finally the Ubuntu 9.04 a.k.a Jaunty Jackalope is here!
get your the new Ubuntu 9.04 copy here or
download now here.

Ubuntu 9.04 Features

Productivity tools: Ubuntu supports all of your favourite web-based mail programs like Yahoo(TM) or Gmail (TM). For the office, Evolution provides all the calendering, contacts and office email you need. Pidgin IM also puts you in instant touch with colleagues and integrates with your personal IM services simply and easily.
Browsing: Includes Mozilla’s Firefox 3 as the default browser. Faster, safer and themed browsing for users.
Photos: Upload from your camera or phone to F-Spot and manage, tag, share and sort your photos and upload easily to your favourite social networking sites.
Accessibility: At the core of the Ubuntu philosophy is the belief that computing is for everyone and access should be free and complete whatever your economic or physical circumstances. Ubuntu is one of the most accessible desktop operating systems around.
Office applications: Word processing, spreadsheets and presentations can all be delivered through OpenOffice.org 3.0 featuring in this release of Ubuntu for the first time. And, they completely integrate with the proprietary office applications out there. The big difference is that they are free.
Music and video: Plug in your PSP, iPod, MP3 player; share playlists with your friends; buy in online music stores; visit your favourite sites like Last.fm, stream more live radio and content from the BBC and plug in more devices with uPnP (universal Plug and Play)

It also free of windows’ virus, spyware, adware, worms.
Best part of all. It is TOTALLY FREE!.

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Earth Day, celebrated April 22, is a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth‘s environment. It is held annually during both spring in the northern hemisphere and autumn in the southern hemisphere. It was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in in 1970 and is celebrated in many countries every year. [source]

Japanese Manga comics are hugely popular in that country and cover just about every topic imaginable from sport, to romance, to business, to games. Now there is a Ubuntu Manga comic – called Ubunchu – which has been translated from the original Japanese into English and focuses on three students getting into Ubuntu in their school computer club.

[Source]

Download the Manga Comic Here (*.PDF)

NEW YORK: Exxon Mobil has unseated Wal-Mart Stores to top the 2009 Fortune 500 list after a year the magazine called the worst ever for the 500 largest U.S. publicly traded companies.

Fortune ranks companies by revenue. Exxon shrugged off plummeting oil prices to take the No. 1 spot with $442.85 billion in revenue in 2008.

Wal-Mart had held the top spot for six of the last seven years.

The retail giant slipped to No. 2, with $405.6 billion in revenue.

Fortune released the list on Sunday, calling 2008 the worst year for the 500 companies on its closely watched list.

It says earnings fell 85 percent – the biggest one-year decline in the list’s 55-year history. – AP

ps.: “the rich getting richer, the poor … ”

read more:
Fortune 500 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2009 Fortune 500: Exxon Mobil back on top
Exxon Mobil overtakes Wal-Mart to top Fortune 500
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Waspada serunding babi di pasaran

Awas! Serunding daging babi di pasaran negara jiran kita dan pelancong negara ini diminta berwaspada apabila makan sewaktu berkunjung ke Indonesia.

Penemuan lima jenama ‘abon’ (serunding) dan daging dendeng siap makan yang dibuat daripada babi di pasaran disahkan oleh pihak berkuasa Indonesia, lapor Bernama.

Badan Pengawas Obat dan Makanan (BPOM) Indonesia yang melakukan ujian DNA ke atas 35 jenama serunding dan daging panggang yang dijual di pasaran di Jakarta, Jambi, Bogor, Semarang, Surabaya dan Bandung, mengesahkan kandungan daging babi
dalam lima jenama.

“Sebenarnya tekstur serat babi lebih tidak kelihatan kerana banyak mengandungi lemak. Oleh itu, kita menguji di makmal dengan menggunakan alat bernama the real-time PCR (tindakan berangkaian polimera),” ketua badan itu Husniah Rubiana dipetik berkata.

Menurut sebuah akhbar negara itu Republika, jenama-jenama itu ialah:

Dendeng/abon sapi (lembu) gurih cap Kepala Sapi 250 gram
Abon/dendeng sapi cap Limas 100 gram (keluaran syarikat palsu)
Abon/dendeng sapi asli cap ACC
Dendeng sapi istimewa berjenama Beef Jerky Lezaaat (keluaran MDC Food Surabaya)
Dendeng sapi Istimewa No 1 cap 999 (keluaran S Hendropurnomo Malang).

Husniah dilaporkan berkata satu daripada jenama itu didapati menggunakan tanda halal yang kononnya dikeluarkan Majlis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), manakala pengeluar lain menggunakan nama syarikat milik orang lain, menggunakan alamat tidak benar
atau tidak tercatat pengeluarnya.

Umat Islam – yang menggemari makanan itu termasuk kalangan anak-anak yang sukakan roti berisi serunding – boleh membezakan produk daripada babi yang warnanya lebih muda berbanding warna daging lembu dan serat babi juga lebih lembut, lapor agensi berita Malaysia dari Jakarta.

MUI dan Jabatan Kesihatan yang melakukan pemeriksaan mendapati para pengeluar itu pada mulanya mengakui menggunakan daging lembu tetapi setelah diuji didapati positif daripada babi.

–via malaysiakini.com

Perdana menteri – Datuk Seri Najib Razak

Timbalan perdana menteri – Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin

Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri

Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon – perpaduan & pengurusan prestasi
Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz – perundangan dan Parlimen
Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop – Unit Perancang Ekonomi
Mej Jen (B) Datuk Jamil Khir Baharom – hal ehwal Islam

Timbalan-timbalan menteri:

Datuk Liew Vui Keong
Datuk Dr Mashitah Ibrahim
Datuk SK Devamany
Ahmad Maslan
T Murugiah

Menteri kewangan I
Datuk Seri Najib Razak

Menteri kewangan II
Datuk Ahmad Husni Mohamad Hanadzlah

Datuk Chor Chee Heung (timbalan)
Datuk Dr Awang Adek Hussin (timbalan)

Menteri pelajaran
Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin

Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong (timbalan)
Dr Mohd Puad Zarkashi (timbalan)

Menteri pengangkutan
Datuk Ong Tee Keat

Datuk Abdul Rahim Bakri (timbalan)
Datuk Robert Lau Hoi Chew (timbalan)

Menteri perusahaan, perladangan dan komoditi
Tan Sri Bernard Dompok
Datuk Hamzah Zainudin (timbalan)

Menteri dalam negeri
Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein

Datuk Wira Abu Seman Yusop (timbalan)
Jelaing Mersat (timbalan)

Menteri penerangan, komunikasi, kesenian dan kebudayaan
Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim

Datuk Joseph Salang Gandum (timbalan)
Senator Heng Seai Kie (timbalan)

Menteri tenaga, teknologi hijau dan air
Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui
Noriah Kasnon (timbalan)

Menteri kemajuan luar bandar dan wilayah
Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal

Datuk Hassan Malek (timbalan)
Datuk Joseph Entulu Belaun (timbalan)

Menteri pengajian tinggi
Datuk Seri Mohd Khaled Nordin

Datuk Dr Hou Kok Chung (timbalan)
Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah (timbalan)

Menteri perdagangan antarabangsa dan industri
Datuk Mustapa Mohamed

Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir (timbalan)
Datuk Jacob Dungau Sagan (timbalan)

Menteri sains, teknologi dan inovasi
Datuk Dr Maximus Ongkili
Fadillah Yusof (timbalan)

Menteri sumber asli dan alam sekitar
Datuk Douglas Uggah Embas
Tan Sri Joseph Kurup (timbalan)

Menteri pelancongan
Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen
Datuk Seri Sulaiman Abdul Rahman Abdul Taib (timbalan)

Menteri pertanian dan industri asas industri
Datuk Noh Omar

Datuk Johari Baharum (timbalan)
Datuk Rohani Abdul Karim (timbalan)

Menteri pertahanan
Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi
Datuk Dr Abdul Latiff Ahmad (timbalan)

Menteri kerja raya
Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor
Datuk Yong Khoon Seng (timbalan)

Menteri kesihatan
Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai
Datuk Rosnah Rashid Shirlin (timbalan)

Menteri belia dan sukan
Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek

Datuk Razali Ibrahim (timbalan)
Wee Jeck Seng (timbalan)

Menteri sumber manusia
Datuk Dr S Subramaniam
Datuk Maznah Mazlan (timbalan)

Perdagangan dalam negeri dan hal-ehwal pengguna
Datuk Ismail Sabri Yaakob
Datuk Tan Lian Hoe (timbalan)

Menteri perumahan dan kerajaan tempatan
Datuk Kong Cho Ha
Datuk Lajim Ukin (timbalan)

Menteri pembangunan wanita, keluarga dan masyarakat
Datuk Seri Sharizat Jalil
Datin Paduka Chew Mei Fun (timbalan)

Menteri luar
Datuk Anifah Aman

A Kohilan Pillay (timbalan)
Datuk Lee Chee Leong (timbalan)

Menteri wilayah persekutuan
Datuk Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin
Datuk M Saravanan (timbalan)
Source : www.malaysiakini.com

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Prime Minister Office of Malaysia

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/101993

Paris-based Agence Jouin Manku took on its first large-scale integrated architectural and interior design commission in 2003, when YTL Design Group from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, invited it to design the residence of a Malaysian power family.

Completed in the latter part of 2008, the residence is the ultimate expression of the taste, influence and industrial-scale capabilities of the prominent family whose entrepreneurial activities have shaped Kuala Lumpur’s skyline.

Three generations of the family inhabit the 3,000 square-meter residence designed to accommodate both private and public functions.

The building includes nine bedrooms, two family rooms, a family kitchen and a private dining area, a family library, a game room, a study, a public reception area, a formal dining room, a ballroom, chapel, 21 bathrooms, a swimming pool, two guest suites plus indoor private and guest parking.

The initial sketches exploring the owners’ usage requirements reveal resemblances to the boring stacked-boxes look still so ubiquitous in residential architecture. And while traces of the “heaped trailers” syndrome remain in the finished building, this is not the Jetsons, neither are we looking at EPCOT, Tomorrowland or the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

We are in the lush vegetation of a posh Kuala Lumpur residential area, and in spite of the boxiness of the structure, an elegant circular softness manages to permeate the sightlines and key details of the building, making it an agreeable part of its landscape.

Inside, prominent examples of this curvilinear elegance include the amazing staircases resembling the inside of a shell when viewed from above, and the round ballroom chandelier of 13,000 custom-designed undulating petals of unglazed cast porcelain biscuit.

The curved walls both inside and out have a functional purpose of providing privacy and enclosing each function gently in its own space. The overall sweeping feel inside the spaces invites the viewer in and creates soft, arching vistas.

The concept consists of three layers: the base for public functions, the ring for guests and the private house for the family.

The inside of the magnificent residence is gorgeous with its high ceilings, large windows and abundance of light. White color and natural wood are dominant elements but they allow the view from the vast, mostly retractable, windows to remain the main visual attraction.

The residence is also a wonderful study of contrasts between inside and outside, private and public, traditional and ultra modern, man-made and natural.

YTL Design Group of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was the architect of record. The Agence Jouin Manku design team included Patrick Jouin, Sanjit Manku, Yann Brossier (architect), Richard Perron (designer). Officina del Paesaggio from Lugano, Switzerland was in charge of the landscape design, and L’Observatoire, New York, USA handled the lighting. – Tuija Seipell

Images: Roland Halbe

Source:  http://www.thecoolhunter.net/architecture/YTL-Residence-Kuala-Lumpur/

pergh..!!! (speechless)

For more details visit http://www.shoutawards.com.my/

Pikom PC Fair 2009 is coming to your town.

The search is over, now you can find tons of gadget such as digital cameras, girls, laptops, desktops, autobahn, digital photo converter, Apple iPod touch, camcorder, digital camera and so much more.

The schedule as follow:

3 – 5 April 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)

· Permata Car Park (Level 5), Kuching – Sarawak

· Dewan Masyarakat Sandakan, Sandakan – Sabah

· Berjaya Megamall, Kuantan – Jalan Tun Ismail, Sri Dagangan, 25000 Pahang

· Stadium Indera Mulia, Ipoh, Perak – Jalan Ghazali Jawi, 31400 Ipoh

10 – 12 April 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)

· KL Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur – Kuala Lumpur City Centre, 50888 Kuala Lumpur

· Persada Johor International Convention Centre, Johor Bahru – Jalan Abdullah Ibrahim, 80000 Johor Bahru

· Village Mall, Sungai Petani – Kedah

· Dewan Masyarakat Tawau, Tawau – Sabah

17 – 19 April 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)

· Miri Indoor Stadium, Miri – Sawarak

· Sibu Trade & Exhibition Centre, Sibu – Sarawak

· Penang International Sports Arena, Penang – Jalan Tun Dr Awang, 11900 Relau

· Mahkota Parade Melaka, Melaka – Jalan Merdeka, 75000 Bandar Hilir

24 – 26 April 2009 (11:00am – 9:00pm)

· Dewan Jubli Intan, Muar – Johor

just checking my current alexa ranking.

how about yours?

Lowyat.NET : Malaysia’s Tech Enthusiast Resource Community – Malaysian can now SkypeOut using MOLePoints.

Skype and MOL Access Portal Berhad (MOL) today announced a collaboration that enables local Skype users to exchange their MOLePoints for Skype credits.

Previously Skype users could only pay for their credits using international credit cards, which for Malaysia is a problem as many of the internet payment gateways decline any locally issued credit cards due to high risk of fraud from this region.

However, due to this partnership, anyone can just drop by any of the 15,000 payment channels across the country to purchase MOLePoints e-vouchers. These include  any 7-Eleven stores, Pupular Bookstores, MOL CyberCafes, epay terminals and even most of the local banks’ internet banking sites.

Using the MOLePoints, one may exchange from a minimum of 5 Euros of Skype credits which comes up to around RM27-28 depending on the exchange rate set by MOL. The rate will be adjusted on a monthly basis which is presumed to be based on the current FOREX.

Skype credits are used to make SkypeOut calls. SkypeOut is a service for making calls to any landlines or mobile phones any where in the world. Considering the low cost for making SkypeOut calls, 5 Euros will last for quite a while as calls rates to USA, UK and Australia for example start from just 0.017 Euros or RM0.07 per minute.

You can start exchanging your MOLePoints for Skype credit starting from today. For more information, please visit www.mol.com/skype.

Now Malaysian can used the SkypeOut service using MOLePoints.

MySpace shrinks as Facebook, Twitter and Bebo grab its users.

MARCH 30 – The “Place for Friends” is starting to feel lonely. MySpace, the Rupert Murdoch-owned website once synonymous with social networking, is losing popularity and key staff in its biggest troubles since launching five years ago.

Latest figures show that Murdoch is being beaten in the fight for social networks. MySpace suffered a drop in visitor traffic last month and is now less than half the size of its younger rival, Facebook. Three executives recently quit the one-time darling of the Internet and there is speculation its co-founders will follow.

MySpace’s loss of status as the cool place to be is an object lesson in the notoriously fickle Internet, where today’s cultural icon is tomorrow’s passing fad.

… read more

Will ever MySpace make a “comeback” and take over the top?

We’ll see about that.

It a good competition anyway.

Let the best man wins.

Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!

yeah right!
now i am officially blogging in wordpress.
only today i manage to migrate to wordpress.
yesterday i faced some technical difficulties.
ps.: many thanks to MK of sembangkomputer who write about migrating from blogspot to wordpress. it really-really helps.
a lot.

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