Hardware
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HP-Compaq released prices of their Pavilion range of notebooks for the month of January 2009. Ther prices have been put very aggressively and more value is provided for each product. A couple of new models have been introduced to their product line. Most of these models come fitted with finger print reader and so on. All these models will be pre-installed with GNU/Linux and Windows Vista. Here is the list of models and their prices.
Hardware
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HP Compaq announced prices of their business series laptops for the month of January 2009. Prices are more competitive and more attractive features have been added to each of them. This series laptops starts as low as Rs. 36,300/- which is a reasonable price for HP laptop. Here is the list of laptops and their prices.
Hardware
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Compaq Presario C755TU laptop comes with Intel 1.67GHz Core2 Duo Processor, 512MB RAM which is upgradeable upto 4GB and 160GB HDD. It has a DVD Writer, 15.4-inch widescreen display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 dpi. The laptop also has an integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 video card, integrated modem and integrated sound card, Wifi, Touchpad mouse, inbuilt speakers and microphone. The laptop comes with interfaces like S-Video port, 3 USB ports and comes with Windows Vista Home Basic.Downgrading to Windows XP would be a problem as HP-Compaq does not support Windows XP anymore. They support only Vista. If ever you install XP, you will find it difficult to get drivers as they are not easily available online. Here we have the links for drivers for Compaq Presario c755tu laptop.
Technical Solution
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Kerala Taxes recently moved completely to online filing of taxes. To help business owners to efile their taxes, the sales tax department had prepared and released a Microsoft Excel template file(.xls) to be used by the dealers to generate files for filing taxes online. We, at Zyxware, realized that this would effectively force Free Software Users into using Microsoft Office for filing their taxes and took effort into converting this template into OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet Format(.ods)
Technical Solution
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Disabling the USB storage device is of prime importance if you are running a firm with a number of PC's with Windows operating system. The chances are high for a PC to get infected through the USB device, especially when the installed OS is Windows. We have compiled the different steps required to disable USB storage device in a Windows PC. Two cases are under consideration here.
1: If the USB storage device is not installed on your computer and
2: if the USB storage device is already installed.
Technical Solution
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Setting up Malayalam on Ubuntu or for that matter any other GNU/Linux distribution like Fedora, Mandriva has been progressively getting easier thanks to the wonderful effort of the free software community going by the name "Swathanthra Malayalam Computing" or SMC in short. Most of the patches and tweaks have gone upstream to the OS trunks and most distros are already Malayalam capable. A few minor tweaks are required to set up reading and writing in Malayalam in the latest version of Ubuntu 8.10 - Intrepid Ibex
Hardware
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Compaq Presario V3712AU laptop comes with AMD 1.9GHz Athon 64x2 Processor, 512MB RAM which is upgradeable upto 4GB and 160GB HDD. It has a DVD Writer, 14.1-inch widescreen display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 dpi, wireless, LAN and so on. It comes pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Basic. If you need any drivers for Windows Vista it will be available in the HP website itself. But if you need drivers for Windows XP, it wont be available there in the site. We have the links to all the drivers you need.
Hardware
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Compaq Presario V3777TU Notebook is an intel based machine with Intel Pentium Dual Core Processor T2370 (1.73 GHz), 2 GB DDR2 RAM, 160 GB SATA HDD,14.1" WXGA TFT with BrightView,Intel graphics media accelerator X3100,Altec Lansing stereo speakers,Integrated Wireless LAN,Integrated Bluetooth 2.0, LiIon Battery and so on. The machine comes pre-installed with MS Windows Vista Home Basic. All the required links are given in the company's website. But links for drivers for Windows XP is not given in the website. If you have downgraded to Windows XP and you have issues regarding required drivers, we have it solved for you. Here we have given all the links of hardware drivers for Compaq Presario V3777TU laptop, for Windows XP.
Free Software
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Fedora is a Linux based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open source software, in stable, secure and easy to manage form. Fedora is the largest of many free software creations of the Fedora Project, which is a project sponsored by Red Hat to co-ordinate the development of the Fedora operating system. Founded on September 2003 as a result of a merger between the Red Hat Linux (RHL) and old Fedora Linux projects.
Free Software
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The openSUSE project is a worldwide community program and it is sponsored by Novell that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. The program provides free and easy access to openSUSE. It is equivent to the "SuSE Linux Professional". In the opesSUSE community, you will find those who all have the same goal in mind — to create and distribute the world's most usable Linux.