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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.

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.

We started our hardware division with a vision to bring genuine, quality products at the lowest possible prices to our consumers. This policy document deals with all these three aspects of our vision statement.

It is that time of the year when fresh graduates are going to come out into the job market in massive swarms and we are planning to provide opportunities for a lucky few at our organization. We have job openings for both freshers as well as experienced candidates. We are looking forward to finding smart, self motivated, intelligent young men and women with strong analytical and communication skills. If you are a prospective candidate we would like you to answer the following questions before you proceed any further

It can be safely assumed that an average home computer user uses his computer mostly to send/receive mails, browse the net, access online applications, watch movies, listen to music, use some desktop applications and work on documents or spreadsheets, in that order of decreasing frequency of use. But for the avid gamers, most would play some sort of simple computer games like card games, puzzles, chess etc. A very small percentage of the population would use a home computer for programming.

One of the most common questions we hear from potential customers who come to buy PC's or Laptop's is whether we will be installing Windows XP on the computers we assemble. Our answer has been the same - "Yes we will, if you pay for it". We would like to clarify our policy regarding piracy. We understand that piracy is illegal and we will not be doing anything to promote piracy.

Toshiba has segmented their laptops into two different ranges - one for the retail segment and another for the enterprise segment. The prices and specifications overlap a bit but they have some exceptionally good high end laptops. The prices for Toshiba Laptops is attached below. Toshiba Laptop Retail Segment

Hewlett Packard is focusing on the entry level laptop market with the Compaq Presario series and the premium segment with the HP Pavilion Series. The laptops seem a little too pricey but they come with all the goodies that a premium customer needs. The pricelist for HP Pavilion series is attached below.

A new computer could cost anywhere from Rs. 13500/- where as you could get a reasonably good used computer in the range of Rs. 4000 to Rs. 7000 depending on the age and the configuration of the system. The obvious attractiveness in the option of buying a used computer is the price. Buying a certified used system is an excellent way to familiarize you and your family to the exciting world of computers and internet at perhaps 1/3 the cost of a new system.

Compaq has some very well priced laptops in the Presario series. The models cost between 26000 and 49000. The series include entry level models with Celeron + 256MB RAM and have higher end models with Intel Dual Core and Intel Core 2 Duo and upto 1GB RAM. All of the entry level models come with atleast a CD/DVD Combo while the higher end models come with a DVD Writer. WiFi is standard on all the models and blue tooth is supported in the upper end of the spectrum. To summarize HP has provided good value-for-money through the Presario series.

When retrieving large number of records from a database table it becomes essential to do some kind of pagination while presenting the data to the end user. There are two ways of doing this. One is a server side implementation and another is a client side implementation. Here we are presenting a completely dynamic server side pagination implementation where the client only has to tell the server the number of records the server has to return and the starting record number.

We were working on an online billing application for a small charity firm when we came upon this problem. The application was developed and tested under Firefox. However we got the error when we tested it on Internet Explorer 6 (6.0.2900.2180). There was a simple window.open javascript call to open a popup window. The window was opening fine but it remained blank and the parent window showed the javascript error Error: Class not registered.