Cleaning Windows From Ubuntu

When Im installing ubuntu, I only doing "next - next" way, I forgot the detail, I just choosing that I think is the safest option. And the result is I succeed installing, I already had my ubuntu, but one that for me is minus thing that there are windows still in my notebook. When I starting open my notebook there still option for XP or even Vista booting. In fact I already donot want to use windows anymore, so I want to clean them from my notebook

I joined the id-ubuntu forum as suggested by yanu, I post them about my problems, I want to remove the windows things without re-installing again, because Im affraid if I fail to install it all over again. And one of the reply is I try to.
- install Gparted, is just as partition magic
just System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager, and search : "gparted", and then click apply, or I think we can doing the same thing from Application ->Add/Remove, and search: "gparted", and click it and install it.
- If the install is done, it placed in System-> Administration -> Partition Editor, gparted is for Gnome Parted :d
- so I run the program, it just as the partition magic, the above boxes shows the partition of our storage, firstly I donot know which boxes I must change, thanks for yanu for helping me again.
- My harddisk (also when using windows), is only have two partitions, drive C and D, In Ubuntu, it read as /media/disk (C), and /media/data (D), I think because when in windows, the name of the directory is C:disk and D:Data. I forgot the exact.
- So my job is choosing the /media/disk and right click and change the file system from NTFS into Fat32 or the linux type, sorry I forgot the name, and gparted is cannot open right now
- And then in the /boot/grub/menu.lst,I commented the lines that execute windows booting, here is the complete code:
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda2
#title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
#root (hd0,1)
#savedefault
#makeactive
#chainloader +1
- restart it and there will be no more windows booting option. and the /media/disk is now clean and I get more spaces

Using Ubuntu on my Inspiron

Have I told you that I already bought inspiron 1520 from kaskus? itś risky business rather than buy at real store in ratu plaza or mangga dua for example, especially the seller is in Jogja, he has friends in Japan, and buy notebooks from it and reseller again through kaskus. I encourage myself to buy from him in case I already learn the thread over and over and most of the buyer is satisfied with him and his notebooks. He said that notebooks for japan market is different for the south east market although both of them were China made, but has different in quality, he said that Japanese Dell is better.

In the last November I bought it, I transfered some money first and then he send me the notebook. It is Dell Inspiron 1520, intel centrino, 2 GB of memory, 250 GB of harddisk capacity, Nvidia Geforce 8600, or some other details that I forget. And its vista bundled, there already vista installed. It came with some of installer dvds and some japanese written books, so do the box, itś written in japanese.

Unfortunately it was so annoying when using vista in this notebook, sometimes suddenly it blank screen, and then thereś message such as "nvidia is operating again", or sometimes it restart or even dump memory suddenly. I browse the net, in fact there are many people facing the same problems, vista is real a fail product from microsoft.

So I downgrade installing xp, I already have the xp installer, its the piracy one. I try to install it, unfortunately again in the middle of installation it fails with the message "cannot detect the harddisk". And then nail told me that it caused by the installer is cannot the Sata harddisk, it should set in the bios or using the xp installer with Sata bundled. He said that his room neighbour has the Sata bundled installer, so I went to his place and install it. It's all fine and succeed, after that installation, I install the drivers, everything is succeed unless the audio driver. I already download so many drivers mainly from dell.support.com but no one works. So my notebook is "tung" or "dong" only.

By Yanu suggestion and help of him, I install ubuntu, it's the hary heron. And it's work magically. and then yanu is editing the /etc/apt/sources.list, it replace the repository into the nearest from me, here is the full list of the file:

deb http://dl2.foss-id.web.id/ubuntu hardy main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://dl2.foss-id.web.id/ubuntu hardy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://dl2.foss-id.web.id/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://dl2.foss-id.web.id/ubuntu hardy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://dl2.foss-id.web.id/ubuntu hardy-proposed main restricted universe multiverse

so every time I run a program and it's not installed yet, I just apt-get or go to System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager, and I search the program I need. And if the internet connection is okay I will get my program installed.

AFAIR, the fist I check is the music, is there is already sound in my notebook or not. It just double clicked the music file, and there will an error message that need to instal codec or something. I just clicked the yes button to install the necessary program and everything is going fine right now. And I can hear my leona and mraz music again. thanks Yanu, thanks ubuntu ^_^.

being important is necessary, but being usefull is more preferable

just as the fame statement that sayz the best person is the most useful of him in the community, in the environment, yup.. in this late of night i just want to say something, with someone it should, but sadly I only can write to you, dear notes.. perhaps I should write it in more private room, but I think it's okay for me to write in here, in case I hope everybody can get a value or keep in correcting each other especially for me by this note.

quite naive for a person like me that don't have vision in life, I think everybody should have, but the fact is I don't have that kind of vision, a kind of solid, great of vision, I just following the life, not a kind of that vision person.

connecting with vision, this day I met that statement again from mailing list, that the best person is the most useful of him in his life, what a short statement that since I ever heard of it years ago, it give me strength to doing my life.

I was in bachelor joining one of the campus activity, and heard that statement from a girl that ever won the science contest, it's not about love between boy and girl, she's already boyfriend at that time anw, but she said that in that event, it's not the science contest, it's in different event, anyway.. it's give me a confidence in doing my way, I hope I still in this way, that I don't expect something in doing my activities, I encourage myself for doing everything in case for praying, I already wrote that in my profile that my working is my praying, I hope by having this paradigm I've got the best result.

Not only in the office but hope in my entire activities, I get the best result, and I believe that I already get the best from the lord, god already give the best for me, in every single part of my life, if I fail in something, I believe that fail is the best for me in that time, if I cannot get something that I dream, I believe will get the better in the future. All I need to do is trying and doing my best, how far is my best is how I get the result.

But the truth is I expect nothing from that result, Im just a simple person that no need to worry of everything as I believe that I already do my best for my environment.

somebody loves my writes

somebody loves my writes, im happy to hear that, hope this note would loveable too... but remembering the movies such as the libertine or shakespeare in love, those two movies is about a writer, those poeple is actually hard to get an idea, shakespear needs the girl to create romeo and juliet, I forget the exact name but it played by gwyneth, while the libertine is about a psycho writer that fall in love with her drama student, I think both of them is psycho, not a happy life indeed, especially johnny depp, the player in the libertine, he died in tragic way, dump in the bad place with bad sick. actually he has beautiful wife, which love him so much, she said "Im your final result" when got him dying, and kissed him for the last time. but he strongly leave her and want to attend her favourite student to play drama in london stage.

Im not too ambigious and know myself, don't want to be a writer, only tell you what I remember, please forget my first paragraph, it's too far away from reality, I mean the point is great books actually made by hardwork, by hard-thought, not by sim sala bim way.

In the first day of this year I attend the the event in TMII, Attiin mosque, great mosque, Im not too interest in politics, but in case when we enter the mosque when we put our sandals or shoes in lockers there's an autograph named H.M Soeharto, I don't know the detail of building, but it's big one, the event is attended by 60-70 thousands, it's only 2 floor I guess, but wide field with some fountains and towers, just kind of parks, sadly I don't have camera. aniway thank you mr President for the leadership of the pasts and the beautyful mosque ofcourse.

Im not gonna tell you about the mosque, I want to tell you about one of the speaker, it's the writer of ayat-ayat cinta, Im not see the movie yet, not read the book yet, Im not a book reader, his name is ustaz Habiburrahman, I first saw him in that place, Im not too know him personally before, but the point is he is a writer, he tell us that when shoot the movie, on of the crew is arabian or some where there has a brother from Gaza Palestina, Whole life his brother is in palestine, never goes out from there, and sadly the Israeli seduce him by cutting his both hands and both legs, and because of that he went to egipt for medical treatment, after the treatment, his family suggest him to stay a while in Egypt, he refuse that, he want to go back to Gaza, whatever happened. I feel enthusiastic when hearing his speech, and feel the spirit of the room.

Im not quite sure about the relations between the paragraphs, actually don't quite know what is the theme of this note, and I wonder if you still read this note :D, perhaps I just want to say that writer is great person, and I guess so many of us dreaming being writer, although only a note or blog, and I think it's not need to be a shame to do that.

The Dark Knight

Doesn't matter if the topic is not up to date, I post this because I newly became a fan of TDK (The Dark Knight) in facebook, a movie about batman that I watched with friends in the cinema few months ago. Doesn't matter if this blog is not java related again, I just want to write something.

I remember the most is when harvey and rachel is separated and and tight by a rope in the room full of gazoline, connected by a phone, and harvey ask rachel to calm down and trying to help her, and then he fall to the chemical things, and then their crying a lot, and then rachel said "yes harvey ... yes... my answer is yes", in case harvey asked ... Read Moreher to married him when in the party, but rachel said no. Its so romantic time I think. And I guess it's the sentence that everybody dreams in their life.

and then the bat-man is come to help harvey, harvey said "no... why you're here...". so voila.. there's no more rachel, rachel is exploded. yes harvey.. you're right why batman is there. If I were you, I would hope batman help rachel.

Entering the Office while User is in Holiday

yup, this is me and my team, we're in the office after yesterday is new year, and now is friday, and tommorrow is saturday and sunday. but we so generous to be in the office today.

but the fact is I already finished my work long before new year, my last module is finished and ready to test, my bug is zarro in bugzilla, so here I am playing with you, facebook, and I will copy this note to my blog, because poor my blog, it's forgotten by me.

Im in Permata Bintaro right now, the 9th floor, AFAIR Permata Bank was Bank of Bali, it merged with other bank(s), It have three big office building, one is here in Bintaro, one in Sudirman, I don't knoe the rest, here in Bintaro is the IT center of Permata. But not exactly for the IT becaouse some floor is for marketing people.

I've been here for 2 months, date of 5th will be exactly my second months. it just an ordinary boring IT project with all detailed technical thinks that I should tell you. But my project called WBS (WholeSales Banking System), When we buy car we buy it from a store, the store is get from distributor, each store or distributor have branch, and it have products, and type, and mean while the store or store branch, or the distributor (I don't knoe exactly) have facility, and sub facility, and the bla and the bla.

Actually today in bundaran HI held a mass demo/action for Palestina, I actually want to join it, unfortunately I must inthe office. I asked my senior in class is there any similar event in saturday or sunday, he said no. Poor palestina, I take a fan or member of group that dedicated for palestina. long live palestina, although im not a good guy, but if I may, Ill support you for your better.

BTT (Back To Topic), in fact here in permata, only few Permata person that came in the office, only one or two, only the Sigma rooms that crowd with people. Sigma have two room, one is for WBS and JF with mr Sufyan, one is for RMS with mr. Benny, mr. Benny is my PM in my last project, LBU/CBR (Common Bank Reporting).

The non-boring thing is today we wear free costume, some of us wearing sandals, polo shirt, or jeans, I wear my new tight jeans that I bought from kaskus, peter says sorry denim, it's local made, not too comfort, but I feel like the rolling stone right now :D, it's rock!!

And the other good thing is we bought lunch today, we order the padang food, from Sederhana, I order packet 3, it's chicken, egg, some padang vegetables, and a slice of melon. and today we will go home fast, no more than 5 pm, great!!, because I do nothing here, code nothing.

Watching Indonesia Loose

This is my first non-java post in this blog, ok I promise to post the LDAP continues in next post, but it have been so long time that Im not blogging, and yesterday I went to senayan and watch the match between Indonesia and Thailand, and I cannot wait to write the story, especially my fellow already report it in his blog, I want to comment it but need to post my version first.

OK, the story begin with ordinary working days in office, start wake in the morning, waiting for transportation together, and at the office I code here, fix there, make this, build that, etc.. until late, yes until so late, very late, sometimes I went home in midnight, that's why I never open this blog, cause today's project it so consuming my times. and then suddenly once a day irfani ask my boss to go home early for watching soccer in senayan, so the next day I also ask my boss for follwing irfani watch the match and I was approved.

So me and Irfani went home at 5 pm, we walk to Bintaro Junction for the bus, it's Trans Bintaro that goes to Ratu Plaza-Senayan. I am in Permata Bintaro anyway not in DESA BSD. So We buy ticket, @IDR 12 thousands. While on the way, Irfani phone/phoned by his friend(s) doing the next things, that buy 9 tickets first, The person who buy the ticket is Ijar, and also told him that we gonna go to FX first for praying Maghrib. Ok, it should be the binusian event, Irfani was joining the Computer Club of Binus when he bachelor in Binus, and oftenly they had event such as watching cinema or soccer, and that day I was joinining hang out with them.

So we turn down from the bus on Patal I senayan and went to FX, after praying Maghrib Irfani took some money in ATM BCA and there already Amirul waiting for us, and I guess he already pray Maghrib there, and then three of us went to Senayan, in front of the stadium, Irfani want to buy 3 T-Shirts and 1 slayer that so many sellers had, he bought for his friends in Bali, the Indonesian team one ofcourse, and there's absolutely no Thailand costume indeed, so do Amirul, Its too expensive, the material so thin, its hot material, it so uncomfortable when I used it for sleeping anyway, but it will feels great if we support our team with appropriate costume, so I bought it also.

And then we found Bayu in the near of the door, I think its the door 1 of the stadium, and Bayu didn't meet the others, in case tje tickets is bought by Ijar. In the meantime we heard the anthom songs loudly, so we run found them, they're in door 5, it feels like rounding the stadium, moreover I brought my notebook, oh yah, Im not telling you that I newly bought notebook from kaskus, I should make the post for it, coz it needs time to encourage myself doing internet transaction, and the most I want to tell is because this laptop is gaming laptop, I very care of it.

At last we found them, so we're in full formation that time, there is me, Irfani, Amirul, Bayu, Afi, Ijar, De_Berg, and IW. But then we're panic, because the people is so crouded want to enter the stadium, it's the Gate V. We're in quequeing unformatly, the lineman said "two-two" loudly want us for quequeing in two row (not with two column such as in a table in my boring old style project that im working right now ofcourse :D), and suddenly Irfani call me to out from the queue to through the small door beside the gate. So we're through that door and we entered the stadium, our positions is exactly behind the Indonesian team goalkeeper, so many supporters wearing red or white shirt and attributes crowding, but Amirul is separated from us, when in the queue, he already entered the gate.

The fact is we're not sit on the bench, we're squat on it, newly I know about this, I was thought everybody in the stadium are sitting down, but no, we're squat on our feet. And oftenly we then stand up over the bench when our team want to make agoal, for yelling the referee or doing the wave. I feel enthusiastic when doin the wave, when there is a wave, I watch the wave more rather than watch the match, but it only one-two wave, and then stop, never happen many times. And poor the referee, we often yelling him when punished our player, but ofcourse we gave him applause when doing the contrary. Each time we got opportunity, we gave applause, and contrary we said "whooooo" if Thailand attacking.

I love when yelling, when stand up over the bench and raise my hands and hold my head on, when doing disappointing because our shoot didn't make a goal, when singing "Indonesia ayo ayo, kita pengen maju bersama" or something, I love being one of in the crowded.

At the first half, we loose in attack, so many opportunities Thainland's had, fortunately we have great goalkeeper, Markus something, I don't know the exact name, he did many ball savings, but in the last half, we the condition is contrary, Indonesia got so many opportunities, and I remember actually we already made a goal, but it annuled by the referree, I t should be a goal, there was no offside or other foult forgodsaken.

To be honest Im not a football mania, that day I don't know who vs who, after the first half I still suppose that it's Indonesia vs Vietnam because in the edge of the field there are sponsors, one of them is Heigl Vietnam, I thougth it was the Vietnamese that match with Indonesia, at last I knew that was Thailand from other supporter. I newly known that it AFF cup or something, it's because the daily working I left the news. And the most embarising thing is I don't know the match result, I suppose that 0-0, when were going home me and Irfani asked by someone about the result, I said it's 0-0, but the fact is it's 0-1 for Thailand, the only goal is made in the first minuites of the match, before we entered the stadium. Yes, Im watching Indonesia is loosing, but Im not aware of that, perhaps not only in the stadium, in real life also.