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Raylight2: Hi, I am about starting my business in a few months and I need ebooks on effective business management. I wish someone could refer me to a book online or possible share one with me here please.

thanks.

James

You can get lots of eBooks on business here. Especially in areas of marketing and Social Media to boost sales.

www.hundrednaira.com

delesule: How do i know that my system is 32bit or 64bit?

Windows Vista, 7, and 8 users

1. Open System by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, right-clicking Computer, and then clicking Properties.

2. Under System, you can view the system type.

Windows XP users

1. Click Start.

2. Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.

- If you don't see "x64 Edition" listed, then you're running the 32-bit version of Windows XP.

- If "x64 Edition" is listed under System, you're running the 64-bit version of Windows XP.

Step 9: Verify the Apache install, by clicking on the Apache administrative link in the Control Panel.

Setp 10: Verify the MySQL installation, by clicking on the MySQL administrative link in the XAMPP Control Panel.

If the verification steps are successful, XAMPP should be successfully installed on your PC. Open a browser and enter "localhost" on your address bar. You will be redirected to a page telling you that you've successfully installed xampp on your system

Step 5: Accept the default settings. A command will open and offer an initial installation prompt. Just hit the Enter key, and accept the default settings. To simplify installation, just hit ENTER when prompted on the command line. You can always change settings, by editing the configuration files later.

Step 6: When your installation is complete, exit the command window by typing x on the command line.

Step 7: Start the XAMPP Control Panel.

Step 8: Start the Apache and MySQL components. You can also start the other components, if you plan to use them.

Installing XAMPP

Step 1: In your web browser, go to http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

Step 2: Click on the download link for XAMPP.

Step 3: When prompted for the download, click "Save" and wait for your download to finish.

Step 4: Once your download is complete, install the program, click on "Run"

Wordpress is a web application that runs on a server. To set up Wordpress on your personal computer (works without internet connectivity), you need to instal the web server XAMPP.

You can download XAMPP here https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html. It's free. Make sure you get the version that works with your Windows Operating System.

XAMPP instals into your root directory (C: Drive in most cases).

XAMPP can be installed the same way you instal other applications - just read the instructions as follow.



XAMPP for Windows exists in three different flavors:

Installer:
Probably the easiest way to install XAMPP.

ZIP:
For purists: XAMPP as ordinary ZIP archive.

7zip:
For purists with low bandwidth: XAMPP as 7zip archive.

Note: If you extract the files, there can be false-positives virus warnings.

Using the installer:

The XAMPP control panel for start/stop Apache, MySQL, FilaZilla & Mercury or install these server as services.

Installing from ZIP

Unzip the zip archives into the folder of your choice. XAMPP is extracting to the subdirectory "C:\xampp" below the selected target directory. Now start the file "setup_xampp.bat", to adjust the XAMPP configuration to your system.

If you choose a root directory "C:\" as target, you must not start "setup_xampp.bat".

Like with the installer version, you can now use the "XAMPP Control Panel" for additional tasks.

Macsholly: pls admin from the installation explanation gave, is it a must we use strong decoder to set up everything before we can now insert the consat decoder to continue the work. cant we use the consat decoder right from the onset?

U can't track with the Consat decoder. U can use a satellite finder to track it if u're good with it. U continue installation with the Consat decoder after u must have got d signal using a HD Strong or satellite finder/meter

delesule: @ op
what a great thread
Am following.

Thanks. Still expecting questions, suggestions, comments ...

Our reasons for using Wordpress are mainly because more people have experience using it than other CMS, and also for it's ease of use.

There are two vital components of a Wordpress installation - Themes and Plugins. Themes are used to customize the look and feel. While plugins handle what your site can do. To achieve E-commerce functionality on a Wordpress site, we make use of plugins designed for such.

We will using the Woocommerce plugin for our E-commerce website. It is one of the most widely used E-commerce plugins, and there are other plugins with Nigerian features that suits businesses in Nigeria - features like Nigerian states, online payment processors for Nigerians.

So get ready to get your working gloves on.

In order to use Wordpress, you either instal it on your computer, or you get hosting on the internet. Either way is fine, as the process of installation and setup has being simplified.

Different Universities, Polytechnics, and Colleges of Education set their Post JAMB questions differently. But a common subject among most of them is the General Paper or General Knowledge subject.

This is why this free ebook covers information, past questions and answers on General Paper, from different institutions. If you follow the instructions in this book, and familiarize yourself with the information contained here, you are sure to perform excellently in this year’s Post JAMB exam.

You can download The Post UTME General Paper here http://e-learningnigeria.com/download

So you’ve done the United Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) and your result was released. Congratulations! Because not everyone who sits for the exam has their results released. Some of the results seized will be later released, so be hopeful.

Next hurdle to scale is the Post UTME, sometimes called Post JAMB. Some Universities and Polytechnics prefer to call it Universities Matriculation Screening Test. This is a one-day exam set by your school of choice, for admission of candidates into their institutions.

Wordpress Weaknesses

Because of its large user base, hackers are always attracted to Wordpress. That explains the frequents upgrades and updates for Wordpress installations.

For those of us who like to challenge ourselves by taking up tougher tasks, you find yourself outgrowing Wordpress and it's "simplicity"

Wordpress is not as flexible as Drupal. It's best for blogging, while Drupal is great for almost any web site.

Wordpress Strengths

Personally, the greatest strength of Wordpress lies in its ease of use. So intuitive that anyone who has used an email would be able to use it. The best CMS to start with for any beginner. You do not need profiency in any programming technology.

It's flexible, can be used to create just about any kind of site.

Wordpress is extensible through lots of themes and plugins (used to add functionality to your site). Actually, the later part of this thread will focus on certain required plugins that give your Wordpress installation the E-commerce functionality.

Lots of documentation. Probably find solutions to any problem you would encounter while using Wordpress.

Wordpress has being reported to be the best CMS when it comes to page load time. Loads faster than Joomla and Drupal. For any kind of website you're building, this is a plus.

Best for blogging.

Like Drupal and Joomla, Wordpress is free and open source, designed originally for blogging. It is arguably the most installed CMS with over 22.7% of all web sites using it. That translates to a share of about 60.5% of the total CMS market.

Praised for it's ease of use, well documented online manual, extensibility, and flexibility, Wordpress has since being used to create attractive and feature-rich web sites beyond what it's original intent.

In order to save time and space, I'll leave you to research online for extensive articles of Wordpress evolution. Let's look at some of the things that make Wordpress a great choice for this project.

Joomla Weaknesses

- Steep learning curve for the beginners. Though not nearly as difficult as Drupal in terms of administration, a newbie to Joomla may find it overwhelming.

- Due to complexities of the built-in features of the Joomla platform, load time of it's pages are arguably slower than Drupal and Wordpress.

- Though Joomla boasts of lots of extensions for additional features, getting good, feature-rich extensions will cost you money.

- Joomla is a multi-purpose CMS that serves small to medium sized websites, but in terms of flexibility, Drupal remains your best bet.

E-commerce websites can also be successfully run on Joomla, though in future posts we'll see why Wordpress remains our choice.

About Joomla!

Estimated to be the second largest Content Management System after Wordpress, with about 50 million downloads. Joomla is also free and open source web application whose development is community-driven.

Joomla is best for developers and those that need a powerful, extensible CMS. It is a solid offering that has a lot of functionality. Just like Drupal and Wordpress, Joomla has a huge collection of readily available extensions and themes for users.

One strength of Joomla is it's ease of use when compared to Drupal, though Wordpress comes out tops in this category. It's large following and community of users ensure that you get the right documentation for almost anything you need.

Joomla allows multiple users to edit a site at the same time.

Joomla has a large community devoted to it, with a million module creators, but that can get frustrating to find the right one for your needs. Sometimes you have to resort to using commercial modules which can cost a lot of money.

Joomla is also multi-purpose, allowing you to build different types of websites on it.

That said, Joomla is also good for E-commerce sites.

Weaknesses of Drupal

- Drupal can be very intimidating for new user. Just logon on to the system as the administrator and any user will find himself overwhelmed by so many options and configurations. Customizing Drupal systems is much easier for experienced and skilled developers.

- Load time slower than Wordpress. Though Drupal load time seems faster when compared to other CMS, especially with it's page caching system, in comparison to Wordpress it's load time is slower. A possible reason given for this is that Drupal being a general-purpose management system, it comes loaded with codes that can support just any kind of website you intend to build. While Wordpress was originally designed for blogs.

- Cost of maintaining a Drupal site can be significant, since you'll need an admin who's comfortable with at least HTML, CSS and PHP in order to get your money's worth.

- "Unfriendliness" of Drupal community to armature webmasters. I initially pointed out that any webmaster that has problems with his Drupal installation can open up a thread stating the specific problem. Responses on threads made by newbies or "armatures" hardly get the needed response, thereby making it difficult to get the answer you're seeking for.

- Lastly, my observations on using Drupal is that most of the distributed modules are free, unlike Drupal where developers sell a scaled-down version of their plugin for free while the paid versions come with more features. This reason, I believe, makes the developers less motivated than their Wordpress counterparts in the number, usefulness and features of these add-ons.

With all said, Druapl still remains one of the best options for E-commerce website, especially with the popular Ubercart and Drupal Commerce modules. And other distributions for Drupal that handle E-commerce.

Listed below are 3 of the most popular CMS:

1. Wordpress
2. Drupal
3. Joomla

As a developer, I've used all three for different projects and they each have their strengths and weaknesses.

I'll start with Drupal.

Drupal is a free, open source web-development platform that allows you to easily publish contents online. It is used to build websites from blogs, news websites, social network to E-commerce websites.

Drupal's strength lies in it's Drupal community that develops and distributes most of the add-ons of the core Drupal distribution.

These add-ons consists of modules (codes designed to perform certain functions), themes (templates used to customize the look and feel of your Drupal site), and distributions (fully customized installation of Drupal e.g a wiki, social media, or job recruitment site). If there's any feature or function you want to build into a website, there's probably an add-on already for it.

Due to its large user base, there is extensive documentation on virtually any problem on Drupal. If you can't find the solution you're looking for, you can open a thread in the community and you'll definitely get responses from other skilled developers.

Drupal loads relatively fast, modular in design, fairly secure and boasts of a lot of other great features.

It is also a good choice for an E-commerce website. Though for reasons which will be later highlighted, we decided against using Drupal for this project.

You will need a web developer if you intend to build your E-commerce site from the ground up. But a smarter way to go about it is to use a Content Management System (CMS), which provides most of the tools to building your site. Using a CMS will greatly reduce the amount of time and money spent on building your website.

Simply put, a CMS is a web application that lets you create websites in less than 10 minutes. It contain tools required to set up ANY kind of website.

Our choice of CMS for E-commerce site is because of the short time it takes to set up, much cheaper alternative, and you can manage the website with little or no technical skills.

Wordpress isn't the only CMS application available. There are hundreds of them, and most are designed for specific purposes. Wordpress was created initially for blogs, but due to it's flexibility, it can be used to build just any site. You're only limited by your imagination, and the level of knowledge and information you have about Wordpress.

Why Use WordPress?

According to Wikipedia, E-commerce (Electronic commerce) "is trading in products or services using computer networks, such as the Internet. Electronic commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems."

Unlike the regular kinds of businesses we know, having an E-commerce business doesn't require a physical location. It certainly requires an online presence.

And the platform most likely to use is the internet.

Kowale: Bro, any sports channel?

Sports Plus
Extreme Sports

Optima likely to come up again soon

Basic Requirements Before Set Up

Setting up an E-commerce site, like every other worthwhile project, requires proper preparation & planning to ensure success.

As earlier mentioned, the knowledge of web design/development skills (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, ASP.net, MySQL) is not mandatory.

However, good knowledge of some of them will prove helpful. And increase your chances of fully customizing your site to suit your taste.

When planning, you need to consider the following

- What kind of products/services you will be selling/buying. Product v Services. Physical v Virtual etc

- Your domain name. (SEO experts advice you choose a name that reflects your business type). Buying domain name is much cheaper today i.e. between N1,500 to N2,500 and much higher if you want .ng TLD.

- Your hosting. Your website needs to be hosted. For a typical website, shared hosting would be fine. But for E-commerce website, I suggest you go for VPS (Virtual Private Server). VPS is a logically created sever which has the benefits of a dedicated physical server. Using this hosting plan helps improve security of your site.

VPS hosting can be bought for as low as $20 monthly. The more the features you want, the more you have to pay for it. Before committing yourself to any hosting company, be sure you do your research in order to ascertain if the hosting company actually delivers on it's promises.

- SSL Connection. SSL is a protocol (communication standard) designed to provide security over the internet. Since online shopping requires customers to send sensitive data over the internet, SSL will ensure that the communication with your server is "private" and relatively secure. SSL goes for as low as $10 yearly, but the higher priced ones offer more features and benefits.

- Means of delivering product. How your products/services will be delivered to consumers. Virtual goods like software, ebooks, audio, video, might require the buyer to download once payment is confirmed. Will consumers pick up the goods at your physical store? Will your online store offer shipping? Will it be free or paid? Some stores ship free to a particular city/state. Will this method suit your business model?

- At what level of your site's administration do you want to get involved? Will you be the administrator? Or will you oversee the administrator? Your answer here determines what level of skill you'll need to successfully run the business. As the administrator, HTML and CSS knowledge is highly recommended.

Because the requirements isn't exhaustive, we will stop here for now.

When other points show up, they will be addressed appropriately.

Meanwhile, questions, suggestions and contributions are welcome. But please let those comments remain within the context of our discussion.

For those who aspire to do business online, especially selling through the internet, an E-commerce website is a necessity. It helps you reach potential customers who might be unable to access you physically.

With an E-commerce website, you can buy or sell physical goods, virtual goods, services etc.

On this thread I'll present steps that will help anyone (that includes those without web design and programming skills) put up a fully functional E-commerce website using Wordpress.

Brimmie: Is it an APC Owned States thing?? Just asking.

Channels can be received in all parts of Nigeria. That includes APC, PDP, APGA... etc states

Brimmie: Is it an APC Owned States thing?? Just asking.

Going through the channels and programming running on Consat, I see it as a viable option for viewers who want to get the best of Satellite programming with pocket-friendly payment.

Doesn't sound like a political thing.

It’s worth pointing out that Macs and Linux machines don’t have this problem, because they use something called “tickless timers”. Pointing that out doesn’t solve the problem for Windows users though, and the fact remains that IE and Firefox don’t exhibit this issue at all, instead they up the refresh when needed – to play media, say. Microsoft might address this problem in the future, but it’s unlikely to be in a rush when other developers seem able to work around the problem.

So, what can be done? Well, not much. I found out about this bug a long time ago, and it’s been raised with Google via its Chromium bug tracker for a long time. It has, for the most part, been ignored. The first report was in 2010, but the last confirmed bug addition was made yesterday. If Google doesn’t take the problem seriously, then the bug will remain, and Windows laptops running Chrome will drain the battery faster than the same machine running Internet Explorer or Firefox. I’ve tested both of these myself, using a tiny utility called Clockres, and I can confirm Chrome is the only one that increases the rate on startup. Both IE and Firefox only do so when content like video demands it.

The best possible option for Chrome users now is to “star” the issue on the bug tracker. This adds a vote for the issue to be looked at, and will also send you updates about the bug, including if it actually gets fixed. Perhaps if enough people do this, Google will actually take note and look into fixing the problem.

The other option is to stop using Chrome and move to IE or Firefox. I have considered both of these options, but I despise that memory hog Firefox and IE just doesn’t offer the same functionality that I love about Chrome. So for now, I’m going to have to deal with reduced battery and a slightly slower machine. But I really hope a fix can be developed, as Chrome is my browser of choice for a reason – I really like it.

In my test, at idle, my computer uses between 15 and 20 Watts with Chrome running. If I shut Chrome, I can get the power consumption to drop to between 12 and 15 Watts. In this environment, ignoring the wasted electricity, it’s not a major problem. That’s not true on a laptop where power consumption is massively important. And if you want to consider the global impact, imagine how much power is just being wasted on the world’s PCs down to a problem like this.

There is a problem with Google Chrome on Microsoft Windows that is potentially very bad news for laptop users. It can drastically affect battery life, and even slow down your computer.

So, why is Chrome eating through your battery quicker than other internet browsers? The problem is down to something called the “system clock tick rate”. This is something that Windows uses internally that you won’t hear about unless you go looking. What Chrome does, as soon as it is opened, is set the rate to 1.000ms. The idle, under Windows, should be 15.625ms. The numbers are a bit confusing, but it’s what’s happening that matters here rather than the figures themselves.

What is a clock tick anyway, and why does it matter? In an OS like Windows, events are often set to run at intervals. To save power, the processor sleeps when nothing needs attention, and wakes at predefined intervals. This interval is what Chrome adjusts in Windows, so reducing it to 1.000ms means that the system is waking far more often than at 15.625ms. In fact, at 1.000ms the processor is waking 1000 times per second. The default, of 15.625ms means the processor wakes just 64 times per second to check on events that need attention.

Microsoft itself says that tick rates of 1.000ms might increase power consumption by “as much as 25 per cent”. It’s also a problem because, by its very nature, the system tick rate is global, meaning that one application is able to spoil everything, and because regular users don’t care about tick rates, most of us would never know this was a problem.

So, what about other browsers? Well, when you open the most recent version of Internet Explorer, the rate stays at 15.625ms until the browser needs to do something where the rate must increase. If you go to YouTube, say, and play a video IE will increase the rate to 1.00ms. When you shut that tab, and carry on with normal browsing, it will return to 15.625ms. In Chrome though, it is increasing the rate as soon as the browser is opened, and it keeps it high until you shut the browser completely.

When you open the most recent version of Internet Explorer, under Windows 8, the rate stays at 15.625 until the browser needs to do something where the rate must increase. If you go to YouTube, say, and play a video IE will increase the rate to 1.000ms. When you shut that tab, and carry on with normal browsing, it will return to 15.625ms. In Chrome though, it is increasing the rate as soon as the browser is opened, and it keeps it high until you shut the browser completely.

Source http://www.forbes.com/sites/ianmorris/2014/07/14/googles-chrome-web-browser-is-killing-your-laptop-battery/?partner=yahootix

beeola: someone gifted me one and i have been battling to install with a DSTV dish since. customer care no pick up too

Can u state where u're having problem let's try & sort it out?

Consat Free-to-VIew Channels -

TVC News
BBC World News
Al-Jazeera
France 24
Fox News
DW
NHK
WAP TV
TVC Entertainment
Galaxy TV
Yoruba Swagger
because (Oyo)
LTV (Lagos)
OGTV (Ogun)
EBS (Edo)
OSBC (Osun)
RSBS (Rivers)
BSES (Ekiti)
Daystar International
LRA Media
Muslim World TV
Sunnah TV
Kennis Music
X2D
Smash
Sports Plus

oluks05: You are yet to send me d list of channels in the mini premium and premium subscription. I sent u a text the other day. seyioluks(at)gmail(dot)com

Sorry about that, must have being an oversight. Just sent it to your mail now.

lexxybb: How can I use consat decoder to track the free channels on the satellite like rdv, oromia and Co. I can't find option to input the frequency manually. Thanks

You can't use Consat decoder to track free channels. Rather, Consat offers a Free-to-View package which comes with 29 channels