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@fireman,
PTDF'll only give u choces out of petroleum related scores. . . u shld try and get a really good GRE score(thats wot i'll do)but first u need to determine where u want to specialise and work on getting more knowledge and experience in that area(i take it u're not yet done wiv school)

@oyb
VT's step down to 110 in most cases, what the siemens ppl useis called a marshalling kiosk(the station where i spent most of my IT was built by siemens ) the station in lagos is called akangba, the one you mentioned in ibadan is prolly next to the NCC in osogbo lots of space. . . nice looking, been there once. i agree with what you said about germans wanting to make sure you'll call them back. . .during my IT the was a problem with one of the poles of a circuit breaker(i think its called polar discordance. . . cant rem)it was on a mobitra(mobile transformer-its mounted on a truck so it can be driven around we have a few of those in naija the one i've seen was in kubwa tho) and when PHCN staff cldnt do anything abt it ABB(they were the manufacturers) flew in some ppl from germany who cldnt do anything either(. . . or so they said)and sed they'd replace it but in the end i think wot happened was that PHCN just installed a breaker just after the mobitra.

my final year project was something like a relay too but its job was on the distribution side(it was to monitor load and disconnect appliances that use a duty cycle when frequency fell to preset values)its called a dynamic demand controller

i like PC&M(its the only dept in PHCN that employs only graduates did u know that) but the bit i enjoyed most during IT was operation(the control room)

abt shiroro, i jst got posted there(march 24) so it'll take me a while to find my way arnd. and i'm assuming ur relay was installed in the transmission control room right(in italian camp) if its there i'll prolly see it when i'm rotated there(i'm s'posed to be in communications at the work centre now tho. . . a building near the main admin building if <by main i mean that fine, big, brown building where the ceo's office is when u turn right jst b4 u get to power house>i sed s'posed to cos i dont intend to hang arnd wiv the communication ppl much(i'll prolly spend most of my time in generation i already hv transmission experience)

i woulda preferred to be in generation(transmission and generation in shiroro are handled by diff bodies under PHCN) but they didnt accept any corpers from my batch(so i went to the transmission work centre)but i hear most times u can hang around anywhere sha(this place is beyond massive. . . are oil installations as large?)

@Ajanlekoko
yep that guy is making money from PHCN o!. . . abt geometric power(he's a prof too sef. . . all these ppl that hv over read!) they hv a website sef http://www.geometricpower.com/ i watched the groundbreaking on tv (it was obj that did it i think)i hope it works out for him o. . . i read somewhere(when it comes to power i've read a lot of reports i had no business reading )that it'll take ten years for anyone that starts a power company in nigeria to break even so govt does wot they call securitisation(they pay you some money to make up for ur losses)if u've been following the power nonsense u'da heard abt the securitisation fund. wot geometric power's doing is smart in the sense that since they are being set up to supply the industries in Aba they're customers are less likely to be chronic debtors cos if they supply govt its not sure that they'll always be paid on time for the electricity delivered(do u kno abt the AES wahala going on now?)

@all
i cant help it o!. . . power does that to me generally i like practical knowledge but power is special(maybe cos its not as common as some fields)

this has to be the dumbest question i've seen this year!

when i used it wiv CDMA i saw a difference o. . . i couldnt browse at all! hvnt neared it since then!

na yam?
beauty is a very relative thing o!. . . i soooo would not want to wake up with her next, she isnt all that!


@oyb
show face at the E/E thread now. . .

this thread is soooo not for me. . .

*wondering where the world is going to*

y cant y'all be discussing lipstick colour and the likes?

@toyinrayo
u took a class in assisting choking babies?

in lieu of the above. . . i hereby sentence you the defendant to a very bad hair day!

ewoma4good:
I know a lot of people will fall into my category and a lot more will do as time goes, thus i am craving the indulgence of the experienced people in the house to give advices on steps to take to get a breakthrough.  

>>>>>PEACE<<<<<

na prayer be that?

Winnergal:
Do you say things on the internet you wouldn't say face to face . . .

Be honest with your replies . . .

nope. . . do u?

@the pple saying power isnt hot now. . . well y'all might be right, but its only temporary the rate at which things are going if PHCN doesnt begin to improve then the business sector in naija'll really go south! either whatever happens power is hot cake whether in naija or not. . .

i spoke to a professor from Howard that PHCN brought and housed in NICON to hold a course for some of their staff(he was a naija dude<prof james momoh> imagine although he left naija in the 70's sha) and he was like the american govt has noticed the approaching shortage of power engineers and are taking steps

also my HOD(who has quite a bit of experience in HV<high voltage> was talking to us and he was listing the high voltage labs he knows and he was like at one lab in germany the head of the lab is in his 70's and hasnt been able to retire b'cos there's no one good enuff to take his place

power's very different from telecoms apart from it being more capital intensive(by far) the expertise required is more and u really need to groom power engineers(thats why siemens does a lot of poaching from PHCN even tho its mostly the old staff, the news ones dont really know jack). . . so wotever happens if i stick on this power train when naija's ready they'll look for me(i wont be hard to find i'll just be expensive! )

P.S.
i dunno if its only me but one would think we could find better things to argue about than where the hostels in unilorin are and also what information engineering is. . . abeg now. . . the youngsters like me want to learn stuff from u guys o. . .

[quote author=*Toyinrayo link=topic=249630.msg3709047#msg3709047 date=1239241215]i DO i DO!!
My pleasure to help.

Ok, you ready?[/quote]i know where u learned that. . .

me too am going to bed o. . . toyinrayo

go to control panel and double click autoplay
u'll see use autoplay for all media devices, unchek that if u dont want to go thru the whole wahala of reading all the others to decide which one u shld uncheck(at least thats wot i did)

and to restart explorer
start task manager wiv ctrl+shift+esc(or any of the other ways u kno. . . thats jst the fasted)
fo to file>new type in explorer , pronto u're bak(a restart woulda solved it but this ways faster)

anything else?

this thread has excited the nonsense outta me o. . . as in
anyways to cut the long story short. . . abt me

i graduated from unilag last year(2008)elect/elect my project was on microcontrollers but its application was energy management(power). I'm a power freak to the core, my I.T. was in NEPA at a transmission station(sub-region actually) now i'm doing my NYSC at shiroro dam(yep i chose to come to niger state jst cos of power). i believe power is going to blow up big time so i'm postioning myself now(cos of my project and I.T. i know a lot ppl in NEPA now). Also i'm a computer person(lol. . . most of my posts on NL are in the computer section sef).
i'm planning to go for an M.sc immediately after NYSC God willing and maybe a Ph.D after(i hate reading though) i'm still trying to figure out what to do my M.Sc in (it has to involve computers o)i'm thinking yankee but i finished with a 2.2(i still intend to try anyway) jand would be easier from ppl i've talked to.

i think its really cool that we can all yarn here

and as for ppl saying a Ph.D would dull you in nigeria, thats very dependent on the person my HOD in sch has a Ph.D and he's HOT but most of the ppl i know in NEPA dont hv M.Sc's and they're equally hot, some r even hotter(illegally if u know wot i mean)

at the dude that was loooking for a mini project what are ur interests maybe i can help u(i'm very practical oriented)

hi
i'm looking for andre crouch songs to download can anyone here help me?(or if u cld burn them on a CD and send to me i'd apprec8 that as well )

and the thread begins to get derailed. . .

omo if ndi okereke can be named a professor then i dont see any reason why ngozi okonjo-iweala's own shld be a problem

blackweaver:
use linux, windows programs don't work on it; you can download some livecd like puppylinux or damnsmalllinux (dsl)
both of which are under 100mb; the latest version of puppy linux is about (+/-)90mb but you can get older versions which
are a little over 50mb, dsl too is about 50mb download the iso and burn to disk as an image then boot from the cd; you can even
remove the cd after booting (with puppy by default, with dsl you have to specify some boot option)

was going to recommend that but from the original post i figured it would be too much for the guy to handle!

@OP if u have winrar u can plug the flash in(make sure autorun is disabled and if that annoying pop up asking wot to do comes up click dont do anything) then open winrar and navigate to the flash u shld be able to see all foreign programs, delete them from inside winrar and erthing shld be ok

to be extra safe u can open winrar then after that end explorer from taskmanager

of course they fail to mention that the scammers are not nigerian!

@hayprof
its not a SIM its called an R-uim registered user identification module. . .
sim is used only for GSM not for CDMA

correction its F8 to enter safe mode

are u sure u've got the right DV6* series. . . for example mine is a dv6700 cto series

go here for more info
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/famiNumbDocument?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&product=18703&docname=c00033108

wot error msg does it show?

@lynxnoon
ders nothing on that thread about getting an acct!

6 gig ram?dats a new one!

na wa o! see as dem don see us finish. . .even ghana(i wonder who's next?maybe rwanda!)

chamotex:
Don't worry, I'm working on it.

nice one der!

prolly a 530. i agree with lynx on the price! esp since ders no webcam

if its true i'm happy

maybe govt will now take a closer look at how money is being spent!

@kobojunkie
abeg dont argue with the guy. . . the topic is not worth arguing over(if the G.O. himself was here he wouldnt argue and in the same vein i dont think he would appreciate u arguing on his behalf)