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Hi,
Welcome to my homepage. It's nice to meet you on the internet. The aim of this homepage is to provide some informations on my experiences in using Linux, my geophysical resources, and some other things that I think people should know. The articles are written in English and Indonesian. Most of my Linux articles are in Indonesian while most of the geophysical related articles are in English. The Linux articles are intentionally written in Indonesian to give an opportunity for Indonesians to learn about Linux and its use in educational or industrial environment. Linux is becoming popular in Indonesia and there have been a lot of users group sharing their experiences through their own websites or mailing lists. This personal homepage is one of them. Most of the articles I wrote are specifically for educational purposes. In other words, they are written for students in the universities who want to use Linux and its complementary programs for computational programming and scientific writing and plotting. I also include some of my geophysical programs which run under Linux and how to use them. It is my hope that you can benefit from this very simple personal homepage. If you like this homepage and you think that your friends or colleagues will also benefit from this homepage, please feel free to recommend it to them. Please also find some informations about me in the following parts.

My Job

I'm a lecturer at the Physics Department, University of Indonesia and I'm highly interested in geophysical studies. I teach the following subjects :

• Digital Data Processing
• Introduction to Geophysics
• Geophysical Computation
• Statistics

In the past, I taught Diagnostic Imaging for Medical Physics students.

My Interest

My main interest as a lecturer is to introduce four different things that have strong relationship to be mastered by our students. They are :

• physics
• mathematics
• computation
• application to industries

When the use of Linux in Indonesia started to increase a couple of years ago, I decided to implement this powerful operating system on our PCs for academic purposes. I did this in hope that my students will be familiar to UNIX operating system that is being widely used in industries. On the other side, Linux offers many advantages for academic community as I've experienced in the last years. Of course the license issue is another point of view. However, I'm definitely sure that if I have to pay for using Linux, and if I can pay for that 8-), I will choose Linux to be installed on my PC due to its power for doing scientific jobs. Fortunately, Linux is an open source system and there has been a wide range software contribution developed by a lot of people. Because of the abundance of free softwares running on Linux, "promoting" the use of Linux to the academic community through this homepage has been my interest since the beginning of this year.

My Pictures

Please find below some of my experiences framed in pictures.

• Technical staff in ARCO 3D Seismic Project in Irian Jaya
• Scientific guest on Research Vessel "Sonne" from Germany at the Indian Ocean

My Tcl/Tk Programming in Linux

I wrote some Tcl/Tk programs for me :

• AVO Modelling
• Interactive Seismic Unix