₦airaland Forum

oyb:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-366914.0.html

this would be a good start - don't go modifying your posts now. . .

u need to get a dictionary - seems being a linux fanboy has played havoc with how you comprehend the english language - you call THAT 'tscheww' which predictably went downhill from there - contributing to a thread

i sincerely hope that MoM is an acronym - it would be too bad, but not particularly surprising, if you were to add personal/family insults to your ever growing list of crude , rude and juvenile infantile actions

you post is the exact reason I wanted everyone to apply caution with what there say and stay on track so we dont go off topic. again this is not a linux windows thing. Oyb if you want to make it one, I am not scared, but this is not the please, take your issue with anyone here somewhere else. Don't come here to insult people because there choose to use a software you dont use. That is very childish and lame. The world is more important than which OS you run. please if you have not important to contribute. Then move along.

4llerbuntu:
NAH MoM means "Moment of Madness"
kapisch!? i really would like to stop having these discussions with you folks so tara! ciao see ya etc etc. i will try my best to ignore you pls reciprocate. and that includes when im talking to someone else, cos if its not directed at you or the world at large, THEN IT NONE OF YOUR Zap.I.N.G BUSINESS!

well 4llerbuntu I really dont know what issues you have with oyb but using swear word would not help. The best answer to a troll is just ignore them lets try and make this please very clean. I am no overload or thread police. But there is a reason why the Ubuntu forum thread has been on frontpage of Computer section for over 5 years now and its not because people throw insult around. Let us try and keep that standard.

oyb:
oga i am suprised you have never sought to impart this advice to 4llerbe, whose thread invasions are far more annoying and juvenile. this is what is called pot calling kettle black

If you feel 4llerbe annoys you or disrupts a thread you are interested in by all means reason with him or even report him to a moderator.  I do not police NL I only states things as they concern me or what I am interested in. If anyone tries to divert the attention of this thread by trolling or  diverting the main purpose I would try my best to reason with the person to desist from such act. I urge you to do the same.  What I said here is sensitivity and posting things which is not likely to inflame people.  many a thread have gone down under because of some silly post which divert from the main purpose of the thread. I have nothing against anyone. If you come here to seek help or hold a healthy discussion about linux you are welcome. But coming here to stare flamewar is not the culture here and it is generally frowned at.

Dual Core:
bigrovar, thanks for the eldership you have bestowed upon me. one of my first acts as an elder here will be to bless you with some sense of humour as I see that is lacking.

This is not a place for Humor, coming to a thread about Linux to insult Linux is not humor its trolling. If people here feel they need some humor they'll would head over to the appropriate section. At most they would not make jokes that could insult the sensitivity of people here and potentially derail the convo and discussion to a flame war. You have been here for longer than many people where. If my memory serves me right. you are suppose to be a moderator of a section on NL. Again lead by example. If you have nothing positive to contribute to this thread please walk on. At least don't incite flame

Dual Core:
I get the crack joor.
Its just that I don repent from piracy (or so i thought) but I dont have a choice this time.

Its either I resort to piracy, or run linux (chineke forbideth) or stop using computers.

As it stands, if i no resort to piracy, i go just stop to use computers cuz the other option na just nonsense as we all know on this thread

**runs off showing all the penguins tongue** fooking cold hearts

aint you too old to be trolling? I mean you are suppose to be an elder in this forum. you need to be ashame of the kind of example you are setting, grow up.

Bludeville:
Hi. For those with USSD issues
(*123#, recharging, etc). There’s
an application i downloaded the
helps with that.
* Go to app manager
* Add a new Application
Catalogue (Application manager –
> Application catalogs –> New)
and enter the following info
* Catalog name: Maemo Extras-
testing
Web address: http://
repository.maemo.org/extras-
testing/
Distribution: fremantle
Components: free non-free
* When the app manager has
updated click on download and
browse through the available
apps.
There’s an app called “ussd
widget”
* Download it and then add the
ussd widget to your desktop.
* You can then edit it and put the
ussd string you want e.g. *123#
and anytime you click on it on
your desktop it gives you the
result.
* You need to change the string
e.g. and include the recharrge pin
when you want to recharge. found this, hope it helps

You also have to be warned the the testing repository is not stable and contents developmental software which might break your device. In truth I would advise that you really do your research well before getting the N900. Its a power house and a beast of a phone but its not meant for the average consumer. Its still very beta and the targets are geeks, Linux enthusiast and early adopters. The nexus one is a more consumer ready device.

avi2612:
@bawses yah man i think tat wud make more xsense n its possible yah,
@blude, will surely try tat once i get the fone,

slot n dscl both sellin for 90k, guess tats the price now,
is the google nexus one here any idea on the price??
thx all

The I N900 is a nice phone and all but my advise is its not meant for the average consumer yet. I have had the phone for quite a while now and even though I truely enjoy it, it more because I am not new to maemo (having used the N810 previously) I would advise you do research the phone very well before you decide to buy it. The target of N900 are geeks, linux enthusiast and early adopters.

I guys I have been a blogger for close to 4 years now. I mostly do casual blogging and mostly about technology and how it merges with my life. I recently decided to move my blog from wordpress to a self hosted blog. I have had the blog running for couple of month now but would appreciate inputs and suggestions even constructive criticism . http://bigbrovar.aoizora.org

i-Guru:
If i may ask, how many OS do we have because i only know of 3.
Window
Linux
Unix

I just want to correct your statements. Linux and Unix are not OSes. There are more like platforms from which OSes can be built. Like Android, Ubuntu, Debian was built from the Linux kernal. and Solaris, FreeBSD, Mac from the Unix kernel

It really depends on the type of programming you want to engage in, and the language. If you are looking at something like .Net then by all means windows. But for other languages like C/C++ , Java, PHP,Python etc. I would generally advise Linux this is because of the Linux ecosystem which makes it easy for programmers to get all the tools there need. and all this tools are also free. Things like gcc, make, cmake dtrace can be install via package managers easily. The open source ecosystem around linux allows you to pull the source code of your fav program and see how it works. be a part of the community around the program and learn from more experienced programmers.

I am currently almost done (its actually done but lacks a name) with a linux os which is optimized for programmers and scientist in general. It comes preinstalled with every tool u would ever need. all the best opensource tools for maths, statistics, physics, and programming. It is based on Ubuntu so you can be sure its backed by a solid Linux distro. If you are in Abuja hit me at mail bigbrovar (at) gmail.com so I can give u a free copy.

Please guys lets not turn this thread into yet another flamewar. Whatever works for you state your point without insulting the other persons choice. We all should be tolerant of each others choices

Multi media
If the webrowser of the N900 is wow, and the communication powers is breath taking, wait till u here about the multimedia powers of this device. friends I am speechless. This phone as played just about everything I have thrown at it Out of the box. diviX, avi, mp4 just xvid, mkv, pleas name it. It played everything without having to convert or encoding. no that wasnt a typo. This device plays AVI, DVIX, AVID, MP4,MKV and just about every video format i threw at it like OOTB no need to encode. I was at a friends place and he had some episode of big bang theory (TV series) and i just dragged the files on my N900 (yeah it support usbmode) and there all played out of the box. every single movie I have on my laptop played without conversion. NOW WAIT FOR IT. THIS DEVICE EVEN PLAYED .VOB DVD FILES OUT OF THE BOX WITHOUT CONVERSION. dude I dont know where u are from but if your phone or you have heard of a phone that can do better than this even with 3rd party software let me know. no an iphone,symbian or any android device comes close to the multimedia power of the N900. This is no joke man. When it comes to mutimedia this device has no mate , it dust everyone far behind. You dont even need a 3rd party software. it all works out of the box. plus it supports internet radio, and just about any music format you can think of. It also has an FM transmitter which allows it to transmit your music as fm signal and broadcasted to an fm radio station (yeah i know N97 has that)

Genuflect:
That's right. The browsing experience is crazy. But it can't install .jar and .sis apps which is a big minus to me

fine go get an N97 then. The N900 is based on Debian GNU/Linux and it supports native applications. like C/C++ Python, even C# There are effort by the community to provide java support but really I dont need java and all its garbage on this device

some screenshot of the skype IM, Contact view and sms conversation

Communitcations and messaging If the browsing experience on the N900 is wow. Then you need to see the communication juice this device has got. ootb its supports gsm,3G and wireless (Big deal every mobile phone in the world has that) true but how many mobile phone have integrated skype, gtalk and sip support out of the box. Am not talking about some crippled skype lite which you find in most smartphone. Am talking about the real deal. Complete skype integration on the N900 is another killer feature for this device. Its just hard to describe. I can make skype calls to any skype contact and if I have skype credit I can even make calls to any number on my mobile. Infact its so integrated that my skype connects show up in my phone book. and when i try to initiate any call I get the options to use skype or gsm. And when i get a skype call the phone would ring just as it would a normal gsm call. i mean this thing takes integrated skype experience to the next level. not the icing on the cake is that for some reasons I dont get charged for my skype calls or skype IM. I was on my carriers 3g and make a skype call not a damn would be charged from my credit. so i can even chat and[b] call people on skype using the N900 even though I have zero naira on my phone.[/b]  . Beside skype the communication framework for the N900 is based on telepathy framework which is the same framework that ubuntu karmic uses on empathy. and it allows you to install plugins which would add among other things, facebook chat, yahoo, msn, etc, and yeah as always all the contacts shows up on your phone book. so if I want to chat with a friend on yahoo I just search my phone book for his name and am able to initiate a chat. The conversation tool aggregates all my sms, and IM chat into one tool. and yeah it has the best threaded sms/IM Chat support ever (looking at the iphone) . when it comes to communications again the N900 is king of the hill. no one does it better.

NB did I say that gtalk support video call? Like seriously there is just so much to say about the communication power of this device. cause I felt out the email which supports google,yahoo and even ms exchange and even support html and all what you expect from an email device.

I have been using the N900 for close to 3 months now and I have to say its the best phone I have ever owned. This device just blows. Nokia calls it a mobile computer and it does just that. here are some of its strong points

Mobile web
This device has the best web experience you can every get from any device. all of the iphone3GS, google nexus one or the motorola droid dont even come close to this beast. The webrowser is based on Mozilla gecko engine ( same as firefox which can also be installed on the N900) and boy its the best experience you can get on a phone. the rendering speed is breath taking, and its soo freaking fast and smooth. I mean this thing blows through any webpage and it gives you the exact page you would get on a pc. It supports flash, embedded video,JS, I go to youtube and even google wave site and its like am on my pc. The N900 is currently king when it comes to mobile browsing experience, and yes the broswer supports plugins and u can install flashblock adblock etc on it. Navigating the web zooming pages are a dream even though it doesnt support multi touch, I find the circler motion and double tabbing to zoom gestures as very easy smooth and cause no lag. when it comes to web experience this baby rules over every other device out there.

texazzpete:
256MB RAM, not 1GB. correct your post!

The right thing would have been 1gb of application memory. 256gb of ram and 768mb of swap memory (like the virtual memory you have on windows only much better and easily accessible)

Having Europe Based Players is Now a Curse in Disguise – Afcon
I usually don’t talk about my first ever passion in life. But today I take an exception.
The African Nations Cup Tournament is on, and my team the Super Eagles of Nigeria are not performing particularly well. Many people are putting all the blames on the coach. I feel the problem is much more deeper than many think.
There is a general perception that for a country to be recognised as a favourite for the nation’s cup That team needs to have an array of high profile European based players, and teams with pre-dominantly home based players grown from the countries domestic leagues are considered as minors. I have often wonder how close the perception is to the reality.
-
Ever wonder why the West African region considered by many as the power house of African Football where 80% of the High profile players in Africa come from (Producing players like Didie Droba, George Weah, Jay Jay Okocha Emmanuel Adebayo, Michael Essen lists goes on). Yet the last time a country from West Africa won the Nations cup was 16 years ago when Nigeria won it in 1994. Ever since neither of Senegal ( with their failed golden generation) Ghana, Ivory Coast, or Nigeria have lifted Afcon inspite of producing some of the best players in the world.
Ever wondered why the nations cup in recent times have been dominated by countries with strong domestic leagues which produce 80% of their players? South Africa in 1996, Egypt in 1998, Tunisia in 2004, Eygpt in 2006 and again in 2008.
Do you see a trend? With the exception of Cameroon every country that have won the nations cup in the last 16 years are countries with strong domestic leagues where 80% of national team players come from their local league. The big* countries with their “big” European based stars who make up 95%-100% have all fumbled and wumbled ™.
The problem is simple to understand. Football is a team sport and it require that players most have played together for a long period of them. The players know each other, off the pitch there still maintain a close bound and friendship which is always important for team spirit and cordination. The advantage you get in a team composed largely of players from the domestic league is that your national team players are easier to assemble and train for longer period of times without any limitations.
Compare to countries where over 95% of players play abroad were its not always easy to get clubs to release players even for major Tournaments the required 2 weeks FIFA rule which require that clubs to release a player to his country 2 weeks before every major competition is never observed and players arriving 3-2 days to a championship is the norm. In such a sinerio what you have are 11 super star strangers on the pitch. There all come from different style of football, and are required to gel in such a short period of time? No football doesn’t work that way. It is a team sport and there is no miracle that any coach can perform which would make 22 players suddenly develop a rhythm after playing together for just 3 days it just doesn’t work that way with football. The result is a situation where so called “smaller” team (small because majority of their players play in their domestic league.) start to upset the Bigger teams.
There was a time in African football where it was an advantage to have Big* players in Europe. This was a time when the profile of african players is not as big as it is now. Were many african players always warmed the bench or where just squared members and most play for smaller European teams (mostly in Belgium and france) Hence players can leave their club for weeks and would not be missed This players bring their experience to their country and use the African Nation’s Cup as a platform to further launch their careers in Europe. Times have changed friends. African players are now hot cakes and clubs want to hold on to them as for as much as possible many are now the backbone of their teams in Europe who are always very reluctant to let them leave for a long period . making them less and less available for their national team.
Take a look at the trend in the on going Nations Cup in Angola
Mali: The country with the best mid field in Africa on paper based the number of High profile Europe based players in their midfield. Yet the likes of Barcelona’s Seydou Keita, Juventus midfielder Momo Sissoko, Real Madrid’s Mahamadou Diarra and Seville striker Frederic Kanoute could not safe them. They didnt even make it past the first round.
Ivory Coast: On paper the most complete African team and the Tournament favourites. Players like Manchester City’s Toure joined by his brother Yaya from Barcelona, as well as Chelsea’s Didier Drogba and Salomon Kalou, Arsenal’s Emmanuel Eboue and Pompey striker Aruna Dindane to mention a few. There were roundly beaten in the quarter finals by Algeria a nations with very average players many of whom play in their domestic league or lower division teams in france.
Cameroon: Another huge african country with driss Carlos KAMENI (Espanyol) one of the best goal keeper in spain Alexandre SONG (Arsenal FC), Jean II MAKOUN (Lyon) Samuel ETO’O (Inter Milano) Enoh EYONG (Ajax Amsterdam) all top players playing in many big leagues in Europe. The 100% Europe based Cameroonian team They were beaten comprehensively by an Egyptian side largely made up of home best players
Nigeria: Another country that took 100% foreign based players to Angola were on the ropes for most of their time in their quater final game against Zambia they barely held on with the skin of their teeth and had to result to penalties to win their game
The they say facts speaks for themselves. The problem of Nigerian team goes beyond just the Coach. Amodu may not be the best coach in the world. But given the situation I think he has done a good job qualifying the team to the World Cup in South African and taking them to the Semi Finals of the Nations Cup in Angola where there are about to meet Ghana. We should all praise him for that. However to other to ever make an impact in Afcon we need to put our house in order and fix our domestic leagues so that we can produce a team largely based on home based players who have time to get to train and know each other. Add one or 3 experience players from Europe and you have a killer recipe for Afcon.
Blaming the coach is really just trying make him a scape goat for a much more bigger problem. Many people say that Samson Siasia is the best coach we currently have, forgeting that on 2 occassions when he took laurels for the nations he used players who have been playing together for over a year. In 2005 he took a bunch of largely unknown players to the Under 21 Tournament in Holland and there got to the finals losing to Argentina (Inspired by a little guy called Messi). What many didnt know is the fact that Siasia boys had been playing together for clsoe to 2 years preparing for the championship same thing in the olympic were he took roughly same players and got a silver. However when the same coach hastily drafted to a the U21 team in just less then 4 months to the championship? his boys failed. why? lack of consistency.
I end my rather long post with this saying

Having Europe Based Players is Now a Curse in Disguise – Afcon
I usually don’t talk about my first ever passion in life. But today I take an exception.
The African Nations Cup Tournament is on, and my team the Super Eagles of Nigeria are not performing particularly well. Many people are putting all the blames on the coach. I feel the problem is much more deeper than many think.
There is a general perception that for a country to be recognised as a favourite for the nation’s cup That team needs to have an array of high profile European based players, and teams with pre-dominantly home based players grown from the countries domestic leagues are considered as minors. I have often wonder how close the perception is to the reality.
-
Ever wonder why the West African region considered by many as the power house of African Football where 80% of the High profile players in Africa come from (Producing players like Didie Droba, George Weah, Jay Jay Okocha Emmanuel Adebayo, Michael Essen lists goes on). Yet the last time a country from West Africa won the Nations cup was 16 years ago when Nigeria won it in 1994. Ever since neither of Senegal ( with their failed golden generation) Ghana, Ivory Coast, or Nigeria have lifted Afcon inspite of producing some of the best players in the world.
Ever wondered why the nations cup in recent times have been dominated by countries with strong domestic leagues which produce 80% of their players? South Africa in 1996, Egypt in 1998, Tunisia in 2004, Eygpt in 2006 and again in 2008.
Do you see a trend? With the exception of Cameroon every country that have won the nations cup in the last 16 years are countries with strong domestic leagues where 80% of national team players come from their local league. The big* countries with their “big” European based stars who make up 95%-100% have all fumbled and wumbled ™.
The problem is simple to understand. Football is a team sport and it require that players most have played together for a long period of them. The players know each other, off the pitch there still maintain a close bound and friendship which is always important for team spirit and cordination. The advantage you get in a team composed largely of players from the domestic league is that your national team players are easier to assemble and train for longer period of times without any limitations.

- Having Europe best players is now a course in disguise

Ever wonder why the west African region of Africa a region which many describe as the power house of African Football where 80% of the High profile players in Africa come from. Yet the last time a country from west Africa won the Nations cup was 16 years ago when Nigeria won it in 1994. Ever since neither of Senegal ( with their failed golden generation) Ghana, Ivory Coast, or Nigeria have lifted Afcon inspite of producing some of the best players in the world.

Ever wondered why the nations cup in recent times have been dominated by countries with strong domestic league where 80% of the team are home based? South Africa in 1996, Egypt in 1998, Tunisia in 2004, Eygpt in 2006 and again in 2008.
Do you see a trend. With the exception of Cameroon every country that have won the nations cup in the last 16 years are countries with strong domestic leagues where 80% of national team players come from the domestic league. The big* countries with 95%-100% Europe based players have all fumbled and wumbled (tm).

The problem is simple to understand. Football is a team sport and it require that players most have played together for a long period of them. The players know each other, off the pitch there still maintain a close friendship which is always important for team spirit and cordination. The advantage you get with this setup is that your national team players are easier to assemble and train for longer period of times without any limitations.

Compare to countries where over 95% of players play abroad were its not always easy to get clubs to release players even for major Tournaments the required 2 weeks rules which require clubs to release a player before every major Tourney is never obeyed and players arriving 3-2 days to a championship is now the norm. In such a sinerio what you have are 11 super star strangers on the pitch. There all come from different style of football. and are required to gel in such a short period of time? No football doesn't work that way. It is a team sport and there is no miracle that any coach can perform which would make 22 players suddenly develop a rhythm after playing together for just 3 days it just doesn't work that way with football. The result is a situation where so called smaller team (small because majority of their players play in their domestic league.) start to upset the Bigger teams.

There was a time in African football where it was an advantage to have Big* players in Europe. This was a time when the profile of african players is not as big as it is now. Were many african players always warmed the bench or where just squared members and most play for smaller European teams (mostly in Belgium and france) Hence players can leave their club for weeks and would not be missed. times have changed friends. African players are now hot cakes and clubs want to hold on to them afor as much as possible. making them less and less available for their national team. Take alook at the trend in this nations cup

Mali: The country with the best mid field in Africa on paper based the number of High profile players who play in their midfield. They didnt even make it past the first round.

Ivory Coast: On paper the best African Country ATM. there were roundly beaten by Algeria a country many of us cant even remember the name of one of their player before the tourney.

Cameroon: Another huge african country with top players playing in many big leagues in europe. there were beaten comprehensively by an Egyptian side largely made up of home best players

Nigeria: Another country that took 100% foreign based players to Afcon was on the ropes for most of their games against Zambia and had to result to penalties to win their game

The facts speaks for themselves friends. The problem of Nigerian team goes beyond just the Coach. Amodu may not be the best coach in the world. But given the situation I think he has done a good job and we should all praise him for that. In other to ever make an impact in Afcon we have to put our house in order and fix our domestic leagues so that we can produce a team largely based on home based players who have time to get to train and know each other. add one of 3 experience players from Europe and you have a killer recipe for Afcon. Blaming the coach is really just trying make him a scape goat for a much more bigger problem.

Many people say that Siasia is the best coach we have, forgeting that on 2 occassions when he took laurels for the nations he used players who have been playing together for over a year. In 2005 he took a bunch of largely unknown players to the u21 tourney and there got a silver. what many  didnt know what the fact that Siasia boys had been playing together for clsoe to 2 years preparing for the championship same time happened in the olympic were he took roughly same players and got a silver. What happened when we was drafted to a team in just less then 4 months to the championship? his boys failed. why? lack of consistency.

I end my rather long post with this saying

I player that makes the team great is better than a great player

I would like to bring out some issues which many of our so called analyst failed to see.

[b]- Having Europe best players is now a course in disguise
[/b]Eever wonder why the west African region of Africa a region where many describe as the power house of African Football where 80% of the High profile players in Africa come from. Yet the last time a country from west Africa won the Nations cup was 16 years ago when Nigeria won it in 1994. Ever since neither of Senegal ( with their failed golden generation) Ghana, Ivory Coast, or Nigeria have lifted Afcon inspite of producing some of the best players in the world.

Ever wondered why the nations cup in recent times have been dominated by countries with strong domestic league where 80% of the team are home based? South Africa in 1996, Egypt in 1998, Tunisia in 2004, Eygpt in 2006 and again in 2008.
Do you see a trend. With the exception of Cameroon every country that have won the nations cup in the last 16 years are countries with strong domestic leagues where 80% of national team players come from the domestic league. The big* countries with 95%-100% Europe based players have all fumbled and wumbled (tm).

The problem is simple to understand. Football is a team sport and it require that players most have played together for a long period of them. The players know each other, off the pitch there still maintain a close friendship which is always important for team spirit and cordination. The advantage you get with this setup is that your national team players are easier to assemble and train for longer period of times without any limitations.

Compare to countries where over 95% of players play abroad were its not always easy to get clubs to release players even for major Tournaments the required 2 weeks rules which require clubs to release a player before every major Tourney is never obeyed and players arriving 3-2 days to a championship is now the norm. In such a sinerio what you have are 11 super star strangers on the pitch. There all come from different style of football. and are required to gel in such a short period of time? No football doesn't work that way. It is a team sport and there is no miracle that any coach can perform which would make 22 players suddenly develop a rhythm after playing together for just 3 days it just doesn't work that way with football. The result is a situation where so called smaller team (small because majority of their players play in their domestic league.) start to upset the Bigger teams.

There was a time in African football where it was an advantage to have Big* players in Europe. This was a time when the profile of african players is not as big as it is now. Were many african players always warmed the bench or where just squared members and most play for smaller European teams (mostly in Belgium and france) Hence players can leave their club for weeks and would not be missed. times have changed friends. African players are now hot cakes and clubs want to hold on to them afor as much as possible. making them less and less available for their national team. Take alook at the trend in this nations cup

Mali: The country with the best mid field in Africa on paper based the number of High profile players who play in their midfield. They didnt even make it past the first round.

Ivory Coast: On paper the best African Country ATM. there were roundly beaten by Algeria a country many of us cant even remember the name of one of their player before the tourney.

Cameroon: Another huge african country with top players playing in many big leagues in europe. there were beaten comprehensively by an Egyptian side largely made up of home best players

Nigeria: Another country that took 100% foreign based players to Afcon was on the ropes for most of their games against Zambia and had to result to penalties to win their game

The facts speaks for themselves friends. The problem of Nigerian team goes beyond just the Coach. Amodu may not be the best coach in the world. But given the situation I think he has done a good job and we should all praise him for that. In other to ever make an impact in Afcon we have to put our house in order and fix our domestic leagues so that we can produce a team largely based on home based players who have time to get to train and know each other. add one of 3 experience players from Europe and you have a killer recipe for Afcon. Blaming the coach is really just trying make him a scape goat for a much more bigger problem.

Many people say that Siasia is the best coach we have, forgeting that on 2 occassions when he took laurels for the nations he used players who have been playing together for over a year. In 2005 he took a bunch of largely unknown players to the u21 tourney and there got a silver. what many didnt know what the fact that Siasia boys had been playing together for clsoe to 2 years preparing for the championship same time happened in the olympic were he took roughly same players and got a silver. What happened when we was drafted to a team in just less then 4 months to the championship? his boys failed. why? lack of consistency.

I end my rather long post with this saying

I player that makes the team great is better than a great player

Like many others I have been largely unimpressed with the performance of the Nigerian team in this years Afcon in Angola. Many people have attributed the poor performance of the team to the coach. Well I think the problem is much deeper than that


I would like to bring out some issues which many of our so called analyst failed to see.

- Having Europe best players is now a course in disguise

Ever wonder why the west African region of Africa a region where many describe as the power house of African Football where 80% of the High profile players in Africa come from. Yet the last time a country from west Africa won the Nations cup was 16 years ago when Nigeria won it in 1994. Ever since neither of Senegal ( with their failed golden generation) Ghana, Ivory Coast, or Nigeria have lifted Afcon inspite of producing some of the best players in the world.

Ever wondered why the nations cup in recent times have been dominated by countries with strong domestic league where 80% of the team are home based? South Africa in 1996, Egypt in 1998, Tunisia in 2004, Eygpt in 2006 and again in 2008.
Do you see a trend. With the exception of Cameroon every country that have won the nations cup in the last 16 years are countries with strong domestic leagues where 80% of national team players come from the domestic league. The big* countries with 95%-100% Europe based players have all fumbled and wumbled (tm).

The problem is simple to understand. Football is a team sport and it require that players most have played together for a long period of them. The players know each other, off the pitch there still maintain a close friendship which is always important for team spirit and cordination. The advantage you get with this setup is that your national team players are easier to assemble and train for longer period of times without any limitations.

Compare to countries where over 95% of players play abroad were its not always easy to get clubs to release players even for major Tournaments the required 2 weeks rules which require clubs to release a player before every major Tourney is never obeyed and players arriving 3-2 days to a championship is now the norm. In such a sinerio what you have are 11 super star strangers on the pitch. There all come from different style of football. and are required to gel in such a short period of time? No football doesn't work that way. It is a team sport and there is no miracle that any coach can perform which would make 22 players suddenly develop a rhythm after playing together for just 3 days it just doesn't work that way with football. The result is a situation where so called smaller team (small because majority of their players play in their domestic league.) start to upset the Bigger teams.

There was a time in African football where it was an advantage to have Big* players in Europe. This was a time when the profile of african players is not as big as it is now. Were many african players always warmed the bench or where just squared members and most play for smaller European teams (mostly in Belgium and france) Hence players can leave their club for weeks and would not be missed. times have changed friends. African players are now hot cakes and clubs want to hold on to them afor as much as possible. making them less and less available for their national team. Take alook at the trend in this nations cup

Mali: The country with the best mid field in Africa on paper based the number of High profile players who play in their midfield. They didnt even make it past the first round.

Ivory Coast: On paper the best African Country ATM. there were roundly beaten by Algeria a country many of us cant even remember the name of one of their player before the tourney.

Cameroon: Another huge african country with top players playing in many big leagues in europe. there were beaten comprehensively by an Egyptian side largely made up of home best players

Nigeria: Another country that took 100% foreign based players to Afcon was on the ropes for most of their games against Zambia and had to result to penalties to win their game

The facts speaks for themselves friends. The problem of Nigerian team goes beyond just the Coach. Amodu may not be the best coach in the world. But given the situation I think he has done a good job and we should all praise him for that. In other to ever make an impact in Afcon we have to put our house in order and fix our domestic leagues so that we can produce a team largely based on home based players who have time to get to train and know each other. add one of 3 experience players from Europe and you have a killer recipe for Afcon. Blaming the coach is really just trying make him a scape goat for a much more bigger problem.

Many people say that Siasia is the best coach we have, forgeting that on 2 occassions when he took laurels for the nations he used players who have been playing together for over a year. In 2005 he took a bunch of largely unknown players to the u21 tourney and there got a silver. what many  didnt know is the fact that Siasia boys had been playing together for close to 2 years preparing for the championship same time happened in the olympic were he took roughly same players and got a silver ( this is not to take credit from Siasia for the great job he has done). What happened when we was drafted to a team in just less then 4 months to the championship? his boys failed. why? lack of consistency.

I end my rather long post with this saying

I player that makes the team great is better than a great player

4llerbuntu:
i use an ati radeon card. it was'nt even like this when it was freshly installed and it definitely wasnt like this with 9.04. 

i heard about the regression wahala too, hummn, ok so that could be it? well its noticeably slower to start programs, copying seems to be ok, i guess i never really took notice of the speed of copying anyway. login is like maybe 15 secs slower thereabouts, but the issue is not with startup.

its when it starts up, then i launch a program it then starts to drag. 5 programs you probably have to wait 10 secs to even change windows from one to the other. firefox is really a pain to use now, takes like 40 secs to even start.

maybe i just go back to 9.04 i just want to be sure that its not some other problem e.g. the hard drive because i changed the drive like 7 weeks back after the old one failed.

it'll be really annoying to go back to 9.04 then find out that its still slow again!!!! im enjoying some features in this 9.10

Most times when thngs turn up like this, its mostly issues with Kernel updates or updates to the graphic card.  when up start your system. with nothing running, try and check your system process to see what might be eating the system memory. you can do this by going to /system/administration/system monitor ( or something like that, am on kde atm) from there u can go to the process tab and check to see what could be eating the system memory. also can u post the output of this command

cat /proc/version 

which should display what kernel version you are running and

lspci | grep Graphics 

should display your graphic card version.

4llerbuntu:
i see u changed your blog. sorry 4 sounding hurried. me n weaver are used 2 conversations like that. well the issue is i noticed that my system is noticeably slower. i removed all eyecandy i earlier installed but had no difference in performance. which led me to the palinpsest issue n suspicion of hard drive bad sectors earlier referred to. now i have tried running fsck on the drive but had no improvements. i use mint 9.10. suggestions?

What graphic card are you using? and when say noticeably slower what are you comparing too? ( has it always been this way since you installed mint 9.10? or is this a recent development? and was it this way with Ubuntu 9.04 or mint 9.04? ) I am asking because there are some regression wtih some Intel cards on karmic which causes the system to be very slow and shubby performance wise. and also how fast does it take to login, start a program, copy files etc

4llerbuntu:
at least we say it as it is. how many times will i tell u am not anti-windows! am just a bit more enlightened enuf 2 knw a world exists outside windows, a potentially better world. ok so bigrovar what could be responsible for my system slowdown. its noticeably slower. as per d purge ? i was wondering if i could remove all programs at a go. more or less revert to fresh install stage. av tried running fsck on d drive anyway. no improvement

I really couldn't from your message understand what issues you are having. perhaps you could explain better and slowly :p

mendax:
@all, pls I need to know why it is that whenevr I update my ubuntu 9.04, I see a knew link in my boot up grub screen, cos I'm dual bootin with vista. What I mean is all the previous updates of the 9.04 also appear below, which fills my screen.

I honestly didnt get this part of your msg. If you were referring to the grup screen. Then everytime there is a kernel update, you have the list of the latest kernel and the previous kernel show up in your grub menu. The reason is to allow you switch to a last working kernel in case the latest kernel give you some issues.

2ndly, are there anythings I should take note of if I want to upgrade to 9.10, would I loose my docs for example? Thanx
My advise is to backup and do a clean install. 9.10 is a major release and comes with many radical changes from Jaunty. many things like Hal, boot manager, filesystem and init etc have either been depreciated or completely removed. hence the chances of failure is very high, also with the unstable internet we have in nigeria if anything does wrong like internet gets interrupted or power failure doing an upgrade you system would be horsed. The clean install has many advantages and much more a preferred and recommended way of installing a new release.

4llerbuntu:
Nah, there is this utility called palimpest. Comes with mint. Can manage drives. It gave d report. D bad sectors are on d home partition.

Don't be bothered by that. The Utility is way too sensitive, it says the same badsector ish on just about about every laptop. Technically every hard-drive has a bad sector. but there dont matter in the grand scale of things and should be over looked. A bug was filed for this same issue with the fedora guy who maintains the program and the issue should be fixed with updates. You can always disable the warning by removing palimest from the list of tools that starts up with your system

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phuck_NL:
If you did proper research most of your questions would have been answered. Are you on this same earth that we are on. Your questions have been answered since 1900.

You see how daft you are? this is an open platform, back your answers up with facts. that is how a reasonable response would be.

The boy got his visa in 2008. His father reported him in 2009. Are you satisfied now.
To the people asking why the UK is not on a list of blacklisted countries. Come on now!!!!!! Are you for real. Quit being childish.
It is like saying if an american or even several americans commit suicide bombings in Israel, the Israelis will blacklist america. You guys are beginning to sound ridiculous.

are you high? how come then did he get on a plane, how come he is not on a no fly list. Are you telling me that a Visa can not be revoked. After his father warned the US goverment about his son why didnt they check their records to see that the same dude has a US visa which should be reviewed? I mean surely there should do that for in the Terrorist list.  Its what a person with half a brain would do. If someone told you his son could be a terrorist and u had him to your terror watch list. and you check records to see that the dude has an american visa. that should be ground for reviewing such visa.

also about selective terror watch list. it just showed that you have no brains. You are just dumb. I mean you gave an example that just let me wondering if monkeys now come to Nairaland to give opinions.  i mean its not ridiculous  for "if an american or even several americans commit suicide bombings in Israel, the Israelis will blacklist america. You guys are beginning to sound ridiculous." but you find it ok for add Nigeria to the blacklist because 1 Nigerian was radicalised in the UK and trained in Yemen by an American Terrorist.  I mean really?

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The biggest irony here is not the clueless Americans, its the brainless Nigerians who cant even use their God given brain to reason. Be a Human being and reason for christ sake.

Mutallab was a decent good boy when he left Nigeria, ( even though he attended "Isamlist" school) It was while he was in the UK that he was radicalised. It is reported that he then travelled to Yemen where he met Anwar al-Awlaki  the same American Terrorist dude linked with to a gunman who ran amok in a US army base in Texas in Nov, killing 13 pple. The UK has more radicals and Terrorist than Nigeria. And facts have showed the more US and UK citizens have been involved in Terror attack than Nigerians. The only one as of yet is Mutallab. How come is Nigeria on a terror list. What evidence does the CIA have about Nigeria. Was this not the same CIA that said Iraq had Weapons of mass destruction.

I have some question for the CIA. How come Mutallab was giving a US visa ( we all know how hard it is to get one ) after he dad warned them of the extremist views of his son.

How did a guy who is suppose to be on terror watch list obtain a visa and even got on a plane?

You say your war is on terror not Islam, but all we always hear is that Islamic schools should be closed. And most Muslims are targetted and mistreated in your country.

Why do you call Terrorist Islamist and in the same vain claim that Islam does not encourage Terrorism. We have a group called the Lords Resistant Army in Urganda. There kill people and Turn childrens to child soldiers. There claim to be Inspired By Christ.  I dont see  them called Christainist group.  Even the KKK use the bible to Legitimise their claims. even Nazi is founded on chritian Values I dont see does being called Islamist .

What makes an Islamist?

How come UK is not in the List of countries Blacklisted? even though most active Terror cells is in Europe?

arthuryemi:
hello evryone.i need new or fairly used e72

I have a fairly used E72 ( clean and with all the accessories) I am considering selling because ever since I got my N900 the phone as been redundant. I still not made my mind up on selling sha. How much do u want to offer

engrhamid:
Same here drag. Make i buy 115000 fone i.e n900 lol,

Yeah I saw that, I actually ordered my from Nokia USA through someone coming to Nigeria, and it was much much cheaper ( although not as cheap as the prince on amazon which should be around $550)

hayprof:
@brovar, dude u killing it

watin man go do