This is a typical street in the center of Yogyakarta. It’s known to be Indonesia’s culture capital. The city is often called “student city” because of many universities located there.
Famous placemarks near Yogyakarta are Borobudur and Prambanan, large buddist and hindu temples. The city itself is not very large, but it’s surrounded by a quite large agglomeration.
This is Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia and one of the world’s largest cities.
Jakarta looks a lot like other big cities in Southeast Asia such as Singapore or Kuala-Lumpur. The Jakarta’s urban area called Jabotabek is the second largest in the world right after Tokyo. One of the major city’s problem is transportation system — there is no MRT yet (it’s expected to start working in 2016) and it usually take many hours to reach the destination.
It’s already April, but the weather is so crappy that it’s even not funny. A day ago we got extremely heavy wind. It was quite warm, by the way. But today it turned to a heavy snowfall and so the result is…
It’s Maykop city on April, 2nd. A day before that I was in Krasnodar and it looked like this:
shade and casper made some new photos of ther cities, Maykop and Bandar Lampung, specially for my photo collections. See the updated galleries (Maykop, Bandar Lampung).
An epic snowfall came to Maykop a few days ago. See the photos.
Nokia maps for Indonesia are kinda weird. Yogyakarta’s placemark is completely absent, while the city map itself is available — you can easilly zoom in and browse the streets. Semarang’s mark is placed in wrong position. Sinanggul’s mark looks like it’s a very major city, like Jakarta. Wtf?
This weekend I’ve improved my previous run by 98 frames (33 frames in Emerald Hill 1 and 65 frames in Emerald Hill 2) of in-game time. It’s quite much, but well, I’m still learning.
I made my previous run up to Aquatic Ruin 1, but didn’t get satisfied with my results, and so decided to start the run again from scratch. Expect other levels to be improved as well. The target goals of this run are:
It’s my first TAS project that I’m gonna finish.
We got an unexpected downtime. The supposed reason is the administrator’s mistake which caused firewalling of all external traffic, but I am not sure because I’ve lost any contact with team members. At this moment I am using very expensive 3G connection through a very cheap laptop, and cannot help the situation.
(upd) The server is back online. The reason is described in Redmine.
What is the best XMPP server list you know? I know only 5, and all of them have some disadvantages.
How do you think, do we (SmartCommunity) need to have our own list? What features should we implement if we decide to make it? And are there any other public lists available?
P.S.: we already have one list — a list of Indonesian public XMPP services. But it’s updated manually by the wiki editors. By the way, this post seems to be the first list of lists (maybe 
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TASing games is fun. A few days ago I tried it the first time in my life and here is the result. I TASed Amy in Sonic the Hedgehog and Amy in Sonic the Hedgehog 2. My results are 24 and 18 seconds in the first levels of these games. Enjoy the video.
TASing is much like programming — source code, bugs, compiled result — everything is present. Source code is your input file, compiler is your emulator, bugs are your mistakes that make you to loose frames, and the product is your gameplay movie. Sadly it takes lots of time.
It makes me sad when I get asked about SmartCommunity’s partnership program. What partnership program is??? We are not a commercial company in any way, and we even do not have a legal entity. We tried to make income providing web hosting under BSM brand, but BSM had changed their mind. These days we are nothing more than just a puppet in hands of Syrians. We have no success in Indonesia, and even do not have more than 10 Indonesian users, so what can we give an Indonesian company?
I work for SmartCommunity only because I love the first idea of this project. But now it’s dead. It’s only a word “SmartCommunity”, nothing more. There is no anything real beside this word. It’s huge, but dead at the same time. It’s SyriaTalk, not SmartCommunity. And I do not feel myself to be it’s part. I am a doll thrown away by Indonesians and helping to serve thousands of Syrian users simply trying to keep SmartCommunity alive. What partnership program, wtf? And whom we should help? Indonesians who left us when we made everything for them?
It’s especially disappointing when Indonesians join staff conference and post messages like “masih hidup ha?”, “sepi”, “bot semua”… We show ourselves that we have enough skills to run a highloaded server, but every Indonesian is completely sure that we have under 10 users. I hate Indonesian chatters. We used to have so much power to make so many things for them, why didn’t they appreciate it?
Forgive me anyone for this post, please. I’m just feeling upset.
I’m happy to announce that my English website has been just opened. It’s targetted to Indonesian audience and SmartCommunity members and fans. It will be just an ordinary IT blog, nothing more, excepting one thing — if you’d like some article from my primary website to be translated into English language, let me know and I will try to make it.
