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OK, that’s enough. Definitely too much Joker …

Barusan siang tadi nonton Dark Night di XXI Plaza Senayan. Dan kesan pertama apa ? Tentu saja film Batman yg pertama : Batman (1989). Mengapa ? Yah tentunya karena ada Batman & Joker.



Ini pilihan sulit. Jack Nicholson & Heath Ledger sama bagusnya, sama “gilanya”, sama “sakitnya”. Tapi kalo disuruh pilih, hmm gw bakal pilih Jack Nicholson. Kenapa ? Soalnya dia lebih ceria

Mirip-mirip. Tapi overall, gw pilih Christian Bale dari Michael Keaton, karena tampak lebih dark.

Sampai 2008 ini, sudah ada 6 seri Batman : Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forver, Batman & Robin, Batman Begins, dan tentu saja Dark Knight. Tanpa keragu-raguan, gw nyatakan Dark Knight yang terbaik. Bukan saja soal, tapi juga soal permainan suspens/psikologi.

Ah jadi pengen nonton lagi …

To join the Church of Emacs, you need only say the Confession of the Faith three times :

“There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels”.

Saint iGNUcius

Sainthood in the Church of Emacs requires living a life of purity–but in the Church of Emacs, this does not require celibacy (a sigh of relief is heard). Being holy in our church means installing a wholly free operating system–GNU/Linux is a good choice–and not putting any non-free software on your computer. Join the Church of Emacs, and you too can be a saint!

URL : http://www.stallman.org/saint.html

Ahahahaha

Ladies and gentlemen, as you can see, I’m starting to learn Lisp !!

Yes, your eyes are not lying. I’ve already embraced the dark side of Lisp, and my brain is already warped as well.

Yeah yeah I know : brain damage …

Then what’s next ? Brainf*ck ? Intercal ? Malbolge ?

OK stop telling me, I know one right thing to do :

I must repent …

Semester 6 kemaren, gw iseng Googling soal “Java processor”, dan menemukan picoJava, spesifikasi mikrosesor Java yg dikeluarkan oleh Sun. Source codenya ditulis dalam Verilog, dan bisa diperoleh dari halaman ini :

http://www.sun.com/software/communitysource/processors/download_picojava.xml

Sayangnya, pas install ulang OS, gw lupa membackup source code itu, dan saat mencoba mendownload dari halaman itu, ternyata halaman itu sudah tidak ada !

OK, gw tidak langsung panik, dan coba Googling lagi. Eh, nemu paper ini : picoJava-II in an FPGA

Gw kirim e-mail ke salah satu penulisnya, Wolfgang Puffitsch, dengan harapan bisa mendapat source code picoJava-II.

Dan dia pun menjawab :

Dear Mr. Tampubolon,

Unfortunately, the licensing terms of picoJava prohibit the redistribution of picoJava’s original source code. Please understand that I am not willing to infringe these terms.

If you are only interested in the development of a Java processor, you might be interested in the Java Optimized Processor (JOP) [http://www.jopdesign.com/, http://www.jopwiki.com/]. It is open source under the terms of the GNU GPL and has an active development community.

Well, sepertinya gw gagal mendapatkan source code picoJava.

Ya sudah, JOP sepertinya juga tidak salah untuk dicoba …

Mindstorms NXT is definitely too irresistible !!!

And sure it will be a great companion for my RIS 2.0 …

MUST … HAVE .. THIS … THING … IMMEDIATELY …

Juli ini bakal ada beberapa film menarik, dan salah satunya adalah Hancock, yang menceritakan seorang superhero yang alkoholik, sarkastik, dan tidak dihargai oleh masyarakat.

BTW, judulnya menarik : Hancock. Untung bukan Hand C*ck

Kumpulan kritik satiris tentang UNIX (tahun 1980-an), dan memang sudah tidak relevan di zaman ini, tapi tetap saja menarik untuk dibaca. Versi PDF ada disini

Yang menarik, antara lain tentulah anti-foreward dari Dennis Ritchie, salah satu konseptor UNIX, yang berkata :

You claim to seek progress, but you succeed mainly in whining. Here is my metaphor: your book is a pudding stuffed with apposite observations, many well-conceived. Like excrement, it contains enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some. But it is not a tasty pie: it reeks too much of contempt and of envy.

Ha ha ha … suatu bukti bahwa geek pun punya selera humor yang baik sekali

Taken from here :

“I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way, against the holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.“

See the lines printed in bold red ?

That’s one of my favourite quotes, for sure …

Nemu dari sini. Ada orang iseng yg ngemodif Marui M4 jadi kayak gini :

Assault rifle sekaligus sniper rifle & machine gun ? Ha ha ha