processing

Tak sengaja menemukan software ini di creditnya website itb, namanya processing. Keren juga, eh keren banget ding. Lihat aja di bagian exibitionnya, terus ikuti linknya..hmmm.
Sepertinya bakal jadi software grafik yang "gue banget" buat yang suka coding. Hebat juga java ini..salut

Instalasinya agak tricky di Linux, masalah dengan jikes-nya. Jikes bawaan si processing mungkin tidak cocok dengan sistem Linux yang ada(libstdc++ something), jadi install aja jikes buat distribusi Linux saudara, setelah itu buat symbolic link(dicopy juga bisa sih) ke jikes yg ada di /bin atau /usr/bin di folder yg sama dengan jikes bawaan processing, hapus/rename dulu jikes yg lama.

walah, sibuk-sibuk malah utak-atik hal yg gak-gak...

beautiful typograph and layout

It is common to see a nasty typograph and layout on an amateur paperwork. Amateurs tend to think that they can do everything, from the content, layout, typograph, even the colour and illustration. I remember when an owner of a software enterprise which was doing project in a state ministerial office insisted to put his own logo design as an opening/welcome screen of the official website of the minister office, my friend commented "Garuda Terbakar/Burned Garuda". The logo was Garuda Pancasila with red background. These smart ass actions became common when WYSIWYG(What You See Is What You Guess) editing tools are widely available. Everybody thinks to be a designer; typographer and layouter. Everybody think that design is simple matter.
Go back to writing paper work. Actually for someone who doesn't know about design matter it would be better to follow given styles or template, no need to be creative, or the result will be a nasty annoying work that can make the reader/audience's eyes turn red.
My suggestion as fellow amateur:
A. Presentation and Blog:
1. Use template
2. Don't do any significant 'creative' vandalism on the template

B. Paper report
1. Use template
2. Use LaTEX, anyhow this tool is still the best typesetting tool, you can compare which one is better among springer published books, Pearson, Prentice-hall and so on. And take a look what is the system they used for typesetting. Hail Donald E. Knuth!

Sample of nice template for report available on springer's site. There are available on several mainstream editor file format.

Little tutorial on llncs using LaTEX:
1. get llncs.cls.tex, it is a class file
2. get typeinst.zip, it contains sample file of llncs class. You can read the .tex file inside to learn llncs usage.

hifi

Until my boss told me monoblock and tube lamps I thought that the best audio devices are sony, kenwood and so on with sophisticated term such as surround, subwoofer and so on. Yes I was wrong.

Our ears are only two, therefore stereo sound system is actually enough, and a good sound system is the one that reproduce a sound similar to the original, not more or less such provoked by subwoofer stuff, that what was Pak Arief said. But the problem is about what kind of stereo sound system can produce such incredible sound. Unfortunately any transistor sound system which is widely available is never adequate for this purpose due to transistor characteristic. Somehow transistors degrade electron flow, such as electron hole jump.. ahh I don't know exactly.. I'm not an electronic engineer, that eventually degrade sound quality.

Fast backward to the time when transistor was not yet invented, people use tube lamps that has characteristic such as transistor, even computer processor was made from this tube lamps in this age. Its size and power greedy characteristic made any devices contain this tubelamps become monstrous big, but it has a nice characteristic for sound reproduction. It has a smoother 'curve' that preserve sound quality. Therefore audiophilies prefer this kind of tube lamps audio amplifier sound system.

In the case of surround sound system, dts, and so on, this tubelamps system gives a more natural output. Such as when attending a live music concert, from the sound we can determine where are the vocalist, violin, bass, and so on, even though the sound is only coming from the front. This kind of opportunity coined into a notion of staging.

Sure for producing such kind of sound you need a really good resource, forget about MP3, even for the highest possible sampling rate. CD audio is considered as the worst affordable source, preferably vinyl, or any other recording source with quality between them.

This entry was provoked when I saw a bunch of vinyl and the player, it is cheaper than I've thought...hehehe, maybe it was the worst. But the tubelamps sound amplifier price is truly crazy, even though someone offer me for USD500 for the cheapest, home made.

Mekanik Robot, art or engineering?

Edan ini orang.

Mekaniknya.....amazing.... keeereeeeen

above of that it is powered by the WIND, yes by the wind


crazy..




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The Last Supper in high definition photo. I feel this picture form factor is fit exactly in human eyes, divine proportion eh... Let's examine it later.
Do you feel familiar with this picture? Yes, I think this picture is also used as Coreldraw or Adobe illustration icon? Sorry for forgetting it. Is she Maria Magdalena?