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Seun:
This web-site runs on a Linux-based (virtual) server which I run remotely, so I'm quite used to the the idea of Linux as a production server.

However, as a web administrator I cannot run Linux on my desktop because 87% of the visitors to my website use Micrisoft Internet Explorer, which of course only runs on Windows. It is easy to get the open source software products which usually run on Linux (PHP, MySQL, Apache Web server, etc) to work on Windows, but you can't get popular Windows software (e.g. office) to run on Linux!

Dual-booting between Linux and Windows only works when you work primarily on one OS and use the other for learning or playing games. When I was studying at OAU Ife, I used to run Linux as my primary OS and WIndows for playing games and movies! I had friends who ran Windows as their primary OS but would occasionally boot to Linux just to 'learn UNIX'.

However, as I'm typing this I don't even have any copy of Linux on my hard drive because there's no point switching between the two operating systems when all the open source software I want to use can equally work on Windows! So, for now, I can only campaign for the use of Linux on servers!

Some interesting points there.Well I dont believe in OS bashing and I certainly dont critise what I dont know about.

First point, as a web administrator, am sure you will agree that majority, cross that, the vast majority of servers running the net are based on LAMP[Linux, Apache,MySql,PHP]. Yes you can run Microsoft Office or Internet Explorer on Linux. Ever heard of WINE, Win4lin,VMware? These are all virtual machines which make it possible to run a guest OS on a different OS. In any case, have you tried Openoffice? For me, it is much better and functional than MS Office. It even natively allows you to save your documents as .pdf not needing the expensive full adobe acrobat product. And with the new version 2.0 which has an inbuilt data base program much like microsoft access, I dont even need to use MS office anymore.


You apparently have not even been near a linux system for quite some time. As you are no doubt aware, 6 months in the computer industry is a very long time. Most distros release new versions every couple of months. I am very sure if you were to try a Live Cd such as Knoppix www.knoppix.net, Simply Mepis www.mepis.org,Ubuntu www.ubuntu.org, Kanotix www.kanotix.com, Suse http://www.novell.com/linux/suse/, you would be shocked at how much advance has been made since you last used linux. I started with Knoppix last year cos my laptop then was messing up. I was dual booting cos I had to keep Microsoft Office for school work. Since I discovered that the beta openoffice had a database program, I have removed windoze completely from my computers and I dont even miss windoze.

If you are interested in trying some live CD's cos I know it would take forever to download it in NIgeria, I could burn some copies for you and pop them in the post As a power windoze user, who has used windoze from win 3.1 thru win NT to win 95 and going on thru win 2000 and win ME to win XP, I have seen both sides and I believe I can effectively decide for myself which is better. I dont worry about my registry getting corrupt, I dont worry about viruses, I dont have to update my system every two days, the computer just does what its supposed to do and that is work.

Agreed , a lot of people believe linux is geeky and only for IT gurus, but a lot of the current desktop distros are desinged basically for windows converts and believe me, if I could run a linux system, anybody can. At times, I go for weeks without even opening a command line interface.

[quote author=Hidden_Hunter link=topic=487.msg5940#msg5940 date=1118903553]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)[/quote]You might need to dl a couple of the recent distros and see. I dont agree that linux is not polished enuff for the desktop. I havent been using windows since last year. and I cant tell you how much more rewarding it is. Since u like debian, try Kanotix, Simply Mepis, Ubuntu , they are all debian based and as such using apt-get, you have over 10,000 free programs at your disposal from the debian repositories.

Abegiii once a person has lost his/her virginity it is gone. In any case what is a virgin? Virginity is defined by the loss or possession of the hymen. Once a woman looses the hymen, then she is no longer a virgin. Girls lose it on the sports field quite easily. WHile I feel for the person that was raped, the truth is that she is no longer a virgin.

@ Seun, if she gets pregnant from that rape nko? which is quite possible

lekan

seems for the first time, a lot of our ladies are being truthful............nice to see that we are facing facts now and not ideality, we dont live in a dream world and in as much as the ladies want a Mills & Boon affair, life is just a bitch.

@tayotina-go girl, tell them as it is...meanwhile while u dey come menshun my name dere now? If police dey catch person na so dem go rope me inside....

@Einstein- if you think all men are good in bed, then u are living in a fantasy world

I thought you were always made aware of your grades, and you generally knew your GP? So Ogunswale should have had an idea wheather he was going to be a bordeline 2.2 in which case he would have needed to do serious 'adura' and 'awe' (prayers and fasting)

That as it may, Nigeria being what Nigeria is, you might get a better job than someone with a 1st class it all depends on who you know. 'Naija na long leg', unless things have changed oh.

The easiest way for a newbie to linux is to try a Live CD I.e the whole operating system boots from the CD without affecting your hard disk. If you feel comfortable with it, then you can stick with linux. I run Kanotix 2005 on my regular laptop. Works perfectly. Wireless network, sound, name it its much better and faster than windows. Plus, I dont need to bother about viruses when opening email attachments. My second laptop runs simplyMepis. Which is one of the easiest OS to install.From booting the Live CD to a fully functional system takes less than 20 minutes. And you can continue using your system while its installing unlike windows which will take full control of your systemfor about an hour if not more.

Linux comes with all drivers, I plug in my USB CD burner and its recognised, plug in my printer its recognised. In windows you need to install drivers for each component you are using.

All in all, I have no regrets switching to linux. I am what you can call a distrojunkie but after trying Ubuntu, Xsandros, Linspire, PC Linux, Suse, Knoppix, I have settled with Kanotix and I dont think am going to be trying any other distro any time soon. Visit www.distrowatch.com for daily news and reviews about linux.

@Niggy what distro do you use?

This Okafor's Law again. Abeg, who is this Okafor? The guy deserves a Nobel prize jare.

Seun:
Vieira, you are [I]also[/I] based abroad. Cheap shot, I know, but I am on a mission to 'defend the virgins' .

Are you [I]married[/I]? Is jogego married? Is obong married? So you are [I]just as inexperienced as I am[/I], really. You do not have any evidence to show that premarital sex youre enjoying today will improve your marriage in the future. For all you know, you might get married and find out that you and your partner are 'incompatible' in spite of all that premarital lovemaking.

There are married people on this forum, and they will be in a better position to enlighten us, if we are able to pose the question to them in the right way.

emmm, how can you be 120% sure am not married? How do you know Vieria or Obong are not married? abegiiii just take if from people who have experience jare. Its like saying that a person who has not been to medical school should be practising medicine. That one na Quack paraku so follow Vieria's advice jare

@ Seun since you never concede a point unless its documented, kindly visit the following pages.

http://www.marsvenus.com/page-in-template.php?cgi-bin/sfesurvey.cgi?howdoyoureallyfeelaboutsex

http://divorcesupport.about.com/cs/sexualissues/a/sexualcompatibi.htm

http://www.divorcewizards.com/sexquiz.html

you can try out the polls pages and see what your scores would be. And I think you need to look for a copy of the McKinsey report on sexuality and read it.

Seun:
[quote author=jogego link=topic=481.msg5730#msg5730 date=1118835638]Sexual compatibility is a very very important part of marriage.

For goodness' sake, what is the meaning of this "sexual compatibility" you keep talking about? As long as the husband's body is complete and the wife's body is complete and they know what they need to do to get the pleasure they are looking for, they are sexually compatible. Please stop spreading this [I]dangerous myth[/I] of sexual compatibility. I've had enough![/quote]and there in speaks a truely inexperienced person......shakes head and walks away...........

Seun:

jogego if all guy should reject virgin girl,pinky and I are in a big mess coz we won't get guy to marry us

First of all, jogego and obong (the anti-virginity campaigners ) are both [I]based abroad[/I], so they might have been influenced by western cultures.

Secondly, as a virgin you can always get disvirgined any time you like, but someone who is not a virgin cannot 'take back' her virginity. So think it is better to hold on to it and give yourself the opportunity of a future with both the men who prefer virgins and the men who [I]claim[/I] that they don't. it is better to keep your options open!

@Seun that is a very biased and unfair comment. You dont know if I started livinig abroad last week or last month or last year. For the record, I grew up in Lagos and had most of my schooling in Lagos and I actually spent a couple of years working in Nigeria b4 relocating and so I am not being influenced by your so called western ideas. We are all entitled to our own opinions, and I re iterate, that I would never marry a virgin.All to his own. And since you are not experienced, kindly take it from someone who is. Sexual compatibility is not a joke and the fact that two people love each other does not mean they must blend in bed. There are various sexual preferences and tastes and while some people are adventurous sexually, a number of people are quite docile. Imagine what happens when a docile person marries anadventurous person. You think things would work out?

obong:
Churces have bills to pay. All over the world religious institutions charge for education.

And therein lies the problem. Christianity is all about Naira and Kobo nowadays much in the same way that Jesus chased people out of the house of God for turning it into a den of robbers, to be honest, it's just a way of making tax free income.

Sexual compatibility is a very very important part of marriage. How will you know if you are sexually compatible if you don't have sex?

virgin keeee? lae lae

Doubt if a market of over 100 million Nigerians will ever be saturated. And the service is still not as mature as in other countries there is stil room for a provider that is customer first and not profit first

abegiii Seun dont reduce everything to right or wrong the fact is that we are human beings and therefore subject to human nature and by nature we are selfish. The issue here is not if its right or wrong, but is it possible?

whizkid:
MTN made 65 billion naira profit last financial year!
I know a lot of people that has contributed to this N65bn profit, they spend nothing less than N15,000 monthly on MTN recharge cards, that is so unreasonable and wasteful especially when it is for pleasure.

it is a free world my dear, if someone chooses to spend N100k per month on frivolous phone calls, that is that person;s business. Saying that they dont contribute to the society is not correct either, what about the thousands of jobs created directly by MTN, indirectly by sales of fone cards?

Hussain

emmmm come back is possible as in a fling. Life is not fair or straigh forward. Pure and simple.

If you pick someone who is still tied to his mother's apron strings for a husband, well that is your luck. I'm sure your cousins can't say she doesn't know the guy is a mummy's boy. In any case, I think she is better off not marrying him, because her mother in law would have made life a living hell on earth for her.

Danjuma

So you are saying that a danfo driver can send his son to this school? Or is the danfo driver not ahuman being? Or is he wrong to want to break the chain of poverty in his family? The danfo driver, Iya Silifa the pepper seller, Gani the mechanic, this are the real masses and this are the people who need this education cos they cant afford otherwise. Can they afford N250k per annum? The fact that it is peanuts to u does not make it peanuts to eveybody

The fact that I dont see eye to eye with you on this fees stuff doesnt mean that I dont agree with their being private universities, all am saying is that since you are soliciting for Covenant, tell me in what way, this university provides for the masses. Am sure even a lot of kids that go to that church cant afford the fees.

Vanessa...wo me no sabi any Naija names starting with V jare

....the she devils abi na he-devils coming down the road towards us....yepa na im we pick race begin run towardds the garage weda we go see motor carry us commot this waffi land. we got into a but going to Aba and the journey was going smooothly until we got to a "wetin u carry".................

women can never manage to reverse a car in a straight line

silifat