Samsul Hadi’s Weblog

Today I’m joining Technorati at www.technorati.com. And I have to add this to my post: Technorati Profile.

On February 16, 2008 my baby was born. She’s healthy, cute, and so fragile. She’s my first baby, a girl with beautiful eyes and cute lips. Say hello to the world, my baby! Welcome to our family and make this world more colorful than before!

I’ve been blogging a while ago, signed in wordpress.com and start customizing it on December 22, 2007. I call myself a newbie Yeah, I know very a litle about blogging and I’m still learning how to write about things.

The first time I tried to write, I got stumbled with idea. Honestly, I don’t know what to write here. Some post of friends said that I had to write whatever in my head. “Just be confidence, your mind will flow and work by itself,” they said. I followed their advices, real tough at first. And still tough in second try

BTW, I posted some Indonesian writing in http://samsulhadi.com and trying to find my writing style. So far, it’s so nice being online. I’ll give it another shot to write some good stuff!

In ancient times, I used telkomnet@instant  dial up connection to connect to the internet. Dial up connections was the only internet connection I used in 1996 until I began using wireless connection couple of years lately. Telkomnet Instant is a PT Telkom product, serving Indonesian Telkom home (line) phone subscribers by dialing 080989999. There was also Wasantara Net, which was provided by PT Pos dan Giro, but I think it is not available anymore.

As other communication price in Indonesia, Telkomnet Instant’s price was also high compared with another country. The quality of the connection’s also poor. I had to reconnect the connection several times as it disconnected because of transmission error. The connection speed’s much worst, I had to pause a 5MB file download and resume it another day because it didn’t finish in 1 hour. I had to stand with that because it was the only internet connection in my town.

Now, the Telkom monopoly is fading. There are another ISPs around, like Netsol, RouteLink in town. So I changed ISP, for sure. I choose Netsol for it’s price, quality, and service. I got pretty good internet connection, with unlimited bandwidth, which is the first criteria when I picked Netsol from list. My PC now connect hapily to the internet like never before.

As I changed ISP, my phone bill’s now decreased. I don’t have to waste some of my money for Telkom. That makes PT Telkom think, i think. Because I got 2 phone calls this month, from PT Telkom asking if I was interested in using Telkomnet Instant again. My answer: I got a better internet connection, why do I have to choose for a worse one???

Saya mempunyai pengalaman dengan CD Rom drive yang susah mengenali dan membaca setiap CD yang saya masukkan. Berbagai cara sudah saya coba, mulai dengan membersihkan CD dengan alkohol, memasukkan CD pembersih (CD yang di permukaannya terdapat sikat, yang di labelnya tertulis untuk membersihkan optik) yang jangankan membersihkan — CDnya sendiri pada akhirnya malah tidak dikenali :-), dan nekat membongkar CD drive tersebut untuk saya bersihkan optiknya memakai cotton bud dan alkohol seperti yang saya baca di tabloid komputer. Berbagai perlakuan tadi ternyata hasilnya nihil.

Setelah saya membeli drive baru (sekalian saya belikan DVD RW), saya mulai mangutak-atik CD drive saya yang rusak. Karena memang benar-benar sudah rusak, saya merasa nothing to lose untuk mengopreknya. Saya amati ternyata pada modul optik di dalam drive tersebut ada semacam potensiometer kecil (trimmer potentiometer) yang menempel pada flexicable yang warnanya coklat. Saya berpikir, “mungkin ini yang membuat drive ini tidak berfungsi.” Logika saya, sejalan dengan umur maka drive tersebut akan berkurang kekuatan optiknya untuk memproduksi sinar laser untuk dipantulkan ke CD dan dibaca oleh optik ini.

Maka saya mulai mencoba-coba mengaturnya dengan memutar kekanan kira-kira 10 derajat. Saya coba memasangnya dan memasukkan CD yang dulunya drive ini tidak bisa membaca. Ajaib, saya buka windows explorer ternyata dia bisa membaca struktur direktori yang terdapat pada CD meskipun belum bisa digunakan untuk melihat isinya maupun mengkopi. Setelah trial and error beberapa kali akhirnya drive tersebut benar-benar bisa digunakan seperti sediakala tanpa tersendat-sendat

Hore… Saya online!

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