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I have try turn off, plug out the batt without succes result. So i ask uncle google for the answer. Then i get the answer, there are i must wipe the blackberry and then re-Install Blackberry OS. With good spirit i try that way. First i Wipe the balckberry using JL_Cmder. Then i Re-install the OS using DM and new OS.
You can find JL_Cmder here and DM or OS in blackberry site or ask uncle Google

Before start, install DM and new OS n try to connect the BB

Wipe Blackberry :
- Make sure DM is not run
- Connect BB to PC
- Run JL_cmder
- Choose menu 1 to see if BB has Connected, when BB not connected usually its appears port error
- If Device status OK then choose menu 4, after that input Y then type blackberry
- Wait 15m or untill the BB screen show error 507. Do not unplug your BB

Reinstall OS :
- Go to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Research In Motion\AppLoader\ and delete the file vendor.xml
- Run C:\Program Files\Common Files\Research In Motion\AppLoader\ Loader.exe
- Follow the step until the dialog show process succes.
- Wait BB restarted automatically.

Now your BB have new OS and Freshhhhh

BB type : Curve 8310
OS New : 8310M_PBr4.5.0_rel304_PL2.7.0.108_A4.5.0.181_Sunrise.exe
DM Ver : 5.0
PC OS : Windows Seven

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Dewi adalah sahabat saya, ia adalah seorang mahasiswi yang berotak cemerlang dan memiliki idealisme yang tinggi. Sejak masuk kampus, sikap dan konsep dirinya sudah jelas: meraih yang terbaik di bidang akademis maupun profesi yang akan digelutinya. ”Why not to be the best?,” begitu ucapan yang kerap kali terdengar dari mulutnya, mengutip ucapan seorang mantan presiden Amerika.

Ketika Kampus, mengirim mahasiswa untuk studi Hukum Internasional di Universiteit Utrecht-Belanda, Dewi termasuk salah satunya.

Setelah menyelesaikan kuliahnya, Dewi mendapat pendamping hidup yang ‘’selevel”; sama-sama berprestasi, meski berbeda profesi. tak lama berselang lahirlah Bayu, buah cinta mereka, anak pertamanya tersebut lahir ketika Dewi diangkat manjadi staf diplomat, bertepatan dengan suaminya meraih PhD. Maka lengkaplah sudah kebahagiaan mereka.

Ketika Bayu, berusia 6 bulan, kesibukan Dewi semakin menggila. Bak seekor burung garuda, nyaris tiap hari ia terbang dari satu kota ke kota lain, dan dari satu negara ke negara lain. Sebagai seorang sahabat setulusnya saya pernah bertanya padanya, “Tidakkah si Bayu masih terlalu kecil untuk ditinggal-tinggal oleh ibundanya ?” Dengan sigap Dewi menjawab, “Oh, saya sudah mengantisipasi segala sesuatunya dengan sempurna”. “Everything is OK !, Don’t worry Everything is under control kok !” begitulah selalu ucapannya, penuh percaya diri.

Ucapannya itu memang betul-betul ia buktikan. Perawatan anaknya, ditangani secara profesional oleh baby sitter termahal. Dewi tinggal mengontrol jadwal Bayu lewat telepon. Pada akhirnya Bayu tumbuh menjadi anak yang tampak lincah, cerdas mandiri dan mudah mengerti.

Kakek-neneknya selalu memompakan kebanggaan kepada cucu semata wayang itu, tentang betapa hebatnya ibu-bapaknya. Tentang gelar Phd. dan nama besar, tentang naik pesawat terbang, dan uang yang berlimpah. “Contohlah ayah-bundamu Bayu, kalau Bayu besar nanti jadilah seperti Bunda”. Begitu selalu nenek Bayu, berpesan di akhir dongeng menjelang tidurnya.

Ketika Bayu berusia 5 tahun, neneknya menyampaikan kepada Dewi kalau Bayu minta seorang adik untuk bisa menjadi teman bermainnya dirumah apa bila ia merasa kesepian.

Terkejut dengan permintaan tak terduga itu, Dewi dan suaminya kembali meminta pengertian anaknya. Kesibukan mereka belum memungkinkan untuk menghadirkan seorang adik buat Bayu. Lagi-lagi bocah kecil inipun mau ”memahami” orangtuanya.

Dengan Bangga Dewi mengatakan bahwa kamu memang anak hebat, buktinya, kata Dewi, kamu tak lagi merengek minta adik. Bayu, tampaknya mewarisi karakter ibunya yang bukan perengek dan sangat mandiri. Meski kedua orangtuanya kerap pulang larut, ia jarang sekali ngambek. Bahkan, tutur Dewi pada saya , Bayu selalu menyambut kedatangannya dengan penuh ceria. Maka, Dewi sering memanggilnya malaikat kecilku. Sungguh keluarga yang bahagia, pikir saya. Meski kedua orangtuanya super sibuk, namun Bayu tetap tumbuh dengan penuh cinta dari orang tuanya. Diam-diam, saya jadi sangat iri pada keluarga ini.

Suatu hari, menjelang Dewi berangkat ke kantor, entah mengapa Bayu menolak dimandikan oleh baby sitternya. Bayu ingin pagi ini dimandikan oleh Bundanya,” Bunda aku ingin mandi sama bunda…please…please bunda”, pinta Bayu dengan mengiba-iba penuh harap.

Karuan saja Dewi, yang detik demi detik waktunya sangat diperhitungkan merasa gusar dengan permintaan anaknya. Ia dengan tegas menolak permintaan Bayu, sambil tetap gesit berdandan dan mempersiapkan keperluan kantornya. Suaminya pun turut membujuk Bayu agar mau mandi dengan baby sitternya. Lagi-lagi, Bayu dengan penuh pengertian mau menurutinya, meski wajahnya cemberut.

Peristiwa ini terus berulang sampai hampir sepekan. “Bunda, mandikan aku !” Ayo dong bunda mandikan aku sekali ini saja…?” kian lama suara Bayu semakin penuh tekanan. Tapi toh, Dewi dan suaminya berpikir, mungkin itu karena Bayu sedang dalam masa pra-sekolah, jadinya agak lebih minta perhatian. Setelah dibujuk-bujuk, akhirnya Bayu bisa ditinggal juga dan mandi bersama Mbanya.

Sampai suatu sore, Dewi dikejutkan oleh telpon dari sang baby sitter, “Bu, hari ini Bayu panas tinggi dan kejang-kejang. Sekarang sedang di periksa di Ruang Emergency”.

Dewi, ketika diberi tahu soal Bayu, sedang meresmikan kantor barunya di Medan. Setelah tiba di Jakarta, Dewi langsung ngebut ke UGD. Tapi sayang… terlambat sudah…Tuhan sudah punya rencana lain. Bayu, si malaikat kecil, keburu dipanggil pulang oleh Tuhannya.. Terlihat Dewi mengalami shock berat. Setibanya di rumah, satu-satunya keinginan dia adalah untuk memandikan putranya, setelah bebarapa hari lalu Bayu mulai menuntut ia untuk memandikannya, Dewi pernah berjanji pada anaknya untuk suatu saat memandikannya sendiri jika ia tidak sedang ada urusan yang sangat penting.

Dan siang itu, janji Dewi akhirnya terpenuhi juga, meskipun setelah tubuh si kecil terbujur kaku. Ditengah para tetangga yang sedang melayat, terdengar suara Dewi dengan nada yang bergetar berkata “Ini Bunda Nak…., Hari ini Bunda mandikan Bayu ya…sayang….! akhirnya Bunda penuhi juga janji Bunda ya Nak..” . Lalu segera saja satu demi satu orang-orang yang melayat dan berada di dekatnya tersebut berusaha untuk menyingkir dari sampingnya, sambil tak kuasa untuk menahan tangis mereka.

Ketika tanah merah telah mengubur jasad si kecil, para pengiring jenazah masih berdiri mematung di sisi pusara sang Malaikat Kecil. . Berkali-kali Dewi, sahabatku yang tegar itu, berkata kepada rekan-rekan disekitanya, “Inikan sudah takdir, ya kan..!” Sama saja, aku di sebelahnya ataupun di seberang lautan, kalau sudah saatnya di panggil, ya dia pergi juga, iya kan?”. Saya yang saat itu tepat berada di sampingnya diam saja. Seolah-olah Dewi tak merasa berduka dengan kepergian anaknya dan sepertinya ia juga tidak perlu hiburan dari orang lain.

Sementara di sebelah kanannya, Suaminya berdiri mematung seperti tak bernyawa. Wajahnya pucat pasi dengan bibir bergetar tak kuasa menahan air mata yang mulai meleleh membasahi pipinya.

Sambil menatap pusara anaknya, terdengar lagi suara Dewi berujar, “Inilah konsekuensi sebuah pilihan!” lanjut Dewi, tetap mencoba untuk tegar dan kuat.

Angin senja meniupkan aroma bunga kamboja yang menusuk hidung hingga ke tulang sumsum. Tak lama setelah itu tanpa di duga-duga tiba-tiba saja Dewi jatuh berlutut, lalu membantingkan dirinya ke tanah tepat diatas pusara anaknya sambil berteriak-teriak histeris. “Bayu maafkan Bunda ya sayaang..!!, ampuni bundamu ya nak…? serunya berulang-ulang sambil membenturkan kepalanya ketanah, dan segera terdengar tangis yang meledak-ledak dengan penuh berurai air mata membanjiri tanah pusara putra tercintanya yang kini telah pergi untuk selama-lamanya. Sepanjang persahabatan kami, rasanya baru kali ini saya menyaksikan Dewi menangis dengan histeris seperti ini.

Lalu terdengar lagi Dewi berteriak-teriak histeris “Bangunlah Bayu sayaaangku….Bangun Bayu cintaku, ayo bangun nak…..?!?” pintanya berulang-ulang, “Bunda mau mandikan kamu sayang…. Tolong Beri kesempatan Bunda sekali saja Nak…. Sekali ini saja, Bayu.. anakku…?” Dewi merintih mengiba-iba sambil kembali membenturkan kepalanya berkali-kali ke tanah lalu ia peluki dan ciumi pusara anaknya bak orang yang sudah hilang ingatan. Air matanya mengalir semakin deras membanjiri tanah merah yang menaungi jasad Bayu.

Senja semakin senyap, aroma bunga kamboja semakin tercium kuat manusuk hidung membuat seluruh bulu kuduk kami berdiri menyaksikan peristiwa yang menyayat hati ini…tapi apa hendak di kata, nasi sudah menjadi bubur, sesal kemudian tak berguna. Bayu tidak pernah mengetahui bagaimana rasanya dimandikan oleh orang tuanya karena mereka merasa bahwa banyak hal yang jauh lebih penting dari pada hanya sekedar memandikan seorang anak.

Semoga kisah ini bisa menjadi pelajaran berharga bagi kita semua para orang tua yang sering merasa hebat dan penting dengan segala kesibukannya.

From : Mailist Resonansi

Selama pemakaian 2 hari sangat berasa perbaikan dari versi sebelumnya. Langsung aja ni tak kasih bocorannya :
- ada downloadernya. Sempat tes download sampe 9 mega gak ada masalah.
- respon lebih cepat.
- form upload di web jalan dg maknyus, saya uji coba ke wordpress.com buat upload screen shoot opera mini 5 beta 2, hasilnya maknyus juga.
- respon keyboard dah ok, tombol enter berfungsi baik pada textfield sebuah web. Tidak seperti sebelumnya yang kadang2 ngaco.
- Penggunaan tombol navigasi sudah jalan dimana versi sebelumnya tidak jalan.

Untuk kekurangannya masih ada seperti secara overall kecepatan dan respon applikasi masih kurang, beberapa web masih tampil tidak sempurna.

Untuk sekarang masih itu dulu dan kalo ada update akan saya update segera.

The installation went smoothly, I could see the extra database in SQL Server Management Studio but when I wanted to add a new local database, ie SQL Express database, in the App_Data subfolder of a web project I got this error:

“Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to a failure in starting the process for the user instance. The connection will be closed.”

Huh?

Well I search around, gained some knowledge about the problem and thought I share it with you:

First you’ll need to open up SQL Server Configuration Manager. Navigate to that in the menu like Microsoft SQL Server 2005 > Configuration tools > SQL Server Configuration Manager. Take a look at figure 1:

Figure 1: The SQL Server Configuration Manager tool.

Double click, or right click and choose Properties, of the selected line and you’ll get the properties window which you can see in Figure 2:

Figure 2: The properties window

You’ll need to make sure that the Local system is selected.

The second part of the solution’s to delete the following folder on your hard drive: c:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server Data\SQLEXPRESS(1). This folder’s used to store information and apparently it messes up the proper working of SQL Express.

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Btw masih dalam rangka kontes juga, makanya saya buat artikel ini, tujuannya ya jelas suapaya dapet hadiah2 dari pertamina tho …
Tidak dapat dipungkiri bahwa masyarakat indonesia sekarang ini amat sangat bergantung dengan Pertamina, kok bisa ? ya iyalah… lha wong bahan bakar dari Premium, Solar sampe Pertamax dan LPG yang memasok kan Pertamina yang notabene adalah BUMN kusus untul hal2 yang begituan
Untuk saya pribadi penggunaan produk pertamina sudah sangat sering sekali (maklum bikers antar kota antar propinsi) dari PREMIUM buat minum si Karisma saya plus ENDURO 4T 20W-50 buat minyak wanginya . So far sih ok2 saja buat si karisma saya, terutama untuk pelumas ENDURO 4T 20W-50, mesin karisma jarang banget rewel, untuk tarikan juga agak lumayan lah (namanya juga bukan motor racing)

“Kerja Keras Adalah Energi Kita = Pertamina”
Kalo bicara soal Pertamina, kalo saya pasti lebih kental dengan SPBUnya karena hampir tiap hari pasti ngapel kesana. Apalagi SPBU pertamina sekarang sudah mulai bagus, apalagi sejak program Pasti PAS Pertamina, sekarang tiap beli premium gak terlalu was2 karena takut tertipu. Tapi masih ada beberapa kekurangan yang perlu diperhatikan oleh pertamina (dari pandangan saya lho ya).
Contoh kekurangan2 dari pertamina itu : pengawasan masih kurang kepada SPBU, pengawasan terhadap agen LPG juga masih kurang, harga pertamax yang masih tinggi (pengen juga sebenere ngrasain pertamax – cuman karena mahal ya apa daya ^^)
Dari beberapa kekurangan itu saya tetep salut kok sama Pertamina yang masih mau berbenah diri untuk lebih baik, padahal BUMN lho

Akhir kata : Selalu utamakan produk dalam negeri
Salam Petamax

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All .NET code runs inside the CLR. This is true whether you’re running a Windows application or a web service. For example, when a client requests an ASP.NET web page, the ASP.NET service runs inside the CLR environment, executes your code, and creates a final HTML page to send to the client.

The implications of the CLR are wide-ranging:
Deep language integration: VB and C#, like all .NET languages, compile to IL. In other words, the CLR makes no distinction between different languages—in fact, it has no way of knowing what language was used to create an executable. This is far more than mere language compatibility; it’s language integration. Side-by-side execution: The CLR also has the ability to load more than one version of a component at a time. In other words, you can update a component many times, and the correct version will be loaded and used for each application. As a side effect, multiple
versions of the .NET Framework can be installed, meaning that you’re able to upgrade to new versions of ASP.NET without replacing the current version or needing to rewrite your applications.
Fewer errors: Whole categories of errors are impossible with the CLR. For example, the CLR prevents many memory mistakes that are possible with lower-level languages such as C++. Along with these truly revolutionary benefits, the CLR has some potential drawbacks. Here are three issues that are often raised by new developers but aren’t always answered: Performance: A typical ASP.NET application is much faster than a comparable ASP application, because ASP.NET code is compiled to machine code before it’s executed. However, processor-crunching algorithms still can’t match the blinding speed of well-written C++ code, because the CLR imposes some additional overhead. Generally, this is a factor only in a few performance-critical high-workload applications (such as real-time games). With high-volume web applications, the potential bottlenecks are rarely processor-related but are usually tied to the speed of an external resource such as a database or the web server’s file system. With ASP.NET caching and some well-written database code, you can ensure excellent performance for any web application. Code transparency: IL is much easier to disassemble, meaning that if you distribute a compiled application or component, other programmers may have an easier time deter mining how your code works. This isn’t much of an issue for ASP.NET applications, which
aren’t distributed but are hosted on a secure web server. Questionable cross-platform support: No one is entirely sure whether .NET will ever be adopted for use on other operating systems and platforms. Ambitious projects such as
Mono (a free implementation of .NET on Linux, Unix, and Windows) are currently underway (see www.mono-project.com). However, .NET will probably never have the wide reach of a language such as Java because it incorporates too many different platform-specific and operating system–specific technologies and features.

1. Use persistent connections to the database to avoid connection overhead.
2. Check all tables have PRIMARY KEYs on columns with high cardinality (many rows match the key value). Well,`gender` column has low cardinality (selectivity), unique user id column has high one and is a good candidate to become a primary key.
3. All references between different tables should usually be done with indices (which also means they must have identical data types so that joins based on the corresponding columns will be faster). Also check that fields that you often need to search in (appear frequently in WHERE, ORDER BY or GROUP BY clauses) have indices, but don’t add too many: the worst thing you can do is to add an index on every column of a table (I haven’t seen a table with more than 5 indices for a table, even 20-30 columns big). If you never refer to a column in comparisons, there’s no need to index it.
4. Using simpler permissions when you issue GRANT statements enables MySQL to reduce permission-checking overhead when clients execute statements.
5. Use less RAM per row by declaring columns only as large as they need to be to hold the values stored in them.
6. Use leftmost index prefix — in MySQL you can define index on several columns so that left part of that index can be used a separate one so that you need less indices.
7. When your index consists of many columns, why not to create a hash column which is short, reasonably unique, and indexed? Then your query will look like:
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   SELECT * FROM table WHERE hash_column = MD5( CONCAT(col1, col2) ) AND col1='aaa' AND col2='bbb';

8. Consider running ANALYZE TABLE (or myisamchk –analyze from command line) on a table after it has been loaded with data to help MySQL better optimize queries.
9. Use CHAR type when possible (instead of VARCHAR, BLOB or TEXT) — when values of a column have constant length: MD5-hash (32 symbols), ICAO or IATA airport code (4 and 3 symbols), BIC bank code (3 symbols), etc. Data in CHAR columns can be found faster rather than in variable length data types columns.
10. Don’t split a table if you just have too many columns. In accessing a row, the biggest performance hit is the disk seek needed to find the first byte of the row.
11. A column must be declared as NOT NULL if it really is — thus you speed up table traversing a bit.
12. If you usually retrieve rows in the same order like expr1, expr2, …, make ALTER TABLE … ORDER BY expr1, expr2, … to optimize the table.
13. Don’t use PHP loop to fetch rows from database one by one just because you can — use IN instead, e.g.
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    SELECT * FROM `table` WHERE `id` IN (1,7,13,42);

14. Use column default value, and insert only those values that differs from the default. This reduces the query parsing time.
15. Use INSERT DELAYED or INSERT LOW_PRIORITY (for MyISAM) to write to your change log table. Also, if it’s MyISAM, you can add DELAY_KEY_WRITE=1 option — this makes index updates faster because they are not flushed to disk until the table is closed.
16. Think of storing users sessions data (or any other non-critical data) in MEMORY table — it’s very fast.
17. For your web application, images and other binary assets should normally be stored as files. That is, store only a reference to the file rather than the file itself in the database.
18. If you have to store big amounts of textual data, consider using BLOB column to contain compressed data (MySQL’s COMPRESS() seems to be slow, so gzipping at PHP side may help) and decompressing the contents at application server side. Anyway, it must be benchmarked.
19. If you often need to calculate COUNT or SUM based on information from a lot of rows (articles rating, poll votes, user registrations count, etc.), it makes sense to create a separate table and update the counter in real time, which is much faster. If you need to collect statistics from huge log tables, take advantage of using a summary table instead of scanning the entire log table every time.
20. Don’t use REPLACE (which is DELETE+INSERT and wastes ids): use INSERT … ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE instead (i.e. it’s INSERT + UPDATE if conflict takes place). The same technique can be used when you need first make a SELECT to find out if data is already in database, and then run either INSERT or UPDATE. Why to choose yourself — rely on database side.
21. Tune MySQL caching: allocate enough memory for the buffer (e.g. SET GLOBAL query_cache_size = 1000000) and define query_cache_min_res_unit depending on average query resultset size.
22. Divide complex queries into several simpler ones — they have more chances to be cached, so will be quicker.
23. Group several similar INSERTs in one long INSERT with multiple VALUES lists to insert several rows at a time: quiry will be quicker due to fact that connection + sending + parsing a query takes 5-7 times of actual data insertion (depending on row size). If that is not possible, use START TRANSACTION and COMMIT, if your database is InnoDB, otherwise use LOCK TABLES — this benefits performance because the index buffer is flushed to disk only once, after all INSERT statements have completed; in this case unlock your tables each 1000 rows or so to allow other threads access to the table.
24. When loading a table from a text file, use LOAD DATA INFILE (or my tool for that), it’s 20-100 times faster.
25. Log slow queries on your dev/beta environment and investigate them. This way you can catch queries which execution time is high, those that don’t use indexes, and also — slow administrative statements (like OPTIMIZE TABLE and ANALYZE TABLE)
26. Tune your database server parameters: for example, increase buffers size.
27. If you have lots of DELETEs in your application, or updates of dynamic format rows (if you have VARCHAR, BLOB or TEXT column, the row has dynamic format) of your MyISAM table to a longer total length (which may split the row), schedule running OPTIMIZE TABLE query every weekend by crond. Thus you make the defragmentation, which means more speed of queries. If you don’t use replication, add LOCAL keyword to make it faster.
28. Don’t use ORDER BY RAND() to fetch several random rows. Fetch 10-20 entries (last by time added or ID) and make array_random() on PHP side. There are also other solutions.
29. Consider avoiding using of HAVING clause — it’s rather slow.
30. In most cases, a DISTINCT clause can be considered as a special case of GROUP BY; so the optimizations applicable to GROUP BY queries can be also applied to queries with a DISTINCT clause. Also, if you use DISTINCT, try to use LIMIT (MySQL stops as soon as it finds row_count unique rows) and avoid ORDER BY (it requires a temporary table in many cases).
31. When I read “Building scalable web sites”, I found that it worth sometimes to de-normalise some tables (Flickr does this), i.e. duplicate some data in several tables to avoid JOINs which are expensive. You can support data integrity with foreign keys or triggers.
32. If you want to test a specific MySQL function or expression, use BENCHMARK function to do that.