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coogar:
against crystal palace?  
morrison will obliterate 90% of the teams in the premier league, never mind crystal palace.
have you actually seen this dude play?

morrison AKA jesu of old trafford, how come?

sorry una, bad market day  

cnn versus Aljazeera, France 24, Bbc, and CCTV

Nat Geo versus Nature/History channel


the africa magic + has its obvious attractions to naija pple tho its not the regular africa magic is it?


more local stations on startimes

the other stations are present on both.

setanta offers more non premier league football than Gotv. as a whole there are more club channels and replay matches of all leagues on startimes, Setanta and MCS

startimes on a whole is about 38 useful channels excluding the useless chinese language ones and french one


personally, i really do not feel its better than startimes.

how much does GOtv cost to get? startimes is presently almost free, if not free with the end of the year promo.

make una sack d smallie make we hear word joor. who does not know he will be sacked anyways.


newcastle is not in any mood to be nice so most like u gonna get whupped again

nah, times have changed.

we will definitely buy a striker in january. the days of long term plans for players are over. unless something dramatic happens to chamakh before jan 1 , believe me he will leave and anor striker will come in his place.

bet me on this

leggooo boiz, im winning dis 1- nil.

goonerrrrrssss awoooo

not watching, sadly.

but it is amusing to read ur posts, cos i know deep down una know say e nor likely, but using church mind to watch, hoping for a miracle : D

ask and ye shall receive, instead of mouthing off unneccessarily.

@ all complainant,

1. root ur fone. if u dont root ur fone, then stop complaining.

2. get either titanium backup or rom toolbox
preferably pro versions. it enables u to freeze apps or remove them, even system apps.

3. unless u positively have to use them , freeze or remove most or all the google apps. they are the main culprits for battery and data drain.

4. install droidwall. its a firwall application that u can use to specify which apps have access to data or wifi or both. disable non essential apps.

5. reduce the frequency with which apps like email or twitter poll for updates. most poll like every 5mins, change to say 1hr duration.

6. stop using all the fancy browsers like dolphin or firefox or the default browser etc, install opera mini or ucweb. they give great data savings.

7 some apps are better than others at stuff, eg its better to use nimbuzz for all ur im accts instead o using dedicated apps per im.

8. also simply disable data when u are not using it, esp if u dont need to be online all d time.


doing the above will drastically reduce r data consumption

Mint is still GS, no matter how tuned up it is. If Mint really wanted to keep as close as possible to Classic Gnome 2 desktop they could have just used custom Gnome 3 session just like Cairo Dock. Currently their GS version is just a cheap copy of Gnome 2 (no way near as customizable and there is no Compiz).
MATE is more promising, but I doubt Mint and MATE guys could pull it off,



it is no way near a sufficient replacement of Gnome-Panel. It is faaaaaaaar from being that customizable and there is a distinct lack of Compiz, which means to flashy toys for the power users.Mint 12 might be good for newbies who don't like Unity/Gnome-Shell OTB UX, but it is NOT power user friendly.

I'm only saying that, cuz some people thing that Mint is a magical pill that will bring gnome-panel back from the dead - it will not. It might copy it, but that's all. MATE version is much, much more interesting, but AFAIK it's not even ported to GTK 3 and there is the bonobo stuff and so much more , i find it hard to believe that mint and mate folks could pull that off, it's ginormous project

Like a domino effect of mis-information, this week has been chock full of reports by tech news sites that Ubuntu’s market share is declining, being surpassed by the Ubuntu spin-off and close cousin Linux Mint.

The source of this dramatic revelation is none other than DistroWatch, the site that all Ubuntu haters love to quote, and all Ubuntu lovers love to hate.

Scanning the Internet recently for the word “Ubuntu” points us to a bunch of bogus articles written by the regular offenders (The Register, ZDNet, PCWorld) with damning titles such as “Ubuntu savaged by rivals infected with fondleslab fever” or “Ubuntu shows DistroWatch decline as Mint Soars.”


Many of these articles suggest that the backlash over the Unity desktop is to blame, as swarms of Ubuntu users flock to alternatives. This is complete nonsense, and these sites are just attempting to ride the Unity controversy train for another couple of stops for more page hits. Don’t join them.

Seeing as Canonical themselves aren’t pulling any punches (they rarely do) to refute the bogus claims perpetuated by these “tech sites” (which are really just hives of uninformed morons re-posting anything they see on ZDNet with a dramatic title that’s sure to attract a bunch of views, and hence ad clicks), I figured it was time for OMG! Ubuntu! to step in and clear the air with some hard facts.

You know it’s a sad day in tech journalism when we have to take the high ground and tell everyone not to panic. So here goes.

DistroWatch is not an accurate measurement of Linux distribution popularity. In fact it’s not an accurate measurement of anything. The only thing Distrowatch statistics tell you is how vain the fanboys are of any particular distribution. [size=14pt]It measures page views to each distributions’s information page. For example, when you visit distrowatch.com/arch, that adds a little bit to Arch’s relative popularity on Distrowatch.[/size] (As a side note, I want you to all go ahead and click on that link. Let’s see if we can make Arch the most popular Linux distribution in the world, and as a little treat, we may even get Steven J. Vaughan-Nicols to write an inflammatory article about it).


[size=17pt]
As a distribution becomes more mainstream like Ubuntu has, the number of views to the Ubuntu DistroWatch page will not increase in proportion to the actual number of users the distribution has. [/size]This is simply because regular people using their computer don’t go and visit DistroWatch. In all likelihood, they probably haven’t even heard of DistroWatch. Ubuntu also doesn’t make a conscious effort to direct their user base to the Ubuntu DistroWatch page by posting the link all over their forums, documentation, blogs, press releases, and more.

te hehehehehehehe

how market, thats 2 in a row no?

see as only u dey entertain urself durin the match, u dey lonely ooooo

U know i still dont exactly get that chainfire thingy, what and how does it work? Is it d plugins ot wat? I got it on my fone, games dont really run better as far as i can tell

Ok im idle.
I want to partition my htpc drive and put puppylinux on it. I miss it

Thing is i cant remember how to do a frugal install on linux box anymore, plus grub entries ish, the line thingy for puppy. The ext4 issue too etc etc

I could google it i know, but i prefer it here. Someborry helep me ooooo

Hmmn, so lampard got dropped and chelsea won, attacking play improved and mata was quite sublime,
Someone was saying something??

Anyway, make una stop dat rubbish n play lamps oooo

atasteve:
This is a good step if well implemented.

NL members from Anambra, how is electricity over there?

its either u are blind or too mumu to comprehend the posts above

@op, its for u to report mumu news like this. free internet syndrome shey?

kalokalo:
HiTV is really owned by Bola Tinubu. Toyin Subair is just a front. The seed capital used to found HiTV came from a LASG account with Skye Bank. I got that from an impeccable source in Skye Bank. Even part of the funds wired to pay the EPL broadcasting rights came from a state government account.

See this one peddling false info like its the go truth, which village did u migrate from? For your info that assertion is very very untrue.  I know because i was involved in this saga as counsel. I dont understand y u pple just like behaving like dis. Tinubu does not have a dime in hitv, and would not be inclined to anyway seeing that a lot of pdp cronies were major hitv backers, the ones who def dont see eye to eye with tinubu.


Btw,  i thought u pple were insulting the chinese folks that brought startimes, shey u can see now that business acumen is not to be taken for granted. The quality of stations on startimes is improving daily. It may not be glamourous but its delivering it at a unmatchable price point, and its not going anywhere anytime soon. There abuja links alone with nta/nbc pple sef na sure banker. With an operatingcost thats borderline negligible, heck they dont even use their own transmitting stations!!!

nope, point of correction, our haters and enemies talk too much

dayokanu and coogar alone contributed 30 pages in the old thread.


Phew!!!! thank God that thread finally closed. shey u pple can see that i was right at the start of that thread when i complained about the caption darkest night, it went exactly like that!!!

anyway, pls note to our neighboring donkeys and camels, rubbish talk is not allowed on this hallowed thread!!!!

mcheew, awon alailero gbogbo oshi.

sorri, hope im not too late to offer my kongratulobias.

how markaatee? hope say.e dey move fine?


debo, but y u dey argue? like say u dont know that the pple ur arguing wit do just for the sake of it and the fact that without it, their sorry lives is colorless

i dont get u folks, why would a phone that does not have expandable storage need to have usb mass storage mode?

and really, r u complaining just to be noticed? 16 gb is sufficient lots of pple, and i doubt that most folks complaining here have up to that anyway. how many of us will ever buy a 32Gb microsd card? costs as much as a fone in some cases

Feraz:
. . . . Pls, how do i install softwares (say nokia pc suite, converters) on ubuntu? Whenever i try it, it does not install. . . . . . . .step by step help will be appreciated. . . . . . . . .thanks

actually it depends on the software type and what u want to do with it. for example ubuntu has quite decent support for hardware so most are recognised without need for drivers.

take the nokia phone u refer to, if u just want to use it as a modem, u dont need the pc suite, simply connect it in pc suite mode and network manager will detect the modem and u will be able to configure and use it to browse. but if its something else like media management, the media player can do that or u do it manually by using it in usb storage mode.


bt since they are windows programs, if u absolutely need to use them, u have two options

1: WINE
2: VIRTUALBOX

Wine is a native windows code executable runtime that lets u run a large number of wndows applications natively in linux like games. it has improved a,lot over time, but whilst its not flawless, it is quite ok.

however a limitation is that applications that require installing drivers for things like hardware that the linux system already provides for will not work with the new hardware. eg is the pc suite. so therefore ur nokia pc suite wont work properly with wine because,there are already drivers for the phone modem and mass storage.

u can google up more info abt it, or ask here. to install wine, simply look for it synaptic or run sudo apt-get install wine.



the other option is virtualbox. its a free virtualization software available on most operating system. it allows u to run other os . so for example, u can install and run windows in linux.

it requires decent hardware, very good processor, large ram, video card etc. u can also read up on this on google.

sorry im typing on a phone, so i cant elaborate, but u can ask further questions.

they are never going back to the old interface.

the guys who make it have deprecated the old interface, even the fallback mode that looks like the old one is going to be dropped in Gnome 3.2. canonical is not going to spend its money/time maintaining gnome 2.x

secondly, everyone is unifying, and by that i mean major OS. Apple started it by making their desktop more like iOS.
windows came up with their atrocity called MetroUI. even the default desktop is NOT the same it used to be in WIN 8.
Gnome has gone boinkers

Ubuntu has always needed its distinct identity, hence Unity Now u most def cannot see default Ubuntu and mistake it for anor OS. before now every single gnome distro looked exactly the same!

thirdly, accept it or not, the tablets and smartfones have taken over, if u wanna remain relevant in peoples minds, u need a presence there.




funny thing is, if u step back and look at the improvements in Unity and Gnome Shell, u will be impressed, new ideas, new stuff. daily.

btw, we just bucked a trend dis year, evil novembers,

here is to hoping we break the february hoodoo too. if we do, we will win the league.

yes i said it, bite me.

but over time those two months have been crucial.



anyways can someone recommend a site where i can get to watch live stream footy tonite?

e be like say slimshay does not.know.that my beef for wenger is world sized.

it wasnt becos of the results, ask debosky naw. i have always been the chief transformer hugger wen it comes to wenger. he collected my british girlfriend and lost to spuds and chavs in the same season home n away. unforgiveable.

he has lost to spuds again dis season. na caro fit end my beef for am

.

but all u hypocrites pointing the finger should note where the other four is pointing.

if only my yoruba brethren wise up. only in the west will chidi become local govt chairman, commissioner etc. only in the west will their be trips to solicit ndigbo and aboki pple. only in the west will foriegn pple have kings and queens
only in the west will nnamdi, and abubakar become student union president.


yet it is anathema for kolawole to dare take to.politics in onitsha, i dont know of any baale or oba of Yoruba community in aba. bola will never even dream of being secretary of ABU student union

how many big businesses owned by femi exist in ariaria? but pple like tinubu will keep selling us for a mess of pottage in the name of integrating the failed project called nigeria.


yoruba ronu. the very least we owe others is to let them the leeway they afford us, not more, not less

aaah, i see the grammer has started. ***** bookmarks the page and grabs popcorn coke*********



But BTW, i thought someone here was saying this nucca was mourinho's eyes, brain and noggin? well he must have mortgaged those things to mou permanently!


anyway, a lot of blues are going ballistic on the internets, hehe. this is what some dude had to say about our very own john obi mikel.

my question is is this fellow right?

What is the point of John Obi Mikel? He has been at Chelsea for at least five years now. Can anyone really say that he has made a slight bit of improvement? We have had mails discussing the pointlessness of Mikel's presence in the middle ever since we were brutally exposed by City at the Bridge two years ago. How can it be that every fan scrutinising the team's performance knows how useless he is, but not the managers? How is he always the manager's second choice when Essien is out? Simply unbelievable. Does he have naked photos of AVB that he uses as leverage? I truly struggle to come up with any other reason that he is still anywhere near the first team.

Before anyone comes up with the argument that Chelsea does not really have any other cover in that position, you have to realise that anyone playing there other than Mikel will significantly improve the team because they will simply be IN THE GAME. Mikel disappears the moment the whistle is blown. All he does are five-yard sideway passes which slows the play down, and he contributes nothing defensively. After all these years can you recall a scene of Mikel dashing back to make a tackle? He is the holding midfielder FFS. So yes, Romeu, Mereiles, Luiz or even Petr Cech with one leg will be a better option in place of Mikel.

Many blamed Cech for the pass that was never on, but it is not as if Mikel was tightly marked by three players. Even if it was a bad pass, the ball reached Mikel with enough time and space for him control it and get it out of danger. You simply have to be technically proficient enough to do this at this level.

Like I said this is not a knee-jerk reaction, Mikel has been pretty rubbish for a few years now. You have become better if you want to stay at a club with ambitions that Chelsea have. Lucas has improved, Anderson has improved but Mikel has only been a liability. If AVB doesn't realise this and take Mikel out of the first team like he did with Kalou, then much as I don't want to say this, AVB out. I really can't stand the sight of Mikel floating around doing nothing.

na where u wan get bandwidth dey stream music?

better stop wasting ur time.


BTW, all of una dreaming of Ice Cream Sandwich ROMS, the earliest u will get a fully functional ROM is January or February next year after Vendors have started releasing devices with it. for naw, na this is not working, that is buggy, this is slow issues go dey. so sorry

what/who is it that is deleting my posts?

its not the spambot.


hmmn, when i used to reply such posts, it was all out war regularly on computer board. nowadays i cherish my peace
i dont even bother to read most threads again. especially now that windows is distant memory for me.

still find it difficult to believe i actually went full linux. it was'nt easy at first, now i dont even remember. too bad im letting all my windows skills go to waste but then: Welcome to the good life

debosky:
Nice slowly growing thread. . . . not like the crazy days of August/September when we would gain 5 pages a day.

thats because you and dudu and slim have stopped coming to tell us Tales By Moonlight and the Economics of iya basira's groundnut oil business

whatever it is thats occupying u pple is very very welcome

bad moment 2: the return of bad moment

starring: Boavista, Fernandondo, enfant terryble

grab ur copy, NOW!!!!!!

good, now we are talking. no more useless building projects

DK , how markate?