Jacobian

I am gonna list the 7 persons who died in 2011. so that we can better remember what kind of things that leaves us during 2011.

1. steve jobs

well as you all know steve jobs is the founder of apple inc, a company that created an iphone, ipad, mac and other expensive item. he died on October 5, 2011. this is what wikipedia says about him

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Steven Paul Jobs (/ˈdʒɒbz/; February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman and inventor widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution.[4][5] He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs was co-founder and previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney.

2. Betty Ford

Betty Ford was the first lady of the US back in 1974 to 1977. quoted from wikipedia

Elizabeth Ann Bloomer Warren Ford (April 8, 1918 – July 8, 2011),[2][3] better known as Betty Ford, was First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977 during the presidency of her husband Gerald Ford. As First Lady, she was active in social policy and created precedents as a politically active presidential wife.[4]

3. Kim Jong-IL
this is a dictator whose death make many south korean happy and also make many north korean mourning over their fate. ah well at least he’s in hell now with moammar gadafi.

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Kim Jong-il (born Yuri Irsenovich Kim;[3] 16 February 1941[4] – 17 December 2011)[5] was the supreme leader of North Korea (DPRK) from 1994 to 2011. He succeeded his father and founder of the DPRK Kim Il-sung following the elder Kim’s death in 1994. Kim Jong-il was the General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Chairman of the National Defence Commission of North Korea, and the supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army, the fourth-largest standing army in the world.

4. Amy Winehouse
I love her song of Fade to Black. it just a really nice song. too bad she died after reaching 27.

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Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was an English singer-songwriter known for her powerful deep contralto vocals[1] and her eclectic mix of musical genres including R&B, soul and jazz.[2] Winehouse’s 2003 debut album, Frank, was critically successful in the UK and was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Her 2006 follow-up album, Back to Black, led to six Grammy Award nominations and five wins, tying the then record for the most wins by a female artist in a single night, and made Winehouse the first British female to win five Grammys,[3][4] including three of the “Big Four”: Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

5. Marco Simoncelli
many bikers must be mourning over his death due to a racing accident. he was ran over by another racer and broke his neck. too bad he died on such a young age. and always remember to be very careful when you driving a motorcycle.

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6. joe fratzer
I think he is a boxing champion way back during mohammad ali’s time.

Joseph William “Joe” Frazier (January 12, 1944 – November 7, 2011), also known as Smokin’ Joe, was an Olympic and Undisputed World Heavyweight boxing champion, whose professional career lasted from 1965 to 1976, with a one-fight comeback in 1981.

7. wangari maathai
Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmentalist who made it her mission to teach her countrywomen to plant trees and became Africa’s first female Nobel Peace Prize winner, has died. She was 71.

so those are 7 persons that leaves this world in 2011.  and for this 2012 we’ll just have to guess what other person will join this list.

when it come to antivirus for my desktop computer then my choice would be to use avira, well it did played a great job at warding off viruses and other malware plaguing my desktop. and I choose to have avira antivirus 2012, but due to it is a premium software so I had to pay for 11 dollars and like any other thing I don’t want to pay for it. I mean if you can hack it then why should you pay it? money is money. haha…

so I decided to search for a serial key that would able me to use avira premium antivirus and this link provide me with enough instruction and work wonderfully. you just need to download it and open hbdev.key and choose the right key that you’ll get when you download the crack.

it works amazingly. and now I have a premium software on my pc.

so anyway, I had been trying to use ubuntu on my desktop pc and I find it difficult though. because it just won’t connect to my USB wi-fi dongle. I had been trying to search on the internet for some ways and yet to discover any workaround. I think I’ll just try to use opensuse instead and I’ll let you know how that turn out to be.

now how about this time I am reviewing of my latest gadget. that is samsung corby. I bought this phone for Rp. 800.000 in batam, and it’s a touchscreen. when you have been using a keypad for the long time and you happen to use a touchscreen, then trust me you’ll need to learn how to type in touchscreen. it’s not as easy as it looks. there is a learning curve when it come to touchscreen.

but what i did like about samsung corby is its battery life, for a touchscreen device you really can expect longer battery life when using this smartphone (well I don’t think I can call it a smartphone so I am just gonna call it a feature phone instead). the OS that runs in this feature phone is made from java so you can find many java applications can be run on this device. also there are many application that preinstalled on this device such as yahoo messenger and gtalk, also some social networking sites such as facebook and twitter. so you can find many standard apps in this phone.

all in all if you need a phone that has a bigger screen and  provide a basic internet experience then this is a phone for you. for me who really fed up with blackberry shorter battery life then I find this phones to be useful to fulfill my communication needs

Question : How is it that cable lines transmit real-time video for 100s of TV channels without a problem, but it takes hours to download that same amount of video data?

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Answer : Each channel is broadcast over a specific range of frequencies to each and every end point simultaneously. Non-overlapping frequencies can be summed together to produce the entire cable signal. Internet, on the other hand, is not multi-cast this way and requires careful routing and quality of service algorithms to queue up which packets get sent first at each router/switch. Data is sent in packets that are often acknowledged for receipt as well. Your internet “bandwidth” (as in frequency band width, not the misused common term of mbps) is much smaller than the bandwidth for all channels combined. Consider that each end point needs to both transmit and receive on the same wire.

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when the lightning struck my home, there were a few devices that get broken. namely my home phone that’s connected to electrical wire and went busted but my other home phone wasn’t broken because this other phone only connected through the telephone line so it was spared from the surge in electricity. also I got 1 light bulb in my home that went malfunction and my desktop PC that’s also malfunction and can’t be turn on anymore due to the inside parts were fried because of the electricity surge. this is all because of the lightning that struck my home around midnight. and also because was home wasn’t properly grounded against lightning.

in this pic below is called adsl splitter, it is the part that’s connected to my home phone and adsl broadband. when the telephone line enter my home, the connection was split into 2 that is for home phone and for internet, and adsl splitter was tasked into performing that action that is to divide the connection. when the lightning struck, the adsl splitter get broken and fried. this is what the technician from Telkom told me. and I had to paid 50.000 rupiah to buy adsl splitter from him.

all in all now you should learn from my experience. when the lightning strike your home and your phone line get broken and your speedy went busted then the problem lies in adsl splitter. you should pop open the telephone box installed in your house’s wall and replace the adsl splitter with the new one that you already bought at the electrical shop. I already bought 2 adsl splitter for safekeeping in case the lightning strike my home again. because this is the second time my home has been struck by lightning.

at the first time the lightning strike my home, the only thing that’s broken was my speedy modem given by telkom. it was a cheap wifi modem and broken easily when there is a lightning. but then I buy the expensive wifi modem and to my amazement this expensive modem withstood the second lightning that struck my home the other day. so I guess my money is well spent.

learn from my experience then.