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when you have 100Mb internet for yourself?

Ask this guy who downloaded Ubuntu (ca. 700MB) in less than 1 minute.

From: Wired

Who don’t like comic strip? My favorite is Foxtrot, so it’s pretty disappointing when Bill Amend announced that he will only release a new comic once a week, not every day like before.

Anyway, if you have a certain comic strip’s favorite, you can collect them in your local machine as long as you don’t publish it anywhere else. The most primitive way is of course just ‘copy and paste’ the image everyday (or every new comic is released).

If you use linux, there is a better way to do it. Just install dailystrips package and configure it to run everyday with all comic titles you want to download and it will do the jobs for you. You can anytime go o your archive and read all the comics you haven’t read.

For Mac, the most convenient way is to use ACMEreader. This is also a free application and it has nicer interface than dailystrips. The drawback is that you have to open the application once in a while to make sure that you don’t miss any release.

So don’t wait any longer, start your comic strip collection now!

Rubik is pretty classic game and it even has a World Championship.

I have my first (which has already gone for a long time) when I was in the Junior High School and it was accompanied with a paper about how to solve the rubik. So earlier, I always look at that paper anytime I want to solve it. When the paper gone, I found a nice way to solve the rubik: take out the stickers and put them back together in the proper position :D.

So, when two months I get a new rubik’s cube without accompanying paper instruction, I just look into Youtube and found many links about rubik (which is not a topic of this post, but many are also interesting) and a tutorial by Dan Brown (does the name seems familiar to you?). Here are the links part 1, part 2.

After several days struggling, now I can say I’m able to solve rubik 3×3 without any help in under 10 minutes. Try me!

Great play, sir!

Here is the lyric:

Kampuang den jauh di mato
Gunung sansay baku liliang
Takana jo kawan - kawan den lamo
Sangke basuliang - suliang

Pan duduk nyo nan elok
Nan suko bagotong royong
Sakit sanang samo-samo di raso
Den takana jo kampuang.

Takana jo kampuang
Ibu, ayah, adiak sadonyo
Rasu ma imbau-imbau den pulang
Den takana jo kampuang.

A very creative decoration for a room without proper position to the outside world.

From: MAKE Magazine

You might have heard that Rails is ‘better’ than Java, PHP, C# or anything combined into one. But I bet you never have some guys that take it into this level. These Rails maniacs create a series of videos where they compare Rails with other language. Don’t take it seriously, thought

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Nice one…

YESTERDAY
By : Beatles

Yesterday,
All those backups seemed a waste of pay
Now my database has gone away
Oh I believe in yesterday…
..

Suddenly,
There’s not half the files there used to be
And there’s a milestone hanging over me
The system crashed so suddenly
I pushed something wrong
What it was I could not say
Now all my data’s gone and I long for yesterday-ay-
ay-ay

Yesterday,
The need for back-ups seemed so far away
I knew my data was all here to stay
Now I believe in yesterday

When I was in school in Indonesia, I used to be a scout. And as a scout, I learn some ciphers from the one that is simplest, such as shift cipher to a more complicated cipher like semaphore and morse (well, now you couldn’t say they are cipher anyway, since all people know how to decode it, it is now more like a skill).

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