Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) develops and promotes Internet standards, cooperating closely with the W3C and ISO/IEC standards bodies and dealing in particular with standards of the TCP/IP and Internet protocol suite. It is an open standards organization, with no formal membership or membership requirements. All participants and managers are volunteers, though their work is usually funded by their employers or sponsors; for instance, the current chairperson is funded by VeriSign and the U.S. government's National Security Agency.

 

Organization

 

The IETF is organized into a large number of working groups and informal discussion groups (BoF)s, each dealing with a specific topic. Each group is intended to complete work on that topic and then disband. Each working group has an appointed chairperson (or sometimes several co-chairs), along with a charter that describes its focus, and what and when it is expected to produce. It is open to all who want to participate, and holds discussions on an open mailing list or at IETF meetings. The mailing list consensus is the final arbiter of decision of-making.

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Web Crawler

A Web crawler is a computer program that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner or in an orderly fashion. Other terms for Web crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, bots, Web spiders, Web robots, or—especially in the FOAF community—Web scutters. This process is called Web crawling or spidering. Many sites, in particular search engines, use spidering as a means of providing up-to-date data. Web crawlers are mainly used to create a copy of all the visited pages for later processing by a search engine that will index the downloaded pages to provide fast searches. Crawlers can also be used for automating maintenance tasks on a Web site, such as checking links or validating HTML code. Also, crawlers can be used to gather specific types of information from Web pages, such as harvesting e-mail addresses (usually for sending spam).

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Definition of Technology

Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. Technologies significantly affect human as well as other animal species' ability to control and adapt to their natural environments. The word technology comes from Greek τεχνολογία (technología); from τέχνη (téchnē), meaning "art, skill, craft", and -λογία (-logía), meaning "study of-". The term can either be applied generally or to specific areas: examples include construction technology, medical technology, and information technology. The human species' use of technology began with the conversion of natural resources into simple tools. The prehistorical discovery of the ability to control fire increased the available sources of food and the invention of the wheel helped humans in travelling in and controlling their environment. Recent technological developments, including the printing press, the telephone, and the Internet, have lessened physical barriers to communication and allowed humans to interact freely on a global scale. However, not all technology has been used for peaceful purposes; the development of weapons of ever-increasing destructive power has progressed throughout history, from clubs to nuclear weapons.

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Style Sheets

Web style sheets are a form of separation of presentation and content for web design in which the markup (i.e., HTML or XHTML) of a webpage contains the page's semantic content and structure, but does not define its visual layout (style). Instead, the style is defined in an external stylesheet file using a style sheet language such as CSS or XSL. This design approach is identified as a "separation" because it largely supersedes the antecedent methodology in which a page's markup defined both style and structure.

The philosophy underlying this methodology is a specific case of separation of concerns.

 

Benefits

 

Separation of style and content has many benefits, but has only become practical in recent years due to improvements in popular web browsers' CSS implementations.

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All the programs made for iPhone can run on the iPad

Scale up iPhone apps

 

Even before the iPad was officially announced in January 2010, the App Store already had more than 100,000 programs in stock for iPhone and iPod Touch users. According to Apple, just about all of these programs can run on the iPad, so there's no software shortage for the slab here. But while these apps can run on the iPad, most of them weren't designed for it. They might seem a little sparse on the bigger screen. Still, you've two ways to run those older iPhone and iPod Touch apps on the iPad:

Run the apps at actual size. While this maintains the initial look of the app, it looks type of silly floating there in the middle of the iPad, like a tiny island with an ocean of dark screen surrounding it on all four sides. You have to reach in much farther across the iPad to tap the screen buttons.

Run the apps at twice the dimensions. If you don't want to squint, you can super-size that old iPhone app - just tap the 2X button in the bottomright corner of the iPad screen. The iPad then doubles each pixel on the screen to scale in the app. Depending on the program, though, Hulk-ing up your apps using the 2X button can make them look a little blotchy and weird compared to running them at the size they were intended. But you will make use of your iPad's expansive vista.

 

Organize apps

 

You know how to rearrange the icons on the Home screen of your iPad. You might now have a ton of groovy new app icons throughout your iPad - but not in the order you'd like them. Sure, you can drag wiggling icons throughout your 11 pages of Home screen, but that can get a little confusing and frustrating whenever you accidentally drop an icon on the wrong page. Plus, that iPad screen is awfully large and also you could throw your shoulder out dragging those apps such a long distance. If you want a simpler way to fine-tune your iPad's Home screens, iTunes lets you arrange all your app icons from your big-screen computer:

Connect the iPad to your computer. Click its icon in the Source list. Click the Applications tab. You now see all your applications - an entire list on the left, a huge version of the current screen in the middle, and individual pages towards the right-hand side of or below the Big Screen.

Select the icons you want to move. Click an icon you want to move on the JumboTron and drag it to the desired page thumbnail - iTunes re-creates both iPad screen orientations so you can fine-tune the feel of your screens: landscape mode pages appear across the bottom, portrait mode screens stacked vertically on the far right.

Hold down the Ctrl or keys and click to select multiple apps. It's much simpler to group similar apps on the page this way - you can have, say, a webpage of games or a page of online newspapers. You can even swap out the four permanent application icons in the gray bar on the bottom of the iPad screen with other apps - and squeeze in two more for a total of six apps in the permanent row.

Click Apply or Sync. Wait just a moment as iTunes rearranges the icons on your iPad so that they mirror the setup in iTunes. But what if you must many apps for the iPad's limit of 11 Home screens? Even if an app's not visible, you can think it is on the tablet by flicking your finger from left to right on the first Home screen and typing in the app name in the search box that appears.

 

Adjust app preferences

 

Many apps have their functions and controls within each program; you can get for them by tapping Setup or Options while you take the app. Some apps, however, possess a separate set of preferences kept in the iPad's Settings area.

For example, your nifty little weather program can include the option to display temperatures in either Fahrenheit or Celsius and wind speeds in either miles per hour or kilometers each hour, depending on the measuring standards of your country. You can set these preferences for the application by choosing Home, then Settings and flicking all the way down the screen towards the collection of settings for individual apps. Tap the name of the app you want to adjust to get to its settings.

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eXtensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML)

XHTML (eXtensible HyperText Markup Language) is a family of XML markup languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely-used Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the language in which web pages are written.
While HTML (prior to HTML5) was defined as an application of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), a very flexible markup language framework, XHTML is an application of XML, a more restrictive subset of SGML. Because XHTML documents need to be well-formed, they can be parsed using standard XML parsers—unlike HTML, which requires a lenient HTML-specific parser.

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Inline Linking

Inline linking (also known as hotlinking, leeching, piggy-backing, direct linking, offsite image grabs, bandwidth theft) is the use of a linked object, often an image, from one site by a web page belonging to a second site. The second site is said to have an inline link to the site where the object is located.

 

Inline linking and HTTP

 

The technology behind the World Wide Web, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), does not make any distinction of types of links—all links are functionally equal. Resources may be located on any server at any location.

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Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM)

Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) is a type of random-access memory that stores each bit of data in a separate capacitor within an integrated circuit. The capacitor can be either charged or discharged; these two states are taken to represent the two values of a bit, conventionally called 0 and 1.

Since capacitors leak charge, the information eventually fades unless the capacitor charge is refreshed periodically. Because of this refresh requirement, it is a dynamic memory as opposed to SRAM and other static memory. The main memory (the "RAM") in personal computers is Dynamic RAM (DRAM). It is the RAM in laptop and workstation computers as well as some of the RAM of video game consoles.

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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can also be applied to any kind of XML document, including plain XML, SVG and XUL.
CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts. This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics, enable multiple pages to share formatting, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content (such as by allowing for tableless web design).

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Thematic Map

A thematic map is a type of map or chart especially designed to show a particular theme connected with a specific geographic area. These maps "can portray physical, social, political, cultural, economic, sociological, agricultural, or any other aspects of a city, state, region, nation, or continent".
 

Overview

 
A thematic map is a map that focuses on a specific theme or subject area, whereas in a general map the variety of phenomena—geological, geographical, political—regularly appear together. The contrast between them lies in the fact that thematic maps use the base data, such as coastlines, boundaries and places, only as points of reference for the phenomenon being mapped. General maps portray the base data, such as landforms, lines of transportation, settlements, and political boundaries for their own sake.

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Masjid Cheng Ho

Satu lagi bangunan yang menarik di Pandaan-Pasuruan yaitu Masjid Cheng Ho.

Masjid ini didirikan pada tahun 2003 oleh sebuah  yayasan  komunitas muslim Cina bernuansa budaya Cina. Bangunan Masjid berukuran 50 m x 50 m, terdiri dari dua lantai ini diresmikan pada 2008 oleh bupati pasuruan.

Masjid ini dibangun untuk mengenang Laksamana Cheng ho.

- Siapa Laksamana Cheng ho?

- Orang mana?

- Kok g pernah ketemu?

Hahahahah jangan hiraukan pertanyaan konyol di atas.

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Purwodadi Botanical Garden

Purwodadi Botanical Garden is a garden located in a large study Purwodadi, Pasuruan , East Java , Indonesia . The extent of 85 acres and has about 10,000 species of trees and plant collections.
 

History

 
Purwodadi botanical garden was established on January 30th 1941 by Dr. Lourens Gerhard Marinus Baas Becking on the initiative of Dr. Dirk van Slooten Fok on January 30, 1941 as a division of the Experimental Station 's Lands Plantentuin Buitenzorg or the Botanical Garden . This garden is one of the three branches of the Botanical Gardens Indonesia (Bogor Botanical Gardens) which each have specific tasks and functions. Both of the other branch is the gardens Cibodas and Eka Karya Bali Botanic Gardens . Management of all the Botanical Gardens are located under the responsibility of Indonesian Institute of Sciences.

At first the garden was used for plantation crops research activities. Then in 1954 began to apply the basics of the commencement of manufacture patches of plant collections. Since 1980 some plants were reorganized according to ethnic groups who embrace and Pranti Engler system of classification. Branch development is expected in the Botanical Gardens Purwodadi Hall will become conservation and research center of the dry climate plants in the tropics.

 

Trees and Plants Collections

Legumes

 
Classified into three tribes, namely Mimosaceae , Caesalpiniaceae and Papilionaceae . There are 157 species of 70 genera belonging to these tribes. Various types of beans used as ornamental plants such as the types of genera Amherstia, Brownea, Cassia, Senna, and Saraca. In addition, several types of wood are also used for buildings such as rosewood (Dalbergia latifolia) and wangkal (Albizia procera), and green plants such as roadside Angsana (Pterocarpus indicus), acacia (Acacia auriculiformis) and Soga (Peltophorum pterocarpum). Some are used as medicinal plants such as Johar (Senna Siamea), Kedawung (Parkia timoriana), Dadap srep (Erythrina subumbrans), and chicken Dadap (Erythrina orientalis).
  

Orchid

Placed in a greenhouse where conditions adapted to their natural habitat. There are about 2344 natural orchid specimens consisting of 319 species, 69 genera, and 277 are still sp .. About 7 species are endemic orchid East Java as Appendicula imbricata, arcuatum Dendrobium, Paphiopedilum glaucophyllum ( Slippers Orchid ), and others. While that is endangered in the wild include Ascocentrum miniatum, Phalaenopsis amabilis ( orchid months ), Coelogyne pandurata ( black orchid ) from Borneo and others.
 

Palm

Included in the palm family Arecaceae and is the oldest species that have been found since the time of Cretaceus, approximately 120 million years ago. Arecaceae is very attractive in terms of botany, the beauty of its shape, species diversity and usefulness. Family Arecaceae in the world is estimated to 200-300 genera and 2000-3000 species scattered around the tropics and sub tropics. Indonesia is the world's center of diversity of palm, from the palm in the world there are 46 genera (576 species) found in Indonesia and 29 genera are endemic palms. (Ibn-LIPI, 1978; Witono, 1998; Sharma, 2002; Chin, 2003). As one of the institutions ex-situ conservation of plants, the Botanical Gardens has the task of carrying out an inventory Purwodadi, exploration, collection and maintenance of planting lowland dry vegetation that has a value of science and the potential for collection (conserved). Botanical Gardens area of ​​845 148 m2 Purwodadi has 174 families, 904 genera and 1896 species with a collection of some 60 genera Arecaceae 117 species and 435 individuals based on catalog 2006 (Suprapto et al., 2006).
 

Bamboo

About 30 species of bamboo have been collected Purwodadi Botanical Garden, 16 species are from Java , two types of Maluku , two species of Sulawesi , and 10 species of Asian countries ( China , Japan , Thailand , India , and Burma ). Gigantochloa manggong (Bamboo Manggong) is an endemic bamboo East Java, Gigantochloa lear (lear Pring) is often used for furniture, crafts, or roof of the house, Dendrocalamus asper (pring petung) rebungnya to eat, and Schizostachyum silicatum ( bamboo wuluh ) for flute.
 

Nails

Collection of ferns arranged under large, shady trees, because these plants love the shade and damp places. The collection reached 60 species from 36 genera and 21 tribes. Among these birds nest spikes (Asplenium nidus), maidenhair ferns (Adiantum spp.), hata (Lygodium circinnatum), and nail antlers / simbar deer (Platycerium coronarium). There are some other useful collections of ferns, such as nails vegetables (Athyrium esculentum) of edible shoots, Asplenium sp. and Adiantum sp. as ornamental plants, horsetail Equisetum debile as a medicinal, Cyathea contaminans as a growing medium of orchids, and hata Lygodium circinnatum as a craft.
 

Drugs

Located in the plot XIV G and VA, arranged in such a way as to serve as an attractive garden to be enjoyed. Among his collection is Pace (Morinda citrifolia), men to cough and high blood pressure, purple leaf (Graptophyllum pictum), leaves for medicine hemorrhoids , Widoro upas (Merremia mammosa), tubers for medicinal diabetes , Sembung (Blumea balsamifera) leaves for drug asthma , heart disease , Wudani (Quisqualis indica) leaves for medicine and other worms.

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The Taman Dayu

Wah ternyata ada tempat seindah dan sebagus ini di Pandaan ya.........( waaaaaaaah belum tau dia )

Pasti itu yang terucap bagi orang² yang pertama kali melihat / mampir ke Taman Dayu.Taman dayu yang dibangun pada April 2005 terletak di Pandaan tepatnya Jl. Raya Surabaya - Malang Km. 48 Pandaan 67156, Pasuruan. 

Indonesia memiliki keindahan alam di campur dengan berbagai residensial, iklan dan fasilitas rekreasi menjadikan tampat yang sangat menyenangkan dan indah.
Bukan hanya itu...kita bisa berolahraga, berpetualang, dan bermain air.Banyak sekali tempat olahraga, rekreasi, belanja, dan belajar bagi anak². Karena tempatnya yang strategis Taman dayu tidak pernah sepi oleh pengunjung, apalagi di area depan atau yang disebut banyak orang CBD (Citypark Business District) tak pernah sepi oleh orang² yang berkunjung, berbelanja, atau sekedar jalan². Ada juga Waterpark yang bisa membuat anak² g mau pulang (alias krasan / betah). Selain waterpark ada juga water outbound sebagai sarana rekreasi dan belajar bagi anak². Selain Water Sliding yang berstandart internasional ada juga juga Water Outbound yang akan menantang adrenalin anda.

Ada juga permainan seperti Cano River, Water Cave, Forrest Bridge, Tarzan Swing, Sky Bridge & Turtle Bridge. Bukan hanya untuk anak² saja, fasilitas olahraga untuk orang dewasa salah satunya adalah lapangan golf, instrukturnya juga ada lho, jadi meskipun kita gak bisa bermain golf disana ada instrukturnya / pelatih
Ada juga Golf Mansion, berbatasan langsung dengan padang golf berkelas Internasional yang didesain oleh Jack Nicklaus. Villa Golf View (lb/lt 143/264m2).Belum selesai sampai di situ, ada juga Villa dan hotel di Taman Dayu yang dirancang dengan gaya khas barat dengan iklim yang sejuk dan pemandangan yang menakjubkan Semua villa memiliki kolam renang / jacuzzi, dan minibar (mantaaaap). Ada juga Hotel berkelas di taman dayu, Kalau anda ingin liburan dan menginap disini informasi harganya  

Sebenarnya masih banyak mengenai Taman Dayu ini...tapi udah g bisa di jelasin satu-persatu
Intinya bagi yang belum pernah ke Taman dayu ( ingat ya di Pandaan ) mampir aja biar tahu mantapnya rekreasi atau cuman jalan² aja di sana, d jamin g bakal rugi sampai di Pandaan

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Jawi Temple

 

Jawi temple is a temple which was built around the 13th century and is a historical relic Hindu - Buddhist kingdom Singhasari in sub Prigen , Pasuruan , East Java , Indonesia . The temple is located in the middle of the highway between Pandaan District - District Prigen and Pringebukan. Jawi temple many thought of as a place of worship or places of worship Buddha, but it is actually a place where the ashes of the king's last Singhasari , Kertanegara . Some of the ash is also stored in the temple Singhasari . Both of these temples has to do with Jago temple which is a place of worship of King Kertanegara.    

Kertanegara reason Jawi temple built far from the royal center for the region's alleged followers of the teachings of Shiva-Buddha is very strong. The people in that area are very loyal. Even Kertanegara known as a famous king, he also had many enemies in the country. Flag Song of Wijayakrama, for example, mentions the revolt Kelana Bayangkara. Negarakertagama Cayaraja noted the rebellion. There are allegations that the area used as a base by Jawi temple Kertanegara supporters. These allegations arise from the story of history that when Dyah Wijaya , son Kertanegara, Kertanegera fled after the coup the king's subordinates, Jayakatwang of bracelets (area of Karachi ), he was hiding in this area, before finally fled to Madura.

Structure and use of buildings

 

Form legged Shiva temple, berpundak Buddha . Shaped like a tall slender Prambanan in Central Java, with the size of the area 14.24 x 9.55 m and height 24.50 meters. The door facing east . The position of this door is used by most experts emphasize that the reason for this temple is not a place of worship or pradaksina (a ceremony of homage to a deity , called Dewayadnya or dewayajña), because usually the temple to worship facing the mountain , the place believed to be the funeral to the Gods. Jawi temple it back to Mount STEPS . While there are other experts who think that this temple remains of the temple worship, and the position of the doors are not facing the mountain because of the influence of the teachings of Buddha.
 

Archeology

Jawi temple is the uniqueness of the reliefs on the walls. Unfortunately, relief could not be read. It could be because the carvings are too thin, or because of a lack of supporting information, such as from inscriptions or manuscripts . Negarakertagama that clearly tells the temple was no mention at all about the relief. In contrast to the relief in Jago Temple and the Temple of upgrading is still unclear. One of the fragments that exist in the walls of the temple, describing his own existence Jawi temple and its several other buildings around the temple. Clearly visible on the fragment on the eastern side of the temple there are ancillary temples as many as three pieces, but unfortunately the third condition ancillary is now practically razed to the ground. Even so the fragments can be seen clearly that there is a moment of the temple which is the gate of the temple, located to the west.

The remains of the building is still there, but the shape is more like a pile of bricks , because the gate of the temple is built of red brick. Besides the relief which is located at the walls of the temple, there are also other relief that is located inside the temple. Situated right in the middle of the temple which is the highest part of the inside of the temple, there is a relief god Surya who sculpted clear. The uniqueness of the Jawi Temple is a stone used as building material composed of two types. The lower part consists of a black stone, white stone and the upper. Which raised the suspicion that this temple could be built in two different periods of building techniques.
 

History of the temple by Negarakertagama

 
Negarakertagama mention, in the chambers of the temple there is a statue of Shiva . On it there is a statue of Shiva statue Supreme Aksobaya which have now been lost. There are a number of statues of Shiva, such as Nandiswara , Durga , Ganesha , Nandi , and Brahma. Kakawin Negarakertagama mention that at the time candrasengkala or the year Archery Day of Fire (1253 Saka ) of the temple was struck by lightning . That's when the statue of Maha Aksobaya missing. It is said the King of Majapahit King Hayam Wuruk who visited the temple was then grieving for the loss of statues. Although the Supreme Aksobaya statues have been found which are now stored in Apsari Park , the front Office of the Indonesian Journalists Association (PWI) in East Java , which became known as the Statue of Joko Dolog , the statue was not from Jawi temple. Written that a year after Jawi temple struck by lightning, has made rebuilding. During this period the expected use of white stone. However, the origin of the white stone is still questionable, because the area that includes the foot of Mount Welirang mostly rocky black and white stones are common in the area just north coast of Java or Madura.
 

The restoration and conservation effort

 
Jawi temple restored for a second year in 1938 - 1941th in the reign of the Dutch East Indies had collapsed because of his condition. However, until the renovations are not complete because some of the stones missing. Then improved again in the 1975th - 1.98 thousand , and was inaugurated in 1982 . Maintenance costs are now obtained from voluntary donations from visitors and NGO others. Jawi temple building form is intact, but its content is reduced. Statue of Durga is now stored at the Museum Professor Tantular , Surabaya . Others are stored at the Museum Trowulan for security. While others still, like statues Brahmin , was not found. Might have gone to pieces. In the warehouse behind the temple there are pieces of sculpture. In addition, there is a red brick fence as often found in buildings in the kingdom of Majapahit , as Rat Temple in Trowulan and Temple Bajangratu in Mojokerto.
 

Transfer of historic heritage

 
Relics statues found in Jawi Temple was moved, mostly to the Museum , and partly to the commercial. Removal of statues of Jawi temple temple or the other has received much criticism from historians and local people, because even on the right side to prevent it from theft , this transfer is thought to reduce the substance of the history of these relics, so be incomplete to be appreciated. Statues moved from habitats to lose its historical value. Jawi temple statues are stored in Monument Park Hotel , Malang , for example, was well maintained, but be deprived of historical value and the spirituality and thing that tends to be a dilemma. 
 

  

Every full moon night in the temple Jawi, wayang performance people are often held.
The event is organized by department of culture in the district Pasuruan

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Taman Candra Wilwatikta

Taman Candra Wilwatikta ini pertama kali di buat 1963 di atas tanah seluas 12,3 hektare
tujuan di bangunnya taman candra wilwatikta ini sebagai pusat kesenian dan budaya.
hal ini bisa di lihat dari panggung terbuka yang luas, diapit dua patung arca dwarapala dan dilengkapi dengan ornamen-ornamen khas candi menambah kesan, mewah ( bukan mepet sawah ), eksotis, dan waaaaah!! ketika kita masuk. Taman candra wilwatikta yang terletak ± 2 km dari Candi Jawi sendiri sangat populer di era orde baru, pernah di gunakan sebagai ajang Sendratari Ramayana Internasional ( mantap...) pada 1971.

Sebelum memasuki area Candra wilwatikta kita akan di sambut oleh beberapa ekor rusa.
Setiap sore banyak bapak / ibu² yang membawa anak²nya sekedar jalan-jalan atau melihat rusa ( termasuk saya ).

Bila di lihat dari depan kita bisa melihat dua gapura yang ada di tengah, dan anak tangga yang berada di depan tepat berada di tengah gunung penanggungan. Panggung yang megah di tambah background Gunung penanggungan yang gagah, wah indah banget.

Area pementasan ini selain ada panggung juga ada tempat duduk dari beton yang mampu menampung ± 500 penonton.
bila dilihat dari atas ( Google Earth ) maka area pementasan ini berbentuk segi lima...unik sekali kan.
Selain area pementasan ada juga tempat penginapan di candra wilwatikta.Taman candra wilwatikta ini juga sering di gunakan untuk lomba², seperti lomba burung, lomba memanah dan lain sebagainya. Pendopo serba guna biasanya di gunakan untuk resepsi pernikahan atau kegiatan² resmi instansi pemerintahan. Sayang sekali, semakin lama Taman Candra Wilwatikta ini sepertinya kurang terurus. Pemerintah Provinsi Jawa Timur segera merevitalisasi Taman Chandra Wilwatikta Pandaan Pasuruan untuk difungsikan kembali sebagai Pusat Kesenian dan Kebudayaan di provinsi itu. Kondisi ini disebabkan pengelola Taman Chandra Wilwatikta mengalami kesulitan dana pengelolaannya. Meski banyak acara digelar di tempat yang bersejarah tersebut, tapi biaya yang diperolehnya tak seimbang dengan biaya pengelolaan.” Inisiatif proses revitalisasi dating dari Gubernur Jawa Timur, Soekarwo, namun prosesnya akan tetap melibatkan pengelolanya.

  

Nah itu salah satu daya tarik Pandaan - Pasuruan, kita sebagai warga Pandaan harusnya bangga dan wajib menjaga Candra Wilwatikta ini ( maklumlah tiada duanya coy... )
  
Terus Maju Pasuruanku!!!

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Contour Line

A contour line (also isoline, isopleth, or isarithm) of a function of two variables is a curve along which the function has a constant value. In cartography, a contour line (often just called a "contour") joins points of equal elevation (height) above a given level, such as mean sea level. A contour map is a map illustrated with contour lines, for example a topographic map, which thus shows valleys and hills, and the steepness of slopes. The contour interval of a contour map is the difference in elevation between successive contour lines.

More generally, a contour line for a function of two variables is a curve connecting points where the function has the same particular value. The gradient of the function is always perpendicular to the contour lines. When the lines are close together the magnitude of the gradient is large: the variation is steep. A level set is a generalization of a contour line for functions of any number of variables.

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MAP

A map is a visual representation of an area—a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, regions, and themes.

Many maps are static two-dimensional, geometrically accurate (or approximately accurate) representations of three-dimensional space, while others are dynamic or interactive, even three-dimensional. Although most commonly used to depict geography, maps may represent any space, real or imagined, without regard to context or scale; e.g. brain mapping, DNA mapping, and extraterrestrial mapping.
 

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ATLAS

An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a map of Earth or a region of Earth, but there are atlases of the other planets (and their satellites) in the Solar System. Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today many atlases are in multimedia formats. In addition to presenting geographic features and political boundaries, many atlases often feature geopolitical, social, religious and economic statistics.They also have information about the map and places in it.

 

"Atlas" mythology

 

The origin of the term atlas is a common source of misconception, perhaps because two different mythical figures named 'Atlas' are associated with map making.

• King Atlas, a mythical King of Mauretania, also known as Aparajit in Hinduism, was according to legend a wise philosopher, mathematician and astronomer who supposedly made the first celestial globe. It was this Atlas to whom Gerardus Mercator was referring when he first used the name "atlas", and he included a depiction of the King on the title-page.
• However, the more widely known Atlas is a figure from Greek mythology. He is the son of the Titan Iapetus and Clymene (or Asia), and brother of Prometheus. Atlas was punished by Zeus and made to bear the weight of the heavens (the idea of Atlas carrying the Earth is not correct according to the original myth) on his back. One of Heracles's labours was to collect the apples of the Hesperides, guarded by Ladon. Heracles went to Atlas and reasoned with him. Eventually, Atlas agreed to collect the apples, and Heracles was left to carry the weight. Atlas tried to leave Heracles there, but Heracles tricked him and Atlas was left to carry the heavens forever. In his epic Odyssey, Homer refers to this Atlas as "one who knows the depths of the whole sea, and keeps the tall pillars who hold heaven and earth asunder".

In works of art, this Atlas is represented as carrying the heavens or the Celestial Sphere, on his shoulders. The earliest such depiction is the Farnese Atlas, now housed at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale Napoli in Naples, Italy. This figure is frequently found on the cover or title-pages of atlases. This is particularly true of atlases published by Dutch publishers during the second half of the seventeenth century. The image became associated with Dutch merchants, and a statue of this figure adorns the front of the World Trade Center in Amsterdam.

The first publisher to associate the Titan Atlas with a group of maps was Lafreri, on the title-page to "Tavole Moderne Di Geografia De La Maggior Parte Del Mondo Di Diversi Autori ...". However, he did not use the word "atlas" in the title of his work.

 

Modern atlas

With the coming of the global market, publishers in different countries can reprint maps from plates made elsewhere. This means that the place names on the maps often use the designations or abbreviations of the language of the country in which the feature is located, to serve the widest market. For example, islands near Russia have the abbreviation "O." for "ostrov", not "I." for "island". This practice differs from what is standard for any given language, and it reaches its extremity concerning transliterations from other languages. Particularly, German mapmakers use the transliterations from Cyrillic developed by the Czechs which are hardly used in English-speaking countries.

 

Selected general atlases

 

Some cartographically or commercially important atlases include the following:

17th century and earlier

• Atlas Novus (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1635–1658)
• Atlas Maior (Blaeu, Netherlands, 1662–1667)
• Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde (France, 1658–1676)
• Dell'Arcano del Mare (England/Italy, 1645–1661)
• Piri Reis map (Ottoman Empire, 1570–1612)
• Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Ortelius, Netherlands, 1570–1612)
• Klencke Atlas (1660; world's largest book)
• The Brittania (John Ogilby, 1670–1676)

18th century

• Atlas Nouveau (Amsterdam, 1742)
• Britannia Depicta (London, 1720)
• Cary's New and Correct English Atlas (London, 1787)

19th century

• Andrees Allgemeiner Handatlas (Germany, 1881–1939; in the UK as Times Atlas of the World, 1895)
• Rand McNally Atlas (United States, 1881–present)
• Stielers Handatlas (Germany, 1817–1944)

20th century

• Atlante Internazionale del Touring Club Italiano (Italy, 1927–1978)
• Atlas Mira (Russia, 1937–present)
• Gran Atlas Aguilar (Spain, 1969/1970)
• The Historical Atlas of China (China)
• National Geographic Atlas of the World (United States, 1963–present)
• Pergamon World Atlas (1962/1968)
• Times Atlas of the World (United Kingdom, 1895–present)

21st century

• North American Environmental Atlas

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Topography

Topography (from Greek τόπος topos, "place", and γράφω graphō, "write") is a field of planetary science comprising the study of surface shape and features of the Earth and other observable astronomical objects including planets, moons, and asteroids. It is also the description of such surface shapes and features (especially their depiction in maps).

The topography of an area can also mean the surface shape and features themselves.

In a broader sense, topography is concerned with local detail in general, including not only relief but also vegetative and artificial features, and even local history and culture. This meaning is less common in America, where topographic maps with elevation contours have made "topography" synonymous with relief. The older sense of topography as the study of place still has currency in Europe.

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Manage your playlist with the Apple iPad

Change or Delete a current Playlist

 
If you change your mind about a playlist's tune order, drag the song titles up or down inside the playlist window. Just make sure to sort the playlist by song order first.

You can always drag more songs into a playlist, and you can delete titles if you your playlist needs pruning. Click the song in the playlist window and then hit Delete or Backspace. When iTunes asks you to confirm your decision, click Yes. Remember, deleting an audio lesson from a playlist doesn't delete it from your music library - it simply removes the title from that particular playlist.

You can quickly give a song to an existing playlist from the main iTunes window, whichever view you happen to be using: Select the song, right-click it, and then, in the pop-up menu, choose "Add to Playlist". Scroll towards the playlist you want to use and then click the mouse button to add the track to that playlist.

If you need to see how many playlists contain a certain song, choose the track, right-click it, and choose "Show in Playlist" in the pop-up menu. When it's time to get rid of the playlist once and for all because the party's over, select the playlist icon iTunes and press the Delete key. You see a message box from iTunes asking to confirm your decision. If you autosync the iPad, the playlist disappears there, too.

iTunes DJ: Get the Party Started

 
The conventional iTunes song-shuffle feature can be inspiring or embarrassing, depending on which songs the program happens to play. The iTunes DJ feature lets you control which songs iTunes selects when it shuffles at your next wingding. Additionally, it shows you what's recently been played and what's coming up in the mix, so you know what to expect.

Click the iTunes DJ icon in the Playlists area of the iTunes Source list. You now see a new pane at the very bottom of iTunes. Use the Source pop-up menu to pick a music source for the mix. You can use either an existing playlist, the Genius, or your whole library.

If you can't stand the song list that iTunes proposes, click the Refresh button in the bottom-right of the iTunes window. iTunes generates a brand new list of songs for your consideration.

Click the Settings button at the bottom of the window. In the Settings box, you can alter the number of recently played and upcoming songs that iTunes displays. If iTunes is DJ'ing your interactive music party, the Settings box also has a place to put a Welcome message for guests changing up your music with the Remote program on their iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads.

Arrange the songs if you feel like it. Back on the playlist, you can manually add songs, delete them in the playlist, or rearrange the playing order. To include songs, click the Source list's Music icon and then drag your selected tunes onto the iTunes DJ icon. Click the Play button. And let the music play on.

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Steps to automatically Sync the iPad

Automatically Sync the iPad

 
As with every iPod model that's come before it, the iPad offers the simple and effective Autosync feature. Autosyncing automatically puts a copy of every song, podcast, and video in your iTunes library right onto your player. In fact, the first time you connect your iPad to your computer, the Setup Assistant offers to copy all the music in your iTunes library over to your new tablet. If you choose to do that, your iPad has already been set for autosync.

If you added more music to iTunes since that first encounter, the steps for loading the new goods onto your iPad couldn't be easier: Plug the little end of the USB cable into your Windows PC or Macintosh. Plug the cable's flat Dock Connector end into the bottom of the iPad. Sit back and let iTunes leap into action, syncing away and doing all that heavy lifting for you personally.

You can tell the sync magic is working because iTunes gives you a progress report towards the top of its window that says "Syncing iPad…". When iTunes tells you the iPad's update is complete, you're free to unplug the cable and take off. Autosync is a beautiful thing, but it is not for everyone - especially if you have more than 16, 32, or 64 gigabytes price of stuff in your iTunes library. In that case, iTunes fits what it really can on the iPad.
 

Sync Music

 
Once your iPad's connected and turning up in iTunes, you can modify all of the settings that control how are you affected your tablet. Thanks to iTunes 9's long, scrollable screen filled with checkboxes and lists in most categories, it's easier than ever to get precisely what you want on your 'Pad. If you want to sync up all or just some of your music, click the background music tab.

In addition to synchronizing all your songs and playlists by title, you can sync them by artist and genre as well. Just turn on the checkboxes next to the items you want to transfer to the iPad, click the Apply button, and then the Sync button to move your music.
 

Sync Video

 
In iTunes, videos fall into two main classifications: Movies and Television shows. Each type has its own tab in iTunes. Full-length movies are huge space hogs and can take up a gigabyte or more of precious drive space - which is a significant chunk of the 16-gigabyte iPad. Serious movie-watchers tend to move films off and on portable devices. So iTunes provides you with the option to load all, selected, or even just unwatched films. To change up what's playing at your portable cineplex, click the Movies tab when your iPad's attached to your computer and turn on the checkboxes next to your selections.

Since the iTunes Store sells Television shows by season or individual episode, iTunes enables you to sync TV shows in several ways: by show, by selected episodes, through the number of unwatched episodes, and so on. Click the TV Shows tab with your iPad connected and make your choices. Once you decide what movies and Television shows you want to port to the tablet, click the Apply button and then Sync.
 

Sync Photos

 
The iPad, in case you have not noticed yet, constitutes a handsome electronic picture frame. To get your pictures on the website, you can sync photos from your computer's existing photo-management programs, like Adobe Photoshop Elements - or perhaps a folder of photos.

To inform iTunes which pictures you want to capture along on the iPad, click the Photos tab. Here, you can choose the photo program or folder you need to pull the pictures from, and then switch on checkboxes next to the photo albums you would like on the iPad. If you use iPhoto '09 on the Mac, you might also need the options to pull over specific iPhoto events, as well as Faces and Places. When you've picked your pictures, click the Apply tab and then Sync.

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Subnet Mask Tutorial

The subnet mask plays an important role in computer networking. It's used to determine the subnetwork an IP address belongs to. It achieves this by masking the part of the IP address that will be used to create the subnetworks and not masking the portion of the IP address that will be used for host addresses.

Networks based on TCP/IP use subnet masking to split an IP address into two parts; the first part is used to divide the network into logical subnetworks, the second part is used to assign computers, otherwise known as hosts, to subnetworks. The subnet mask and IP address are interdependant; you look at the IP address in relation to the subnet mask to determine how many subnetworks and how many hosts per subnetwork there will be. We will focus solely on class C addresses as these are the most likely class readers of this article will encounter.

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The Importance Of Network Security

Since the rise in popularity of the Internet, we have started to use our computers for a much wider range of tasks than ever before. At home, we buy our groceries, do our banking, buy birthday presents, send communications via email, write our life story on social networking sites; at work, our businesses provide e-commerce via websites, staff send and recieve emails, phonecalls and video conferencing are done through the network using IP based servcices; all of this is done online and it would present a serious security threat if it wasn't for the fact we have various security measures at our disposal. I would like to cover some basic examples of how network security helps to keep us safe online, both at home and in the workplace.

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Map projection

A map projection is any method of representing the surface of a sphere or other three-dimensional body on a plane. Map projections are necessary for creating maps. All map projections distort the surface in some fashion. Depending on the purpose of the map, some distortions are acceptable and others are not; therefore different map projections exist in order to preserve some properties of the sphere-like body at the expense of other properties. There is no limit to the number of possible map projections.
 

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Cartography

Cartography (from Greek , chartes or charax = sheet of papyrus (paper) and graphein = to write) is the study and practice of making maps. Combining science, aesthetics, and technique, cartography builds on the premise that reality can be modeled in ways that communicate spatial information effectively.

The fundamental problems of traditional cartography are to:

• Set the map's agenda and select traits of the object to be mapped. This is the concern of map editing. Traits may be physical, such as roads or land masses, or may be abstract, such as toponyms or political boundaries.
• Represent the terrain of the mapped object on flat media. This is the concern of map projections.
• Eliminate characteristics of the mapped object that are not relevant to the map's purpose. This is the concern of generalization.
• Reduce the complexity of the characteristics that will be mapped. This is also the concern of generalization.
• Orchestrate the elements of the map to best convey its message to its audience. This is the concern of map design.

Modern cartography is closely integrated with geographic information science (GIScience) and constitutes many theoretical and practical foundations of geographic information systems.

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IP Address

An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device (e.g., computer, printer) participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. An IP address serves two principal functions: host or network interface identification and location addressing. Its role has been characterized as follows: "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how to get there". The designers of the Internet Protocol defined an IP address as a 32-bit number and this system, known as Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), is still in use today. However, due to the enormous growth of the Internet and the predicted depletion of available addresses, a new addressing system (IPv6), using 128 bits for the address, was developed in 1995, standardized as RFC 2460 in 1998, and its deployment has been ongoing since the mid-2000s.

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Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

In computing, a uniform resource locator (URL) is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to an Internet resource.

A URL is technically a type of uniform resource identifier (URI) but in many technical documents and verbal discussions URL is often used as a synonym for URI.
 

History

 
In computing, a uniform resource locator (URL) is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to an Internet resource. A URL is technically a type of uniform resource identifier (URI) but in many technical documents and verbal discussions URL is often used as a synonym for URI.
 

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Software

Computer software or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provides the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it. Software refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of the computer for some purposes. In other words, software is a set of programs, procedures, algorithms and its documentation concerned with the operation of a data processing system. Program software performs the function of the program it implements, either by directly providing instructions to the computer hardware or by serving as input to another piece of software. The term was coined to contrast to the old term hardware (meaning physical devices). In contrast to hardware, software "cannot be touched". Software is also sometimes used in a more narrow sense, meaning application software only. Sometimes the term includes data that has not traditionally been associated with computers, such as film, tapes, and records.

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Motherboard

In personal computers, a motherboard is the central printed circuit board (PCB) in many modern computers and holds many of the crucial components of the system, providing connectors for other peripherals. The motherboard is sometimes alternatively known as the mainboard, system board, planar board. It is also sometimes casually shortened to mobo.

 

History

Prior to the advent of the microprocessor, a computer was usually built in a card-cage case or mainframe with components connected by a backplane consisting of a set of slots themselves connected with wires; in very old designs the wires were discrete connections between card connector pins, but printed circuit boards soon became the standard practice.

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Basic Input/Output System (BIOS)

Basic input/output system (BIOS), also known as the System BIOS or ROM BIOS is a de facto standard defining a firmware interface. The name originated in earlier computers running CP/M and other operating systems, where the BIOS was loaded from disc rather than stored as firmware (EPROMs were not yet available).

The BIOS software is built into the PC, and is the first code run by a PC when powered on ('boot firmware'). When the PC starts up, the first job for the BIOS is the power-on self-test, which initializes and identifies system devices such as the CPU, RAM, video display card, keyboard and mouse, hard disk drive, optical disc drive and other hardware. The BIOS then locates boot loader software held on a peripheral device (designated as a 'boot device'), such as a hard disk or a CD/DVD, and loads and executes that software, giving it control of the PC. This process is known as booting, or booting up, which is short for bootstrapping.

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Read Only Memory (ROM)

Read-only memory (ROM) is a class of storage medium used in computers and other electronic devices. Data stored in ROM cannot be modified, or can be modified only slowly or with difficulty, so it is mainly used to distribute firmware (software that is very closely tied to specific hardware, and unlikely to need frequent updates). In its strictest sense, ROM refers only to mask ROM (the oldest type of solid state ROM), which is fabricated with the desired data permanently stored in it, and thus can never be modified. Despite the simplicity, speed and economies of scale of mask ROM, field-programmability often make reprogrammable memories more flexible and inexpensive. As of 2007, actual ROM circuitry is therefore mainly used for applications such as microcode, and similar structures, on various kinds of processors.

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Random Access Memory (RAM)

Random access memory (RAM) is a form of computer data storage. Today, it takes the form of integrated circuits that allow stored data to be accessed in any order with a worst case performance of constant time. Strictly speaking, modern types of DRAM are not random access, as data is read in bursts, although the name DRAM / RAM has stuck. However, many types of SRAM, ROM, OTP, and NOR flash are still random access even in a strict sense. RAM is often associated with volatile types of memory (such as DRAM memory modules), where its stored information is lost if the power is removed. Many other types of non-volatile memory are RAM as well, including most types of ROM and a type of flash memory called NOR-Flash. The first RAM modules to come into the market were created in 1951 and were sold until the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)

A graphics processing unit or GPU (also occasionally called visual processing unit or VPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory in such a way so as to accelerate the building of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display. GPUs are used in embedded systems, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations, and game consoles. Modern GPUs are very efficient at manipulating computer graphics, and their highly parallel structure makes them more effective than general-purpose CPUs for algorithms where processing of large blocks of data is done in parallel. In a personal computer, a GPU can be present on a video card, or it can be on the motherboard or—in certain CPUs—on the CPU die. More than 90% of new desktop and notebook computers have integrated GPUs, which are usually far less powerful than those on a dedicated video card.
 

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Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)

The Accelerated Graphics Port (often shortened to AGP) is a high-speed point-to-point channel for attaching a video card to a computer's motherboard, primarily to assist in the acceleration of 3D computer graphics. Since 2004 AGP has been progressively phased out in favor of PCI Express (PCIe). By mid-2009 PCIe cards dominated the market; AGP cards and motherboards were still produced, but OEM driver support was minimal.

 

Advantages over PCI

 
As computers became increasingly graphically-oriented, successive generations of graphics adapters began to push the limits of PCI, a bus with shared bandwidth. This led to the development of AGP, a "bus" dedicated to graphics adapters.

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Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU)

In computing, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) is a digital circuit that performs arithmetic and logical operations. The ALU is a fundamental building block of the central processing unit of a computer, and even the simplest microprocessors contain one for purposes such as maintaining timers. The processors found inside modern CPUs and graphics processing units (GPUs) accommodate very powerful and very complex ALUs; a single component may contain a number of ALUs.

Mathematician John von Neumann proposed the ALU concept in 1945, when he wrote a report on the foundations for a new computer called the EDVAC. Research into ALUs remains an important part of computer science, falling under Arithmetic and logic structures in the ACM Computing Classification System.
 

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Glimpse of GIS (1)

Before the 1940s, geographical analysis was done by overlapping (overlay) several types of maps in certain areas. But since the 1950's developed a digital system to perform the analysis in solving spatial problems. Until now, the various roles of Geographic Information Systems have been developed that can be used to address various aspects of the problems related to space.
Developments in the field of computer technology has brought enormous benefits for the dissemination of information. With the internet, for example, we can see the beautiful places in all corners of the world when it looks utilizing geographic information systems. Geograft information system (GIS) are happier than the information system applied to geographic data or data base tools for analysis and mapping, and there is something that happens on earth. GIS is becoming known in the 1950s.

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Central Processing Unit (CPU)

The central processing unit (CPU) is the portion of a computer system that carries out the instructions of a computer program, to perform the basic arithmetical, logical, and input/output operations of the system. The CPU plays a role somewhat analogous to the brain in the computer. The term has been in use in the computer industry at least since the early 1960s. The form, design and implementation of CPUs have changed dramatically since the earliest examples, but their fundamental operation remains much the same.

On large machines, CPUs require one or more printed circuit boards. On personal computers and small workstations, the CPU is housed in a single silicon chip called a microprocessor. Since the 1970s the microprocessor class of CPUs has almost completely overtaken all other CPU implementations. Modern CPUs are large scale integrated circuits in packages typically less than four centimeters square, with hundreds of connecting pins. Two typical components of a CPU are the arithmetic logic unit (ALU), which performs arithmetic and logical operations, and the control unit (CU), which extracts instructions from memory and decodes and executes them, calling on the ALU when necessary. Not all computational systems rely on a central processing unit. An array processor or vector processor has multiple parallel computing elements, with no one unit considered the "center". In the distributed computing model, problems are solved by a distributed interconnected set of processors.

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Glimpse of GIS (2)

Since the 1970's, the GIS has developed rapidly. This development was mainly the development of information technology and telecommunications, among others:

Revolution of information technology: computer technology, remote sensing and Global Positioning Systems. Technology communication. Drastically decreases the price of computers and the increasing speed of computer work. Increasing software functionality and ease of use. Evidence of the adage "a picture is worth a thousand words. Roman face of the earth related to our lives.

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HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the main markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages. HTML is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags enclosed in angle brackets (like <html>), within the web page content. HTML tags most commonly come in pairs like <h1> and </h1>, although some tags, known as empty elements, are unpaired, for example <img>. The first tag in a pair is the start tag, the second tag is the end tag (they are also called opening tags and closing tags). In between these tags web designers can add text, tags, comments and other types of text-based content. The purpose of a web browser is to read HTML documents and compose them into visible or audible web pages. The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses the tags to interpret the content of the page.

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World Wide Web (WWW)

The World Wide Web (abbreviated as WWW or W3, and commonly known as the Web) is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia, and navigate between them via hyperlinks.

Using concepts from his earlier hypertext systems like ENQUIRE, British engineer and computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), wrote a proposal in March 1989 for what would eventually become the World Wide Web. At CERN, a European research organization near Geneva situated on Swiss and French soil, Berners-Lee and Belgian computer scientist Robert Cailliau proposed in 1990 to use hypertext "... to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will", and they publicly introduced the project in December.
 

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Blog

A blog (a portmanteau of the term web log) is a personal journal published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order so the most recent post appears first. Blogs are usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often are themed on a single subject. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. The emergence and growth of blogs in the late 1990s coincided with the advent of web publishing tools that facilitated the posting of content by non-technical users. (Previously a knowledge of such technologies as HTML and FTP had been required to publish content on the Web).

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Finna Golf & Country Club Resort

Finna Golf & Country Club Resort is located approximately 2km from the candra wilwatikta and approximately 1km from the jawi temple in Candiwates, located on the left side of the road on the way to the area Trawas or Tretes.

To get to this when Finna Golf from surabaya we have two alternative ways to get to it, in because Lapindo mud causing Porong highway connecting Surabaya - Malang jams occur frequently disturbed even then you have extra time to be Preparing to Finna Golf :

1st Alternative : Surabaya / bandara juanda > Waru > Sidoarjo > Wonoayu > Krembung > Mojosari > Trawas > Prigen > Finna Golf & Country Club Resort

2nd Alternative : Surabaya / bandara juanda > Waru > Sidoarjo > Tanggulangin > Siring > Porong > Japanan > Bundaran Apollo > Pandaan > Finna Golf & Country Club Resort

At least three international gateway cities in Indonesia, as follows:
- Surabaya, East Java Juanda International Airport (airport code: SUB).
- Jakarta, West Java Soekarno - Hatta International Airport (airport code: CGK).
- Denpasar Bali Ngurah Rai International Airport (airport code: DPS).
- Malang, East Java, Abdul Rahman Saleh Domestic Airport (airport code: MLG).

 

Golf Overview

 
Nature herself has created a superb setting for this 6,345-metre, par-72 mountain course, and set in rolling foothills of outstanding natural beauty which affords scenic vistas of the surrounding countryside from every hole. Members will experience a wide variety of interesting playing conditions.

The course, designed by acclaimed international golf course architects; Peter Thomson, Michael Wolveridge and Ross Perret, provides two distinctive “nines” starting and finishing at the clubhouse. The architects, whose pedigree include such courses as the New Course, St. Andrews, Scotland; The Royal Hongkong Golf Club; and the Bali Handara Country Club, has skilfully incorporated Finna's grounds and natural features into their design to create a golf experience to rival the best in the world. Many historical features scattered pot bunkers and the omnipresent clumps of lemongrass that guard the edge of the fairways. Thereafter, a cleanly struck wedge to a large green, nestled in between mounds and hollows and jealously guarded by a necklace of bunkers, should provide a birdie opportunity if you are lucky. Hole 5, for example, a Par 3 has true Indonesian flavour, with views of the countryside and Mt. Penanggungan.

From elevated tees, which were formerly terraced rice paddies, the shot is played over traditional rice paddies and a fast-flowing stream, to a distant manicured green. Hole 3 is a strong championship Par 4 in the foothills of Mt. Welirang and Mt. Arjuna, whilst the elevated Par 3 - 12th hole is unquestionably the most picturesque hole of the course, playing across rice paddies, terraced landscaping and water hazards. As Members will tell you, this is golf Finna Style.
 

18 Hole Golf Course

 
The Beauty of Nature

A world Class 18 Hole Championship Mountain Resort Course carved through the lust, tropical flora of East Java. Finna Golf & Country Club, has been preserved through a course design that was meant to blend into the natural, existing terrain and rolling foothills of the mountain resort. Nature herself has created a superb setting for this 6,345 meter, par 72 Championship course, nestled in the valley and rolling foothills of three majestic mountains at an altitude of over 700 meters. Golfers enjoy the clean, cool climate and panoramic vistas of the surrounding countryside from every hole.

The Heritage of Golf

The challenging course designed by the acclaimed International golf course architects, British Open Champion and winning Captain of the 1998 Presidents Cup Tournament, Peter Thomson along with Michael Wolveridge and Ross Perret. The architects whose pedigree includes such courses as the New course, St. Andrews, Scotland; The Royal Hongkong Golf Club; andthe Bali Handara Country Club, has skillfully incorporated Finna’s grounds and natural features into their design to create a golf experience to rival the best in the world.
  

Club House

 
Finna's magnificent clubhouse, reminiscent of classical European architecture, is placed on high ground affording panoramic views of the golf course and watercourses that hug the verdant fairways, as well as superb vistas of Mt. Welirang, Mt. Arjuna and Mt. Penanggungan.

Club House Facilities

 
Driving Range. While the focal point of the Club is the 18 holes of championship golf, the golfing experience continues even after the final hole.
 

Pro Shop. Well-stocked pro shop that offers all leading brands of golf equipment, attire and golf club merchandise in all latest competitive prices.
 

Rental Golf, equipment with well-known brands are available to rent in our Pro-Shop.
 

Locker Rooms. The spacious, fully carpeted locker rooms, complete with large mahogany lockers, grooming, sauna, whirlpool and prayer rooms, are a popular place for relaxing and personal pampering.
 
Candi Jawi Restaurant. Candi Jawi Restaurant is an excellent rendezvous for lunch or dinner in two private dining rooms, offering a full range of popular Indonesian and Asian dishes.
 
Spike Bar & Golfer's Terrace. Offering a variety of Indonesian, Chinese, Western and International favorites, is an ideal venue for the early birds Breakfast or recounting the day's round with friends.Open from 5:30am - 7:00pm every day.
 
Lotus Garden Chinese Restaurant. Lotus Garden Chinese Restaurant offers traditional Chinese cuisine with an elegant flair. Finna's Chinese Chef prepares a variety of fresh quality live Seafood and other Chinese specialties. Lotus Garden Chinese Restaurant also features three private dining rooms for your business or personal entertainment. As an entertainment facility, Karaoke system is available in the main dining room with thousands of choices of songs.
 
Shelters. 4 Shelters spread all over Finna's 18 holes where light foods and chilled drinks are available for Golfers during the game.
 
MICE Facilities (Meeting Incentive Conference Event).
In the conference and banquet wing of the clubhouse, guests will be able to host a variety of events in the Bromo Convention Hall, Arjuno and Welirang Rooms and Penanggungan Room at sensible prices, supported by an efficient, well trained and experienced banquet team whose sole objective is to ensure that every function is outstanding.
The elegant but informal atmosphere of Finna is the perfect setting for business as well as pleasure.
 

The Resort

 
Adjacent to the golf Club House, Finna’s 32 private fully serviced luxury Country Cottages. There are 30 Deluxe Cottages nestled in the beautiful hillside, overlooking the Golf Course. Two VIP suite Cottages are also available with their own private swimming pool for more luxury or as a lifestyle statement.
 
VIP Suite Cottage

Finna Golf & Country Club Resort's two (2) fully serviced luxury VIP suite cottages offer member's & Guest the opportunity to extend their visit from one day to a weekend or even longer. Each VIP suite cottages provides fully air-conditioned, private Jacuzzi, indoor & outdoor showers, living room & their own private swimming pool.

 

Deluxe Cottage

Finna Golf & Country Club Resort provides 30 Deluxe Cottages nestled in the beautiful hillside, overlooking the Golf course, each fully air-conditioned with private Jacuzzi, Indoor & Outdoor showers and breathtaking views. 
 

3 and 4 Bedrooms Villa

For a warm and bigger gathering with family and friends, Finna Golf & Country Club Resort provides you with a spectacular view of Mt. Arjuna & Mt. Penanggungan with eight units of villa of three-bedroom and four units of villa four-bedroom of your choice. Each villa has three and four spacious bedrooms, two warm living rooms, a dining room and fully equipped kitchen.
 

Pool Café.
Pool Cafe is our romantic outdoor restaurant, overlooking the swimming Pool touting mouth watering Tasmanian Salmon, Grilled Chicken and the Finest Grilled Steaks. Pool Cafe also offers Japanese and Korean favourites. Open daily from 3:00pm - 11:00pm on weekdays and 10:00am - 11:00pm on weekends and public holidays.
 

Room Service.

Room Service is served 24 hours every day, just call to order. Menus are provided in the Guest Directory in every cottage. In room romantic breakfast, lunch or dinner can also be arranged at the balcony of your cottage or villa.

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