Mario Hadiwinata

Just a week ago, my buddy Benny recommend me to watch Ted.com. “It’s an Ideas Worth Spreading” he said. And it is.

You’ve probably read some of my rants on dealing with bad customer service in here, here and here. This post, i promise, would be different.

This is about a hosting company named : WebHost4Life. I’ve been their customers for years, they offer a windows based hosting and there is ‘nothing special’ during my 2 years with webhost4life. Everything run as expected, i can remote the database server - some of hosting companies banned this features *helloo… you are in internet business*, ssl implementation, frontpage support and the reliability reaching 99% if compared in 2 years range server uptime. They also offer the Sharepoint package, and run preety well.

Just found a great ‘tools’ to browse a flickr images in a cool way. Check out this link , search your tags and browse the images using perspectives.

Call Firstmedia..!! That was the first thing cross my mind the moment I went back home from Palangkaraya this December. I read and hear a lot of buzz about their first entry broadband services : Fastnet 384, with only Rp 99.000/mo.

Yet I also a bit worried after I read one of the posts in Teknolagi : “Fastnet 384 habis ?“, the post reporting some indication that First Media is about to limit the subscription of 384 package. Although it’s not official, some readers share that they were ‘insisted’ to subscribe at least the 512 package or bundled with Home Cable Product.  It’s still a good news though, at least I have alternative to replace the lousy telkomnet connection with unreasonable phone bill next month.

Beberapa minggu terakhir saya mendapatkan cukup banyak spam, selain menjengkelkan karena dalam 1 minggu saya perlu me-moderate hampir 1000 comment spam, juga mengakibatkan wwweb saya menjadi lambat. Cek sana sini, ternyata saya tidak sendirian, hampir sebagian besar pengguna WP juga mengalami hal yg sama.

Solusinya ?
> Upgrade to WP 2.0.7!
Ok, sounds good, where do I start ?
> It’s rite over here : http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress
(and i’m start freakin out)

Sekitar setengah tahun yg lalu, eBay - situs lelang online, berpromosi besar-besaran di portal lokal. “Be A Millionaire, Sell to the world”. Masuk akal, mengingat jika kita mencoba mencari di eBay dengan keyword “Sandal Bali” otomatis didapati para Seller yang berasal dari Australia, Singapore, dan negara2 lain selain Indonesia. For Indonesia, seems the world is not that flat.

Saya pun sempat mencoba membuat account di eBay, dan tidak lupa juga untuk membuat PayPal - agar memungkinkan bertransaksi beli maupun jual melalui Internet. Namun apa lacur, ketika ingin membuat account di PayPal saat itu negara Indonesia tidak termasuk di dalamnya. Why ? Silahkan lihat track record carder Indonesia… Ada yg karena sekedar iseng, ada juga yang memang berniat mencuri secara ‘online’.