After years of silence, I decided to write again.

For now, I only want to say one thing:

The world cup 2010 semi finalist will be Argentina, Brazil, Germany, and (of course) Spain. The final will meet European with South American. Period.

Update: My prediction seems not possible. Check this.

Bukan karena ikutan Writer’s Strike kalau gue lama nggak ngeblog. Sebetulnya gue lagi sibuk! Halah alesan klasik banget Cari alesan lain deh…

Gue lagi banyak jalan-jalan. Awal dan pertengahan Desember kemaren gue jalan-jalan mulu. Habis cuti jalan-jalan, eh sama kantor disuruh jalan-jalan lagi ke Bali. Heheh… indahnya.

Seharusnya sih banyak jalan banyak posting blog. Niatnya sih begitu: jalan seharian, malemnya diposting ke blog. Kamera dan laptop udah siap. Tapi ternyata maen itu lebih cape daripada kerja Habis seharian maen, sampe hotel udah cape banget, langsung tidur deh soalnya besoknya mesti maen lagi pagi-pagi. (Duh maen aja lebih niat daripada kerja )

Sejak jalan-jalan itu kegiatan dunia maya gue jadi nggak lancar. Mulai dari melayani milis-milis nggak jelas, blog & news feed yang seabrek di Google Reader gue, sampai urusan update blog, semua terbengkalai. Ritme internetan gue kok jadi berubah, masih kebawa-bawa suasana liburan sampe sekarang. (Ritme kerja juga berubah sih, but I don’t really care, xixixixi… ) Nah semoga dengan posting blog ini gw bisa kembali ke jalan yang benar: menjadi kutu komputer kembali :p

Selamat tahun baru 2008, bagi yang merayakan.

For one who didn’t know what the hell Leopard is, I would like to give some introduction. Leopard is the world greatest desktop operating system, thats all. It developed by a company that also create the world greatest phone and media player.

I said thats all. I won’t explain more about Leopard features as you can easily follow my previous link or doing a Google search. What I really want to say is about the biggest silly mistake Leopard had that unfortunately located in it’s biggest killer feature. Yes, Time Machine.

With Time Machine, backing up your entire system is simply plugging external hard drive. No need regular task that you must do manually, no pain. Plug and forget. Restoring the backup is even more fun. You can search and browse the backup database. You’ll see a stacked Finder windows, each window represent each backup snapshot. You can go back and forward across the stack time, find which file you want to restore, and then… No you don’t have to restore it, you can simply preview it!

Seems perfect. But not internally. Long story short, Time Machine does NOT store the incremental changes of an altered file but the each version of the files instead. It means a small changes in a big file will easily fill up your backup drive. Even changes in small file can also waste space if happen frequently.

Thats not what we expect. I, and many programmers here, expect something more like Subversion which we used to employ for tracking changes, reviewing, and backing up our work. We expect filesystem that behaves like a version control and great front end for that. Apple only did the second part.

I think I’m not exaggerating if I say that Leopard biggest mistake is by not using ZFS as the default filesystem but only supporting it as read only filesystem. Why Apple, why…?