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I got major outage, for almost three months my site went offline. I lost all data, I only had database backup from one year ago.  Since I moved from old provider I forgot to add a script to backup the databases and files automatically. I moved from very reliable provider (had no problems whatsoever) to cheaper provider. The cheaper provider provides good service, until one day my server just went offline. The support has trouble restoring my system, they said they lost all data. I’ve requested to do fresh reinstall of my VPS so I can restore my site they can’t do it properly either I already paid the subscription for one whole year!

Then after my tickets went unanswered for few days, weeks, I don’t really care about my server and almost forgot about it I until I got the news that the provider has been bought by new owner. Thankfully the new owner has better support than previous one, my tickets answered quickly and my server is back online!

I guess price does not lie, and I need to be more careful next time I choose a provider.

I was looking a simple way to automatically backup my files on the server then automatically sends them to designated email address. Since I have quite limited storage space on my server, then sending it to one of my email account hosted on Google Apps it would be almost ideal for storage backups since Google Apps email account has large storage space (7GB).

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I just found out that facebook keeps everything about you, even though you already remove the particular information from the facebook. I just checked out my server logs, and it seems I still got page hits on a page I’ve deleted from by blog more than two weeks ago. The page was containing project photos of my workplace, and to reduce the server loads and avoid to upload two times, I upload them into one of my facebook photos album. I was not aware the photos are prohibited to be shared when I upload them, especially putting it on the internet, until someone told me to remove the photos.

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I’ve been using mobipush.com for quite some time to push most of my email accounts to my Windows Mobile 6.1 device. We all know that Windows Mobile only support push email using Microsoft Direct Push / Exchange, I was quite dissapointed when I found out that Windows Mobile does not IMAP idle. I dont have any email account using Exchange servers. They only supoort pull mail if used on IMAP and POP servers.

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I’m so pissed. My notebook sounds like an old refrigerator, especially when under a load. It seems the GPU/CPU fan is about to die. It’s still covered on the 3 year warranty, but since currently I’m working in a remote place in Indonesia, where the nearest service center about 1500kms away. To make things worse, my scheduled home leave to Jakarta is still 3 months away.The CPU temperature still sits around 40C though, but I don’t know until when this will last.

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I want to share my quest finding my first Digital SLR camera. I always has interest in photography, but  I kept hold off  to buy a DSLR  since it was much expensive than regular point and shoot camera.  Recently, the price  of a DSLR has reached to a price  level similar when I bought a digital compact camera few years ago.

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The car just got out from the workshop and so far I’m quite satisfied with the output result although it needs slight adjustment on the direction and rotation of the beam. From the photos alone, the difference is HUGE. As you can see in the pictures below, the light spreads evenly, the cutoff is sharp, and does not produce glare.

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Finally, the project to retrofit my car with HID projector is almost complete. I’ve been looking to source the parts for more than two years! Back in the year 2006 I wanted to have HID headlights on my car, for looks and function. Searched on the net for the info, especially hidplanet.com and found that to have proper HID setup I need to replace my halogen reflector to HID projector, or I will cause excessive glare to other users on the road.

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Whoa, it’s been a while I’m not updating my blog. I just want to share my experience after using ubuntu 8.0.4 64 -bit for over a month. I’m installing ubuntu on my notebook. It’s a Thinkpad T61, with Intel C2D 7300 2.0 Ghz processor, 4 GB ram, Nvidia Quadro NVS 140m, 250 GB hdd etc. It is the easiest installation of OS ever. Most my peripherals and devices are detected correctly. My wireless card, bluetooth, functions keys, etc are working out of the box. Maybe I’m just lucky, when I installing ubuntu on both my friend’s laptop, the wireless is not working out of the box. But it can easily solved by downloading newest drivers. Currently I’m dual booting with Vista x64 SP1.

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hh… finally back to Papua. I’m already here one month ago, but I’m busy with work and lazy to update this blog haha. 2 weeks in Jakarta just feels like a dream. I have so many stories to tell, but I don’t know from where to begin. 2957km is the exact distance between where I’m sitting now to the address of my home back in Jakarta. I measured it using a GPS.

First impression when I got here, our main contractor changed their network configuration. They add some internet policy control to control their users to use the internet. I was thinking, ah at last, welcome to the end of slow network connection, I say horray for bandwidth and content management! From what I heard, they ask IT technician from their main head quarter in Japan to set it up the network. But in reality, the internet only good for several days, then it went hell again.

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