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There was a time when computers were so expensive that, to own one was beyond the means of a common man and, they were only affordable for the elite of the society. Times have changed and the prices of computers have fallen so drastically that it has been moved from the list of luxury items to the list of essential items in a household. They have become so cheap that you can easily buy a brand new personal computer with basic configuration for just Rs. 13,500/- excluding tax, or a used computer for around one third that price.

One of the key elements that helps in improving the efficiency of a company is its time management. An organization with a good and well managed time schedule will be able to achieve success in its areas of operation. Proper time management is one key factor required from all the employees across all the departments. We chart our schedules with a view to optimally use the available resources.

A general issue faced by many of our customers is that they forget the administrator password which is required to login to the computer. Without this password, there is no way a normal user can gain access to the computer system and its contents. Most of us will end up formatting the hard disk or installing a fresh copy of Windows as a remedy. As a result, we make an unwanted payment for the service provider for both formatting and installing Windows. There is always a remedy for gaining access to the computer system without formatting or installing new copy of Windows.

Efficient programming requires a comfortable editor or a development environment. The definition of comfortable would vary with the developer. The requirements would vary with the programming language also. For web application development in PHP some of the nice little features that helps in development are listed below.

We are extending the benefit of our highly competitive laptop prices to people all across Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. All you have to do is pick your laptop model, call us for the latest prices, deposit/transfer the amount into our ICICI bank account (A/C: 038905001939) and then send us the transaction ID. As soon as the money is received in our accounts we will deliver the Laptop to your doorstep. You can also deposit the money into our SBI account (A/C: 31729152457).

Starting or scaling up a business establishment almost always involves upgrading your existing IT infrastructure. This normally takes its toll on capital resources. Even if you finance your IT purchases it would involve some amount of down payment and you will inevitably have to channel a reasonable amount of your capital towards IT infrastructure purchases. Valuable capital that could otherwise have been used for increasing the working capital to meet the requirements for the growth.

The list of holidays for Zyxware for the year 2007 is as follows. January 26 - Republic Day February 16 - Shivratri March 31 - Milad-e-Sherif (Nabidinam) April 6 - Good Friday May 1 - May Day (Labour Day) August 15 - Independence Day August 27 - Thiru Onam August 28 - Shri Narayana Guru October 2 - Gandhi Jayanti October 13 - Ramzan * December - 20 - Bakrid * December - 25 - Christmas * Subject to change depending on the sighting of moon.

HP Pavilion has announced their laptop prices for the month of August 2007. They have tried to give more value to the money paid by the customers. LightScribe enabled DVD burners have been included. Couple of models have fingerprint reader. All these models come with pre-installed Microsoft Windows Vista Home Edition. The list of models along with the prices are given below.

Mircosoftpowerpoint.exe is a file that is created by a virus named w32.USBWorm. This virus is an epidemic and spreads very rapidly through USB drives. When a USB drive is connected to a computer which is already affected by this virus, it gets affected. The virus in the computer will transfer all its files into the drive. When this USB drive is connected to another unaffected computer, it will transfer all the required files to the computer's hard drive.

A recent review in Business-World has rated the low bandwidth availability in India as an important factor that could possibly slow down the IT growth rate in India. Some of the aspects discussed included the low penetration of broadband among the populace and the low bandwidth available for the network infrastructure. As a private company there is very little that we can do to mitigate this problem. However we have come up with a novel approach to share our bandwidth with those people who does not have access to high bandwidths.

When you are posting a blog on your blogspot, blogger automatically uses your title to create a url for your post. This happens only if you have enabled post pages in the Settings » Archives » Enable post pages setting to true. However if you are using a fairly long title, blogger will simply truncate at the end of the last complete word so that the total remains within 40 characters.

Ubuntu installation on a system which already has other operating systems is simple. Ubuntu will automatically detect other operating systems already installed on the computer and enable booting into them from the grub boot menu. However if you install Windows on a system which already has Ubuntu installed on a partition other than the partition on to which you install windows then you will inevitably lose the option to boot into the Ubuntu installation. There is a simple way to rectify this issue.

One of the most common support requests we receive from our customers is for clearing their computers of viruses. Most of the infections that we see are by viruses that spread by capitalizing on the ignorance of the users. A few smart steps, if taken by the users, could easily prevent infection from some of the more common viruses that float around in the cyber-universe.

One of the strange types of complaints we receive from our customers is "The system was working fine till yesterday, I had shut down the system and it is not booting now". Strange as it may sound the common feature of these support requests included burnt motherboards, non-functional PCI Card slots and sometimes burnt Ethernet cards. One common factor in such cases was that these customers had Asianet Dataline as their internet service.

Ubuntu has a very user-friendly installation interface. The whole installation takes only a few mouse-clicks and takes only around 15-20 minutes on almost any new system. We have not had any complications in Ubuntu Installations until recently when we had to Install Ubuntu on an Intel 945GCNL motherboard with Intel Dual Core processor.

Compaq Presario has announced the prices of various models of laptops. Compaq is concentrating more on the entry level systems and prices are more competitive. Here is the list of models and the prices. Compaq Presario C555TU Intel Celeron-M 440 @ 1.86GHz (Intel 940GML Express Chipset / 1MB L2 Cache / 533 Mhz FSB), 256MB PC2-4200 DDR2 (533MHz), 80 GB SATA - 24X CDRW-DVD Combo Drive, 15.4” Colour TFT ; BrightView™ WideScreen, Free DOS, Wireless LAN, Carry Case Rs. 25,490/-

When we started Zyxware we had no clue as to how to start a company, how to and what to document, how to do our accounting and stuff. We had to undergo a process of trial and error to figure out what are the things we were supposed to do as a company. We don't want another entrepreneur to waste his/her time in doing what we have done. With this view we have created our Open Documentation Policy.