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Pertama-tama marilah kita panjatkan puji syukur kepada Tuhan Yang Maha Esa karena atas rahmat dan hidayah-Nya kita dapat berkumpul dalam acara Lomba Pidato Bahasa Inggris dalam rangka Ulang Tahun SMA NEGERI 3 CILACAP dan hari sumpahpemu dalam keadaan sehat.
Hadirin yang berbahagia pada kesempatan ini, perkenankan saya untuk mengutarakan sedikit tentang penghijauan. Di era globalisasi seperti ini, lahan-lahan kosong mulai hilang, pabrik-pabrik banyak dibangun sehingga polusi udara makin meningkat. Hutan yang disebut paru-paru dunia mulai menipis. Itu semua dapat menimbulkan dampak yang tidak baik bagi alam dan kita semua. Disaat inilah penghijauan menjadi sebuah hal yang sangat penting. Penghijauan merupakan suatu usaha dalam upaya perbaikan alam.
Banyak manfaat yang diperoleh dari penghijauan, contohnya: berkurangnya polusi udara, keasrian lingkungan, terciptanya kestabilan alam, dan sebagainya.
Ada berbagai cara yang dapat kita lakukan untuk menggalangkan penghijauan, seperti reboisasi, pembuatan taman kota, dan menggunakan sistem tebang pilih tanam. Dalam penggalangan penghijauan ini, kita tidak boleh hanya sekedar menunggu orang lain atau pemerintah untuk melaksanakannya, namun ini menjadi tanggung jawab kita bersama.
Kita bisa melakukanya dari hal-hal yang kecil, menyisakan lahan untuk menanam pohon yang rindang di rumah, menjaga kebersihan lingkungan dengan tidak membuang sampah sembarangan, apalagi sekarang kita memperingati hari sumpahpemuda, kita bisa ikut berpartisipasi dengan melakukan kegiatan kegiatan positif contohnya ya seperti yang saya jelaskan barusan. Dengan harapan dari hal-hal kecil yang kita lakukan dapat menimbulkan manfaat yang besar. Jadi mulai sekarang jaga alam untuk masa depan kita.
Demikian yang dapat saya sampaikan. Jika ada kesalahan dari tutur kata saya, baik disengaja atau tidak saya mohon maaf. Terima kasih.
Wassalamu’alaikum Wr. wb
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Nvidia GeForce GTX260 Sale 'Cheap' To Compete With ATI
Quite surprising, originally ATI VGA will slash rates this month. Nvidia already appeared first GTX260 down this sunday. Price war between ATI and NVidia increasingly violent, and this is desired by buyers.
Price Nvidia GeForce GTX260 actually still go on the $ 200. But just out that the Nvidia GeForce GTX260 already displayed in Neweggs with the price $ 169. This means Nvidia GeForce GTX260 price does not vary much with the ATI Radeon HD 4870, which will dipatok dikisaran $ 150.
XFX become the first vendor to offer Nvidia GeForce GTX260 type reference board only $ 169.99 after $ 30 discount. EVGA, Sparkle and BFG offers between $ 179.99 to $ 183.99. Unless overclocking version sold over $ 200
Source : ketok.com
Price Nvidia GeForce GTX260 actually still go on the $ 200. But just out that the Nvidia GeForce GTX260 already displayed in Neweggs with the price $ 169. This means Nvidia GeForce GTX260 price does not vary much with the ATI Radeon HD 4870, which will dipatok dikisaran $ 150.
XFX become the first vendor to offer Nvidia GeForce GTX260 type reference board only $ 169.99 after $ 30 discount. EVGA, Sparkle and BFG offers between $ 179.99 to $ 183.99. Unless overclocking version sold over $ 200
Source : ketok.com
Monday, March 16, 2009
Calibre looks like the essential app for eBook fans
If you're starting to amass a large collection of eBooks, formatted for all kinds of different readers, Calibre might be just what you need to help organize them. It's a cross-platform app that can read and tag eBooks from Kindle 1 and 2, iPhone, and readers from Sony and Cybook. It can also convert text from all kinds of sources into eBook format, and function as its own server of sorts, so you can access your library online.
Calibre also looks great, with a display mode similar to the Cover Flow in iTunes -- can someone explain what's up with Cover Flow being so hot right now? -- and a more practical list mode that just shows cover images on the side. You can also edit or fill in information about your books from Calibre, to make sure your library is accurate and organized. Oh, and if you're a fan of the Stanza reader on the iPhone, Calibre's hosting feature makes your books accessible through that, too.
Source : Jay Hathaway
Calibre also looks great, with a display mode similar to the Cover Flow in iTunes -- can someone explain what's up with Cover Flow being so hot right now? -- and a more practical list mode that just shows cover images on the side. You can also edit or fill in information about your books from Calibre, to make sure your library is accurate and organized. Oh, and if you're a fan of the Stanza reader on the iPhone, Calibre's hosting feature makes your books accessible through that, too.
Source : Jay Hathaway
Best security questions to ask about SaaS
Security issues have to be clearly examined before diving into software as a service (SaaS), warns Burton Group analyst Eric Maiwald, who shed some light on the subject at this week's Infosec conference.
SaaS, offered via a cloud computing platform, can offer cost savings and speed in platform deployment in many instances, compared to a business trying to acquire and install software internally. Businesses eager to race into the cloud typically say "they can measure the cost savings the first couple of years," said Maiwald. "But I think they're leaving something out."
What's often missing is inclusion of the costs to conduct a suitable level of verification on the vendor, including security and legal reviews, data-center site visits and other practices necessary to ensure compliance obligations are met.
Beyond the hard cost considerations, there are myriad security questions any business should be asking, Maiwald said. These include:
- Which of the SaaS employees has root and database access, and will anything prevent them from getting access to your corporate data? What controls are in place?
- Is data held encrypted? How?
- Is the held data separated between clients or is it all stored on one huge database out there? How is data separated? How will the legal question of e-discovery be addressed should it arise as a business concern?
- Is the data flowing between the business and the vendor's cloud-computing infrastructure secured in some way?
- What controls would prevent vendor insiders from downloading your data onto a USB stick and walking out the door?
- In terms of service availability, can you get your vendor to sign a service-level agreement?
- Is their data center in a location prone to hurricanes or earthquakes? What are their back-up plans?
- What information is captured in audit logs?
- Are there ways to limit where SaaS vendors go within the corporate network?
Despite his critical remarks, Maiwald acknowledged in some instances SaaS and cloud computing vendors may offer better availability than their business clientele could achieve due to the investments vendors can make to scale up their services.
"Google, Microsoft, Amazon are doing amazing stuff with what they're putting into their data centers," he said.
He noted that a few years ago SaaS-styled vendors would be vague in discussing their security controls, but just recently at a forum with Salesforce.com, Qualys, IBM and others, he found vendors much more forthcoming than previously.
One aspect of SaaS to be mindful about is that vendors prefer to provide a common set of services in order to take advantage of scale, Maiwald pointed out. So that means "vendors may not be willing to change internal policies as their economies of scale will suffer," he said.
Maiwald added that technical controls, such as for content or rights management, typically don't work as well in an outsourced environment. When you entrust your data to SaaS, "audit replaces your day-to-day management controls and technical controls," he asserts, adding contracts have to carefully crafted, something IT people will need a lot of help in from legal staff.
Many businesses may want to ask if the SaaS vendor they're considering has passed a so-called "SAS 70" audit, Maiwald said. There are two types of SAS-70 audits, he points out, and Type 2 is much more stringent.
The larger question of how SaaS may impact the business in general can't be ignored since companies may be sacrificing IT skills and competence when they choose SaaS. Maiwald said his basic recommendation would be to limit the number of SaaS vendors to a few strategic partners.
Source : computerworld
SaaS, offered via a cloud computing platform, can offer cost savings and speed in platform deployment in many instances, compared to a business trying to acquire and install software internally. Businesses eager to race into the cloud typically say "they can measure the cost savings the first couple of years," said Maiwald. "But I think they're leaving something out."
What's often missing is inclusion of the costs to conduct a suitable level of verification on the vendor, including security and legal reviews, data-center site visits and other practices necessary to ensure compliance obligations are met.
Beyond the hard cost considerations, there are myriad security questions any business should be asking, Maiwald said. These include:
- Which of the SaaS employees has root and database access, and will anything prevent them from getting access to your corporate data? What controls are in place?
- Is data held encrypted? How?
- Is the held data separated between clients or is it all stored on one huge database out there? How is data separated? How will the legal question of e-discovery be addressed should it arise as a business concern?
- Is the data flowing between the business and the vendor's cloud-computing infrastructure secured in some way?
- What controls would prevent vendor insiders from downloading your data onto a USB stick and walking out the door?
- In terms of service availability, can you get your vendor to sign a service-level agreement?
- Is their data center in a location prone to hurricanes or earthquakes? What are their back-up plans?
- What information is captured in audit logs?
- Are there ways to limit where SaaS vendors go within the corporate network?
Despite his critical remarks, Maiwald acknowledged in some instances SaaS and cloud computing vendors may offer better availability than their business clientele could achieve due to the investments vendors can make to scale up their services.
"Google, Microsoft, Amazon are doing amazing stuff with what they're putting into their data centers," he said.
He noted that a few years ago SaaS-styled vendors would be vague in discussing their security controls, but just recently at a forum with Salesforce.com, Qualys, IBM and others, he found vendors much more forthcoming than previously.
One aspect of SaaS to be mindful about is that vendors prefer to provide a common set of services in order to take advantage of scale, Maiwald pointed out. So that means "vendors may not be willing to change internal policies as their economies of scale will suffer," he said.
Maiwald added that technical controls, such as for content or rights management, typically don't work as well in an outsourced environment. When you entrust your data to SaaS, "audit replaces your day-to-day management controls and technical controls," he asserts, adding contracts have to carefully crafted, something IT people will need a lot of help in from legal staff.
Many businesses may want to ask if the SaaS vendor they're considering has passed a so-called "SAS 70" audit, Maiwald said. There are two types of SAS-70 audits, he points out, and Type 2 is much more stringent.
The larger question of how SaaS may impact the business in general can't be ignored since companies may be sacrificing IT skills and competence when they choose SaaS. Maiwald said his basic recommendation would be to limit the number of SaaS vendors to a few strategic partners.
Source : computerworld
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