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Grizzly:
Till tommorow i've been battling with peripheral devices which i cant locate. .
3 to be precise
i own a hp 6735 compaq and when i try to send a file from my phone to my laptop, it fails
i have to 'recieve a file' first, something i didnt have to do before

@grizzly
what to you mean by u cant locate the devices?

as per the bluetooth,delete the devices then try repairing them and selecting automatically connect/authenticate or that auto-thingy it asks you about just after pairing. . .

wey lynx o. . .i want to see if he foresaw all this. . .i thought the parole officer was going to blackmail her. . .but they spun it in a different direction!

Jarus:
Are you sure this is from Femi Falana we all know, or another one?

desgiezd:
Definitely, this is not from Falana. No, not at all.

my thoughts exactly. . .

^^where did that picture come from? he looks terrible!

hey ppl,
i gather today is oyb's birthday, someone opened a birthday thread here for anyone that wants to holla!

my oga in nerd-dom. . .happy bithday. . .wish you the very best life has to offer!

marvix:
@netoste, are the union leaders justified in their threat to shut down power if Babalola is reappointed? Is it possible that this union leaders are not happy with Babalola because of his disturbance of their daily bread? Can d union truly cast the first stone? Should we not be more interested in why they are prepared to go on fasting so he does not come back but never thot of something like this when Imoke held sway? Do u really think that while he was minister he wasn't comited to solve the power crisis?
I'm waiting for your answers.

he is corrupt and incompetent, how do u expect an economist to run a company full of engineers? all he knows how to say is 'gas', 'gas', 'gas'. . .he cant be disturbing their daily bread, he's a political appointee they come and go, do u know how they look at them in the civil service? 'let the nuisance come and make his noise, sebi he will eventually leave and i will still be here'. . .the man doesnt know how to think in terms of the power sector, our problems are not economic, they are planning and engineering problems. how on earth is an economist supposed to understand them?. . .

they didn't make this much noise during imoke cos imoke is the minister that has done the most work in the power sector(he was a lawyer sef) you're an outsider so you wont understand, but most of what you see now, all the new stations came about under imoke. . .can u mention any sensible thing yar' adua (and his ilk) has done in the power sector? if not for OBJ, the 200-and-something MW you're getting wouldn't even be possible. . . i'm sure you didnt read the 234NEXT articles i pasted links to. . .in a report attached to the articles you'll see the highest generation in the history of naija was under imoke(OBJ) 35XXMW or something like that.

who cares if he was committed? he didnt know what to do, or how to do it, i said it earlier, i knew in SEPTEMBER that 6000MW was a lie, and even if it appeared by magic, our transmission network wouldnt have been able to wheel it, people expected more from him since he has a degree in a power related field(so much for a PhD in power system economics), but his foundation is faulty, we dont need number crunchers in the power sector!

you might argue that his not being an engineer doesnt count, but why wont we have a non-medical person as a min of health? or a non finiancial person as a minister of finance? it's because we take those ministries serious. . .until we start taking power serious in nigeria nothing significant will change, throwing money at the power sector wont solve the problems, govt can make all the money available and we'll just keep supplying governors. . .lol.

truth is for those that know, the NESI(nigerian el supply industry) is a cash cow, power is extremely capital intensive, far more than telecomms et al. so there's a lot of money available for embezzling, so there are a lot of people that want in on the action, and govt. is playing politics with power in nigeria, how else do u explain not having a professional as minister since 1999? it's only ppl with political clout we've had!

those crying deregulation should shut the hell up!. . .the power sector cant be deregulated just like that, if it was, your nepa bill would more than triple and it's the same people that'd be crying murder.

P.S.
i'm not an imoke fan, it was under him power stations were built without pipelines to supply the full the turbines would use, others were built without transmission lines to evacuate the power generated, stations were built in places where they had no roads to transport the turbines to the power stations but he was better than babalola hands down!

homie, why dont you ever learn?

marvix:
@oyb I must tell u that within 2004 and now a lot has changed even though we still have proxies there is now at least an order to the madness. If u are interested in a big ticket transaction you must go thru some proces and the proxies come into play here and everything is involved in computin d cost. A project cld be given for 2b but d job will only cost .5b so that is d prob now and union members in PHCN are not innocent in all this sometimes they are d conduit, that is y I believe that their case is just d case of a kettle calling the pot black. Do they d union workers love us more than the minister?

i just spent a year in PHCN and i still maintain you dont know what you're talking about! so if the ministers girlfriend imports the wrong equipment who are you as a bloody civil servant to withhold her payment? you will just earn yourself unnecessary query, plus transfer to hell!

the union leaders are far from being saints but the corruption they indulge in, pales in comparison to what the ministers get up to.

apart from the ministry of power, can u name any other ministry that can boast of having provided enough funds for 2 ministers to run for governor? (yep, we in the power sector are generous like that). . .someone once explained it to me like this. . .they come in and see so much money, and they start stealing, and after stealing, they now try to do some work with the funds left, eventually they realise it wont work and this is when they resort to substandard equipment. . .

all the unions can do is call strikes, finish! so they cant be accused of mismanaging the sector!

spikedcylinder:
@ busybody20

Snoops in on your system how? I don't get.
Me I like the site for many things: you can change the colours of your interface, you get thanked or groaned for your posts, your reputation increases as your alleybux increase so you can do several things related to your account eg. change your username as many times as you want. And all their beefs are funny! Yeye people.

it means it installs spyware on your computer. . .software designed to gather information about you/your habits et al

there's a thread on that somewhere on NL, search for it if you're serious about it!

yep PHCN has fibre cables connecting most of it's stations in nigeria, the cables are licensed to dancom(dangote communications) in the south. . .and 3phase telecoms in the north!

ehen. . .this is where we catch all of you. . .u'll now be forming fine girl up and down the place we now know the truth. . .lol

spicymum:
@ busybody, chaircover, hotstepper, analytical, InesQor, hispinkolo,  Mhismole, demdem and everyone else who took the time to provide very, very thoughtful responses to me on this thread: THANK YOU.

@busybody: I am actually very close to his mum. But he HATES it when you get her or anyone else involved in his biz. Thats y I had been feeling so handicapped; its just me and him here. But he wont talk to me, has completely shut me out so ,

No. He is still not talking to me (I called him yesterday and he still wont pick my calls. He didnt even call to say "happy mother's day"; in the past, he would never miss celebrating a special day in our lives.) That notwithstanding, I feel a lot lighter. And happier too! I have been singing all day!!!  

In the recent past, I had been feeling so angry, disappointed, betrayed ,  it had affected aspects of my life. I didnt bother saying all that earlier, but I had been feeling particularly betrayed cos I met my husband when we were in college and he had little to call his own at the time. I did everything for him, including cook his meals in my parents house and take to him in his off campus residence (about 4 times a week, for a very longgg time). I did his laundry, everything. And I was not the kind of lady who you would expect to be making anyone's bed (I dont mean this in an offensive or arrogant way.) I did not even need to do my own laundry in my parents house. My friends ALWAYSSS made fun of me, I didnt realy care.
As I was saying, in the recent past, I secretly felt like now he was doing very well, he seemed to have thrown away all the memories of those times we spent in his place with no GSM, only an 8inch TV and VCD, no big gadgets like he collects now and we still spent quality time together.  

Now, I feel like a burden has been lifted off my back. I was at church today and the preacher talked about how Moses took the children of Isreal out of Egypt. He kept refering to somewhere in Exodus 14, where Moses told the Isrealites to stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. He kept repeating one verse: "The Egyptians you see today, you shall see them no more". I dont mean to preach and no offence to the non-christians here, but I believe that God has used you thoughtful people on this forum and his preacher today to reach out to me. It helps immensely to get the view and thoughts of other people who might be analysing the situation from a different perspective than mine. Plus, I strongly believe some of the advice I recieved here came from experience. Thank you.

I am almost afraid to call my husband now, cos I expect him to NOT pick the phone. But I will try and work on our relationship, with less anger and feelings of disaapointment. I will try.

i'm rooting for you 100%, will add you in my prayers for what it's worth!

@chaircover
no wonder er'one loves u. . .lol

@busybody
now i see y u are my 7th 1 and only. . .you have to let us know the expo you used to get into the guy's head!

Freestyl:
For updating you?

we've been fed so many lies on this issue. . .and this appears to be one of them. . .just like all the 'stairs-climbing' and '25-minute exercising'

funkybaby:
i knew it.

there will always be a tatafo that will be eaves dropping in my 'frog kissing' conversation with justwise

thanks @ email. i will edit it now. 

yez ke. . .awa ni yen

ah. . .the 'frog kissers' are back

@funky
change your email addy to something like funky[b][at][/b]frogkissers.com so spammers dont grab it. . .you get?

Freestyl:
The on-going scramble for positions in a soon to be reconstituted Federal cabinet could shortly hit a brick wall because President Umaru Yar’adua intends to resume duties in his office next week, a top source close to the ailing president told Daily Trust yesterday. However, another family source separately told Daily Trust that Yar’adua will be fit to resume work by the end of next month.

According to the top sources, Yar’adua intends to make a national radio and television broadcast to signal his resumption of work as early as Monday or Wednesday next week. They said Yar’adua may not write a letter to the National Assembly intimating it of his return because he did not transmit a letter before he proceeded on medical vacation, even though his spokesman later said Yar’adua recognised Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as the Acting President.

Both sources said Yar’adua has made much progress physically since his return to the country late last month, and that his remaining medical problem now is speech-related. The sources said the ailing president now walks around the house and also around the garden, where there are many birds and animals.

They said Yar’adua brought a speech therapist with him from the Saudi Arabian hospital and the doctor has been working since then to improve his speech. Both sources said he has made progress in his speech. One of the sources told Daily Trust that Yar’adua’s return to the country last month was “premature,” and that he was brought back before he finished his therapy “for political reasons.”

In the last two weeks, Daily Trust learnt that Yar’adua received several visiting family members, close friends, some political associates, some state governors and also some personal staff, even though he has not yet met with Acting President Goodluck Jonathan. Jonathan and his wife, Dame Patience, however visited the residence and they met with Hajia Turai Yar’adua.

The sources said Yar’adua’s seclusion since his return to the country was ordered by the Saudi doctors because he suffered a severe infection while at the Saudi hospital when he received some visitors. The people who have been able to meet with him after his return, the sources said, were made to go through some disinfecting chambers before they were ushered into his presence. Those procedures have ended now, the sources said.

According to our sources, Yar’adua is not happy with the Acting President for sacking his aides, instituting a probe of his regime’s contract awards and dissolving his council of ministers. It is therefore likely that his resumption of work would severely upstage the on-going selection of new ministers by the Acting President.

Yar’adua first left the country for medical treatment in Saudi Arabia on November 21, last year and returned to the country after 93 days. While he was away, the National Assembly adopted a unanimous resolution in early February to recognise the Vice President as Acting President, despite Yar’adua’s failure to transmit a letter of medical vacation in line with Section 145 of the 1999 Constitution.

Since Yar’adua’s return to the country, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has continued to run the country and has carried out many far-reaching political measures, including dissolving the Federal cabinet last Wednesday.

http://www.ngex.com/cgi-bin/frame/frameit2.plx?link=%22http://www.dailytrust.com/%22

which kain dodo is all this? methinks some people need to have the fear of God put into them. . .beginning with these daily trust ppl

hedmond:
Hi guys, pls I need information on how to partition my hard disk, I just bought d laptop (window 7)and nid to partition d hard disk. I heard I don't need a software to do it.
there was a time I used partition magic on a friend's laptop, d software instead formatted d whole system.
Am expecting answers.
Thanks

what you'll need to do is called shrinking. . .since i dont use windows 7, i'd advice you to open your help and support and type in shrinking and read the article there. . .if there's anything you dont understand i'll be happy to explain further

[quote author=uni-kazzy link=topic=301179.msg5739071#msg5739071 date=1269204379]@netotse, i am not talking about pirated cd oh! original window xp cd[/quote]it's still expensive prolly above 70k. . .(original msoffice is arnd 63k so i'm guessing)

marvix:
@netose, nobody in this country can claim he knows the power problems in and out. If they don't want babalola they should quit if babalola is reapointed and not disturb us with their noise. The real problem of d power sector can never be who the minister is.
The power problem in dis country can only be solved by teamwork, so pls we can change the minister and the new minister on resuming should start by sackin the union leaders.

i'm putting you in the 'bola ige' class, (pple that refuse to take the time to understand issues at play before talking/acting), do the workers decide where the money goes? sign contracts? all the workers do is maintain and operate the equipment, while it is safe to say that PHCN is corrupt and all that, saying PHCN workers are the reason that nigeria doesn't have constant electricity is a sure sign of ignorance. . .the problems nigeria is facing now, were caused by the leadership(specifically the military) but the politicians have not really helped matters either, they've spent a lot of money alright, but an equal amount has gone into private pockets(guess whose?)

the problem can never be the minister?when bola ige promised constant electricity in 6months(like most nigerians i believed him), he and OBJ then proceeded the import a lot of transformers(which wont have helped anyway) but guess what? the transformers they imported weren't suited for the NEPS, the minister can never be the problem you say. . .there has never been a minister of power that has worked A DAY in the power sector since and yet you expect them to formulate and apply policy that will move the sector forward abi?

the new minister should sack the unions? i'm starting to think you dont know much about the way labour works(or even the way nigeria works), the new minister CANNOT sack the union leadership, do you have any idea what it would take to do that?(esp for unions like the NUEE), that's one of the biggest jokes i've heard in a while. . .

how much do your solar panels cost? what's their effeciency and rating?

marvix:
I think the leaders of the unions calling for this shutdown should be shown the way out of our power sector reason being that they are the ones who have been working there for the past 25yrs when things were being run aground, they also should be held responsile for frustrating all past ministers of dat sector and keeping us in the dark. Are the members of the union telling us that a man who was minister for about 24mths is responsible for power failures or is it those workers at d power station who can switch off power for just any flimsy excuse?

while i agree that the leadership of the unions should be changed, i must say, your post shows how little you know about the electricity sector and electricity in general!

Jarus:
I actually based my comment on what Ijeoma Nwogwugwu, that brilliant Economist, journalist and columnist with ThisDay, who I respect so much(although we adisagree sharply on SLS)  used to write about him. Secondly, he comes across as a refined, brilliant, soft-spoken technocrat that has a great grasp of energy political economy. I'm surprised with what you said about him now.

yes, but we don't need an economist in the power ministry, the problem isn't strictly a money problem, i like ijeoma too,(dont know y she's against this NITEL sale though), but on the babalola issue we part ways, having read a number of reports doesnt give you the required knowledge or skill to solve the power sectors problems, i didnt place much stock in them, but did you hear the rumours that she was defending babalola when he first got into office cos she wanted to get a job with him(i think they've had some dealings at BPE or something).

one major part of the problem is that all you outsiders(no offense meant) think you appear out of nowhere and solve the power sectors problems without even understanding what the sector is all about, that's how bola ige promised steady light in 6months when it was(and still is) not possible in 6years.

naijaking1:
It simply beats the imagination that useless unions that produces nothing but darkness for Nigerians should threaten "black-out"
What an irony
Where were the unions when they realized that the 6000mw objectice would not be met?

as far back as october, i pasted it in the welcome to my office thread that the 6000MW goal wasn't going to happen, you dont expect workers to come out and announce something different from what their boss has announced do u?

u sef check am, if u can think back that far, did any technical staff of PHCN come out to announce anything about the 6000mw? it's only the politicians and govt appointees that were making noise about it(and of course u ppl listened to them. . .)

p.s.
anyone that contradicted the minister would have been branded a saboteur and summarily fired, i know that for a fact!

the guy is an economist, in addition to being corrupt, he was clueless. . .what we need it to keep the pencil pushers away from the energy sector in nigeria! the man didn't help matters at all. . .

check here and here too if u want proof!

i think y'all are just saying that cos of all the noise that has been made about his having a PhD in energy economics. . .so bleeding what?

those are my boys(i still hate them though. . .lol). . .the nuisance should find somewhere else to ply his wares!

babe, happy birthday, wishing you many more years. . .

this woman is getting on my nerves. . .

9jaganja:
You don't just replace them like that. This isn't some ministry or some house of rep. Experience is really needed in this field. You have to mix them up and not just fire them like that. If you are good at what you are doing, why fix something not broken? That is a bad policy abeg!!!. Young ones should be given a chance but it doesn't mean the experienced ones should be sacked.

it wont be all the directors going at once now. . .plus they're not prevented from going to other banks. Plus there's nothing stopping them from applying their experience in other sectors of the economy!

[quote author=uni-kazzy link=topic=301179.msg5735541#msg5735541 date=1269162369]@tobaqo, pls hw much is d window xp CD cost because i dont hv one my laptop is belgium.[/quote]250naira tops

kenzyma:
Hello, my computer can't print ".pdf" file, pls help me

cant print? can it open them? i mean do u have a program to read PDF's on your computer(adobe acrobat reader, foxit pdf etc)

i'm checking her pics on FB to see wassup o, when we rolled i knew she she had tendencies but i didnt pencil her down as 'one of those'. . .