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  • Simon Husin 6:26 pm on September 3, 2022 Permalink | Reply  

    Stats Update 

    Hello World,

    The traffic stats of IndoNethia website have just been updated, after a hiatus of 28 days. With the crawlers & bots removed (including 66 recent ones), 1054 unique devices played video clips served through IndoNethia.com, i.e., more than 37 devices per day. 170 of them came from unique addresses that never visited us before.

    Three of those new unique requests came from 3 cities that were never in our visitors’ database earlier, i.e. Shizuishan (Ningxia Huizu, China), Jinju (Gyeongsangnam-Do, South Korea), and Saint Louis (Missouri).
    The regions Ningxia Huizu (China) and Gyeongsangnam-Do (South Korea) are new regions in our database.

    With the above additions, “IndoNethia.com” has now been brought up in at least 3082 cities, in 1116 regions in 226 countries on our beautiful blue planet “Earth”, which we borrow from its future inhabitants.

    http://IndoNethia.com plays for you natural sounds and human-created melodies between Indonesia and The Netherlands while you are making a positive impact on yourself, and everything around you.

    Peace | Shalom | Salam,
    -Simon in the Music City: Nashville, Tennessee

     

  • Simon Husin 11:09 am on January 21, 2018 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: apache rexx, bahasa indonesia, dutch music, fantastic music, foreign music, , lagu barat, lagu indonesia, lagu lama, lovely song lovely songs, mod_rexx, music video music videos, nederland indonesia, nederlandse muziek, oud nederlands, ,   

    IndoNethia.com – Foreign? Fantastic! 

    This website was launched in 2006, originally called ho.tzo.com.

    While watching some Indonesian and Dutch/Flemish music clips on a PC, I was regularly asked by my (then) very young children what the songs were about. That was how this all started.

    Over the years, this effort has been keeping me active in the following areas:

    • Cultures
    • Languages
    • Target Marketing
    • Web Technologies

    Click here to check it out.  Best when played on a PC or a Mac.

    Cultures
    To find for all types of materials (songs and clips) that suit my taste, I browse
    and search YouTube frequently, as well as request suggestions from family members and friends, even strangers.

    The materials selected for the website are solely based on my taste for the subject.

    Occasionally, I came in contact with strangers thru the internet to get their permissions to use some of their materials, to ask questions about the clips, or to answer their questions about what they observe on this website.

    I learn more about the places where the artists and the website visitors originate from, and my tools for this are web search engines and Wikipedia.

    Languages
    Born and raised until my teenage years in Indonesia, I know and speak this language rather well.  Completing my college education in Antwerp, Belgium and spending my first decade as an IT professional in the Netherlands, make me feel comfortable speaking Dutch.  Having been in the U.S.A. for several decades, using English daily, I learn to know the language quite well.

    While all of the materials translated are originally written in Dutch or Indonesian, many more materials for the first page are written in various languages.  For the landing page, the clips are randomly played, simulating a radio broadcast.

    To help me translate some of the words and phrases, I sometimes use the following websites:
    Google Translate
    English-Dutch by Ectaco
    English-Indonesian by Kamus Orisinil
    Dutch Dictionary by van Dale

    Target Marketing
    My initial audience for this website was my children, for them to watch the materials I like and to understand what the clips were all about. It has evolved to a tool for me to share this website to as many countries as I can reach. Using friends and families, acquaintances, co-workers, discussion groups, etc. the website reached new audiences worldwide.

    After hearing about google ads (adwords and adsense) from some friends, I started using it to reach much more targeted places.

    Later, when I learned about facebook ads to reach certain demographics, I tried that too to reach targets that could potentially spread the news to new audiences.

    More than a decade after the inception of this website, there are still a few countries I cannot reach: The Vatican City and North Korea are two of them, as examples. My hope is for this website one day to be able to reach all countries listed in here.

    IP2Location is the website I use most often to translate the originating IP Address to its geographic location.

    Web Technologies
    For those who want to know more about what I use to create this website, please read on below.

    It is hosted at my home. The current PC is the third hardware, and is currently an old robust laptop equipped with an SSD, which internal cooling fan hardly ever kicks in. While the previous two hardware computers lasted about three years each on average, running continuously 24/7, the current one may last much longer than that. The provider is my home ISP, and the host is dyn, which allows the domain to be dynamically routed to where the computer is located.

    O/S: Windows
    Web server: Apache/2.0.63 (Win32) Mod_Rexx/2.1.0
    ReXX engine: Open Object ReXX – Version3.1.2

    Other items I learn about and use here:

    Cheers!

     

  • Simon Husin 12:46 am on January 8, 2018 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , , Trucker Endless Tower Of Hanoi,   

    endless 

    This software program is based on the well-known problem “Towers of Hanoi”.

    The program is created to demonstrate ReXX program’s flexibility and portability.

    You are encouraged to modify this program to make it run on your ReXX interpreter, on the device you are using.

    To make sure that it is maintained properly, I am inviting you to send me your modifications which I will apply on my copy and release it back to more people.

    Click here to download it, then unzip and run this software program, as is. If the unzipped file “endless.rex” does not run as prescribed, with your help, we may be able to make it work with the ReXX interpreter and the device you are using.


    Supported Platforms, as of the last update, on the 13th January of 2018.


    HW# Hardware:
    10 Amiga 500, 3000, 4000
    13 Andoid-based devices
    20 IBM AS/400
    30 IBM ES/9000
    40 IBM Personal Computers
    50 IBM RS/6000 Model 580
    60 SUN SPARC workstations
    70 Unknown (one which runs the operating systems/environment)


    OS# Operating Systems/Environment:
    10 AmigaOS 2.0, 3.1
    13 Android
    20 IBM AIX 3.2.5
    30 IBM AS/400
    40 IBM MVS-TSO/E
    50 IBM Operating Systems/2 (OS/2) 2.0
    60 IBM PC-DOS 7.0 (supporting ANSI characters)
    65 IBM PMREXX
    70 IBM VM/CMS
    80 Microsoft DOS 5.0 (supporting ANSI characters)
    90 Microsoft Windows 3.1
    95 Microsoft Windows NT with Bill Potvin's RXSH Command Interpreter
    96 Microsoft Windows XP and more recent version
    100 SunOS 4.1.3
    110 Tritus SPF 1.2.8 for OS/2
    120 Tritus SPF 1.2.8 for MS-/PC-DOS
    130 Unix (any flavors)


    RE# REXX Engines:
    10 Amiga REXX (ARexx) by William Hawes
    20 BNV REXX 1.0
    30 IBM AIX/REXX
    40 IBM Object REXX (Beta version)
    50 IBM OS/400 REXX
    60 IBM PC-DOS 7.0 REXX
    70 IBM Procedures Language/2 REXX (PL/2 REXX)
    80 IBM REXX/370 Compiler
    90 IBM REXX/370 Interpreter
    100 KiloWatt Portable Rexx 1.0
    110 Quercus Systems Personal/REXX 3.0
    120 Regina REXX by Anders Christensen
    122 Regina REXX by Open Source
    125 REXX/imc 1.6c by Ian Collier
    127 REXX-JAXO by pgr@jaxo.com
    130 The Workstation Group uni-REXX 1.68
    140 Tritus SPF REXX


    ID# Contributors (thus far):
    AS Alan Sampson
    BP2 Bill Potvin II
    IC Ian Collier
    GS Gerard Schildberger
    MG Mathew Goldstein
    MH Mark Hessling
    MK Michael Kraemer
    MP Matti Poutanen
    PB Paul Barnett
    PG P. Gil
    RGF Rony G. Flatscher
    SH Simon Husin

    Enjoy!

     

  • Simon Husin 12:45 am on January 8, 2018 Permalink | Reply
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    Trucker 

    Trucker is a game program, written by Hughes Glantzberg. The game allows you to work a as a truck driver to move goods in an 18-wheeler from Los Angeles to New York for profit. You are presented with several choices in the beginning and throughout the game. Examples of the choices are the routes to take (Northern, Middle or Southern), whether to replace some of the tires, what type of cargo to load, how much to load, how fast to drive, when to rest, etc. While this is text-based, it is quite remarkable how much it makes you feel as a real trucker.

    The game was originally written in BASIC, which I converted in ReXX soon after I found a copy of this program in 1988. I later tried to make it as such that it could be run as is on any ReXX interpreter, on any device.

    Click here to download Trucker, then unzip and run it as is. If the unzipped file “Trucker.rex” does not run, we may be able to make it work with the ReXX interpreter and the device you are using, with your help.

    Have fun with the game and the ReXX codes.

     

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