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Lock-in for dividend reinvestment mutual funds as per section 80c

As you must've found out when trying to redeem your units after 3 years, the reinvestment plan leads to a recursive never-ending lock-in. You can never completely redeem your units. Descriptions and solutions here: 1 2

A comparison of a few mid range laptops

Mac MacPro Dell Studio XPS 13 ThinkPad T400 Winner Weight 2.13GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo Processor P8600 (2.40GHz/ 1066 FSB/ 3MB Cache) Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor P8400 ( 2.26GHz 1GHz ) Dell 3 2GB of 1066MHz DDR3 memory 2GB of 1066MHz DDR3 memory 4GB (2 X 2GB) Dual Channel 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM 2 GB DDR3 SDRAM 1066MHz Dell 3 160GB 5400-rpm hard drive 160GB 5400-rpm hard drive 320GB (7200 RPM) SATA Hard Drive 250GB Dell 3 NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory3 NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory3 Integrated NVIDIA® GeForce® 9400M graphics   MacPro 2 13.3-inch glossy widescreen display 13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display Obsidian Black 13.3 " WXGA (1280x800) CCFL Display w/ 2MP webcam 14.1 " WXGA+ TFT with integrated came

No save as html option in 20087 mpp

Microsoft Office Project 2007 does not support the ability to save a project file as a Web page. Instead, you can save a project as a more flexible XML file. This enables you to apply any style sheet to the XML file.

Tax reforms initiated

[Thanks to Beyond Basics for the news] Direct Taxes Code Discussion New tax code: Pay 10% tax on Rs 10-lakh salary will ultimately replace the over four-decades old Income Tax Act and bring all other direct taxes like wealth tax under its purview Key proposals: Tax deduction limit on savings to be hiked to Rs 3 lakh (Rs 300,000) Income tax slabs proposed to be changed; highest tax rate of 30% for individuals to be applicable for income over Rs 25 lakh (Rs 2.5 million) Security transaction tax to be abolished Effective corporate tax rate at 25 % To scrap long, short-term capital gains distinction Business losses can be carried forward indefinitely No tax deduction on interest payable on any govt security Base year for calculation of cap gains tax moved to April 2000 Wealth tax liability to be discharged by payment of pre-paid taxes Income from certain transfers not be treated as capital gains Proposals for businesses: Taxation of all non profit organisations rationalised Profits of non

The Code Is The Design

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Why programming is about focus, and not hours of work or lines of code. Also, why you can't replace a racehorse with two cart horses. Most people don’t understand what a computer really is. It’s the modern equivalent of a magic wand. Its power is only limited by the person wielding it.   Jack Reeves From Slashdot The Code Is The Design "In 1992 C++ Journal published an essay by Jack W. Reeves called 'What Is Software Design?' Many credit this essay as being the first published instance of assertions such as 'programming is not about building software; programming is about designing software" From What is Software Design? o Real software is incredibly cheap to build, and getting cheaper all the time as computers get faster. o Real software is incredibly expensive to design. This is true because software is incredibly complex and because practically all the steps of a software project are part of the design process. o Programming is a design

dos reference disconnect network drive

net use * /delete Good command for deleting all network drives that might be slowing down your "My Computer"

nt clear network share passwords

rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr

2003 post - Recovery procedure for MySql passwords

1. Shutdown the MySQL Service. 2. Start mysqld with the option “—skip-grant-tables” 3. Set a new password using “shell> mysqladmin -u root password ‘mynewpassword’”