Last week I sent an email from  my Gmail account which I had setup in Evolution on my home computer.  Two days later I was surprised to find it still in the Outbox. I deleted the email as it was of no use now and made a mental To do to fix the problem as I was busy with other  important things  to be done -besides it still did work from my notebook -or I thought it did. A few days later I replied to a personal email from my notebook via my Gmail account and it is still lying in my outbox. This confirmed the fact that some settings had changed an Gmail’s end.

I was surprised at not receiving an email from Google to this effect, but gave them the benefit of doubt as I receive vast amounts of email and I could have easily  have missed something from Gmail thinking it was some uninteresting email message like the various automated mails I receive from numerous bots whose websites I have subscribed to. Continue Reading >>

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We are in the process of moving our HIS servers from Windows 2000/2003 to Ubuntu Linux 9.10 (Karmic Koala). We are using IBM servers of the xSeries (with a little bit of variation here and there) -probably about 8-10 servers in all. Only two of them are rack mount and one of them Running RAID5. The others are all running RAID1 (hardware) on the Adaptec AIC-7982 Dual RAID controller with the suppplied 73 + 73 Gb   hot swappable SCSI drives. Continue Reading >>

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This is with reference to my previous post here where I had to use a workaround to deploy a .war file for our Hospital Management Software. However as our date to go live approached, I was forced to do additional reading and experiment on the same and here are my conclusions. For your information, we are using Ubuntu Server 9.1 (Selecting LAMP + Tomcat Java Server from tasksel after the base install). the problem is still not sorted out but hopefully will soon be.  The war file was deployed in /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/. The logs are found at /var/log/tomcat6/

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I’ve become a bit skeptical about online shopping in India. It started out on Bazee (now ebay.in)…. a few more shopping experiences with others and I finally gave up, refusing to be cheated anymore and switched from swadeshi to videshi. I do regret paying all those steep overseas shipping charges and currency conversion fees (and sometimes ridiculous customs duties) but the products have usually been of superior quality and built to last. My experiences with online service providers were no better either (unless they were Banking/Internet or Mobile phone service providers) and you can read my review on seventy mm video rental services here. I’ve even had issues with Geo/Outlook money (Magazines from the Outlook group). I actually had to remind them that I had made an online payment for a subscription to Geo and later remind them of the free Outlook money guides they were supposed to send me on a 3 year subscription to Outlook Money. (Both of which were promptly attended to) I expected something similar with Friends of Books, but was in for a pleasant surprise!

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Ref : EHA/End User Self Help/Common IT Services setup

Ref: Setting up POP email in various email clients

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Hate to do documentation on software that has already been superseded by a new version, but in this case I have to do it for documentation purposes – so here goes…

Open Outlook. Since Micro$oft assumes that you have purchased Office 2003, (I hope you have) in thanksgiving it shows you an additional two screens of blah. The first one welcomes you and the second one actually asks you whether you want to configure an email account and gives you the option to say no!! Well I suppose thats what we paid all that moolah for, so click Yes and Next. BTW, If this is the first time you ran Outlook, this wizard should pop up automatically. If he didn’t, you can wake the no good bum up from Tools > Email Accounts > Add a New e-Mail Account. From the wizard…

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This is a continuation or rather a subset of my previous two posts on HP Network Lasers. A later discovery which I thought I should share with those who were following those posts -to complete the picture was that, both Windows XP & Vista support HP Network printers that have dynamic IP addresses.  Although I still strongly recommend that you should opt for a static IP address for the sake of an easy way to access the web configuration interface, I choose to document it here if only for academic reasons. Continue Reading >>

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