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Tips for Air travel

noreply@blogger.com (Dich RUssel) — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:44:00 +0000

Book an Airport Hotel ^new
- To start your holiday in style and make you feel as though you've had another day's holiday, book an airport hotel and stay the night before you fly. Not only does this save the hassle of travelling to the airport on the day of departure, but it also gives you valuable time to chill out and leaves you completely relaxed for the flight. Gatwick Airport Meet and Greet Parking has more holiday tips!

Save Excess Baggage Charges by Using Self-Weighing Suitcases with Built-in Digital Scales ^new
- Over the last few years, my wife and I have become fed up with being stung for excess baggage. After a lot of thought, we decided to develop a suitcase with built-in scales, which has an LCD digital scale in the handle. It is a new venture for us, but we think it could be the answer to avoiding excess baggage charges and long delays at the airport. We have recently been featured on the Channel Five Gadget Show. Our idea was described as 'genius' and they said that nobody should travel without one. The Eco Suitcases website has more information.

When Flying Choose your Seat Wisely ^new
- When traveling with a partner, choose your seat on your flight wisely. If you are in a 3-seat by 3-seat configuration, choose 2 aisle seats instead of an aisle and a middle or window and middle. You will still be able to talk to each other, but will also have alot more room to enjoy the flight.

If you are traveling in a 2-seat by 3-seat by 2-seat, you can take a chance and book the 2 aisle seats in the 3-seat configuration. If the flight is not fully booked, you may end up with a free seat between you. If the middle seat is booked, then I am sure whoever has the middle seat will trade with you to get an aisle seat.

Always see if you can get the bulkhead seat or an emergency exit for more leg room. And check for the best seats at seatguru.com.

Find more excellent vacation ideas at excellent-vacation-ideas.com.

23-Jan-2009 Melanie ID2131

A Little Preparation ...
- I find that a combination of several common tips goes a long way toward preventing flying problems, or at least making them more tolerable. I go with one carry-on, make sure it's a little smaller than the minimum size, bring my own food and drink onto the plane, bring at least one good book if not two, eat in the airport before the flight, and get to the airport a little early. I've never had to check a bag, and I've never had missing or damaged luggage. I've never been bored during flight delays. I've never been hungry or thirsty on flights. A little preparation goes a long way.
Advance Attention to Safety

- When boarding the aircraft, make a mental note of all exits, and count how many seat rows you pass from the exit to your row. This will expedite your escape route in case of an emergency landing if there is smoke and/or power loss in the cabin. And by all means, pay attention to the flight crew! No matter how boring or uninteresting it may sound, their instructions are vital ... and read the aircraft emergency procedure manual completely before takeoff. These are located in the pouch right in front of you. Do this - it pays to be prepared for flight. Knowledge is power, and armed with the basics you can sit back and enjoy your flight.

Nokia E63

noreply@blogger.com (Dich RUssel) — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:05:00 +0000

Spesifikasi teknik

Ukuran

Bentuk: Monoblok dengan keyboard lengkap
Dimensi: 113 x 59 x 13 mm
Berat: 126 g
Volume: 87 cc
Keyboard lengkap
Layar QVGA berkualitas tinggi

Layar dan 3D

Ukuran: 2.36"
Resolusi: 320 x 240 piksel (QVGA)
Sampai 16 juta warna
Matriks aktif TFT (QVGA)
Dua modus home screen yang dapat dipersonalisasi

Fitur keamanan

Kunci perangkat
Kunci remote
Enkripsi data untuk memori ponsel dan kartu microSD
Mobile VPN

Tombol dan metode input

Keyboard lengkap
Tombol khusus sekali sentuh: Home, kalender, kontak, dan email
Speaker dependent dan speaker independent voice dialling
Input pintar dengan auto-completion, auto-correction, auto-punctuation, dan kemampuan pembelajaran
Scrolling cepat dengan tombol Navi^TM

Warna dan cover

Warna yang tersedia dalam kotak: Biru dan Merah

Konektor

Konektor micro-USB, kecepatan penuh
Konektor standar AV 3.5 mm

Sumber daya

Baterai Li-Po standar BP-4L 1500 mAh
Waktu bicara (maksimum): GSM sampai 11 jam; WCDMA sampai 4 jam 40 menit
Waktu siaga (maksimum): GSM sampai 18 hari; WCDMA sampai 20 hari; WLAN sampai 170 jam
Waktu playback musik (maksimum): 18 jam

Memori

Slot kartu memori microSD, hot swappable, maks. 8 GB
Memori internal dinamis 110 MB

Komunikasi dan navigasi

Frekuensi operasi

E63-1 Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 900/2100
E63-2 Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 850/1900
E63-3 Quad-band EGSM 850/900/1800/1900, WCDMA 850/2100
Modus offline

Jaringan data

CSD
HSCSD
GPRS kelas A, multislot kelas 32, kecepatan maksimum 100/60 kbps (DL/UL)
EDGE kelas A, multislot kelas 32, kecepatan maksimum 296/177.6 kbps (DL/UL)
WCDMA 900/2100 atau 850/1900 atau 850/2100, kecepatan maksimum 384/384 kbps (DL/UL)
WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g
- Keamanan WLAN: WEP, 802.1X, WPA, WPA2
Dukungan TCP/IP
IETF SIP dan 3GPP

Konektivitas dan sikronisasi lokal

Bluetooth versi 2.0 dengan Enhanced Data Rate
- profil Bluetooth: DUN, OPP, FTP, HFP, GOEP, HSP, BIP, RSAP, GAVDP, AVRCP, A2DP
Dukungan MTP (Multimedia Transfer Protocol)
Bluetooth (Bluetooth Serial Port Profile. BT SPP)
Network (Raw). Direct TCP/IP socket
Koneksi socket TCP/IP langsung ke port tertentu (disebut HP JetDirect™).
Network (LPR). Line Printer Daemon
protocol (RFC1179).
Dukungan untuk sinkronisasi lokal dan remote SyncML, iSync, Intellisync, ActiveSync

Fitur panggilan

Speakerphone handsfree terintegrasi
Penjawab otomatis dengan headset atau car kit
Tombol penjawab bebas
Panggilan tunggu, menahan panggilan, pengalihan panggilan
Pencatat waktu panggilan
Daftar panggilan keluar, masuk dan tidak terjawab
Panggilan ulang otomatis dan fallback
Panggilan cepat
Speaker dependent dan speaker independent voice dialing (SDND, SIND)
Dukungan Fixed dialing number
Tanda getar (internal)
Kontak dengan foto
Panggilan konferensi
Push to talk
VoIP

Olah pesan

SMS
Penghapusan multiple SMS
Pembaca pesan text-to-speech
MMS
Daftar distribusi untuk olah pesan
Olah pesan cepat dengan kontak ditambahkan
Broadcast seluler

E-mail

Protokol yang didukung: IMAP4, Mail for Exchange, POP3, SMTP
Mendukung lampiran email
Dukungan IMAP IDLE
Mendukung Nokia Intellisync Wireless Email
Integrated Nokia Mobile VPN
Setup email yang mudah

Web browsing

Bahasa markup yang didukung: HTML, XHTML, MP, WML, CSS
Protokol yang didukung: HTTP, WAP2.0
Dukungan TCP/IP
Nokia browser
- JavaScript versi 1.3 dan 1.5
- Mini Map
Nokia Mobile Search

GPS dan navigasi

Aplikasi Nokia Maps

Gambar dan suara

Fotografi

Kamera 2.0 megapiksel (1600 x 1200 piksel)
Format gambar: JPEG/EXIF
Sensor CMOS
Zoom digital
Panjang fokus: 4.5 mm
Jarak fokus: 10 cm sampai tidak terhingga
LED flash
Modus lampu kilat: otomatis, non aktif.
Jarak operasi lampu kilat: 1 m
Modus pengaturan cahaya: otomatis, cerah, berpijar, fluoresen
Modus tangkap: diam, urutan, self-timer, video
Modus nada warna: normal, sepia, hitam & putih, negatif
Viewfinder
Toolbar aktif

Video

Kamera utama
320 x 240 (QVGA) pada 15 fps
176 x 144 pada 15 fps (QCIF)
Zoom video digital
Format file rekaman video: .mp4, .3gp; codecs: H.263, MPEG-4 VSP
Format rekaman audio: AMR
Modus pengaturan cahaya video: otomatis, cerah, berpijar, fluoresen
Modus pemandangan: otomatis, malam
Modus nada warna: normal, sepia, hitam & putih, negatif
Panjang klip (maksimum): 1 jam
RealPlayer
Format file playback video: .Flash Lite 3, mp4, .3gp; codecs: H.263, MPEG-4 VSP
Streaming video: .3gp, mp4, .rm
Nada dering video yang dapat dipersonalisasi

Playback musik dan audio

Pemutar musik
Pemutar media
Format playback musik: .mp3, .wma, .aac, AAC+, eAAC+
Format streaming audio: .rm, .eAAC+
Radio FM 87.5-108 MHz dengan dukungan RDS
Dukungan Visual Radio. Baca lebih lanjut: www.visualradio.com
Konektor AV Standar 3.5 mm
Nokia Music Manager
Dukungan Nokia Podcasting
Nada dering yang dapat dipersonalisasi
Sinkronisasi musik dengan Windows Media Player
Dukungan Navi™ wheel
Voice Aid

Rekaman suara dan audio

Perintah suara
Speaker dependent dan speaker independent voice dialling (SDND, SIND)
Perekam video
Format rekaman audio: AMR-WB, AMR-NB
Speech codecs: FR, EFR, HRO/1, AMR-HR, dan AMR-FR
Text-to-speech

Personalisasi: profil, tema, nada dering

Profil yang dapat dipersonalisasi
Nada dering yang dapat dipersonalisasi
Nada dering video yang dapat dipersonalisasi
Mendukung nada dering berbicara
Tema yang dapat dipersonalisasi
Konten home screen yang dapat dipersonalisasi dalam modus Bisnis dan Pribadi

Software

Platform software dan antarmuka pengguna

S60 Edisi 3.1, Eseries
Symbian Os 9.2
Dua modus home screen dengan tampilan siaga aktif yang dapat dipersonalisasi
Perintah suara

Personal information management (PIM): kontak, jam, kalender dsb.

Database kontak lanjutan: multiple nomor dan rincian e-mail per kontak, kontak dengan foto
Mendukung grup kontak
Dukungan grup pengguna tertentu
Dukungan Fixed Dialing Number
Jam: analog dan digital
Jam alarm dengan nada dering
Pengingat
Kalkulator dengan fungsi lanjutan
Kalender dengan tampilan minggu dan bulan
Konverter
Catatan aktif
Agenda
Informasi PIM yang dapat dilihat selama panggilan

Aplikasi

Java^TM MIDP 2.0
Flash Lite 3.0
Chat dan olah pesan cepat
Nokia browser
- JavaScript versi 1.3 dan 1.5
- Mini Map
Kamus
Quickoffice (Quickword, Quickpoint, Quicksheet)
Penampil PDF
ZIP Manager
Download
File Manager
Nokia Search
Nokia Maps
Menambah aplikasi lain:
- Gunakan Download! client
- Download over-the-air (OTA)

Isi paket penjualan

Isi paket penjualan

Nokia E63
Nokia Battery BP-4L
Nokia Charger AC-8
Nokia Headset WH-102
Panduan Pengguna, Panduan Memulai Cepat dan dan dokumen lain
microSD tergantung pada toko

Aksesoris

Aksesoris yang disarankan

Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-606
Nokia 8 GB microSDHC Card MU-43
Nokia Bluetooth GPS Module LD-4W

source: Nokia

Beware Of Caffeine ....

noreply@blogger.com (Dich RUssel) — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:37:00 +0000

Is a reason why you should reduce the consumption of beverages berkafein. Because caffeine content that is too many, will cause hallucination to you. Caffeine in excess of one day If you drink seven cups Caffeine drinks each day. remember, not only coffee is caffeine. water with carbonate , tea and beverages also contain caffeine. Research conducted at the University of Durham UK. Quoted from Health24, Friday (23/1/2008) as much as 200 students made objects in the study. They were asked about their consumption of caffeine per day, including coffee, tea, chocolate batangan also shaped caffeine tablets. Then they also asked about the experience of hallucination. Students who consume excessive caffeine was experiencing various hallucination. Hear the mysterious sounds, to see something that is not there, to see people who have died. When the body is being stressed, will usually leave a hormone called cortisol. When hormone cortisol is mixed with caffeine, the effect willhallucination. So when someone stress they consume excessive caffeine, hallucination will appear and disrupt. So reduce your caffeine consumption now. Source : Kilas Berita

Penyebaran dan cara Pencegahan virus Conficker

noreply@blogger.com (Dich RUssel) — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 07:24:00 +0000

cara penyebaran virus Conficker:

Penyerangan pada service vulnerability in the Microsoft Server service . PC tanpa patch pada akhir oktober akan diserang dan diambil alih.
Conficker dapat meretas password admin ataupun dengan menggunakan Brute Force (cara paksa yang digunakan para hacker) dan menyebar pada setiap jaringan komputer
Conficker menyebar melalui media removable seperti flashdisk , file autorun.inf biasanya di boncengi oleh virus tsb. dan langsung menginfeksi pc apabila pc tersebut di set untuk autorun.

saran penulis untuk mencegah penularan virus conficker ke pc anda.

Download patch terakhir untuk internet explorer dan install.
Aktifkan Firewall pada windows atau anda juga bisa menggunakan firewall selain keluaran dari microsoft yang anda percaya.
Jangan aktifkan Autorun untuk removable media seperti flashdisk.

cara menonaktifkan autorun pada windows xp:
cara pertama

Klik Start|run|
klik regedit.exe
pilih hkey_current_user | software | microsoft | windows | currentversion | policies | explorer |
klik kanan pada jendela kanan regedit , pilih New | Dword Value |
klik kanan pada " new value #1" ,klik rename dan ubah namanya menjadi NoDriveTypeAutoRun
klik 2 kali pada " NoDriveTypeAutoRun" dan pada Base desimal masukkan angka 149.
restart komputer , dan lihat hasilnya.

cara kedua

klik Start | run |
ketik Msconfig
pilih " services" dan kemudian hilangkan centang pada " shell hardware detection"
restart komputer dan lihat hasilnya.

selamat mencoba...

Krakatau Industrial Estate Cilegon (KIEC) ready to be Economic Regions

noreply@blogger.com (Dich RUssel) — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:07:00 +0000

CILEGON, SATURDAY - Krakatau Industrial Estate Cilegon (KIEC) ready to be special Economic Regions in Banten, because the resources to support industry in the area belonging to PT Krakatau Steel is already adequate.

"We still have the land for industrial development of 170 hectares of the total wide area around 700 hectares. Not to mention other supporting facilities," said Director of Krakatau Industrial Estate Cilegon (KIEC), Iwandono, in Cilegon, Saturday (17 / 1).

Found after laying the first stone Tin Chemical factory owned by PT Timah, Iwandono, said his side are currently submitting proposals to the government, so that the area KIEC agreed to set a special economic area. Proposals are intended to facilitate the investors in the industry in the area, and efforts to economic development in the region.

As a subsidiary of PT. Krakatau Steel (KS), he said, KIEC has various facilities and resources such as electricity owned Krakatau Electricity (KDL) with a 400 Megawatt (MW), Krakatau Tirta Industry (KTI) to meet basic water with a 2000 liter / sec and the needs of other industries such as gas supply and port.

Other supporting facilities, such as hotel and golf course is integrated with the industry, was created so that the investors have a more liberal sport also tour the region.

Meanwhile, the staff of the Governor of Banten and Economic Development of Regions, Turmudji said, the government and the province Pemkot Cilegon already submit proposals to the central government in order to be KIEC Special Economic Regions (KEK).

Because, he said, of 18 industrial estates in Banten, KIEC have some means of supporting industries in the region and support infrastructure in areas such as Banten province toll roads, ports, airports, electricity supply, gas and the International Bojonegara estimated will start operating mid-2010 later.

"We are still awaiting a decision from the central government. For, regulation or law for the determination of Special Economic Regions (KEK) is now still in the process," said Turmudji.

source : antara

6 anticipated games 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Dich RUssel) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:33:00 +0000

INTRO

Your 401k is gone. The price of your home has crashed. Your paycheck is in doubt. Yeah, 2009 is shaping up to be a great year, thanks to the recession.

But chin up, readers. With hard work, a little bit of luck, and a healthy dose of escapism, we'll get through this. So when the going gets tough, look to these standout games to forget it all: the most anticipated video games of 2009.

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Resident Evil 5

Given the pedigree of the series, not to mention the innovative enhancements of the last game, the sequel to "Resident Evil 4" was a shoo-in on our list this year. Early previews suggests "5" is more of the same, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Whatever the case, we're giving developer Capcom the benefit of the doubt and hoping for the best.

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Punch-Out!!

Nintendo fans flipped in October when the company announced the first proper update to “Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!” since 1994. And rightfully so: The requisite timing and pattern recognition to play the game, in addition to its humor, always arouses a smile. It won't be easy revitalizing the 8-bit classic, but since the game is being handled by the developers of “Mario Strikers Charged,” we believe. (Also consider: Wii Sports Resort).

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Final Fantasy XIII

Widely regarded as the most influential role-playing franchise on consoles, the latest "Final Fantasy" is scheduled to arrive on PS3 this year (and later on Xbox 360). But don't let the ridiculously high sequel number dash your hopes for originality, though. Developer Square Enix has a history of perfecting and evolving the art of the RPG, as they'll likely do with this one.

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StarCraft II

This 10-year-old game is still being played – a lot – so you’ve gotta figure that die-hard fans are beyond excited for this one. Like a real-time version of "Risk" set in space and running at 80 miles per hour, it's no wonder "StarCraft" is one of the best-selling PC games of all time. And South Korea -- where "Starcraft" tournaments are televised live -- is sure to implode once the game drops. (Also consider: Diablo 2)

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Wheelman

With all the games that come across my desk, I don't finish many -- it takes something special for that to happen. So after beating an advance copy of "Wheelman" at will, I can confidently say it's something to look forward to this year. Made by the same studio that produced 2004's critically-acclaimed "Chronicles of Riddick," the quick-hit missions, variety of tasks and just plain driving around never fail to entertain. The vehicular combat is so fun it will make you rethink the role of automobiles in open world games.

PLN ( electricity nation power company) will auctener Pemalang PLTU

noreply@blogger.com (Dich RUssel) — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:29:00 +0000

PT PLN (Persero) will aucteneer projects of steam power (PLTU) 2000 MW in the wall Pemalang, Central Java with investment 2.57 billion U.S. dollars.

Director of Strategic Planning and PLN Bambang Praptono in Jakarta on Thursday (15 / 1), said :the company is inviting interested in the project since the end of December 2008. "It is a lot of companies that interest. In them, Marubeni, Siemens, WTL, Areva, as well as Chinese companies such as Datang and Huadian," he said.

On Friday (16 / 1), PLN will close the registration for companies interested Furthermore, the weekend before, PLN will invite companies who are interested to get an explanation about the project can be built with a capacity of 3x660 MW or 2x1.000 MW. "In future, we will tenderkan openly," he said.

According to him, his side will assess the price and conditions of electricity
other in the auction evaluation. "We targeted the project completed in 2014," he said.

Bambang added that the project using private contract of power (independent power producer / IPP) third generation.

Unlike the previous generation of the contract, the contract was last IPP Perpres diwadahi No. 67 Year 2005 on infrastructure, so get the government guarantee.

"Thus, the scheme projects g to b, and not b to b like that," said Bambang.

10 Tips tahun baru untuk komputer di perusahaan anda

noreply@blogger.com (Dich RUssel) — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:04:00 +0000

1. Bersihkan database keamanan

keamanan biasanya diubah secara mingguan, menjamin keamanan klien data pribadi yang harus terus-menerus adalah bagian dari strategi IT. Tahun baru adalah alasan yang sempurna untuk anda untuk mengaudit database keamanan , Pastikan Anda menggunakan password yang kuat dan dienkripsi , juga mempertimbangkan tempat penyimpanan data tersebut . Yang terakhir adalah bagian penting: jagalah selalu laptop anda karena di dalamnya terdapat password yang anda simpan .

2. Pertimbangkan lagi keamanan wireless anda

Jika Anda telah membuat Wi-Fi router pada tahun 2004 dan anda tenang-tenang saja semenjak saat itu. nah, jika anda belum memikirkan itu, (saya beritahu ) WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy telah bisa di hack pada tahun lalu dan merupakan sebuah hal yang sepele bagi para hacker. baru-baru ini WPA, pengganti dari WEP juga telah berhasil di crack, walaupun kelihatannya lebih aman dari pada WEP. Upgrade ke WPA2 lebih dianjurkan jika semua perangkat pada jaringan Anda mendukungnya, namun setidaknya bermigrasilah ke WPA jika Anda belum mempunyai jaringan yang terkoneksi dengan internet.

3. Uji dan Upgrade Perangkat UPS

Jika anda menggunakan Ups di kantor anda, pikirkanlah bagaimana tentang daya simpan dari ups. daya simpan baterai Ups tergantung dari banyaknya daya yang di sedot oleh peralatan tersebut. pertimbangkan untuk memilih UPS dengan kapasitas daya baterai lebih besar untuk peralatan yang lebih banyak membutuhkan waktu untuk penyimpanan energi. kurangi penggunaan barang yang tersambung ke UPS jika daya yang disimpan oleh UPS tidak mencukupi untuk menghidupkannya pada saat sambungan listrik terputus.

4. Setup sebuah Sistem CRM

sangat penting untuk tidak membiarkan penjulan tersiksa dan mati. Instalasi sistem CRM dapat membantu tim penjualan memprioritaskan upaya penjualan dan menindaklanjuti pada waktu yang tepat. CRM (customer relationship management) adalah akronim dari suara yang menakutkan, tetapi kebanyakan sistem manajemen hubungan pelanggan secara mengejutkan telah dimengerti oleh para sales.contohnya: seperti Salesforce.com dan host layanan, yang sepenuhnya online membuat anda tak perlu menginstall apapun di komputer anda.

5. Install sistem anti maling pada laptop

kehilangan laptop tidak berarti Anda harus menulis di kertas untuk selamanya. coba pilih sistim produk pemulihan seperti Computrace LoJack for Laptops. alat ini dapat mendeteksi keberadaan laptop di manapun berada.

Computrace bermitra langsung dengan badan-badan penegak hukum dan mengatakan ia telah memperbaiki 60 komputer setiap minggu rata-rata 75 persen dari laptop yang dilaporkan telah dicuri. Membayar $ 90 untuk keamanan laptop selama tiga tahun. Ekstra $ 20 menambahkan sebuah pilihan "kill switch", yang dapat anda gunakan untuk semua data pada laptop jika anda takut bahwa laptop anda tidak akan pernah kembali.

6. Belajar Mengenal VOIP

Mungkin tidak waktunya untuk seluruh perusahaan bermigrasi ke VoIP dan mengganti dengan sistem analog yang sudah menjadi tradisional, tetapi pasti ada waktu untuk memulai percobaan. Mulailah dengan Skype untuk beberapa pengguna komputer yang telah ahli.dan tambahkan headset kepada mereka sehingga mereka dapat membandingkan proses VoIP langsung dengan pengalaman mereka menggunakan telepon biasa . Periksa kembali dalam empat bulan untuk mendengar pemikiran mereka tentang hal tersebut.

7. Berhenti Membuat User Ganti Sandi untuk alasan yang tidak jelas

Banyak departemen TI memberikan perintah triwulan - dan bahkan bulanan - untuk melakukan perubahan sandi, namun tidak ada bukti yang menunjukkan bahwa kebijakan ini akan meningkatkan keamanan, pengguna dipaksa untuk mengubah password sering lebih rentan terhadap apa yang mereka tulis, katakan, dan untuk rekaman untuk memantau mereka. sebaiknya kita mendidik pengguna tentang sandi apa yang kuat dan membatasi masuknya kata umum yang terdapat pada daftar sandi para hacker, seperti nomor ,karakter khusus, dan sebagainya.

8. Seriuslah mengenai backup

Hardisk Backup sering digunakan untuk menyimpan data-data penting di dalamnya. mungkin ini sekitar 3 tahun atau 4 tahun lalu dimana kapasitas hardisk hanya dalam ukuran GB. tidak dengan zaman sekarang yang telah mengeluarkan hardisk ukuran TeraByte (1000 GB) . backuplah data-data penting tersebut pada hardisk yang ukurannya besar.

9. Bermigrasilah dari Internet Explorer

Bulan kemarin , cacat keamanan dari Internet Explorer telah terungkap. dan meneror setiap pengguna internet explorer. Sayangnya, mengupgrade ie ke komputer seluruh kantor atau menghapusnya membutuhkan waktu, jadi anda tidak bisa membiarkan pengguna komputer browsing dari internet (repot khan). Berita baiknya: Tidak seperti kebanyakan versi-versi upgrade, pengguna dapat dengan mudah beradaptasi dengan Firefox, Opera, atau Safari, sehingga kebutuhan akan pelatihan yang minimal.

10. Bersihkan ruangan server

Kabel tergeletak di mana-mana (tanpa label, alami). debu pada setiap celah. carilah dibawah tumpukan monitor anda akan menemukan mouse hidup atau yang lebih buruk lagi . belum lagi sarang-sarang kecoa, laba-laba,lipan . wow . ini akan menjadi kebun binatang alami di perusahaan anda. lebih buruk lagi jika tikus-tikus yang tak sengaja terpelihara lapar dan kemudian menggigiti kabel2 di dalam ruangan server tanpa anda ketahui. Stay Clean Ur Server

edited and translate by: dichki
source: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/156570-2/10_new_years_resolutions_for_your_business.html

Islamic banking is in its golden period of growth

noreply@blogger.com (Dich RUssel) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:05:00 +0000

Last week Moody's Investors Services published an exceptional report about Islamic banking industry. Entitled, "Frequently Asked Questions: Notable Trends in Global Islamic Finance", the report revealed some valuable insights into the potential of Islamic banking. Yet, one could disagree with some of the arguments made by the report's author, Anouar Hassoune, vice-president and senior credit officer at the company.

Amongst others, the report claims that the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries do not want the private sector dominating the realm of Islamic banking. Accordingly, the GCC governments are increasingly entering as strategic investors in Islamic financial institutions (IFIs). Cases in point are Dubai government owning a controlling stake at Noor Islamic Bank (NIB). Set up 2007, NIB aims at becoming the largest IFI in the world within the next five years. Also, state pension funds own 30 per cent of Alinma Bank in Saudi Arabia. Set up in 2006, Alinma sold 70 per cent of shares through initial public offers earlier in the year. Likewise, the Qatari government partly owns Masraf Al Rayan.
The report suggests that government ownership should help making IFIs only more acceptable. "If governments have an increasing share of ownership in IFIs, the risk of consumers perceiving an IFI as insufficiently compliant with sharia is somewhat mitigated," it said. However, existing IFIs are not suffering from a reputation of being overtly commercial.
In reality what makes existing IFIs acceptable is endorsement granted by Islamic scholars. Some IFIs publish paid interviews with scholars if deemed necessary to win public acceptance for innovative products. Nevertheless, ensuring the availability of sharia scholars with knowledge of conventional and Islamic finance is a key challenge facing Islamic banking.
Yet, it is probable that authorities want to have a piece of profitability pie of IFIs, which are not known for reporting sustained growth in net income. For instance, Bahrain-based Ithmaar Bank saw its profit for the first half of this year surging 115 per cent to a record $141.9 million, up from $65.9 million for the same period last year.
One such additional evidence that Islamic banking has extraordinary potential relates to rivalry between London and Paris in dominating the industry in Europe. To be sure, the UK is relatively ahead of France in embracing the concept. In fact, the UK has modified its financial regulations to accommodate Islamic sharia. In fact, it is suggested that the UK government is contemplating issuing sukuk (Islamic bonds).
Yet, France is eagerly attempting to entice Islamic banking by virtue of hosting the largest Muslim community in Western Europe. Chances are that France could score some success through President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has developed a reputation of crisscrossing the world ever since assuming power in 2007.
The report put a sizable figure on the monetary value of Islamic banking. The suggested amount of $700 billion is considerably higher than previously assumed. Still, the report asserts that the figure could reach as high as $4 trillion in the too distant future. Other researches have put value of total assets of some 300 IFIs at $500 billion.

I agree with the report in stressing that expansion of the Islamic financial industry should lead to further diversification. In essence, benefits are expected to be extracted from increasing sophistication and further innovation as well as from growing operating and geographic diversification. Undoubtedly, Islamic banking is growing through its golden period.

source: http://www.alhudacibe.com/AlhudaMagazine/Issue-031/int_news10.php

Situs NATO telah DI Hack

noreply@blogger.com (Dich RUssel) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:52:00 +0000

Hacker telah mengambil alih situs nato target karena mereka terus berkelanjutan mendukung serangan Palestina, situs yang telah di hack situs web yang dikelola oleh US Army dan North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Serangan yang pada hari Kamis mengambil bawah situs-situs Web untuk Amerika Serikat Army Militer Kecamatan Washington dan NATO Majelis Parlemen, menurut Zone-H, sebuah situs Web yang melacak aktivitas perusakan.

NATO yang kini kembali situs online, tetapi US Army situs masih offline, Jumat pagi. Sebuah versi dari halaman web cache oleh Google dibaca: "Hentikan serangan u israel dan usa! Anda mengutuk bangsa! Satu hari muslims akan membersihkan dunia dari anda!" NATO tidak segera menanggapi permintaan untuk komentar.

Sebagian besar lainnya US Army situs tidak tampak telah terkena serangan itu. The US Army Militer Kecamatan Washington merupakan perintah tentara, yang berbasis di Fort Lesley J. McNair di Washington, DC

Menggunakan apa yang dikenal sebagai serangan SQL injection, grup juga defaced the Web site Joint Force Markas dari National Capital Region, yang menangani kejadian militer Tanggapan untuk Washington, DC, daerah, menurut Gary Warner, direktur penelitian di komputer forensics dengan University of Alabama di Birmingham. A US Army spokeswoman tidak dapat segera mengomentari laporan dari hacks.

Semua ini adalah serangan dikreditkan ke Turki hacking grup bernama Agd_Scorp / Damai Crew.

Kelompok ini diklaim memiliki banyak Web hacks selama beberapa bulan, termasuk situs Web Microsoft di Kanada, Irlandia dan Cina; Shell; Harvard University, dan US National Basketball Association, Warner mengatakan dalam sebuah posting blog.

"Meskipun kelompok kini memanggil dirinya 'Perdamaian Crew,' keanggotaan yang sama telah memanggil dirinya 'Terrorist Crew' seperti baru-baru ini sebagai Desember," Warner menulis.

Sebagai ketegangan di Gaza yang intensif selama beberapa minggu, loosely organized hacking kelompok dari negara-negara seperti Maroko, Turki dan Iran telah defaced ribuan halaman Web. Terbaru ini memiliki gelombang serangan kebanyakan difokuskan pada situs Israel, khususnya mudah target milik perorangan atau usaha kecil. Namun, beberapa profil target tinggi sudah terkena juga, seperti situs berita Ynetnews.com

source:http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/156815/hackers_deface_nato_us_army_web_sites.html

4 step Virus to Prevent Conficker virus

noreply@blogger.com (Dich RUssel) — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:46:00 +0000

Worm Win32/Conficker.A attack on the computer network that has a slit Dcom RPC security is not in the 3-patch. If successful, the file will be downloaded to a computer virus victims.

Conficker disable System Restore to the way their "Restore Point" to prevent the virus is killing the victim to return to the Restore Point. This virus also causes the death Internet connection sharing.

To prevent this virus menginfeksi more computers, make sure you do the following:

1. Make sure the virus is not active on your computer. How is the relationship with the computer to the network.

2. If the relationship after the network decided to stop running virus infection, the virus is not the source of your computer but from one of the computers on the network.

3. Find a source of virus carrier Conficker in the network before mengkoneksikan your computer. Logikanya, all computers that have not been in-patch and connected to a network where one computer is infected with the virus Conficker, it will be infected Conficker also in a short time. Unless computers are protected by a firewall protect port:

* UDP Port 135, 137, 138 and 445
* TCP Port 135, 139, 445 and 593

4. Patch all computer operating system vulnerable to security rift Dcom RPC 3. To get the details of the patch, please download the Microsoft site.

As previously made, not only exploit Conficker rift security in Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2. But Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, and even Windows 7 Pre Beta also vulnerable.

Free Microsoft windows 7 Beta

noreply@blogger.com (Dich RUssel) — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:42:00 +0000

Society seems race download the operating system Windows 7 beta version that Microsoft has released. However, the high number saking download, Microsoft server was' out 'even though they now have started well again.

Some time past, Microsoft had indeed close download beta versions of Windows 7, because of the high demand so that more resources need to address them.

Brandon LeBlanc, Communications Manager of Windows Client Communications Team, said Microsoft is very pleased with the enthusiasm that people want to try the beta version of Windows 7 and development will continue to preach in the official blog of Windows.

"We want to ensure that communities get the best when downloading the beta version of Windows 7," LeBlanc said as quoted detikINET
CRN's, Sunday (11/01/2009).

In the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2009, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer mengumumumkan official launch of Windows 7 beta is claimed as the best Windows throughout history. Windows 7 claimed faster than previous versions of Windows and also energy efficient.

However, some people who want to taste it was immediately feel disappointed because they did not download the efforts bear results. But at this point, claimed to have downloaded can be done again via Microsoft site.

Download here

peduli Palestina

noreply@blogger.com (Dich RUssel) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:54:00 +0000

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sapi legendaris yang berhasil di kloning

noreply@blogger.com (Dich RUssel) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:47:00 +0000

Hida-gyu yang merupakan sapi khas Prefektur Gifu, bagian tengah Jepang. Para peneliti dari Universitas Kinki dan lembaga riset peternakan Gifu berhasil menghasilkan empat ekor sapi kloning antara November 2007 dan Juli 2008. Namun, hanya dua ekor yang bertahan hidup sampai sekarang.

Keberhasilan kloning sapi Hidqa-gyu ini menjanjikan dunia peternakan Jepang karena jenis sapi tersebut dikenal berkualitas tinggi dan berharga mahal. Pemerintah Jepang telah membentuk panel untuk menilai kelayakan daging kloning untuk konsumsi dan kelihatannya segera mengizinkannya seperti yang dilakukan Pemerintah AS dan negara-negara Eropa.

Namun, para peneliti mengatakan, tujuan utama riset saat ini adalah mempelajari jenis gen dan struktur protein yang membuat daging sapi Hida-gyu lebih lezat. Perlakukan terhadap sapi Hida-gyu memang terkenal unik karena sering kali peternak memberikan makanan sampanye dan secara rutin memijatnya.

Selain meneliti kualitas daging sapi, para ilmuwan Jepang juga menjadikannya batu loncatan sebelum menggapai ambisinya mengkloning hewan-hewan yang telah punah. Antara lain mammoth, sejenis gajah yang hidup di zaman es.

"Mimpi kami menciptakan mammoth, itulah mimpi besarnya," ujar Kazuhiro Saeki, profesor di Universitas Kinki seperti dilansir AFP. Saat ini para peneliti telah menemukan sumber sel mammoth dari Siberia. Namun, mereka belum berhasil menemukan cara mengekstrak dan menanam inti sel mammoth ke dalam sel telur gajah yang merupakan hewan paling dekat kekerabatannya sebelum menaruhnya ke dalam rahim gajah betina.(sumber Kompas.com)

Global Crisis

noreply@blogger.com (Dich RUssel) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:12:00 +0000

On Saturday, Brad Setser, following Peter Garnham, made the very important point that while the big countries' central banks have each others' backs, emerging-market countries are being left out in the cold.

For all the talk about how the G-7 has lost relevance, in a lot of ways the recent crisis has reinforced the G-7's importance. Banks in G-7 countries that borrowed in dollars have access to unlimited dollar financing from their central banks - dollar financing that comes from the fact that the main G-7 central banks have access to large swap lines with the Fed.
Banks in emerging market countries have no such luck.

The result is economic chaos around the world: no one, it seems, is immune to the crisis which started in the US housing sector but which is now truly global in nature. Korea, Hungary, Ukraine, Pakistan, Russia, Kazakhstan -- name the country, there's probably a banking crisis there. And then, of course, there's Iceland.

So I'm very puzzled by Dan Gross's column in Slate, saying that a bunch of countries without Starbucks seem to have been "safe havens". He says that Spain, with 48 Starbucks in Madrid alone, is "grappling with the bursting of a speculative coastal real-estate bubble", in contrast to Brazil, which has only 14 Starbucks for the entire country.

Italy hasn't suffered any major bank failures in part because its banking sector isn't very active on the international scene. The number of Starbucks there? Zero. And the small countries of Northern Europe, whose banking systems have been largely spared, are largely Starbucks-free.

In what conceivable way can it be said that Brazil, Italy, and smaller Northern European nations have fared better than Spain in this crisis? Spain's banks are well-regulated beacons of strength; the same can hardly be said of the big Brazilian banks -- overburdened by loans to agriculture and commodity companies -- or of entities like Unicredit or Fortis.

Maybe it's unfair to call out Gross for describing Argentina as "a pocket of relative strength" just as its president decides to nationalize the country's pension system, sending its stock market reeling. But Brazilian stocks have underperformed US stocks over the past few months, and its banks are no exception; Fortis, of course, ended up being nationalized.

Meanwhile, Spain's Santander, which had an option to buy the 76% of Sovereign Bank that it didn't already own at $38 per share, opportunistically swept in to buy it up at $3.81 a share instead. And then of course there's Japan -- full of Starbucks, but one of the few countries without a banking crisis.

But never mind Gross's Starbucks conceit -- does he have a bigger point?

Having a significant Starbucks presence is a pretty significant indicator of the degree of connectedness to the form of highly caffeinated, free-spending capitalism that got us into this mess. It's also a sign of a culture's willingness to abandon traditional norms and ways of doing business (virtually all the countries in which Starbucks has established beachheads have their own venerable coffee-house traditions) in favor of fast-moving American ones.

Nice idea, but it's not true. Look at Germany: those stodgy, Starbucks-free, slow-to-spend capitalists have the largest banking-sector bailout of all.

And more generally, this is no replay of the dot-com crash, where investors in high-flying earnings-free technology stocks suddenly found themselves running on air. The biggest losses this time round haven't been in high-risk assets: they've been in instruments which carried triple-A credit ratings and which were meant to be very low risk.

This is an equal-opportunity crisis: it's hit rich countries and poor ones, importers and exporters, ultracapitalist risk-takers and boring state-owned savings institutions. Just about the only places relatively unscathed are the poorest of the poor, the bottom billion, who are seeing global food prices come down from starvation-inducing levels -- the people who don't have any savings to lose.

Mineral Basah Ditemukan Di Mars

noreply@blogger.com (Dich RUssel) — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:41:00 +0000

Bukti-bukti pernah adanya air di Mars kembali diperkuat dengan ditemukannya mineral baru yang mengikat air. Mineral yang disebut silika hidrat atau opal terdeteksi instrumen yang disebut Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer (CRISM) di wahana Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) yang mengorbit di Mars.

Mineral tersebut pertama kali ditemukan di Kawah Gustav oleh rover Spirit yang menjelajah di permukaan Mars. CRISM memastikannya sebagai silika hidrat setelah memindai 500 warna yang dipantulkan dari berbagai sudut permukaan Mars saat tersorot sinar Matahari.

Silika hidrat merupakan mineral basah ketiga yang ditemukan di Mars. Selama ini hanya diketahui dua mineral yang mengikat air di Mars, yakni phyllosilicate dan sulfat hidrat. Dibandingkan kedua mineral tersebut, silika hidrat merupakan mineral paling muda.

"Ini merupakan penemuan yang mengejutkan karena hal tersebut memperpanjang keberadaan air di Mars dan tempat yang mungkin mendukung kehidupan," ujar Scott Murchie, ilmuwan dari Laboratorium Fisika Terapan Universitas John Hopkins di Maryland, AS.

Phyllosilicate yang berbentuk seperti tanah liat terbentuk antara 3-3,5 miliar tahun saat batuan beku kontak dengan air. Beberapa ratus juta tahun berikutnya, sulfat hidrat terbentuk dari penguapan air yang mungkin mengandung garam dan asam.

Sementara silikat opal terbentuk saat air tercampur material yang terbentuk dari aktivitas vulkanik atau tumbukan meteorit ke permukaan Mars. MIneral tersebut diperkirakan terbentuk dua miliar tahun lalu. Hal tersebut menunjukkan bahwa air masih mengalir di permukaan Mars satu miliar tahun lebih lama dari perkiraan selama ini.

MRO telah mengamati permukaan Mars sejak tahun 2006. Wahana senilai 720 juta dollar AS bertujuan mempelajari geologi, iklim, dan atmosfer Mars serta tanda-tanda air.
dan jejak kehidupan.

sumber : www.kompas.co.id

Scientists discover paternal baldness gene

noreply@blogger.com (Dich RUssel) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:00:00 +0000

Bonn, Germany (ANTARA News/dpa) - Scientists say they have found at last the gene that causes some men to go prematurely bald like their fathers.

The same team discovered a baldness gene three years ago that can only be passed on by women to their sons, which would explain why some men's hair loss resembles that of their maternal grandfathers.

Now the geneticists at the German universities of Bonn and Dusseldorf have zeroed in on a gene that both fathers and mothers can pass to their sons, which would explain commonly noticed father-son resemblances in hair thinning.

A group of British scientists discovered the gene at almost the same moment. Both jointly published the findings Sunday in the online edition of Nature Genetics.

The Bonn team led by Axel Hillmer studied more than 500,000 genetic markers as they hunted for features that were common in men who go bald in middle age or earlier.

Once they discover how the gene influences hair growth, it will be possible to consider therapies that thwart the effect. Hillmer's team cautioned that other genes were also potentially involved, making the problem complex. (*)

source:www.antara.co.id

Pada 2100, Permukaan Laut Naik Satu Meter

noreply@blogger.com (Dich RUssel) — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:31:00 +0000

BERLIN, KAMIS - Permukaan laut diperkirakan akan naik setinggi satu meter pada akhir abad ke-21. Demikian laporan yang dilansir sebuah lembaga riset terkemuka Jerman Kamis (10/10). Menurut lembaga itu, kenaikan ini jauh lebih tinggi ketimbang proyeksi paling optimis yang disampaikan panel iklim PBB, IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Clomate Change).

"Kita sebaiknya bersiap-siap dalam menghadapi naiknya permukaan laut setinggi satu meter pada abad ini," kata Joachim Schellnhuber, kepala Institut Postdam bagi Riset Dampak Iklim (PIK), yang memberikan nasehat kepada pemerintah dalam kebijakan lingkungan.

Tingkat pencairan es di Himalaya dan Greenland telah meningkat menjadi dua kali lipat atau bahkan tiga kali lipat dalam beberapa tahun belakangan ini. Sebagian karena faktor naiknya emisi gas rumah kaca dari berbagai pembangkit listrik China.

Pada Februari 2007, dalam volume pertama laporan bersejarahnya, IPCC meramalkan kenaikan permukaan berbagai samudera antara 19 sentimeter hingga 59 sentimeter pada 2100. Kenaikan permukaan laut satu meter saja boleh jadi akan membuat pulau-pulau di Samudera Pasifik yang letaknya rendah, seperti Tuvalu, akan terendam, dan banjir besar akan menggenangi Bangladesh dan mengancam kota-kota, dari New York hingga Buenos Aires.

WAH

Sumber : Antara

Selamat datang Ramadhan

noreply@blogger.com (Dich RUssel) — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:41:00 +0000

Ku Bersujud...
Ku Berdoa Atas Hadirmu ya ramadhan....
ku akui aku tak sempurna ...
ku akui ku banyak dosa...
dalam menjalani hidupmu sebagai khalifah di muka bumi ini....

Hanya KepadaMulah ya ALLAH aku Bertobat

di dalam perilaku yang berdusta...
di dalam kata yang tak terpikirkan ....
di dalam menjalani hidup yang fana ini....

Hanya KepadaMulah ya ALLAH aku Bertobat

menuju fitrimu ..
menuju nur yang akan ditunjukkan oleh Alqur'an dan Hadis...

Ampunkanlah aku ya ALLAH dan semua muslim di Muka Bumi ....
aku dan mereka Hanya menjadi Khalifah di muka bumi ini

home sales rise

noreply@blogger.com (Dich RUssel) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:07:00 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sales of existing homes rose in July, surpassing expectations, as buyers snapped up deeply discounted properties in parts of the U.S. hit hardest by the housing bust.

It's estimated 33 to 40 percent of sales activity is coming from foreclosures or other distressed properties

However, the number of unsold properties hit an all-time high, the latest indication that the worst housing slump in decades is far from over. Prices nationwide are not expected to hit bottom until early next year.

The National Association of Realtors reported Monday that sales rose 3.1 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5 million units, down from June's downwardly revised rate of 4.85 million units. Sales had been expected to rise by only 1.6 percent, according to economists surveyed by Thomson/IFR.

"The process of a recovery has begun," said Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economic Advisors. "It's not going to be short and swift, but it's begun nonetheless."

Home sales were about 13 percent lower than a year ago and prices were down dramatically. The median price for a home sold in July dropped to $212,000, down by 7.1 percent from a year ago.

Despite the third monthly sales increase this year, the number of unsold single-family homes and condominiums rose to 4.67 million, the highest number since 1968, when the Realtors group started tracking the data.

That represented a 11.2-month supply at the July sales pace, matching the all-time high set in April.

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Until the inventory level is reduced to more normal levels, analysts say, the housing slump is likely to persist. The inventory level is being driven higher by a massive wave of mortgage foreclosures.

Between 33 and 40 percent of sales activity is coming from foreclosures or other distressed properties, he estimated.

While buyers are pouncing on lower prices -- especially in places like California, Florida and Nevada -- sales are sluggish in formerly stable states like Texas.

"People are responding to lower prices," Yun said, but there is "too much uncertainty" about the housing market's future to mark a definite bottom.

In Las Vegas, sales were up 96 percent in July, after prices fell more than 25 percent to a median of $220,000, according to The Associated Press-Re/Max Monthly Housing Report, which analyzed home sales recorded by all real estate agents in 55 cities, regardless of company affiliation.

Sales in Los Angeles jumped 31 percent after prices fell 35 percent over the past year to a median of $335,000, according to the AP-Re/Max report.

In Miami, sales were up 9 percent while prices dropped nearly 10 percent to a median of $280,000. One of those sellers last month was Jennifer Del Pino, who unloaded her 3,600 square-foot (334 sq. meter) Miami home to a buyer from Germany for $490,000.

She cut her asking price by $60,000, but sold her house in about a month.

"It's kind of a relief for me," she said.

One key unknown for the U.S. housing market is the future ability of mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to supply money for loans. The two government-sponsored companies have dramatically cut back the availability of mortgages as they cope with mounting losses from foreclosures.

President George W. Bush last month signed sweeping housing legislation that aims to prevent foreclosures by allowing an estimated 400,000 homeowners to swap their mortgages for more affordable loans, but only if their lender agrees to take a loss on the initial loan.

Even with government help, nearly 2.8 million U.S. households will either face foreclosure, turn over their homes to their lender or sell the properties for less than their mortgage's value by the end of next year, predicts Moody's Economy.com.

Bahagia Bikin Panjang Umur

noreply@blogger.com (Dich RUssel) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:59:00 +0000

TETAPLAH senandungkan lagu Don't Worry Be Happy. Lagu yang tenar di era 1980-an ini ternyata benar adanya. Sebuah penelitian menunjukkan, merasakan kebahagiaan membuat hidup bakal lebih awet dan lama.

"Kebahagiaan tidak menyembuhkan, tetapi melindungi kita dari penyakit," ujar Ruut Veenhoven dari Universitas Erasmus di Rotterdam dalam sebuah penelitian yang dipublikasikan bulan depan.

Setelah meninjau kembali 3 penelitian yang telah dilakukan di berbagai belahan dunia selama periode hingga 30 tahun, profesor asal Belanda ini mengatakan bahwa efek bahagia pada panjang umur itu sama dengan kalau kita membandingkan antara orang yang merokok dan yang tidak merokok.

Merasa bahagia, katanya, dapat memperpanjang usia 7,5 hingga 10 tahun.
Temuan ini membawa pada sebuah pertanyaan baru yang cukup sulit dijawab, yakni soal penyebab bahagia. Apa yang bisa membuat seseorang bahagia?

Dan terkait dengan pertanyaan ini perlu kita cermati gejala yang menarik di negara-negara maju. Materi begitu diupayakan sedemikian rupa. Namun setelah dicapai, di tempat ini, kelebihan materi atau kelimpahan rezeki ternyata dianggap sebagai sesuatu yang tak lagi memuaskan hidup mereka.

Pertanyaan atas kebahagian muncul, dianalisis, dan menjadi pertanyaan yang serius untuk dicari tahu. Beberapa mengungkapkan jawaban yang kemudian jatuh pada keadaan yang disebut hedonis (mengutamakan kenikmatan materi, fisik).

"Ide bahwa ada situasi yang disebut bahagia dan kita dapat menjelaskan ciri-ciri mengenai rasa dan bagaimana mengukurnya, jelas-jelas merupakan ide subversif," ungkap Bill McKibben dalam bukunya Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, 2007.

Ini akan membuat para pemuja ekonomi berpikir untuk meningkatkan kekayaan. Padahal, bertambahnya materi, kekayaan, hanya menyumbang sedikit bagi munculnya kebahagiaan seseorang. Demikian hasil riset itu.

Namun, kebahagiaan dapat muncul akibat suasana persahabatan yang hangat dan menyenangkan, juga karena faktor-faktor sosial seperti kemerdekaan, demokrasi, pemerintahan yang efektif, dan aturan hukum yang ditegakkan.

Dalam temuan Veenhoven, yang dipublikasikan di Journal of Happiness Studies, sebuah media ilmiah yang didirikan tahun 2000, bukti bahwa rasa bahagia sangat berpengaruh atas kehidupan seseorang ditemukan pada sekelompok biarawati di Amerika Serikat. Mungkin karena mereka didukung oleh komunitas yang saling mendukung, kedekatan antarpribadi dan kesatuan hati dan budi yang terjadi di antara mereka.

Lirik lagu dari pemenang Grammy 1989 Be Happy terinspirasi dari guru terkenal dari India, Meher Baba. Saat ini, di lebih dari 100 negara, dari Butan di Pegunungan Himalaya hingga Amerika Serikat dan Australia, para ahli ekonomi berupaya membuat indikator "kebahagiaan" (satu bentuk indeks kualitas hidup yang baru) ke dalam ukuran pertumbuhan.

Kebahagiaan, menurut para spesialis, yang diterima oleh masyarakat umum diartikan sebagai "penghargaan atas hidup seseorang sebagai manusia utuh".

Dalam tulisan ini, Veenhoven pertama-tama mencermati statistik untuk melihat apakah kegembiraan membawa pengaruh bagi orang yang sakit. Yang ditemui justru kebahagiaan memang membantu mengurangi derita yang dialami pasien kanker. Namun, secara umum kebahagiaan tidak akan memperpanjang hidup mereka.

Di antara warga masyarakat yang sehat, sebaliknya, kebahagiaan terbukti melindungi mereka dari sakit. Ini berarti memperlama hidup mereka.

Orang yang bahagia lebih mudah waspada akan berat badannya, lebih mengerti dan memahami gejala-gejala penyakit yang mungkin timbul di dalam dirinya, cenderung lebih moderat bila mereka perokok dan peminum, dan secara keseluruhan hidup mereka lebih sehat. Mereka juga lebih aktif, lebih terbuka terhadap dunia, lebih percaya diri, membantu membuat keputusan yang tepat, dan membangun jaringan sosial yang kuat.

"Selama ini kita tahu bahwa rasa bahagia akan membuat fisik kita menjadi sehat, tapi kita tidak tahu persisnya bagaimana. Kesedihan atau rasa kurang bahagia kronis mengaktifkan respons bertempur dalam diri kita. Artinya, kondisi ini bakal mengancam diri sendiri karena jangka lama bakal membuat kita sendiri hipertensi dan respons kekebalan tubuh menurun", tulisnya

Untuk meningkatkan rasa gembira perlu ada riset tambahan atas efek-efek kondisi tempat tinggal, sekolah, atau lingkungan yang mengelilingi hidup kita dalam waktu lama. Apakah semua itu membuat kita bahagia?

Bahkan, penelitian atas kepuasan kerja dan tempat kerja pun memengaruhi kebahagiaan seseorang. Karena itu, pemerintah perlu mengajari atau setidaknya memberikan suasana yang nyaman pada rakyatnya untuk bisa hidup nyaman sehingga semua orang bisa menikmati hidup dan mendapatkan makna yang berarti dalam hidupnya.

"Jika kita merasa tidak sehat, kita akan pergi ke dokter umum," katanya. "Jika kita merasa tidak bahagia, tak ada ahli dalam hal itu. Kita harus mengupayakan sendiri. Petunjuk profesional bagaimana caranya agar bisa hidup bahagia sampai sekarang belum ada," tuturnya. Ini jelas merupakan pertanda nyata kegagalan pasar dan ekonomi. Pada akhirnya, tanpa hal ini pun banyak orang merasa lebih bahagia.

Invisibilty cloak

noreply@blogger.com (Dich RUssel) — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:53:00 +0000

Scientists have created a cloaking device that can reroute certain wavelengths of light, forcing them around objects like water flowing around boulders in a stream. To creatures or machines that see only in microwave light, the cloaked object would appear nearly invisible.

"The microwaves come in and are swept around the cloak and reconstructed on the other side while avoiding the interior region," said study team member David Smith at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering. "So it looks as if they just passed through free space."

The device [image] only works in the microwave range of light, so cloaked objects are still visible to humans. Also, it only works in two dimensions and only for microwaves moving in a plane. A three-dimensional invisibility cloak would hide an object completely.The microwave cloak is also slightly reflective and casts a partial shadow.

Despite these shortcomings, however, the new device is "a very good achievement," said Ulf Leonhardt, a theorist at the University of St. Andrews in England who was not involved in the study.

"It's surprising that it's as simple as it is and that it works so well," Leonhardt said in a related news article about the work in the journal Science.

The achievement, reported online today by the journal, comes five months after the same team published a study detailing the precise mathematical specifications a needed to build such a cloaking device.

Metamaterials

The apparatus was made using "metamaterials," artificial materials engineered to have precisely patterned surfaces that interact with and manipulate light in novel ways.

Although called a cloak, the device is not something that can be worn. Rather, it consists of a series of concentric circles, made of copper rings and wires patterned onto sheets of fiberglass, and resembles a loosely coiled reel of film.

The patterns enable the manipulation of light, and the size of the patterns determines which wavelengths of light can be manipulated. Smaller patterns affect shorter the wavelengths. Microwaves have relatively long wavelengths and can be affected with metamaterials having relatively large patterns. Manipulating visible light, which has much shorter wavelengths, will require metamaterials with much finer patterns.

While making those finer patterns is possible with current nanomanufacturing technologies, the metals used to make the microwave cloak would behave differently with visible light, Smith said.

"They act very differently at optical wavelengths; they become very absorptive. A cloaked object would just become very opaque, rather than transparent," he told LiveScience.

But even if metamaterials are made that can deflect visible light, don't expect the kind of invisibility offered by Harry Potter's cloak or Star Trek cloaking devices any time soon.

Human eyes are sensitive to many different wavelengths of light, as evidenced by the rainbow of colors that we see, and it's still uncertain if metamaterials can deflect so many wavelengths simultaneously.

Still useful

But even imperfect cloaking devices might be useful, the researchers say. Cloaks that deflect radio waves could render an object invisible to radar or improve cell phone receptions by rerouting signals around obstructions. They might also be used to protect people from penetrating and harmful radiation.

"If you knew that you had radiation of a certain bandwidth frequency, you could have it skirt around some region that you wanted shielded," Smith said.

The team says the next step is to create a cloak that works in three dimensions and to perfect the cloaking effect.

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Roket Indonesia Paling Canggih

noreply@blogger.com (Dich RUssel) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:15:00 +0000

Suatu ketika beberapa negara maju terlihat tertarik untuk berinvestasi di Indonesia. Mulailah wakil beberapa negara itu mengirim teknokrat dan perdana menterinya. Sampailah mereka pada pembahasan perusahaan-perusahaan milik negara (BUMN), yang seharusnya amat menguntungkan itu.

Ketika pembahasan sampai kepada Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara (IPTN), tampillah pegawai IPTN untuk presentasi.

"Suatu kehormatan bagi kami bisa presentasi di hadapan Bapak-Bapak," ungkapnya pada pidato pembukaan.

"To the point saja, apa yang saudara banggakan dari IPTN?" potong perdana menteri Mahathir dari Malaysia.

"Oke, ternyata kami sudah tidak lagi memproduksi pesawat, bapak Mahathir. Namun, kami sekarang memproduksi roket," jelas pegawai IPTN dengan bangga sambil memperlihatkan prototype yang masih "anget".

"Terus, apa keunggulan roket IPTN ini?" tanya Tony Blair dari Inggris.

"Kalau Amerika mampu mendaratkan manusia pertama di bulan, maka roket kami jauh lebih bagus daripada punya mereka. Roket kami akan bisa mengantarkan manusia ke matahari," cetus pegawai IPTN dengan angkuh. Para hadirin pun seketika takjub.

"Eh, eh.. Sebentar mas. Roket Anda itu apa nggak kebakar kalau mendarat di matahari. Di sana itu panas bener lho, mas," kata Tony Blair bertanya-tanya.

Dengan santai dan sedikit membusungkan dada, pegawai IPTN tersebut menjawab, "Jangan khawatir, Pak Tony. Saya dan tim sudah memperhitungkan dengan cermat, sehingga roket akan sampai di sana pada malam hari. Jadi, tidak akan ada yang terbakar."

Para undangan pun manggut-manggut seakan baru mengerti