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These days I’ve been busy with SRS (Software Requirements Specfications) of one of application developed at my office. And what’s keeps bugging me is that I need to put some UML diagrams on that documents. Yes, I’ve been using Ubuntu for 5 years now, and all that times I never found one good UML Creator application which is stable enough and ‘beautiful’ enough (in term of user interface and the diagram created). I’ve tried to use:

1. UML plugins on Netbeans, which is not good enough when creating partition on Activity Diagram, and YES! It’s so damn heavy, altough Aya (my notebooks name) is running on 1.8GHz Proc and 2GB of RAM.
2. ArgoUML. This one have a promising future and yes for some people it is more than enough. For me actually too IF AND ONLY IF they fix it’s GUI and diagram look-and-feel, and fix the export to PNG modules. And yes, it’s heavy.
3. Visual Paradigm CE. Guys, you have made a good tool, but the size of it … argh! But I’ll give a shot one day. Few times ago I already download the Community Edition of yours, but it seems the amount of diagrams is limited to ONE. Dunno ’bout it now.
4. BoUML. Just a plain comment, it sucks on it’s GUI.
5. Umbrello. The same as #4
6. StarUML. Good one and also licenced as Free Software, the bad side is it run only on M$.

Okay, so I decided to run StarUML on top of CrossOver (which is I get for free sometimes ago, when peoples at CodeWeaver set one day for a free downloads for all *yay, thanks guys!*). First steps of instalation process is running well until a warning is showed up

C:\Program Files\StarUML\Pgmr101.ocx
Unable to register the DLL/OCX: LoadLibrary failed; code 126.
Module not found.

There’s an option to Ignore it, and I did. But another problem arises when I tried to change some component’s name, i.e : Actor’s name, Class’ name, etc. A pop up always showed and the application is freezed, which I should reset all the bottles on CXOffice. The pop up is displaying:

OLE error 80040154

I’ve googlin all over the net and found some solution suggested, one of it is to install MSXML3/4 and VCRUN6. My first attempt is to find the DLL on the net and copy them to CXOffice’s System32 directory. I’ve override the library path from CXOffice to native, and still the bug arises.

So next attempt is try to use Wine. On this link I found out about Winetricks, small application which could be used to download some library dependencies on Wine. So, I first removed the StarUML from CXOffice (which is actually not needed at all, just to freeing-up my space), download winetricks, and install MSXML4 and CVRUN6 using Winetricks (remember, install these first before the starUML).

winetricks -v vcrun6

winetricks -v msxml4

And then I installed StarUML. No warning messages arise, and when I tried to change component’s name, no pop up and freeze arises too. Yay! Finally …

Hope anyone is helped by this posting. Oh yea, I’m using Ubuntu 8.10, and Wine 1.0.1 (stable release from ubuntu repository).

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Today I went to National IT eXpo, some computer exhibition at Jogjakarta Exhibition Center (JEC). My objective is simple, after three years spent my “IT-live” in no-flashdisk condition, today I want to buy one. The last flashdisk I owned were missing in action, somewhere between my room or my office. Then, in the end I put my choice on 1G’s Kingston Data Traveler with a price of Rp 60.000,00. You ask me why I didn’t want to buy the 2G ones (which only priced at Rp 90.000,00)? Simple, I don’t need that much space for now ^^

Okay, lets skip that part … what I want to write today is about a phenomenon I saw when I take a walk through the exhibition. Passing so many notebook stalls, I saw that almost all of the sample is using Linux as their operating system. I saw from some-new-brand like advan and forsa, until big market owner like Acer and HP is using Linux. You ask me about ubuntu? Yes! I saw some compaq V3000 and HP 520 series who displaying our so-familiar brown login screen. And of course what interesting is still the scenery of some people who stands between curious and lost desperately trying to operate Linux.

Now, let’s think … what would happened to those brown login screen as soon as a customer buy the notebook? Incredible! What pops on my head is “dear myself, of course it would changed into blue login screen with bling-bling and some windows logo on it. And you know? It won’t take long to the customer to decide to do so” … ironic huh? Linux is only used at exhibition, after that it’ll became history …

I remembered some time ago, when a lady suddenly called me and ask for help about her Ubuntu. Her problem is simple, but the idea about “who the hell is installing ubuntu to this lady? She is totally new user here!” is bugging me. After some chit-chat, I found out that the one who encourage her to use linux is the shop owner where she bought the notebook. Yup! Not her boyfriend, not her parents, not her friends, not some geek she found at the street, not some rules from the government, and definitely not me! And I were so glad to found out that there still a computer shop out there who care about linux.

This is what Linux needed. A marketer, a helper, someone who would speak for Linux, someone who are willing to sell linux on their product. And definitely not a geek who can’t speak in human language, but someone who know how to speak and of course understand what he’ve been talked about. Until now there is always a stigma that linux is all about playground for the experts. And we need to diminish that.

In the other side, I do believe that linux maybe still too hard for some people. Our society is grown in the ease of acquiring a software, and the ease of using a software. Linux maybe too hard for them, but I do believe that with a proper explanation and little bit of practice, even a dull-minded guy could use Linux in a few minutes (oh yes, maybe hours). For Linux developer, the most challenging part is to develop an operating system who easy to use yet secure and stable. And for Linux user (yeah, meeeeee!!!!! and youuuu!!!!!), isn’t it will be challenging to try transform ourself into a Linux seller??

Spread the penguins, and don’t let her only showed up on the exhibition.

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Abis jalan-jalan di planet.ubuntu.com, kok ngeliat di sana ada muncul banyak orang melakukan posting history meme (well, karena meme sendiri sedikit banyak orang akan menambahkan sebuah hurup dan menjadikannya jorok, maka judulnya saya ganti). Jadi ceritanya ini adalah menampilkan cuplikan perintah yang sering diketik di terminal …

So, here is mine …

alvonsius@alvonsius-notebook:~$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
189 sudo
60 cd
33 iwconfig
31 ls
17 ./startup.sh
12 mysqldump
12 ifconfig
11 ping
10 ps
10 echo

Yak mari siapa yang melanjutkan … ^^

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Liputan Jogjakarta Feisty Party dapat dilihat di http://www.ubuntu-id.org/news/liputan-jogjakarta-feisty-party

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One of the writer on OSNews.com wrote this in the end of her article :

Nevertheless, if you are one of the lucky Ubuntu users to have a compatible PC with full ACPI support, more power to you. Hold on tight to it and help bring the Linux revolution to the masses. It just started. For real this time. The only way is up from now on.

Humm … then I started to think … with my Compaq M2232, plugged with Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft …

• I got a fully supported CPU, with ACPI of course
• Wifi is working out of the box (plus the LED is active)
• Soundcard working well, with or without the headset
• Graphic card is very very friendly with Beryl and her family
• USB port, all of them is working well
• SD card reader, working … not perfect,  but somehow it’s working
• Modem, not yet tested but pretty sure it’s working
• Ethernet card … working … full thrust!!!
• Battery …. supported, I thin
• Sony Ericsson w810i, worked and recognized well as modem and external drive

And still, lots of my friend can’t have the same condition like me …
Then … how much long should I wait for a stable and fully supported linux distribution? So what I get is what my friend will get. And promise me oh ye developer, ye won’t be sick listening to our weekly bug reports. And to ye, oh our mighty vendors, please open your door to the world of open source. Don’t make this distance between us grow. Come to us and lend us your hand, coz believe us, in the next few years this you-think-is-not-worth operating system will be more and more worth than those who live longer before us. Then wait for our evolution, the evolution of freedom.

Evolution is an imperfect and often violent process. A battle between what exists and what is yet to be born. In the midst of these birth pains, morality loses its meaning. The question of good and evil reduced to one simple choice: survive or perish  (Mohinder Suresh, Heroes, 2007)

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Hurray, the pressure is gone…. This morning I gave some presentation about Ubuntu as Desktop at STMIK Amikom Jogjakarta. Not quite good as this is my first time giving a presentation in front of 200 peoples, but overall I gave my best for it. I tell them about Ubuntu, the philosophy behind it, and why Ubuntu is good for a begineer. Oh … another thing is, wow … there are lot of “cutey honey” at Amikom, can’t wait to go there again someday ^^

*no no no … I don’t want to talk about my presentation hihihihi … just wait for the photos (if there any)*

Okay, last Sunday I downloaded Sunbird and tried to make it run .. but it wont runT_T. There always this message appear after few seconds

run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 5097 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

And I’m pretty confident that the same message did appear when I tried to run Firefox 2.0 in this same machine. So I started to think that this must have something to do with one of package installed in my notebook. Well, and after some googling I found out that the SCIM package is currently the single suspect for it. It is currently called everytime I tried to run sunbird. And the big thing is : It also happened on flock, thunderbird, firefox, and also acroread. Okay, being rushed I removed all package that have a SCIM on it (scim-canna, scim-anthy, and (oh how fool I am) skim) … and (again, how fool I am) it crashed my KDE. Oh well, after reinstalling scim and it’s family I found another way to prevent SCIM being loaded on calling sunbird. Just add this line of code after first line on sunbird executable script:

GTK_IM_MODULE=scim-bridge

And here you go, Sunbird is running again. The same thing goes to Firefox 2.0 and Acrobat Reader.

*aahh … stil imagine the master of ceremony* ^^

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Hi guys … here me again, with some recipe of how to save youtube video after you watch it.

Ingridients :

1. Linux *of course*
2. Mozilla Firefox (I didn’t support another coz this recipe is specific to it)
3. Working Konsole
4. Working clock
5. ffmpeg (if you want to convert those flv’s to mpg’s)

How to cook :

1. Open youtube and watch the video.
2. After the video is completely downloaded,  check the time and remember it.
3. It’s time to search for the cache file. For your information, firefox usually place the cache file in ~/mozilla/firefox/[some fuzzy-named directory, like mine is: jkxj5z89.default]/Cache/. Search the file by using this command : ls -la | grep [the_time_you_remember], ie: ls -la | grep 10:22. The file is usually sized more than 5Mb so keep an eye for this kind of file.
4. After you get the file, convert it to mpeg using ffmpeg (this is also usable to check wether the file is the right media file), ie: ffmpeg -i CE1916F8d01 Yunnie-8-Karaoke.mpg
5. Here you go … the file is ready

   

PS: Okay okay, there is another simple way to download it, you can use  youtube-dl script located here. It very very usable since the greasemonkey and KDE ways is unusable now.

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Sssshhh … seems I’ve been so quiet this month huh? Everyone’s blog is talking about Edgy, Compiz, Ajax, Web 2.0, and many more while I’m stuck here with my daily activities. It somehow made me lost my appetite to write. Ah well, I must write somehow, I must write …

Tonight I’m gonna depart to Medan (again, yeah yeah yeah ….) until end of the month. Wew, you maybe think that I will enjoy this trip again, but errrr no …. This month there are two big “party” that I’ll missed because of this trip. The first is Jogjakarta Japan Art Festival and the second one is Edgy Release Party.

*doin nothing for about 15 minutes … see!!! I already lost my will to write :(( *

Ah well, better goin home and get prepared to work again … slurp ….

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Are you tired in googling, downloading and compiling all those new packages that not showed up in our beloved repositories?? Well, you may try searching the packages on http://www.getdeb.net/, coz it have what you need most. You even could found Inkscape 0.44.1 (just released on September 14th) and Gaim 2.0beta3!!! Well, doesn’t believe that it’s true?? Check it out yourself dude …

Little bit of history, I found this link on UbuntuForums.org, when I was trying to find answer why my Inkscape was always crash after doing some update on Dapper. And who would knows that I found this little piece of heaven here huehuehue …

PS: I hope the site maintainer won’t complaining I’m doin some publication for his place. If there is any complain, hhh … rm this_blog -f dah … hehhee …

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Wew, i just realize that I have myown blogspace on Wordpress.com. Also realize that i haven’t fill it for few month (last posts was on January). Humm … what else should I write?? Err .. lets put it on a new title, shall we …. *click*

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