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Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (LIPI) membuka penerimaan Calon Pegawai Negeri Sipil (CPNS) untuk tahun 2007. Penerimaan dimulai tanggal 1 Oktober sampai dengan 16 Oktober 2007 dengan sistem online melalui situs Sistem Informasi Penerimaan CPNS LIPI (SIPC) di website www.cpns.lipi.go.id.

Kepala Biro Organisasi dan Kepegawaian (BOK) LIPI Dr. Siti Nuramaliati Prijono menyatakan, untuk tahun ini LIPI mendapatkan formasi dari MenPAN sebanyak 210 orang. “Jumlah ini terbagi untuk formasi peneliti, teknisi, dan tenaga administrasi dari berbagai tingkat pendidikan (SLTA, D3, S1, S2, S3) dengan berbagai latar belakang kajian ilmu.”, jelasnya.

Terkait dengan perubahan proses penerimaan CPNS secara umum oleh MenPAN/BKN sejak 2004, LIPI sebagai salah satu lembaga pemerintah mendukung penuh sistem yang diberlakukan. “Khusus untuk LIPI, kami menerapkan SIPC mulai tahun 2005, yang terbukti sangat efektif baik dari segi waktu, dana maupun tenaga.”, jelasnya. Read the rest of this entry »

Version 2.3 “Dexter” of WordPress is ready to download. Matt said that this is their second on time release. The Dexter name is taken from the great tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon.

The release includes native tagging support, plugin update notification, URL handling improvements (canonical URLs), pending review feature, the advanced WYSIWYG functionality which allows user to access some features of TinyMCE that were previously hidden, and much more.

Hope this version will be more popular than the previous version.

Viva Wordpress!

Wget is a super-useful utility to download pages and automate all types of web related tasks. It works for HTTP as well as FTP URL’s. Here is a brief tutorial on how to use wget through proxy server.

To get wget to use a proxy, you must set up an environment variable before using wget. Type this at the command prompt / console:

For Windows:

set http_proxy=http://proxy.example.com:8080

For Linux/Unix:

bash# export http_proxy="http://proxy.example.com:8080"

Replace proxy.example.com with your actual proxy server.
Replace 8080 with your actual proxy server port.

You can similarly use ftp_proxy to proxy ftp requests. An example on Linux would be:

bash# export ftp_proxy="http://proxy.example.com:8080"

Then you should specify the following option in wget command line to turn the proxy behavior on:

–proxy=on

Alternatively you can use the following to turn it off:

–proxy=off

You can use –proxy-username=”username” –proxy-passwd=”password” to set proxy user name and password where required.
Replace user name with your proxy server user name and password with your proxy server password. Another alternative is to specify them in http_proxy / ftp_proxy environment variable as follows:

bash# export http_proxy="http://yourusername:yourpassword@proxy.example.com:8080"

Example:

your proxy: proxy.domain.com
your proxy port: 8080
your proxy username: user01
your proxy password: giveme

You can type the command as follows:

bash# export http_proxy="http://user01:giveme@proxy.domain.com:8080"
bash# wget -Y on http://anydomain.com/something_to_download.zip

Your download should start then

Long time ago I was facing a big problem when my webhosting upgrade their PHP version from PHP 4.x to PHP 5 which also change the default setting of Register Global from On to Off.

They didn’t even tell me if they’re upgrading their server. Suddenly I was hit by a big size error_log file and the file size was increasing significantly.

This was a big problem for me because all of my PHP script on my web were running under Register Global On. If you’re a programmer you should know what I mean.

Hmm… as usual I opened my browser and clicked the amazing search engine Google. Many keyword I’ve tried to search for the solution and it took about 2 days until I get one that fits me. Read the rest of this entry »

On October 24^th 2006 Mozilla Foundation announced the release of Mozilla Firefox 2.

Basically, there’s no significant visual change compared to the older version (Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7). But I’m sure there’s a lot of improvements in this newest version. Read the rest of this entry »