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   Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:51:03 +0100   
   From: Niklaus Kuehnis    
   Subject: Re: Problems after installing Ubuntu (fairly long)   
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   I can only answer some of your questions:   
      
   On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, dgk wrote:   
      
   [snip]   
   > No information is available   
   > for the processor. Not whether it is Intel or AMD, nor the speed. How   
   > much RAM? No idea, I can't find it anywhere. Maybe I just missed it.   
      
   Open a terminal and type   
      
     less /proc/cpuinfo   
      
   to get cpu information and   
      
     free   
      
   to get memory information.   
      
   [snip]   
   > I figure that I'll see how I can acess the newsgroups. I don't see   
   > anything likely under the Internet group so I check add/remove and   
   > search for newsgroup.   
      
   Supposing you're using ubuntu 6.10, here's a list of usenet related    
   applications:   
     http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/news/   
      
   [snip]   
   > I look at evolution, I try to set up an email account (I use hotmail)   
   > but I have no idea how to set it up to use hotmail.   
      
   Unfortunately hotmail doesn't offer pop3 or imap download. Have a    
   look at the hotway package to work around that.   
      
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