Laptops
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Compaq Presario C739TU is a model of laptop in the product line of HP-Compaq. The specifications are as given. It comes with an Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor T2330 (1.6 GHz), 512 MB PC2-5300 DDR2, 160 GB SATA, 8X Double Layer DVD +R/+RW Writer, 15.4" WideScreen, Wireless LAN, Integrated WebCam & Mic. This machine comes pre-loaded with Windows Vista Home Basic Edition. If ever you plan to downgrade to Windows XP, you need to install drivers for various hardware. The list of hardware and drivers are given below. Please note that this laptop is designed to work with Windows Vista.
Laptops
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Compaq Presario V3713AU is another laptop from HP-Compaq. This is an AMD based machine with Dual Core technology. The features include 14.1” WideScreen, 160GB Hard Disk, 512MB DDR2 RAM, Built-In Webcam, DVDRW & Double Layer Burner, 802.11 b/g Wireless Lan, Bluetooth, Card Reader, ExpressCard / 54 PC Card, Expansion Port 3, 56K Modem, 10/100 Lan Port etc. This is a blank machine with a FreeDOS. If you are planning to install Windows, you would require various types of drivers to run this laptop. They are given here. A word to remind: This laptop is designed for Windows Vista.
Community Projects
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The full set of Ubuntu Repository DVDs (set of 5 DVDs) is now available. You can request for your copy of the Ubuntu Repositories through our RequestCD program. The ubuntu repository DVDs contain the complete set of packages under the main, universe, multiverse and restricted repositories in Ubuntu. Please note that we will mail out the DVDs only within India.
Community Projects
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We have recently offered free web hosting for the website for Yojana08. Yojana08 is a national level technical symposium organized by the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology of Younus College of Engineering and Technology, Kollam. The event is scheduled from March 12 to March 13.
Hardware
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Wipro has released prices of various models of laptops. They are very aggressive in the market. All laptops in the product line are of decent configuration and they come at very affordable prices in their respective categories. Apart from the last two, all the come with a 14.1" widescreen that makes them laptop very compact and light weight and also they are equipped with an Multi Media Card reader. Wipro is providing 1 year on=site warranty on all laptop models. Here are the list of laptops and their prices
Technical Solution
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Wordweb is one of the most useful tools for a content developer or a technical writer working on a plain old Windows machine. When somebody like that moves to Ubuntu from Windows he/she would want to have a somewhat similar functionality in Ubuntu too. In GNU/Linux there is the gnome-dictionary or the kdict application that has similar functionality as wordweb. However some minor tweaks are required to make these applications behave almost exactly like Wordweb.
Hardware
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Lenovo announced the prices of Thinkpad series notebooks for the month of February 2008. Check out for available models and their prices.
Lenovo Thinkpad - R61 - 8932 A25
Intel Celeron M Processor 530 (1.73 GHz, 533 MHz, 1MB L2 Cache), 512 MB RAM, 80 GB Hard Disk, Combo Drive, Intel Pro 802.11a/b/g, 15.4 WXGA Widescreen, Free DOS, UltraNav, 3 year warranty
Price Rs. 31900/-
Hardware
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Lenovo announced the prices of 3000 Y, N and G series for the month of February, 2008. The prices are very competitive when compared with the specifications. They are trying to provide more value for money for Indian consumers. Prices of all the models are given here.