Moments of a Lifetime

Not long after the tsunami, Indonesia was once again hit by a 6.2 richter scale earthquake. Death toll is 5,000+ and rising. We need your help.

For more information on how to help, please go to the Indonesia help blogsite.

If you want to donate directly, you can donate via the Indonesian Red Cross:

Donation for Yogyakarta
Bank account for transfering your help/relief/charity via
Acct No: 070-008-901-2012
Bank: PMI Bank Mandiri Wisma Baja

Donation can also be given directly to
PMI Head Office (24 hours)
Jalan Gatot Subroto Kav 96,
 
Jakarta, Indonesia 12790
Phone +62 21 799 2325 ext 201/207
Fax +62 21 799 5188

Hotline (24 hours): 021-799-2325 ext 402

More info
Posko Bencana PMI (Indonesian Red Cross Disaaster Coord. Center)
Phone. (021) 7992325, ext. 402 or
Arifin Muh. Hadi, Head Division Disaster Relief PMI
Cell: 0811943952

Website: Palang Merah Indonesia

The dual boot project’s finally done. Both WinXP and Fedora Core 5 are up and running in my laptop now. It’s been taking forever mainly cause I haven’t really spent that much time on it, but I am pretty happy it’s now up and running.

The biggest hurdle getting Fedora up correctly are probable the NTFS write support and getting the wireless to work. Finally got around those. I put the Linux NTFS support for the local NTFS read mounting, and put Captive NTFS for the write support. I used both cause Captive is so SLOW.

So, I switch back and fort between the two depending on the need.
For the wireless, I downloaded the latest source for wpa_supplicant, recompiled it for the WPA support, then downloaded ndiswrapper source and recompiled it with the matching kernel. After a few tweaks in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, I finally got them to load during boot. I also need to put a few more lines in the wpa_supplicant.conf for AP that do not broadcast their ESSID.

So, it’s all up and running, with full multimedia support. Can’t wait to be using those ….

Now if I can steal the name "Dora the eXPlorer …." …. oopppsss … I just did ….

Next, maybe I should try KUbuntu …. hmmm …. or perhaps Solaris 10 …..

On to the next one ………….

The last few weeks must have been the weeks of graduations. A few weeks ago,
University of Michigan had their graduations, last weekend Xavier University
and Purdue University had their graduation, along with many other universities
in the nations, and just a couple of days back this week, University of New
South Wales in Sydney Australia had their graduation.

Two of my very dear friends graduated recently as well, one
in Cincinnati, the other one in Sydney, and I was able to attend one of it (the
one in Cincinnati, of course, where else ….

). There were so many graduates, so many new people
coming out to the world trying to make a difference. It’s not that it can’t be
done before graduation, but I guess it’s similar as in having an old say. Graduates
are just like brand new items in packages, ready to be opened and used ….

Watching the graduates so excited about their graduation was
so touching. I wish them all well, I wish them all the best and I wish that all
of them will go out there and make a difference to our world, making it better
for generations to come. My very special wish for both of my dear friends, I am
hoping that they will excel to the world, find the path of their dreams, and
walk on it gallantly.

Congrats graduates, a well deserved celebration, and may
your path laid itself down right before you.

Congrats my dear friends, may you find your dreams and may
you be able to walk and live your dreams. I will support you, always ….

Last weekend I went to Indiana to visit a couple of good friends of mine and their daughter. My friend was only in labor for a little over 6 months, I think, when she gave birth to her daughter. It was a baby girl. She was very small and had to stay in hospital care for a long time. This happened about 6 months ago. The doctor has only given permission to take her outside of the house in the last 2 weeks.

If you look at her today, you will never know that she’s born 6 months ago.D(["mb","

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//–> She looked as if she was born 3 months ago - when she was supposed to be born. You will never know that she was born prematurely. She looks like a normal 3 months old baby; she is very healthy, has one of the most beautiful set of eyes, and she has one of the cutest (rare) smiles on her face. It is as if everything about her was normal, it is as if nothing out of the ordinary ever happened. To me she is a miracle.