Anda pasti cukup familiar dengan berbagai aplikasi seperti Mozilla Firefox, internet messenger Pidgin, office suit Open Office Org, FTP client Filezilla, bloging platform WordPress, CMS Joomla, dan lainnya. Jika Anda rajin menggunakan aplikasi-aplikasi tersebut, Anda pasti mengenal dengan baik lisensi aplikasi GPL. Lisensi GPL ini akan ditampilkan ketika pertama kali menginstall aplikasi tersebut di komputer. Biasanya, jarang ada orang yang mau membacanya (langsung pencet accept > next > next > next > finish). Well, siapakah orang edan di balik lisensi GPL yang biasanya gratis tersebut? Dia adalah Richard M Stallman (RMS). Seorang hacker yang bercita-cita membuat sistem operasi berikut program-program di dalamnya yang ‘bebas’ dan dapat dipergunakan oleh siapa saja (gratis adalah salah satu dampak tidak langsungnya). Dia adalah founder sekaligus presiden Free Software Foundation (FSF).

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The first CMS I know is WordPress. That’s why I’m in love with this CMS. With this CMS, I can make a website. People rather to use Joomla CMS for making a website, but I prefers to choose WordPress (because I love it).

How to make a website with WordPress, meanwhile WordPress it self is only a blogging platform? Well, we must knowing the website principle character (sotoy mode ON). Usually, I tweak my WordPress site with this step.

1. Do not use personal themes on your site, that’s really native blogging. Use the elegant one.
2. Make a static page as your front page site. Sticky function on WordPress is great way to do this.
3. A blog usually have a long front page. Avoid using a long page style.
4. Delete your comment function on your themes. I believe a website did not need comment form, except for journaling section.
5. Add a favicon into your site (people will think that’s professional)

Using a WordPress as a site have many benefit. (1) If you developing somebody’s site, I believe your client need a simple way to update their site. With WordPress, they can simply do that, (2) Automatic update built-in feature making easy job for developer to securing their sites, (3) With WordPress, managing company brand on internet is easy. With all-in-one SEO pack plugin, WordPress is a great CMS for tweaking your company SEO, (4) Etc.

If you asking where’s my WordPress site, you can see one of those in here. I believe you have another opinion about this. I’m a just a newbie who love to learn. You can share it by leaving some comment bellow.

I admit that Ubuntu Jaunty running well on my Compaq CQ40-337TU, except a small problem for sound device (already fixed). All devices work properly, VGA with 3D effects, WiFi device, webcam, optical drive, synaptic pointer, etc. But I notice one thing, the battery consumption with Jaunty is very bad.

I search in “Mbah Google” about this problem, and found many solution to extending battery life duration.

• Adjust your desktop appearance without sophisticated effect (include 3d effect, which also have a same problem on Vista). This effect is cool, but it consuming too much electricity on VGA card.
• Decreasing your display brightness into lowest level. I can still have a clear view on laptop LCD using the lowest level brightness.
• Adjust CPU voltage into power save mode. If you hate to edit any script configuration, you can install kpowersave to easily adjust this configuration (monitor brightness also can be adjusted with this tools). Put kpowersave to always run when Ubuntu started first time.
• Install powertop apps. This app will suggest you about the best way to lowering voltage consumption based on your hardware usage.

After doing those tweak, I got 3 hour battery life (before doing it, I only got 2 hour). Kpowersave and powertop are available on Ubuntu repository. Btw, Ubuntu has it default power management tools (gnome power manager), so I disabling it before installing kpowersave. I prefers to choose kpowersave since it had more integrated configuration setting.

I’m waiting for your response. Please give me another suggestion to tweak battery consumption on Linux, I still find another great way about doing this. Go green Indonesia.

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Tulisan ini dibuat untuk menyukseskan Lomba Blog Open Source P2I-LIPI dan Seminar Open Source P2I-LIPI 2009.

This is the mirror file for Google Earth Linux, which you can freely download at Indowebster (Indonesian server mirror download). Google has been released Google Earth for Linux platform (now was reach version 5). Usually people using Wine to install Google Earth for Windows on Linux machine.

To installing it, download the program from link which I provide (or you can go to official site to always get the latest version). Use terminal and move to your downloaded program directory (a folder where you put the downloaded file). There will be contain a file named “GoogleEarthLinux.bin”.

Type this on terminal

You’ll be prompted to enter your root password. Then type this:

Next, the rest of the install is self explanatory. You’ll be prompted to choose installation directory. Just click “begin install” to continuing it at default directory.

Other way to install it you can check this link.

This the update information of my previous post. Overall, I feel satisfied with Ubuntu Jaunty on my CQ40-337TU. The 3D desktop running smoothly and sophisticated. All device work well, such Wi-Fi, optical drive, and webcam.

But, there is other problem which is very annoying. I read the manual about my laptop. It’s say that the battery life can reach about 4 hours 15 minutes. When I’m running Ubuntu on it, battery life can only reach about 2 hours (using 3D desktop effect, browsing activity, and USB wire modem attached).

I’ve try tweaking the power consumption. First, I adjusting display brightness into lowest level. Then, switch the processor volt into power save mode. I also turn of the desktop effect (same problem with Vista on Aero mode) and WiFi device. And I got about 3 hours.

Where’s another 1 hour? Any suggest for my laptop, or should I back to Vista the P1r4t3s 3d1t1on?