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zinachidi:
, what does ubiquitous mean please? Enlighten me.

Identifying A Refurbished Laptop
Posted on July 7, 2015
So a customer needed a brand new laptop and since he was a friend, I opted to pick from our location rather than wait for delivery from my suppliers in Lagos as he was having a hard time making a choice.

I walked into a retail shop, and due to my familiarity with the sales boy, walked into the inner chambers where he was and to my dismay, noticed the stickers being placed on the laptops bearing HP Partners, was actually serving the purpose of concealing the product type, which is refurbished. That to me was dubious so I advised him to wait till my trusted partners sends one across.

Honestly, as a reseller, I often have hard times explaining what and why a PC is refurbished and if you expect to tell one which is from the other that is not just by sight, you are on your own. But with genuine resellers, you don’t experience such problems as they leave the Laptops as already designated by the manufacturers.

With the genuine marketers, all you need to identify refurbished laptops are the bold imprint on the carton as shown in picture one and their word, with others, like the story I narrated above, you might need to check the foreign stickers if they are meant to serve the purpose of concealment, but that alone is not enough as cartons are available to most of us who deal with laptops and we can easily replace the cartons without having to depend on the stickers.

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Refurbished Laptop Package
Are refurbished laptops bad purchase choice?

No they are not, I personally deal with and on them and have not had complaints. The bulk of customers I have sold refurbished laptops to happens to be my friends who know me very well to trust and depend on my advice.

Unfortunately, most Nigerians get turned off the moment the word refurbished is mentioned.

Why go for a refurbished?

If you are on a tight budget, getting a refurbished laptop might save you some extra money and you still get a system good enough to meet your Computing needs.

What differentiates a refurbished Laptop from a new One?

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New Laptop Package
Personally, if I were to make a choice between a new laptop and a refurbished, I would be at a complete loss but in terms of performance, a refurbished laptop serves you as much as a new one of the same specification.

As a buyer, the major difference worthy of note is that the refurbished laptop comes with 90 days warranty as opposed to the new laptop that has between 1-2 years warranty depending on the manufacturer.

How Then Can You Identify One?

From the above difference between a new and a refurbished laptop lies the clue as to how to identify one from the other. Every purchased laptop has a label behind it and unless unscrupulous dealers mark them out with a pen, the manufacturers label states clearly the length of the warranty.

So, so long as the warranty is less than a year, you have the right to ask for refund especially if you were not made aware that you are purchasing a refurbished laptop.

The product label could be found under the laptop or in the battery compartment by removing the battery.

Source: https://mytechmagazine./2015/07/07/identifying-a-refurbished-laptop/

The company might be out looking for individuals who can perform tasks together as per team work, if you can, help him, you don't have to get this one and you being better than him in excel is not a guarantee that you would get the job ahead of him. after all you said you became friends

Whose arm would you rather be caught resting on?
Whose shoulders would you rather cry on?
Your spouse or a friend?
Who should be your best friend?

promisedeco:
MY pc is having some issues with keys.
pressing letter D takes me to desktop and E to by ROM..etc.
my home button is constanly showing. pls what should i do?

it appears your windows key is stuck. Try pulling and replacing it.

And Yours too

milychocs:
May your life be long and happy
Bless

he shared someone's story, Moses was real

achemedez:
so,naija prison don mature to d fact dat u dey browse inside prison ryyyt??


even u dey surf on nairaland... cos I went thru ur timeline nd ur date of registration self says it all


nawa..


cooked story

I am proud to have been part of the people who campaigned for your release,

DaPhilosopher:
When I called my mother from prison to tell her I’d been pardoned after 10 years in jail, she fainted.

I was told they had to pour water on her to revive her. Later, when she saw me for the first time after all those years in jail, she grabbed me and held me so tight. She wouldn’t let go for almost 15 minutes. The whole time she had tears of joy streaming from her eyes.

Football and juice: celebrating with my death row friends


I was also overwhelmed with joy when I found out about my pardon, at 4pm on 28 May. Initially I couldn’t even speak, I was so happy.

The day after hearing the news, I celebrated in prison by organising a football match between death row inmates and other prison inmates. I’d been the death row team football coach during my time in prison. We won the match 3-0! Everyone was so happy to play.

That Sunday I went to the prison church. I bought some biscuits and fruit juice to share with other inmates in church and an announcement was made that I was being released. Everyone was happy. I had friends in prison; I had been teaching English and Maths to fellow inmates and those students who were keen became my friends.

I was released a few days later. That first evening at home, my mother prepared a special dish – Okro soup with beef. The whole family ate together at the dining table. Afterwards, there was a party with family friends and we sang songs, played music and prayed.

We prayed for all the activists who campaigned for my release, those from Amnesty international and Justine Ijeomah [the Director of HURSDEF, Nigeria’s Human Rights Social Development and Environmental Foundation] and his wife, Goodness Justine. Drinks were shared around with everyone at the party.

The sleep of the free

The first night I slept in my new bed, I slept so well. What struck me most was that at 5am, I did not hear the prison wake-up bell. I waited for it, and then realised that it was not a dream, but in fact I really am free.

When I realised that, I felt freedom deep in my spirit. Things had changed for good. I went back to sleep and slept until 10am, fully enjoying my ‘freedom sleep’. My family came to wake me up but I told them to let me sleep longer. It was such a good sleep.

In those first days of freedom I bumped into an old school friend and he looked at me like he’d seen a ghost.

We have a local belief that if you pour sand on a spirit it will vanish, and he started to pick up sand from the ground and pour it on my body! I told him – ‘don’t pour sand on me, I’m alive, I’m not a ghost!’ At that, he touched me and hugged me: he thought I had been executed.

He told me he would never forget the last time he saw me before my arrest 10 years ago.

At home, everything felt strange to me, even though I’m so relieved to be free. Lots of things have changed in the 10 years since I was arrested: new bridges have been built and the use of laptop computers and phones is common now.

People keep asking me ‘What happened to your finger?

[After I was arrested] my fingernails and toenails were pulled out. The scars people see are the lasting marks that torture has left me with. When I wear sandals, seeing my toes reminds me of what I went through.

Torture affects people in so many ways. It’s inhuman: heating cutlasses on a fire and then flogging a person’s back is barbaric. It affects people mentally: it causes madness. They pass out because of the pain and admit to things they never did.

What I went through – the torture and being on death row – affected me in so many ways. It affected my plans for life and my ambitions at school. I spent ten years in jail. By now I could have finished school and have started working.

What struck me most is that you can live in a country where you can face so much tragedy for no reason, and yet still have to live there. I will always pray for change in Nigeria, but I advise others living here to be very careful, so that they will not fall victim to what I went through.

I’m joining the fight against torture

My plans now I’m free are to continue my education and get as far as I always dreamt – I want to be a doctor to fulfill my late father’s wishes.

But I’ll also be a human rights activist and help others who face the same challenges that I did. I have already filled out an application form and had a passport photo taken – the requirements for becoming a volunteer activist with HURSDEF.

The Director, Justine, welcomed me warmly as ‘Comrade Moses Akatugba’. I told him: Justine, I’m joining the fight against torture so that others will not go through the pain that I did.

If I have my way, and can stop torture, I will be the happiest man on earth. I don’t want any future generation to go through what I went through in that torture chamber.

Moses Akatugba was tortured to confess to a crime he says he never committed. His ‘confession’ was then used to sentence him to death.

On 28 May 2015, Moses was pardoned after nearly 10 years in jail. Over 800,000 of you around the world took action demanding justice




Moses Akatugba was tortured to confess to a crime he says he never committed. His ‘confession’ was then used to sentence him to death.

On 28 May 2015, Moses was pardoned after nearly 10 years in jail. Over 800,000 of you around the world took action demanding justice



http://vibes247.com/my-first-week-of-freedom-after-10-years-in-a-nigerian-jail/

keni315:
Good evening guys, another interesting topic i want us to discuss

we all know that we women or let me say ladies are multi-task doers i.e we engage in more than one work at a time and most times we cant split ourselves to two. And most men are easily disgusted and irritated so the question is: As a loving husband or husband to be can you change your baby's diaper or wash your baby's poo for you wife-HONEST OPINOIN PLEASE

lol, kini big deal? I personally enjoy bathing my baby and would check her in the middle of the night to see if she is soiled in order to change her, it was fun and no follow for work at all

ireneidiva:
Men have actually beaten their wives to death. In that case, divorce or separation would have been way better. If you can't stand a woman's 'rants' send her back! Hitting is never the solution. As you already know, some men hit their wives every single day and these women still do not shut up. So you see, it doesn't always work.

granted, but do you see that reason they will never stop is because they have been made to see it was ok for them to continue?

angieberry:
When I say walk away, bottom line is he should just ignore her, not necessarily what you mentioned. I agree that a woman should not rant at Her husband but when she's foolish enough to foi do, it does not give the man reason to beat her up. Okay, you feel he should not keep walking away, what do you suggest he does?

I suggest the woman realises the damage she is doing and stops already.

personally, if I were dating a woman for fun, I'd careless about her insulting me in the name of rants, but if it happens to be someone I love, it will bite my very being and don't go to whom I have made my wife already, I don't want to imagine how it feels like, but what if I give a silent treatment? what if I rebuff any attempt from her to make up? what if.... what would become of the family?

angieberry:
Don't misunderstand me. Remember the writer also agreed that hitting a woman for whatever reason is wrong. I never implied that ranting was right. I simply stated that if a woman is dumb enough to rant at her husband, he should not resort to violence to put her right. Instead, he should simply walk away from her insultive words so that his anger will be contained. That's all! I reiterate, hitting a lady for whatever reason is wrong!

for how long will a man continue "walking away" from his home? how much longer would it take for him to embrace late nights out, alcoholism and possibly other women "walking away" for how long will a man continue "understanding she is a woman" (like we were not all born by one) before he becomes a nut case running away from the same woman he was supposed to be building a home with?

it pains me that we are all sentimentalizing this issue defending womanhood when our focus should be on the effects of our actions on the family thereby creating assumptions it is just okay to deliberately mess up for those with less discerning spirits.

ireneidiva:
So what if you hit her and she dies in the process? If you can't stand a woman again, take her back to her father, violence is not the solution.

you get it wrong, nobody marries to divorce later. mine have always been that people, men and women should realize that their actions, inactions and utterances affect relationships, if you didn't know and It is being pointed out to you, rather than ask to be sent home or try hard to prove you are right or have the powers to do what you want damning your supposed partner, change, I mean CHANGE

ireneidiva:
So hitting her will stop her from ranting?

maybe no but she needs to realize the damage she's causing and stop already

Tolzeal:
Okay bro.
i dig, I'm going compile and get to yoy Asap.

thanks. I know I can count on you for that

Tolzeal:
You're still not listing the cells you want bro as not all would support the keyboard thingy.

Are u trying to buy in bulk for resale ?

not necessarily to resell, but if I advice one or two of them to get it and they do and like it, others would definitely follow suit.

If only we can all learn to tell ourselves the truth, especially the acclaimed feminist and desist from creating unnecessary tensions in our homes in the name of being women and weaker vessels who should be treated like queens even while acting trashy

Hello mamas and papas, I am a die hard fan of this
forum and i don't think this experience Nd lesson
should pass me by without sharing with you. Please
do read and learn.
I have read tens of stories on mamalette of women
being violated and treated as trash. As much as that
is true and evident to occur in many relationships of
nowadays I find some one sided and a little against
the truth and of men. I am a feminist and would be
against any man beating his wife, girl friend, finance
or even a stranger. Its disgusting and inhumane. But
have we all thought of the men who under no
circumstances beat a woman of any kind but end up
doing so?
My story is one we should learn from. I am not
condemning the stories being told but I would share
mine with you. My husband is a very loving man, he
is respectful and very caring. He's not rich and I am a
little ok than him but I am appreciate him like that. If
only my identity can be shown ( but don't please) I
bet a couple of people would testify to the fact that
I'm not a bad woman myself, I have alot of respect
and I'm loving too. But I am very temperamental. I
have known this for a while and wish there was a
psychologist to help. I have bipolar too but until now
I used to think the people around me are the ones
who need to understand my situation rather than me
adjust.
My husband has put up with so many of my bad
mouthing and unnecessary anger issues and we pray
together but this faithful day last month , the devil
visited our home and we let it in... We had an
argument which is so stupid if you ask me but I got
really angered by husband's silence. ( he's very good
at ignoring or being moody) I started talking and
ranting and said all the wrong things. In fact, I was do
mad I called him a bastard ( he said I said all this and
recorded a few secs before he also got mad).
I just zoomed to the part he started beating me. So
bad I had marks and at a point I couldn't take it
anymore.
I actually slapped him first, and pushed him towards
the door he bit his tongue he started bleeding from
his mouth, I guess that's when he raised his hands
too. After few hours, we both calmed down. Our
parents intervened and till now nobody cant relate
with the story because its very stupid. My husband is
no longer comfortable with me in the house and I
cant seem to get over that day.
We woke up one night to analyze what happened; he
told his part, I told mine. We prayed n I know it will
never happen again because I have learnt the hard
way to control my anger n he is not a wife beater.
The reason for my story is; sometimes we have the
best partner but we push them to being who they are
not. We tell one sided stories and follow suit on
advice based on our part and when the marriage
fails, we blame it on others. I am not applauding my
husband for his act but I'm saying it could have
ended in a different way if I had watched my act.
Women especially, lets learn to respect our husbands
sincerely. Lets love them and pet them, yes they are
bound to overdo things but don't let the devil use you
as a weapon to yourself.
In as much some may condemn me, I have found my
peace in knowing myself and learning. I hope along
the line of condemning or advising, you pick a word
or two that speaks to you.
You all should join us in praying so our marriage can
work and we can have kids soon. Thanks

gotten from a family-inclined page on Facebook.

Tolzeal:
So much you can talk of bro.
some support BT while others with OTG cable if your cell support one.

thanks, could you kindly list them or if you have any for sale what are their prices and how can I get them?

I have a couple of visually impaired friends whose dependence on Nokia Symbian phones have been cut short and android phones which are supposed to be the next best options aren't helping as they come with touch capacities and no support for keyboard input thereby necessitating the need for an external keyboard.

Suggestions are also welcome for android phones with keypads as they will help in no mean ways.

Thanks

Learnt he is good with the tunes. Any links to his works?
RIP to him and to us all in advance

as much as i think we need a revolution in the energy sector, I'd say we are not prepared for it. the inherent danger far outweighs the benefit. we have alternate energy sources in abundance which we can harness to give us just want we want and more. thanks

peperenpe1:
Hellofamily, Please I want your advice on this.
Am 27 yrs ..I just left my husband of 2yrs due to being irresponsible...and I have a 2yrs old daughter.. Am planning of relocating to ghana, to start my life all over again...pls mama what business do u think I can do in ghana and make money ...and how is accomodation n schooling "for my daughter" rate in ghana..is it expensive or still like nigeria ...Thank u

I wanted to advise based on the above until I saw the below, it is obvious you are the irresponsible one here and your husband has had a hardtime coping with your reprehensible sexual orientation, reason you want to run away completely. Leaving is obviously going to do the man a lot of good and my main concern here is that little girl so you don't push her into your devilish act of lesbianism.

peperenpe1:
Am married n a lesbo....I need a mate in lagos .....

SANCTO:
Please IT gurus i need ur help.
Facebook page cannot open on my laptop. But it opens on Other systems connected to same server am using. (galaxy backbone)
Plz what may be the solution?

check to see if you can open other secured sites like gmail and yahoo, if any works then I can't say, but if they don't, know ye son of man that ye have some add ons installed on the system you might need to un install.

Now this is mean

princemi:
I want to buy a laptop within the price range of 50-60k. I'll be using the laptop to run basic architectural and planning softwares like Autocard, Revit & ArcGIS.

i have 2 in mind but am kind of in a fix, below are the 2 and their basic specs and online price from konga. Please help me decide;

1st LAPTOP
Windows 8.1 500 GB HDD
4 GB RAM 15.6 Inch, HD
Display
2.1GHz Intel Dual
Core Processor
₦60,000
Brand Lenovo G50-30

2nd LAPTOP

Windows 8.1 2GB DDR3 RAM,
500GB HDD
15.6 Inch, Diagonal
HD Anti-glare Flat
LED-Backlit
AMD Dual Core
(1.35GHz,1 MB
cache)
With AMD Radeon
R2 Graphics

I'd say go for the 2nd, AMD processors are good for processing graphics, you could ask for an upgrade though for the ram.

Op go and "sat down" like a friend of mine would say.

The basic thing is trust. You don't give your atm to just anybody in the first place, but to those you believe you can trust and hope they don't disappoint whether or not they keep that trust is theirs. But the other good thing is that most banks have introduced the token option or one-time-code for online transactions.

So if I trust someone, I go give am the atm. Thank you

lilspiceyy:
For a woman to talk to her husband in such a manner he must have provoked her na. Wen she is nt sick....its either he is lies, cheats on her, keeps late nights,he drinks to stupor etc. I am woman and I won't find it funny wen my man does such things.

hmmm, u never chi chom chin, I know of a lady who would call to insult like kilode just because one travelled, and couldn't call (as expected by the lady) not minding his constant explanation which every thinking being can fathom with. Now she didn't call the guy, didn't text, but once it strikes her, she'd go as far as borrowing phones to call, text and hurl insults if she couldn't do it with her phone. Now tell me the crime d man committed here.

If you are one lady who would respect her man, kudos, keep it up. But please don't make excuses for those who don't. Neither will I make excuses for any man who'd hit his woman. Let's learn to respect each other

guente02:
Dear All.

I don't really know how to start this. I'm close to my mid twenties but my mom won't let me be. She's always introducing one law or the other.

She didn't start this recently, since i was barely 14 when she locked me and my brother outside in a cold northern summer night. Now she wants me to stop having friends entirely, she doesn't want to see me talking to any girl on phone or physically. She doesn't want me to go to some particular quarters of my compound because I have a friend she feels is influencing me negatively. She doesn't want me to visit any friend of mine that they should be the ones doing the visit.

I'm in my HND and I cant just wait to leave her alone, because the more i see her the more i hate her because all she's doing.

I don't drink, i don't smoke neither do I sleep around with girls. My life is really introverted and if i'm to go by her words I'm going be plugged into depression.

She's now saying that if i default in any of the things she said i shouldn't even see her as my mom. I don't know what she'll gain when I'm feeling bad of myself by obeying her.

I'm tired.

Someone should please give me an advice.

I believe there are no trolls in the family section.

wait till you don't have a woman who cares about you as to want dictate every step of yours. I do understand that as youths, we have this need for self-determination and our parents are not always ready to allow for that, rightly because they still see us as those kids we used to be. You don't need to hate her, just take on responsibilities that would make her realize my boy is now grown and can be a man of and on his own.

In truth I can't explain it, most of the problems I had with my ex emanated from the bond I had with my daughter. But I couldn't help it, she was always receptive to my gestures, always giving me those reliving smiles, not subject to inexplicable mood swings. Her mum got jealous and would abandon us sometimes, but we had all we needed going for us Jor. Don't know if the feeling would have been different with a male child though.

Gideojim:
how much is it?

6500