Diambil dari salah satu berita detik.com .

“Masalah DPT, bagaimana mungkin menemukan kesalahan 10 juta dalam 24 jam hanya dengan cara manual menggunakan 80 komputer. Saya melihat adik-adik mahasiswa sudah teler. Perkiraan saya paling-paling 180.000 kesalahan dalam 24 jam,” paparnya.

Saya sendiri tidak mengetahui bagaimana sebenarnya metode kerja internal KPU beserta sistem komputerisasinya. Beberapa waktu yang lalu sempat terdengar kabar bahwa KPU melakukan upgrade hardware dari yang digunakan tahun 2004, sedangkan vendor software maupun bagaimana metode internalnya tidak terdengar, at least oleh saya yang kurang gaul ini.

Namun saya rasa walaupun terdapat migrasi database yang menyebabkan inkonsistensi data maka hal ini seharusnya bisa dilacak secara software. Yang menarik adalah pernyataan diatas, yang menurut hemat saya pencarian data yang ganda dilakukan secara manual oleh manusia. C’mon, harga sistem IT KPU bernilai trilyunan, masa’ iya tidak ada diantara para programmer ataupun pemegang IT tersebut yang bisa membuat aplikasi secara cepat untuk mendeteksi data DPT ganda?!

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Buku yang luar biasa bagi para newbie dibidang cocoa programming. Saya mengalami beragam hambatan saat mempelejari teknologi OSX terutama Objective-C dan Cocoa, namun setelah membaca buku ini beragam pengetahuan padat bisa didapatkan. Aaron Hillegas mengemas buku tersebut dengan sangat apik, dan penjelasannya yang terstruktur dan step-by-step membuat kita lebih mudah memahami karakteristik cocoa.

Cocok buat para pendatang baru yang ingin mempelajari programming OSX maupun iPhone .

lcc32: GUI compiler

VC9: cl compiler

lcc32: command line compiler

Semua diambil dengan menggunakan default option saat proses kompilasi. Hasil diatas berdasarkan analisis IDA. Hm….

So, recently I installed Visual Studio 2008 and would like to use cl.exe as compiler. Rules still same with VC6, accessing command line tools like cl.exe require some steps to be performed. Here’s 2 problem I found so far:

1. Problem with mspdb80.dll

When we try to execute cl.exe, pop-up window will show which said “This application has failed to start because mspdb80.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem”.

mspdb80.dll

Solution for this case is easy, search for mspdb80.dll on your machine and put that .dll into your VC\bin directory. It was located at “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VSA\9.0\VsaEnv” in my system.

2. Environtment variable hasn’t been set correctly

If you’re using IDE provided by visual studio, everything already set-up properly. But when you’re using command line, you should set it up manually. Visual studio already give batch script which can be used to set-up environtment variable correctly. Environment here: lib, include, etc.

Without set it up first, below error will occurred:

To fix, run vcvars32.bat under VC\bin directory, which will run batch script “E:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat” in my system. After that, simple compilation should going through:

Of course using IDE is much easier, but still…in some case command line is preferable than IDE. Especially when you’re trying to compile some wild spl0it . Complete cl.exe options can be found here, I’ll post about various options next time.

Just finished install Ruby Gnu Plot on MacBook OSX version 10.5.6 (Leopard). This is Ruby module for creating some graph using GNUPlot. Ruby Gnu plot can be downloaded from here.

Ruby Gnu plot will become interface to real GNUPlot, thus we still need to install GNUPlot. Unfortunately, since apple shipped this version of OSX with readline emulation, installation of GNUPlot will be failed. Below is the part where GNUPlot installation failed:

GNUPlot will tried to search for ‘real’ readline. We can fix with specified readline as built-in:

Then make process will finish successfully. Later we can use Ruby GnuPlot for creating some graph:

We still need to have X11 installed (can be installed from OSX DVD installer). Result?!