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LigTV, the official broadcaster of the Turkish league, announced the deal just before the Galatasaray-Besiktas derby.

Reports say that Drogba will pocket a salary of 6 million euros for the 18 months of his deal as well as a signing on bonus of 4 million.

The former Chelsea striker will also get a bonus of 25,000 euros for each game he plays, up to a maximum of 500,000 euros a year, meaning he could earn 11m (£9.63m) euros over the 18 months.

Eurosport Turkey reports that the "agreement is not official yet but sources say it will be done in the next week."

A spokesperson for the Sports PR Company that represents Drogba said: "They have made a formal bid for him."

It is the second massive deal for the Turkish giants this January with Wesley Sneijder having already signed from Inter Milan.

Drogba had been playing in China with Shanghai Shenhua but his future there was plunged into doubt amid reports of unpaid wages.

Drogba signed a two-and-a-half-year deal reportedly worth around £190,000 per week last June, but the Shanghai-based Oriental Sports Daily said the 34-year-old was owed wages in the wake of a long-running equity row at the club.

Drogba applied for permission in November to leave Shanghai on loan before the January transfer window, but FIFA refused the request.

He then returned to Chelsea to train at his former club in a bid to stay sharp for the African Cup of Nations, where he is currently in action for the Ivory Coast.

source http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/world-football-drogba-join-sneijder-galatasaray-152613072.html

Am sorry if you don't understand Yoruba, but this is too funny....a good stress relief!

A rat's voice mail to a man, telling him he had to eat all his certificates and important papers etc just because the man ran out of Indomie noodles, the only food the rat normally feast on.

You dont need to log into facebook to see it

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10200521345741010&set=vb.143433969113906&type=2&theater

Happy Sunday ,Enjoy!!

the horses look hungry

outofthebox: Google suppose pick this girl oo

Nigerians and ur inferiority complex. There is nothing wrong with what she is saying , she is nigerian not british, many brits cant even speak as well as she does or express themselves as intelligently as she did and yall will be ass licking them because they are oyibo. If english is not her first language, she doesnt have to blow phonetics. She spoke well and intelligently, I wish her success in her studies. How many europeans are speaking perfect english but u dare not complain. ass..wipes!

Is it n abomination for a woman to contribute financially?? If she does u better move ur ass to the kitchen ..cant eat ur cake n have it

soo cute !

it was supposed to be an airconditioned bridge. Is there Ac in the bridge?? or people have forgotten that promise

@op, original guy man , you are looking for free business ideas..ur match making business is not working abi ? yeye!

its for gay guys so ladies dont give a damn anyways ...

Our client, an International IT firm currently requires a finance mgr. This position is a mgt level position and candidates must have relevant experience & certification. Candidates must have between 10-12 yrs of experience in finance & Accounting. Pls send Cvs to guzee05@gmail.com (pls rebroadcast)!

see what happens when all these meek men dont speak up to thier trouble making family members and bring peace?

Why are they calling her a lady?? A 10yr old child what nonsense, they should castrate the bastard!!

spikes C: Guy, u just dey murder queen Eliza anyow...God is watching you ooo

maybe its a foreigner using google translate

wonders shall never cease!

i thought the site would be in hausa. Alas its just another forum

soloqy: First of all, he didnt post enough info to get useful help from interested parties or people who use WordPress.
Secondly, getting free help for his website is not his right. People can choose to offer free help or not.

@OP, you need to post enough info on your issue or post a link to get people who are interested in WordPress to chip in.

I dont use WordPress anyways.

you have just repeated what I said ! People want to charge him money instead of help him ..that is what is pissing me off. So I asked him to post more info and told him what info to post to get started in helping

forget the nigerian numskuls ..go to wordpress forum amd ask there. U didnt give any usefull info though, what theme are u using? what is the web address so people can see what ur talking about. This is why they want to form association ..smh!

[size=18pt]stop cheating & there will be no need to beg. Why do you call other females dear?? She has lost trust in you, thats why she is checking your phone. Ur not telling the whole truth ! Ur still playing around and you want to marry .. Ur starting on the wrong foot. Change ur ways and it should be well[/size]

so after all the girls that have been killed hooking up with people they met online , you still carried urself and family members to OSHODI !! U girls never learn!

this is taken from http://www.wsnmagazine.com . Al about wireless sensor networks & a great site!

Hands –on simple instructions on how to program WSN motes on the Contiki operating system platform is illustrated here. This is one of the experiences I had while attending the CONET summer school of 2011 with the developers of Contiki. If you are familiar with C programming even for a little bit, you can write programs for Contiki operating system easily after learning the basics which are specific to Contiki operating system. After writing the very first Contiki program, most of the convensions that you have to follow will be clearer.

The most exciting thing we can find as a WSN programmer is the proto-threads in Contiki. Proto-threads allow us to write multi-threaded applications on top of the Contiki operating system. Therefore we can get rid of writing codes to implement state machines to run on the event driven kernel. The below program is the simplest Contiki program you can write which contains most of the necessary components that should be included in any Contiki program.

1: #include “contiki.h”

2: #include <stdio.h>

3: PROCESS(my_first_process, “Hello World Process”);

4: AUTOSTART_PROCESSES(&my_first_process);

5: PROCESS_THREAD(my_first_process, ev, data)

6: {

7: PROCESS_BEGIN();

8: printf(“Hello WSN World!\n”);

9: PROCESS_END();

10: }

Save this file as hello_world.c
The header file “contiki.h” which is included at the very first contains all the declarations of the Contiki operating systems abstractions. stdio.h is included only because I have used printf() function inside the program. The Macro in third line declares a new Contiki process. First parameter of it is the variable for the process and the second parameter is a string name for the process. Fourth line, specify that this process should be started in the startup of the Contiki operating system. Therefore, when the hardware device which will be the destination of compiled code switches on, our process also begins running.

Fifth line of the code opens the definition of our process. As the first parameter, we pass the process’ variable which is my_first_process in this scenario. The second parameter is ‘ev’ which is the event parameter. It can be used to make the program responding to events that occur in the system. The third parameter ‘data’ can be used to receive some data which are coming with those events.

The rest of the instructions of the Contiki process will be included inside two important lines which are PROCESS_BEGIN() and PROCESS_END(). In our Contiki process we just print a string. This output goes to the standard output in the platform where our code will be running. If you compile this code to native platform and run in the terminal, the output will be printed in the terminal. If you run this in a mote, the output most probably will goto the UART port of the mote. However this behavior depends on the design of a particular WSN mote.

Now we have a Contiki program with us. To compile it, we need a Makefile which contains the instructions for the compilation tools to do the task. Therefore create a new file with your text editer and put the below content in it. Save it as Makefile. No file extention needed for it.

1: CONTIKI=../contiki-2.4

2: include $(CONTIKI)/Makefile.include

Lets compile our code. Before everything you have to have downloaded the Contiki source code. click here and download the latest Contiki source code. Uncompress the zipped file and place in somewhere in your PC. First we compile the code to native platform. For that, do the following steps.

1) Put the hello_world.c and Makefile files in a new directory. Let’s say you place them in a directory named “my_app”.

2) In the first line of your Makefile, put the correct path to the directory where your downloaded and unzipped Contiki source code resides. As an example if your Contiki source code is located in the path “/home/aps/Desktop/contiki-2.4″, your first line of the Makefile should look like below.

1: CONTIKI=/home/aps/Desktop/contiki-2.4

You don’t have to give absolute paths always. It’s ok to give relative paths also.

3) Now goto “my_app” directory from the terminal and issue the following commands,

make TARGET=native hello_world

./hello-world.native

If everythings ok, terminal will give an output like this,
Starting Contiki
Hello WSN World!

4) To stop running Contiki, give a CTRL + C on the terminal.

Let us assume that you have real hardware also to test this. For example, a MSB430 motes. Put the batteries to it and switch on. Plug it to your PC with the serial cable provided with the motes. Now goto “my_app” directory from the terminal and issue the following commands,

sudo chmod 777 /dev/parport0

make TARGET=msb430 hello_world.u

Now the compiled code will be written to the flash memory of the MSB430 mote. After it completed writing to flash, remove the mote from the serial cable. Actually as soon as the flash memory writing is complete, Contiki OS will be running with your application on the mote. But you can’t see the output it generates on its pins. To see it, connect the mote with the provided USB cable to the PC. Now open a terminal and issue the following command.

ls /dev/

Check whether there’s a device in the listed output named something like ttyUSB0 or ttyUSB1. Let’s say its ttyUSB0. This is the mote that is connected to your PC. So, issue this command now.

cat /dev/ttyUSB0

Terminal will now hang and listen to any output coming from there. Switch off the mote and on again. You will see the output from the terminal now. The way we connect different types of motes to the PC are different. But the command you issue in the terminal to compile and upload the Contiki source differ only from very small things. When you compile this application to the MicaZ motes, the command you issue will be,

make TARGET=micaz hello_world.upload PORT=/dev/ttyUSB0

Now you have a basic understanding on writing programs for Contiki. You can find more code examples in the ‘examples’ directory of the Contiki source code. If you don’t have real sensor network hardware to run and test Contiki applications you write, you have another way to fulfill your requirement. There are Simulators for that purpose. Some simulators are instruction level simulators like MSPSIM and Avrora while some simulators are network level simulators like Cooja.

You can use Contiki source code directly on your Ubuntu PC instead of using Instant Contiki. However according to the error that you got, I think the UISP tool is not installed in your platform. Try typing uisp on the shell to find it. However the default UISP tool which gets installed by typing

apt-get install usip

doesn’t work sometimes with MIB510 programmer boards for MicaZ as I’ve learnt. Therefore I installed it by downloading from somewhere else. Try this to install UISP,

1. Download UISP from here,

http://azadeha.at.ifi.uio.no/uisp.tar.gz

2. Goto the downloaded location from the shell and issue the following commands,

# tar -xvzf uisp.tar.gz
# cd uisp
# ./bootstrap
# ./configure
# make
# sudo make install

If you have contiki source code, goto the location
contiki-2.4/examples/rime.
There’s a file named “example-multihop.c” in that directory. You can try this example by running on Cooja simulator. To do it, goto that directory from the shell and issue the following command.

make TARGET=cooja example-multihop.cooja

This will open a Cooja window with the example. To trigger a mote for starting the functionality, right click on a mote and select the option “Click Button on Contiki”. (I assumed that you are familiar with Cooja simulator)

I hope this material will give you the basics of programming with Contiki even if you are a novice in C programming.

http://www.wsnmagazine.com

BUSH MAN: guy there was no need puting an innocent persons name on here just because you are skeptical, what were you trying to prove?

na fake story!! its public information and his twitter handle

1 & 4

you people here at nairaland are so gulible, you believe everything. Within 5secs its obvious oyibo no write this. Its an interesting story. If your a writer why not say here is a story i wrote..??
Domain Name: CAMELIABOLD.COM

Registrant:
chimdinma onwuama oyibo ko, oyibo ni.

Will China become the Game changer?

Cisco Systems futurist Dave Evans predicts that the Internet of Things (IoT) will link approximately 50 million machines and devices by 2020. His vision is a world of networked smart devices equipped with sensors and radio-frequency identification. The internet of things is already here as evident in the automotive, transport and surveillance industries for example, there are several car models that can monitor their own internal functions and alert their owners about needed maintenance.

Experts like IEEE Senior Member Oleg Logvinov, director of market development at STMicroelectronics believe that the current application of IoT is just a scratch on the surface of what is possible, “integrating sensors and actuators with the cloud will be one area that will define the development of IoT … The pervasive connectivity and distributed intelligence of the IoT will play increasingly important roles in our daily lives,” Logvinov says. “And standards are key to the IoT’s success because “no vibrant ecosystem can be built without interoperability achieved on many levels. And interoperability is not possible without standards, for which IEEE is a perfect platform for IoT-related collaborations.”

IEEE has begun establishing relationships with China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) and similar groups as well as holding conferences and workshops around the world to discuss with industry the systems; infrastructure, applications, and standards that are needed for the basic technology, the interfaces, and even the procedures for initializing devices newly attached to the IoT. IEEE partnered with CCSA in June to hold an IoT standards workshop in Beijing. The country was a natural choice because Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao had identified the IoT as one of the nation’s seven strategic emerging industries. China plans to invest 5 billion yuan (US $800 million) in the IoT industry by 2015.

“The IoT has the capacity to be a transformative force, positively impacting the lives of millions worldwide,” says Bingmei Wu, deputy secretary-general of the CCSA.

The workshop brought together leading global industry experts seeking ways to achieve a common IoT architecture. Representatives were on hand from China Telecom, the China Academy of Telecommunication Research (CATR), IBM, Siemens, and STMicroelectronics. Topics, in addition to current standards efforts, included convergent networks and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. (As of 2011, China had the largest M2M market in the world.)

Released in March 2011, IoT related standard IEEE 1888; Standard for Ubiquitous Green Community Control Network Protocol is the result of a global collaboration. It was started in China by companies, universities, and other organizations that wanted to reduce the nation’s surging energy use. It is the first corporate standards project to leverage information and communications technologies for energy savings.

Director of corporate programs for IEEE-SA Mary Lynne Nielsen says “Standardizing on a common architecture will help ensure interoperability, compatibility, and reliability, enabling the IoT to truly become a change agent for continued technology advancement,”

More than 40 Chinese municipalities have applied to build so-called smart cities, which would rely on IoT applications to make infrastructure and services—including education, health care, public safety, transportation, and utilities more interconnected and efficient says Yu Xiaohui, chief engineer of CATR, which is part of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. He reported at the workshop that IoT applications in China were being used mainly in food security and in steel, petrochemicals, and automobile manufacturing. For example, the country’s Ministries of Commerce and Finance jointly developed a tracking and tracing system using RFID and bar codes to ensure food safety for meat and vegetables in 20 cities. The other industries are developing IoT applications for such tasks as managing the supply chain, improving manufacturing processes, and controlling energy consumption.“The IoT will be the key for smart-city construction, and the development of smart cities will provide the application market for the IoT,” he said.

There is also an interesting youtube video at the site !!

We are at the beginning of perhaps the most important market and technology transition of our lifetimes—where new companies, new services, and new opportunities will be created. With the Internet of Everything, things that were silent will have a voice. Imagine ..you take a pill, the pill will talk to your phone, which will talk to your electronic health record, which will talk to your doctor to ensure you have the best health care possible. THE INTERNET OF THINGS

China is already positioning itself . My fellow nigerians can we do the same??
http://www.wsnmagazine.com/internet-of-things-next-advancement/

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Do I have to teach smbdy to read in this direction <== or is d person a n e e d r a t e r?

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Dont be rude, I am not daft or retarded. Sorry if Medina in my name gave u the impression i read right to left, I dont! Funky Medina is the title of an awesome 80s track, not related to Islam in anyway .

[quote author=*solid*]^^ Better go and never return cos u are t f a d (<==) .

I must say i am suprised by ur reaction. what does t f a d even mean? If you dont want any kind of discuss or opposition to ur idea maybe a forum isnt the best place to express it. Very disappointing if this is the norm here at nairaland. Are u friends with the payguru character? Or maybe its my fault for thinking i am actually talking with certain kinds of people. Shame , I was actually enjoying the banter.

So this thread is still alive..sorry to go off topic but i am afraid to post . today was my first visit to technology section, I wanted to post an interesting article on embedded systems , as i clicked submit i got banned for about 2hrs by pyguru for no stated reason.

Maybe the pyguru is annoyed at my position here, this is the only thread I have had serious discussion of this nature .. Sorry oo , please dont ban me again , if you dont like discuss why are u in a forum , my position here is not to be taken soo serious like that , na wa oo..anyway I am signing off this topic finally .

Thanks!

Dear Administrators,
i am afraid to post . today is my first visit to technology section, I wanted to post an intresting article on embedded systems , as i clicked submit i got banned for about 2hrs by pyguru. Is creating posts only for special people or what is the process here. Please make this things clear so we know . Thanks!