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There are many great open source portal's as well (I use phpnuke for my site) The real cost comes in at hosting, depending in traffic it can skyrocket to several hundered dollars a month (even thousands)

Opera is good but its interface is too bloated for me, the hand gesture system is cool in it though

My DNS providor is extremely good, I haven't had any issue's at all with them

I guess it all depends on the community

Nairaland is welcome to have an IRC chat room on a server that i own co-run, so users can have a real time chat (naturally all for free etc)

I don't really feel that having a chat room lowers forum quality at all or makes less traffic, two sites I am quite active on (and even my own) have active IRC communities and active sites.

IRC can me monetized if you wish by providing a web client that has ad's delivered to the user (or they can download the software but that isn't pratical at schools etc)

I extrememly strongly suggest that you get a surge protector and or a UPS, nothing kills electronics quicker than a jolt of electric current, and a loss of power in a movie would result in a bit of an anti climax!

Yes, I am still interested in helping, let me know if I am needed and what for. Then we can go from there

Buy an all region DVD player (el-cheapo ones usually work) unfortnatly my sony isn't all region (I'm locked to region 4 :/) But my $120 JVC plays all regions and burns

My sony was good when I bought it 6 years ago

you guys can put $4 (equivlent) on a card? How much is an SMS?
My minimum on virgin mobile is $15 (1500) with 60 days to use it (I load $30 (3000 Naira) when I do because that gives me 120 days just to be safe )

$'s are Australian

I don't really think that it is appropiate to try and get people to be a jehova's witness in a forum...

SCART isn't really in wide use anyway because the cables were a rip off

Nigeria even uses the same adapator as the UK so no adaptors are needed

Though I suggest getting some sort of surge protector sent as well to prevent damage to your TV from cruddy mains power

I own a cisco 2611 router as well



http://shopper.cnet.com/Cisco_2611_Ethernet_Router/4014-3319_9-364198.html?q=


Btw beleive me you will not be able to pass the certifcation without some kind of formal training, reading it out of a book just won't work.

I am in the final semester of CCNA, but I hope you have actual access to a router and switch configuration else life is going to be tough and put bluntly I do not think it is possible to get anywhere without one.

If you have any questions I can help you if you need.

not always, here one providor's sim cards don't work in any other phones than the ones they came in due to some wierd formatting that is apparantly common amount countries like korea.

went and saw it at the movies this afternoon, it was very good but a bit wierd

looks good though the heading seems a little too tall, maybe it is just me

Surfing is very popular here in Australia

and no I didn't go surfing in eket cause I suck and the afore mentioned rip tide.

you guys need to watch a show called mythbusters where they checked the only thing coke actually did was clean chrome.

the beach in eket isn't full of any of those things, but appararantly it has a nasty rip tide.

which build were you using? 5048 isn't very good compared to 4074 because they took stuff out when they switched code bases.

I was looking up to see if it was possible to get broadband in nigeria.

Uh wha thas that got to do with anything?

it depends what they actually count as computer literate

My ISP mirrors linux distro's (all of the popular ones and some of the lesser ones (you can request them if there not there and there usually they're by the end of the day)) Haven't had a corrupt download yet from it and I usually get 800 kilobytes a second while downloading

If your lucky you might be able to find some magazines that have come from abroad that have a linux distrobution on the cover cd/dvd

it would be far cheaper for you to host the actual site in a country with much higher bandwidth the nigeria and be more reliable and faster. You can still do intranet stuff if you setup a VPN however usually a trained professional is best at setting up large scale intranets.

no you are right dell don't actually make components, usually they use specially customized parts though

Thats because Linux is free (well the distrobutions that I like)

Debian is the best

Linux is still a little unpolished for main stream use but given time it has possiblities for serious market share. I run linux on servers (except when I need ms sql (it's a VB thing) and for domain controller)

jogego:
Broser exploits? Matey, are you still using IE? I havent used IE for going on close to 4 or 5 years now. Opera, Mozilla and lately Firefox are much better security wise. And seems you still are going on about statistics. I definitely know you dont follow tech news closely. If you did, the problesm caused by SP2 were well documented in most IT magazines, PCW, Pcmag, PCWorld all had stories on it. Some went as far a recommending people not to use it.

bad news on the mozilla suite front with the return of the frame injection attack :/