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SMS? What is SMS? will be the question people ask around 2015. Since the birth of the internet with it’s Yahoo and Google,  the next big, subtle and exciting thing is the convergence of email and SMS. Like paging device and services, SMS will be the way of the past, push email will replace the functionality of SMS.

One with argue that people still want to send a short message instead a long one, sure. But the short messenging services (SMS) urges will be replaced by built-in or a third party’s Mobile Instant Messaging. Agile Messenger, Frind and Nimbuzz just to name a few.

Blackberry started with push email, they thought it would be a good idea to push your email to your mobile device even the price of mobile bandwidth was still expensive. With lower and lower price, mobile data (per kb) has become quite affordable and push email started make financial sense.

I am using Telkomsel (www.telkomsel.com) GSM and their price for mobile data had gone down from Rp12/kb to Rp5/kb (as per September 2008). Axis (www.AxisWorld.co.id) offered Rp0.1/kb. My daily email average about 30 emails/day, each email average about 3kb/email. That’s about 30 emails X 3kb/email X Rp5/kb = Rp 450/day; it’s Rp 13,500/month! BlackBerry Connect cost Rp 180,000/month. Go figure!

iPhone and Nokia smartphones already incorporated easier user interface and easier email setting wizard for Yahoo! or Gmail. In the next near distance future, a 6 year old kid or a 70 year old woman can sign up their own email via their mobile device with less then three clicks.

In 2015, when you ask people about SMS: SMS? What is SMS?

	Apakah usaha PENGHEMATAN konsumsi listrik industri anda sudah MAXIMAL? Intelligent Motor Controller satu satunya di DUNIA…

Apa itu PowerBoss Integra™?

PowerBoss Integra™ adalah Intelligent Motor Controller untuk meng-efisiensikan kinerja motor sehingga dapat menghemat penggunaan konsumsi daya listrik.

PowerBoss Integra™ dapat digunakan pada motor motor industri yang berkarakteristik sebagai berikut:

1. A/C Induksi Motor
2. Motor yang berkecepatan tetap (constant speed)
3. Dan motor yang memiliki beban yang naik turun (variable loads).

Aplikasi tambahan (add-onn) ini sudah lama digunakan di Eropa dan Amerika dari tahun 80-an dan telah berkembang menjadi alat yang sangat dapat di andalkan.

Siapa saja di dunia yang telah menggunakan PowerBoss Integra™?

Industri industri apa saja yang biasanya banyakmenggunakan PowerBoss Integra™?

Aplikasi mesin mesin apa saja yang tepat untuk menggunakan PowerBoss Integra™?

Berapa banyak penghematan konsumsi listrik yang dapat ditimbulkan oleh motor oleh PowerBoss Integra™?

Penghematan konsumsi listrik motor yang dapat dihasilkan oleh PowerBoss Integra™ ialah hingga 40%!

Apa saja keuntungan (benefits) menggunakan PowerBoss Integra™?

Bagaimanakah cara kerja PowerBoss Integra™?

Jika inverter melakukan tugasnya dalam mengontrol kecepatan motor (variable speed), maka PowerBoss Integra™ melakukan tugasnya dalam mengontrol dan mendeteksi permintaan beban (torsi/torque).

Karena PowerBoss Integra™ tidak menurunkan kecepatan putaran motor (RPM), maka permintaan payload dan fullload dapat diberikan dalam masa waktu 1/100 detik, oleh karena it permintaan instant payload dan fullload dapat diraih dalam sekejap mata.

PowerBoss Integra™ Product Comparison Matrix

	Voltage Capping Devices e.g. Energy Smart, Savawatt	Soft Starters with Energy Saving Featuree.g. Envirostart	Capacitors e.g. Easiliner	PowerBoss
Soft Start		YES		YES
Current Limit	YES			YES
Kick Start				YES
Soft Stop		YES		YES
Plug Braking				YES
Reactive Power Saving (KVa)	YES	YES	YES	YES
Real Power Saving (kW)	YES	YES		YES
3rd Generation Energy Saving				YES
Power Factor Correction			YES
Timed Cut-Off				YES
Stored Energy				YES
Signal Optimisation				YES
Belt Breakage Protection				YES
Dry Well Protection				YES
Digital Software Optimiser				YES
Programmable Parameters		10 (Manual)		200 (Digital)
Internet Updates				YES

Bagaimana rupa dan bentuk PowerBoss Integra™?

Apa spesifikasi PowerBoss Integra™?

Baiklah, saya tertarik untuk mengenal lebih jauh apa itu PowerBoss Integra dan bagaimana cara kami mendapatkan informasi lebih lanjut?

Untuk Presentasi dan Demo hubungi:
ihartanto@gmail.com

Proses kerja kami adalah sebagai berikut:

1. Presentasi dan Demo PowerBoss Integra™
2. Survey (bebas biaya hanya berlaku s/d Dec 2008)
3. Hasil Survey akan kami berikan kepada anda berikut penghitungan PayBack Period atau Return on Investment (ROI) atau Break Even Point (BEP)
4. Dari hasil Survey yang kami berikan silahkan pilih motor mana yang anda inginkan untuk di uji-coba/trial dalam batas waktu yang kami tentukan (bebas biaya hanya berlaku s/d Dec 2008)

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Untuk Presentasi dan Demo hubungi:
ihartanto@gmail.com

Dalam perjalanan saya ke perusahaan saya banyak di hadapai dengan pertukaran files. Ada yang lewat email, tapi yang paling sering adalah pertukaran files melalui CDROM atau USB Flash. Jika kita tidak menggunakan program Anti Virus bisa dipastikan komputer anda sekarang sudah banyak bersarang virus virus yang cukup berbahaya.

Sering kali program Anti Virus saya memberikan peringatan (warning) adanya virus virus yang masuk dari CDROM atau dari USB flash klien saya. Virus yang terdapat dalam CDROM dan USB flash mereka dapatkan tanpa mereka sadari. Dalam suatu kesempatan program Anti Virus saya menemukan 12 macam virus yang ingin masuk kedalam komputer saya tapi tertahan dan di karantina agar virus tidak masuk dan mengganggu komputer saya.

Bisa saya bayangkan bagaimana rapuhnya data data yang ada di komputer komputer klien klien saya jika virus virus ini tidak terdeteksi. Suatu saat jika kena oleh virus yang kuat, maka komputer mereka akan crash dan data data mereka akan hilang.

Banyak program Anti Virus yang gratis (free) yang anda dapat download dari Internet yaitu:

• Avast Anti Virus
  Download di http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html
• AVG Free
  Download di http://free.grisoft.com
• Avira AntiVir
  Download di http://www.free-av.com/en/download/1/download_avira_antivir_personal__free_antivirus.html
• PC Tools Anti Virus
  Download di http://www.pctools.com/free-antivirus/download/
  

Dan masih banyak lagi untuk FREE Anti Virus. Untuk mencari opsi selain rekomendasi dari saya silahkan anda cari di Google.

Anti Virus yang terbaik adalah Kapersky Anti Virus (http://www.kaspersky.com) tetapi anda tidak akan menemukan program gratis dari mereka.

Saya sendiri menggunakan Avast Anti Virus. Cukup bagus untuk mencegah virus virus yang ada. Karena pengalaman saya dalam menemukan virus virus yang dapat mengancam keamanan data di LapTop saya, sebagai tambahan saya menggunakan THREATFIRE (http://www.threatfire.com). Gabungan dari Avast Anti Virus dan THREATFIRE sudah dapat menyamai bahkan lebih dari kemampuan Kapersky Anti Virus (http://www.kaspersky.com).

Anti Virus saja tidak memadai, tambahkan THREATFIRE (http://www.threatfire.com) agar data data anda di komputer lebih aman lagi.

Monggo… Jagalah keamanan data data anda.

By Betsy Schiffman June 06, 2008 | 1:36:47 PMCategories: Amazon.com

UPDATED: See Amazon official comment below; new error messages reported.

Oops. The Amazon.com site became “unavailable” for millions of users across the U.S., at a potential cost of $31,000 per minute.

The outage comes just a few months after Amazon’s S3 (an online storage service) failed.

The site was down for roughly two hours, starting at 10:25 PST and was back up at 12:30, according to spokesperson Patty Smith. The cause was not disclosed.

“The system is very complex. On rare occasions when we experience problems, we try to resolve them as soon as possible,” Smith says.

The actual cost of the outage? Unclear, but if Amazon generates close to $4 billion this quarter (that’s the Wall Street consensus estimate) the company could book roughly $1.8 million in sales per hour, or $31,000 per minute.

Of course, those numbers include international sales, and international properties were unaffected. Also, there is no way to account for daily or weekly shopping trends.

“It’s hard to say that those sales are just lost, gone and unrecoverable — maybe some people came to the site, saw it was down, poked around, and came back and bought,” says Domenic Lacava, an analyst with Canaccord Adams.

We’re still not clear on what happened, but in an Amazon.com forum, the company left the stark message:

Greetings from Amazon.com,

We are currently investigating an issue that has impacted the availability of the Amazon.com website. Engineers are actively engaged in resolving this issue and we will provide an update once the issue is resolved. We appreciate your patience during this time.

Regards,

Technical Account Management

Amazon.com

And while S3 still did not go down, some customers have complained about a sharp rise in errors; and extremely slow speeds.

In the meantime, several readers report getting an error message implying they’re robots:

We’re sorry!

You have been denied access to this feature because we believe you violated the terms, conditions, rules, guidelines or policies of our site in the past. If you believe we have taken this action in error, you may contact us at ad-help-us@amazon.com.

Incidentally, the Amazon site isn’t the only thing that’s down — the stock closed down close to $4, or more than 4.6 percent.

Source: http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/06/amazon-down.html

“Content is KING”, isi adalah segalanya, dengan slogan tersebut Inilah.com berhasil mencapai jutaan pengunjung hanya dalam waktu tiga bulan saja.

Saya di informasikan mengenai Inilah.com sekitar 3 hari lalu. Seperti kebiasaan, saya selalu benchmark popularitas situs dengan Alexa.com (perusahaan yang bergerak di bidang informasi situs). Pada waktu saya menyelidiki traffic ranking (ranking lalu lintas situs) saya cukup terkejut melihat grafik lalu lintas situs yang diperoleh oleh Inilah.com; jutaan pengunjung dalam satu hari dan dicapai hanya dalam tiga bulan!

Alexa traffic ranking: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/inilah.com

Sebagai seorang yang cukup mengerti sulitnya meningkatkan pengunjung dalam junlah besar (apalagi tanpa iklan) saya sangat terkesan dengan isi dan kemudahaan navigasi dan tampilan berita yang disuguhkan.

Bukan hanya berita berita yang disuguhkan berbobot, tetapi penggunaan navigasi yang bersih dengan CSS dan JavaScript yang pas (tidak berlebihan) sangat memudahkan pembaca dalam memilih berita yang akan dibaca. Juga kita dapat melihat video streaming yang cukup menarik.

Jika kita tidak banyak waktu untuk mem-browse berita berita Inilah.com, kita dapat dengan mudah berlangganan dengan menggunakan RSS (Real Simple Syndication). Saya sudah berlangganan Inilah.com lewat RSS. Bagaimana dengan anda?

As crude oil tops $112 per barrel, as it did this week, the MD-80’s future is limited. Michael Boyd, president of aviation consultancy the Boyd Group, estimates American would see an immediate savings of $650 million if it replaced all its MD-80s with the new 737s.
Ref: http://wanhart.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/kenapa-md-80-masih-terbang/

Menurut Business Week, dengan naiknya harga minyak sampai USD 112/barrel, penerbangan Amerika yang seharusnya dapat dengan mudahnya menghemat USD 650 juta dengan hanya menggantikan pesawat MD-80 dengan Boeing 737 baru. Tapi hal itu belum juga dilakukan.

Hal demikian sering kami hadapi, resistensi terhadap efisiensi. Sebagai contoh gamblang, suatu perusahaan yang telah kami rancang untuk penghematan energy bahan bakar minyak hingga 30% yaitu Rp150 juta per bulan dan penghematan energi listrik hingga 25% yaitu Rp 120 juta per bulan masih belum juga mau bergerak.

Sebagian besar resistensi efisiensi dalam bidang penghematan energi yang kami temukan dalam kinerja perusahaan disebabkan oleh:

• Mata rantai pengambilan keputusan yang sarat politik (political decision making process)
• Mata rantai pengambilan keputusan yang sarat kepentingan kelompok (group or common interest decision making process)
• Mata rantai pengambilan keputusan berdasarkan teknikal (long technical effect decision making process)

Jika perusahaan ingin mencapai tingkat efisiensi yang besar, pengambilan keputusan haruslah berdasarkan fakta, yaitu: pengambilan keputusan berdasarkan teknikal. Dimanakan perusahaan anda dalam pengambilan keputusan (decision making process)?

Why Is This Plane Still Flying?

Sure it’s a gas-guzzler, but the old MD-80 has plenty in its favor despite the recent groundings to inspect wire bundles

The jet at the center of American Airlines’ flight travails gulps gas and rumbles about in a far noisier fashion than newer models. It first took flight nearly 30 years ago and today is greeted by some passengers as a technology-deprived torture chamber. Yet despite its age and costs, the MD-80 remains a valued and dependable workhorse in airline fleets worldwide—which points to the many nuances in assessing flight safety at a time of heightened concern about aircraft maintenance.

American—which dubs the plane the Super80—is the world’s largest operator of the jets, with 300, while Delta Air Lines (DAL) flies 117. In Europe, Alitalia and SAS Scandinavian Airlines are also major operators.

Compliance Audits Lead to Cancellations

“The MD-80 has been a terrific airplane for American Airlines,” Gerard Arpey, chairman and chief executive of American parent AMR (AMR), said at an Apr. 10 news conference to discuss the airline’s 2,500 flight cancellations this week. “This [incident] will have no impact on our long-term fleet plans. The bigger issue for the MD-80 will be oil prices.”

The MD-80’s woes began last month when the Federal Aviation Administration began a series of compliance audits and found that bundles of wires stored in the jets’ wheel wells had not been secured according to a September, 2006, agency directive. That led to widespread cancellations at American and Delta so that technicians could inspect and perform the required work. Then on Apr. 8, FAA inspectors at American’s Dallas-Fort Worth hub found the wire work had not been performed according to specification. That led to another round of checks on all of American’s MD-80s.

The airline said a third of the jets were back in service on Apr. 10, and it expected all the work to be completed by Saturday night, Apr. 12. Delta canceled a “handful” of flights Apr. 9-10 to reinspect the wire-bundle work and anticipated normal service on Friday, a spokeswoman said.

Lacking Fuel-Efficiency

The MD-80 was built by McDonnell Douglas, a company Boeing (BA) bought in 1997. The 140-seat plane succeeded the venerable DC-9, the world’s third-best-selling aircraft, which dates to 1965. The MD-80 first flew in October, 1980, and has four derivative models. It was billed as a fuel-efficient replacement for Boeing’s three-engine, three-crew 727. The MD-80 was a stretched version of Douglas Aircraft’s DC-9, and airline lore has it that McDonnell Douglas used “80″ in the name to signal that it had a product designed for the 1980s, a new era of deregulation and competition. McDonnell Douglas built the planes for 19 years; production ended in late 1999.

Today, the jet is considered a fuel hog. Airlines that fly it have retrofitted the engines to comply with noise rules, but still suffer a 25% to 35% loss in fuel efficiency over newer midsize jets. That’s why operators such as Continental Airlines (CAL) and Northwest Airlines (NWA) have largely retired the jet in favor of Boeing 737s and Airbus 320s; American is slowly replacing it with new, larger versions of the 737.

As crude oil tops $112 per barrel, as it did this week, the MD-80’s future is limited. Michael Boyd, president of aviation consultancy the Boyd Group, estimates American would see an immediate savings of $650 million if it replaced all its MD-80s with the new 737s.

Still, American’s MD-80 fleet age is only 18 years, relatively young in airplane terms, and the company owns most of them outright. “It’s problematic but it’s not like it’s a dagger in their financial heart,” says Boyd, who considers American’s decision to keep the fleet a wise one until Boeing builds a carbon-fiber composite 737, as it is doing with the 787 Dreamliner.

Bureaucratic Overreaction?

The bigger question for fliers, of course, is whether the planes are safe. Pilots and airline executives insist it is, and the wire-bundle-related cancellations have inflamed some of them. Those FAA critics believe the agency’s new rigor is a bureaucratic, political knee-jerk response to well-publicized congressional hearings. Those hearings were prompted by complaints from FAA inspectors that they were thwarted in doing their jobs by the agency’s too-close relationship with airlines it regulates.

“Definitely a PR blitz for the FAA, notice how there haven’t been any MX [mechanical] problems/groundings at any smaller carriers?” wrote a writer called “Flyby1206″ who posted Apr. 9 at a Web site for airline pilots. A writer called “Oldfreightdawg” said his company had passed the wire-bundle inspections “except that the FAA inspector didn’t like the orientation of the ties used to secure the wire bundle. They didn’t match the pretty picture in his book. This is the equivalent of a cop pulling you over and busting a tail light with his night stick and citing you for it.” The Apr. 9 post added: “The FAA is doing some serious CYA in Texas, they’re running for their bureaucratic lives and it doesn’t matter who is run over.”

An FAA spokeswoman said the flight cancellations are “purely a safety decision.”

Popular with Pilots

Arpey and other American officials have strenuously avoided any criticism of the FAA, citing complexity and different ways to interpret the detailed, 38-page airworthiness directive the agency issued about the wire bundles in September, 2006. The directive was written into an “engineering compliance order” by American’s engineers for maintenance technicians to implement the repair. It is that process which has come under fire at American and is blamed by many pilots for the second MD-80 grounding, says Kevin Cornwell, an American MD-80 pilot from Keller, Tex. “In no way is this a line-mechanic problem. This is a management problem.”

At American’s Apr. 10 news conference, Arpey said that interpreting an FAA airworthiness directive involves “a great deal of judgment” and that even FAA engineers can disagree about the proper method for certain repairs or changes.

After working so long with the MD-80s, some American pilots swear by them. “I am surgically attached to it at the hip,” jokes Cornwell, who became a Super80 captain in 1990. “It was and is very reliable and economical, and it’s been a good airplane for us.” He says some passengers grumble at the Spartanism—there’s no satellite TV, audio service, or movies. “But when we hit 10,000 feet, I ding the bell…and I’m sure everybody turns on their laptops and they can watch their movies or work. I don’t think it’s a big deal.”

Bachman is deputy news director for BusinessWeek.com

Ref: http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/apr2008/db20080410_635713.htm

Mandala Air. Menjadi maskapai terbang terbaik Indonesia?

Dalam setiap perjalanan udara nasional saya selalu memilih Garuda Indonesia. Saya ingin keselamatan penerbangan saya terjamin. Setidak tidaknya Garuda Indonesia adalah penerbangan nasional yang terbaikdari yang terburuk.

Minggu lalu, tidak tahu ada angin apa, saya memilih terbang dengan Mandala Air. Terakhir saya terbang dengan Mandala Air pada tahun 2002 dengan Boeing 737-200 dari Jakarta ke Pekanbaru dengan pengalaman kurang menyenangkan. Butuh waktu enam (6) tahun untuk saya kembali mencoba Mandala Air dan tidak tahu mengapa saya memilih Mandala Air pada penerbangan dari Jakarta ke Semarang kali ini.

Penerbangan saya di jadwalkan terbang pada pukul 06:15 dari Jakarta ke Semarang. Saya cukup senang pada waktu saya melihat jam tangan saya menunjukan pukul 06:15 pada waktu take off, bukan pada waktu boarding seperti pada maskapai penerbangan Indonesia yang lainnya. Ini luar biasa!

Sebelum saya kembali ke Jakarta dari Semarang dengan penerbangan terakhir yaitu pukul 18:30, saya bertanya melalui telepon kepada istri saya mengenai keadaan cuaca di Jakarta. Hujan deras katanya. Saya agak kuatir dengan keadaan seperti itu, saya agak menyesal dalam hati telah memilih Mandala Air dalam penerbangan ini.

Saya terkejut senang pada waktu saya mengetahui pesawat yang akan saya tunpangi dalam perjalanan pulang ke Jakarta ini bukan jenis Boeing 737-400 seperti yang maskapai lainnya, melainkan jenis pesawat baru AirBus 319 yang baru. Perasaan kuatir akan keadaan cuaca yang buruk agak terobati dengan pesawat baru yang canggih ini.

Belum percaya apakah Mandala Air hanya “lucky” saja dalam ketepatan waktu. Pada hari yang sama saya dijadwalkan untuk mendarat di Jakarta dari Semarang pada pukul 19:30, dan pada waktu pesawat mendarat saya melihat jam tangan saya menunjukan pukul 19:29! Bukan hanya tepat waktu saja, tetapi pendaratan juga dilakukan secara mulus.

Saya baru tersadar, apakah mungkin Mandala Air tidak banyak berpromosi di media cetak maupun media lainnya karena mereka lebih terfokus memikirkan dan mengutamakan pelayanan dan keselamatan terbang? Memang buat apa buang biaya untuk promosi jika biaya itu dapat dipergunakan untuk meingkatkan pelayanan dan keselamatan penerbangan.

Penumpang yang sangat puas seperti saya dapat dengan cepat dan yakin menyarankan (words of mouth) teman dan sanak saudara untuk menggunakan maskapai penerbangan Mandala untuk perjalanan udara mereka. Saya ingin terbang dengan Mandala Air lagi. Saya yakin jika prestasi pelayanan, ketepatan waktu dan keselamatan penerbangan di jaga selalu sebentar lagi Mandala Air akan menjadi penerbangan nomor 1!

Itu menurut saya dengan pengalaman terbang lagi dengan Mandala setelah 6 tahun. Bagaimana pendapat anda? Ada hal yang saya terlewati? Silahkan isi komentar anda.

If you haven’t experienced a computer virus yet, just wait — you probably will.

Fortunately, you missed the real heyday of computer viruses when anti-virus software wasn’t very widely used, and virus attacks caused millions of dollars in damages overnight. Today’s viruses can still be nightmarish, but for the average user, cleanup is considerably easier than it was just a few years ago, when the only solution in many cases was reformatting your hard drive and starting from scratch (and even that didn’t do the trick sometimes).

So join me on a trip down memory lane as we revisit some of the worst viruses of all time and count our blessings that our computers are still up and running despite it all. (Though, please note, “worst” is a matter of considerable debate in the security industry, as the number of infected machines and amount of financial loss is always estimated. If you think another virus was worse than these, please post it in the comments to remind us!)

The worst viruses of all timeBrain, 1986
It all started here: Brain was the first “real” virus ever discovered, back in 1986. Brain didn’t really hurt your PC, but it launched the malware industry with a bang and gave bad ideas to over 100,000 virus creators for the next 2 decades.

Michelangelo, 1991
The worst MS-DOS virus ever, Michelangelo attacked the boot sector of your hard drive and any floppy drive inserted into the computer, which caused the virus to spread rapidly. After spreading quietly for months, the virus “activated” on March 6, and promptly started destroying data on tens of thousands of computers.

Melissa, 1999
Technically a worm, Melissa (named after a stripper) collapsed entire email systems by causing computers to send mountains of messages to each other. The author of the virus was eventually caught and sentenced to 20 months in prison.

ILOVEYOU, 2000
This was notable for being one of the first viruses to trick users into opening a file, which in this case claimed to be a love letter sent to the recipient. In reality, the file was a VBS script that sent mountains of junk mail and deleted thousands of files. The results were terribly devastating- one estimate holds that 10 percent of all computers were affected, to a cost of $5.5 billion. It remains perhaps the worst worm of all time.

Code Red, 2001
An early “blended threat” attack, Code Red targeted Web servers instead of user machines, defacing websites and later launching denial-of-service attacks on a host of IP addresses, including those of the White House.

Nimda, 2001
Built on Code Red’s attack system of finding multiple avenues into machines (email, websites, network connections, and others), Nimda infected both Web servers and user machines. It found paths into computers so effectively that, 22 minutes after it was released, it became the Internet’s most widespread virus at the time.

Klez, 2001
An email virus, Klez pioneered spoofing the “From” field in email messages it sent, making it impossible to tell if Bill Gates did or did not really send you that information about getting free money.

Slammer, 2003
Another fast spreader, this worm infected about 75,000 systems in just 10 minutes, slowing the Internet to a crawl (much like Code Red) and shutting down thousands of websites.

MyDoom, 2004
Notable as the fastest-spreading email virus of all time, MyDoom infected computers so they would, in turn, send even more junk mail. In a strange twist, MyDoom was also used to attack the website of SCO Group, a very unpopular company that was suing other companies over its code being used in Linux distributions.

Storm, 2007
The worst recent virus, Storm spread via email spam with a fake attachment and ultimately infected up to 10 million computers, causing them to join its zombie botnet.

Thanks to Symantec for helping to compile this list.

Ref: http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/87095

Di era globalisasi ini setiap perusahaan kecil dan menengah paling tidak harus memiliki komunikasi email untuk berkembang sebagai pemain perusahaan global. Beberapa perusahaan kecil dan menengah yang sudah memiliki domain name (contoh: www.PerusahaanAnda.com) masih menggunakan email gratisan seperti Yahoo!, Gmail maupun Hotmail.

Apa pengaruh dari penggunaan email gratisan jika perusahaan anda sudah memiliki domain name (contoh: www.PerusahaanAnda.com)?

1. Penggunaan email gratisan akan mencerminkan perusahaan anda tidak memiliki domain name.
2. Jika perusahaan anda telah memiliki domain name dan wesbite (situs) dan masih juga menggunakan email gratisan, hal tersebut mencerminkan kurangnya pengertian dan penguasaan IT (Informasi Teknologi).
3. Jika perusahaan anda telah memiliki domain name dan wesbite (situs) dan masih juga menggunakan email gratisan, hal tersebut mencerminkan komunikasi email hanya di kendalikan oleh satu atau dua orang saja.

Keuntungan dari singkronisasi email dan kalender (synchronize email and calendar) pada perusahaan kecil dan menengah.

Kebanyakan perusahaan menengah dan besar telah memiliki domain name dan website (situs), dan kebanyakan pula telah menggunakan email dengan domain name mereka sebagai media komunikasi elektronik (email) sebagai tanda perusahaan. Penggunaan email perusahaan dengan domain name perusahaan ibarat komunikasi dengan kop surat perusahaan yang resmi.

Microsoft outlook menguasai 90% pasar dari email klien yang digunakan di perusahaan menengah dan besar dan Microsoft Exchange menguasai 50% dari pada email exchanger pada server. Salah satu fungsi dari pada penggunaan Microsoft Exchange pada server adalah untuk mengatur singkronisasi email dan kalender (synchronize email and calendar) . Tanpa Microsoft Exchange email dan kalender yang digunakan di perusahaan anda tidak akan dapat ber-singkronisasi.

Microsoft Outlook Screenshot

Apakah sebuah perusahaan kecil menengah memerlukan fungsi singkronisasi email dan kalender? Kenapa tidak? Dengan fungsi singkronisasi email dan kalender perusahaan mendapatkan fungsi pengawasan, efektifitas dan efisiensi sebagai berikut:

1. Email dapat di simpan (back-up) agar email yang penting tidak begitu saja dapat hilang. Sebagai contoh: jika A sudah tidak bekerja lagi di perusahaan anda, maka komunikasi email A dengan pembeli atau supplier penting anda akan dapat di simpan (back-up) dan di tampilan kembali (recovery).
2. Email dapat di monitor, apakah email perusahaan anda di gunakan untuk hal di luar kepentingan perusahaan? Ingat email dengan domain name perusahaan anda adalah identitas dan reputasi anda, sama seperti penyalah gunaan kop surat perusahaan dapat berakibat fatal.
3. Kalender sebagai fungsi komunikasi pertemuan (meeting) yang efektif. Dengan mudahnya kita dapat membuat janji pertemuan dengan kolega dengan hanya melihat kalender aktifitas dan kesibukan mereka.

Jika suatu perusahaan kecil menengah ingin menerapkan fungsi seperti yang dimiliki oleh Microsoft Exchange pada server untuk mengatur singkronisasi email dan kalender (synchronize email and calendar) maka sekarang ada solusi alternatif, yaitu Google Application. Gratis 100 email account yang dapat di hosting di Google.

Google Apps atau Google Applications dapat di kunjungi di http://www.google.com/a. Google apps menawarkan:

• Gmail dengan domain perusahaan anda, Google Calendar and Google Talk
• Google Docs, untuk menciptakan documents, spreadsheets and presentations

Pelajari Google Apps lebih lanjut untuk perusahaan anda di:

• Kunjungi Google Apps Home Page di http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/index.html
• Kunjungi Google Apps Full Features: http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/business/applications.html
• Kunjungi Google Apps Email Features: http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/editions.html

Informasi mengenai Google Apps pada waktu tulisan ini di terbitkan adalah benar. Spesifikasi dapat berubah sewaktu waktu, harap kunjungi http://www.google.com/a untuk ke-akurasi-an informasi.

Jika anda bingung membaca tulisan saya ini, tidak mengapa, itu berarti anda bukan orang IT. Teruskan saja (forward) artikel saya kepada mereka. Jika belum mengerti juga, anda bisa memecat orang IT gadungan anda .

Sebagai seorang demokrat, saya tidak begitu ambil pusing siapakah yang menang; Hillary atau Obama. Yang penting untuk saya ialah partai demokrat (Amerika) menang.

Siang ini saya iseng untuk mengunjungi situs Barack Obama dan Hillary Clinton. Kedua situs ini memiliki design layout, isi dan info grafik yang baik dan di design secara professional. Apa yang internet katakan? Siapakah yang memenangkan simpati dari pada masyarakat dunia? Saya mengunjungi Alexa.com untuk men-check ranking lalu-lintas (traffic rank) mereka. Situs Obama menang di posisi ranking 2,65 8 (28 Maret 2008) dan Hillary di posisi ranking 10,198 (28 Maret 2008).

This Newspaper has already been read. The eyes’ movements while reading were recorded, digitalized and then reproduced as a print-out. What emerges is an intimation of something that is actually an invisible process, namely reading; what remains behind is a trace of the intake of information. The result is a daily paper which has already been read – a complete and completely read Frankfurter Allgemeine, as it were. The paper was printed alongside a regular daily Frankfurter Allgemeine an in an identical manner using a rotary printing press. Kindly supported by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, Frankfurter Societätsdruckerei GmbH and Hesse Ministry of Science and Art. Jochem Hendricks, “Newspaper”, 1994.

Ref: http://www.doctorhugo.org/eyemovements/eyemovements.html 

Satu tahun yang lalu (Agustus 2007) saya menelpon hampir semua bank di Indonesia untuk menanyakan apakah mereka memiliki jasa online payment gateway? Hampir semua menjawab ya kami ada online banking pak, bapak bisa bertransaksi melalui internet. Dan hanya satu bank yang menjawab dengan benar yaitu BNI 46. Mereka menjawab: “Ya, kami memiliki online payment gateway“, mereka langsung memberikan saya nomor telpon NsiaPay.Mungkin dari pembaca disini juga belum mengerti apa perbedaan antara online banking dan online payment gateway?

Mari kita lihat perbedaan dasar antara online banking dan online payment gateway:

Penggunaan Online Payment Gateway di Indonesia sangat kurang.

Jaringan pita lebar (bandwidth) di Indonesia sedang meningkat, perusahaan seperti FirstMedia, BizNet dan TelkomSpeedy. Semakin banyak rumah rumah dan kantor yang mendapatkan akses jaringan pita lebar. ini baik untuk pertumbuhan globalisasi. Tetapi Indonesia masih jauh di belakang untuk aplikasi teknologi transaksi. Di luar negeri transaksi finansial melalui internet adalah hal yang biasa.

Seharusnya bangsa Indonesia mengoptimalkan jaringan pita lebar untuk koneksi intenet ini dengan baik, mengingat macetnya kota Jakarta. Dengan berbelanja dengan online payment gateway, pembeli dapat dengan nyaman dan aman melakukan transaksi.

Amankah transaksi kartu kredit melalui internet?

Ini ada artikel saduran mengenai keamanan internet security dari http://www.inet2000.com/public/encryption.htm. Maaf, saya tidak sempat untuk menerjemahkannya ke Bahasa Indonesia. Ada yang mau bantu? Mohon kirimkan terjemahanya ke blog@WanHart.com. Terima kasih atas bantuannya. Salam, WanHart.

Q: How secure is the encryption used by SSL?A: It would take significantly longer than the age of the universe to crack a 128-bit key.

SSL uses public-key encryption to exchange a session key between the client and server; this session key is used to encrypt the http transaction (both request and response). Each transaction uses a different session key so that even if someone did manage to decrypt a transaction, that would not mean that they would have found the server’s secret key; if they wanted to decrypt another transaction, they’d need to spend as much time and effort on the second transaction as they did on the first. Of course, they would have first have to have figured out some method of intercepting the transaction data in the first place, which is in itself extremely difficult. It would be significantly easier to tap your phone, or to intercept your mail to acquire your credit card number than to somehow intercept and decode Internet Data.

Q: How secure is the encryption used by SSL?A: It would take significantly longer than the age of the universe to crack a 128-bit key.

SSL uses public-key encryption to exchange a session key between the client and server; this session key is used to encrypt the http transaction (both request and response). Each transaction uses a different session key so that even if someone did manage to decrypt a transaction, that would not mean that they would have found the server’s secret key; if they wanted to decrypt another transaction, they’d need to spend as much time and effort on the second transaction as they did on the first. Of course, they would have first have to have figured out some method of intercepting the transaction data in the first place, which is in itself extremely difficult. It would be significantly easier to tap your phone, or to intercept your mail to acquire your credit card number than to somehow intercept and decode Internet Data.

Servers and browsers do encryption ranging from a 40-bit secretkey to a 128-bit secret key, that is to say ‘2 to the 40th power’ or ‘2 to the 128th power’. Many people have heard that 40-bit is insecure and that you need 128-bit to keep your credit card info safe. They feel that using a 40-bit key is insecure because it’s vulnerable to a “brute force” attack (basically trying each of the 2^40 possible keys until you find the one that decrypts the message). This was in fact demonstrated when a French researcher used a network of fast workstations to crack a 40-bit encrypted message in a little over a week. Of course, even this ‘vulnerability’ is not really applicable to applications like an online credit card transaction, since the transaction is completed in a few moments. If a network of fast computers takes a week to crack a 40-bit key, you’d be completed your transaction and long gone before the hacker even got started.

Of course, using a 128-bit key eliminates any problem at all because there are 2^128 instead of 2^40 possible keys. Using the same method (a networked of fast workstations) to crack a message encrypted with such a key would take significantly longer than the age of the universe using conventional technology. Remember that 128-bit is not just ‘three times’ as powerful as 40-bit encryption. 2^128 is ‘two times two, times two, times two…’ with 128 two’s. That is two, doubled on itself 128 times. 2^40 is already a HUGE number, about a trillion (that’s a million, million!). Therefor 2^128 is that number (a trillion), doubled over and over on itself another 88 times. Again, it would take significantly longer than the age of the universe to crack a 128-bit key.

Doing the math, you can see that using the same method that was used to break 40-bit encryption in a week, it would take about 72 million weeks (about 1.4 million years) to even break ‘56-bit medium’ encryption and significantly longer than the age of the universe to crack a 128-bit key. Of course the argument is that computers will keep getting faster, about doubling in power every 18 months. That is true, but even when computers are a million times faster than they are now (about 20 years from now if they double in speed every year), it would then still take about 6 thousand, trillion years, which is about a million times longer than the Earth has been around. Plus, simply upgrading to 129-bit encryption would take twice as long, and 130-bit would take twice as long again. As you can see, it’s far easier for the encryption to keep well ahead of the technology in this case. Simply put, 128-bit encryption is totally secure.

Q: How do I know if encryption is enabled or not?A: Your Browser (Netscape or Internet Explorer) will tell you.

In Netscape versions 3.X and earlier you can tell what kind of encryption is in use for a particular document by looking at the “document” information” screen accessible from the file menu. The little key in the lower left-hand corner of the Netscape window also indicates this information. A solid key with three teeth means 128-bit encryption, a solid key with two teeth means 40-bit encryption, and a broken key means no encryption. Even if your browser supports 128-bit encryption, it may use 40-bit encryption when talking to other servers or to servers outside the U.S. and Canada. In Netscape versions 4.X and higher, click on the “Security” button to determine whether the current page is encrypted, and, if so, what level of encryption is in use. In Microsoft Internet Explorer, a solid padlock will appear on the bottom right of the screen when encryption is in use. To determine whether 40-bit or 128-bit encryption is in effect, open the document information page using File->Properties. This will indicate whether “weak” or “strong” encryption is in use.

Q: What about warnings or errors about the Secure Certificate?A: Your personal Security settings will determine what warnings you see.

Depending on how your security settings are setup in your Browser, you may also see information about our Certificate when you enter the secure directories. This information will usually include the Dates that the Certificate is valid for, the site name that the Certificate has been issued to, and the Certificate Authority (or ‘CA’) that issued the Certificate. You can also usually view the Certificate to see information about the various parties, including Inet2000 and our CA.The most common warning is that you have not previously chosen to Trust the authority. This is a normal warning if you haven’t already purchased anything online from a Merchant who’s certificate was issued by a Certificate Authority that you haven’t told your browser to trust from now on. Of course, you may well have no errors, warnings or information screens at all – again, largely depending on the way you’ve got your security settings set in your Browser.In any case, the encryption level and the security is the same whether you’ve got your settings low (don’t warn me about anything) or very high (warn and inform me about everything). Either way, your data is still encrypted and still secure.

Q: What happens when the Credit Card is actually processed.A: The transaction is totally secure.

At Inet2000, the security of your personal information is paramount. All Credit Card Transactions are completed using a 128 Bit SSL Encrypted Secure Transaction. As we transmit the information to the Bank’s Secure SSL Server, they require a 128-bit transaction and will not process a transaction without one. Even though 40 or 56 Bit transactions are very secure, our Bank’s insistence on 128 Bit SSL means that there is never any chance of your information every being intercepted or decoded. Again, your security is of paramount importance for us.If you have any questions or concerns, please email them to info@inet2000.com and we’ll be pleased to help you out.

Misteri Jatuhnya AdamAir di Majene Terjawab

KOMPAS/GATOT WIDAKDO

AdamAir

Selasa, 25 Maret 2008 | 12:54 WIB

JAKARTA, SELASA – Terkuak sudah penyebab jatuhnya pesawat AdamAir jurusan Jakarta-Surabaya-Manado di perairan Majene, Sulawesi Barat, 1 Januari 2007 lalu. Awalnya, alat navigasi pesawat atau yang dikenal sebagai Internal Reference System (IRS) rusak. Kedua pilot terkonsentrasi memperbaiki kerusakan dan lupa memerhatikan instrumen yang lain. Mereka tidak menyadari pesawat miring dan turun mendekati laut. Mereka baru sadar dua menit sebelum pesawat pecah menabrak laut. Terlambat. Tidak ada yang bisa dilakukan. Seluruh penumpang dan awak yang berjumlah 102 hilang dan dianggap tewas.

Demikian hasil kesimpulan Komisi Nasional Keselamatan Transportasi (KNKT) yang disampaikan kepada wartawan di Gedung Departemen Perhubungan, Jakarta, Selasa (25/3). Anggota KNKT Mardjono menerangkan, kerusakan IRS terjadi dalam 13 menit terakhir penerbangan, sebelum pesawat jatuh. Kerusakan ini mengalihkan perhatian kedua pilot dari flight instrumen.

Hasil rekaman Digital Flight Data Recorder (DFDR) menunjukkan, mulanya pesawat telah terbang dengan bantuan instrumen kemudi otomatis. Namun, penanganan terhadap IRS yang dilakukan tidak sesuai dengan panduan, sehingga kemudi otomatis pesawat menjadi tidak berfungsi. Pesawat pun mulai miring.

“Karena miringnya hanya satu derajat per detik, jadi tak terasa. Autopilot disconnect dan alarm berbunyi ‘Not..not..not’. Mereka sempat mematikan alarm tersebut karena terlalu fokus pada IRS. Ini biasa. Jadi tidak bisa dikatakan human error, hanya kinerjanya yang error. Kinerja sebagai manusia darat yang harus terbang. Kalau di darat, prosedur mereka sudah benar. Tapi berbeda halnya jika dia berada di udara,” terang Mardjono.

Sementara itu, Ketua KNKT Tatang Kurniadi menambahkan, setelah pesawat miring ke kanan melewati 35 derajat, alaram berbunyi. Pesawat terus miring hingga 100 derajat dan situasi sudah tidak bisa dikendalikan lagi. “Pesawat miring daya angkatnya memang kurang. Padahal dia (pilot) melakukan recover baru setelah hidung pesawat nunduk 60 derajat. Apalagi dengan kecepatan yang mach 0,926 kecepatan suara. Oleh karena itu, pecahan badan pesawat terbesar yang ditemukan hanya dua meter. Sebab saat menabrak laut itulah, pesawat terpecah,” jelasnya.(BOB)

Di sadur dari: http://www.kompas.com/read.php?cnt=.xml.2008.03.25.12545960&channel=1&mn=1&idx=1

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KOMPAS/PASCAL SB SAJU

Salah Satu Pesawat Boeing 737 milik AdamAir

JAKARTA, KAMIS- Ada fakta-fakta baru mengenai jatuhnya pesawat AdamAir 1 Januari 2007 lalu, meskipun itu yang muncul dari luar Komite Nasional Keselamatan Transportasi (KNKT).

Pengamat transportasi Agus Pambagyo yang juga pernah mendengarkan isi cockpit voice recorder (CVR) saat mendatangi National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB/KNKT©nya Amerika Serikat) di AS tahun lalu mengatakan, apa yang diuraikan oleh Ketua KNKT Tatang Kurniadi, Selasa lalu benar adanya.

“Tapi ada kata-kata yang kurang dalam percakapan dua pilot. Setelah salah satu pilot mengatakan “jangan dibelokin, jangan dibelokin,” tiba-tiba ada suara seperti benda pecah, lalu seorang lagi berteriak “Allahu Akbar”. Lalu semuanya terdiam,” kata Agus Pambagyo dalam percakapannya dengan Persda Network di Jakarta, Rabu (26/3)

Agus mengaku tidak tahu siapa yang menyebut Allahu Akbar, tapi jelasnya, kata-kata itu sangat jelas terdengar dari VCR. Seperti diberitakan, KNKT memaparkan kecelakaan pesawat AdamAir bernomor penerbangan DHI 574 itu akibat kerusakan alat navigasi IRS (Internal Reference System). Kedua pilot memfokuskan pada perbaikan IRS dan lupa pada instrumen lain, sehingga tidak tahu pesawat Kedua pilot memfokuskan pada perbaikan IRS dan lupa pada instrumen lain, sehingga tidak tahu pesawat sedang menghujam ke laut.(Persda Network/Hendra Gunawan)

Di sadur dari: http://www.kompas.com/read.php?cnt=.xml.2008.03.27.07365264&channel=1&mn=1&idx=1

Setiap harinya saya berkeliling dunia dalam satu hari. Di pagi hari jam 07:30 saya mulai dari Jakarta (Kompas RSS Feed: http://www.kompas.com/rssfeed.php), pada hari yang sama juga yaitu pada jam 08:00 saya berada di London (BBC News RSS Feed: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/3223484.stm), lalu pada jam 09:00 saya berada di San Francisco, tempat dimana saya kuliah dulu (San Francisco Chronicle RSS Feed: http://www.sfgate.com/rss dan News.com RSS Feed: http://www.news.com/RSS-feeds-from-CNET-News.com/2009-1090_3-980549.html?tag=pre_ft), selanjutnya pada jam 10:00 saya berada di New York (CNN RSS Feed: http://edition.cnn.com/services/rss dan MSNBC.com RSS Feed: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5216556/. Sekembalinya saya dari kantor, pada jam 19:00 saya berada di Mountain View, California (Google Blog RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/dtKx).

Pasti anda sudah sedikitnya dapat menebak apa yang saya maksud; yaitu dunia virtual (dunia maya) yang kita sebut Internet. Saat saat ini waktu yang saya pergunakan untuk berselancar di Internet sehari hari adalah untuk email dan berita berita terbaru dari manca negara.Jika saya menjelajah internet dan menemukan situs yang saya sukai akan saya tandai dengan bookmark. Bookmark atau tanda buku saya bertambah terus menerus seiring dengan berjalannya waktu, tanpa saya sadari tanda buku saya telah mencapai lebih dari 300 tanda buku.

Dengan kesibukan saya sehari hari saya tidak mau menghabiskan waktu untuk mengunjungi dengan tanda buku saya tersebut terkecuali untuk email dan situs berita berita yang saya gemari.Layout yang dibuat baik dalam media cetak maupun media elektronik memiliki berbagai tingkatan, ada yang dimuat di halaman utama atas, ada yang dibawah dan ada yang hanya ditempatkan di kolom kecil bagian kanan, kiri atau bawah.

Seperti hal-nya di SuperMarket, di mana barang barang yang di letakan di tempat yang sejajar oleh mata (eye level shelf) adalah produk yang paling sering dan paling banyak di lihat orang. Barang barang yang terletak di tingkat bawah (foot level shelf) seringkali terabaikan. Tendensi penglihatan kita selalu tertuju kepada hal-hal yang utama atau besar, seringkali hal-hal yang kecil tapi menarik untuk dibaca terlewati.

Terima kasih untuk Google reader, saya berlangganan melalui RSS untuk isi dari 45 situs kesukaan saya ke ‘depan pintu rumah’ saya. Bayangkan jika anda harus membuka 45 situs kesukaan anda dengan multi-tab FireFox, belum lagi di hadapkan dengan iklan iklan yang akan mengambil perhatian dan bandwidth anda.

Bukan hanya itu saja, tetapi dengan Google reader, semua isi melalui RSS yang ada di dalam media elektronik dapat di salurkan dalam bentuk teks dan di sortir dengan tanggal terbit dan bukan di halaman yang tersembunyi. Judul (headline) pun memiliki besar huruf yang sama sehingga mata kita dapat memilih bukan berdasarkan dengan apa yang editor ingin kita baca atau apa yang editor pikir lebih menjual melainkan kita dapat memilih judul yang sesuai dengan keinginan hati dan pikiran kita.

Apa itu RSS? RSS adalah singkatan dari Really Simple Syndication. RSS adalah format dari web feed (penyalur web) yang digunakan untuk menyalurkan dan meng-update isi. RSS dapat dibaca dengan menggunakan RSS reader, dalam hal ini saya menggunakan Google reader. Dengan Google Reader, setiap saya mengunjungi situs yang menarik, saya akan mencari RSS yang biasanya diwakili dengan simbol seperti dibawah ini atau dengan simbol simbol lainnya yang anda dapat lihat di sini: http://www.rssicongallery.com

Mari kita keliling dunia dalam satu hari dengan mencari tanda berlangganan melalui RSS. Dengan menggunakan Google reader dan RSS, kita semua dapat keliling dunia dan mendapatkan berita berita menarik. ‘Karpet terbang’ bukan lagi jadi isapan jempol.

Bill Gates is hanging out with the chairman of General Motors.

“If automotive technology had kept pace with computer technology over the past few decades,” boasts Gates, “you would now be driving a V-32 instead of a V-8, and it would have a top speed of 10,000 miles per hour. Or, you could have an economy car that weighs 30 pounds and gets a thousand miles to a gallon of gas. In either case, the sticker price of a new car would be less than $50.”

“Sure,” says the GM chairman. “But would you really want to drive a car that crashes four times a day?”

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Q: What did Gates’ wife say to him on their wedding night?
A: Now I know why you called your company Micro-soft.

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Q: What is the first computer ever invented?
A: Apple. Coz in the garden of Eden, Eve already touched & ate the apple.

I can’t help to post this news. It’s so outrageous and it made me think that anything is possible now. I hope someone mistakenly send me EUR 1 Billion. Well if DOD (Department of Defense) can mistakenly send a big, obvious and conspicuous thing smuggle right under their nose, now this could be possible: I believe EUR 1 Billion can be mistakenly send to me as well. Cheers – Irwan.

Ref: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/03/25/taiwan.missiles/index.html?eref=edition

U.S. says missile parts mistakenly sent to Taiwan

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The U.S. Defense Department accidentally shipped non-nuclear ballistic missile components to Taiwan, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

A U.S. Defense Department image of the missile components it says were accidentally shipped to Taiwan.

Four nose-cone fuses for intercontinental ballistic missiles were shipped instead of helicopter batteries that Taiwan had requested, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne said.

The fuses were shipped to Taiwan in the fall of 2006 and kept in a warehouse there. The Taiwanese military informed the United States last week about their presence on the island.

“There are no nuclear or fissile materials associated with these items,” Wynne said. “The United States is making all appropriate notifications in the spirit of candor and openness in an effort to avoid any misunderstanding.”

An investigation is under way, he added.

“In an organization as large as DOD, the largest and most complex in the world, there will be mistakes. But they can not be tolerated in the arena in strategic systems, whether they are nuclear or only associated equipment, as was in this case,” Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Ryan Henry said.

He said the parts were 1960s technology, designed for use with Minuteman ballistic missiles.

Officials said China, which considers Taiwan to be a renegade province, has been notified about the mistake.

Wynne said the missile components were first shipped from F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming to Hill Air Force Base in Utah in 2005.

On arrival at Hill, they should have been placed in the classified storage section, Wynne said, but were instead moved to a storage area for unclassified items.

He said stocks at the Utah base should be checked quarterly and a key part of the investigation will be determining how those checks did not turn up the missile parts before they were shipped to Taiwan.

Ref: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/03/25/taiwan.missiles/index.html?eref=edition

Tidak banyak pusat pelatihan yang meluncurkan program pelatihan menyeluruh yang universal. Arti universal dalam hal ini adalah tidak mengakar kepada suatu kultur, melainkan mengakar kepada suatu ilmu praktis disiplin yang dapat di implementasikan dalam segala hal dan untuk semua pribadi.

Jika anda merasakan anda harus lebih banyak meningkatkan performa diri, baik dalam cara berpikir, tingkat ketenangan batin (hati), kesehatan jasmaniah (dengan cara menjaga gaya hidup), tingkat kreatifitas dan aktifitas, maka pelatihan komprehensif kami; Mind, Heart, Body, Hand and Foot dapat membantu anda.

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I am a believer of opportunities. I believe we should live and work like a TETRIS game. One should be able to identify, recognize and spot an opportunity. If one stick to an idea, just like in a tetris game, he or she will be game over.

A good blogger should be able to identify, recognize and spot the trend or buzz surrounding their community issues. Are you the one? If yes, go and write about it. There are few of a good free blogging site or provider. You may try these free blogging site or provider:

1. WordPress : http://www.WordPress.com
2. Blogger: http://www.Blogger.com
3. Multiply: http://www.Multiply.com
4. Live Journal: http://www.LiveJournal.com

Will opportunist be able to identify, recognize and spot in business? I am not so sure, but this is what I am sure of; by using and training your brain to identify, recognize and spot an opportunity, you are increasing your chance to fill any business opportunity and exposures. Start writing and posting. Let the readers decide how good you are.

Mac OS is an alternative for alternatives without an alternative, switching away from Microsoft Windows to Mac OS will make me stuck with Apple hardware. Is this enough reason to switch from Windows to Mac OS? Certainly not.

1. I love Mac OS interface. Who doesn’t? But it’s not enough reasons for me to switch to Mac OS and here are some of the reasons:
   • Using Mac OS is like using an exclusive technology. Apple’s Mac OS only have 5% of the market share, that’s mean that you are a handicap to the 95% of the technology. You wouldn’t want that.
   • Using Mac OS is like using an exclusive technology. It means that once you’ve stuck with the beauty and the user friendly user interface, you would not want to use Windows anymore. This is not helping our career moves, is it? You would not be useful or worth hiring for again, because most Mac OS users will keep whining how great is the user interface and how suck is the Windows. Who want to hire a whiner?
   • Using Mac OS is like using an exclusive software and hardware. Try to find the softwares and the hardware’s spare parts for Apple machine, you wont find the alternatives, the softwares are very limited.
2. I hate Windows Vista user interface. Who doesn’t? But it’s not enough reasons for me to switch to Mac OS and here are some of the reasons:
   • Using Windows Vista is like using a beta technology. It’s always crashes and it’s hard to use. People say when you can master the difficult one, the easy one is like a walk in the park. Beside, Windows have the 95% of the market share. I stick with the winner.
   • Using Windows Vista is like using a beta technology. You may be stuck with the ugly duckling, but majority of the people can afford it and they use it personally and in a corporate world.
   • Using Windows Vista is like using a beta technology with so many softwares and hardwares galore. Viva (suck) Windows.
   

Saya tinggal di bilangan Kebon Jeruk, Jakarta Barat dan setiap kali saya melewati perempatan Tomang, saya tidak pernah “ngeh”, “aware” atau sadar bahwa hotel Twin Plaza hadir tinggi menjulang di sebelah kiri atau di sebelah kanan saya jika saya dalam perjalanan pulang.

Daya pikat dari Hotel Twin Plaza sekarang sudah ditingkatkan, sekarang jika saya melewati jalan Slipi, saya dengan mudah dapat aware bahwa di sebelah kanan saya ada Hotel Twin Plaza yang menjulang tinggi. Papan nama Hotel Twin Plaza dipasang di atas gedung, gradasi warna di gunakan pada lis setiap lantai agar menarik perhatian dari jauh. gedung hotel ini dapat terlihat dan memikat dari jarak 1KM.

Suatu minggu malam, saya melewati perempatan Tomang dan di luar kebiasaan ada kemacetan yang luar biasa, ternyata kemacetan yang luar biasa ini di timbulkan dari pesta pernikahan yang diadakan di Hotel Twin Plaza. Dulu diabaikan, sekarang tidak lagi.

Bagaimana dengan Daya Tarik dan Daya Bius dari Hotel Twin Plaza ini? Saya pribadi kurang begitu suka dengan interior decoration mereka. Tapi saya belum pernah menginap di sana. Saya ingin mendengarkan bagaimana menurut anda?

Silahkan masukan comment anda mengenai Hotel Twin Plaza di blog ini. Terima kasih.

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Bermula dari usaha kecil kecilan, Pak Feri, pemilik kedai KATSUKI yang bertempat di Kedoya Food Park, Taman Kedoya Baru, Jakarta Barat, berkata: “Tempat boleh kecil, tapi tongkrongan dan kualitas kelas dunia”.

Dengan keberanian, perhitungan yang matang, rasa yang enak dan kualitas pelayanan yang baik, KATSUKI telah cukup dikenal dan memiliki pelanggan yang cukup besar. Pak Feri telah manyulap tempat 3 x 5 meter menjadi tempat yang menarik perhatian pengunjung Kedoya Food Park.

Hidangan yang di sajikan oleh KATSUKI ini adalah makanan cepat saji ala Jepang dengan menu yang menarik dan harga yang terjangkau. KATSUKI menu adalah sebagai berikut:

1. EbiFurai Rp 17.000
2. Chicken Katsu Rp 14.000
3. Sea Food Suki Rp 21.000
4. Chicken Suki + Nasi Rp 17.000
5. Beef Suki Rp 19.000
6. Ebi Noodle Rp 13.000
7. Beef Teriyaki Rp 16.000
8. Meat Ball Suki + Nasi Rp 12.000

Jika anda sedang ada di area Jakarta Barat, silahkan mampir ke Kedoya Food Park, Taman Kedoya Baru dan coba makanan cepat saji ala Jepang, KATSUKI. Kedoya Food Park buka 7 hari seminggu dari 18:00 sampai dengan 22:30.

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Informasi mengenai franchise (waralaba) KATSUKI adalah sebagai berikut:

Seseorang meng-email saya dan bertanya seperti dibawah ini:

WHEN HELMETS MAKE NO SENSE…

PARACHUTE’S A BETTER IDEA…

The british photographer Carl Warner created a series of photos using only food to make the scenery. The word “foodscapes” (union of the words food and landscape) show underwater caves, forests, beaches on sunset and even waterfalls, using fruits, vegetables, cheese, cold meat, pasta, among other.

The photographer tells that he is known in the neighborhood of his house, in Kent, England, for passing hours in the market looking for the best broccolis or the best pepper to “compose” his scenery.

To gain depth, the photos are taken on tables with 1,2 x 2,4 meters square. Besides, they are registered in”layers”, to avoid that the food shrivels before the picture is taken.