EasyHotspot passed the Inaicta Elimination Round

I’ve registered EasyHotspot to INAICTA 2008 (Indonesia National ICT Awards). INAICTA is the annual appreciation event to development of ICT industry in Indonesia. This is my first experience in INAICTA.

Thx God EasyHotspot has passed the elimination round. Now we have 10 nominators, i dont know for sure what are they creating, but from their names its sounds good. The main objective in this event is i want to present EasyHotspot as best as i could and hopefully EasyHotspot become the “best” on this event. It is not how to win the battle, its how to win the war. EasyHotspot is not made for win the competitions, but to ease people who want to build a hotspot. Thats what i mean …

Actually EasyHotspot is not 100% made by me, there’s a lot of contribution from the community, from the idea, critics, bugs report, translation etc. It is so nice that i could share, communicate, and learn with others, its nice for me to contribute back to the Open Source community. Thanks ..

EasyHotspot on Pucak, West Java - Indonesia

Several days ago my friend called me and he asking me about EasyHotspot. The conversation went through until he told me there’s a Villa/Hotel interested to implement the EasyHotspot System. I said “sure, thats good ..” and then he asked me what devices needed to build the hotspot. After he knows the EasyHotspot requirements then he decide when to buy and implement the system.

Saturday (4 4 2008 ) is the D day … First, we bought the devices, and here they are :

• 1 PC (Celeron 3 Ghz, 512 Mb, 80 GB) , too much for EasyHotspot i think
• 2 pcs of Linksys WAP54 G
• 1 box of Tofu and Beef Roll (umm yummy …. )

After we have those devices, the best part took the place . Jakarta - Pucak took 3 hrs , 1.5 hrs trip, 0.5 hrs traffic jam, 1 hrs @ Cimory Resto .. Cimory Resto have a nice landscape view and also their fresh milk is good !

About 700 hrs we arrived at the Hotel. The air is quite cool and fresh … what a relief …
Since Bom2 needs to get back home as soon as possible, so we need to finish the job fast and start earlier …
Before we start to workin, here’s the scenario :
We need to connect 2 main sites, Office/Lobby and The Puri Kenanga area. We decided to use WDS mode for this scenario.

This is the “history” of working guys (eastimated time):

• unload the devices - 15 min



• installing EasyHotspot - 30 min



• patching EasyHotspot (ouch!) - 2 min
• configuring the APs (it could be faster if you RTFM , LOL!) - 20 min
• testing the system - 5 min



• testing the APs range - 10 min
• placing the server and APs at the proper place - 20 min

total : 1 hr and 42 minutes

So is everything done ? ummm not yet! We haven’t train the employees yet and i think we need to add this new features :

• no simultaneous use mode
• user current status
• postpaid BW management
• logoff url

Maybe on the next saturday we could go to Cimory again ! hueheueuheu …
Now we need to go home fast !

Bendera setengah tiang

Selamat jalan “Pak Harto”, Selamat jalan Bapak Pembangunan, semoga segala amal ibadah diterima di sisiNya dan diampuni dari segala dosa. Terima kasih atas segala teladan, inspirasi dan sumbangsih kepada Tanah Air. Semoga apa yang menjadi contoh teladan baik yang telah Pak Harto berikan dapat dicontoh generasi masa ini, dan semoga kekhilafan dapat menjadi pelajaran dan kata maaf yang ikhlas.

Windows is Killing me !!!

NO! I WONT FIX YOUR COMPUTER …!!! PLEASE, IM A STUPID MAN, I DONT DO WINDOWS !! DONT ASK ME ABOUT VIRUSES, TROJAN, MALWARE, ANTIVIRUS UPDATE … JUST REINSTALL YOUR SYSTEM, AND PAY SOMEBODY TO DO THAT !!!

WHY YOU KILLIN UR SELF BY USING THIS CRAP ! TRY LINUX AND STOP TALKING ABOUT THAT F****N VIRUSES, AND STOP ASKING ME HELP !!!!! INSTALL ONCE RUN FOREVER !!!

2007 achievement

2007 is a past, what happened in 2007 ? what kind achievement did i get ?
I try to make a resume of what i had in 2007 …
most of my time was spent on my professional work as a system engineer at Marvel Network Sistem.My responsibilities was everything related with interaction between end user and the system. I designed the user interface and the back end system to control how the system works. I learn quite a lot about Linux operating system and its services, such as web server, radius, captive portal and so on. Im also getting familiar with WiFi device, but not that “hardcore”.
Its nice to work there, in June ‘07 we went to Singapore. We held an exhibition, what an experience ! I never went to singapore before, and because of that finally i got my self to there … But in August ‘07 i resigned.
In my previous entry i was write about my three wishes, a MacBook, a DigiCam, and a motor cycle … i got my laptop but sadly not a MacBook, its just an ACER 4310 but its nice . i’ve got my DigiCam it’s Nikon CoolPix 5700. Bike ? maybe this year

what else ? just that i could tell u

Eid al-Adha

Happy Eid al-Adha, may Allah bless all of us .. Amien

Hello Ruby on Rails

There’s a new “words” buzzing inside my head .. its Ruby on Rails . Some how i saw a lot of webs, articles, tutorials talking about it. At first it didn’t took my attention… but after a several days i started to get curious.
The first thing i did was go to RoR website and found that RoR is a frameworks. So i move on to ruby.org and try to join id-ruby mailing list. After a while surfing ruby official website, i think that ruby is a yet another server side scripting. There’s no a significant benefit if i learn that language since i speak PHP till now.

But after seing a clips at RoR website .. and yes i’ve got excited ! How fast, agile, and simple to develop an app in RoR …

Btw RoR is successful installed on my Ubuntu System in a few easy way :

$sudo apt-get install ruby rubygems rails

create a test app :

$cd ~/public_html
$rails blog
$cd blog
$./script/server

and yes, my RoR is up and running !

But i found the way of “Ruby Way” is not an easy way to find, i do need a time to find that way … and yes , at least this clip ensure me about that.

Javascript Learning Curve

In order to use the JS frameworks for my project, i need to understand how javascript works and how to deal with that. But why javascript ? in order to make an rich internet application .. PHP or serverside application is not enough. We need AJAX to be involved with. AJAX is stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. You see ? theres Javascript as a part of it …

According to this article , theres a few resource that good for beginners. Most of them is a an audio video media and the rest is readable media, sounds good right ? So here they are :

• Douglas Crockford: The Javascript Programming Language - These four videos are a must-watch. If you’re new to javascript or are rusty, start here.
• Dougals Crockford: Advanced Javascript - These are a little less useful but still very informative. They are less useful because Mootools creates a different kind of environment than Douglas is describing (he talks about native Javascript, and Mootools kind of changes this native environment and so many of his code examples don’t apply to Mootools, but you can still learn from them).
• Joe Hewitt present Firebug - this video will introduce you to Firebug, a must-have debugging tool if you’re doing any javascript work (actually, if you’re doing any html, css, javascript, ajax, whatever; it’s awesome).
• w3schools js docs and tutorials - a good place to learn how to use various native functions.

Im also recomended you to visit those resources, it is good for JS beginner like me …
Good luck

Thesis in action

This is my time to give 100% of my attention to my final task. Indonesian called it “skripsi”, thing needs to be done by all graduate student as a final assignment. I’ve been working for about one year and i think its enough.

I choose “Perancangan Sistem Billing Hotspot berbasis OpenSource” as my title. So why billing and why opensource. The answers is simple, first billing system is the thing that ive been dealing with before, and the secondly is that opensource is good platform to make this happened. All i need to make this system is available in opensource technology. And the other thing is i want to try to contribute for opensource community.

This system relies on these software :

• Ubuntu as the OS
• Apache
• PHP
• Mysql
• Chillispot
• FreeRadius

Whats new ? Good question, my main attention is on the web interface to manage this hotspot system. The web interface (front end) is able to manage accounts, billing plans, hotspot settings and it allow you to make a postpaid or prepaid accounts.

The front end developed using CodeIginter framework and Scriptacolous JS framework. Coding never been easier with that guys … but still i have to learn that stuff from scratch.

I hope it will completed in the end of January 2008 … wish me luck guys !

HOAX evolution

According to wikipedia.org

Hoax is …

A hoax is an attempt to trick an audience into believing that something false is real.

What the different …

.. it is possible to perpetrate a hoax by making only true statements using unfamiliar wording or context (see DHMO). Unlike a fraud or con (which is usually aimed at a single victim and are made for illicit financial or material gain), a hoax is often perpetrated as a practical joke, to cause embarrassment, or to provoke social change by making people aware of something.

Motivation …

Many hoaxes are motivated by a desire to satirize or educate by exposing the credulity of the public and the media or the absurdity of the target.

Medium …

Email
Web
Social Network

Example …
CropCircle

And now ..
impostors had been advanced to fools their victims, and fortunately web 2.0 and social network trends help them to improve their method to spread the “joke”. The effective way to make a hoax is make something visually true. For example an AAA battery could power up 21″ TV[1], or Union and Gatorade could recharge your iPod[2]. As you can see, they talking seriously to get your attention (and trust), nothing seems a joke right ?

How to prevent …
Be a smart ass dude ! Filled up our head with knowledge …

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rA-zhTJuFU
[2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfPJeDssBOM