Dell Inspiron 1545 15.6-Inch Laptop I1545-3232OBK (Obsidian Black), 2.3GHz Intel CPU; 2GB Memory; 250GB HD; DVD/CD±R/RW; Windows 7 Home Premium

• 2.3GHz Intel Pentium Dual Core T4500 Processor (1MB cache, 800MHz FSB)
• 2GB DDR2 System Memory; Media Card Reader; 10/100 Ethernet; Wireless 802.11 b/g Card
• 250GB Hard Drive; DVD/CD±R/RW Optical Drive – Plays and creates CDs and DVDs
• 15.6″ Display; Integrated Intel 4500 MHD Media Accelerator Graphics; No Webcam
• Windows 7 Home Premium Operating System (64-bit); 6-cell Battery; High Definition Audio 2.0

Stay connected wherever you roam with the Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop in red, which features a bright, vivid 15.6-inch LCD screen and long-lasting 6-cell battery. Weighing just under 6 pounds, it’s a great choice for both work and play with the screen’s high-definition resolution and included DVD drive (which can also burn dual-layer DVD and CD media). Pre-installed with the Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium operating system (64-bit version), you’ll be able to easily create a home network and share all of your favorite photos, videos, and music. Windows 7 is the easiest, fastest, and most engaging version of Windows yet. Better ways to find and manage files, like Jump Lists and improved taskbar previews, help you speed through everyday tasks. Windows 7 is designed for faster and more reliable performance, so your PC just works the way you want it to. 15.6-inch TrueLife widescreen display with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels (native 720p for high-definition viewing). It also provides TrueLife high-gloss/anti-reflective technology, which features a sharp contrast finish that’s well suited to immersive 3D games and watching videos. 8x multi-format DVD drive supports reading/writing of CD-R/RW, DVD±R, DVD±RW, DVD±R DL, and DVD-RAM. 7-in-1 memory card reader compatible with Secure Digital (SD), Hi-Capacity Secure Digital (SDHC), Hi-Density Secure Digital (SDHD), Multi Media Card (MMC), Memory Stick (MS), Memory Stick PRO (MS Pro), and xD Picture Card (xD) media.
What’s in the Box
This package includes the Dell Inspiron 1545, rechargeable battery, AC adapter, and printed documentation. It’s backed by a 1-year limited warranty with mail-in service.

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Sharity is a software that will let you connect your Unix computer to any Windows, Samba or other SMB/CIFS Server. Sharity is a cross platform network file system mounting Windows shares transparently, just as if they were part of your local hard disk. I was always looking for a way to  mount my windows drives or directories under my unix (Solaris and Linux) server. In Solaris world it was in particular difficult to accomplish, linux is much easier to deal with. On Solaris platform with Samba I was able to view windows partitions but I was unable to mount them. On Linux I was able to mount Windows partitions using samba. Anyway so one day I did come accross Sharity software, did try it and it worked out just great for me. In my previous work and current one as well I did recommend that software and we started to use it. So its not only great for your home unix environment but also for professional environment as well.

Some of Sharity features:

• Superset of Linux smbmount/smbfs functionality.
• Access to directories exported by Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Samba, and others.
• Automatic resource location: Network browsing similar to Windows Network Neighborhood.
• Available for Sun Solaris, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, IBM AIX, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Tru64 Unix and Mac OS X. Others on request.
• Secure authentication with NTLM, NTLMv2, NTLMSSP and Kerberos.
• Supports Microsoft’s DFS (Distributed File System).
• Access to Windows 2000 domains: Active Directory browsing and Kerberos authentication.
• Tools to read and modify Windows Access Control Lists (ACLs).
• User interaction with Graphic User Interface (GUI) or command line.
• Keychain database for managing server, share and domain passwords.
• Internationalized for English and German, character set conversion for Asian encodings.

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