Me d last time wey I pass dat road na like 8 hours we use. . .

Chxta's World

Dele Giwa was the editor and founder of Newswatch magazine (along with Ray Ekpu, Yakubu Mohammed and Dan Agbese). He was killed by a letter bomb in his home on October 19, 1986. Sadly, it looks like Newswatch is no more.

Today makes it exactly 20 years since his murder, and the killers have never been found. The Nigerian coat of arms was on the outside of the package that did the damage according to reports.

It was a shock to all (or do I say almost all?) Nigerians; a new dimension into killing in Nigeria had just been launched. The reason that his killers haven't been found is clear, and we all know it. The government of the day killed him. Which government? What do we mean by government? Not you, not me. We know that Nigerian government does not necesarily involve the people (although I would also hold the people as culpable for the fact that till this day we have rubbish as our government), the government could be personified in the leader, so when we say government (in 1986), we mean, Ibrahim Babangida, who wants to return to Aso Rock!

It is clear that no individual in Nigeria at the time had access to the kind of technology was used to kill Dele Giwa except the military. According to Giwa's lawyer, Gani Fawenhimi, Giwa had received a call from Halilu Akilu (who was then DG SSS) that morning to confirm if he was in. The story goes on to say that he had information on Gloria Okon. Gloria Okon had been arrested by the Buhari/Idiagbon government for drug trafficking two years earlier, and had died in detention of food poisoning. Who killed Gloria? Investigations were still on when Buhari was toppled. It was rumored that Giwa had information on what actually happened to Gloria Okon, and who was involved. The rumors persist until this day, that Giwa's information implicated the wife of Babangida in the drugs trade with Ms. Okon.

Fast forward to 2001, IBB refused to testify before the Oputa panel about the Giwa murder. No one has been brought to justice for the crime, and now twenty years later, I make bold to say that the Giwa murder has been well and truly swept under the carpet.

Problem solved. And in the process I upgraded to Edgy Eft. . .

http://chxta..com/2006/10/ubuntu-rocks.html

Bode I never saw your mail. . .

Old gist, only affects those whose laptops were made between April and June this year. . .

Chxta's World

As I predicted in my last post, Treviso duly surrendered the points to us yesterday. But not without some resistance.

Cristiano Zanetti grabbed his first goal for the club to take us to minus one point in the standings. Treviso started the game brightly as we took our time to settle. However, once we found our feet we dominated the rest of the first half. Alex, still searching for his 200th club goal, found the back of the net but it was ruled out for offside. He then should have scored for real when he was one on one with Avramov, yet the keeper did well to deny him. Juve did take the lead though soon after when Camo’s cross was met by Zanetti in minute 38. The half ended with Russotto and Camo exchanging shots.

They started the second half well, but an inspired Gigi kept out efforts from Vascak, Viali and Fava. And as the tie went on, we had a Trez strike disallowed then played down the clock and almost doubled our lead late on with Trez and an Alex chip.

We are finally off the foot of the Serie B table as everyone knew we would be sooner rather than later, but the climb comes a game late in my opinion. We really should have won that first game at Rimini. Nothing spoil sha. Forza Juve!

@ topic: Very proud!

Chxta's World

I knew that the open source community can't fail me, and they never do. Sound problem solved, and an up to speed distro to the bargain.

What I did?

In my terminal, I ran: [I]gksu “update-manager -c -d”[/I]

Waited for 28 minutes while it upgraded the distro, and voila. I'm runnning Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft with crystal clear sound!

For the support I have to thank The HowTo Geek.


Warning: this process works only with a fast internet connection. If you don't have that, order a CD. . .

Are you using ALSA or OSS?

I've been unable to sort my problem so far, maybe I have to wait for someone to help. . .

Labelle:

@ ladex178 your post 'point of correction to you all, stella's not actually going to space but she is to------' has been published. Well not a hell of a big deal, still its worth being mentioned. It's in Segun Adeniyi's column (the verdict) of friday's thisday, used as reference to buttress point on the level of ignorance swirling the nation. Shame it took them this long to clearify in the papers.

Too true. . .

Tex!
Tex!!
Tex!!!

How many times I call your name? I dey UK safely, you dey middle of dem o! Obong would come after you o!

Army Arrangement --- Fela Kuti

Chxta's World

I've been awake beyond the time when other 'normal' humans are asleep. Reason, I installed Ubuntu Linux on an Acer Aspire 1640z fo someone. Problem is, try as I could there was this issue of sound. I tried everything I knew, but to no avail. Reminded me of those days before Windows XP almost solved all driver issues (hey, even there are still some hardware that need CDs to run in XP).

Eventually, and with the help of the good people at Ubuntu Forums the end of the problem looks to be in sight.

Let's get a little technical here,

The Linux kernel sends sound to the sound card, by using the appropriate sound driver (like in Windows of course). A long time ago, the system which allowed to do that was OSS. Many drivers have been developed for OSS. Applications thus use the OSS interface to send sound to the driver.

OSS is not technically perfect, so a better system has been developed, namely ALSA. As a consequence, programs making use of sound have to be rewritten in order to be able to use ALSA instead of OSS. That's why, for example, xmms has an OSS plugin and an ALSA plugin. (The output plugin can be chosen in xmms, in options -> preferences).
Nevertheless, for older applications to go on working, a compatibility layer exists in ALSA. It ensures OSS applications believe they do use OSS while they actually use ALSA (as for example the flash plugin). Unfortunately, some hardware vendors still do not support ALSA, so it is up to the good men in the FOSS community to create their own 'hacks' of the Windows sound drivers (or whtever other driver), which as in the case of this system I was working on, may not work.


Eventually I had to go to the terminal (apologies to Texazz) and install the kernel headers on my new install.


$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-686

You must have the kernel headers package installed on the system and then you have to download the alsa-driver-1.0.13rc2.tar.bz2 unpack it and just do the following:




$ cd /your directory/alsa-driver-1.0.13rc2
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Then reboot the system.
That should have been it!

12 fruitless hours later, I decided to try something. I installed Windows on said laptop. Guess what? Issues with sound as well.

Difference: on Acer's site there is a page where you can download the drivers for the sound card. Uncle Bill and co really have cornered the market.

Well, na dem know. Dis thing must work!

The thinking of some Nigerians is absolutely medieval!

EFCC is charged with investigating and dealing with all cases of corruption and/or money laundry in the sovereign state of Nigeria and/or affecting the finances of the sovereign state of Nigeria. If a church is being used as a front for corruption and/or money laundry in Nigeria, then it falls under the scope of the EFCC.

Stop quoting Bible verses to justify thievery!

If the Fiver was as fickle as the average England supporter, we'd disagree with everything we said as soon as we wrote it. Actually no, we wouldn't. But for proof of the capricious nature of this great nation's football fans, one need look no further than the treatment meted out to Peter Crouch and Owen Hargreaves by England fans. Booed in the build-up to the World Cup for being tall and Canadian respectively, both players were lauded as heroes by the same mob during Germany 2006. And last night the whimsical halfwits were at it again - baying for the return of David Beckham, despite having been wholeheartedly in agreement with Second-Choice Steve when he made it clear the former skipper would never be part of his plans.

Of course it doesn't help that many of England's fans are incapable of independent thought and are forced to rely on tabloids to form their opinions for them. Which means Paul Robinson can now expect to become a target of abuse after conceding a freak own-goal, despite his heroic efforts against Croatia. This morning's red-tops ganged up on the keeper and made him England's latest scapegoat: several opted for in-no-way predictable "Misses Robinson" headlines, while the Mail branded him "a chump". (Needless to say, our own Big Paper took a more sympathetic view, tracing the goal's origins back to Robinson's upbringing in the mungbean-free patriarchal environment of northern England.)

Alan Hansen, however, chose not to point the finger at England's No1. "Michael Carrick was non-existent," och-ayed the BBC pundit who's been lobbying to have Carrick in the England team for longer than the Fiver cares to remember. But while blaming individuals for an abysmal team performance helps to paper over the cracks, the one thing that can't be held accountable for England's defeat is their use of a 5-3-2 formation that none of the players were able to cope with. "No one had a problem," fibbed left-back John Terry. "I don't regret what I did," added manager Second-Choice Steve. So that's all right, then - England are great and victory at Euro 2008 is now assured. Now excuse us while we go and attach small plastic cross of St George flags to each corner of our Luton Transit Fivermobile.

The mandate of an organisation such as the EFCC is to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So what is the point of this thread?

The silence around these parts is deafening. . .

One of the major problems with the Niger Delta, and indeed the entire country of Naija, is the overwhelming number of uneducated people walking the streets!

http://naijablog..com/2006/10/education-education-education.html#links

Like I've said earlier, I hate religous discussions. They often go nowhere.

This thread got derailed as far back as page one!

http://www.fatherdave.org/friends/index.html

Can you guys get back to topic? I'll watch once again. And have this in mind: God doesn't need us to defend Him!

Listen to Sorrow, Tears and Blood by Fela, then ask the question again. . .

adewaleafolabi:

@chxtaso that means i should be looking at downloading over 1gb that should take approximately FOREVER
so what are my options plz

You have both Ubuntu and Kubuntu right?

Do well and they would retain you. Those people like performance oriented guys (Mystique can tell you better, she works there), but their pay is crap!

Guys, I haven't forgotten this place. Only say dem wan kill me for school!

You have Sasser. . .

Dis question hard pass any exam question wey I don face for my life

http://chxta..com/2006/10/russia-is-spying-on-naija.html

The gist is at least 72 hours old, and I concur with what Azuka wrote on my blog. . .

Nephew Ono, I will reply to you. Ask any Igbo guy what my name means. I never forget. Just that them wan fade me with work for school, so I dey hardly come Nairaland. Most of my activity now na for my blog.

How u dey?

Yet another dick sucking thread in this forum. . .