Stupid Debian Kernel

I freaked out when my server computer didn’t boot to my new Debian install. I guess something about this generic kernel just ain’t right; I mean at least on this computer, because somehow it ran just fine on VirtualBox.

For a quick hack I tried booting from some live cd (I think it was a Slax) so at least I can mount it and get an older kernel from my other computer, extract the old 2.6.22-generic kernel from backup archive (that was coming from an Ubuntu 7.04 partition, because that’s my only kernel backup) and get that damned grub to play nicely by setting it to default. Why? Because I’m using an old CRT monitor, so old that I can’t see anything before 3 to 5 minutes after the first time i press power-on button or reset; I know.. I know it’s time to get a new one;).

Now at least I can get online from LAN-sharing because I can’t get Huawei E220 to work yet. Something that was as trivial as ‘wvdial MyNetProfile &’ have to wait because I know that I have to get/compile a better kernel. So, yeah busy. But the bright side of this whole situation is nothing of value deleted from this install …….. yet (O’ UNIX gods, please guide my fingers).

Aaaarrrggghhh!!!!

Facebook sekarat? Yay!!

Setelah sekian banyak website social networking yang “menjangkiti” Indonesia, dimana yang terbaru adalah Facebook (FB). Dengan banyaknya orang sekeliling gw yang mulai “main” FB gw bisa konfirmasikan bahwa Facebook punya basis pengguna yang cukup lumayan di Indonesia.

Kesan yang gw dapatkan dalam dua tahun terakhir adalah Facebook “lebih trendy” dan “gaul” daripada website-website sebelumnya seperti Multiply, Friendster, dan sebagainya. Kalau orang yang pintar bisa lebih kritis karena “trendy” dan “gaul” (yang disini berupa kata sifat) sangat subjektif dan tidak menjelaskan banyak hal; selain populer. Kesimpulan sementara yang bisa gw ambil: dasar latah.

Anyway, kemarin gw baca berita bahwa FB memiliki kesulitan finansial karena cost yang di-anggarkan untuk tiap user –dengan jumlah user sekarang ini yang sangat banyak– menyebabkan masalah serius dalam bisnis mereka. Nampaknya antara pemasukan dan pengeluaran mereka sudah njomplang sebelah gitu.

Untuk sementara gw sedang tertawa dalam hati seperti kucing dalam post ini. Pendapat pribadi gw? Biarin aja mati, gw mau lihat orang-orang yang keranjingan FB merana selama beberapa minggu. Emangnya tiap hari gak bisa hidup kalau tidak sentuh FB?

Kalo gw sendiri sih gak punya soalnya ogah!

“Default namespace”

So if I have to getting pissed on something this week that would be default namespace “feature” of XML. Why? Because sometimes XML documents uses them but not declaring it properly, or they use it but gives no URI and they rely on targetNamespace.

Note that the least ethical way to declare a default namespace is to write xmlns=”{YOUR_URI_HERE}”, you can’t just replace it with targetNamespace attribute. It serves different purpose, and doing that intentionally is not even funny!

It just doesn’t make sense, if the point is to minimize size why not using some sort of compression? Well I know libxml2 can compress XML document ‘on the way out’ (eg. saving it to file, for another I/O, etc.). Besides, it is not that difficult to use compression like (let’s say..) Zlib, since there’s a lot of port/binding to it for God-knows-what programming language you use. Sure it turns your XML to binary, but you can just un-compress it on the other end; just because its XML it doesn’t say that it has to be ‘text’ all the time.

Just because you can churn out that crap and “it works” on your development environment or where you are working, doesn’t mean that everybody else can use it right away. I mean, that’s the reason why we have standards right?

If it was for me to decide, I’ll force everyone to follow the proper way to declare any namespaces, and the hell with saving some bytes. The only case of default namespace is (X)HTML, I make it an exception because it seems back in the days where HTML were new they have slow network connection.

Now that we have broadband internet (or at least 56Kbps over the phone line), and nobody uses 9600 baud modems over the internet anymore, so stop doing that!! The amount of extra bytes is moot compared to yet another complexity that doesn’t exists in the first place if everybody use the proper way to do it.

I’m sorry for all that, I was pissed because I have to come out with some XPath statements (well basically a program) to parse WSDL files and how it was created is clearly not something that I can control. More lines, more code.. yeah, this stupid thing sucks.

Bye

Gimana mo baca coba?

Kemaren gw dikirim e-mail dari seorang temen, yang ingin menanyakan tentang ERD. Temen gw ini adek kelas, jadi masih satu ‘perguruan’ juga gitu jadi yaa karena gw kan orang baik (*wahahahaha…*) ya gw bantu lah.

Singkat cerita dia kirim diagram ER ke gw, dan berharap minta pendapat gw. Jadi yang dia kirim begini:

Begitu buka attachment dari e-mail gw bingung, ini bacanya susah amat ya? Minta kirim lagi diagram yang bener, eh yang dapet ya yang begini lagi. Gw minta lagi yang bener diagramnya sampe sekarang belum dibales.

Cape deh…

E-mail berbahaya

Hari ini download e-mail yang menurut tanggalnya dikirim 2 hari yang lalu, isinya gini (hasil copy & paste):

aduH t0lOngiN dOng gWe, gImana nIh kOk tIAp kaLi gW mo jAlan1n dElpHi adA keLuar bAnyAk eRror gItu. tUlIsaNya “cannot find library” gItu dHe… gW dapEt peSEn beGiNi sEtElaH gw InsTall coMp. VirTuAllisTvIew daRi sofTgMes.com. aPa di kOmpoTerNya b0sS kEluRr JuGa erR0r k4ya gItu> cape nIh, maNa lIstRik bYar peT muLu LagI… uDaH dwa mInGgU kOmPuteR g k4lO Mo jAlaNin deLPhi kEluaR GiNian.

gImaNa d0ng bOss?

Tebakan gw nih orang pasti umurnya kalo gak 11 tahun, ya 15 tahun.. atau antara 11 – 17 tahun. Sampe sekarang gw blon bales e-mailnya, baca semuanya aja belom, baru 1 kalimat aja mata udah sakit. Dasar semprul…
NB: Kalo ngetik apa gak bisa pake kapitalisasi yang bener? Kalo gw mo baca tulisan yang kaya ginian, gw bakalan pergi ke Friendster.