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sent him a message on FB. . .lol that ought to shock him. . .thanks

dovellin:
Hi skydancer,
        I,ve got this problem i believe its solveable. I used to configure modems, routers, and switches with an XP laptop i was using. but i just got a vista  laptop only to find out that its got no hyperterminal application on it. I once heard it can be fixed but 'the how' i dont know. Can you pls guide me through this? Thanks.

this is the solution, got it somewhere. . .

First of all you need to get access to a Windows XP machine and copy two files hypertrm.dll and hypertrm.exe from that system to your target Windows Vista or Windows 7 machine. Alternatively, you can download the files in a zip-package from here. Once you have the zip file, you need to extract the two files from that package to your target system (Windows Vista or Windows 7).


Make sure you keep the files hypertrm.dll and hypertrm.exe in the same folder. Now you can launch the HyperTerminal client by double clicking the hypertrm.exe file. And there you have a fully working HyperTerminal client. This HyperTerminal client functions normally on your Windows Vista or a Windows 7 system as it would on any other Windows XP system.

tell us the obvious pass jo, u cant expect people to advise you blindly!

why only NYSC and IT? methinks it;s cos you dont want to pay better money. . .lol BTW u didnt include preferred states of service. . .

Paying Zero for Public Services
Submitted by Fumiko Nagano on Tue, 12/29/2009 - 16:10

Imagine that you are an old lady from a poor household in a town in the outskirts of Chennai city, India. All you have wanted desperately for the last year and a half is to get a title in your name for the land you own, called patta. You need this land title to serve as a collateral for a bank loan you have been hoping to borrow to finance your granddaughter’s college education. But there has been a problem: the Revenue Department official responsible for giving out the patta has been asking you to pay a little fee for this service. That’s right, a bribe. But you are poor (you are officially assessed to be below the poverty line) and you do not have the money he wants. And the most absurd part about the scenario you find yourself in is that this is a public service that should be rendered to you free of charge in the first place. What would you do? You might conclude, as you have done for the last 1-1/2 years, that there isn’t much you can do…but wait, you just heard about a local NGO by the name of 5th Pillar and it just happened to give you a powerful ally: a zero rupee note.


In Doha last month, CommGAP learned about the work of 5th Pillar, which has a unique initiative to mobilize citizens to fight corruption. In India, petty corruption is pervasive – people often face situations where they are asked to pay bribes for public services that should be provided free. 5th Pillar distributes zero rupee notes in the hopes that ordinary Indians can use these notes as a means to protest demands for bribes by public officials. I recently spoke with Vijay Anand, 5th Pillar’s president, to learn more about this fascinating initiative.

According to Anand, the idea was first conceived by an Indian physics professor at the University of Maryland, who, in his travels around India, realized how widespread bribery was and wanted to do something about it. He came up with the idea of printing zero-denomination notes and handing them out to officials whenever he was asked for kickbacks as a way to show his resistance. Anand took this idea further: to print them en masse, widely publicize them, and give them out to the Indian people. He thought these notes would be a way to get people to show their disapproval of public service delivery dependent on bribes. The notes did just that. The first batch of 25,000 notes were met with such demand that 5th Pillar has ended up distributing one million zero-rupee notes to date since it began this initiative. Along the way, the organization has collected many stories from people using them to successfully resist engaging in bribery.

One such story was our earlier case about the old lady and her troubles with the Revenue Department official over a land title. Fed up with requests for bribes and equipped with a zero rupee note, the old lady handed the note to the official. He was stunned. Remarkably, the official stood up from his seat, offered her a chair, offered her tea and gave her the title she had been seeking for the last year and a half to obtain without success. Had the zero rupee note reached the old lady sooner, her granddaughter could have started college on schedule and avoided the consequence of delaying her education for two years. In another experience, a corrupt official in a district in Tamil Nadu was so frightened on seeing the zero rupee note that he returned all the bribe money he had collected for establishing a new electricity connection back to the no longer compliant citizen.

Anand explained that a number of factors contribute to the success of the zero rupee notes in fighting corruption in India. First, bribery is a crime in India punishable with jail time. Corrupt officials seldom encounter resistance by ordinary people that they become scared when people have the courage to show their zero rupee notes, effectively making a strong statement condemning bribery. In addition, officials want to keep their jobs and are fearful about setting off disciplinary proceedings, not to mention risking going to jail. More importantly, Anand believes that the success of the notes lies in the willingness of the people to use them. People are willing to stand up against the practice that has become so commonplace because they are no longer afraid: first, they have nothing to lose, and secondly, they know that this initiative is being backed up by an organization—that is, they are not alone in this fight.

This last point—people knowing that they are not alone in the fight—seems to be the biggest hurdle when it comes to transforming norms vis-à-vis corruption. For people to speak up against corruption that has become institutionalized within society, they must know that there are others who are just as fed up and frustrated with the system. Once they realize that they are not alone, they also realize that this battle is not unbeatable. Then, a path opens up—a path that can pave the way for relatively simple ideas like the zero rupee notes to turn into a powerful social statement against petty corruption.



Photo Credit: 5th Pillar

the guys email addy is aaadewunmi@yahoo.com and he has been sending me silly as mails about opensource and stuff, i'm sure he got my mail from NL cos in the 'to:' field i can see a lot of NLers names, abeg someone should send this guy a message warning him or something. . .

if only oga knew wassup. . .

@gamine
you just disappeared sha

@thread
my roommate snores and i have to shout his name to get him to turn over around four to five times a night, i cant imagine having to cope with a spouse doing that. . .

ok. . .since i dont want to be seen as spamming this thread, i'll post a pic of my excuse for an internet connection here. . .

sorry couldnt use IDM, have no idea how to install the one someone pasted a link to a couple of pages back, i'd appreciate it if someone could paste another link or something. . .

the main reason i'm here is cos of a problem i have using my phone as a modem the thread i started is here ---> https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-387466.0.html

and can anyone tell me how to stop the yeye thing from displaying fb as a mobile page. . .

hey pple,
i use one of them zain data bundles to browse at home and i've been having this problem for a while, it seems like a caching problem, whenever i visit a page on a site, say nairaland the page i see gets cached and thats what i keep seeing everytime i refresh said page till i disconnect, for instance if i visit the recent posts page at 8:20(FYI: the time is displayed in the top right corner) and 30minutes later i try to check the same page(recent posts) it'll still be the same page i saw at 8:20, exact page no difference, even the time displayed in the top right will be 8:20, same goes for updated topics, it limits the amount of browsing i can do since i get the same pages all the time.
The problem isn't with my browser since i get the same problem on different browsers i.e. if i open the page at 8.20 in firefox and i try the same page at 9.00 in opera, its still the same page i saw in firefox that'll be loaded.

P.S.
i use Nokia PC suite to connect my phone and pc together and then i change the proxy settings in my browser to 172.18.254.5 that is the zain proxy.

mummy isn't going to like this, i hope i can win her over. . .maybe i'll tell her i love her later that ought to work. . .

i'm enjoying the fact that they're speaking hausa around me right now and i dont understand

@abuseay
tell us how ur interview went now. . .

I know sometime in the near future i'll be glad i didnt do it, but right now I need a hug. . .

I'm not thinking any bad thoughts. . .

Kai. . .i remember the days of innocence when amaka was too busy fighting er'one. . .gone are those days *sob*

Na wa o, awon omode ninu ilu yi(NL) ti baje
@thread
i'll soon be back in civilization. . .thank you God!

I'm not tired. . .

i'm not hungry. . .

how far? school nko?. . .i feeling a little too truthful, i'm of to tell some lies. . .

Kunbee:
Is dat my son above me

this thread really is not the place for role play kunbee. . .we'll do that later

where's saga? this one that spikey has named herself defender of the downtrodden hmmm. . .

@saga
guy u know i'm on your side right? i'm the only one that hasn't seen it fit to poke fun at your. . .disabilities(implied or otherwise)

this seems like a very good idea!

P.S.
i'm waiting for people to come and introduce a tribal agenda here o,

Mhismole:
dear,
ex1. You were wonderful. seriously. i just didnt love you, and i was too young to appreciate you. but im pretty sure il see you later in life sha. life's a naughty woman like that .
ex2 Thank goodness you'r behind me now, You disgusted the freak out of me. Would never forget the day you took your top off and i had to go throw up. Im pretty sure you have aids now. such a chronic kitty chaser. thank god i never had nothin to do with you, i couldnt even kiss you. trash
ex3- Liar oshi . and i liked you o. Cant believe you made me 'the other woman' without my consent!! hope you suffer the same fate as the one above you. you two must be brothers. And your girlfriend must be blind and silly to still be with you.
ex4- you really liked me . Too bad you gave me everything i wanted. Being a man sometimes wouldn't have hurt a bit.
And you, the most current ex, i dont love you. i cant like anyone that likes me. im just on a mission, and i'm sorry (ok that sounded like sth a mammy water wud say o, abeg no o!)

peace y'all!!! and hey na2day, i see you,

i swear i'm speechless!

@bamwolo
i want to be like you when i grow up

@blue
sebi iwo lo so pe ti saga ri ese e nkan ma sele

there's nothing to it jo, i deal with police men all the time, all you need to do is talk to them like normal people[quote author=mama-gee link=topic=383736.msg5342356#msg5342356 date=1263841492]I don't argue with Policemen, I just give them 20 naira. [/quote]thats why you got banned. . .your nuisance value is through the roof!

plat dearest i hope you get well soon, will say a prayer for you!

[size=4pt]the dearest expires the moment you recover fully[/size]

Reminiscing. . .i miss school

@bebure and yalesam
which version of powerprep are you talking about? I have ppgre31 is it that one? Could one of you guys send me the barrons. . .tenks

I lack any form of motivation whatsoever, wish i had someone to blame. . .Lord i could do with some help now.