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This should be moved to the programming section

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Can't remember, I think I responded to one of these topics but it appears my reply was toasted :|

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Sorry, but I read your post. To be honest, I don't have the will to go through 7 pages of mixed turorials / questions to help. If the tutorial was posted first, and the following were questions, It'd have made a lot more sense as It'll have been easier to track individual queries, but considering how clogged the topic appears to be, I'll rather keep off . If someone still needs help, they're welcome to post here .

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Dual Core:
Shay you know sey u be chicken. You wey be staff dey ask we wey just dey post weda na just you dey see the bug. I aint seeing just bug here i'm seeing roast beef and bugz.

Lol! It wouldn't be a hard bug to fix. If I can see the ./Themes/default/Display.template.php file of the forum, I can post the code changes to resolve that.

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While that's a fair tutorial, it doesn't prevent questions from coming in. Considering my reply here, this topic will be tracked and I can be contacted for PHP problems as well.

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Lol! Don't open up a can of "whoop ass" on the poor moderator already? I agree, there's actually no valid point to justify this but it might help aid community interaction.
[size=1]Side note:[/size]: Perhaps, it's just me? But there appears to be a bug with the Poll system. I see a link to login or register when I'm already authenticated.

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Well, there's ForumMatrix that let's you compare all their features. For me (to some) it's obviously SMF considering that I'm a team member there .

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lynxnoon:
hey Ralvy long tym
well i tink d LG is cool _{(& affordable=#22,800)} tho am yet to stretch it to d limits. . . lol
d only snag wit dis 1TB's r d nid for external power source

Hey Lynxmoon, how're you? As regards the external power hurdle, honestly. I don't think it will be for me, there are a lot of stuff that I'd rather not delete but have backed up for security reasons.

4llerbuntu:
now thats what i call high risk investment. what if PHCN strikes when u doing stuff on it? that kinda stuff kills drives. or u gonna be carrying UPS along with it

Well, bearing in mind that it'll be used as a backup drive, the risk are actually slim (for me). I already have a laptop with 320 GB which is more than enough for quotidian operations. As regards power outage during data transfer, this wouldn't be happening often enough to cause the disk to fail, granted bad clusters could be developed but we can't rule out the use of these devices due to the current power generation state in the country.

flyuche:
check this out lynx.

Now, that's really cool and looks almost exactly like my WD 320 GB, storage space gets bigger but the size remains the same, lol! I wouldn't mind getting one of those, honestly.

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Yea, there are "plug and play"

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Wrong section but great news . I've had uninterrupted power for supply for about a week now. Lol! My TV, Ps3, routers and all really need to sleep. I wake up every morning to see "Niko Bellic" looking around, lol (hint: GTA)

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Thanks for the information from the topic. I'm going to need one of those 1TB externals 'cos my 250GB PC's yearning for free space like a baby needs milk especially considering my kid brother bricked my WD 320 GB

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ChocoLove, that's awesome, and indeed, I was thinking about one person

Couldn't disagree more with the first poster. w7 is positively, definitely and unquestionably way faster than it's predecessor.

Bigbrovar, good to have you back I just installed KDE and was looking at hooking up to get some dumps. I presume you're still in abj?

[me=Ralvy]was patiently waiting for this to hit the internet [/me]

http://www.freshfactsnewsonline.net/_c0.htm

Soon after he left Abuja for the United States of America, information filtered to Abuja and Makurdi that one of the Governor’s aides was caught with 3.8 million US dollars cash on arrival in the US. The unnamed aide is said to have told security agents that the money belonged to his boss, the state Governor.
Fresh Facts’ sources confirmed in Abuja last week that following this development, the Governor was alleged to have been interrogated by the security agencies in the US. In his defence, the Governor is said to have told the agents that he carried the money to help in the purchase of pigs to develop swine farming in Benue State. “He told his interrogators that he had earlier signed an agreement with the Iowa State University to revitalize the swine industry in Benue”, a Presidency source told Fresh Facts in Abuja last week. The source requested that Fresh Facts should hide its identity.
News of the Governor’s new travails in the United States became the most topical issue for discussion in Makurdi in the past one week. It was openly discussed in offices, newspaper stands, beer parlors and other public places. The information was also widely circulated by GSM text messages by indigenes of the state in Makurdi and other towns in Nigeria and abroad. So widespread was the information that even though the media had not reported it, the state government issued a statement saying the information is false.

The State government stated that the claims are false but I think we know better

Mafia4life:
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those shitz are trash. Try to improve your choice of music beside who the fu@k will like to waste brandwith on those type of shit. Is it the internet freaks or those ajegule cats are to feel those wack songs?

Well, that's entirely your opinion. He did a very great job at compiling those songs especially one I was searching for when google brought me here (wetin dey - Jesse Jags). I downloaded the 70mb+ bundle, thanks


FreshestDj, perhaps, next time attach single files or package them up in a .zip/.tar.gz/.rar archive instead of the 70mb+ mp3 file.

Lerbe: As regards slow downloads. You may open System -> Administration -> Software Sources
Download From: From the drop down, select other and choose "Select Best Server", a series of tests would be conducted (basically it would ping several servers) and output one with the best reply, you should select that one and reload the terminal and run:

Sudo apt-get update

As for the terminal, usually a CTRL + C like the windows cmd prompt should cancel any running process?

The news came into the state today, I've been hearing it from different ends, but by tomorrow, the papers should have it logged, so a link will be provided.

I've just heard that the Governor of Benue State was caught leaving the country with billions. He claims that he was going to buy foreign pigs to come and bring up in the country.

While I really want to see that the strike is called off pretty soon. I'm afraid the economical and educational system in the country is pretty much ineffective now, I'm considering a switch. Perhaps, a private university or some near by decent county. Malaysia or something :-s

Not all of those are safe. If I need a proxy, I use Your-Freedom on Ubuntu, and for Microsoft users, there's a windows version as well .

mufasa:
I partitoned with Vista, from your explanation i figure you want me to partition with Ubuntu. Please can you give me a walk thru or a link to a walk thru as regards how i can do this.
and please in Layman's english, thnks a bunch

You already said you have a partitioned hard drive (you dual boot Windows and Linux (Hardy)). I hope you don't overwrite both partitions, and the way to make sure that doesn't happen is to choose "manual partitioning". Make sure you pick the existing ext3 partition, format it and give it the mount point /. Pick your existing swap partition out too.

mufasa:
I recently downloaded the latest ubuntu,i'm dual booting (Vista and Hardy Heron_), how can i put my new ubuntu in the partiton that hardy was on?

Pretty straight forward . When you get to the partitioning stage, check "Specify partitions manually (Advanced)", hardy should be installed on an 'ext3' partition, so select that for Jaunty's ext3 filesystem and set "/" as the mount point, you should be fine using the existing swap space.

Please i know this issue has been discussed over and over. I use gNOME PPP as my GUI for connecting my modems (Starcomms and Nokia N-series), i recently got this Visafone Haier CDMA and the Gnome PPP doesnt detect it as a modem any time i connect it. How can i use the Haier (Via Gnome PPP or otherwise)?

Perhaps, you should upgrade to Jaunty and see if it supports it out of the box, if it doesn't, then you go 'driver hunting'.

'ey, installed ubuntu a few hours ago and I've been modding

danexd:
@Ralvy, sent u a mail, waiting to hear from you, Thanks

Fired off a Reply .

@Bigrovar, am joing the CLUB and u are leaving, You are yet to help me out so pls stay, i believe the issue will be resolved since it was banned by a bot
Can wait to start using Ubuntu,

Yeah, I doubt he'll leave. Seeing that it's a bot that banned the accounts, I'm sure he'll reconsider *hopefully*.

Bigbrovar, after digging into the issue. I found out that it's a bot that bans the accounts. I'm hoping this should be resolved soon as well.

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bigbrovar:
Hi guys am sorry for being silent for a while ,  well its because i have been banned from posting msgs on Nairaland ,  the reason given was that i posted   *spam* here , in Nairaland ,  i tried mailing the mod for computer section (dhtml) and i even left a msg for seun that this most be a mistake because i have never posted spam msg here ,  ever since i have been a member here i have tried to abide by the rules of decent discussion expected on a public forum. well i guess it was all to no avail. as it is my normal nairaland account bigrovar is no longer active ,  i had to create this account so i can post this msg ,  after which i have no intention of being a part of the board anymore ,  its really sad that things have to turn out this way ,  and this is no way to run the biggest on-line forum in Nigeria. anyway i want to thank everybody and all my friend that have made my stay here a memorable one ,  will miss u all  for those who still want to get in touch with me u can do that thru twitter http://twitter.com/bigbrovar  or thru my blog http://bigbrovar. or the ubuntunigeria mailing list http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntunigeria/ ,  so i guess this is it ,  bye

Bigbrovar, please, don't leave like that. I had the exact same thing happen to me and all I did was clicked the 'Report to Moderator' link in one post and inform them of the issue. Ideally, it's pretty much stupid and insensitive to think that an active participant of the community with over 500 posts would post spam. Perhaps, it was a (stupid?) mistake. Some Administrators or Moderators need to be (re)introduced (bad english) to the term 'spam' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam).

danexd:
i have been reading this thread for the past 3 month now, trying to decide whether to switch to this Ubuntu OS. For people like me who have never known(used) another Os apart from Windows, honestly it a tough decision and am really scared but I have decided to try some new.

That's a decision most of us had to make. But I don't think it's such a drastic move considering the fact that you can revert back to Windows or simply dual boot (run both windows and Linux). With Linux, you won't have virus problems as linux is pretty much immune to all that. Most win32 applications have Linux alternatives, although Linux is a bit internet dependent, you should enjoy it.

So here we go, i tried downloading the iso like suggested somewhere on this thread but was getting 45kb of data and can't write it on a cd.

Perhaps, your internet connection is not the way forward https://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/17.gif. A standard Ubuntu .iso shouldn't be less than 600MB, depending on your internet connection, downloading that will be like playing 'whack-a-mole'. 45Kb is definitely, not it, unless it's a .torrent file you downloaded or an .iso file to grab the other packages off the internet as you attempt to install which isn't recommended.

and pls house am a bit confused with all those mint,gloria.kde stuff are they the same ubuntu os,

The best thing for you to do is take some time off, read tons of guides / articles on the internet and with no time, you'll get to understand things.
Linux mint is an operating system, much like Ubuntu. Gloria is the default desktop on Mint. KDE is a desktop environment that can be installed on existing linux operating systems. It does basically what the win32 explorer does such as provide basic / advanced desktop functionality and applications for your daily need. The default DM in ubuntu Gnome which, IMO is pretty much stable until you break it like mine.

My location is Enugu, can someone help me with a cd.

Sadly, I can't help you with that. I'm currently in Abuja chilling with my folks (thanks to ASUU) and will be back to Benue when the strike has been called off, if you know anyone around any of the aforementioned areas, I could send a CD your way.

Just curious, what kind of programming are you into?
Maybe you should consider learning to code instead of giving up on the job? Programming isn't too hard to understand, but oh! well, that depends on the kind or programming in question. Get books off the internet, when you get home from work, try to code a few scripts, ask colleagues for help when you run into problems and slowly, you'll get there