Talking about bureaucracy, Indonesia maybe one of the worst case in the world. Sometimes officials cannot differentiate what is "commercial thing" and what is "social thing". Their head and brain full of how to monetizing something. Long story short when openSUSE 11.4 was out, SUSE sent 300 pieces promo DVD for me on August 2011 that I should then distribute again for free with my own time and money to spread the free open source software here in Indonesia.

At that time the combination of stupid person on forwarder side and corrupted-mind officials made me cannot took the DVD from Customs.

When openSUSE 11.1 out a couple of years ago I can easily got my openSUSE DVD sent from SUSE to Jakarta. So we are talking about declining quality of Indonesian Customs here after government always talking about good governance. Shame on them isn't it?

On March 2012 openSUSE sent me 500 pieces promo DVD of openSUSE 12.1 and this time SUSE change the stupid forwarder. The new forwarder asks me to prepare some documents that should be submitted through government offices, Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Commerce prior to go to Customs office. Previous forwarder not clearly explain this new thing to me. The new forwarder also doesn't allow me to bring the documents to Customs office, they will do it for me. I just only come to the Customs in the end of the process to claim the goods. So in April 26, 2012 three months after the release date I get the openSUSE 12.1 Promo DVD here in Jakarta. Huh...
I will distribute the DVD to school teachers and facilitators in Yogyakarta province in Indonesia, and also for Indonesia Translation Team for openSUSE Documentation.



PS:
Officials if you read this rambling "shit" don't get me wrong, I'm 100% Indonesian, I love this beautiful country very much so please don't ruin that. Please serve Indonesian citizen better because that's your only duty as a civil servants.
For capitalist company please train your staff and fire your in-competence people!

Some while ago there is a threat and discussion in openSUSE mailing list about the slowness of Firefox initiation after someone start it (click the icon). Sankar gave the solution that actually very useful to clean the the sqlite database within the Firefox. This will compact the disk blocks of your sqlite database and from then on, Firefox will start noticeably faster if your are a long time user.

The command is simple and run as normal user:
1. Shutdown the Firefox
2. Go to ~/.mozilla directory
3. From the konsole run "find . -name '*.sqlite' -exec sqlite3 '{}' 'VACUUM;' \;" without the quote

Try it and you will see the different. You can use it as much as you like if you use Firefox heavily :-)

Another tips here is about how to determine the date of installation or file system creation. Well, even that it is a bit tricky and actually I still try to find the exact answer, maybe you can use the date when you create your partition for you Linux installation. Assuming this is what you want, we can use the command below from the terminal/konsole as root.

1. su
2. find your / partition with "df -h"
3. assuming your / partition is /dev/sda2 run "dumpe2fs /dev/sda2 | grep "created""

change sda2 with your / partition
Try it, and till then have a lot of fun.

I've been a bit busy lately. There are at least 3 projects I should manage to work on. In one project I become a Project Manager (technical side also), and in the other two I join as a member. So in the second half of 2009 I already fully booked ;)

The project that I act as a project manager is development of 3 crisis center/emergency operation center in 3 provinces in Indonesia. I should prepare our engineer to install asterisk, heartbeat and working with programmer to prepare some GIS and database software for the center. Sound interesting.

In the second project, I join with some experts in education to prepare a design of e-learning system for education quality enhancement for elementary and junior-high schools in one province in Indonesia.

In the last project I should help a team of programmer to prepare the infrastructure for customize service for a new GSM handset type that will be launched in Indonesia at the Q3 of this year.

Maybe you will not see many articles in this blog or in my other blog for the next couple of months. I promise to use my free time to write anything and hope I can put in in my blog later on.

Have a lot of fun!