Hardware
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HP-Compaq announced the prices of their Pavilion range of notebooks. There are a couple of new arrivals. The prices are very competent. All these models come fitted with Fingerprint reader, wireless, LAN, Webcam and lot more. Here are the list of models and their prices.
Technical Solution
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If you do a google search on this topic you will come across different posts that says how windows does not allow booting of a logical partition and why windows should be installed on a primary partition. The fact of the matter is that windows allows itself to be installed on logical partitions but it will want a primary windows partition to boot up. Recently we faced a situation where we had to make a windows installed on a logical partition boot up on its own.
Linux
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After a long 3 months since the release of Ubuntu Hardy heron, we have managed to download the complete Ubuntu Repository for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. The full set of Ubuntu Repository DVDs (set of 5 DVDs) is now available and you can order it through our RequestCD Program. If you get the complete Ubuntu Repository on DVDs you do not have to have an internet connection to install any package that is normally available through Synaptic Package Manager.
Hardware
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ASUS India announced prices of their ultra mobile laptops, the EeePC. According to ASUS, the name Eee derives from "the three Es," an abbreviation of its advertising slogan for the device: "Easy to learn, Easy to work, Easy to play". Both 2G Surf and 4G are available and we have given the prices of both these.
Technical Solution
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We install Ubuntu on almost all systems built at Zyxware. One common request we have heard from our customers was for a simple printed user manual that they can use to learn and start using Ubuntu. We have been guiding people to the web to learn the ins and outs of using the operating systems but this does not always work very well. As a permanent solution to this problem we are embarking on an ambitious project to create a print ready Ubuntu Manual. As the first step towards this we have created a website dedicated to compiling content that can go into the ubuntu manual. You can check out the ubuntu manual site.
Hardware
| 9
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Acer India announced prices of its consumer based notebooks for the month of July 2008. The prices have been made very competitive. The prices start from around Rs. 23000/-. The basic model contains 512MB RAM, 80GB Hard disk space and a DVD Burner. Here we have given the prices of all models and their prices.
Acer - Aspire 5315NWLCi
Hardware
| 4
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Wipro announced the prices of its notebook range for the month of July. They are very competitively priced. There are only 2 models available. One comes with Intel Celeron processor and the other is with Intel Core 2 Duo processor. Both these come pre-loaded with Linux. These laptops are Windows compatible, but it has to be installed by the customer. Here are the list of models and their prices.
Technical Solution
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We had recently been involved in a project to set up a Conference Management System for an International Conference to be conducted in Kerala sometime later this year. We had zeroed in on Pentabarf as the solution we were going to base the system on. Pentabarf is a Ruby on Rails solution that has been used for the last couple of DebConfs. Pentabarf as such is an excellent system, being a system created by programmers for programmers, but it heavily lacked in documentation both on their site and on the world wide web. We however managed to get it installed on Ubuntu with Apache, Ruby on Rails and FastCGI. We are sharing the installation instructions for Pentabarf on Ubuntu here