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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.

[snip]

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Nik
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