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I picked hidden_hunter when I first started playing quake 1 on the internet cause it sounded cool, but I think it's aged alright

Shame I don't have a cool story to share though

thats $300 cheaper than we would pay

I'm not nigerian and don't live in nigeria but I still find it ok to relate to most of the posts (some I leave because I have no idea what's going on)

personally I would see if your host is compatable with PHP as it allows alot more feature rich websites, and there alot of pre written scripts people have written to help get a good website.

You can find some good scripts for both java and PHP and several other languages at http://www.hotscripts.com/

hvae you looked at the smart phone's that are combination of a phone and a pocket pc?

There are far more titles available for pocket pc than java and usually these programs are of a much higher standard.

Just to clarify things abit files are usually measured in kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes etc where as transfer speed is measured in kilobits, megabits, gigabits, terabits. To find out the true speed you are copying at just devide the kilobit, megabit, gigagbit, terabit by 8 and you'll get the true speed.

To go from megabytes to kilobytes times it by 1024 (1024 is the exact measurement, 1024 bytes = a kilobyte, 1024 kilobytes = a megabyte)


So I have a 10 megabit connection with 128 kilobit uplink, a real pain because of mixed numbers!
so we times the 10 by 1024 and we get 10240 kilobits per second and 128 kilobit uplink.
Now this is no-good for us either because what website measures in bit's per second (BPS) so we devide it by 8 to find out the MAX speed you can transfer at and the answer comes out to 1280 kilobytes per second, and if you want to make it even easier to read devide it by 1024 to find the megabytes per second.

You should end up with an answer of 1.25.

Obviously due to other factors you will never the speed advertised, due to things like packet overhead, congestion etc.

Anyways if anything needs clarifying don't hesitate to ask.

It's a groing problem all around the world , I have even had freinds that have decided to go down that track, a sad site really.

the RazR v3 looks nice but is very costly due to it's expensive manufacturing

Why should a man have to go out, work all day earn some money so his wife can laze about without a care in the world?

Surely both should be trying to contribute to the family earnings?

how does that work for say you sending me PM's and then needing me to responde?

it's hard to dissociate your self with mobil when you live in one of their housing estates.

South Africa

considering microsoft office premimum (the ones corperations buy) is about $1000 (N100000) for us to purchase you can see why piracy is rife.

Nambia

what type of phone is it?

When I talk to him tonight i'll pass that on, apparantly he has called dad up and told him he won't be safe at work, at home in Eket or in nigeria and has told him that he should leave nigeria....

Some how I don't think saying we already paid you is going to work....

strict company policy prevents it because they have been caught out before for millions because they are "destabilizing" nigeria.

He emailed and called security about it and they took it as a personal insult and that he was commenting they weren't doing there job properally so pretty much said they wouldn't do anything.

As quite a few members know my father works for Mobil in Nigeria.

Recently he has been having troubles with a certain person (a contractor) that is trying to extort money from Mobil by saying he has not been paid for three months which is certainly not the case (he is also asking for far more money than the contract was for)

Unfortunately my father has been on the receiving end of this stick and has had been abused by this person and has been threatened by him (that he won't be safe at work, on the way to work at home etc) and even went as far to try and stop my father getting up out of his chair so that he could hold him hostage, he left after this for reasons unknown at this stage.

This guy didn't even have a valid pass to be on the premises so that tells you how pathetic Mobil's security is , so what is the best way of dealing with this?

Ebay seems to be the current target of choice for scams (and always has been actually) funny thing is quite a few nigerian's have tried it

My mate got one in from hong kong and it is pure class, tony hawks on it is amazing

Also 6 people in one game bah thats nothing battlefield 1942 64 people now there is something

To those asking, I have sent you a PM asking for your email so I can send you the invite.

Certainly good news. Lays the ground work for a decent Internet connection in homes in a few years.

I personally predict that a technology like WiMAX (the successor to Wi-Fi) with its extended ranges would be extremely good in Nigeria, cost effective, and non reliant on land lines (unlike xDSL technologies, cable - DOCSIS - etc.)

But why america there are far better countries to go to?

but you could start another fire....

Australia does not have a visa lottery policy as it's quite frankly a crappy system, we have tight regulations on our immigration because 1) lots of people over stay there visa's 2) due to our location if we opened up our doors we would have alot of jobs taken by asian workers leaving no work for us.

you can check out Australia's immigration site at http://www.immi.gov.au/


also New Zealand has very open visa policy's compared to most countries especially us.

people do it because it's portable, nothing sucks more than a long plane trip with nothing to do (flying from here to nigeria allows me to see every movie emirates offers and some twice)

you would do nothing as she would begin to inhale the deadly carbon dioxide and she would surely relize the house is on fire her self.

Perhaps calling emergency serverices.

because they're not people's all time favourites
System Shock 2 came out around the same time and I enjoyed it far more than HL1 and HL2 was a dissapoint and with all that messing around with steam

Final Fantasy 7 was the best in the series as well I though, and I just thought of another game I really like No-One-lives-forever 1 and 2.

i'll think up some more later