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That until there is no longer first class
And second class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a man's skin (read ethnic group in the case of Naija)
Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes
Me say war ---Bob Marley

Like many residents of Ajah and beyond, the early part of yesterday was spent at home listening to the music made by guns instead of on the road to work. That was the rude awakening we had yesterday.

The gun battle between 'indigenes'of Ajah and thugs loyal to Chief Fatai Olumegbon lasted for over an hour (0630 to 0745) before the police deemed it fit to come and intervene so we could go to work.

I am not taking sides in this issue, but having interviewed a few people concerning this crisis, I think it is imperative that the issue must be brought to the consciousness of Nigerians. I find it disappointing and annoying that this piece of news hasn't even made the headlines in any of the major newspapers in the country (that was the reason I waited 24 hours before writing).

Now, the crux of the matter is this: Chief Olumegbon, a Lagos Island high chief has laid claim to being overlord of the Ajah area, a claim hotly disputed by the 'indigenes'. He has begun the construction of a 'palace' not too far from Ajah bus stop and has started doling out large sums of money to the resident area boys to support his cause.

The 'indigenes' took the case to court, and the verdict is due next week or therabouts. Feelers coming in from the court indicate that Olumegbon would loose the case, so he has decided to take matters into his own hands by declaring war on the indigenes. People have died since this started, yesterday's was not the first gun battle, but it was the first to occur in the early morning, and the first that didn't include large scale looting of the shops at the market. After Friday night's gun battle, Ajah market has been more or less closed, so there was nothing to loot.

This behaviour by the Olumegbon faction is endemic in our society. Olumegbon is in the good books of the Oba of Lagos, and is rumored to have the support of the state governor. The result: he can do whatever he likes, and get away with it. Reminds me of Chris Uba back in Anambra.

You see, it is the opinion of this writer that should we continue like this, that is with this overlord mentality that a lot of our 'big boys' seem to possess, then Naija would end up as a lot of fiefdoms, controlled by people like Olumegbon and Uba. Those who have ears let them hear. Tinubu please put a stop to this fighting before it gets out of hand.

Having talked about the immediate issue, I'd also like to talk about one that has worried me for a very long time, the 'indigene'-settler dichotomy we have in this country. Please refer to the line from Bob Marley's song War where he refered to first class and second class citizens of a nation. We have been running that bull shit in Naija for a long time now, and without any apologies, I lay the blame squarely at the feet of the great Obafemi Awolowo. Had he not initiated the carpet crossing in the Western House of Parliament when he was defeated by Nnamdi Azikiwe, I would probably be able to run for Edo State governor today.

I was born and brought up in Benin City see, and I feel more comfortable when people around me are speaking either Edo or Pidgin, than when they are speaking Igbo (which I tend to stammer through anyway). But because of that stupid 'indigene'-settler stuff which we have running in this country, I'd have to travel many miles eastward if I want to become involved in politics, to a place where I don't really know the issues because I don't live there.

Isn't it funny that Nigerians would go to the US, the UK, Canada, Ireland or wherever to have children so that such kids could lay claim to being citizens of such countries, but in our own country, a man born and bred in Kano would be told to go back to Warri to contest an election simply because his grandfather came from there. That is stupidity. My boss just walked in, so I'm logging off. To be continued,

Sorry, the songs are gone unless you can get your hands on the other laptop,

At the grub prompt press "e" to edit the command and add a "3" to the end of the line. Then press "b" to boot. This should get you into text mode. From there run something like xorgconfig to fix your X server and test it with startx.

That is how the problem was finally solved,

Wasn't it forever ago he died?

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Once again it has been proven to me that there is a God!

Watching the AIT live telecast of the death of the third term bill was a thing of joy for me, and I am sure any well meaning Nigerian. We are proud to be citizens of Naija, and it has been shown that we have people in the right places who know how to do the right things.

The battle has been won, but not the war. If I know someone like Anenih well enough, he may still try something in the stipulated six months. Be that as it may, now that we have proven to the world - and to ourselves that all is not rotten in the State of Denmark, it is time to throw down the gauntlet.

A vacancy will open up in Aso Rock in the next few weeks. Who would fill it?

This question is the major question that should be in our minds over the coming weeks.

Stories abound that IBB is interested. To him I would throw the question he threw at OBJ: What did you forget there that you want to recover?

The truth is this: their generation failed Nigeria. They almost killed our country. We don't need any geriatrics in our corridors of power. People like MT Mbu and Arthur Nzeribe should join OBJ and fade into history. You've had your time. Let the younger ones take over.

We have all seen what can happen in Naija when vibrant minds with fresh ideas are in the right positions. This is an article in today's Independent about Okonjo-Iweala. For the first time in our history, we all have access to the figures of the Federation Account. What El-Rufai is doing here in Abuja even if not nice is what is needed. Soludo has put the banking sector on its feet. Akunyuli has saved only-God-knows-how-many lives.

These people's acheivements are just a tip of the iceberg as concerns what can be done in Naija if we give the right people the right tools to do their jobs. We don't want a scenario where you put a Ciroma who isn't a trained Economist to be Minister of Finance.

Obasanjo has done a relatively good job when you consider the situation the country was in when he came into office. Personally I don't think Falae or Buhari could have done better. But now, the time has come to go, and go he must.

Thank you senate. I think I need a drink. Champagne anyone?

There is a God!

We need the source of this story please!

Now there's someone who has a head on his shoulders,

Rumors also abound that Mikel is joining,

Y'all remember how the Galacticos couldn't be beaten at the beginning of that season when Becks arrived? Three years and counting,

Would try that. Thanks Gridlock.

Duringthe trial he said that his license shouldn't be taken away because he needed to attend functions,

The moment I heard about Ch€£$k¥'s unveiling of Michael Ballack, I hotfooted to Skysports quicker than a German free agent offered a £2m signing-on fee and £130,000-a-week. Not because it was surprised, nor even because I cared, particularly, but because the prospect of seeing a man trying to justify swapping deification in Germany for a spot in Ch€£$k¥'s crowded midfield merry-go-round without using the words "money", "big bags of" and "did I mention money?" was just too good to miss.

"I am very happy to be here," Ballack grinned. Having worked out his salary for the next three years and melted my "0" button in the process, I didn't need to ask why, but Michael spun us all a little story anyway. "They are very friendly people and London is a nice city, I have good impressions. Robert Huth told me good things about this country," he said, clearly unaware that his compatriot had spent more time filing his payslips and collecting medals than he had playing actual football.

I'd have liked nothing better than a lengthy quote from Sir Bobby Robson on such things as moral fibre, the love of the game and how it wasn't like this in his day etc at this point, but as he's already in Jamaica waiting for the World Cup to start, so I'll use Jose Moanin-ho, who's starting to sound very similar. "We have now been champions for two consecutive years. We have a team of champions and to improve a team of champions we need champions," he muttered, the press conference clearly having interrupted a good game of Mad
Libs.

And just when we thought we'd heard enough Ballack for one day, Ch€£$k¥ chief exec Slippery Pete Kenyon popped up to explain why he thought the Germany captain had plumped for west London. "I think what we offered him at Ch€£$k¥ in terms of our sporting ambitions swung it," he slimed unconvincingly, shading the pound signs in his new player's eyes from the paparazzi. And as that's the one time you'll see the words 'Ch€£$k¥' and 'sporting' in the same sentence, we suggest you put today's mail in your special For Keeps mail folder. Just like you do with every other day's mail, no doubt.

Still no solution to my problem. Anyone knows how I can boot into terminal direct so I can try and solve it from there?

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I’ve had it up to my ears with people like Uche Anidobi, Aminu Bello, Ike Chukwumah and Akachi Okoro talking about how Juve paid bribes to win lo scudetto. All of you (and that includes people, newspapers, sports shows and websites) have succeeded in ruining what was once a credible sport. I love Serie A but the lure you have all helped create around the league has reduced it to a joke. No one made this much noise when when Robert Hoyzner brought German football to its knees. Before I go further though, I have to make it clear that I would have preferred the Champions League to lo scudetto, but having collected it on the last day of the season with Milan huffing and puffing against Roma and with all the scandals, this title (our 29th scudetto) is suddenly very sweet!

Ch€£$k¥ are dominating in England and no one is complaining. Bayern have won two straight in Germany, and no one coughed. Lyon have won five straight in France, and it is normal to all. The Old Firm have dominated Scotland uninterrupted since 1981, and nobody bats an eyelid! In other sports, the Yankees dominate baseball, yet no one blames the umpires. The Chicago Bulls were a dynasty in the NBA, and no one talked. Pete Sampras and Tiger Woods swept all before them in their sports, and was there a complaint?

Juve on the other hand take two scudetti in a row and suddenly blame needs to be placed somewhere, anywhere! Y'all have tried the referee talk, the steroid attempt, the little clubs are even lending a hand, now Moggi selecting refs? Why not just accept that Juventus are Italy’s strongest squad? This has become almost too childish to discredit, almost.

And yes, I am biased towards Juve. They've been my team since 1984!

This year however, I needed to satisfy my own curiosity. You can do the counting yourself as well, Here is a great starting point.

Is Juve really that dominant or is there some truth to the non-stop accusations? So I analyzed, and I wish you guys would too before making these accusations. I wondered if there were differences in disciplinary action between the big clubs. So I counted them. I counted 1 for every yellow and 2 for every red. I saw Inter had 70, Milan had 52, and Juve fell between the two with 61. In my opinion, over 38 games 9 cards don’t make a team win or loose the title!

So it definitely wasn’t a “bookings” thing. “Maybe Juve was getting a lot more penalties than the others”. So let's count. Juve scored a whopping 3 penalties all season, Inter 5, and Milan 9! These differences could alter the standings somewhat. Can we still say that Juve is being favoured though? We had the least; remarkably Milan is again in the best position. So let's ask ourselves “Is it possible that Juve has faced far fewer penalties than the others?” seeing as we have heard this claim in the past. So we count, Juve faced 3, Inter and Milan both faced 2. No real significant difference here but it certainly can’t be said that Juve are favoured seeing as their position is once again less favourable than Milan’s or Inter’s.

We all know there is more to this, so let’s at least try to count the times that points have been acquired dubiously. This is difficult to quantify since it is somewhat opinion based, but it comes up too often to be ignored. Remember that Del Piero goal that was offside against Udinese? That was a win for Juve that should have been a tie, I can admit it. That means Juve got an extra 2 points undeservingly that game. I also notice the tie against Cagliari that has been deemed corrupt because of the “questionable” 5 minutes of injury time needed to draw. Frankly, even Cagliari fans understood the 5 minutes. There were penalties (against Juve) and red cards that day that pushed the game farther into injury time, it happens. Let’s count it though, just to humour all the anti-Juventino. So we got an unjust point for a total of 3 extra points. Now to be fair, we have to mention the obvious penalty on Zlatan that the referee “didn’t see” at Chievo costing Juve a possible win. That day we took home 1 point and left 2 on the field. Milan scored two penalties against Roma on Sunday just so they could win and possibly
get the title if we slipped up. In the end our point surplus was a staggering 1 after 38 games.

Not a single refereeing decision all year cost either Inter or Milan points. Go ahead, try to bring up an example and I’m sure FIFA regulations will disagree. I did however, find a few occasions where the opposite occurred. Remember Milan’s dubious 5 minutes of injury time resulting in an Inzaghi goal? It was favouritism for Juve, why not Milan then? Chock up a 2 point surplus for Milan. Inter though is far worse. There are a number of questionable goals/penalties, and wrongfully called back goals which earned them wins against Lecce, Cagliari, and Treviso and a draw against Lazio for a surplus of 7 points. Disagree? Go ahead but good luck proving Juve were more favoured than either of these two clubs.

Not too long ago the doping issue arose. All Juve’s coaches were arrested and embarrassed. The media was all over it. Then an Italian court of law found each of the accused not guilty and the media didn’t find it interesting enough to write about. So that attempt didn’t work. Then we got a new accusation. Italy’s “minnows” are letting themselves be beaten by Juve and playing their hearts off against Milan to “give” the scudetto to Juve. This one is by far my favourite.

“Why did Messina play so hard?”, maybe to avoid relegation, genius. Why did Treviso play so hard against Juve? Why did Cagliari do the same? Why do teams like Roma, Lazio, Chievo and Fiorentina always seem to have the game of their season against Juve? Juve are public enemy number 1 in Italy because they are Italy’s most successful team and every team that faces them brings their A game. Yet somehow it’s these very squads who have given Juve an edge? This one is beyond stupid.

I suggest you think back to the days when Miccoli played for Perugia under Juve ownership. Perugia managed to eliminate Juve from the Coppa Italia and draw us in the Serie A. Guess who scored? Miccoli did in an attempt to get called up to the big squad. The little guys always try to impress against the big guns and no one is bigger than Juventus.

Now no one seems to be pointing out the fact that the scandal rocking Italian football has been expanded to include Lazio, Fiorentina, and of course Milan.

Nice try people, but you’ll need a more credible story next time. I’m sure we’ll all hear it soon enough. It is too hard for any fan to digest that their team is not the best.

A Cagliari fan was honest enough to do that. And it is from him that I got a lot of the material for this one before doing my own research. He said: "I’ll be the guy that leads by example. My team is in the relegation battle. They rarely finish a game with 11 players on the pitch and as a result have the most bookings in Serie A with 105, and have the most booked player in the league (Daniele Conti). If they wind up relegated you won’t hear me crying about officials though, I guarantee it. But then I’m a man."

Some people say life is black
Some people say life is white
We all know it is black and white
FORZA JUVE!!!
Campionne Italia 2005/2006


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Give a man a fish, and you've fed him for a day. Teach him to fish, and you've fed him for a lifetime. Create an artificial scarcity of fish, he will eat suya.
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In 1976, Obasanjo visited our school and said we were the leaders of tomorrow. 30 years later he is still our leader. He used up our parents' quota, he is using our quota and now he wants to use our childrens' quota.
Say no to 3rd term.
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If you take a starving dog, feed him and give him shelter, he will never bite you. That is the main difference between a dog and a man
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If Lenin walked around the offices of a company like Yahoo or Intel or Cisco, he'd think communism had won. Everyone would be wearing the same clothes, have the same kind of office (or rather, cubicle) with the same furnishings, and address one another by their first names instead of by
honorifics. Everything would seem exactly as he'd predicted, until he looked at their bank accounts.
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There's a thin line between insanity and genius, and I'm standing on it.
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There is no free lunch. Having more of one thing requires giving up something else.
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Don't steal. The government hates competition.
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Some people think life is black,
Some people think its white,
We all know its black and white
FORZA JUVE!!!
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Make new friends
But keep the old
One is silver
The other is gold
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Fight crime, shoot back.
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Light travels faster than sound, that is why some people appear smart until you hear them speak.

I tried upgrading from Ubuntu Hoary to Dapper usingthe steps that jogego wrote and now my system has hung. I get this message when I try to boot:

I cannot start the X server (your graphical interface). It is likely that it is not set up correctly. Would you like to view the X server output to diagnose the problem?

Then the system hangs. Even the keyboard doesn't respond. What do you guys suggest? There must be a solution other than using the CDs,

That story is bollocks.

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Blue%20Screen%20of%20Death

New Opera browser available for download here,

Comments?

what about networking in Linux

dakmanzero:
I'm not asking whether I can 'play mp3 files on ubuntu' or whether there is software available to meet my needs. As one who has succesfully configured and installed ALSA for an ESS1964 chipset on the incredibly evil redhat7.2, I can proudly join you in saying that nothing is impossible with linux and the 'net.

Ubuntu comes with Rhythm Music Box by default, it plays mp3s

So now that you have finished pouring your heart out, can you back up your statements?

Does anyone have Tenderness? I am desperate,

Try XFCE

First thing I do, I run my terminal and type $su, then type in my password,

then I type $startx

then I type $/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl

After running that, I turn on my Rhythm Box Music Player before I start browsing or whatever else I want to do,

My Computer>Properties>Advanced>Performance Options>Advanced>Virtual Memory: change it to 512MB.

But he is right. Looking through the above lists it is obvious that some people here only started listening to rap yesterday.

No one made mention of Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash, Easy E?

Wow!!!

BTW, 2pac was a god!