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Lenovo G 580

Recently I purchased a Lenovo G580. It cost me INR 25000 after INR 1000 discount. The configuration is as follows: Pentium B950 @2.1GHz. Its a Sandy Bridge core which translates to cooler temps. We have 2GB RAM here. Added to it is a 500GB Seagate HDD, A DVD Burner, 3 USB ports out of which one is USB3.0. We have Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi, 1.3M webcam, Synaptics touchpad which is embedded in the body. We have both VGA Out as well as HDMI Out and I think that's a neat feature since finding HDMI projector around is still kind of difficult. Sure you can use an adapter but that's another piece of hardware you need with yourself. The chassis is solid, the display has barely any flex. The hinges are not as stiff as I would like - my emachines e727 has really stiff hinges, you feel like trying to pry a ball from a German Mastiff's mouth, but maybe that's why it's still alive and kicking some major dust. On sound front it has stereo speakers which sound a bit better than a

A tryst with mail in PHP and the newbie

The problem with newbies is that they haven't the experience. Okay, sounds a but lame but the thing is they haven't seen as much crap as an experienced guy and for my 2 and half years I've seen some interesting crap. Anyway, to the story the task was to send a mail from PHP. The guy was a newbie. The problem was the guy wasn't familiar with PHP. He didn't track the changes and effects that change brought. There is a way to solve any problem. If you know the root cause of any problem you hit that and then you solve it. But when you don't know the exact cause you got to research on the internet. And usually you end up with a number of things that comprise of a potential solution. And in these situations you have to keep track of every change you are doing to the system. Because unless you track everything and didn't check if every small change then you end up missing the solution. I'm watching a lot of Dr House these days so I'll compare it to a di