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@4llerbe about the .debs outnumbering the .rpms i'm not quite so sure - ok maybe you're right though ill say most of them came are based on ubuntu; however if you look at the distros that are used in the enterprise , most of them are rpm based; distros like redhat, suse are more popular on the enterprise than debian, ubuntu etc.
But on a personal note i prefer .debs myself, ive notied that when i'm updating my packages, .deb distros download all the packages before installing while rpm download and install alternately - very annoying on this not so fast connection

ok for the core linux enthusiasts out there, which package manager do you prefer: rpm or deb and thus do you prefer rpm-based distros or deb-based distros
pls posts your opinions

can a leopard change its spots?

actually i think Kaita was more responsible for our world cup failure; Kaita's not a bad player but his losy action cost us a game we had no business losing, remember until that match Greece had never won a world cup match, beside we were even leading; but given a choice on who to recall back i will choose Kaita any day, i believe the guy has learnt his lesson, meanwhile Yakubu's a perpetual goal waster

has the dog been given anti rabies, anti-distemper shots? but you definitely do need to change your vet

Old Major: (MR. AWOLOWO)
what revolution did Awo inspire? to my knowledge we haven't really had a revolution in this country

NapoleonGEJ)
interpretation of napoleon sounds more like OBJ; he seems more in control of things than GEJ, besides i don't see GEJ as autocratic, i think he's just been lucky

Snowball: (Gen.BUHARI), Mr. Jones: (THE NIGERIAN MILITARY)
if mr Jones is the military then how is Buhari snowball seeing that he was part of the military when he ruled the country
In fact if Buhari's snowball then IBB would have to be Napoleon and therefore the military can't be Mr Jones

personally don't think nigeria quite fits into the mould of animal farm

abeg all dat one wey u pple dey talk is grammar
4 me i have 3 lines: mtn, etisalat n airtel
i want to call mtn magic no i use mtn, i want to call my etisalat cliq i use etisalat, for everything else local i use airtel; i want to call US also the same; Uk for now it seems that mtn will have to do but the cheaper rates are only on the fixed lines not the mobile. can someone tell me a network that gives less than 30k/sec on calls to uk on mobile?
as for glo; i haven't yet seen anything to convince me to switch to their network
i short, whatever works for you, use it

@prettyG
well first of all you have to obtain an installation cd; you can download the image (iso file) from the ubuntu site and burn to cd, or if you have the patience you can order (they'll deliver for free) but it might take some time; else if you can get one of us (ubuntu users) living near enough to you such a person could give you a cd, perhaps even help you install ubuntu on your computer

the things you people are talking about, i don't have the hardware - or the light for that matter (i.e. NEPA isn't reliable enough) - to try out
besides i don't understand how streaming works; couldn't you just use your linux box as a file server and play the files instead? anyway i don't know anything about DLNA

4llerbe i'm sure you don't even have a tab and you're already unlocking one

anyway i have a couple of questions:
this busybox, is it for your phone or for your tab?
if on you pc, which os should you be running (windows, linux, unix, android etc)
how do you connect your tab to the pc for this operation: is there a data cable or can you use bluetooth or wlan?
if data cable must the tab be on or off or it doesn't matter

just a few questions to be sure - before someone will try it out and ruin such an expensive device

oluwabamis:
why would starcomms descend so low as to package chinco tablet and make a big deal out of it. Thanks for your research, ben2007

i think you should remember that a lot of starcomms phones are actually chinco; if i'm not mistaken, huawei and zte are chinese companies

well android seems to be the "windows" of tablets or should i say extra - large screen phones since that's what they basically are - not that it's totally a bad idea since for one thing phones have better power management than regular pcs.
as far as i know there are 3 oses available for the tablet: ios, android & win phone7 (and i'm not actually sure any device runs this os); i know google plans to release google-chromeos for the tablet (i for one wont be buying any tablet running that, i'd rather go for the ipad - and i'm not an apple fan) so at least for now the players are still limited but i think apple is still leading

@paulo822
tell me how many people you know that became doctors after playing around with stuff before going to the advanced stuff
though i agree with you that the process of becomin a doctor is harder 'cause lives are at  stake

@ayoalade
how many necessary skills do you need to become an IT specialist - as opposed to a medical practitioner besides the question is not "which one is better" or "which one pays more"

the fact is still remains that it's DEFINITELY more difficult to become a medical practitioner as opposed to an IT specialist (i'm talking in terms of process and time taken); one thing though, everyone is different, some people will find I.T. difficult - even people in the medical profession.
e.g. for me I.T.'s a walk in the park but even a so-called "easy" course like law would be a lot of stress for me - not good at all that memorising

@bashr4
how long did you spend learning medicine? how long have you spent in I.T.? perhaps it's just not your thing

oh and by the way i'm into I.T. not medicine

abeg i'm surprised anyone is even asking this question, do you know how long it takes for someone to become a medical practitioner? meanwhile you have kids who don't even have a college degree who are i.t. practitioners - it doesn't matter what field, it's possible to find a 17 yr old who is very familiar in some i.t field (and the person doesn't even necessarily have to be brilliant in maths either)

@elrony ok then can yoou get someone who has a laptop with the same type of battery?

@elrony does your pc and your bro's use the same type of battery? if so try swapping batteries; if yours still doesn't charge then you probably need to change your battery; if his doesn't charge on your lappy then you should take your laptop to a technician

well as long as people keep talking on this thread there's always a reason to go on but once no one is talking then it feels like you're having a conversation all by yourself, gets dejecting

maybe we should just bust this thread, noone seems interested in it anymore

@koolwilly i take it you did the instructions i told you to do in the rules.d file in the udev folder right? now i want you to do something else; first of all, don't delete the entry, leave as is; now restart in windows and plug in the modem; once the modem has been detected, go to device manager (if you don't know how to get there one way is clik on the start button, select run and in the box that comes up type: devmgmt.msc)
now in device manager select modems, under modems select the modem for your device; now doubleclick to bring up the properties dialog then click on the details tab; you should see a a box with something like: PCI\VEN_1C9E&DEV_XXXX the XXXX should be the product id after the modem has been detected;, note that number down on a sheet of paper or something; now return to ubuntu, type: sudo gedit /etc/usb_modeswitch.d/1c9e:1001; first of all save the file as /etc/usb_modeswitch.d/1c9e:6061; now you'ss see these lines:

DefaultVendor= 0x1c9e
DefaultProduct=0x1001

TargetVendor= 0x1c9e
TargetProduct= 0x1001

change them to

DefaultVendor= 0x1c9e
DefaultProduct=0x6061

TargetVendor= 0x1c9e
TargetProduct= 0xAAAA

(where AAAA is the product id that you noted down from windows) save the file, unplug then replug modem; if that doesn't work you may have to restart your pc (actually restarting your hal daemon should work only i'm not sure of how to do that )

@koolwilly all his time and you didn't say anything, in fact i think i'm more passionate about your modem working than you are
anyway let me know if you're still interested so we can try to thrash this thing out once more

as to the mint thingy, well it doesn't really disturb me, i always have like 4 or more distros installed on my lappy at any time so the issue of one using debian or ubuntu or arch doesn't disturb me - so long as they don't switch to rpms

@larrymcoy
try disabling your norton before inserting your dvd

@johnny, why not take your pc to a technician? hardware problems are riskier and can mess up the rest of your hardware; besides it may just be that there's something you're doing wrong that you're not aware of

Just wondering, does anybody have the Etisalat dual sim phone? if so who's the name of the manufacturer and waht make is it? i'm wondering if it will make sense to buy one

ok koolwilly we'll thrash this out once and for all; you say it's seeing your modem as a storage device? that means it's not being acted on by the modeswitch application;
ok type this:
sudo nano /lib/udev/rules.d/40-usb_modeswitch.rules

scroll down to the line one line below where you see
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1c9e", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1001", RUN+="usb_modeswitch '%b/%k'"
and add a new entry:

ATTRS{idVendor}=="1c9e", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6061", RUN+="usb_modeswitch '%b/%k'"

save the file and exit;
if your modem is already plugged, unplug it then replug it; the modem should now be detected

basically this is the concept behind usb-modeswitch:
traditionally modem vendors used to include an install cd with their modems, but nowadays on they create modems with embedded storage that include the install software and drivers. Now in windows what happens is the first time you insert the modem in your pc ll you see is the storage device which enables you to install the software and the drivers; subsequently if the software is running, once you plugin the modem it "ejects" the storage device long enough for the modem proper to be detected; in linux, drivers are either built into the kernel or created as loadable modules; unfortunately most hardware vendors don't bother writing linux drivers for their devices, however for the most part linux tends to support most devices; at the very least there's a generic driver that would work; however the kernel module would not have the functionality to eject the storage device which is where usb-modeswitch comes in; essentially the udev program searches the usb_modeswitch.rules file and when it finds an entry corresponding to the vendor and hardware id of your device, it invokes the modeswitch program (or is it script?) on it which does the resetting of the storage device long enough for the modem proper to be detected.
i hope this fixes your issue

@koolwilly
you mean your modem is still not yet detected?

well for me instead of that after installing the java i'd just add the java bin directory to my path :
gedit .bashrc in my home folder then there add the following line:
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/java/32/jre1.6.0_22/bin/
save and then close the file.
the benefit of this method is that i have access to all the files in the java directory not just the java file, the drawback is that if i want java available for all users i'd have to do that in every home folder.
alternately i could do :
sudo ln -fs /opt/java/32/jre1.6.0_22/bin/java /usr/bin/java
which just creates a soft link to the java file in the /usr/bin/folder; but anyhow sha, whatever works for you

just wondering; why do you have to go through all that stress to install java? why not go to synaptic package manager, search for java and install the one you want or is a specific one required? or if you want to go command-line what's wrong with "apt-get install openjdk-6-jre" (without the quotes)

mp3 support of course; i don't know what video player you use but for me vlc is a must; does your pc have a webcam? then you may want to install conky (if it doesn't come preinstalled) at the end of the day it depends on what you want to do on it
@4llerbuntu; you say that ubuntu netbook edition uses ubiquity right? well i use the netbook edition and there's an option to use in desktop mode (which is how i use it on my netbook)
back to the kde-gnome discussion it seems kde has this "netbook mode" thingy where your interface looks like a mobile device (think smart phone or slate rather than laptop) - not that i use it that way but for me it's quite neat, even in the ubuntu netbook edition you have to specify what mode before logging while in kde you can change from the system settings

ok you know when you boot the iso with the virtual machine, there's an option to "check cd for errors; since you're booting from iso, your iso's your cd so do a check; if there's no problem then your iso is not the problem

@bankole when you boot the image with vmware you could try to check the cd for errors