₦airaland Forum

discusant:
Is it true that your governor, Okorocha, mounted a sign: PERMANENT SITE FOR IMSU in his villages in 2011, used it to deceive villagers and acquired vast acres of land for his private university?

that's true. he started building structures there, planning to relocate IMSU but the villagers made so much noise about it that he dropped the idea. same way he was chased away from the hotel he planned to build on the way to new owerri. and the beautiful abandoned street gates

showafrica:
My brother I tire oo...that man is the best Gov we ever had yet the masses are not satisfied. The masses do not know there is sacrifice for everything, if he delayed salary payment or if he is not sharing money, that is not bad governance but imolites call it bad goverment. He better eat alone and do the best he can. At least i am sure he got taste, he knows what he wants and no one initmidates him. Thats the kind of a leader i want in Imostate. Owelle till 2019, when I go to Abia i see a reason to appreciate imo, and when I go to Uyo I see a reason why we should give owelle more 4 yrs.

guy, if you see the truth you say the truth. if you where involved in an accident in owerri, you would be taken to FMC owerri not to the state owned hospital which is moribund. the owner of that diagnostic center was in FMC begging doctors to refer patients to the diagnostic center. there are no competent doctors in that center. I visited there to assess the place; dialysis is N30,000 while in other places its N25,000. besides, you still have to visit a doctor outside the diagnostic center for follow-up. Most consultants complain of the price and the quality of their images. however, there dialysis machines work very well and their CT machine is the closest to the FMC

you guys are very very funny. that diagnostic center is in the name of his father. that is a pet project that he have his wife to run and oversee. the state specialist hospital is overgrown with weeds and goats. he destroyed the state hospital and built his own hospital. it's business oriented for his pocket. it's not free, no individual can go there to receive free treatment. as it stands now, no government hospital is running in the town apart from the federal medical center and that had been overcrowded by patients.

he needs deliverance alright, from the cancerous substances in the hot wax of that candle.

I was hired by a psychologist to fix a program that seemed to have "strange output" written by one of his ex-grad students. It was a program that reads a data file, asks about 50 questions, does some calculations, and comes up with some score based on this PhD's research. It's on a research 3B2 at the university. He demonstrates the program and sure enough there seemed to be strange flashing words on the screen when it moves from question to question, and they don't seem nice. I agree to do it, should be pretty straightforward, so he'll pay me by the hour to determine how big the fix is and then we'll agree to a fee.

Day 1
I sit down at the 3B2 and login to the ex-grad student's account that has been given to me. This is where the code resides. I examine the C code. It is written to be hard to read. All the code is squished on one line. It's spread over 15 files with about 3 functions per file -- all on one line. All variable names are just three, seemingly random, letters. I talk to the guy and agree to go with hourly on this (great decision). I untangle all the code and format it nicely so I can see it.

It was done on purpose. It used the curses library to move to a point on the screen, print a question and the answers, and wait for a response. But it first went to the first line of the question, printed some white supremacy message, waited 1/2 a second, and then overwrote it with the question. This ought to be simple. There are only about five places it could output anything, and all of them had this subliminal flash of a message. Each one was hard coded. No problem. Delete the offending mvpwintw() and all is well. Or should be. I compile, thinking I'm done. But when I ran it, there it is again -- the subliminal messages. This time with different text still the same subject, just different messages.

I check my code and believe it or not it's back to the initial state I found it. 15 files, mangled, 3-letter variables -- the whole thing right back where I started. I want shoot myself for not making a copy of my code. I unmangle again, this time putting it in three files, named differently. I make a copy of the whole directory, and I mark the files readable only. I compiled it. All looks good. I run the program. There's now a copy of the original 15 files in the directory along with mine and the subliminal messages are back.

Okay, so somewhere on the disk is the source code necessary to keep doing this and he's set the program up to pull in that code when you compile it. I do a full disk search in the include areas (/usr/include) and since this is a research version we have source for just about everything but the kernel itself. That's a lot of header files and this takes some time on the 3B2, so that's day 1.

Day 2
The disk search showed up nothing. The strings were apparently either encrypted or they are buried in a library somewhere. Because I don't have check sums of all the original executable objects, I decide to search all libraries for the text. This is even longer than before, so day two is over.

Day 3
No results. The strings are encrypted. That means I'm going to have to follow all the header files from each #include and each one they #include to find where this is. And that will, take some time. We do alert the campus computing department that we believe someone has gained root level access to Dr. Phelps research computer, which is just a shared lab computer in the science building. They're understandably not convinced.

I start unwinding the #include files. I do that, nowhere do I find the code. So now I know it's compiled in a library. No problem at all. Why not just recompile all those libraries, we do have the source after all.

Days 4-6
The hardest part, convincing the campus nerds they have an issue. But we finally do and Mark, the Unix admin who was hired because he married the Dean's daughter, gets busy learning how to do this. In the end, he agrees to allow me to handle it, because he just doesn't really know how to get all that stuff compiled. End of Day 6, all standard libraries are recompiled. Woo hoo!

I whip out my modified, cleaned up source and start the compile. All looks good. I run it. O M G. It did it again. 15 messed up source files and the subliminal messages are back. This is suddenly like magic. I investigate very very carefully though I am stumped. This code doesn't exist in source code. I think I might be beaten. Dr. Phelps isn't happy with the hours involved and thinks maybe we ought to just rewrite the program from scratch. "Sure", I say staring at the terminal like a lost puppy too deep in my thoughts to put out of my thinking mode, "I think you're right. That will be quicker." "Good," he says, "we can start tomorrow."

Day 7
To hell with that. This guy isn't beating me. We are compiling it from his stinking code or not at all! "You don't have to pay me anymore, Dr. Phelps, I just want lab time." This is nerd war.

Days 8-14
I get smart, I'm thinking he somehow modified the curses library. I compile the curses code to assembly and though I don't know 3B2 assembly (yet!), I start learning. I read manuals for 6 days, piecing together that assembly code. Waste of time, nothing seems unusual.

Day 15
I suddenly realize it's in the compiler. It was the compiler. And every time you compile the original code and run it puts in the subliminal message code into the source code. I'd heard of this before.

Ah ah! I've got him!!!! We have the source code for the compiler as well. I search through it looking for a reference. Lo and behold, I find it. Indeed. There is source code in the compiler/linker that does this:
1) it examines any call to fopen(), searches the file opened looking for Dr. Phelp's questions; if it finds them then
2) it rewrites the 15 files to the current directory when compiling that specific program.
3) It then compiles Dr. Phelps program using the 15 files and outputs to the -o name in the link phase.

The compiler was modified to put that code in Dr. Phelps program as written by the man that modified the compiler.

Several days later, an AT&T tech shows up with a disk and loads the proper compile and linker source and we recompile the compiler from the source. That solves it. All the bad source in the compiler is gone and we've got a new clean copy of the compiler.

Except it didn't. Because the compiler was poisoned with other source code that we didn't have. And that source code, that now existed only in the executable compiler, put those changes back into the compiler source before it compiled it. But this time it didn't modify the /usr/src copy, it copied it to a hidden directory, modified the compiler source, compiled itself from there, and deleted the hidden directory. It took an AT&T tech to find this. The ex-grad student had poisoned the compiler to poison itself when it was recompiled. We had to put a new binary version of the compiler on disk from another 3B2 running the same revision before the problem went away.

We also found that if /sbin/login is compiled it puts in a backdoor allowing anyone who uses a specific password to login in as the root user. This computer is accessible by modem and Tymnet. Finally, this gets the computing center's attention.

Genius! But put to a horrible cause.

The above was culled from Quora.com

Ksslib:
[color=#1980BC]I believe 200yrs was just an estimate. However, if I were to bet on what the source of our extinction MIGHT be, I wouldn't bet on climate change given the fact alot measures are being put in place today to totally go green. Except of course the climate change being referred to here, has nothing to do with our gaseous pollution, but some powerful sudden galactical climatic shift somewhere in the cosmos we never contributed to in the first place.

If I were to bet, I ll bet on something from space- asteroid, powerful radioactive rays that can break through earth's magnetic field..e..t..c

It was only when i started watching/ reading on what happens in space that I truly came to believe its indeed a miracle that humans have even survived this long. The stuffs that have been keeping/still keeps us safe from the ever threating dangers all over 'Space' is just amazing . [/color]

couldn't agree more

I accept his premise. however, Why 200 years? if in regards to the complications of climate change then 200 years is just right. if due to annihilation by other beings, that's long overdue.

The following was constructed from an interview conducted by Cracked.com.

I trained as a doctor in Caracas, Venezuela, the third most violent city in the world, just behind Deadwood and Rage Virus London. I worked every day to stem the tide of murder and suffering. So the next time you get miffed at the wait time and the weird stains on the chairs in the free clinic, spare a passing thought for us Third World doctors, who deal with stuff like ...

#5. Intense On-the-Job Training

In an ideal situation, doctors go through years and years of training before they ever touch a person's insides. If you're learning to be a surgeon in Venezuela, for example, it's not until your fifth year that you're allowed to scrub down and be present for a surgery. At least ... that's what it says on paper. The first time I operated, I was a third-year and had stepped into the operating room to tell my colleagues that dinner was ready.
Before I could run down the specials, the attending physician screamed, "Why aren't you scrubbed in?" and pulled me into the room. In an instant, I was washed down, dressed in surgical garb, and operating on a gunshot victim. They literally threw me some of his intestines, saying, "Hold this." Eventually, the actual doctors in the room realized that none of them recognized me, and I explained that I was just some third-year, and by the way, dinner is ready.

I want to be clear and say that it's not because these guys are shitty doctors and don't care -- we're just so understaffed and overworked that they needed help wherever they could get it.
During that same year, another student and I found ourselves in charge of the entire minor surgery wing, all by ourselves. We weren't qualified or prepared, but we knew enough to get through the night, and we did our best to save some lives. Imagine an internship where all of the employees walk out on the first day and they name you manager for the next 24 hours. Now imagine that internship is at a nuclear power plant. It was a bit like that.

#4. Supplies Are in Short ... Supply

People go to the hospital because trained doctors have the expertise that your average citizen doesn't, but you can't underestimate how much doctors rely on their supplies. Even the best doctor in the world couldn't stitch a wound with nothing but dental floss and really sharp fingernails. Since Venezuela's economy is sort of in the shitter, it's getting tougher to import the supplies we need to keep people alive.
But necessity breeds MacGyverism: One time a guy walked in with gunshot wounds to the head, arm, and leg, and he was literally holding his brains in with one good hand while his other limbs just ... well, if this were a video game, he would've been on his last hit point. We didn't have any of the dozens of supplies we needed to fix that, so we took some cardboard and packing tape, put the pieces of his limbs roughly where they were supposed to be, and did our best to get this bleeding man-package to another hospital.

When I arrived, the doctors at the new hospital asked me where I was coming from. When I told them, they said, "Oh, you come from hell." That's how I found out the hospital where I worked was known as "hell." Did I mention this was my first day on the job?
Another time, two guys came in after they both somehow managed to lose a machete fight against one another. The doctor on call had to keep them together while waiting for the ambulance to show up and take them to another hospital, because, again, we were out of supplies. He used the stapler from his desk.

Another, more pressing problem is electricity: Sometimes we don't have it.

This picture is the J.M. de los Rios hospital, a national reference center for children. These noble doctors are doing rounds with flashlights. Do you think hospitals should have backup generators? Ha! The joke's on you! It's also on the children, and the punchline is that they don't receive medical care.

It's ... not exactly a knee slapper.

#3. Sometimes You Have to Hide a Corpse

Hospitals all around the world regularly interact with police and firefighters, obviously, since they're the ones most likely to be delivering us our clients. But in Venezuela, they're just as overworked as we are, so we don't generally see each other at our best -- I mean, I wouldn't go so far as to call the firemen my adversaries, but I was a bit peeved when they dropped off a corpse without so much as a "How do you do, here's a dead dude."
I stepped out into the garage where the firemen park, just in time to see them flop a body onto our one and only gurney, then take off. I spent a good portion of the night calling the police, hoping they'd swing by for some pickup, until finally I had to admit that we had living people to deal with, and like it or not, we had to sort this problem out ourselves. Even Frankenstein needed electricity to bring the dead back to life, so that was out of the question.

What else could we do? Some of my colleagues and I hid the corpse in a closet and went about our evening as best we could.
It was awful that we didn't have the means or the time to pay the body the utmost respect, but the choice was between that and clearing up a gurney and saving a few more lives that night. All I can do is hope that if I could have a beer with the deceased right now, he'd agree that I made the right call.

#2. Sometimes You Might Be the Corpse
I have a job and an education and the opportunity to come to America for a while. I'm better off than the majority of people in my country. But violence is commonplace in Venezuela, and some folks start seeing every problem as a nail and murder as just the hammer they need.
A friend of mine in another hospital once faced down a bunch of gang members who brought in their mortally wounded buddy and told him "Save him, or we'll kill you." There was nothing he could do, so he pretended to operate on a dead guy until he was able to get the "patient" to another hospital, where he hoped the police would intervene. Pantomiming surgery for an audience of gangsters is just part of the job description.

But even when you're not getting threatened by your patients, everyone in the country is threatened by "colectivos" -- organizations that aren't even trying to sound like the good guys.
They're "unofficially" armed by the government and tend to silence people they disagree with by shooting their guns really loudly, so nobody can hear what they're saying. And also by killing them.

#1. The Living Conditions Are Even Worse Than You Think

One morning, a woman asked me how to keep her son from being bitten by rats.

Oh, stop weeping: That's not even the bad part yet.
I got halfway through the explanation I really shouldn't ever have to have prepared ("elevate the bed, put out rat poison" before she stopped me and explained that she didn't have a bed, and hadn't since 1999, when there had been a flood and the government moved her to a shipping container. That's where she'd been living ever since. On the floor of a cargo container full of rats.

It's easy to feel like your work is futile -- we're patching up soldiers on the frontlines of a war that no one is actually fighting. People are so desperate for basic necessities that standard behavior is "If you see a line, get in it, because it's going to be for something you need.
Once, a representative from the government gathered a bunch of us to go on a penetration (a needlessly graphic name for a publicity stunt that also delivers poor people a whole bunch of medical care, so I'm on board) to "Sector 7." Ignoring the clearly ominous sci-fi title, off we went.

On the ride, I saw a lot of trucks in the distance and smelled a weird, sickeningly sweet odor. But it wasn't until I arrived that I realized we were going on a penetration into a dumpster -- and a whole shitload of people lived there. Nothing says "I'm making a difference!" like treating a guy for a sore throat, only to watch him walk back home to sleep on a pile of diapers.

do you realize that the finger he uses to check your wife will be the same finger he will use to eat eba?

The following games are available for purchase


WII GAMES
1. Red steel 2
2. Skylanders Giants
3. Fragile Dreams Farewell Ruins Of The Moon
4. Excitebots Trick Racing
5. Donkey Kong Country Returns
6. Metroid Prime Trilogy
7. NFS The Run
8. Mario Kart Wii
9. Valhalla Knights
10. Disney Planes
11. Sonic Colours
12. The lengend of Zelda : Skyward Sword
13. Kirby’s Epic Yarn
14. Xenoblade Chronicles
15. Sin and Punishment
16. Muramasa: The Demon blade
17. Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
18. Tatsunoko Vs Capcom ( like G-FORCE cartoon vs Streetfighter)
19. No more Heros
20. Pandora's Tower
21. Project Zero 2
22. Blazing Angels - Squadrons of WWII
23. Party pack for revolution
24. Okami
25. Sports pack
26. Sonic Unleashed
27. Super Mario Galaxy 2
28. Spiderman Shattered Dimensions
29. FIFA 14
30. Wii Sports Part 2


GAMECUBE GAMES
1. Baten Kaitos - Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean
2. Star fox Advance
3. Beyond Good and Evil
4. Skies of Arcadia Legends
5. Metroid Prime
6. Mario Kart
7. Pikmin 2
8. The Legend Of Zelda: Wind Waker
9. Legend of Zelda ; twilight princess
10. Legend of Zelda; The Wind Walker
11. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

NINTENDO 64 GAMES

1. AeroGauge
2. Donkey Kong 64
3. Top Gear Rally
4. AeroFighters Assault
5. All Star Tennis '99
6. Army Men - Air Combat
7. Army Men - Sarge's Heroes
8. Banjo-Tooie
9. Blast Corps
10. Command & Conquer
11. Dark Rift
12. Extreme-G XG2
13. F1 Pole Position 64
14. F-Zero X
15. Legend of Zelda, The - Majora's Mask
16. Lylat Wars
17. Mario Kart 64
18. Mega Man 64
19. Micro Machines 64 Turbo
20. Perfect Dark
21. Pilotwings 64
22. Quest 64
23. Rayman 2 - The Great Escape
24. Robotech - Crystal Dreams
25. Snowboard Kids
26. Snowboard Kids 2
27. Super Mario 64
28. Super Smash Bros
29. Top Gear Rally
30. Top Gear Rally 2
31. Yoshi's Story
32. Legend of Zelda, The - Ocarina of Time
33. Turok - Dinosaur Hunter


XBOX 360 GAMES
1. Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
2. Alan Wake
3. Alice Madness Returns
4. Bioshock 2
5. Borderlands
6. Call of Duty 4
7. Call of Duty Black Ops
8. Dante’s Inferno
9. Dark Void
10. Dead Space
11. Dragon Age 2
12. Dungeon Siege 3
13. Enslaved
14. Fear 3
15. Fable 2
16. Fable 3
17. Final Fantasy XIII
18. Force Unleashed 2
19. Gears of war 2
20. Just Cause 2
21. L.A. Noire
22. Lost Planet 2
23. Mass Effect 2
24. Naruto Storm 2
25. Panzer Dragon ORT
26. Payday 2
27. Portal 2
28. Red Fraction Armageddon
29. Resident Evil 5
30. Shadows of the damned
31. Singularity
32. Star wars
33. Tales of Vesperia
34. Vanquish
35. Vesperia

All are in soft copies. The N64 , Gamecube and Wii games can all be played on a softmodded Wii or PC.
Depending on your location, you can either pick up the games or add the cost of a memory card which will then be sent to you.

Couple Tracker - Phone monitor

• Mobile monitor app allows couples to monitor, share and exchange texts (SMS), call history, history of GPS locations and facebook messages with their partners in real time.
• Application helps to catch cheating partner, reduce risk of infidelity / affair and also reduce jealous behaviour of your love.
• Mutual monitoring and overview is the best cheating and affair prevention for you and your girlfriend, boyfriend, wife or husband.
• How application works:

You have android phone • AND • Your partner (Wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend...) has android phone
You will install Couple Tracker • AND • Your partner will install Couple Tracker
You • will connect your account with • your partner
You will see your partner's texts, calls and FB records • AND • Your partner will see your texts, calls and FB records
(Both partners receive permanent notification, it is not possible to hide application !)

Features:

Both will see 50 CHARACTERs of every SMS that your love receive or send.
Both will see Call history of your partner (With names stored in his/her contact list).
Current location is recorded and saved in 30 minute interval to location / GPS history.
Location history is archived and shared for 2 weeks.
Both will see Facebook conversation statistics (Name and number of messages per day).
Both will see last message of each Facebook conversation.
Everything is in real-time. (Just few seconds after your partner receive call, SMS...)
Deleting of SMS or Call log doesn't help, Couple Tracker is faster (There i no way how to hide activity or remove something (SMS, FB, Call))
One simple limitation: Mutual monitoring or nothing

• Couple Tracker - Phone monitor is mobile monitor implementing unordinary “trust system” giving to your partner simple offer: “You will see 50 characters of my every SMS, all my call history and overview of my Facebook communication, under the condition that I will see same history/records of yours”. Fairly exchange is basic and only one limitation.

Couple Tracker - Phone monitor provides mutual 24 hour real-time overview of mobile activity including monitoring of phone calls, texts (SMS) and facebook messages. Mutual couple monitor means: You and your partner are both seeing calls and text messages of each other.

You can watch the latest movies, series and documentary via Navi-x on a Wii. found it by mistake, you can stream indecency films on it. even football matches

streaming directly on VLC or Windows media consumes a lot of data. however, I noticed that if you copy the url and paste it in UC browser, for some strange reason it compresses the size of the video but the clarity is retained.

It's a super story......

seriously, with this election stories i no longer need to watch African magic.

never ending to-ri.......

whatever is keeping him will soon give out. that's why i want to invest in him as soon as possible

Aprime:
11 bottles! Haba coke is carbonated. You can't take such a huge supply of carbon-dioxide without passing out.

So apprently, it's either you're lying or well, after taking an average of five bottles, you become somnolent and assume it's 11.

not true, had a friend that goes through a crate of soft drinks in a week. he was addicted to it and stopped drinking water. a jolly guy, he died young from renal failure and high blood pressure

considering you drink the amount of suger in the picture , may i invest in your future? i sell insulin, anti-diabetic drugs, orthopaedic prosthesis and have links to dialysis centers when your kidneys pack up.

touch not my anointed.... and all that Crap

So that was why the back gate was locked Thursday and Friday.

isn't it supposed to say " Microsoft" instead of "X360"?

many Nigerians have died and all they could lay their hands on were promises. heard their January salary was not paid

tit:
Zokers.
So all the soldiers deployed in armed robbery squad and counter-insurgency operations should be withdrawn?
Is this a sharia court judge?

Why, Why, Why wouldn't you have sense? I'm still recovering from your PAT error from yesterday.

i'm also interested but how many times can it be shared, the amount that can be shared and duration?

the IPPIS structure also has issues. some get underpaid while others get overpaid. heard the story of a mistake that occurred in a government hospital; a cleaner got the salary of the the MD. the women became speechless when she saw an alert that would take her 10 years to save up for.

if the introduced structure works, why then is the overhead cost of the civil service still high?

thanks

thanks for the info, really useful to keep up to date with election issues

parrotibaba:
n it gradually kills ur ba3

please explain

sorextee:
Seconded... It takes forever to fully charge, and it drains like hell..

use the original blackberry charger. charges from 0 to 100% in 40 mins

it starts....

I need more testimonials before I use this service. by the way, is location of the seller an issue?

having gone through the thread, it's obvious many Nigerians are clueless.

UNAID has gradually stated withdrawing their free drugs and services in Nigeria from last year, long before Dr Abakala won the case. by the middle of this year there would be scarcity of such drugs. from the write up above, none of the companies have established anything on ground for the production of these drugs. A full month cause of those drugs cost a minimum of N30,000 depending on the class of drugs the patient is on. and the patient is to be on it for life.

guess that explains why the full might of the Nigerian army cannot curtail the menace of boko harem in only three states over the past four years despite repeated promises from the C-n-C that it would soon be a thing of the past.

I think it can be modified to add a webcam. thus, like the safe example in the video, the webcam turns on when the text is sent to the phone