
HR
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One of the simplest HR issues that a company has to handle is managing leaves. Initially we did not have a fixed leave policy and leaves and holidays were granted on a need basis and on short notice. However as we grew we realized the need for systematizing this to be able to manage and plan our activities and projects. Creating a leave policy might sound easy but we had to put a lot of thought into this. We wanted it to be as flexible as possible but with enough rigidity to have a predictable system.
Company Leave Policy Document v1.0

Technical Solution
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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.

Technical Solution
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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.

Announcements
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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).

Computers
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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.

Company Documents
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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.

Hardware
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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.

Technical Solution
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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.

FOSS Promotion
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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.

Technical Solution
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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.