For starters, shopping at a renowned store with dealer/distributor/outlet rights for the brands you are interested in is your safest bet.

I doubt if there is a sure way to tell inferior from real atimes. These chinese alternatives are really good copies which in my experience sometimes outdo the "original" they cloned!

Are you behind a proxy on you local network? I do know its filtered at a certain client of ours location at the internet gateway, but we somehow get to access the site via HTTPS. Guess most access filtering application/proxies cannot read the tag for encrypted links.

Try connecting to another internet access point and see if the site comes up.

Don't know about the rest, but writing a compiler is extremely crazy! I've been working on compiler for a custom application (pseudo similar to BASIC) and its interestingly tough!

hehehehe....nice one!

@prince, Babe, fabsledge, ogugua

I am now taking this game so personal! consider this your warning...

LET ME WIN or else:

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want by winning me mercilessly. If you are looking for a scapegoat to humiliate, I can tell you I have been dealt with enough. I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career (area boy). Skills (pick pocket) that makes me a nightmare for people like you. If you let me win now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will seize your phones!

I don talk o!

PS: the above quote is not from the movie Taken!, but the aforementioned people would have their phones Taken if i no win o!

That does it! Fabsledge is a bot! how human being go win me with 1000points gap? na me dull pass?? ehn?

I am not going to say a word until i finally win someone here o!!

Coogar...you are on! I R Maleeq!

@op
hmmmm, question really should be: Do you need a laptop?

Firstly you need to identify your need, and then seek software to meet them. Are you vying for programming/desktop publishing/graphics mastery? You decide, only then can software be suggested for you.

I doubt you can upgrade the HDD, as most netbooks use solid state drive for storage. But I find it rather weird that the drive size isn't upto to a gig.

goldenboi: Hello guys,

I recently updated my ubuntu OS to 12 and since then anytime I boot up, it goes straight to the terminal. I guess it has something to do with my video configuration settings. Does anyone know how I can configure my video settings via the command line?? Any help wld be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

A fresh install or an upgrade? If it's a fresh install, sound's like you installed the server version of the OS. This doesn't have a gui installed by default.

chuma22:

Ok but I saw another topic with same motive but wasn't deleted anyway where can I go to post about selling my personal computer pls.

Post here: Computer Market

Nice....right about time.

wolebaba: Maleeq I can't see the 'post your PC problems here' topic

https://www.nairaland.com/301179/post-computer-pc-troubles-here

This thread is ALWAYS on the first page of the section.

deji2009:

I don't live in nigeria.

When you do come back, tell me, make i arrange kidnap for you!

Dont "crack" vista, get rid of it!

300billion years?
I better start getting set for it.

chuma22: I opened a topic about selling my laptop and it was deleted, can I pls know why it was deleted?

Adverts in the Computers main board is not tolerated. This has been explicitly spelt out here: No Adverts In Computers Section

Your thread was removed, and in the spirit of the new year, you were not banned as well!

Power Nap, sounds like "Intel Smart Connect Technology" to me. Apple should be using processors from intel that supports this tech and just warped the software around it.

Googled up some info, HP Envy from 2011 has this feature as did Vista OS (though it was DOA for OEM didn't adopt it then). Give it up to Apple, they made it better!

chuma22: Pls I open a topic to sell my laptop and it was deleted. Pls can someone explain to me why?

Scroll up to the 1st post in this thread, read it...and then, read the title of THIS thread....then, ask your question again.

Seun:
Actually, I'm as straight as a happy joystick. If you had access to certain folders on my computer, you would have no doubt about this.

lol.... Seun? Is that you? or someone hijacked your account?

This has got to be my unofficial quote of the year!

For easy referencing/indexing, threads should be created for specific (and individual) problems. This aids others who may have same or similar errors to find the threads by its heading than having to scroll to through pages of a single thread searching...

Kslib:
What if he provides a link to a cracked version of a private software??

Clarify what you mean by private?

@Profs

Don't you think its preferable to list the specifications and faults, if any, of the laptop forehand here on the forum? Why must it be via email?

@op

While this may not necessarily mean you have been hacked, it simply shows you concurrent or recent access to your email account. If the location isn't within your "normal" browsing region, you get flags like this.

Question:
1. Do you have your mail configured on a mobile device and/or desktop mail client like Outlook?
2. Are you accessing the internet via proxy?

In the interim, follow the steps outlined by deji2009 & hisblud, especially the "Sign out all other sessions"

Hmmmm...thinking, should this thread be in the computers or crime section of the forum?