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Bye bye tight pencil jeans

Amicably indeed!

Lol I saw a guy some months ago sending such messages at a cybercafe and I pity the greedy ones among his recipients. Their usual line is this:
How to get any ebook you want for free, how to browse the internet on your laptop without paying a dime, etc

They just make some offers greedy people can't resist.

Holy Lord! Stuff your own baby in a bag

Politics is the most lucrative sector of the Nigerian economy, courtesy of the corruption sub-sector.

“If Nigeria does not kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria,” Mr Osundare said."

Prof Osundare would be more appropriate. The man is a blessing to the classrooms.

^^^^^ No, they are not the same model.

This is exactly what the donors in Afghanistan are canvassing against.

Maleeq: Further to what @tessyade said, every memory device reserves certain amount of space for journaling/partition table. These reserved space is typically inaccessible to the user and the amount reserved is dependent on the format of the partition (FAT32, NTSF, ext4 etc). Thats why when you just newly format a drive, with no files on it, you see the available space is already depleted.

source: Why Is My Hard Drive Capacity Lesser Than Advertised

Thanks for the insight. My point still remains that if the difference in binary and decimal numbering is the sole cause of this disparity, then every 500GB HDD and 4GB flash should have storage capacities of 464GB and 3.72GB respectively but this obviously is not the case.

I have attached a picture showing the properties of my two 4GB flash drives (from the same manufacturer and with the same partitioning format FAT32) with different storage capacities.

Bbng: I hate it that after I sign in to make a comment on a topic I was reading, the page goes to the home page and not to the page I was on before signing in; that's irritating.

That can be very dissappointing. It's even more annoying when the topic is not on the homepage and you did not take note of the section where it belongs.

If you ever find yourself in this position, just click 'back' after signing in until you reach that thread you wanted to respond to. Refresh the page and click on reply.

Idowuogbo: Out of all names to call, u chose to pick on me Abi?

Agbaya oshi!

I'm sorry I used your name but it readily comes to mind whenever this issue of chatting is being raised. There is nothing wrong with saying hello to someone (after your useful comments) but it becomes something else when a thread is turned to a chatting room.

tessyade: It has to do with the numbering system. Some computer components (including hard disk)use the binary system of numbering where 1024bytes equals 1Kbyte but in decimal numbering, 1Kbyte is 1000bytes. The difference in size is a function of this 24bytes difference on every Kilobyte. I hope you understand.

Thanks for your response. I got what you're saying. If the decimal numbering is used, a 4GB flash will have 4 X 1000MB=4000MB but since the computer accesing it uses the binary numbering (1GB=1024MB), that same flash will have a storage capacity of 3.90GB (4000/1024MB). I believe I got your explanation right.

However, if what you said is the cause, then every 4GB flash should have a storage capacity of 3.90GB. The case where two 4GB flash drives from different manufacturers have different storage capacities would never have occurred. And I'm yet to see a 4GB flash that has a storage capacity of up to 3.90GB (its always lesser).

In addition to my original post, I've also observed that there is a difference between the storage capacities of a flash drive and a memory card said to be of the same capacity (say 4GB) from the same manufacturer.

Jojo Armani: Oh dis country self. Oya GEJ form anoda committee to call de man and get de info from him. We dey.

A committee will be formed to obtain the phone number while another committee will be formed to make the call.

None of the above.

Different flash drives always have a capacity below what is said to be its memory capacity. A 2GB flash drive will always have a capacity of between 1.7GB and 1.8GB. I have two '4GB' flash drives which have storage capacities of 3.68GB and 3.72GB respectively.

On the other hand, the storage capacity of a computer's HDD is always what the manufacturer called it.

Why can't a flash drive have the storage capacity written on it?

No be today!

How many of the local stations can even sustain themselves? Dearth of good programmes also contributes to it.

Coefficient: Well, I hate it when a group of people decide to turn a beautiful thread to their chat room as in the case of that splendid thread in the romance section: 'Share your craziest, sexiest, funniest experience on Nairaland'. That interesting thread lost its appeal, no thanks to those chit-chatters.

Thank you for saying this. Idowuogbo (no offense) is very good at doing that. I hardly see any of her post where she did not chat with the posters before her.

What annoys me most is when people are asking for source even when it is conspicuously placed above or below the original post.

The end of the days.

No dulling. I dey feel the guy sha - finishing in 3 semesters what will take others 11 semesters!

Simple: Because they don't like the position the natural eyebrow is. You'll observe that the painted eyebrow is usually above the natural and more longer.

Funny anyway!

Thumbs up NUC.

@OP Nice one

These questions are best answered by those who have some work experience. What of fresh graduates with no experience at all? Some of those questions will be relatively difficult for them to answer.

Lol

@OP God bless you for this topic. I've always thought about it countless times.

OAU's case was daylight robbery. PUTME form costs N2350 while the result checker goes for N3350 and can only be obtained at the school's microfinance bank. What a scam!

That's what you'll have when everyone want to work in a particular sector.

Glo is relatively better. MTN sucks these days.

The largest network in Africa! No be by size

The Beginning of the End

Edmund Obilo of Splash FM Ibadan. That guy is da bomb.

Cajetan speaks: Must d university go to d press 2 tell d whole world dat d expelled some of dia students? A sch lik FUTO do quietly expel students each semester 4 similar offences. Publishin dis guys name in d press is a very wicked act.

Like I said before, at Unilorin the rule of the game is clear. That's why you hardly see anyone fighting or cheating, cultism is unheard of (though there are rumors that they exist off-campus but what's the essence of it when you cannot exert a miniscule of 'influence'), and the school is at peace (though at a cost). If you are expelled from Unilorin, gaining admission again at Unilorin is impossible while at other Federal universities will be difficult. Their names are not only published in the newspapers alone, it is published on the school's website, posters with their names and pictures are pasted all over the campus, etc. Like the saying goes: 'don't do the crime if you are not ready to do the time'.

ogugua88: If some of the reasons were examination malpractices, then how can only 13 students be expelled?

Can you please explain what you meant by 'only 13'? Are you expecting them to be more than 13? At Unilorin, the rule of the game is clear. No fighting, no stealing, no malpractices, etc. Someone got expelled last session because he stole a desktop charger.