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Chinese imitate XP look and feel with Ubuntu

Chinese imitation is at it again, this time with a customised version of Ubuntu that looks like Windows XP. The OS which is call Ylmf has a Windows XP style interface and is said to be capable of running some Windows XP based programs.
This isnt the first time that a copycat OS has been produced. [...]

New Dawn Production Stable

Production at New Dan Mining has stabnilised and the company now looks at how it would increase capacity.
President and CEO of New Dawn, Ian Saunders said Turk mine would now be the focus.
“Now that we have achieved a steady state production level, our focus will be to utilize the recently increased processing capacity at Turk [...]

NicozDiamond rights Offer undersubscribed

The NicozDiamond rights issue results have shown that they were undersubscribed.
A total of 159 842 772 were offered for the rights which opened on the 16th of November and closed on December 4.
Out of these, only 107 716 387 were subscribed which represent a 67 percent take up rate.
The undewriters of the Rights Issue have [...]

Gulliver posts US$500,898 loss

Gulliver Consolidated Limited has made a US$500,898 loss in the year ending September 30 this year and this loss has been attributed to depressed demand.
This loss comes against a background of a very modest turnover of US$2.7 million.
“This lower than budgeted turnover was attributed to depressed demand for the company’s products coupled by the subdued [...]

Results of CFX Rights offer

The ordinary rights offers shares subscribed were 198,556,871 and the subscription was very low at 1.4 percent.
This meant that the percentage under subscription was 98.6%
Ordinary shares issued to under writer 6 ,712,518,015
Preference shares issued to under writer 6 ,992,897,326
Following a 98,4% under subscription of the CFX Financial Services rights offer, the underwriter Interfin Holdings Limited [...]

New Dawn Production Stable

Production at New Dan Mining has stabnilised and the company now looks at how it would increase capacity.
President and CEO of New Dawn, Ian Saunders said Turk mine would now be the focus.
“Now that we have achieved a steady state production level, our focus will be to utilize the recently increased processing capacity at Turk [...]

Gulliver posts US$500,898 loss

Gulliver Consolidated Limited has made a US$500,898 loss in the year ending September 30 this year and this loss has been attributed to depressed demand.
This loss comes against a background of a very modest turnover of US$2.7 million.
“This lower than budgeted turnover was attributed to depressed demand for the company’s products coupled by the subdued [...]

BNC released an ‘indifferent set of results

There was no exciting news from the results which were released by Bindura Nickel Corporation last week, analysts have said.
BNC released an ‘indifferent set of results’ as, though they recovered from a loss position in the same period last year.
As they were operating under care and maintenance, they managed to cut operating expenses as well [...]

TA Notice of Board and executive Changes

TA Holdings Limited made announcements on changes to the board and executives of the Company and these are: Appointment of Bryan Thorn, a Chartered Accountant, as an executive director in the chairman’ s office.
Jack Murehwa, past president of the Zimbabwe Chamber of Mines as the Chief Executive officer of TA Chemicals P/L Resignation of Don [...]

Tedco Seeks Shareholder Approval for the TN Deal

The TedcoTN Financial Holdings deal appears to be slowly coming to fruition as the former now seeks shareholders’ approval to give them the nod.
A circular has already been sent to shareholders seeking their approval of the deal.
If shareholders approve this deal, TN Financial Holdings owned by Tawanda Nyambirai would assume control of the furniture retail [...]

NicozDiamond rights Offer undersubscribed

The NicozDiamond rights issue results have shown that they were undersubscribed.
A total of 159 842 772 were offered for the rights which opened on the 16th of November and closed on December 4.
Out of these, only 107 716 387 were subscribed which represent a 67 percent take up rate.
The undewriters of the Rights Issue have [...]

Kingdom Now on Course to Recovery

Kingdom Financial Holdings is now refocusing its energy on the future after the tumultous two years when it was in a marriage with Meikles, the founder Nigel Chanakira has said.
Opening up to the media on Wednesday night, Chanakira said the financial institution was now focused on what has to be done after they undertook a [...]

Kingdom Meikles Africa Shareholders Veto Provision

In a very case in Zimbabwean business, Kingdom Meikles Africa shareholders on Monday vetoed a provision made by chairman Mr Muchadeyi Masunda relating to the ongoing litigation pertaining to its South African investment.
It is very rare in Zimbabwe for shareholders to vote against a decision or provision that would have been made by a chairperson.
Shareholders [...]

Give Out Loans or Else – Dr Gono

Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono has once again attacked banks for their reluctancy to issue out loans to industry.
Speaking during a meeting with bankers, miners and journalists Gono attacked banking institutions for charging high and exorbitant bank charges, commissions and penal lending.
It is alleged that the foreign owned trio of Barclays, Standard [...]

Fidelity Life Assurance Policies Converted to US$

Fidelity Life Assuarance policies have been converted to United States dollars with effect from April this year.
However, this US$ value, will be the new take on value to policy holders who choose to activate their accounts.
“Selected reactivated investment policies will have a minimum take on values of US$100 which has been paid in by Fidelity [...]

Chinese imitate XP look and feel with Ubuntu

Chinese imitation is at it again, this time with a customised version of Ubuntu that looks like Windows XP. The OS which is call Ylmf has a Windows XP style interface and is said to be capable of running some Windows XP based programs.
This isnt the first time that a copycat OS has been produced. [...]

AVG to end version 8 support on December 1

AVG antivirus software, one of the popular free antivirus software is advising users to upgrade from version 8 of their software to version 9 pending stopping of version 8 support on December 1. AVG 9 which was released in October emphasises on “speed, performance, and minimizing the impact on system resources”. For the past few [...]

Configuring Outlook to use with Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail

I have had a few friends ask me how to configure outlook to use with gmail, yahoo or hotmail. There are are articles on the website that give pointed steps to configuring outlook. The following are links to articles that walk you through the configuration:
Configuring outlook to use with hotmail
Configuring Outlook to use with gmail
Configuring [...]

Ubuntu gutsy vs ubuntu hardy vs ubuntu heron

Ever wondered what the different ubuntu flavour names really represent? Have you been searching on the net about Ubuntu questions like “Which one is better hardy vs gutsy”? Well these fancy names are simply representing different releases of Ubuntu linux operating system. Ubuntu is a free debian-derived free operating system that can run on servers, [...]

Useful linux commands

Having been spending quite a bit of time in the world of linux/unix, I have felt might be useful to create a post of some of the ‘useful’ commands i have been coming across no matter how seemingly basic.

Command
Description

dpkg -l
list packages installed. You can further use the grep command to filter out a particular package

sudo [...]