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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.

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.

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           

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

Purchases is one the most important processes in a retail business. Therefore managing and accounting purchases is a very important aspect of accounting in Zyxware. Documenting purchases serves two specific purposes. One is the regulatory purpose of preparation of monthly tax returns which will also include and require the maintenance of the stock registers. The second is that the details maintained in the Purchase registers helps in tracking a product back to the original source.

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Matrix Screensaver is a very popular screensaver based on the digital rain shots (moving text) in the blockbuster movie trilogy - The Matrix. This is available as a screensaver in popular GNU Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian with their default installations. But the default Matrix Screensaver that comes with these distributions contains only falling English alphabets. Now Santhosh Thottingal of SMC (Swathanthra Malayalam Computing) has modified this for Indic scripts and has made it available for everybody.

Compaq Presario A901TU is an Intel based laptop from the house of HP-Compaq. It is fitted with an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor with 1.67 GHz, 1 GB RAM, Intel GMA X3100, 160 GB Hard Disk, DVD RW, 17" Widescreen, LAN, wifi, dial-up modem, Integrated web-camera and so on. This laptop comes preinstalled with Windows Vista Home Basic Edition. All drivers for Vista are available on company's website. Here are the list of drivers for Windows XP, which you would require if you ever plan to install Windows XP.

Compaq Presario V3828AU is an AMD Turion™ based laptop from the house of HP-Compaq. It is equipped with an AMD Turion™64 X2 Dual-Core Processor, NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 7150M graphics, 160 GB HDD, 1 GB RAM, DVD +/- RW Double Layer Drive, 14.1" widescreen LCD panel, wifi, LAN, a 1.3MP webcam and so on. This machine comes without an Operating System. So, if you want to start working on it, you need to install an OS. HP-Compaq strongly recommends you to use Windows Vista as they do not support use of Windows XP now. You would require hardware drivers once you install an OS. Drivers for Vista are available at the company's website but for XP, it not there. Here we have links for drivers for Windows XP, for Compaq Presario V3828AU.

Drupal 6 was released on Feb 13, 2008, 13 months after Drupal 5 was released. Extending that estimation Drupal 7 should be out around March or April 2009. That is around 8-9 months from now, Drupal 5 will become obsolete. There has been talks going to extend the support life cycle of Drupal 5 beyond the release date of Drupal 6 but nothing as of now. We are happy to announce that we will be able to support people who would like to convert Drupal 5.x modules to Drupal 6.x. If you want help to port a Drupal 5 or Drupal 4 module to Drupal 6 contact us to get a quote for your requirement.

We accept payments in several different forms like Cash, Credit Card, Paypal, Cheque or DD. Of these when we receive payments in either Cheque or DD the amount gets debited to our account only once the instruments are deposited in our bank account and the bank clears the amount in the clearinghouse and debits the amount to our bank account. Until this happens the payment against the sale/service is not considered as complete. In order to track this we use a Cheque/DD Register.

The world is moving online. With this a huge and ever-growing chunk of the world advertising spending is moving online. A slice of this pie is for yours to take provided you do the right home work and take the right effort and persist in putting it for a sustained period of time. As with any task that generates revenue it is not as easy at it sounds like because if it had been so, it would have been tried out by too many people leading to a ruin of the revenue potential of the task.

With a view to promote free software across Kerala, we have decided to promote district wide groups and as part of this initiative we have started GNU/Linux Users Group Alappuzha. This group is specially focussed on Free Software Enthusiasts from Alappuzha District erstwhile known as Alleppey . We will support all free software including but not exclusively all GNU/Linux distributions. We invite all Free Software Users and Supporters from Alappuzha district to join this group and have fun. You can join this group by sending a mail to ilug-alp-subsribe @ googlegroups.com or you can join from the Alappuzha GNU/Linux Users Group Website.

We are happy to announce that we have tied up with HDFC Bank to offer our customers the ability to pay us using credit cards/debit cards to purchase any of the goods and services offered by Zyxware Technologies. This would include Sales of Computers, Laptops, Computer Accessories and Peripherals, Networking, Software Development, Domains and Hosting Services. You can also pay for our Software and Hardware Services using Credit Cards.

Most of the web based systems that we build at Zyxware uses Drupal as the content framework. The following are the steps involved in setting up Apache, PHP, MySQL and Drupal on a freshly installed Ubuntu 8.04 system. If you follow the instructions you should be able to set it up as is but if you face problems let us know and we will try to help you.