Semenjak awal bulan ini, saya mendapat sebuah posisi baru di salah satu vendor untuk perusahaan telekomunikasi di Jakarta. Title-nya sih keren, “Senior Technical Associate” – yihiiii. Padahal tetap aja masih jadi anak buah expat dari negeri bawang (maaf ya kalau agak rasis).

Nah, semenjak pindah ke perusahaan baru ini, saya harus berinteraksi dengan mesin UNIX dari tipe sebelumnya, Sun Solaris. Nama platformnya HP-UX, dari namanya sudah tentu dari Hewlett Packard. Seperti mesin UNIX lainnya, kita dituntut untuk terbiasa dengan yang namanya command line interface (CLI). Hanya saja setiap UNIX system mempunyai sedikit perbedaan untuk command line interface-nya, seperti berikut perbedaanya,

                                      Solaris                     HP-UX
Bourne-Again SHell          /usr/bin/bash             /usr/local/bin/bash
Check Mounted FS          /etc/vfstab                 /etc/fstab
System Logs                   /var/adm/messages   /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

Untuk lebih lengkapnya bisa di check ke link ini , semoga postingan ini sangat membantu yang membutuhkan.

Some of you might be wondering why I choose this phenomenon as my blog post? Well, actually this thought just hit my mind this earlier morning while I observed several videos on Youtube. To be honest in the latest 13 years since I got connected to one of miracles of this millennium what so called internet for the first time, currently conditions really up side down 180 degrees. The youngsters nowadays that was born in internet era where all those broadband connection already covered until your door step has changed the way this generation becomes a literate computer and technologies communities.

They are well educated, most of them comes from a family that subscribe a broadband connection for their home and the last thing that they should must gratitude for is, THEY GOT TALENT. And I envy them for those tools and supporting technologies that I can’t get when I was younger. With all broadband internet, youtube or myspace where we can put our videos there and facebook as our display to show the world how talented they are

Do you want to see how talented they are? I already have list for those talented youngster

International Version

TYLER WARD MUSIC

THE PHENOMENON – JUSTIN BIEBER

Indonesia’s Version

GAC

ShinJo

Briptu Norman

Mungkin sadar atau tidak sadar saat ini kita, khususnya Saya telah menjadi lebih malas dibandingkan 5 atau 10 tahun yang lalu. Gampangnya begini saja deh, pada saat awal orang mencari kerja sekitar 10-15 tahun yang lalu para jobs seeker harus mendatangi instansi atau perusahaan yang membuka lowongan kerja (untuk generasi yang sempat menikmati menonton sinetron Si Doel yang diperankan oleh Rano Karno mungkin akan ingat dengan scene di mana Doel mendatangi setiap perusahaan dan submit lembaran CV nya ke perusahaan2 tersebut), belum lagi aktifitas menulis surat lamaran yang ditulis tangan atau diketik dengan mesin ketik (Saya tidak tahu apa beberapa instansi pemerintah masih memberlakukan hal ini terhadap seluruh calon pelamarnya?). Menurut Saya hal tersebut walaupun tidak banyak memberikan aktifitas fisik tetapi cukup membuat kita bergerak. Bandingkan dengan saat ini, untuk membuat resume cukup dengan mengetik di program pembuat dokumen, upload melalui situs karir perusahaan yang kita minati, website-website head hunter atau penyedia lowongan pekerjaan yang ada di seluruh dunia, dan tinggal tunggu hasilnya di dalam email box kita ataupun melalui handphone yang saat ini Saya yakin cukup melekat dari tubuh kita (keberadaannya tak lebih dari 2 meter jauhnya, bahkan sebagian orang menempel dengan mobile device ini berjam-jam).

Itu baru hal pencari kerja, bagaimana dengan orang-orang yang membutuhkan informasi? Hal serupa juga terjadi pada Saya, karena badan yang sedang tidak bersahabat – walaupun pada saat sedang sehat pun Saya tetap melakukan hal yang sama sih – untuk mendapatkan info dan berita dari hal-hal yang diminati seperti teknologi, politik dan gaya hidup misalnya. Cukup dengan menyalakan komputer jinjing, aktifkan koneksi internet, buka browser yang biasa kita gunakan dan kunjungi saja situs-situs yang bisa menyediakan info yang kita inginkan yang keberadaannya sangat banyak di jagad maya saat ini.

Hal ini sih masih belum extreme dengan yang dilakukan oleh peminat gadget yang lebih gila dari Saya, mereka bisa akses dari smartphone dan latest gadget seperti Apple iPad or Samsung Tab  tak hanya untuk mendapatkan info tapi juga mengakses koran -bahkan sebagian orang mengaksesnya saat buang hajat di rest room- seperti layaknya versi cetaknya, mungkin kita bisa membandingkan versi cetak hari ini dengan yang ada di sini. Hidup memang makin dimudahkan dengan kemudahannya.

Karena itulah maka pagi ini Saya berpikir, seharusnya dengan segala kemudahan yang telah ditawarkan teknologi internet dan segala penunjang pendukung, seharusnya ada yang bisa ditekan sebagai contoh jalanan di Jakarta seharusnya lebih lancar dibanding 10 tahun yang lalu (I wish), karena apa? karena banyak orang seperti Doel yang bisa submit CV dari rumah, membeli koran tidak harus dilakukan di agen-agen penjual, tidak perlu melakukan antrian di Disc Tara atau Aquarius Mahakam hanya untuk membeli CD dari musisi idola karena kita cukup download file-file mp3 dari situs-situs seperti iTunes dan Amazon dan itu legal, mau download atau sewa film? cukup kunjungi Netflix, untuk yang terakhir ini Saya hanya merekomendasikan untuk mereka yang memiliki koneksi super cepat. Kembali ke kemacetan Jakarta, ternyata pada kenyataannya tidak berbanding terbalik dengan makin banyaknya aktifitas yang bisa dilakukan di internet. Jakarta makin hari makin macet, orang-orang yang harusnya dapat melakukan perkerjaannya dari rumah harus tetap datang ke kantor hanya untuk memenuhi target absensi, yang dipikir-pikir sangat lucu pada pekerjaan bisa dilakukan di ranah maya.

Tapi mungkin itu adalah gambaran atau imajinasi Saya saja, karena Saya pun termasuk dari sekian banyak pekerja IT di Jakarta yang masih harus tetap on site walaupun segala perangkat untuk tidak masuk kantor telah disediakan oleh perusahaan tempat Saya bekerja. Mungkin ketakutan Saya pada saat berpikir tentang internet dan gadget pendukung lainnya yang telah mendominasi keseharian akan menjadikan Saya seperti Adam Sandler dalam film Click. Memang tidak seratus percent mirip sih, cuma saja bila kita makin -dan masih- malas untuk melakukan aktifitas fisik, maka jangan heran bila penerus kita di masa yang akan datang adalah mereka-mereka yang berbadan tambun dan susah bergerak.

Stanford Report, June 14, 2005

‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005 at the Stanford University

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about Serif and San Serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well.

But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down – that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did.

The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over. I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.

This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept. No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent.

It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960′s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

Guys,

Untuk yang senang dengan menggunakan Bahasa, bisa melihatnya di link ini

http://pondok-cerita.blogspot.com/2009/12/steve-jobs-stay-hungry-stay-foolish.html

Atau lebih senang menonton videonya di Youtube bisa menggunakan link ini

Symbian New GUI

And to be honest I really have to admit that Symbian had done a great job to overcome their old style GUI. Despite of its colorful wallpaper, this GUI really give Symbian a new look. For me, those drop down menu really effective plus those three dots on the bottom of the screen seems like to be a shortcut provided to access all menus that most frequently used. Can not wait to see it become reality in the next new year. Since the rumors has it that Symbian will launch its new operating system with hand-held that produce in 2011.

This quotation really shows how optimistic he is. I am not an entrepreneur yet, but any point or any thing I learned from people like him really make my spirit becomes bigger each and every day. And I agree with him, a business man should has this attitude. No matter how big his losses are, let’s act, hope and pray that another buses will come to your way.

I might not a CEO of a well known company that have branches all over the world. But I always have a hope or dream maybe, one of my start up company will be listed as Best Employer on Forbes or Fortune magazine someday. At this time I still looking for any model for my IT services company, should I rent a place in business district or should I start it from my garage. Some big names that lead the IT world nowadays started from their parent’s garage.

At 2002 ago, I started a company name Cyber Zone. Actually this is a cyber cafe with some ideas as IT start up companies. At that time me and several friends always end up with ideas. Never took any action for those brilliant ideas at all. We planned to start a dot com company, web designer consultancy and IT infrastructures services. But again all those ideas left as only ideas. We never had a chance to make it real.

And back to Sir Richard Branson’s billboard, I start thinking, how long I will spend my rest of my life being an employer? When I start have courage to pull the trigger to start my own brand. Hopefully I will find those answers not long from now. I will find the other bus come to my way

Setelah basa basi dengan orang tua, kebetulan kemarin sore saya baru pulang menjenguk istri di Penang, jadi pertanyaan Bapak/Ibu saya lumayan banyak. Dari mulai bagaimana menantu kesayangan mereka di negeri orang, beban pekerjaan sang menantu di sana bagaimana dan (ini cukup sering ditanyakan) apakah anak kesayangan mereka yang gendut, bau serta jelek ini telah berhasil menembus pertahanan salah satu atau salah banyak pintu pertahanan para head hunter di sana atau principal IT yang bertebaran di negeri tetangga tersebut.

Sementara teman dan adik saya menghabiskan waktu chit chat di lantai atas rumah orang tua kami, saya masih sibuk meladeni hujanan pertanyaan dari kedua orang tua. Setelah shalat ashar saya baru bergabung dengan mereka dan mendengarkan curahan hati sang teman tersebut. Dari mulai calon mertua yang menolak anaknya di bawa pergi oleh lelaki ini dan cara dia tetap keukeuh untuk bertahan terhadap cinta yang telah sekian lama mereka jalani hingga kemudian kami memutuskan untuk mencari tempat yang lebih enak untuk ketawa keras, minum kopi dan tentu saja merokok (as for your info, smoking is something that is not allowed in our parent’s house). Sehingga terdamparlah kami bertiga di La Codefin, Kemang.

Bagi saya tempat ini lebih cocok untuk teman dan adik saya yang berpakaian dan potongan seperti anak muda, sedangkan saya dengan potongan seperti oom-oom buncit dan penuh uban di sisi kiri dan kanan dahi ini lebih cocok ke tempat yang lebih santai dan live music yang cuma dibawakan sama piano. Tapi live music di sini yang dimainkan oleh Soul-ID band seperti Mike’s Apartment secara accoustic memang membuat suasana semakin lebih hidup.

Masih ngga nyambungkan sama judul posting saya ya, intinya ialah setiap kerjaan memang butuh kemampuan bahasa inggris. Mau jadi orang yang kerja di IT di mana error messages ditampilkan dalam bahasa inggris ataupun ngamen di La Codefin ini yang mostly lagunya berlirik bahasa inggris tentu akan sangat lucu bila band yang ada di pentas tersebut terbata-bata dalam melantunkan lagu-lagu itu karena keterbatasan kemampuan si vocalist.

Berikut sekilas pemandangan malam ini

The Stage

Brothers!

So I start to do the googling, for another opportunities to work in another country. My first target are South-East Asia countries, and if I’m lucky enough US is my last resort )

From a few hours of googling and blog crawling I found some interesting facts that Brunei could be a place to work for in South East Asia region. I found it in Melisa’s blog . Really a helpful information for anyone who (already or will) work in Brunei.