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A Subwoofer for the Car. Finally.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

As impulsive as it may sound, I went to ITC Fatmawati today to buy a new set of wipers and brought home along with me a brand new subwoofer for my car. I figured that it has the right price, it’s reasonable, I’ve owned the car for almost five years now and I think it’s a valid reason to have a simple audio upgrade.

The subwoofer is the Steel Mate SW826. It is an active subwoofer with a class A/B amplifier, meaning that I don’t have to install a new mono channel power amplifier for it. Well, at least for now.

Due to the space arrangements in my car and the fact that the sub itself is a slim model, I decided that the sub should be installed under the driver’s seat for the time being. It may not be the ideal place for it, but it would have to do until I have the time to tinker on where to install it permanently. I’m quite happy with how it sounds and feels for now. The bass is quite responsive and it gives a lighter feel to the existing speakers. Besides, they’ve been working hard to produce the adequate amount of bass for the past four years. This is probably something that I should’ve done years ago.

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Tags: audio, automotive, car audio, sound system, subwoofer

“Terdampar”? I was Thinking More of “TERDAMPRAT” or “TERTAMPAR”

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Remember when I said that Indonesia won’t beat any country anytime soon in creativity? Apparently my statement clarifies itself after I saw what appears to be the Indonesian copy of the hit TV-show “LOST”. Yes, we should’ve seen it coming.

As I said in Twitter earlier this evening, the “creators” of this TV series is a bunch of fags. Worthless fags. What else do you want to copy next, huh? Heroes? 30 Rock? Fringe? 24? What did you say? You guys have no brains? Well of course you don’t.

Why do stupid assholes keep on copying movies and TV shows like this? It’s simple, stupid TV programs lead to stupid audience, stupid audience lead to stupid, crappy and fake movies and TV shows. And the circle repeats itself.

So let’s see, what is the dumbest animal on Earth? Worms? Goldfish? Insects? Lemmings? WRONG! The answer is these dumbfucks who thought that copying people’s ideas is such a wonderful thing. I’m not going to ask them to be ashamed of themselves, because apparently shame is something that they do not have or born with.

Photo credit by Andrayogi.

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Tags: idiots, indosiar, lost, rants, rips, sinetron, terdampar

Between Plagiarism and Faith

Monday, February 22, 2010

I stumbled across this image that appears to be a promotional poster of an event held by a church’s youth service. Seeing this, I am truly embarrassed, especially as a Christian. This is an example on why we seem to hold this “double standard” on how we treat stealing as a sin. Didn’t we all agree that the seventh commandment is “You shall not steal”?

When I see this picture, all I can think of is that it’s a direct rip-off of Michael Jackson’s “This is It”. No matter how you see it, how you think that you can get away because you did this for a religious cause whatsoever, it’s still a blatant plagiarism. And no, this is not a parody. At all.

So if you think that this is a parody, then you must’ve got it all wrong, as a parody is created to mock, comment, or poke fun on the original version. If you call this a tribute, what tribute? Does God want you to steal other people’s work? Do you even think that He will have this slightest pride upon you for doing this? Does he give you such little and puny creativity that you must steal an idea? That is preposterous. I believe completely that even if it’s only an ugly text in a photocopied piece of paper, God would appreciate that so much more because you didn’t include stealing as a part of the process.

Hey, creator (or should I say copycat?) of this “He is It” poster, you think you’re more religious than I am? Because I mocked you down for your religious and faithful effort to please God? Please, don’t be such a hypocrite when all you can do is stealing people’s work. You should be ashamed of calling yourself faithful to God. Yes, God inspires the praise, but He certainly did not inspire you to steal. This has got to stop, one way or another.

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Tags: christian, faith, plagiarism, religion, rips

For Sale: iMac G5 20-inch (ALS)

Friday, February 19, 2010

Since we just bought the new Mac Mini for the office, I am selling my old iMac G5 20-inch (ALS). I bought it on September 2005, and it have served me well for the past few years. Asking price is IDR 7.200.000, call me (+62 813 16201888) for details if you’re interested.

Either you want to pick this up yourself at my place, or you want to pay cash on delivery, it’s your choice. However, I won’t be shipping this to other towns other than Jabodetabek, because of distance issues and there is no way that I’m going to ship this with a cargo service.

If you need to know the specs, it is available to see here: http://support.apple.com/kb/SP45. See the specs for the order number M9845.

As you can see from the photos below, everything is still in an almost-perfect condition and white as new. All the accessories, software, packaging, documentation books and cables are also still intact and complete. It has been upgraded to the maximum 2GB of RAM, and I’m giving away a free Mini-DVI to VGA adapter, as well as the silicone keyboard protector.

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Tags: apple, for sale, g5, imac, mac, macintosh, OS X

Welcome to the Future, Microsoft. Finally.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Microsoft just (finally) released its latest iteration of their mobile phone OS, the Windows Phone 7 Series. I don’t know how it would feel on a real smartphone, as all of their previous mobile OS feels astoundingly crappy on any kind of hardware, high end or low end. Yes, I know that although partially it’s the hardware’s and their agonizing touchscreens fault, Windows Mobile 6.5 is still not only a painstaking software to use, but a complete garbage at the same time.

Judging from the video above, I must say that the interface design is impressive. It looks like that it isn’t just pure eye candy but no go like Vista, and it’s probably something that is really usable. Like Surface, perhaps, although I’m not too sure about their built-in browser here, they seem to exclude it from the videos I see. But it’s been ages since Microsoft made me to actually want to try something from them, it doesn’t mean at all that I’m ditching my iPhone, but I’m looking forward to try how this OS feels. Maybe, just like Windows 7, this is what Windows Mobile 6 should’ve been all along.

So where have you been, Microsoft? You should’ve pulled this off years ago. You have the money, resources, and practically everything you need to produce something real good and classy, so what took you so long and dumb enough to keep that ill-fated version 6 torturing people?

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Tags: microsoft, smartphone, windows, windows mobile, windows phone