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Zyxware Technologies joins hands with GNU/Linux Users Group Trivandrum (ilug-tvm), SPACE-Kerala and FSF India to bring to the public the second GNU/Linux Install fest in Trivandrum in the last 3 months. This time the event is arranged to coincide with the Worldwide Mandriva Linux Install Fest so as to pledge our cooperation with the Mandriva Community. The event is arranged for the 14th of June 2008 at Cotton Hill Lower Primary School, Vazhuthacaud.
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We recently had a customer who had Windows Hosting with IIS and she had two WordPress blogs hosted on two subdirectories on the same hosting space. Windows hosting should be the last thing that should come to your mind when you want to do WordPress hosting as it will never come close to LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) functionalities. Now the problem was that she could not set up Permalinks on both blogs. There was an already published solution on how to setup Permalinks in Wordpress on IIS but we had to tweak that a little to get it working in this scenario.
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When a company takes up a project with a client they normally will have to sign an agreement with the client that neither party will disclose information that will be shared as part of the project to anybody else and that the information shared shall not be used for creating competing products/services by the company. This is a standard document that needs to be signed for most projects. This document is also referred to as Non Disclosure Agreement. We are publishing our Confidential Disclosure Agreement here. Feel free to copy and use for your needs.
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Compaq Presario V6410TU is an Intel based model from the house of HP-Compaq. It is equipped with an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor 1.73 GHz, 512 MB DDR2 RAM, 160 GB HDD SATA, 8X Dual Layer DVD Writer, 15.4" Widescreen, 5-in-1 Digital Media Reader, 56K Modem, wifi, LAN and it comes pre-installed with Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic. In case you want to install Windows XP, you may not find the list of drivers online from the company's website, as they have withdrawn their support for XP. Here are the  links for downloading compatible XP drivers for this laptop.
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Acer, a manufacturer for computer hardware, accessories and peripherals, have a list of their owned and authorized service centers in India. Acer is one of the most economical models of laptops in India. They give an average warranty for 1 year for all its products. Here are the list of service centers. Ahmedabad Acer India (Pvt) Ltd. Unit # 505, 5th Floor Milestone Building Opp. Doordarshan Kendra, Drive In Road, Ahmedabad - 54. Tel: +91-079- 27491503/04/05
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Lenovo, one of the major IT hardware manufacturers in the world, has got authorized service centers across India. They are located in almost all states. The main distributor of Lenovo desktops and laptops is Redington India Private Limited and they have a number of service centers. Lenovo offers is customers a minimum warranty of 1 year on all its hardware. Selected models contain additional two more years warranty. Here we have given a list of Lenovo owned and authorized service centers in india.
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One of our customers recently brought an Acer Aspire 3002NLC Laptop to install Ubuntu and to configure the laptop as a Samba server for his home networking. There was one more thing that he wanted to us to configure - that was internet through the Reliance Datacard. The card provided was ZTE MC315. Installing Ubuntu and configuring the rest of the applications were easy but the reliance datacard installation took some time. But once we figured it out, the steps involved were very simple.
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While installing Ubuntu on Laptops, one common problem that we have identified is that the mouse pointer movement using the touchpad is very slow with the default settings. We were hoping that this would be fixed in Ubuntu Hardy Heron but it still is not. Ubuntu allows for the configuration of the acceleration and sensitivity using the System > Preferences > Mouse menu but that too might not give the desired results always. Here is a sure shot way of speeding up your touchpad in Ubuntu.
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Fedora team has been closely working with Swathanthra Malayalam Computing(SMC) team to get most of the SMC patches upstream and setting up Malayalam has been relatively easy on Fedora. Since most of the patches have gone to upstream fedora you don't have download any rpm other than Swanalekha (Malayalam transliterator) on your own to be able to read and write Malayalam on a Fedora 9 machine. Follow the basic instructions to set up Malayalam on Fedora 9.
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The much awaited Long Term Support (LTS) version of Ubuntu - version 8.04 codenamed Hardy Heron was released on April 24th. We now have the CDs and DVDs for the different flavors of Ubuntu 8.04 available at Zyxware. You can drop by our office to write a copy for yourselves or you can use the RequestCD Service to order the CDs and DVDs online.
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A Delivery Challan (DC) is a document which contains details about all items that are being take from retailer's place to the customer. A Delivery Challan must be issued every time, when a new system or hardware is sold. An item sold from the office should not leave office premises without a Delivery Challan irrespective of whether the item is being delivered by the company or taken delivery by the customer. This is the responsibility of the person who prepares Sales Invoice and Cash Receipt.
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Raaga.com is a very popular online music station that has a very large collection of Indian movie and classical songs. They use real media and they have a player that requires the real media player. Now the default installation of Real Media player will not allow you play music from Raaga.com and the player popup from raaga.com will stay in the 'Initializing Player, Please Wait' and 'Loading' state permanently. There is a simple work around for this situation.
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Compaq Presario V3795TU is a model of laptop from the house of HP-Compaq. This is an Intel based machine and is equipped with an Intel Core2 Duo Processor (2.4 GHz), 1 GB RAM, 250 GB Hard drive, DVD Burner, 14.1” Widescreen, Bluetooth, Integrated Webcam and it comes without an Operating System. If you plan to install Windows XP in this laptop, drivers are not available at the company's site. Here are the links to all drivers.
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The recently held GNU/Linux Install fest in Trivandrum was a grand success in terms of reaching out to the masses. People turned out in good numbers for fest and many came and installed different flavors of GNU/Linux on their systems. The most popular distros were Ubuntu and Fedora. Some of the people who could not bring their systems signed up to have GNU/Linux installed on their systems at homes. Print and Radio media covered the event generously.
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We are a tech start-up firm. Our objective is to make money by developing successful web based applications for the general public. There are two ways of making money online. One is when you create a web based system and then sell rights to advertise on the website to ad-networks or directly to companies. The second is when your application becomes immensely popular and you sell the complete website to a bigger player who pays for future revenues and consolidation advantages.
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As part of the GNU/Linux Users Group in Trivandrum we are proud to bring to computer users in Trivandrum a wonderful opportunity to try out GNU/Linux for free. GNU/Linux Users Group- Trivandrum, Free Software Foundation - India, Zyxware Technologies and Space-Kerala.org joins hand to bring to fruition the first publicly held GNU/Linux Install Fest in Kerala.
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Compaq Presario C722TU, from the house of HP-Compaq is a good laptop. It is an Intel based machine with Intel Dual Core Processor (1.86 MHz), 2GB RAM, 160 GB HDD, DVD RW, Wifi, 15.4" Widescreen, Web Cam and so on. This machine comes installed with FreeDOS. This machine is designed to work with Windows Vista. All the required drivers and given in the company's website. Links for drivers for Windows XP are not present in their website. Here we have given all the links of hardware drivers for the same laptop, for Windows XP
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