You need to install an extension the in Mozilla Thunderbird to get new email notifications. Here is the steps in details:

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In Linux wine (or crossover office if you like to pay) is used to execute Windows applications. wine normally open exe files only. However you can also use it to open msi files as follows:
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Nginx is a high performance web server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev and a good replacement for Apache HTTPD, the market leader. Nginx is rapidly increasing its market share with major websites joining it like wordpress.com. In the June 2008 Netcraft survey LiteSpeed lost more than 600 thousand sites during this survey, while nginx gained more than a million sites; more than doubling in numbers. The WordPress blogging system recently converted all of its load balancers to nginx, using the upstream hash module to serve 8-9 thousand requests per second. We too have decided to move some of our websites to Nginx. Here are few essential tips and general guidelines for configuring Nginx. This is not a substitute for reading the documentation (rtfm). However when you are stuck even after reading and re-reading the nginx documentation then read below. You will understand the value of the tips below only then

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Ok to be precise IIT Kharagpur was ranked as the No. 1 Government engineering college in India by Outlook India, a respected news magazine which sells over 11 million copies annually. In India leading government colleges like IIT's are the leading engineering colleges period. Pretty much anyone tries to get first into a government engineering college. If they fail and if their parents have good bank balance then they try for private engineering colleges, no offence intended. To get an understanding of the differences between government and private colleges in India let's take the case of IIIT (not to be confused with IIT) Hydrabad. It was mistakenly identified as government engineering college and ranked 17th. However when it was correctly identified as a private engineering college its rank went up to No. 2 in list of private colleges. So effectively IIT Kharagpur tops the list of engineering colleges in India.

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The WordPress Visual Editor is finally passable and I have switched to it from plain HTML editor. It saves you time from formatting text while blogging. I haven't faced any obvious glitches so far. It's missing a multi-page button.

I am seeing Amitabh Bachchan's blog's AdSense ads on my blog. How is Amitabh's blog relevant to my blog? AdSense quite often does a real poor targeting these days. I am looking forward to move this blog over to alternate ad providers.

Nginx tutorials and examples doesn't tell you how you can configure nginx with virtual hosting when different sites are in different pre-defined directories. Often you are moving over your site from a different web server like Apache HTTPD to Nginx. So you have a pre-defined directory structure which may not be easy to change. Configuring nginx is somewhat tricky in this scenario because nginx isn't very flexible in accepting directives everywhere. After much experimentation we came up with this simple way:
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We now have our phpBB forum running on Nginx web server, a high quality and significantly better performing web server than Apache HTTPD. Soem of the challenges we faced were:

1. We use nice permalinks in the forum so there are lots of apache httpd rewrite rules in .htaccess files which had to be converted to nginx format.
2. Additionally we also had to configure it for a virtual hosting setup where the same IP address (server) is shared by multiple websites.

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Nginx displays a peculiar but logical behavior when handling directories specified without the ending slash. For example you have a directory like http://www.example2.com/dir/. However you specify the url as http://www.example2.com/dir. Also assume that you have configured the server for virtual hosting and the alternative server names are: www.example.com, www.example2.com etc. and they are specified in the same order. Now when you try to fetch http://www.example2.com/dir you will instead be redirected to http://www.example.com/dir. Here is why nginx does it along with a simple solution to the rather baffling problem (ok complex problem - I said it).

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Electrolux India has very carefully hidden its service center number on its website. The only option you have is to drill-down to the local customer service center. Unfortunately the number given for Ms. Millenium Service Center for South Kolkata (033-24573470 / 24451120 ) doesn't work. I had to hunt down a certain executive to finally find the real phone number for booking complaint across India.

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