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Yth Bp Kuncoro Wastuwibowo

Terima kasih atas pengggunaan fasilitas layanan kami. Memang untuk tampilan di menu NG@/internet ada perubahan. Hal ini dimaksudkan untuk memberikan variasi baru, tetapi kalau hal tersebut mengakibatkan kesulitan dalam mengakses untuk sumbang saran dari Bapak akan kami sampaikan ke bagian yang terkait.

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— KUNCORO WASTUWIBOWO wrote:

Hai Bank Niaga. Saya lihat ada perubahan pada desain site ini. Tapi saya terus terang lebih suka desain yang lama. Pada desain yang lama, saya dapat login menggunakan browser Firefox. Tapi pada desain baru, login tidak dimungkinkan lagi. Terpaksa saya menggunakan MS Internet Explorer yang kuno dan mudah membawa virus dan spy ini. Mohon dilakukan redesign kembali atas site ini agar akrab dengan browser selain MSIE. Terima kasih atas perhatian dan pengertiannya.

Catatan: Perlu waktu mingguan bagi Bank Niaga untuk memutuskan memforward suatu sumbang saran dari satu bagian ke bagian lain. Tapi jelas masih lebih menarik daripada BCA.

Wortel mengurangi resiko kanker sampai sepertiga — gitu kata SciAm. Pada wortel terdapat senyawa falcarinol, yang diketahui bisa melindungi sang wortel dari serangan jamur. Kirsten Brandt dari University of Newcastle upon Tyne mencobai pestisida alami ini pada tikus yang tena tumor pra-kanker. Tikus dikelompokkan atas kelompok yang tidak menerima falcarinol, kelompok yang menerima wortel, dan kelompok yang menerima falcarinol sebagai senyawa yang dipisah dari wortel. Dalam laporan yang diterbitkan di Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry bulan ini, disebutkan bahwa kelompok kedua dan ketiga mengalami penurunan dalam pengembangan kanker sebesar sepertiga. Tapi memang, dalam jumlah besar, falcarinol bisa jadi racun. Memakan 400kg wortel dipercaya dapat mematikan.

Oh ya, wortel dalam riset ini adalah wortel mentah. Belum jelas apa yang terjadi pada wortel yang sudah dimasak. Dan apa ada perbedaan dengan berbagai varietas wortel yummie yummie itu.

Hmmm, padahal tadinya aku pikir aku lebih cocok jadi Hagrid. Tapi barangkali Hagrid nggak termasuk “Kid” yaa ..

Which HP Kid Are You?

Yang ini versi Dennis Ritchie, yang diwawancarai oleh Unix.se, tahun 2003. Ritchie menciptakan C, dan menciptakan Unix bersama Thompson.

What do you think about the development of Linux and the BSD variants? Do you think they’ll eventually replace all the proprietary Unix systems?

Dennis Ritchie: As a general phenomenon, I think they’re great, but they suffer from much the same struggles and competition that the proprietary ones did and do. Sun and HP, SGI , IBM, Digital others all have (or had) variants of the same thing– so too do Linux and the BSDs. Their proprietors may have different motivations for producing the variants, of course. And of course each does have its own attractions. There is a kind of brand differentiation, and this is one of the reasons why portability is hard.

Any thoughts about the GNU project? How did you first learn about it?

Dennis Ritchie: I can’t remember when I first learned about it, but a long time ago. The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well as providing real software. The interesting thing is the way that free-software ideas have begun to influence major existing commercial players. At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas? But still, it’s a great satisfaction that so much of it has built on top of a basis we helped to establish.

Unix and Beyond: Interview with Ken Thomson, 5 years ago.

Wawancara ini ditemukan lagi gara2 lagi beberes jurnal2 dan majalah2 lama. Konon Oom Made Wiryana mau berbaik hati menyimpankan dokumen2 berharga itu di calon perpustakaan akademis non-kampus yang akan didirikannya. Para pendukung Open Source boleh keki baca pendapat Ken tentang Linux. Mudah2an pendapat beliau udah berubah dalam 5 tahun ini.

Computer:What about the development history of Unix?

Thompson: The early versions were essentially me experimenting with some Multics concepts on a PDP-7 after that project disbanded, which is about as small a team as you can imagine. I then picked up a couple of users, Doug McIlroy and Dennis Ritchie, who were interested in languages. Their criticism, which was very expert and very harsh, led to a couple of rewrites in PDP-7 assembly.

At one point, I took BCPL from Martin Richards at MIT and converted it into what I thought was a fairly straight translation, but it turned out to be a different language so I called it B, and then Dennis took it and added types and called it C.

We bought a PDP-11one of the very firstand I rewrote Unix in PDP-11 assembly and got it running. That was exported to several internal Bell telephone applications, to gather trouble reports and monitor various things like rerouted cables. Those applications, independent of what we were doing, started political pressure to get support for the operating system; they demanded service. So Bell Labs started the Unix Support Group, whose purpose was to serve as the interface to us, to take our modifications and interface them with the applications in the field, which demanded a more stable environment. They didn’t like surprises. This grew over time into the commercial version from AT&T and the more autonomous version from USL.

Independently, we went on and tried to rewrite Unix in this higher level language that was evolving simultaneously. It’s hard to say who was pushing whomwhether Unix was pushing C or C was pushing Unix. These rewrites failed twice in the space of six months, I believe, because of problems with the language. There would be a major change in the language and we’d rewrite Unix.

The third rewriteI took the OS proper, the kernel, and Dennis took the block I/O, the diskwas successful; it turned into version 5 in the labs and version 6 that got out to universities. Then there was a version 7 that was mostly a repartitioning of the system in preparation for Steve Johnson and Dennis Ritchie making the first port to an Interdata 832. Unknown to us, there was a similar port going on in Australia.

Around version 6, ARPA [Advanced Research Projects Agency] adopted it as the standard operating system for the Arpanet community. Berkeley was contracted to maintain and distribute the system. Their major contributions were to adapt the University of Illinois TCP/IP stack and to add virtual memory to Bell Lab’s port to the VAX.

There’s a nice history of Unix written by Dennis that’s available on his home page [ed.”The Evolution of the Unix Time-Sharing System,” http://cm.belllabs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html].

Computer: What accounted for the success of Unix, ultimately?

Thompson: I mostly view it as serendipitous. It was a massive change in the way people used computers, from mainframes to minis; we crossed a monetary threshold where computers became cheaper. People used them in smaller groups, and it was the beginning of the demise of the monster comp center, where the bureaucracy hidden behind the guise of a multimillion-dollar machine would dictate the way computing ran. People rejected the idea of accepting the OS from the manufacturer and these machines would never talk to anything but the manufacturer’s machine.

I view the fact that we were caught up in thatwhere we were glommed onto as the only solution to maintaining open computingas the main driving force for the revolution in the way computers were used at the time.

There were other, smaller things. Unix was a very small, understandable OS, so people could change it at their will. It would run itself you could type “go” and in a few minutes it would recompile itself. You had total control over the whole system. So it was very beneficial to a lot of people, especially at universities, because it was very hard to teach computing from an IBM end-user point of view. Unix was small, and you could go through it line by line and understand exactly how it worked. That was the origin of the so-called Unix culture.

Computer: In a sense, Linux is following in this tradition. Any thoughts on this phenomenon?

Thompson: I view Linux as something that’s not Microsofta backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less. I don’t think it will be very successful in the long run. I’ve looked at the source, and there are pieces that are good and pieces that are not. A whole bunch of random people have contributed to this source, and the quality varies drastically.

My experience and some of my friends’ experience is that Linux is quite unreliable. Microsoft is really unreliable but Linux is worse. In a non-PC environment, it just won’t hold up. If you’re using it on a single box, that’s one thing. But if you want to use Linux in firewalls, gateways, embedded systems, and so on, it has a long way to go.

Ke site Jay, dan ter-link ke kuis yang satu ini:

Ya … gitu lah kalau nggak ada kegiatan lain abis gosokin lantai kamar mandi dan WC. Klik di Wikipedia kalau mau tau lebih banyak tentang Nerd. Tapi menurut aku, skor 99 (yang artinya aku masuk ke 1% orang/peserta paling nerd) itu agak mencurigakan. OK, ada satu lagi, dari site yang sama.

78 tahun? Wow, aku bener2 meragukan validitas site ini. Umm … coba satu lagi deh.

Beda dengan nerdiness, weird quotient (WQ) mengukur skala mirip IQ. Jadi angka 100 itu bukan angka tinggi, tapi angka tipikal: mirip dengan sebagian besar orang / peserta. Sebenernya udah coba satu lagi, tentang chemistry. Tapi nggak ada yang bisa ditempel. Udah deh segini dulu.

Intel Corp menginformasikan pada 5 Januari bahwa sebuah eksperimen menciptakan laser (d/h LASER) dari silikon tengah dilakukan. Memang pada tahap awal ini, hasilnya masih kalah unggul dibandingkan laser dari bahan mahal semacam Galium Arsenida. Tapi bahan silikon yang lebih murah menjanjikan revolusi baru dalam dunia IT. Akan ada peluang bahwa semua komputer akan dapat terkoneksi secara optik. Lebih dari itu, akan ada peluang juga bahwa komponen komputasi dapat dikoneksikan secara optik dalam sebuah mikrochip.

Intel menggunakan yang disebut sebagai efek Raman. Pada efek ini, cahaya dihamburkan pada material tertentu untuk menghasilkan cahaya lain yang gelombangnya lebih panjang. Umumnya efek Raman diumpankan pada serat optik sepanjang kiloan meter untuk menghasilkan gelombang yang panjang. Namun Intel memanfaatkan efek ini pada piranti yang panjangnya beberapa sentimeter saja, karena silikon memiliki efek yang sepuluh ribu kali lebih kuat.

Masalahnya kemudian adalah bahwa laser pada ruang sekecil itu akan saling menumbuk dan bahkan berinteraksi dengan elektron. Semakin besar daya diberikan, bukannya semakin banyak cahaya dihasilkan, justru cahaya berkurang akibat diserap elektron. Jadi solusinya adalah memotong laser menjadi pulsa-pulsa, sehingga tidak terserap oleh elektron terlalu banyak. Masalah lebih lanjut adalah bahwa laser harus berjalan secara kontinyu, bukan dalam bentuk pulsa patah-patah dalam orde pikometer. Jadi para periset memanfaatkan waveguide untuk memperpanjang pulsa yang dihasilkan. Waveguide-nya dibentuk dari silikon juga, dalam bentuk semacam diode dengan tanjakan di tengahnya. Tegangan pada diode menyapu elektron yang tak diinginkan, dan membiarkan cahaya mengalir melewati chip.