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Lenovo has launched it’s ultra-portable S10-2 ideapad netbook.It has the 1.6GHz Intel Atom N280 processor and 945 GSE express chipset.The Lenovo IdeaPad S10 is a good choice for the users who have to perform simple activities such browsing the Internet, checking and writing e-mails, listening to music and running basic applications.

Samsung announced the prices of their Laptops for the month of January 2010. The prices are very competitive and features are very attractive. These prices are available across India. Here are the list of available models and their respective prices.

Samsung announced the prices of their Laptops for the month of January 2010. The prices are very competitive and features are very attractive. These prices are available across India. Here are the list of available models and their respective prices.

Asianet Dataline is an ISP in Kerala and they use a web browser based authentication system to log the user onto their network. One of their most popular plans the - Homenet 475 offers free unlimited downloads from 2AM to 8AM. Now if there was a way to turn on your system at 2AM, automatically login to Asianet and turn your download manager on and then shutdown at 8AM it would have been perfect. The only problem is that the http based authentication system makes it a bit unwieldy to automate. Well not really :-). We have created a bash script to automate this login process.

Drupal allows very fine grained control over how content is presented to the end user. The presentation layer is abstracted beautifully and cleanly designed hooks allows for moving data from the logic layer to the presentation layer. The template file that handles the basic page layout of every drupal site is page.tpl.php and the different regions available for a given theme are all available as HTML elements in page.tpl.php. Another important template file is node.tpl.php which decides how nodes are presented to the end user.

We are looking for Hardware Technicians for our Computer Sales and Services operations. The position is open for people with 0-2 years of experience and a Certificate or Diploma in Hardware Maintenance. The responsibilities would include providing service at customer sites, delivering products to customers, taking delivery of goods for servicing and servicing goods at the office. The person should be willing to work normal hardware shop operation hours.

We are looking for an accountant for our combined hardware + software operations. The position is open for somebody with 1+ years of experience and a B.Com degree. The responsibilities would include accounting daily hardware sales and purchases, accounting other operational expenses, accounting software sales and performing statutory company accounting procedures. The person should also be able to demonstrate knowledge in various regulatory matters in accounting. The person should be willing to work extended hours to sync with the hardware operations. He/she should also have to visit and consult with our Chartered Accountant on a regular basis.

If you install sendmail on your desktop and have not configured your system correctly you will very likely come across this problem. Ubuntu boot up slows down considerably and stops for a long time at the "Starting Mail Transport Agent (MTA) sendmail" line. This is because sendmail is trying to resolve your host and times out failing to do so. You can fix this problem easily by making a few changes in to yours hosts file.

OpenOffice is possibly one among the finest examples on what can be achieved in the world of Free Software. For starters, OpenOffice is an office application suite in the lines of Microsoft Office and is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. The latest stable release is OpenOffice 3.1. You may want to know how to install OpenOffice 3.1 in Ubuntu. Now let us take a look at the list of extensions you could use in OpenOffice.

Rar used to be a favorite compression format when the compressed files were to be split into multiple pieces to fit into legacy external storage devices like Floppy, Zip disk, CD etc. WinRAR is a popular GUI application that can rar and unrar files in the rar format. If however you come across rar files that are split into multiple parts then you can extract and combine them as follows