Saturday, January 31, 2009

The Future of BIOS Disassembly Ninjutsu Uncovered

Now, finally I have latest update from my publisher regarding BIOS Disassembly Ninjutsu Uncovered that I wrote a while ago.

The English version of this book is now out-of-print and will not be printed for a little while until I can find new publisher who wants to acquire the right to re-print it or I might come up with another option(s).

For those who needs this book as fast as possible, please contact http://www.ipgbook.com. They might still have some books left in their inventory.

As soon as I have come up with the solution. I'll post an update in this blog.

If you're asking why it happens, it's because the Russia-based publisher A-list Publishing who publish the book is closing down their US operation due to economic pressure.


As for the Russian version of the book, it will be available as usual from www.bhv.ru.

That's it for the moment.

UPDATE
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I have received the contract termination for the English edition of BIOS Disassembly Ninjutsu Uncovered. Please read this post for further details.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

A Glimpse of Eastern Indonesia


While many Indonesians hardly appreciate the geographical size of their own country, it's not the case for me because I come from a quite far place in the eastern part and now resides in the western part of the country. There are very small number of country in the world that spans three time zones or more. Indonesia spans three different time zones. Of course this means the country _is_ large. I cannot imagine someone who lives in Russia, which has eleven timezones! Imagine you're living in Moscow and your relative is in the far east Vladivostok.

Now, back to Indonesia. The eastern part is very sparse. A lot of islands and very small inhabitants in some of them. Anyway, these are the pictures of the island where my parents comes from.

picture from the ferry (probably on approach to the Island)





View from the mountain



View upon leaving the island (taken on the ferry)



A traditional house in the coastal region of the island



These are the surprising wind towers (I've never seen them before)






Anyway, I come to hate living in the big city quite a bit because you can hardly concentrate and too much distraction. Maybe I'll move to one of those small "isolated" island soon enough. There will be a lot of work for that to happen. But it will, sooner or later.