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    Disclaimer: Implementing this change requires understanding Windows Networking. It may contravene BSNL policy. This writer uses India's BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited - what a mouthful hence the acronym) Dataone broadband service. Which is a bit of step-child with mostly outdated (and therefore useless) configuration information on the vendor's site. That is assuming you can find said information in the first...
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Archive for September, 2006

With Office 2007 TR Make Sure to Look (Here) Before You Leap

Sep 17th

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A couple of weeks away from the heart of the action has done wonders for me. And I seem to have regained my lost enthusiasm about working with new software. Let’s lead with the biggest software release in the past week.

Microsoft Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (Office 2007 B2TR) is a complete overhaul of the venerable office suite. It features new product and menu icons. Along with a redesigned ribbon featuring a richer, more organized menu that’s way easier to transition to when compared to the Office 2007 Beta 2 version. There’s also a new Silver (gray actually) theme that More >

Vacant Minds

Sep 11th

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Hey ho! This has been an excellent vacation (so far). Limited Internet access meant that I approached a computer quite rarely (like today). And this state of bliss is going to last for at least a week longer. Before it’s b-a-c-k to the G-R-I-N-D. Waah!

I’m sure there much interesting happening. I know about the Mozilla Firefox 2 Beta 2 (or is that Beta 3) release. But will get down to it only after I return.

But even as I enjoy my place in the sun, make sure to practice ‘safe hex’ and not get a computer viral infection that trashes all More >