tidak ada lagi air mata yang harus ku simpan. namun ku ganti dengan senyuman.

aku sungguh tidak bisa melukiskan keadaan.ku saat ini selain hanya tersenYum.

It's been beautiful here, althougth a little, warm I'm ready for all ok. I had to turn on the air today to knit. Let's see what have I done?

• worked
• saw some horses
• finished the back and started the front of the $1.50 Cardi
• watched Season Two of Heroes - can I say just how glad I am that Nikki died, what a whiney bitch
• considered taking pictures of the two FOs I have to show you, but then realized the battery on my camera was dead. 
• Walked around downtown both days
• spent a lot of time rubbing doggy bellies.
• Tried out Plurk again, is anyone else using this and loving it?

Sorry I have been missing in action lately....there is just a lot going on.

We just got home from a weekend trip to Wichita, KS.  While we were there we attended an Anniversary Party for my brother in law Craig who has worked for the Davis-Moore Dealerships for 40 years!  We had a blast at the Petroleum Club attending his "Roast & Toast" and laughing at all of the stories from co-workers and family members.  It is rare to see anyone stay on the job for 40 years anymore and they really honored him with this party.  Congrats Craig!

Friday we spent the day at the Wichita Zoo with Connor's Grandma and Grandpa and had a great time.  The weather was perfect but it was seriously WINDY.   Despite the dust storms we really did enjoy the animals.  Here are some photos I grabbed so I could share.....

This elephant was stretching so hard to get to the green grass....we were a little worried she would topple right over the edge!

Kissing Chimps!

Our very own little "gorilla"

My favorite "Monkey's"

More Monkey's!  I see a theme here....

There were statues all over the zoo and we stopped to take photos by every one of them...it became a game in the end!

One final note....I have to give a shout out to my niece Michelle who told me that she started scrapbooking!!  YAY!  I am obviously thrilled and excited to hear that you are enjoying this fabulous craft!  And remember..... it is ok to have fun and experiment!  Get out those stamps already.  (And when you read this...don't forget to send me your address)  ;-)

(P.S. I am almost done with that 6x12 album and will share in a few days...)

Chat soon!

Minggu pagi. Cerah. Just another ordinary day. Rutinitas pagi biasa. Lalu, kulihat DIA dan dia.

Is it her? Oh well, tiba-tiba aku sadar, hey, maybe she's better than me.. but, who's care?

Uh oh, did I say WHO'S CARE?

Yippy!

At least i wanna says tararatengkyu so much, beibs. Now i believe your words ;) Let's say it together, loudly,

Bukan gw yang rugi, tapi elooooooooooo!

Hakhakhakhakhakhakhakhak!

(huahaha.. ternyata kalo orang yg baca paragraf diatas itu tau Englais beneran jadi salah sangka. Kalo gitu, aku terjemahan ke Indonesia, paragraf 1 tersebut:

"Waktu saya pagi2 liat statistik blog ini. Saya liat di tag "Perujuk" (not Petunjuk!) yang mengantarkan ke blog ini. Salah satunya adalah google-translate. Waktu aku cek, ternyata blog ini udah ada yang translate-kan!. Wah, berarti ada orang yang (nekat) mentranslate, hoho..")

this link:

http://translate.google.com.sg/translate?hl=en&sl=id&u=http://pojokpradna.wordpress.com/category/linux/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DJoomla_1.5.2-Stable-Full_Package.tar.gz%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

That its.

PS: hoho.. kalo ngebaca englais ku diatas pasti Anda2 skalian maklum kenapa ada yang rela mentranslate blog ini. Pasti pertimbangannya : sebelum ditranslate orangnya sendiri dan malah katjau balau! :D

Demikian.

Just thought I'd throw that in there, since it looks cool. Most earrings are only four dollars a pair!

So, what's the story today? Yes, I'll tell you about my experience built our own internet connection using Huawei modem with telkomflash firmware on it (i dunno if the phrase firmware is right in these context). We have to be a member of telkomflash program in order to get this modem. This modem is kinda cute, tiny, and fragile (i think :D). So, after all prerequisite met, we started to plan how this network should be. We started to think about OS. At that time we have no choice but Windows. The implant firmware on Huawei only work with windows and its variant. So we gave up. We used windows, windows xp, as server.

Wait, server for what? Yes, Server for proxy of course. This internet connection need to be shared among all member of this local area network (LAN). So, what is proxy? You can find the answer here. The first problem encounter here was the proxy server have a poor relation with windows (in this case windows XP). Combining proxy server with windows is not my favorite. I believe most of the proxy server in the world using non windows operating system to operate (this is just what i think). With a hard step, we try to get windows version of this proxy program, and we made it. It called SquidNT version 2.6 for windows. Squid have undoubtedly reputation within linux user. But in windows? yeah right. You can get it from here.

The configuration file, structure of program, is all identical with the linux have. You may see var, etc, bin, sbin folder inside it :D. So, this quite relished. It sure wont be difficult to find some tutorial how to configure, install, and start because this tool quite popular. First, we get into ACL section in /etc/squid.conf and make sure that you define all ACL correctly. Here what it does look like in my configuration:

acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
acl manager proto cache_object
acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8
acl SSL_ports port 443
acl Safe_ports port 80        # http
acl Safe_ports port 21        # ftp
acl Safe_ports port 443        # https
acl Safe_ports port 70        # gopher
acl Safe_ports port 210        # wais
acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535    # unregistered ports
acl Safe_ports port 280        # http-mgmt
acl Safe_ports port 488        # gss-http
acl Safe_ports port 591        # filemaker
acl Safe_ports port 777        # multiling http
acl Safe_ports port 5050    # YM
acl YMPort port 5050 # Yahoo messenger
acl CONNECT method CONNECT

and then we go into http_access section. In this section we are able to set what address allowed to pass our proxy. Make sure we define our local network address correcty. Here's mine:

http_access allow manager localhost
http_access deny manager
http_access deny !Safe_ports
http_access allow CONNECT YMPort
http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
acl our_networks src 192.168.2.0/24
http_access allow our_networks

That will be done enough. But if you want to block some unwanted site (this is probably because of its bandwidth consume content, or pornography reason :p) i've found this in the internet:

acl bad url_regex -i "c:\squid\etc\blockedsite.txt"
http_access deny bad

Just write any phrase on that blockedsite.txt file to prevent that site being accessed inside your proxy. Although this can be cheated by LOT of bypass proxy tool, but at least, we try to be a good man already.

You can set what port this proxy will listen at HTTP_PORT. Just write any number you think, usually 8080 or 3128. And here we go to the other main function of proxy. Proxy will cache any page you've visited. This cache is seem very useful when we likely browse same page in all day. I prefer to have a disk cache in this proxy server. Bigger better i think :p

cache_dir ufs c:/squid/var/cache 1024 32 256

We can read further explanation about what ufs and sequence of number above. But first number (1024) is how big your space reserved for cache in MB. I think that will enough to create a 'beginner' proxy server. Hehehe...

So, after we done with /etc/squid.conf file, we ready to move into installation of this squid. We can use "squid.exe -z" command to create a cache directory first, and then execute "squid.exe -i" to install squid into windows services through cmd. I recommend to switch squid service from automatically started into manually started. Because we use telkomflash application that connected via usb and identic with port number and so on, so starting squid first is not a good idea.

After installing squid, dont forget to set your firewall system to allow all packet come from port 3128 and 5050 for YM. Just look on the exception tab and add necessary port to unblock. And dont forget to enable router forwarding from registry. Just run regedit.exe and jump into HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters and set IPEnableRouter DWORD value to 1. That will done YM connecting problem in proxy in windows, i think.

So, that's all my story today, and correct me when something above wrong. Sory for my bad english...

On DiaperSwappers, there are two WAHM detergents that everyone raves about: SimplyClean and CrunchyClean. From SimplyClean I got the Fall Scents Sampler which includes: Apple Cinnamon, Caramel Apple, Gingerbread Cookies, Home for the Holidays, Hot Cocoa, Sugar Cookie, and Sweet Pumpkin Spice. From CrunchyClean I got the Diaper Detergent Sampler in Monkey Farts and Candy Cane scents.

In order to take care of the wool that I've been purchasing, I decided I needed some Woolie Wash from Ewe Need It. She was having an awesome sale and I purchased the Set of 4 (1 ounce) Woolie Wash in Christmas Tree, Pumpkin Pie, Feliz Navidad, and Sugar Cookies scents.

And finally, you're not supposed to use dryer sheets with cloth diapers but you can use dryer balls. On DiaperSwappers there are lots of WAHMs that make their own wool felted dryer balls. I purchased some pumpkin pie scented dryer balls from Sabrina at The Merchant Ship. They even have little pumpkins on them and are too cute!

Sigrid! Who, by the way, ordered Twit2art #29 a while ago.
Oh, and did I mention Auction Art #1 is currently up for sale ;)

A lot of people have stopped me and asked me about the Dell Mini over the last few days.  Ok, fine, maybe I was flaunting it at MLA a little bit and I've been going on endlessly about it on Twitter, but it's completely deserving.

Let me state for the record, I do not have an IT background, I am a slightly more Techie than average person but that's  it.  The opinions expressed in here are based on my love of the Mini & the hour or so of research I did to find out about solid state hard drives.  I have only had the Mini for 7 days & I reserve the right to change my mind, update or modify my opinion at any time

Why I wanted/needed the Mini:

For the last year I've been painfully aware that I needed a new laptop.  Now I have  a desktop, a fine workhorse of a machine with a 19 inch monitor and plenty of hard drive space left.  So I don't technically need a laptop, but I travel a fair amount and I enjoy working from my sofa or kitchen table or local coffee shop or brewery on occasion.  If I wanted to keep enjoying this option I needed a new laptop.  But I was torn, I didn't really need a high end one and even the low end ones were expensive & still pretty big.

Enter the Mini a couple of weeks ago.  I decided with MLA, Internet Librarian, a trip to Malaysia in the works & teaching a class in the Spring, it was now or never & the mini was everything I wanted - small, light & Internet ready.  So I ordered one & never looked back.

The specs on mine:

• Inspiron 910 Intel Atom processor N270,  1.6GHz, 533Mhz512K L2 Cache
• 1GB,DDR2,533MHZ,1 DIMM
• 8.9 inch Wide Screen WSVGA TLLCD
• Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950
• 16GB Solid State Drive (mini-card Module/PATA)
• Genuine Windows XP Home Edition
• Wireless 802.11g Mini Card
• Integrated 1.3M Pixel Webcam
• McAfee Security 9.0, 30-day Subscription - uninstalled & installed my software of choice
• 32WHr 4-cell Battery
• Microsoft Works 9.0 - worthless using OpenOffice

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Yes I know I could have waited 6 months & got twice as much for half the price, but I don't need it in 6 months I need it now.

What I love or pros:

• small
• light
• fast
• easy
• does everything I need or want
• attractive, or cute
• Kensington lock slot & I ordered one right away.  I never really worried to much about lockig my other laptops down, but someone woudl walk by, pick this up with one hand tuck in a pocket or under a jacket & be gone in 30 seconds, so I will be locking it up.  

What I don't like or cons

• the placement of the apostrophe - seriously bad choice on Dells part, what the heck were they thinking?

Questions I've been asked or FAQ and my attempt to answer them

• How is the battery? - Good, it could be better, but so could all laptops.  It lasted all day at the MLA conference, we'll know about IL soon enough.
• How is the Keyboard? - surprisingly easy to use.  It might be an issue for people with larger hands, but it seemed pretty comparable to the 17 inch Gateway.
• Why didn't I get Ubuntu? - At the time it showed it as a "pre-order" option which meant to me it wasn't available yet, and I wanted mine like yesterday.
• What does Solid State Hard Drive mean?  - er, well I did a bit of research & here's what I found - "A solid state drive is designed to act just like a hard drive as far as the user or the computer is concerned (and even looks similar on the outside), but it has no moving parts. SSDs have no spinning platters; instead they are based on flash memory" and "SSDs are faster than hard drives (up to hundreds of times faster), use less power, and weigh less than traditional spinning hard drives. They don't crash when you drop them, and they don't make any noise" - http://tech.yahoo.com/blog/null/65761
• Why didn't I get something with more hard drive space?  You're right they are out there.

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1. I dont' need it.  I have a desktop that's awesome, a 360 gig portable hard drive, endless flash drives and SD memory cards.  I don't know what I'd put on here that would use up the 16 gigs of hard drive space I have.  Anything will be migratory, a presentation, a photo whatever.
2. From my research about SSD vs traditional hard drives, a SSD is faster,  always good and more sturdy, great for something I'll be carrying in my purse.

I wouldn't recommend this for anyone's primary computer, but if you want a small, light fast computer to access the Internet, do some basics, it's great and I highly recommend it.

More info:

• Hard Disk vs. SSD: What's the Difference?
• Netbook spec showdown
• Asus EEE PC 901 vs. Acer Aspire one vs. Dell Inspiron Mini 9 vs. Lenovo IdeaPad S10 - infoSync Reviews
• CNET's review of the Mini
• The Mini on Notebookreview.com