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Just like what many people already know, newspaper industry is on it’s worst condition today. Due to the advanced of internet, people is choosing a cheaper and yet more available source of news, that is website news and blogs.

If you want to illustrate this condition. it is like a parody of Dickens, Today is the best of times and the worst of times for newspapers industries.

The worst indications times:

Many layoffs (incl downsizing at some of the country’s biggest papers). For example Los Angeles Times confirmed that it was cutting 250 jobs, amongst them is 150 in the newsroom, this layoffs makes their current editorial staffs to be 700, down from 1,200 in 2001 (imagine it! almost half of it).

The layoffs also taken by the Tampa (Fla.) Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, the Hartford Courant, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and many others.

But newspaper today is on it’s peak performance, you may notice many newspaper company becoming a multimedia company. They provide and produce informations from many sources, eg: print, online, on air and mobile devices.

So is the glass half empty and getting emptier each day, as some news industry prognosticators believe? Or is it half full, and poised to eventually fill up again, some optimists believe?

How do newspaper company should behave on this time of tribulation? Many analysts think that they should behave just like a newbie netpreneur do. They have to perform business process reengineering, downsizing, changing direction, etc.

They have to be leaner and be innovative. Faster, smarter, and smaller. Just like what seth godin said, Small is the new big. They also have to combine more jobs, eg merging some departments into one departmen.

Tags: newspaper, business, industry, business process reengineering, journalist, media business

Many analysts tell that vista is merely a bloatware. But they must admitted that it (the vista) brings many new features. If you think your vista too slow, just chek the optimization tips for your vista here.

Tags: vista optimzation

For you who use multiple OS occasionaly, will feel that switching between multiple os is irritating. Using emulator software like VMWare, or QEMU seems only lessen the problems.

But there is an optimization tricks on this (you could run windows xp on Linux), see azimi’s blog for more information. Well, a great job by azimi

Just reading from one of linux website, i heard that ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 1 is already released. You may find the screenshots of this alpha version of ubuntu from here. Amongst the features is Firefox 3, GNOME 2.23.4, a new NewHuman theme, GIMP 2.4.6 and OpenOffice.org 2.4.1.

Tags: ubuntu, new release

As you may notice, Microsoft has set June 30th as the deadline to stop their xp shipping to most PC manufacturers except for low-cost UMPC’s eg Asus Eee PC and MSI Wind.

Although the shipping is stopped, the support still countinues to approximately year 2014 so if you use win xp, don’t be dissapointed.

So now if you want to purchase pc, you will have to choose Vista (or Linux). Bye-bye xp, it’s vista era now.

Tags: windows xp stop shipping, windows vista is coming

I have used both softwares and i think blogdesk is faster and leaner. But post2blog has more features. So the better thing is using both of them….

Tags: blogdesk, post2blog

Mind mapping that was introduced by Tony Buzan is a superb tool to help you in creative thinking or to generate idea. You don’t have to buy a commercial software to enable you to mindmap your idea.

One of open source softwares on mindmapping is Freemind open source software.Try it, it’s a superb tool….

You can find the screenshots from here.

43 Things Tags: Adobe, Java, Office, Programming, Windows, Mindmap, Tony buzan, Freemind, Open mind

Here’s the steps:

1. Install dpkg-dev by $ sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev.
2. plug in the usb flash disk and mount it to /media/disk (usually it’s automatically detected)
3. Ciot /var/cache/apt/archieves that have .deb extension to usb flash disk by executing cd ke /var/cache/apt/archives and then sudo cp *.deb /media/disk
4. Execute $ sudo dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9c > Packages.gz

Now your usb flash disk can be used as repository source on synaptic.

Tags: synaptic, ubuntu flash disk, linux flash disk

Most people who use microsoft excel 2007 feels that the changing is to radical, one of many complaints that emerge from existing excel user is the new file type introduced in ms excel 2007.

But, luckily, you could change the default file type for ms excel 2007 from xlsx to regular xls that can be opened by ms excel 1997-2003:

Here’s the steps:

1. Right clcik on Home Tab
2. Select customize quick access toolbar.
3. An excel options widow will emerge. This is the control panel for excel options in ms excel 2007.
4. Click on save and then click the save files in this format menu.
5. Choose Excel 97-2003 and click OK.
6. Next time you save your excel document, your workbook will be automatically saved as an xls that can be opened on ms excel 97-2003.

Tags: ms office, excel 2007, excel 97-2003

I have installing it perfectly and everything is just works…But suddenly when i see my WiFi, it’s not working….. After some browsing, i found out that HP Pressario C767 is using Antheros just like Acer 4520. So i have to use ndiswrapper to diswrap the antheros driver for windows so the wifi will be recognized in Ubuntu.

To download the Antheros driver for Linux, click the download section from here. After you have downloaded it, extract to a place on your hard disk. Then use ndisgtk:

Click System > administration > windows wireless driver, browse for the .inf driver for atheros

After that, you may configure the Wifi by clicking system > administration > network settings.

Tags : ndiswrapper, antheros wifi, antheros, wifi on ubuntu, ubuntu 8.04, pressrario C767, HP Pressario, Linux