Acer introduces the Ferrari One Notebook

Dec. 14, 2009 (10:56 am) By: Brian Osborne

Acer is giving consumers an affordable way to purchase a Ferrari for the holidays. Though you can’t drive this Ferrari on the road you can definitely take it for a ride on the information superhighway. That’s because Acer is offering a notebook which has been inspired by racing legend Scudetto Ferrari.
The Ferrari One Notebook was originally announced as a launch machine with Windows 7 in October, but seems to be appearing now with a modified spec. It includes a 11.6in HD widescreen display while under the hood it is powered by an AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual core processor.Video for the laptop is handled by ATI Radeon™ HD 3200 Graphics which is supplemented by 4GB of DDR2 667MHz system memory. Windows 7 Home Premium also comes preloaded on the laptop’s 250GB hard drive. The notebook, which comes with a one year warranty, will retail for $599.99.
If you know a racing fan who is also a computer geek this Ferrari notebook will be the perfect gift. Acer did a great job of making sure the laptop is as sexy as it is powerful. That sounds like a Ferrari to me.

Read more at the Acer press release

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FASTRA II: the world’s most powerful desktop supercomputer

Is it possible to fit the computing power of a large supercomputer cluster in the tight space of a PC case? In our research on image reconstruction we often have to perform large-scale scientific computations, which can easily take weeks on a normal PC. Last year, the FASTRA project was launched to develop a desktop supercomputer based on gaming hardware. Although highly successful, even FASTRA cannot provide the computational power required for our latest research projects. FASTRA needs a successor, which should be much more powerful, while maintaining the favorable properties of its older brother: green, mobile and inexpensive. For just 6000 euros, you can have 12TFLOPS of computing power at your fingertips.
Part of the Vision Lab of the University of Antwerp, the research group ASTRA focuses on the development of new computational methods for tomography. Tomography is a technique used in medical scanners to create three-dimensional images of the internal organs of patients, based on a large number of X-ray photos that are acquired over a range of angles. ASTRA develops new reconstruction techniques that lead to better reconstruction quality than classical methods.
One of the applications is 3D imaging of bone tissue in mice, which is commonly required in medicine research for osteoporosis. The structures of interest are at the resolution limits of current micro-CT scanners. We are working on advanced computational methods that allow for the computation of higher resolution images based on the same scanner data. The downside: computation time, which was already a major issue, increases even further.

Fortunately, these computations can be carried out in parallel on graphics hardware, much faster than when using normal CPUs. Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) are becoming more and more common now for all kinds of scientific computing. For suitable applications, a single GPU already has the computing power equivalent to a moderate CPU cluster. In collaboration with Tones.be and ASUS, We have now developed a PC design that incorporates 13 GPUs, resulting in a massive 12TFLOPS of computing power.
Although the system is up and running, we are still experiencing software stability issues, probably caused by an incompatibility between the video drivers and the BIOS and Linux modifications we had to use. Check out the blog for more details on the current status of FASTRA II.
The FASTRA II design contains six NVIDIA GTX295 dual-GPU cards, and one GTX275 single-GPU card. To fit all this hardware in a single PC case, a special cage was designed for the graphics cards, which are connected to the motherboard by flexible riser cables. To satisfy all 13 GPUs, The system has four power supplies. At full speed, it can outperform a moderately sized cluster of state-of-the-art CPUs. And guess what… this system costs less than 6000 euros!

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Google Phone is half as thick as the T-Mobile G1

Dec. 15, 2009 (12:41 pm) By: John Brownlee

One of the first details everyone heard about the HTC Nexus One, aka the “Google Phone” is just how lusciously thin it is.
That’s important in a smartphone. The trend in phones towards minimization has increasingly shifted away from making phones smaller on the x and y axis, which decreases the phone’s functionality, and shrinking its z axis, which makes a phone feel smaller and lighter without negatively impacting its ease of use.
So how thin is the Nexus One? At first, all we heard was that it was thinner than Apple’s iPhone, which is no mean trick, but now, thanks to an intrepid Google mole, we’ve got an even better idea of the Nexus One’s svelteness.
According to an image published by Boy Genius Report comparing the Nexus One lying side by side with the first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1, the Google Phone is only half the thickness of the latter phone. Since the G1 is around 17mm thick, it makes sense to estimate the Google Phone to be around 10mm.
Now, granted, the G1 was never described as svelte… but 10mm is still a significant decrease in depth from the iPhone. Thinness matters in smartphone design: it’s the new sexy. For a company as obsessed with thinness as Apple, this has to have their design departments scrambling to shrink down the iPod’s already tightly packed chassis.
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Apple, watch out: The FCC approves the Google Phone

Dec. 14, 2009 (3:40 pm) By: Christian Zibreg

Naysayers won’t like this: A Google-developed smartphone dubbed Nexus One has been given the FCC blessing, turning a rumored gizmo into a done deal.
When a product filing emerges in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) database, it’s when rumors turn into reality. All electronic products must be checked for interference and approved by the FCC before they can be sold in the US. The FCC publicly posts approved filings on its website that media outlets use as an unofficial source of upcoming new products.
According to the FCC filing discovered by Engadget on Monday, the so-called Google Phone is actually a HTC device (code-named “Bravo”) with a model number PB99100, marketed as “NEXUSONE.” The document reveals a few “boring” engineering specs rather than Earth-shattering new features. Nexus One will contain Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and 802.11b/g wireless networking, contrasting some rumors that have called for the fastest 802.11n standard. Storage-wise, Nexus One will accept microSD cards like almost any other Android-powered smartphone on the market. When it comes to the supported band frequencies, the filing is a bit ambiguous. The bands listed suggest that Nexus One will be a quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE phone supporting both UMTS and high-speed 3HSUPA for 2Mbps uplink and 7.2Mbps downlink, both available on T-Mobile and AT&T.
However, the publication suggested that AT&T may not be supported because the test lab incorrectly listed 815-880MHz frequencies as part of band VIII. Engadget later updated the original article with the following note:

Only WCDMA Band IV was tested in the Part 22H / 24E / 27 Report, leading us to believe that the Nexus One is going to be HSPA 900 / 1700 / 2100 (a pretty common tri-band 3G setup) plus quadband EDGE. Sorry, AT&T, but that’s how the cookie crumbles.

Check out our list of eight HTC phones that you’ll crave for in 2010 for more juicy details about the Android 2.1-powered Nexus One. You may also want to browse Engadget’s exclusive image gallery showcasing the phone’s sleek appearance.
Read more at Engadget.

Christian’s Opinion

The FCC’s approval of the Nexus One leaves little room to doubt the existence of what the media has pompously dubbed a Google Phone. All that remains now is for Google’s marketing folks to press the “launch” button. With the FCC filing now public and the CES 2010 almost upon us, I bet that Nexus One will launch in January 2010, as most rumors have predicted. I believe that the question of the bands listed raised in Engadget’s report will soon be sorted out. Frankly, I’d find it hard to believe Google would limit the flagship device to T-Mobile’s network only.
T-Mobile is the nation’s fourth-largest wireless carrier that reported 33.4 million users in the third quarter. Should Nexus One launch on both T-Mobile and AT&T (81.6 million subscribers reported for the third quarter), the device will be tapping the potential addressable market of nearly 120 million subscribers. The figure represents roughly 40 percent of the nation’s population and it also eclipses Verizon Wireless’ 89 million subscribers reported in the third quarter. On the other hand, it’s quite possible that AT&T wouldn’t risk its cosy relationship with Apple by greeting a possible iPhone killer on its network. If it does, then it won’t be too long before the iPhone hits T-Mobile’s US network, as suggested in an earlier report.

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Foxconn releases two sexy Bamboo PC cases

Dec. 11, 2009 (12:16 pm) By: John Brownlee

Although the innards of computers are about as toxic as ever, cases are getting more and more environmentally friendly thanks to consumer pressure. One particular material that cases are increasingly being manufactured from is bamboo. Bamboo not only looks good, but it’s also durable and quickly replenishable, since it grows so quickly.
The latest company to jump on the bamboo bandwagon is Foxconn, whose latest two bamboo desktop cases are just indescribably sexy, even if they look a little bit like set props from Gilligan’s Island.
The first case is a mid-tower called the Bamboo One, which replaces the front cover — normally made of plastic — with a darkly stained bamboo wood. It’s not without its faults: the drive bay covers aren’t cut from the same bamboo as the front piece as a whole, so the patterns and colors don’t quite match. But it is undeniably cute to see those vendor stickers slapped upon a wooden case.
The other chassis is for home theater enthusiasts looking to build an HTPC system, called the Bamboo II TMX-355. Unlike the Bamboo One, the smaller chassis has a bamboo front cover cut from one piece so it all matches.
I’d be tempted to drop money on one or both of these. The HTPC oriented Bamboo II would look particularly good in my entertainment center. Too bad that Foxconn reports that both chassises sold out quickly. Hopefully, they’ll remake them and release them in the States soon.
Read more at PCPop

Cocok banget buat bamboonet ;)

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Rad Blaster mini boombox plays tunes and stores files

Dec. 15, 2009 (2:42 pm) By: Doug Osborne

It is often said that good things come in small packages. Take for example this little gem of a device called the Rad Blaster. Indeed, it looks like a toy boombox you might find at the bottom of a cereal box or kid’s meal. But don’t let its diminutive size fool you. This gadget is actually a MP3 player and is chock full with features to help you take and make your music on the go.
Loaded with a 1 inch (128×64) color OLED screen, built-in high quality speakers and a 3.5mm earphone jack, the Rad Blaster can play most audio formats like MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC, APE along with AAC. And to make the music sound even better, the boombox even features multiple playback modes as well as 7 EQ settings to get the most out of your tunes.
Loading files onto the boombox is a breeze. Just detach the right speaker and it serves a 2GB Flash drive that you can use to store music or other files. Also – if you ever feel the need to bust out a few rhymes, the Rad Blaster has you covered with a built-in microphone and record switch to help save those lyrics for a later time.

All this in a rechargeable device that can hang easily from a necklace that is even included with the kit. The Rad Blaster is portable, fun looking, functional and also fashionable. What more could you want in a unique MP-3 player?
They are available now from SubUrban Toys for just $59.99
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Toshiba debuts 64GB flash chip: A 128GB iPod touch and 256GB Apple tablet come to mind

Dec. 15, 2009 (12:41 pm) By: Christian Zibreg

A new chip offers twofold storage increase, paving the way for a 128GB iPod touch, and a capacious flash-based Apple tablet.
Toshiba has launched a new 64GB embedded NAND flash memory module this morning, the highest capacity yet achieved in the industry. The semiconductor giant advertised the new chip as a flagship product of its lineup consisting of six embedded NAND flash memory modules that offer full compliance with the latest e•MMC standard and its new features, including defining multiple storage areas and enhanced security.
The entire lineup includes chips in densities ranging from 2GB to 64GB. The top-of-the-line 64GB module will enter mass production in the first quarter of 2010, but samples are available today, Toshiba said. The new chips have been engineered by combining multiple 32nm NAND units on a single die that also includes a dedicated controller. Toshiba beat the industry by combining sixteen 4GB NAND units on a single die to achieve 64GB capacity of the flagship chip. The company pitched its new lineup to smartphones, mobile phones, netbooks, and digital video cameras.
Read more in Toshiba’s press release.

Christian’s Opinion

This interesting development almost guarantees a 64GB iPhone 3GS and 128GB iPod touch upgrade in the near future. Apple is almost certainly going to use its buying power to prepay for the whole output of Toshiba’s 64GB chip in order to create artificial shortages and get the best price. Such a practice has put Apple at odds with the flash memory makers who accuse the Californian firm of manipulating the market to its own advantage. Apple is consuming an estimated 25 percent of the world’s flash memory.
On the other hand, Apple’s huge appetite for NAND flash chips has enabled the company to upgrade its portable products with twice the storage for the same price. Whichever way you look at it, the iPhone and iPod touch should once again beat rival gizmos on storage for a limited time. A possible 128GB iPod touch will be a milestone upgrade because it’ll put the touch-based music player dangerously close to the 160GB hard drive-based iPod classic. Apple currently employs two 32GB NAND flash modules in its 64GB iPod Touch. If a 128GB NAND flash module becomes a reality the next year, it could easily mark the end of the line for the iPod classic.
Toshiba’s 64GB chip is also a natural fit for Apple’s rumored tablet that will need spacious storage to accommodate your iTunes library. I’m only speculating here, but utilizing four or eight 64GB NAND chips would theoretically enable Apple to offer two tablet versions – 256GB and 512GB. Note that Apple ordered half a billion dollars worth of NAND chips from Toshiba earlier this year. The research firm iSuppli recently predicted an estimated sixfold increase in the NAND flash demand between 2008 and 2013, the spike mostly contributed to the iPhone. The company estimated global revenue from sales of NAND chips for mobile phones to reach nearly $1 billion by 2013. Besides Toshiba, Apple buys NAND flash modules from multiple vendors, including Samsung, the world’s leading NAND flash manufacturer, Hynix (#3 flash chip maker), and others.

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Remote Desktop

Remote Desktop?
Kurang lebih berarti desktop jarak jauh, yaitu desktop yang sebenarnya bukan desktop komputer yang sedang kita operasikan. Melainkan desktop dari komputer lain. Di ubuntu kita bisa bekerja secara remote, misalnya ada beberapa kerjaan  yang waktunya bentrok tapi harus kita kerjakan. Baik itu sesama ubuntu / linux maupun dengan winxxx. Daripada kita harus mondar-mandir kesana-kemari lebih baik kita gunakan fasilitas remote desktop ini.

Contoh :

1. Ubuntu vs winxxx.

Kita ingin menginstall browser firefox di laptop / komputer lain yang kebetulan ber OS winxxx, sedangkan kita sendiri sedang ada kerjaan dengan ubuntu kita. Nah daripada kita harus berpindah tempat, ga ada salahnya kita bekerja secara remote. Caranya cukup simpel.

Di terminal / shell ubuntu ( Application, Accessories, Terminal ) kita ketikkan perintah berikut, rdesktop [ip komputer target] :

rdesktop 192.168.1.100

maka kita akan dibawa pada jendela login winxxx dalam desktop kita dan diminta untuk menuliskan user dan password yang sah, sesuai dengan user dan password pada komputer remote. Oia Jo.. rdesktop ini suport warna 16 bit, jadi kalau kita setingan warna menggunakan 32 bit, maka secara otomatis akan di degradasi ke mode 16 bit, so jangan heran kalau untuk beberapa tampilan akan mengalami penurunan kualitas grafik, tapi tidak sampai fatal, karena masih nyaman untuk dilihat oleh mata kita. Liat tuh di atas ada view gambarnya ;) remote desktop yang tampil dalam desktop local kita.

Tapi untuk itu kita harus mengaktifkan setingan remote di winxxx nya. Klik kanan My Computer, pilih Properties, pilih Remote. Disana carilah Kalimat ini " Allow users to connect remotely to this computer" check listlah, pilih Apply dan OK. Untuk setingan lainnya silakan liat-liat pada menu yang ada disana. hehe..y

2. Ubuntu vs Ubuntu
Pada dasarnya sama dengan winxxx, kita seting dulu komputer target, supaya mengijinkan Remote Desktop. System, Preference, Remote Desktop. Maka kita akan menuju Remote Desktop Preference. Disana pilihlah pengaturan sebagai berikut :
Sharing :

• Allow other users to view your desktop, artinya kita mengijinkan user lain untuk melihat desktop kita.

• Allow other user to control your desktop, artinya kalau kita aktifkan ini, maka user lain bisa mengontrol desktop kita secara remote. Kalau tidak kita pilih yang ini tapi cuma milih yang atas, maka user lain hanya diijinkan untuk melihat desktop kita secara remote tanpa bisa mengendalikannya. Ya jadi penonton ajah...

Security :

• Require the user to enter this password : isikanlah password untuk bisa me-remote view desktop kita, sehingga kalau ada user yangmencobanya tanpa mengisi passwordnya maka dia tidak akan bisa, meskipun dari siang sampai subuh!!! hehey... Artinya orang-orang tertentulah yang bisa mengisikannya dan umumnya dia mendapatkannya dari kita / user bersangkutan.
  

Notification Area :

• Always display an icon, artinya di desktop akan selalu muncul icon remote viewer, meski tidak ada user remote yang sedang aktif
  
• Only  display an icon when there is someone connected, maksudnya adalah apabila ada user lain yang mencoba melihat atau mengendalikan desktop kita, maka di layar kita akan muncul adanya icon notifikasi yang menunjukkan bahwa sedang ada user lain yang melihat / mengontrol desktop kita
• Never display an icon, kalau kita memilih ini, maka manakala ada user lain yang melihat desktop kita maka kita kitak mengetahuinya karena tidak ada icon yang menunjukkan desktop kita sedang di "sabot"

Untuk bisa melihat  desktop  komputer target secara remote, maka dari komputer kita klik Applications, Internet, Remote Desktop Viewer, kurang lebih view nya seperti ini Jo...

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Dual OS Win & Ubuntu :: Catatan Ringan

Sebetulnya ini udah bukan barang baru, tp cos ada yg nanyain gimana caranya bikin dual os dalam 1 komputer jadi g salah kalau saiah tjoba untuk sedikit mengingat kembali, step bae by step nya ;).


Salah satu alasan kita membuat sistem yang dual os adalah karena masih adanya ketergantungan pada salah satu os, sedangkan untuk sekedar mencoba linux dengan live cd dirasa kurang ngehh.. Jadi satu jalan diambil yakni dengan dual os ini. Meski sebenarnya bisa saja kita menginstall program virtualisasi  didalam win ataupun linux kita dengan bermacam program virtualisasi seperti vmware maupun virtualbox.
Teknisnya gini Jo.. 

1. Win nya sebaiknya sudah terinstall, sebab kalau kita menginstall ubuntu duluan, maka grub ( boot loader untuk linux )  akan dihapus / ditimpa dengan mbr ( master boor record ) nya windows.
   
2. Cek dulu CPU kita, apakah memungkinkan untuk nancepin os ( disini dia minta ubuntu ) baru. Artinya kita liat spek mouse, speaker, keyboard processor, ram dan juga kapasitas hardisknya. Kalau memang space yang tersisa masih besar, maka langsung saja ke no.3
3. Untuk memudahkan kita dalam menginstall ubuntu sebagai os kedua, bikinlah satu partisi baru di hardisk kita. Gunakanlah program partisi yang mudah kita pahami. Biar ga bingung nanti dalam memilih drive tempat nancepin ubuntu, sebaiknya tuh partisi baru kita, pakai file sistem yang beda dengan yang kita pakai. Misal kalau kita pakai NTFS, maka (misalnya) bikinlah file sistem yang baru dengan FAT ataupun yang lainnya.
4. Persiapkan CD installer ubuntu, rubahlah setingan di bios komputer untuk bisa boot up dari cdrom. Kalau udah bisa restartlah dan ikuti petunjuknya. Pilih install dan ikuti step berikutnya
   
5. Setelah sampai pada bagian tentang partisi, disana kita pilih manual partision dan pilihlah partisi baru ( dengan file sistem yang berbeda tadi ). Bikinlah partisi dengan titik kait "/ " untuk root nya, sebaiknya jangan terlalu besar sizenya ( misal 10 Gb ). Lalu dari sisa space yang ada kita bikin titik kait lainnya untuk home, kecuali kita ingin mengatur besar volume lainnya dan sisakan untuk swap minimal 2 x memori kita. Untuk file sistemnya gunakan ext3 ataupun ext4. Kemudian pilihlah yes pada saat ditanya akan menulis perubahan yang kita lakukan.
6. Ikuti step selanjutnya seperti nama user dan password, seting network dll. Intinya saat semuanya beres, maka ubuntu akan menjalankan prosesi instalasi, dan akhirnya kita akan ditanya apakan akan menginstall boot loader, pilih yes, tunggu beberapa saat sampai prosesnya selesai yang ditandai dengan keluarnya CD installer, tekan enter dan komputer akan restart sendiri.
7. Setelah restart, maka seharusnya kita sudah memiliki komputer dengan dual os, well selamat..

Sori Jo.. ga ada visualisasinya, cos ini sekedar catatan ringan ( dari ingatan lagi ) yang tidak dipersiapkan dengan baik.  Tapi kurang lebih begitulah prosesnya untuk kita membangun dual os win & ubuntu  pada komputer kita... ;)

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Gnome Music Applet

Music Applet adalah Gnome panel applet yang memungkinkan kita untuk dapat mengontrol bermacam musik player dari panel. Music Applet ini memiliki akses tentang informasi lagu yang sedang diputar dan kendali playback ( pemutar ) yang sudah umum pada semua pemutar musik.

Music Applet saat ini telah mendukung beberapa player, diantaranya adalah :
* Amarok
* Audacious
* Banshee
* Exaile
* MPD
* Muine
* Quod Libet

Untuk bisa menginstallnya di ubuntu gunakan perintah berikut :

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sudo apt-get install music-applet

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Yap, just like that, just waiting sampai prosesi instalasi nya beres, maka otomatis Music Applet akan terinstall di ubuntu kita. Untuk mengaktifkannya, klik kanan pada panel, trus pilih Add to panel maka akan segera keluar window applet seperti di bawah ini, pilihlah Music Applet dan add.

Setelah itu maka dipanel akan muncul Music Applet nya. Seperti ini neh...

Oke Jo.. simple, tapi usefull saat kita lagi runing player yang diminimize, untuk mengoperasikannya tinggal klik tombol playback yang ada.

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Install Chromium Browser Di Ubuntu

Chromium adalah salah satu proyek browser open-source yang bertujuan
untuk menciptakan satu pengalaman web yang lebih aman, lebih cepat dan
stabil bagi semua pengguna internet. Basis kode dari chromium sendiri adalah
google chrome.


Untuk menginstallnya di ubuntu, langkah pertamanya adalah dengan
mengedit file /etc/apt/sources.list menggunakan editor favorit kita.
Misal kita ingin mengeditnya dengan gedit, maka di shell kita tuliskan
perintah berikut :

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sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

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Jo...
kalau kita diminta password isikanlah password yang diminta itu seperti
biasa ( anggaplah kita sedang di interogasi oleh polantas, apakah kita
memiliki surat-surat kendaraan yang lengkap sesuai dengan aturan yang
berlaku. Dan ini tidak bisa dimanipulasi atau disuap dengan memasukkan
sembarang kode, hehe.. just kidding Jo..). Kemudian masukkan beberapa
baris berikut ini kedalamnya di bagian bawah :

Untuk Ubuntu 9.10 dengan alias Karmic Koala ( karmic )
masukkan dua baris berikut

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deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

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Untuk Ubuntu 9.04 ( Jaunty ) :

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deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

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Untuk Ubuntu 8.10 ( Intrepid ) :

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deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main

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Setelah beres memasukkan dua baris kode sesuai dengan Ubuntu yang kita gunakan, maka selanjutnya adalah menyimpan file /etc/apt/sources.list tersebut.
Oia.. biar enak, gunakanlah jurus copas, lebih cepat dan mantab!!!

Nah Jo... setelah menyimpan file tersebut dan keluar dari editor
favorit kita, maka langkah selanjutnya yaitu memasukkan kode GPG key
dengan perintah :

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sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver

keyserver.ubuntu.com  0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5

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Dan Apdet source list kita dengan perintah standar lalu tunggu sampai prosesi updet nya kelar

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sudo apt-get update

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Finally, install chromium dengan perintah berikut :

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sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

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Nah, kan beres tuh install nya, sekarang giliran menjalankan chromium nya gimana? Oia ya... gini Jo...

Pilih Applications, Internet, Chromium Web Browser , dus... saat pertama kali kita jalankan maka akan muncul tampilan / konfirmasi yang menanyakan apakah akan menjadikan chromium sebagai web browser default?

Nah yang ini, isi sesuai selera kita, tinggal ngasih tanda centang alias check list aja dan akan mengimport setingan dari browser sebelumnya. Aapabila firefox / mungkin web browser default lainnya sedang runing, kita akan diminta untuk menutupnya terlebih dahulu.

Ya ikutin aja apa maunya.

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Browsing Text Mode ala elinks

Hari ini ada hal yang unik saya dapatkan dari buntu. Dan ini belum pernah saya lakukan sebelumnya. Bukan hal besar sih, tapi ada satu kesan yang ga biasa saya dapatkan. Browsing, ya browsing internet yang biasa menggunakan Firefox, Opera, maupun konqueror, barusan saya coba untuk browsing internet ala jadul, jadul banget kali.


Ko jadul Jo... iya sebab cuma browsing dengan modus teks. Emang sih ngga seindah dan senyaman GUI. Tapi ga salah kan, kita coba yang dulu pernah dilakukan "nenek moyang kita" ;). Untuk bisa browsing dalam mode teks di Ubuntu kita sebelumnya menginstalkan program yang kita butuhkan. Disini kita pakai elinks, ya elinks.


Cara installnya seperti biasa dengan menggunakan koneksi internet cukup kita ketikkan di shell 
#sudo apt-get install elinks dan biarkan sistem bekerja sendiri, mengonfigurasi perkakasnya sendiri sampai benar-benar selesai.


Nah setelah selesai semuanya, kita bisa segera menggunakan elinks untuk browsing. Tapi jangan kaget ya, dengan kesederhanaan tampilannya. Untuk kinerjanya saiah sendiri belum mengujinya, tapi kesan yang bisa ditangkap adalah kecepatannya Jo.. sepertinya lebih cepat deh.. 

Caranya? Ketikkan aja #elinks di shell. Oia untuk mengetahui menunya, bisa kita peroleh dengan cara menekan tombol Esc, maka akan muncul menu elinks di bagian atas, ala browser-browser yang iasa kita gunakan dalam mode GUI .



Penasaran? Coba aja ndiri.. eit jangan lupa install dulu elinks nya di ubuntu kita. Eling jo.. install elinks nya dulu... hehe... Ini neh shootnya...

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Instalasi file tar.gz

Manakala kita dihadapkan pada persoalan instalasi program yang mengusung file tar.gz, maka umumnya ada beberapa langkah yang biasa kita lakukan.

Langkah instalasi file dengan format tar.gz:

Lakukan ekstraksi file tar dengan perintah sebagai berikut:

# tar -zxvf aaa.tar.gz

Lakukan konfigurasi file untuk mengecek persiapan awal instalasi serta penentuan direktori instalasi, sbb:

# configure --prefix=nama direktori

Kompilasi untuk membuat object file sebagai berikut:

# make

Kompilasi ke dalam kernel dengan perintah sebagai berikut:

# make install

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Text Base Perintah DOS & Linux

Jenis perintah DOS dan Linux Shell

Dalam menggunakan komputer, kadang kita terpaksa harus berhadapan dengan perintah text base.. Hal ini misalkan terjadi karena adanya error pada GUI dsb. Disini ada beberapa perintah yang sering kita gunakan dalam dos maupun linux yang mana memiliki fungsi sama.

DOS	LINUX	Keterangan
dir attrib (+-) cd copy del md edit help ren	ls chmod (mode) file cd cp rm mkdir vi, vim, pico, nano man [command], info [command] mv	Meliat isi direktori Atribut File Pindah Direktori Copy Menghapus Bikin direktori Editor teks Bantuan perintah Rename

Contoh penggunaannya :

1. Menghapus file del namafile.dat di linux mv namafile.dat [ Menghapus namafile.dat ]
   


2. Menyalin file copy namafile.txt c:\ [ menyalin namafile.txt ke c:\ ] di linux cp namafile.txt /home/data [ menyalin namafile.txt ke home/data ]
   


3. Edit namafile.txt di Linux vi namafile.txt  [ untuk linux bisa menggunakan editor selain vi, misal nano, pico dsb ]
   

dan sebagainya, gunakanlah man atau info di linux shell untuk mencari bantuan dalam mengeksekusi suatu perintah.

Fakta lainnya :



1. Linux menggunakan case
sensitive, yang artinya penulisan antara huruf besar dengan huruf
kecil  berbeda, misal Data.txt tidak sama dengan data.txt. Maka dalam satu folder kita bisa memiliki banyak file dengan nama kombinasi "data.txt"  disini
kita ambil contoh kombinasinya :

Data.txt daTa.txt DATA.txt

DAta.txt datA.txt data.txt

dan seterusnya. Hal ini berbeda dengan sistem pada DOS ataupun windows.


2. Linux tidak ada extensi wajib seperti exe , com , dan bat ( batchfile ) yang dapat dieksekusi langsung ( executable file )

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ACER Netbook Ferrari One

ACER Indonesia has released a new Netbook Ferrari One. This one of eksclusive product of ACER, like the Acer Ferrari Notebook. This netbook is Powered by AMD platform with AMD 2^nd ultra thint platform for notebook. This netbook come with the red Scudetto Ferrari cover and  the logo of pranching horse. The LED of wide screen of this netbook is setup at 1366 x 768 pixel that mean 16:9 ratio. The  vendor claim that this product will be able to bring  the full cinematic.

The audio system of Ferrari One  is setup by custom modification of Dolby Laboratory. As the core, Acer plug the AMD Athlon X2 L310, the one of power saving processor of the AMD. Video grafic accelerator is powered by ATi Radeon HD3200 High dev Video, and the high speed RAM DDR2 667MHz @4GB. Media data of the   ACER Netbook Ferrari One is 320 GB Hardisk Drive.

The prise of this product @ IDR 7,5 billion, over than average price of general netbook.

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a Little Bit of Shell Command

Linux built with text command ( shell ). Shell is a program that input Unix Commands from the keyboard and relays them to the Unix system for execution. Shells typically include various shortcuts for users to use in stating their commands, and also a programming feature, in which users can make programs out of sets of their commands. It mean that we could run several program using the shell? Offcourse we do. Just type the command, so the program will running.

Example:

1. Runing firefox browser

type # firefox .The firefox browser automatically will run. If we want to surf to the certain address, just type like this #firefox address.

Example : #firefox www.ubuntu.com  the browser will bring us to the www.ubuntu.com

Note : 

Don't close the terminal windows, coz the runing program will close too. To prefent this, ubuntu have an answer. Just type nohup that mean send ignore signall to the system, when terminal is close, so the program will keep runing.

2. Install program from the shell?

No matter. Just type

#sudo apt-get install program_name
Example :

#sudo apt-get install vlc . This command will install vlc player to our ubuntu system.

3. Playing mp3 / ogg files from the shell?

This the command :
First time install vlc player #sudo apt-get install vlc wait for several time depend of your connection speed. Then type on the shell this command
#vlc -I filne_name.mp3, or add wildchart "*" to play  any file with the extention mp3 on the active directory.

Note :

we use uppercase i not l ( L )
The view of this command will show like this

How to increase or decrease the volume? use a and z . a to increase / volume up an z to decrease / volume down. To select title use arrow up and down then press enter

4. Download file

Ubuntu come with built in download manager wget. Just type all complete the target file location.

Case : If we want to download the older ubuntu the Ubuntu 8.04.1 release can be found at http://releases.ubuntu.com/hardy/ubuntu-8.04.1-desktop-i386.iso
on the shell we type :

#wget http://releases.ubuntu.com/hardy/ubuntu-8.04.1-desktop-i386.iso , the download progress will  show us the percentage and the long of the progress is depend of the speed of your connection. The file downloaded will be save to the active directory.

5. View graphic without graphical environment

First install aview to the system. On the  shell type #sudo apt-get install aview wait  the installation progress. When finished try to view your image using command.
#asciiview image_file.jpeg The result will like this, depend of the picture we viewed.

When use the synaptic, please install aview and imamagick packages.
use + / - and arrow to navigate the picture

6. On the dual OS between ubuntu and win, sometimes win refuse to boot, don't be panic. Let we  try to solve the win problem using our ubuntu.Use synaptic to search for the ntfsprogs package. Once it’s installed, unmount your Windows partition (if it’s mounted), and type sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda1 to check and fix the partition (assuming your Windows partition is /dev/sda1—likely if youi nstalled Ubuntu in a dual-boot configuration on a computer already running Windows). This tip is also useful if you see the “Cannot mount volume” error when

attempting to access your Windows partition from within Ubuntu.

7. Replace the native command with yours

Use alias.  You may wish to invent your own shell commands, which you can do with aliases.

For example

#alias ls "ls -F" That means that the ordinary ls command will always be replaced by ls -F, which I prefer because of its richer information content.

#alias mroe more
I often mistype the more command as “mroe,” so this automatically rectifies my error whenever I make this mistake.

#alias ls=’ls -F’
#alias mroe=more

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Extract zip, tar.gz, tar.bz2

Do you a Linuxer? Do you have some compressed file on your computer? I think, you have. We know, there are any kind of software which good job on compressed or uncompressed documents. On linux we known like Xarchiver.

Much of them come with graphical interface, it's OK. Do you love your linux? if you love it, I think you should try to learn about text base command. There are too much text base command on the linux os. Now, look the tittle of this post " Extract file zip, tar.gz,  tar.bz2 ".

OK, lets go to the area :

1. Extract tar.gz file.
Use this command, from the shell type

• # tar -xzf file_name.tar.gz or
• # tar -xvzf file_name.tar.gz

look :

• tar -xzf abc.tar.gz
• tar -xvzf file_name.tar.gz

Note :: additional -v  on the command will show the file(s) to be processed. All file will show to us.


2. Extract zip file
The command to extract zip file is :

• #unzip file_name.zip

look this : unzip abc.zip

The documentation of this coimmand is just type #man unzip on the shell. The command will show us like this

just read the text, and learn what can we do.

3. Extract tar.bz2
For these files, the way to extract is :

• #tar -xjf file_name.tar.bz2

or

• #tar -xvjf file_name.tar.bz2

Documentation for this command, on the shell type #man tar

OK, we knew that it's only a little, but I wish it'll useable.

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Reflective Text Like This " sıɥʇ ǝʞıl ʇxǝʇ ǝʌıʇɔǝlɟǝɹ "

Hello Jo..
Have you ever seen a text " ¡¡ǝɹns ˙ʇxǝʇ ǝʌıʇɔǝlɟǝɹ sıɥʇ 'ǝʞıl ı ", rotate your screen to read the sentence correctly!! just kidding.  I think much of you ever seen text like that at several online media. Facebook , on the chating media like YM, pidgin, Gyache ? Yap one of them. Do you know how to make a text like that ? A simple way to make a reflective text is come to this site. Yap this site is profiding a refective text on the right corner below.


How to make it happen? It's a simple. Very simple, no matter who you are. Just typing sentence or text on the above side textbox, so you'll seen the reflective of you've writen below, suddenly. Afterward, just copy  then paste the refective text to the place you want, like text editor or sossial site like facebook.

A simple, it's too simple for people like you. If you like it, just go here!
Jo..

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Zencafe : Reboot, Shutdown, Turn off screen From CCL Fox Server

How to shutdown or reboot pc clients on Zencafe using CCLFOX ?


Zencafe is a Linux distribution wich specialized design for internet cafe used. This distro is a modification of zenwalk for Indonesian internet cafe. As we known zenwalk is a varian of the stable linux Slackware. Zencafe come with Xfce as their desktop environment, so it light to operate. The distributor said, it's OK runing Zencafe on the minimum spec PC with 128 MB RAM on PII or the same level.

Actually it's wright that zencafe is a lightweight Indonesian linux distribution, as the answer of IGOS ( Indonesia Goes To Open Source ) campaign. As a speciallized use for internet cafe? Yap... So, what the service which come with this linux? Offcourse Billing system. Zencafe come with CCL Fox builtin. After installation finished, this billing will stay on the system.

We just need a little modification with the billing, like prising, setup time, product and some other. After that all we done, on the server then try to check connection to the client. All we need to make connection at the client side is setup the ip target to the ip's server computer. Set the computer server as a billing server and client computer as a client billing. It's not too difficult, just fill some point on the billing client. After all done restart the client computer, if our setup are succed shown with the running billing before user can access the pc client and the client icon show up on the pc server. Don't forget to check prising on the server,is it runing? If both client and server are OK, like connection and prising we should say yess... ;) or Yess I can do it!!!

What the matter of CCL Fox used with Zencafe ?

The problem is "That we cannot restart or shutdown" the pc client from server. It mean we must go to the client computer one by one then power off the computer. It look like  not a good activity when we does  everyday, 7 days a week. So what must we do to make it easier ?

Here the answer :

All these  on the client side

1. Go to the shell terminal as root. On the prompt type #su root then fill the root password
2. Goto the /sbin folder. #cd /sbin
3. On that directory type #chmod 775 reboot and then #chmod 775 shutdown

After that step  we will be able to :

1. Turn off screen : turn off screen of the pc client
2. Reboot : reboot pc client
3. Turn off : shutdown / turn off pc client

That all? Yap, that all just we do from the server side. That mean a little do get the great result. So... it's the time to say..

Yess I can do it!!!

At our native daily  language  ( bahasa Indonesia kami )

                Aku berhasil Jo....

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Playdeb Gudang Game Linux Ubuntu

Playdeb - gudang game ubuntu

Kadang saat kita lama didepan komputer ada keinginan untuk sekedar merileks kan diri. Denger musik, nonton film atau pun bermain game. Nah jo... bermain game? katanya linux ga bisa main game? Ga juga sih, apalagi untuk ubuntu koala 9.10. Saat udah terinstall, disana kita bisa memilih banyak game yang sesuai dengan selera kita. Tinggal koneksikan PC kita dengan jaringan internet, trus pilih Applications, Ubuntu Software Center.

Nah jo.. liat, disana ternyata banyak pilihan untuk aplikasi apa saja yang ingin kita pasang. Dari banyak kriteria tersebut, pilihlah mana yang kita mau. Untuk game ya tinggal klik dan pilih dari daftarnya. Ga puas dengan yang ada?

Oke.. ternyata ada alternatif lain untuk kita milih game. Salah satunya bisa kita dapatkan dari Playdeb. Klik ajah playdeb. Yups.. playdeb, tempat mangkalnya banyak aplikasi khusus game buat ubuntu, seperti halnya getdeb , disini kita bisa mencari aplikasi game dari berbagai kriteria :

• Emulator
• FPS
• Education
• Puzzle
• Action
• Strategy
• Simulation
• RPG ,dsb.

Seperti halnya getdeb, disini kita untuk bisa menginstall game pilihan harus mengikuti rule, aturan yang ada. Diantaranya adalah dengan cara :

• Mengkonfigurasi repository secara manual : System-Administration_Software Sources tambahkan deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu karmic-getdeb games

• Tambahkan repository GPG key, dari terminal ketik wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

• Atau dari terminal, ketikan sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list , nah pada bagian akhir masukkan deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu karmic-getdeb games , simpan dan keluar dari editor gedit. 

Note : gedit bisa diganti dengan teks editor favorit kita


• Trus dari terminal ketik sudo apt-get update untuk mengapdatenya, baru pada playdeb klik "Install this now" pada game pilihan kita. Tunggu prosesnya sampai selesai.

  Mainkan jo...

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Getdeb - Gudang Software Ubuntu

Seperti kita pahami, ubuntu benar-benar memiliki dukungan yang luas. Bukan hanya secara personal tapi juga terus mendapatkan support yang luas dari komunitasnya pun pengembangnya. Saat kita membutuhkan bermacam aplikasi untuk kita gunakan dalam bekerja, entertaint maupun sekedar aplikasi kecil lainnya.

Untuk pemakai  ubuntu dan banyak lagi variannya, beruntunglah anda. Karena apa? karena kita bisa mendapatkan bejibun aplikasi dari satu situs yang men suport linux jenis ini. Coba masuklah ke http://www.getdeb.net/welcome.

Saat halamannya telah  termuat sempurna, disana pilihlah terlebih dahulu, jenis dari ubuntu kita, 9.04 atau 9.10 atau bahkan all release.Kalau kita udah memilih release nya, kini saatnya untuk menuju ke bagian Apps yang sebenarnya berisi daftar dari aplikasi yang tersedia di situs ini dan dapat di install ke sistem kita. Yap.. dapat di install jo..

Biar ga terlalu pusing dengan banyaknya aplikasi yang muncul, maka ga salah kalau kita memilih genre yang juga telah disediakan di situ. Genre ini maksudnya adalah hanya akan menampilkan daftar dari aplikasi sesuai dengan apa yang kita pilih genrenya. Kalau kita tidak memilihnya maka semua aplikasi dari berbagai genre / kategori akan ditampilkan.

Daftar Genre yang tersedia adalah :

1. Programming
2. Graphics
3. Video Tools
4. Tools 
5. Internet
6. Audio
7. Office
8. Education
9. Science
   

Cukup banyak juga ya? makanya ga salah kalau kita memilih genrenya dulu biar ga puyeng nyari aplikasinya.

Kalau udah ketemu aplikasi yang kita cari, maka seperti pada tampilannya, kita tinggal click Install this now, dan aplikasi yang kita butuhkan akan segera terinstall di sistem kita. ikuti ajah langkah-langkahnya sampai selesai.

Oia, kadang untuk menginstallnya kita perlu sedikit mengedit file /etc/apt/sources.list kita, maka editlah file tersebut sesuai dengan petunjuknya.

 

Biasanya kita disuruh untuk menambahkan baris list tertentu di ubuntu kita yaitu:

deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu karmic-getdeb apps

dan itu ga terlalu susah. Cukup lakukan dengan perintah sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list , saat geditor udah menampilkan file sources.list maka tinggal copas aja baris itu ke dalamnya dibagian akhir file sources.list kita. setelah itu simpan dan tutup gedit nya.oiah... jangan lupa untuk mengetikkan sudo apt-get update dari terminal [ Applications, Accesories, Terminal ]

Kalau beres kita bisa segera menggunakan aplikasi pilihan kita tadi.Asoy jo...

Note :

• Di sitenya kita bisa juga mencari program kita dengan mengetikkannya di Search pada ujung kanan bagian atas.
  

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Ini Postingan Ga Perlu Banget

Sungguh ini sepertinya satu postingan yang ga perlu banget. Ga perlu karena apa yang ditulis disini juga ada di sananya. Judulnya sih emang "Ini Postingan Ga Perlu Banget", tapi isinya bukan itu. Jauh beda ama tuh judul diatas.

Ini nih isinya.... Cara Isi Ulang Kartu FleXXX Trendy Card..... Tentunya diantara kita ada yang pakai jasa operator cdma pertama di Indonesia itu. Kebetulan siang ini saya nemuin ada satu ( 1 ) voucher phisik yang udah di gosok-gosok kodenya, ( sepertinya punya Om Rayga ). Artinya tuh voucher udah ga bisa dipakai lagi. Iseng-iseng saya baca tuh kartu. Intinya untuk ngisi voucher phisik ke no FlXXX, kita butuh langkah-langkah berikut :

1. Gosok bagian pelindung
2. Hubungi *99* dan dengarkan panduannya
3. Tekan "1" untuk pengisian pulsa
4. Masukkan 14 digit ( kode yang tadi digosok ) diakhiri dengan " # "
5. Pencet Call

Kartu FlXXX akan terisi secara otomatis bila prosesnya berjalan dengan benar. Hehehe... Ga penting banget sih ni postingan....

Ini ada infonya :

• Waktu Aktif : 15 hari
• Waktu Tenggang : 60 hari

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Unlock Password Bios Toshiba Satellite A80

Akhirnya, jebol juga proteksi Password Bios Notebook Toshiba Satelite A80. Setelah beberapa hari ga nemu juga triknya, setelah cukup pusing kepala dibikinnya. Bongkar pasang, nyari jalur, batre dan jumpernya. Akhirnya kena juga. Kena deh lu....

Ternyata untuk memulihkan setingan bios toshiba satelite A80, ga perlu pusing-pusing, bongkar pasang casing segala. Sebelumnya udah dicoba cara-cara klasik nebak key default untuk phoenix bios nya, dengan berbagai kombinasi kata-kata. Tapi  hasilnya nihil. Sempet lama hunting juga, ngikutin materi perkuliahan di google universitat, ey.. ga masuk juga tuh materi. Apa karena saya yang emang ga lucky nemuin dosennya yah ? ;)

Udah ah, yang penting saat nulis ini, passwordnya udah bisa di "Lewat Jo". Tinggal beresin di sana-sini dikit. Oia sedikit iklan yah? Untuk dokumentasinya, kita dapat suport dari micell tuh, dengan Sonyericsson K550i    nya, so bisa dapet hasil jepretan di sini. Biarpun agak burem ( atau emang burem banget yah ? ) ga penting, yang penting ada potonya di postingan ini. hehehe....

Singkatnya gini deh, Toshiba A80 ntu memiliki key untuk mereset setingan bios. Yang jadi masalah adalah bahwa di boarnya yang dua sisi atas dan bawahnya tuh ga ada petunjuk sebagai tempat untuk meresetnya. Yang saia inget dari riset mereset bios adalah bahwa titiknya biasanya adalah jp1. Kaya di mainboard desktop. Nah dari situ, kita coba untuk mencarinya. Butuh waktu lumayan lama untuk menemukan tersangkanya.

Senjata apa yang dibutuhkan ?

• Satu ( 1 ) AK47 alias obeng ( + )
• Satu SS1 alias obeng ( - )
• Satu C4 keyakinan, bahwa kita akan mampu melakukannya. hehe..
  

Tersangkanya kemana? ternyata dia sembunyi di balik gedung tua  eh bukan, tapi di bawah slot memori yang ada pada penampang board bagian bawah. Mungkin karena takut dengan set persenjataan kita :). Artinya untuk mengaksesnya, kita perlu membuka penutup casing bagian bawah. Agak ditengah posisinya.

Lihatlah, disana ada satu blok besar, dekat dengan kipas di bagian bawah serta titik kait untuk optical drive nya. Ya, disanalah letaknya. Serang dengan AK47 obeng +, maka akan menemukan 2 slot memori di sana.

Ini dia point to pint nya :

1. Baiknya buka dan lepaskan baterai notebook
   
2. Buka atau angkat RAM yang ada
3. Carilah jp / pin dengan warna keemasan di bagian ujung salah satu slot Slot RAM itu
4. Amati sebentar, apa benar dengan yang kita temukan?
5. Kalau udah yakin, ambillah SS1 obeng ( - ), saya menggunakannya. untuk melakukan short ( menghubungkan bagian yang terpisah).
6. Short atau hubungkan kedua  bagian pada tersangka itu selam beberapa saat. Kalau penasaran boleh sampai setengah menit. Kalau udah kesemutan, lepaskan... hehe.. :)
   
7. Pasang kembali RAM, tutuplah penutup bawah yang tadi dibuka.
8. Pasanglah baterai notebook.
9. Pencet tombol power, tunggu dan liat hasilnya. Kalau berhasil ucapkan "Aku bisa.. Aku bisa ;) hehey.. kalau belum, coba lagi shortnya, mungkin kurang pas.

NB.
*  batre di lepas

Harusnya, kalau semua prosesinya sesuai yang diatas tadi, kita berhasil melakukan pembobolan dengan sukses. Biar jelas ini hasil jepretan yang burem tadi. Biar burem tapi saia harap masih bisa diliat. Maklum tadi lupa ga pakai setingan makro waktu shot gambarnya.

Dus, ini gambarnya jo...

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