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Taksi Jakarta

Fiuh, beberapa hari ini saya kudu naik taksi buat mobilitas. Sebab tank yang biasa dipake udah gak bisa ditolak lagi harus turun mesin (akhirnya), air radiator udah ngerembes masuk ke ruang bakar lewat paking cylinder head yang udah bocor. Saran dari mekanik, lebih baik jangan dipake daripada terjadi water hammer *waduh*

Ada beberapa informasi yang didapet dari hasil ngobrol sama pengemudi taksi (kebiasaan iseng ngorek informasi). Mulai pengemudi baru ampe yang udah lama, khususnya taksi BB.

Info pertama, taksi seharian muter-muter di Jakarta rata-rata konsumsi bensinya 20 literan, kira-kira setengah tangki bensin mobil dan selalu diisi penuh waktu pulang ke pool sambil pemeriksaan kondisi mobil. Jadi waktu besoknya dipake, udah tinggal jalan aja. Trus gimana kalo seandainya sampe bensinya habis? Padahal belum waktunya pulang ke pool. Si taksi boleh mengisi bensin di pool terdekat dari posisi terakhirnya. Tapi kejadiannya (kata pengemudinya) sampai dengan saat hari itu dia mengemudi belum pernah terjadi.

You Are What You Write

Consider this: the only thing anyone knows about you on the Internet comes from what you write, or what others write about you. You may be brilliant, perceptive, and charismatic in person—but if your emails are rambling and unstructured, people will assume that's the real you. Or perhaps you really are rambling and unstructured in person, but no one need ever know it, if your posts are lucid and informative.

Devoting some care to your writing will pay off hugely. Long-time free software hacker Jim Blandy tells the following story:

Back in 1993, I was working for the Free Software Foundation, and we were betatesting version 19 of GNU Emacs. We'd make a beta release every week or so, and people would try it out and send us bug reports. There was this one guy whom none of us had met in person but who did great work: his bug reports were always clear and led us straight to the problem, and when he provided a fix himself, it was almost always right. He was top-notch.

Now, before the FSF can use code written by someone else, we have them do some legal paperwork to assign their copyright interest to that code to the FSF. Just taking code from complete strangers and dropping it in is a recipe for legal disaster.

So I emailed the guy the forms, saying, "Here's some paperwork we need, here's what it means, you sign this one, have your employer sign that one, and then we can start putting in your fixes. Thanks very much."

He sent me back a message saying, "I don't have an employer."

So I said, "Okay, that's fine, just have your university sign it and send it back."

After a bit, he wrote me back again, and said, "Well, actually... I'm thirteen years old and I live with my parents."

Source: http://producingoss.com

Hidupppppppppp!!!!!

Hahahahaha ...akhirnya!!! Setelah mati suri beberapa waktu (sigh) di block ama mbah Google pula! akhirnya blog Ganesha hidup kembali. Blog ini sempat terlantar karena banyak banget yang baru terjadi di kehidupan kami. Saya baru melahirkan anak ke dua bulan Oktober 2009 kemarin, Mas Yudi sibuk banget dengan penutupan kantor (Yup! dengan berat hati akhirnya Bengkel harus ditutup). It's been hectic and super crazy and not to mention the emotional roller coaster ride.

But life must go on kan?! We've still got a full life ahead of us. Doakan ya!!!!!! Kami sedang menata kembali kehidupan kami untuk hari esok yang lebih baik (sounds like tag kampanye presiden gak seh? Hoohohohoh).

Cheers

Keluarga Ganesha

Room Lighting

The atmosphere that created a room was not only influenced by the decoration. The indoor illumination play a big role. To create the comfortable impression, many people add light from a desk lamp. Although being impressed simple, there is a lot consideration before choosing or placing desk lamp in a room. Avoid use a desk lamp along with a standing lamp because it seems too much. Therefore, if you want to use some part of the table choose objects that only use small space. Usually the place that often used for desk lamp is the drawer beside the bed, drawer beside the sofa, and the console table.

Before choosing desk lamp, consider the height of the drawer that you use as lamp placement. Lot in the market are the drawer with height around 60 cm. But that was not absolute. Desk lamp more often used as a decoration element than illumination element. So style of the desk lamp must be same style of the room theme. For example in the room that use minimalist concept it is better to use desk lamp with a simple style or standard colour like black, white, or silver.

Gold Investment

Many people believed gold was the investment product that could ward off inflation. Inflation is a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy over a period of time. When the price level rises, each unit of currency buys fewer goods and services; consequently, inflation is also an erosion in the purchasing power of money – a loss of real value in the internal medium of exchange and unit of account in the economy. A chief measure of price inflation is the inflation rate, the annualized percentage change in a general price index (normally the Consumer Price Index) over time.

There are three type of inflation:

1. Moderate inflation, the rate of inflation was only under two digits per the year.
2. Wild inflation, the rate of inflation was in two digits per the year.
3. Hyper inflation, the rate of inflation was in three digits per the year.

The fact proved, when high inflation happening, the price of gold will rise higher than inflation. It was increasingly high that inflation, increasingly high the price increase of gold. Statistics showed that when inflation reached 10 percent, then gold will rise 13 percent. When inflation 20 percent, then gold will rise 30 percent. But when inflation 100 percent, then your gold will rise 200 percent. This why you better considered to invest in the form of gold. This because of gold was believed as investment of the inflation charm. It was increasingly high that inflation, usually is increasingly good the appreciation of gold that was owned by you. But, ought to be recorded that the price of gold will tend constant when the rate of low inflation, in fact tended seldom descended if the rate of inflation under two digits. So, gold will only be good to happen moderate inflation (two digits), and will be again better to inflation happen hyper (three digits).

Investment in the form of jewellery gold was more fortunate for long-term. Because usually the price of your gold rises more far compared to when you bought it.

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Ngeprint di Google Docs

Pernah nyobain ngeprint di Google Docs? Penasaran gimana caranya biar hasilnya bukan cetakan dari browser (HTML) tapi bener-bener dokumen? Ternyata gini caranya:

So what do you do if you write an online word processor and want your users to be able to print beautifully? Here is what Google Docs does when you click their "Print" button:

1. Saves your document to the server
2. Converts it on the server - on the fly - from HTML to PDF
3. Creates a hidden Adobe Acrobat plugin instance inside the editor tab
4. Load the newly converted PDF into the plugin
5. Triggers the Acrobat print dialog

Cobain ah..