It has been a while since the news of Covid-19 first circulated in Indonesia. Initially the government and many Indonesian people underestimated the real threat of Covid-19. The threat of the virus was made into memes and the government still thinks there is not a single patient in Indonesia. Covid-19 is considered as a virus…
A friend of mine asked me whether the core version of Zorin OS has same quality as the Ultimate Edition and does it has a slick and polished appearance as with the paid version. I don’t know yet as I installed the Ultimate edition but I will give it a try. I tried to find…
I was finally able to get enough free time to try out various features and explore ZorinOS in more detail this weekend. The first thing I did was install ZorinOS on Intel NUC Hades Canyon Series NUC817HVK VR Edition. The mini computer came with an Intel Core i7-8809G and Radeon VGA, 32 GB RAM (VGEN…
Beside financial sector like stocks, mutual fund and bond, I have an alternate portfolio in direct investment in agro/agriculture sector : paddy fields and banana farm. Banana farm is my long desire. I have wanted it for a long time even before my investment in stocks and mutual fund. Due to tight budget, I thought…
I used to call myself as “open source enthusiast” 😀 since my first encounter with Linux in 2000-2001. Mandrake/Mandriva and Red Hat flavor is my first distro but openSUSE is my long time preferred distro, especially when I started and actively joined Indonesian openSUSE community in 2007. As time evolved, I wasn’t use single distro…
A friend of mine, Raihan-worked as part of my engineer team @ Excellent-learn Haraka since December as an alternative for simple SMTP engine for our tailor-made SMTP Relay. We would like to build a fast, simple, light, highly extensible SMTP server as a replacement for our current postfix or Zimbra. What is Haraka? Haraka is…
Market Crash Indonesian markets have suffered its worst year since the global financial crisis of 2008 and 1998, as fears over the impact of the coronavirus and oil price continued to haunt investors. Today, IDX halts trading as shares drop more than 5%, creating -22.28 market loss year to date (YTD). I became an eyewitness…
My wife and I took Yoga practice since last year. It started as simple workout as we rarely took special time to physical exercise. We use a small space beside our entertainment and our daughter room. The place is quite narrow, we have to adjust and wait for our partner completing a yoga pose. The…
This is the second update to my portfolio in 2020 and entirely based on my StashAway account statement as I’m slowly moving long term investment to StashAway. 2020 wasn’t a good start for investment. After a little unrealized loss at the end of January 2020 and some unrealized profit in the middle of February 2020,…
I grew up in a countryside, a kampung (village) at a small district near Jakarta, with beautiful scenery and peaceful environment. As my small district getting bigger, I lost most of the scenery and rarely see paddy fields which was very common in my childhood. Last year, I have an opportunity to get similar experience,…