You know what, I get the feeling that I’m somehow “destined” to be a “probabilistic guy” (it has a spiritual touch) A few minutes ago I was thinking that “IT” is simply about reducing ambiguity. which is basically increasing specificity. Problem is, the world is inherently uncertain. And IT usually doesn’t cope well with this…
Having been waiting “a few minutes” for several years with various taking-too-long-to-install software, “it will take more than an hour” is definitely a relief. At last, somebody is being honest! 😉 Update: Murti has a great article on installing OpenBravo on Ubuntu. I myself got stuck on the “FAIL – Application at context path /openbravo…
Today I just found one way (though not so “good idea”) to have a 45-day loan with 0% interest……! I got approx 800,000 rupiahs today, cash, in less than an hour, that I can return around end January.. it was very easy. I was shopping with my friends (actually my Entreprenur University Kediri classmates), at…
OCaml seems to be a (yet another) very interesting programming tool. Objective Caml (OCaml) is the main implementation of Caml (Categorical Abstract Machine Language), which is based on ML. The Meta-Language (ML) was originally developed at Edinburgh University in the 1970’s as a language designed to efficiently represent other languages. The language was pioneered by…
I’m not sure about you, but to me Oz looks like a cool programming language to learn… and use: Oz is a multiparadigm programming language, developed in the Programming Systems Lab at Saarland University. Oz contains most of the concepts of the major programming paradigms, including logic, functional (both lazy and eager), imperative, object-oriented, constraint,…
The time has come for yet another wishful thinking. With the rise of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Event Driven Architecture (EDA), and Test Driven Development (TDD) extended with Behavior Driven Development (BDD), and a bunch of other buzzwords… let me introduce something else for the enterprise world: Semantic Interface Driven Architecture (SIDA) In short,…
Let me begin by a scientific discovery, a few decades ago: (as pictured above) A Lunar Rille Credit: Apollo 10, NASA Explanation: What could cause a long indentation on the Moon? First discovered over 200 years ago with a small telescope, rilles (rhymes with pills) appear all over the Moon. Three types of rilles are…
The Sad Bear 1, by Nedroid 7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable It turns out humans are social animals after all. And that ability to suffer fools, to tolerate annoyance, that’s literally the one single thing that allows you to function in a world populated by other people who aren’t you. Otherwise,…
Not sure why I’m doing this, but well… WordPress.com, that probably mega blog hosting provider was down for a couple minutes (?) a few hours ago, at 25 August 2007 around 14:25 GMT+0700. Original message: Goshdarnit! Something has gone wrong with our servers. It’s probably Matt’s fault. We’ve just been notified of the problem. Hopefully…
I found a very nice and thorough article about password management. I love it! 🙂 And it’s increasingly needed nowadays!!! Password Management Best Practices This document describes and justifies current password management best practices in an enterprise network. It is intended to offer reasoned guidance to information technology decision makers when they set security policy…
