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Archive for April, 2007

malam pertama

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Ini malam pertamaku di kos baru. Entah apa yang membuatku pindah kesini. Memang benar kantorku pindah, dari sebelumnya di Sudirman, pindah ke TB Simatupang. Cukup reasonable jika aku pindah karena itu, terlebih tempat tinggalku sebelumnya di daerah Cawang, sekitar 1,5 jam perjalanan ke kantor baru. Tapi bukan sekedar itu…

Aku sendiri masih ragu, apa alasan utama yang membuatku pindah. Tempat kos yang sebelumnya sudah sangat nyaman. Teman-teman yang seperti keluarga. Aku merasa ini seperti kepergianku dari Adira dulu, meninggalkan segala kenyamanan. Merubah garis hidup. Memulai sesuatu yang baru?

Tidak, aku tidak bosan dengan kemapanan. Apakah karena setiap lelaki ditakdirkan untuk berpetualang? Tidak juga. Bukan karena itu. Mungkin aku tidak sedang hendak merubah garis hidup. Barangkali memang inilah garis hidup itu.

Yen

Kepindahan ini membuat aku makin rindu kamu. Entah mengapa. Terlebih sebelumnya tidak pernah ada apa-apa diantara kita.

Apakah aku sedang gila ketika memikirkan apa yang sedang kuniatkan sekarang ini? Ataukah garis hidup yang sedang menarik-narik diriku untuk mengikutinya? Entahlah.

how to resume firefox broken download

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Sometime Firefox download process get stuck and can’t be resumed. Can you imagine downloading a big movie, 90 percent completed, and stuck without able to resume? Fortunately we have a good browser Safari. Although I prefer Firefox for daily use, but sometime Safari can really save my ass (and my bandwidth).

If you want to know how, just follow my step. It was based on my experiment when downloading the latest Bootcamp in Firefox and get stuck in the middle.

1. View the url of the file being downloaded in Firefox download window. Do not cancel this download process as Firefox will remove the temporary file.

2. Firefox name the temporary file using the same name of the download file plus .part extension. Find out this file and make a note of the file size.

3. Open Safari, copy the download url into the address bar, and download it. After the download process started, simply stop download, clear the download history, and close safari.
Safari will create a temporary folder and store download status information in your download destination (default to desktop). The folder is named same with the download file plus .download extension. This folder containing three files, the file being downloaded itself, the icon file, and the .plist file.

4. Open the .plist file using text editor, find your download entry and look for the download progress information. Replace the value under the key <key>DownloadEntryProgressBytesSoFar</key> and <key>NSURLDownloadBytesReceived</key> with the Firefox’s temporary file size. Be careful with this value or your file will be corrupted.

5. Rename firefox temporary file, remove the .part extension and copy it to the safari temporary folder to replace the current file.

6. In Finder, double click the .download folder to resume download in Safari.

real world software development course

Friday, April 6th, 2007

Industry people always mad at computer science fresh graduates. They (students) seems to know nothing about real software development. They might a brilliant for compiler optimization stuff, low level data structure designing, and some other techie stuff, but only in the ideal environment. In university, they never pushed by the client, never told to change the functionality under nearly impossible deadline.

In short, they just need to see the real world before actually jump into that. This is not to prevent them for being frustrated when facing the real problem, but to make them stop thinking with idealistic mindset without considering real world situation.

Here is a quick link every computer science lecturer must read.

However, deep in my heart, I’m still idealist and conservative person :) So the opposite thing is still needed.