Non Commercial Software bisa jadi merupakan siasat bisnis untuk mengurangi respek dari kalangan bisnis terhadap eksistensi berbagai software bebas.
Kalau memahami pengertian software bebas saja tidak mampu, bagaimana mungkin bisa menerima key responsibility untuk "combat this threat in all accounts"? Now, that is really really bad.
Ternyata eksistensi software bebas semakin ditakuti. Hahaha ... Saran saya sih, jangan mencampur adukkan masalah harga dengan kebebasan. Jadinya ya keblinger gitu.

Now, can you guess the company name? :-D

Instalasi MilaX ke USB Flash

2008-04-30T09:31:00.000+07:00

Baru-baru ini saya download MilaX, distro mini berbasis OpenSolaris. Mulanya saya mengira mudah untuk install di USB karena ada script yang dibuat oleh Anil Gulecha. Meskipun demikian, setelah dilihat-lihat, ternyata script yang bersangkutan mengandung banyak tools dari Solaris, jadi saya nggak bisa menggunakannya di mesin Linux saya.

Hmm ... ok, jadi saya harus googling dulu. Owaladalah, ternyata nggak ada blas info tentang itu (am I too stupid for Google or what?).

Jadi saya harus punya mesin Solaris? Huh ... lha ya jelas sulit deh. Mau menghapus ArchLinux, saya masih kepepet waktu untuk ngerjain suatu project development dengan Ruby on Rails, jadi mustahil deh. Untung saya ingat kalau saya juga punya Belenix 0.7, jadi saya akan install dari Belenix saja.

Dengan bantuan Belenix, ternyata instalasi MilaX benar-benar a piece of cake. Berikut ini adalah langkah-langkah instalasi dengan menggunakan script dari Anil Gulecha:

Boot live CD dari Belenix
Setelah masuk ke desktop, aktifkan terminal
Saya meletakkan usbcopy dan milax03.usb ke USB flashdisk lainnya, jadi saya copy dulu ke homedir jack (Belenix akan mengaktifkan secara otomatis USB flashdisk)
Setelah itu, umount USB flashdisk dari desktop XFCE tidak berhasil (lack of permission), jadi harus manual. Saya menggunakan pfexec umount /media/ClipDrive (karena secara otomatis di mount disitu) dari terminal.
Setelah itu masukkan USB flashdisk calon korban ( :-D ) yang akan diisi MilaX, jangan di mount. Jika otomatis di mount, harus di umount dulu dengan cara seperti langkah 4.
Jalankan script usbcopy seperti di bawah ini:

jack@belenix:~$ pfexec ./usbcopy milax03.usb
Found the following USB devices:
0: /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0p0 953.5 MB Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 1.00
Enter the number of your choice: 0

WARNING: All data on your USB storage will be lost.
Are you sure you want to install to
Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 1.00, 953 MB at /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0p0 ?(y/n) y
umount: warning: /dev/dsk/c4t0d0s0 not in mnttab
umount: /dev/dsk/c4t0d0s0 not mounted
Copying image to USB device
7744+0 records in
7744+0 records out
126877696 bytes (127 MB) copied, 57.9422 s, 2.2 MB/s

real 0m57.950s
user 0m0.011s
sys 0m0.304s
Installing grub to USB device /dev/rdsk/c4t0d0s0
Completed copy to USB
jack@belenix:~$

Setelah selesai, berarti siap untuk booting. Di mainboard Gigabyte saya, ada fasilitas untuk booting dari USB flash. Setting di BIOS dengan urutan pertama USB Zip dan voila... you are on MilaX!

Soal UTS - Administrasi Jaringan

2008-04-04T10:20:00.000+07:00

Silahkan ambil soal UTS untuk mata kuliah administrasi jaringan.

New Ruport 1.6.0 Ruport::Renderer Causing Trouble when Using Documatic 0.1.0

2008-04-04T08:23:00.000+07:00

When I updated my Ruport gem to 1.6.0, Rails can not be started. Here's the errors:


[bpdp@bpdp-archlinux bowencms]$ script/server start
=> Booting Mongrel (use 'script/server webrick' to force WEBrick)
=> Rails application starting on http://0.0.0.0:3000
=> Call with -d to detach
=> Ctrl-C to shutdown server
** Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:3000
** Starting Rails with development environment...
** Rails loaded.
** Loading any Rails specific GemPlugins
Exiting
/home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby/gems/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:263:in `load_missing_constant': uninitialized constant Ruport::Renderer (NameError)
      from /home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby/gems/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:453:in `const_missing'
      from /home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby/gems/gems/documatic-0.1.0/lib/documatic/formatter/open_document.rb:12
      from /home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby//lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require'
      from /home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby//lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'
      from /home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby/gems/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:496:in `require'
      from /home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby/gems/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:342:in `new_constants_in'
      from /home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby/gems/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:496:in `require'
      from /home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby/gems/gems/documatic-0.1.0/lib/documatic/init.rb:3
       ... 30 levels...
      from /home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby/gems/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/commands/server.rb:39
      from /home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby//lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require'
      from /home/bpdp/software/xrails-new/ruby//lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'
      from script/server:3
[bpdp@bpdp-archlinux bowencms]$

The key to this error was this:

    uninitialized constant Ruport::Renderer

Curiously, I started to look at Ruport API 1.6.0 and found that there were no Renderer class anymore. It's been changed to Formatter. While Documatic 0.1.0 gem still use Renderer, this will cause server can not be started.

So, if you experienced this problem, remove Documatic 0.1.0 gem and reinstall it again when it's already changed properly.

What's so funny in IT?

2008-04-03T13:11:00.000+07:00

Though I firstly hoped that this is only April's fool day joke, looks like it is not. More than one standard is really really anoying and tend to raise some questions. Why do we have more than one standard? What standard should we adopt?

On April 2nd 2008, ISO finally agree to adopt OOXML from Microsoft as ISO standard. You may take a look at NoOOXML.org web for more information.

Having many standard for one thing is really ridiculous. Looks like this is not a normal voting process. :)

Rails mass mailer

2008-02-26T16:29:00.001+07:00

I've stumbled upon Rails ActionMailer. I never saw any other limitations about how many e-mails can be sent in one event. So I just confidently get all e-mail address and send it in one event as @bcc.

A month ago, an error always occured when sending emails. At the moment I don't pay attention with e-mails limitations so I began searching at the wrong place. Today I finally found that 80 e-mails probably is the limitations.

So, If you have an error when sending e-mails, pay attention to this. Maybe you need to separate into some event. In my case, I did a loop on e-mail address and sending e-mail on each loop.

Note: Some said that 100 is maximal limitations like http://www.myowndb.com/blog/?p=20 but I had no luck with that number.

Apache 1.3 to Apache 2.0 dispatch.fcgi problem

2008-01-12T11:58:00.000+07:00

This morning I've got a phone call from Australia. It was about his suddenly broken website. Actually I've already knew this, but I haven't found any clues. The website display dispatch.fcgi content rather than display suitable view. I've finally knows from http://www.h3rald.com/blog/apache2-upgrade that this was because apache sudden upgrade from 1.3 to 2.0.

Change the line from:

     # Apache 1.3:
     AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi

to:

     # Apache 2:
     AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi

resolve the problem.

Soal ujian akhir

2008-01-07T07:58:00.000+07:00

Saya telah mengupload soal ujian akhir untuk semua mata kuliah yang saya ampu. Silahkan ambil di salah satu URL berikut ini:

http://www.akakom.ac.id/docs/soal-uas-bpdp.dvi.bz2
http://rapidshare.com/files/81847908/soal-uas-bpdp.dvi.bz2.html

Format: dvi. You know how to display that file, don't you? ;)

Perubahan (sementara) alamat e-mail

2007-12-30T16:32:00.000+07:00

Berhubung ada perubahan ISP, maka e-mail saya yang bpurnomo@akakom.ac.id belum bisa dipakai sementara. Berhubung ini hari libur dan berhubung besok libur 2 hari, maka kemungkinan baru akan dioprek lagi tanggal 2 januari 2008. Eh meski demikian masih banyak "berhubung" lainnya yang kemungkinan akan menghambat proses migrasi ISP ini.

Untuk sementara jika kerinduan untuk menghubungi saya sedemikian membara, silahkan e-mail saya di bambangpdp@yahoo.com atau lewat Jabber client di bpdp@jabber.no

Demikian, harap makloem.

Deployment Rails apps di Bluehost.com

2007-12-22T12:12:00.000+07:00

Just for the record. Sudah dua kali ini deploy Rails di bluehost tapi selalu menemui kesalahan yang sama. My mistakes dude!.

Nah supaya tidak terulang lagi, ini dia catatan deployment aplikasi Rails di bluehost:

Buat subdomain melalui control panel, biasanya file-file diletakkan di $HOME/public_html/subdomainname
Buat directory rails di $HOME
Buat direktori aplikasi rails disitu (you know, rails appname)
Isi direktori appname dengan aplikasi rails yang akan di deploy
Sesuaikan berbagai konfigurasi yang diperlukan: environment.rb, database.yml, dispatch di public (dispatch.cgi, dispatch.fcgi, dispatch.rb - khususnya utk lokasi dari ruby di shebang).
Database diisi dulu
Hapus direktori $HOME/public_html/subdomainname
cd $HOME/public_html/
ln -s /home/myhome/rails/appname/public subdomainname
Voila! you are on rails! => http://subdomainname.domain.name

Jika sudah merasa ok dan pengin memindah ke domain utama, langkah-langkahnya sebagai berikut:

Hapus subdomain dari control panel (jika memang mau dihapus)
Hapus semua file dan direktori dari $HOME/public_html (kecuali yang memang diperlukan utk subdomain yang tidak dihapus).
Untuk sementara ganti nama public_html dengan (misalnya) public_html_oric
cd
ln -s $HOME/rails/appname/public public_html
Pindahkan semua direktori subdomain ke public_html yang baru

Phew!. Semoga kesalahan-kesalahan kemarin tidak terulang lagi :-D

I am here (again)

2007-12-19T16:12:00.001+07:00

So I move to this blog again. Everything's change (fast!) now, right?

I am currently researching some MindMap tools. We'd like to use it here so
that we can boost our productivity here. I will possibly post my
experiences with that software here. You may only see open source version
here, namely FreeMind, VYM, and KDissert / Semantik. Others will follow.

Move to Wordpress

2007-04-27T16:54:00.000+07:00

I moved my blog to wordpress.com. You can find me there at http://bpdp.wordpress.com

After dissapeared

2007-03-27T18:45:00.001+07:00

Oh finally. I am too lazy to write everything since my last blog. I was busy on non-technical side.

Ok, first time, I have to admit that I am starting to use Ruby on Rails and would like to consider it as our platform of choice for our school. I am starting to love it, especially when I finally found a way to deploy it using Lighty. For months, I've learned that the biggest challenge for RoR is its deployment. I tried WEBRick (the default one -- not recommended), Mongrel, Lighty, and Apache. I also tried ngnx - read Engine X, but still lack of english docs. I have the docs on this installation but do not know wheter I will put it here or not.

In the mean time, I am still enjoy my new room :)

New Internet infrastructure

2007-01-06T11:03:00.000+07:00

Today: (should be) initial trial version for 1024 Kbps

God, I am too busy, even just to say happy new year to some friends. Forgive me. :-(

Fedora Core 6: mouse pointer dissappeared

2006-11-03T10:32:00.000+07:00

What a weird. It also happens on Fedora Core 5 which made me switch to Kubuntu.
Ok, if Kubuntu can do that right, why not FC? So, I thought that it was because of FC 5 and FC 6 xorg configuration. What I did was very simple. I just boot my PC with Kubuntu LiveCD then made a copy of /etc/X11/xorg.conf to my home directory.I mounted hard drive where root dir of FC 6 exist and then copy xorg.conf to /mnt/hda2/etc/X11/xorg.conf.

Guess what? It works. Looks like xorg autoconfigure on FC 5 and 6 just write a simple configuration file which was not suitable for my hardware.

Subversion minimal for day-to-day ops (in Bahasa Indonesia)

2006-10-17T15:50:00.000+07:00

It starts from a simple question. I saw that none of my students using version control system to keep their repository in control. And yes, they have difficulties in understanding Subversion just because its documentation is written in English. So, I tried to make a minimal Subversion guide for day-to-day operation in Bahasa Indonesia. Here it is.

Panduan awal penggunaan Subversion

Subversion adalah versioning control system yang digunakan untuk mengelola file data. Perkembangan Subversion bisa dilihat di website Subversion. Materi kecil ini hanya sekedar pengenalan untuk operasional awal. Untuk materi lebih lengkap, silahkan dilihat di buku Version Control with Subversion (BenCollins-Sussman, et. al). Buku tersebut adalah buku bebas.

Awal
----

1. Menyiapkan Source Code:

Membuat direktori yang diperlukan:


     bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~/kerjaan/buku/geronimo/src$ mkdir branches
     bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~/kerjaan/buku/geronimo/src$ mkdir tags
     bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~/kerjaan/buku/geronimo/src$ mkdir trunk

Memindahkan direktori proyek ke trunk (jeeProject):

 
     bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~/kerjaan/buku/geronimo/src$ mv jeeProject trunk/

2. Membuat repository:


 bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~/kerjaan/buku/geronimo$ svn import src/ file:///home/bpdp/svnrepo/workshopJEE -m "initial import"
 Adding         src/trunk
 Adding         src/trunk/jeeProject
 Adding         src/trunk/jeeProject/hello
 Adding         src/trunk/jeeProject/hello/WEB-INF
 Adding         src/trunk/jeeProject/hello/WEB-INF/web.xml
 Adding  (bin)  src/trunk/jeeProject/hello/hellogeronimo.war
 Adding         src/trunk/jeeProject/hello/hello.jsp
 Adding         src/branches
 Adding         src/tags

 Committed revision 1.
 bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~/kerjaan/buku/geronimo$ cd

Operasi Selanjutnya:
--------------------

1. Untuk mengambil dari repository:


 bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~/tmp/gembus$ svn checkout file:///home/bpdp/svnrepo/workshopJEE/trunk .
 A    jeeProject
 A    jeeProject/hello
 A    jeeProject/hello/WEB-INF
        A    jeeProject/hello/WEB-INF/web.xml
 A    jeeProject/hello/hellogeronimo.war
 A    jeeProject/hello/hello.jsp
 Checked out revision 1.
 bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~/tmp/gembus$ ls -la
 total 16
 drwxr-xr-x 4 bpdp bpdp 4096 2006-10-17 05:42 .
 drwxr-xr-x 4 bpdp bpdp 4096 2006-10-17 05:41 ..
 drwxr-xr-x 4 bpdp bpdp 4096 2006-10-17 05:42 jeeProject
 drwxr-xr-x 7 bpdp bpdp 4096 2006-10-17 05:42 .svn
 bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~/tmp/gembus$ ls -la
 total 16
 drwxr-xr-x 4 bpdp bpdp 4096 2006-10-17 05:42 .
 drwxr-xr-x 4 bpdp bpdp 4096 2006-10-17 05:41 ..
 drwxr-xr-x 4 bpdp bpdp 4096 2006-10-17 05:42 jeeProject
 drwxr-xr-x 7 bpdp bpdp 4096 2006-10-17 05:42 .svn
 bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~/tmp/gembus$

Catatan:
Jangan menghapus atau mengedit direktori .svn. Direktori
tersebut digunakan secara internal oleh Subversion.

2. Operasi-operasi lain:

Melihat perbedaan antara yang tersimpan di repository dengan
yang telah diedit:


     bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~/tmp/gembus$ vi jeeProject/hello/hello.jsp
     bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~/tmp/gembus$ svn diff
     Index: jeeProject/hello/hello.jsp
     ===================================================================
     --- jeeProject/hello/hello.jsp  (revision 1)
     +++ jeeProject/hello/hello.jsp  (working copy)
     @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
      <title>Say Hello to Geronimo!</title>
      </head>
      <body>
     +<h1>Testing from repository</h1>
      <h3>Hello, I am Geronimo, what can I do for you on ${datetime}?</h3>
      </body>
      </html>
     bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~/tmp/gembus$

Memasukkan apa yang telah diedit tersebut ke repository:


     bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~/tmp/gembus$ svn commit

     Sending        jeeProject/hello/hello.jsp
     Transmitting file data .
     Committed revision 2.
     bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~/tmp/gembus$

Pada saat commit tersebut, svn akan meminta sekedar "catatan" terhadap
commit yang dilakukan. Ketikkan keterangan yang diinginkan kemudian
simpan.

Update source code sesuai dengan repository:


     bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~/tmp/gembus$ svn update
     At revision 2.
     bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~/tmp/gembus$

Property untuk file:

Menetapkan:


         bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~/tmp/gembus$ svn propset license -F /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD jeeProject/hello/hello.jsp
  property 'license' set on 'jeeProject/hello/hello.jsp'
         bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~/tmp/gembus$

Melihat:


bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~/tmp/gembus$ svn proplist --verbose jeeProject/hello/hello.jsp
Properties on 'jeeProject/hello/hello.jsp':
  license : Copyright (c) The Regents of the University of California.
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
   documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
   may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
   without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
SUCH DAMAGE.

bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~/tmp/gembus$

Setting keywords: tempatkan keyword di tempat tertentu di source code, diapit $. Untuk keperluan ini, digunakan $Date$, $Author$, $Id$, $Revision$, $HeadURL$. Setelah ditempatkan, kerjakan perintah berikut:


  bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~/tmp/gembus$ svn propset svn:keywords "Date Author Id Revision HeadURL" jeeProject/hello/hello.jsp
  property 'svn:keywords' set on 'jeeProject/hello/hello.jsp'
  bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~/tmp/gembus$

Setelah svn commit dan svn update, source code akan terisi:


<!--
Revision                : $Revision: 5 $
Author                  : $Author: bpdp $
Date of last committed  : $Date: 2006-10-17 06:32:36 +0700 (Tue, 17 Oct 2006) $
URL                     : $HeadURL: file:///home/bpdp/svnrepo/workshopJEE/trunk/jeeProject/hello/hello.jsp $
ID                      : $Id: hello.jsp 5 2006-10-16 23:32:36Z bpdp $

-->
...
... dan seterusnya



Django installation for production server
2006-10-10T11:12:00.000+07:00
I've made a simple how-to in Bahasa Indonesia about Django installation on production server. That means, I use Apache HTTPd and mod_python. Have a look.

Instalasi Django untuk Production Server


Untuk instalasi Django, penulis menggunakan versi software yang 
terbaru pada saat dokumentasi ini ditulis (kecuali Python)
Asumsi


Sistem operasi yang digunakan adalah GNU/Linux. JIka tidak menggunakan GNU/Linux, silahkan
   membuat sendiri berbagai penyesuaian (terutama path)

Instalasi ini akan menjelaskan instalasi pada production server

Home directory: /home/bpdp. $HOME akan menunjuk ke /home/bpdp


Persiapan Software


Python. Syarat: versi 2.3 ke atas, penulis menggunakan 2.4.3

Apache HTTPd. Penulis menggunakan versi 2.3.3

mod_python. Penulis menggunakan versi 3.2.10

Django. Penulis menggunakan versi 0.95


Langkah-langkah Instalasi

Apache HTTPd


1. Instalasi akan diletakkan di /home/bpdp/software/apache-httpd
2. Buat direktori tersebut:

   $ mkdir ~/software/apache-httpd
   $ tar -xjvf ~/download/software/apache-httpd/httpd-2.3.3.tar.bz2
   $ cd httpd-2.3.3
   $ ./configure --prefix=/home/bpdp/software/apache-httpd/
   $ make
   $ make install

   Untuk mempermudah, penulis membuat shell script di
   ~/environment/shell/apache-httpd yang berisi:

      ---------------------------------------------------------------------
      LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/bpdp/software/apache-httpd/lib
      export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
   
      PATH=/home/bpdp/software/apache-httpd/bin:$PATH
      export PATH
   
      MANPATH=/home/bpdp/software/apache-httpd/man:$MANPATH
      export MANPATH
      --------------------------------------------------------------------

   Setiap akan mengaktifkan apache, penulis melakukan sourcing
   terhadap file tersebut dengan perintah:
 
$ source ~/environment/shell/apache-httpd

      Beberapa perubahan yang penulis lakukan terhadap konfigurasi
      di $APACHE_HOME/conf/httpd.conf 
      (/home/bpdp/software/apache-httpd/conf/httpd.conf):

      ------------------------------

      Listen 2508

      ------------------------------

mod_python


1. Instalasi akan diletakkan di $APACHE_HOME
2. Berikut ini langkah-langkahnya:

      $ tar -xzvf ~/download/software/modpython/mod_python-3.2.10.tgz
      $ cd mod_python-3.2.10
      $ ./configure --with-apxs=/home/bpdp/software/apache-httpd/bin/apxs
      $ make
      $ make install

   File konfigurasi httpd.conf dari apache-httpd harus diubah
   sesuai petunjuk pada akhir proses di atas. Pada httpd.conf
   milik penulis, penambahan yang dilakukan adalah:



   LoadModule python_module /home/bpdp/software/apache-httpd//modules/mod_python.so

      <Location /mpinfo>
                 SetHandler mod_python
                 PythonHandler mod_python.testhandler
      </Location>



4. Untuk memeriksa instalasi, tes dengan cara:

      $ source ~/environment/shell/apache-httpd
      $ apache-ctl start
 
      Gunakan browser untuk mengakses http://127.0.1.1:2508/mpinfo

   Hasilnya berupa tampilan info mod_python. Silahkan
   melihat hasilnya di sini

   Catatan: Alamat IP silahkan disesuaikan dengan milik anda
   (kemungkinan 127.0.0.1 atau localhost atau namaserver)

Django


1. $ tar -xzvf ~/download/software/django/Django-0.95.tar.gz
2. $ cd Django-0.95
3. Sebagai root, copykan seluruh direktori django ke site-packages dari Python:

      $ su -
      password:
      # cd /home/bpdp/software/download/django/Django-0.96/
      # cp -R django /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/

   Catatan: Cara di atas sebenarnya bisa dilakukan dengan cara lain yaitu dengan:

python setup.py install

   tetapi cara di atas harus terkoneksi ke Internet jika belum ada paket setuptools terinstall.

4. Membuat proyek aplikasi Django untuk tes:

      Catatan: proyek akan diletakkan di $HOME/src/

      $ export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/bin/
      $ django-admin.py startproject bpdp

      Hasil dari perintah di atas adalah:



   bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~$ ls -la src/bpdp/
   total 32
   drwxr-xr-x 2 bpdp bpdp 4096 2006-10-10 05:14 .
   drwxr-xr-x 5 bpdp bpdp 4096 2006-10-10 05:06 ..
   -rw-r--r-- 1 bpdp bpdp    0 2006-10-10 05:06 __init__.py
   -rw-r--r-- 1 bpdp bpdp  119 2006-10-10 05:13 __init__.pyc
   -rwxr-xr-x 1 bpdp bpdp  546 2006-10-10 05:06 manage.py
   -rw-r--r-- 1 bpdp bpdp 2403 2006-10-10 05:07 settings.py
   -rw-r--r-- 1 bpdp bpdp 1791 2006-10-10 05:13 settings.pyc
   -rw-r--r-- 1 bpdp bpdp  230 2006-10-10 05:06 urls.py
   -rw-r--r-- 1 bpdp bpdp  216 2006-10-10 05:14 urls.pyc
   bpdp@bpdp-desktop:~$



5. Konfigurasi Apache HTTPd + mod_python untuk Django:



   PythonPath "['/home/bpdp/src'] + sys.path"

   <Location "/bpdp/">
       SetHandler python-program
       PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
       SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE bpdp.settings
       PythonDebug On
   </Location>



6. Menguji:

      Aktifkan browser kemudian akses ke:

http://127.0.1.1:2508/bpdp/

      Hasilnya sebagai berikut:
   

   

   

      Jika muncul hasil seperti di atas, maka instalasi
      Django telah berhasil.

7. Happy hacking with Python and Django!

Tambahan


Instalasi di atas adalah instalasi awal, silahkan membaca semua 
dokumentasi yang telah disertakan di direktori docs/ pada distribusi
Django yang anda download. *You do need that, badly!*


Open source migration at my office: presentation
2006-09-08T16:53:00.000+07:00
Today, 10 AM, I did a presentation to the whole audience (+/- 30 persons at STMIK AKAKOM) about how to move to free/open source software. This is a beginning from what I've proposed about office migration to a more qualified software. Yes, from crappy software to qualified software. I can not stressed that more.

To this end, I've changed my laptop to ArkLinux which uses KDE 3.5.4 using Super Karamba for eye candy. Ok, I don't need that, but I think all of these people will fall in love with an eye candy software.

Although I am quite surprise that nobody objected, I still could see "some" people actually disagree. No problem for me. It's about what qualified software should we use. If they want to change that to other crappy OS/application, please do so, tell us, why would you want a crappy OS/apps?

Next step, I will make chair of this school's computer installed using Linux and all of other qualified software. He'd already ask me to do that.


Live is beautiful with evilwm
2006-07-08T17:06:00.000+07:00


I am a fan of minimalist configuration. When I don't need some features, why should I turned them on? This also happen to my beloved Debian GNU/Linux based OS, Ubuntu. After using Fedora Core 5.0 (x86_64) and it's mouse did not functioning properly, I decided to move to Ubuntu. It was only 1 CD (both can be used as LiveCD and Install CD). From the installation point of view, this is the easiest distro ever. I am just put it into a CD ROM, booting from CD ROM and when the desktop showed up, I just double clicked on Install shortcut and after click something like "Next" ... "Next" ... voila ... I have a brand new qualified OS.

But wait, ok, I do have 1 GB RAM, but do I need all those GNOME thingie?. I don't think so. So, I began my adventure. 


First, I replaced GDM with XDM. I can also used WDM (Wings Display Manager) but I prefer XDM for light-and-simplicity shake

I changed window manager. I tried Blackbox, FluxBox, IceWM, aewm++. 
ratpoison, and many other small window manager. My choice was and still is evilwm. It can have 8 virtual desktops, Alt-Tab window cycling, and that's the most important features which I looked for. So I changed my desktop to evilwm.

I also changed my .xinitrc. Here's mine:


exec evilwm


Pretty simple, isn't it?

Eh, I don't like my rxvt display. Its font is too small. So, I grab my .Xdefaults and then change it to:


*font:          -misc-*-*-*-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
*background:    black
*foreground:    gray




You can visit evilwm at this URL: http://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/


Round and round
2006-06-27T18:04:00.000+07:00


It's been a long time since I don't write anything in this blog. This time, I am still prepare my own new website for my ontology and semantic web research. 

I also busy went out of town (Malang) to accompany my sister. She came to give donation to earthquake victims but has something to do in Malang. So, me and my wife accompany them (she came with her friend) to Malang. 

On 29th June, 2006, I will start lecturing on 3 subjects: Information Systems, IS Audit, and Distributed Systems.


Jogjakarta Earthquake
2006-05-29T11:53:00.000+07:00
On may 27th, there was an earthquake at Jogjakarta province and some territory around (Klaten). Thousands die and badly injured. Some news site gave detail report on this disaster. You can have a look at http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2014264&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 or here if you want to know how many victims (in bahasa Indonesia).

As of my self and my family, although we live in Jogja, we are in good condition since our home is far from Bantul. I was still cycling with my kid when earthquake happened (about 05.45 AM). My wife still inside the house but she ran out and alhamdulillah, nothing happened to my home.

After that, we all one family always be outside the house 'cause we're still afraid of another earthquake. We slept at the garage but we will hopefully have a normal life today.


NETDEV WATCHDOG: etho: transmit timed out - Debian kernel
2006-05-26T16:03:00.000+07:00
Finally, I can resolve it. When trying to get an IP from DHCP server, my computer always complain like the title of this post. The solution is simple and can be found on some website, crawled by Google. I just need to add a noapic parameter to kernel on boot.


New weapon for my mind
2006-05-19T18:40:00.000+07:00
Ah, what a good day today! I bought a new computer this afternoon. It's an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ with socket 939. Here is the complete spec (just in case I lost my receipt from the store :D):

Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3000 Ghz
Mainboard: Gigabye GA-k8N51GMF-9
Memory: 1 GB (Kingstone 512MBx2)
Harddisk: Seagate 80 GB
CD ROM: 52X
Casing: S/P 6213L
Keyboard + Mouse: As usual 
Speaker
Kenika Stabilizer with servo
Monitor LG Flatron 15"

This machine will use Linux and FreeBSD as it's OS. a few days ago, I've downloaded the CDs for x86-64 (Fedora Core 5) and FreeBSD for AMD64. It's interesting to see how those OS operate on 64bit machine. Basically I will use FC more often since it's support for Java is amazing. To be honest, I prefer FreeBSD but this OS has no Java support for it's 64bit machine (only on i386). Possibly there is diablog-jdk available on port tree but I haven't heard anybody succeed in compiling diablog-jdk for AMD64. Gosh, those amazing people at FreeBSD hopefully make it available soon :)

What about Windows, eh? Sure no. Not interested at all. :)

Oh, I forgot something. I should thank someone who have support me and willing to help me gain more knowledge by having more powerful machine for my mind. Thanks a lot. It really means a lot to me and my future career. Hope to see you there :)


Zaky's left hand broken
2006-04-12T16:56:00.000+07:00
I did not plan to go home early yesterday. I am just suddenly missed him (just in case you want to know, Zaky is the name of my son), so I went home early and picked him up at the front of his school (TK Al Amien). His teacher told me and my wife that Zaky had an accident, so we went to RSI Cupuwatu and saw him.

He did not cry at all, although his hand was broken. He just sit with his teacher, silently. My God, he did not cry, but I can not stand. At 4 o'clock, the doctor came and did a little surgery. I guess, it only took about 15 minutes long and Zaky is in a good condition after surgery.

Looks like I love him too much, I am afraid ...


Sign petition to demand ODF
2006-02-11T15:25:00.000+07:00
ODF is Open Document Format which will be used as a standard for office document. I won't repeat any explanations about it here. Just take a look at the FAQ. If you are curious, there is an online book by J. David Eisenberg which you can read online or offline in PDF format (not in ODF ;) ). The book is OASIS OpenDocument Essentials.

If you have time and concern, have a look at the right side of this page and sign petition. Btw, I ain't Microsoft customer so I won't sign that petition.