Originally Posted By: biznews Indonesia: Fifth to Pirate Software in Asia Thursday, 04 December, 2008 | 11:33 WIB TEMPO Interactive, Bandung:Indonesia is currently in the fifth position for countries to pirate software in Asia. “We are in the 12th position in the world,” said License Compliance Manager of PT Microsoft Indonesia, Anti Suryaman. Despite the declining trend in piracy, Anti said, the level of piracy in Indonesia is quite high, being 84 out of 100 software users.

Can anyone smell a new way to smuggle in items........

Four classes of luxury goods -- automobiles, electronics, tobacco and alcohol -- sold on three free-trade islands of Batam, Bintan, and Karimun regions will be tax exempt at the start of the new year, a minister said Thursday. Batam, Bintan and Karimun islands were declared free-trade zones earlier this year.

The debate about whether Asia has decoupled earlier this year is now history as it is clear that Asia's fortunes are clearly intertwined with those of the United States and the European economy. Fortunately Indonesia's economy has relatively low exposure to the direct source of the credit crunch; the subprime mortgages and related derivatives. Nonetheless, we are not immune to the global economic turbulence. How has this impacted on our property market?

Mustaqim Adamrah, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta India's top motorcycle maker Bajaj plans to spend between US$50 million and $60 million next year to upgrade existing plant here, highlighting the positive prospects for Indonesia's motorcycle industry despite forecasts of slower economic growth.

Mustaqim Adamrah, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The government should enforce a limit on sea port charges charged by service providers to help reduce the high cost that traders, in particular importers, have had to bear for far too long, a discussion heard Thursday.

Trade Minister Mari Pangestu said on Tuesday that exports were set to fall next year due to weak global economic growth, but predicted that a recovery could occur in the second half of the year. “The first half of 2009 will be the most difficult period,” she said, adding that she was unable to estimate as yet how big the drop would be.

PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk, or Telkom, is urging the government not to issue more cellular-service licenses, even as it forecasts that next year’s penetration rates will rise higher, a Telkom official said on Wednesday. “We asked the government to limit new telecom licenses because we already have 11 operators,” said Rinaldi Firmansyah, Telkom’s chief executive officer.

Originally Posted By: witty handle Originally Posted By: KuKuKaChu well, comon', anybody with less than two computers would have to be some sort of, umm, i dunno, english teacher or something. Fewer, not less.... :pedanticwanker: Originally Posted By: witty handle just call me a one computer guy no, i'll call you a fuckin' english teacher!

Originally Posted By: KuKuKaChu well, comon', anybody with less than two computers would have to be some sort of, umm, i dunno, english teacher or something. Fewer, not less....just call me a one computer guy

i wonder if pertamina will divest itself of the military.

Batulucin, S Kalimantan (ANTARA News) - Energy and Mineral Resources Mininister Purnomo Yusgiantoro inaugurated an upgraded brown coal (UBC) project in Satui sub-district, Tanah Bumbu district, South Kalimantan on Thursday. The UBC factory is a pioneer project and coal upgrading factory applying a technology which could increase the quality of low quality coal so that Indonesia in the future is expected to supply the world with good quality of coal.

Jakarta(ANTARA News)- State-owned oil company Pertamina will divest its subsidiaries, particularly its non-core business entities that are suffering losses, the company's deputy president director, Iin Arifin Takhyan, said. "Pertamina will divest non-core and non performing subsidiaries," Takhyan said after a hearing with the House of Representatives (DPR)'s Commission VI which deals with energy affairs here on Thursday.

Nusa Dua, Bali (ANTARA News) - Indonesian crude pal oil (CPO) producers predict that the CPO price in the world market will fall further to US$500-US$600 per ton from US$600-US$700 per ton this year. "Actually it is difficult for me to predict the CPO price next year. But it could be US$500-US$600 per ton based on the prevailing trend in which the price dropped to US$505 per ton in late November 2008," said Derom Bangun, chairman of the Indonesian CPO Producers Association (GAPKI).

yes i might try the USB

Three computers acsherrly

RH, if you want to have a look at ubuntu, you can either have a play with a live cd, a persistent usb (so that you can save files / options), or dual boot it on your current pc

A little - but you generally find linux systems, if they haven't become too bloated with crap, tend to run faster than windows anyway. I'm not sure, but could you run fruity loops under a vm install of windows KKC? That would run slower, but at least you would have directx which will never get into linux seeing that its M$ owned.

Originally Posted By: KuKuKaChu Cubase AI, LE and SX are supported. Fruity Loops? possibly not. but then, if you were a *real* musician, you wouldn't need such a kludge, would you? hmmm?? hmmmm?? Loop based programmes allow for the creation of loops as well! hmmmm? hmmmm?

Cubase AI, LE and SX are supported. Fruity Loops? possibly not. but then, if you were a *real* musician, you wouldn't need such a kludge, would you? hmmm?? hmmmm??

ahem. that is what "Wine" was made for. it's a linux Windows™ emulator. For a partial list of compatible applications click here (you'll have to register and login to get the complete list). having said that, however, i would not recommend ubuntu at this stage for anything but business environments where there is an adequate knowledge base and support for the system.

Thought not, Pembantu or whatever its called is all well and good for net surfing, e---mail and word processing, perhaps even a spot of MP3 listening. I'll have to reluctantly stick with Windows though for the music production.

I bet I can't run Fruity Loops or Cubase on it can I?