Archive for the 'Opinion' Category

“Nobody should ever forget about Soekarno!”, He said.

Saturday, July 15th, 2006

I still can remember this person while we met some days ago. It was a cold night yet his excitement cast the breeze away. He told me about Soekarno, the first Indonesian president and the history during his study to proclaim Indonesian independence.
Dr. William H. Ansel to give him his fully name, a fellow academics [...]

Google acquires Upstartle: Where do you want to go next?

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

Watching what’s Google doing is always exciting. From the job ads with mathematic puzzle, Google Maps, Gmail, Google Base, Blogspot, Google Calendar, and now Google is up to compete with Microsoft office, but this one will be available on-line from the net, on your browser.

Workers Involvement - A Case Study from Air Catering

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Doing the right thing and doing things right is the every company’s goals. Productivity is always the number one reason to reduce production expenses and gain the most profit margins.
However, sometimes the Company forgets to look at employee involvement to support company to reach its stated goals. Company may use the best system and [...]

Open Source Software / Free Software vs. Microsoft: How cheap can you go?

Monday, February 20th, 2006

The new revolution of software implementation has begun. After some decades when the world was offered by proprietary software produced by Microsoft, nowadays another approach is coming and unstoppable. This new revolution offers shareable software source code and available freely from the Internet. It means that user can now has a freedom to update and [...]

How Should Lego Protect Its Trademark, Operating System, and Applications?

Monday, February 13th, 2006

Lego Company (’Company’) is a toy company based on Denmark (McNurlin, BC & Sprague, RH 2004). As one of the biggest toy company in the world, Lego, in year 1998, launch a new toy game called Mindstorm which is actually a lego toy with capability to run several commands from a computer, and it is [...]

Fernando Gont’s Case: Lost of Good Will

Monday, January 30th, 2006

It was on July 20 2005 12:18PM when Fernando Gont sent an email to bugtraq (at) securityfocus.com, a security mailing list full of people submitting information about software bugs or vulnerabilities from any software or hardware product. On his email, Fernando Gont disclosed the information about “ICMP attacks against TCP” [Security Focus 2005a].
Theo de Raadt, [...]

Open Source for Better Security

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

“Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut?”[ZDNET 2000]. Most people would answer no [ZDNET 2000]. Microsoft and other non-Open-Source software company have deliberately obstructed the availability of software source code. This practice, although adopted by many software companies, will lead to security problem as customers and users have no access to look [...]

Who threw the stone? Lynn Vs. Cisco case.

Saturday, July 30th, 2005

In the book Security, Ethics & Electronic Commerce Systems – ECOM20002 compiled from Principles and Practice of Information Security by Volonino and Robinson, chapter 3, the common sources of risks are user ignorance, lack of enforceable policy, social engineering, excessive sharing, and revealing candor. How does the software company is not included as a source [...]

Yet Another Bullshit of E-Commerce

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

Okay, here are the non-important-another-bullshits about the failure of E-Commerce.

Change Management, Peter de Jager’s

Friday, April 1st, 2005

Everybody doesn’t like changes without knowing what’s right for them. The first question asked is always, “What is it good for me?” or “Will I still been able to work for the next 6 months?~T These changes often require our personal life and value to change to do another different method of work. Naturally, each [...]