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udemzyudex:
Did you confirm the health of the HDD, the health must always be 100%,even if it is 99% don't buy it.

How often do you reload /format the HDD?

Do you always shutdown properly?

Well in case you want to sell it, so that those who are interested can come for it.

I actually confirmed the health of the HDD. It was at 100 when I bought it.

I barely format my HDD because it houses my stuff and it is used internally.

I always do.

Ishilove:
Sprinkle your PC with holy water.

Babe!

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lilachiever:
Intel Pentium Laptop for 60K, you no sabi wetin dey do you yet.


Money that can get a fair Core i7 with Graphics Ram

60k can't get you a Core i7 save you are buying from broke Yahoo! boys.

MyphoneandI:
So I made this post asking someone to contact me. And a lot of people contacted me. This is one discussion with one person who contacted me.

This is the reason people don't help other people.

You flared up too fast. Not sure the guy said something bad before you went from 0-100.

You should understand some people are so badly raised that they think you owe them when they want something. And you came off as 'oga' just because you felt you had the advantage or edge since you're in a position to 'better the life' of whoever you give this tips to.

We all should calm down.

bigl:
Its most likely overheating! And there is every likelyhood those hard drives had issues before you bought them and the heat of a thing helped in accelerating their demise.

I use a 8540p and i'm also battling with the heat thing but it doesn't affect my hdd sha! The system used to shut down back then..

Try and check to be sure the under side of your laptop is not heating up

I doubt it is overheating. I have a thermal paste I generously apply on areas it is required and my PC doesn't shut down on its own.

The sound of the fan has been normal all through.

So i doubt it is as a result of overheating.

lanphiz:
Still available.

What's the model and spec of the PC?

ellagabs:
the source of your setup files might be the problem.
1. if you have an external drive that houses all your applications, i suggest you do a total scan on it.

2. use GParted to fix the follow come HDD

3. May be you are using a charger with higher ampere than what is needed by the system

No, I don't have or use an external hard drive. The supposed follow come died a long time ago and has since been disposed.

I don't doubt the #3 but my maths skill suck. How do I calculate my PC's amperage in a way that a dummy will understand?

Thanks.

Modified

I just realised that the PC's output is 90W while my adapter's is 60W. The previous adapter was 65W. So the wattage has been undersupplied ever since but I doubt it is enough to impact the HDDs save in cases of power surges, which doesn't happen.

Contributions on Quora confirm this. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-consequence-of-using-a-lower-wattage-power-adapter-with-a-laptop

I have an HP 8440p that has gulped 3 HDDs within the past 3 months!

A little history

I bought it on Amazon in 2018: a core i7 HP EliteBook and it has not given me an issue for a day until about three months ago.

Although I noticed that the BIOS was passworded when I got it. I couldn't bring myself to take it to Computer Village in Ikeja because of my past experiences with Policemen around that area.

The power pack got damaged about five months ago and had to change it immediately.

A month after, the original HDD that came with it crashed one morning without signs or warnings. All I noticed was media files kept freezing at intervals and I did a restart and that was it.

About two days later, I got another 500GB HDD. Mounted it and installed a Windows 10 on it. I had barely used it for three days before it crashed. Had to take it to the shop I bought it from and they outrighly declined a replacement and refund altogether. Then I got another 500GB (Seagate) which has been perfect ever since until this morning.

I noticed my programmes weren't responding and did a restart. 20 minutes later, it was yet to restart even though it said "restarting". I did a hard reset and it failed to boot.

Hard disk test says "read failure error". I had to remount the HDD but the response is the same.

Along with the one that came with it, this is the third HDD within 3 months. A part of me wants to smash a heavy rod or wood on the PC but irọ nla. It is a crazy strong PC and I love it.

I'm weighing the option of selling it off or taking it to Ikeja for a swap deal but those guys always negotiate items like they are stolen.

I want to know if I can still salvage the PC. Epp me, edakun.

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ashiwaju11:
Hi friends, I just installed SSL certificate based on your recommendation.

I will be glad if you could please kindly help review the site. Thanks in advance!

The SSL isn't showing green at my end. You might need to force it using an SSL plugin. Just head over to your WordPress plugin repository to do that.

However, if it shows it is green on your PC and mobile, then don't bother.

Davash222:
These two are the major problems we have in this country.

It's no longer Tinubu? Wow.

Reminds me of Ambode's episode when attempts to beg Tinubu failed. He organised a "World press conference" and started ranting like a market woman about how Sanwo went mad for taking drugs.

No one cares about your pro bono ventures. Take up the form and contest, abeg. The noise is getting too much.

He has started deleting them!

Faithful4real:
That is what the media wants you to believe.

Check a democrat declared his support for Antifa

HIS SUPPORT FOR THE MOVEMENT AND NOT AN ORGANISATION!

Trump had no idea what the movement was all about and Americans didn't spare him on it. It won't hurt your to read. ANTIFA is just an acronym for ANTI-FACISM.

SarkinYarki:
God bless President Trump... Obama sponsored terrrorist cell Antifa went and torched a historic church very reminiscent of how his thugs ISIS went about unchallenged torching churches and historic sites in the middleeast till Trump stopped them ...Make no mistake this is not just a fight against Trump but a tight by the professional anarchist called Obama to Destroy capitalism..

Watch the Modus Operandi of ISIS then and that of Antifa now and you will see the same mind is behind both of them ... Y'all remember how Obama was trying to flood Europe with Muslim migrants from North Africa that year

You are as ignorant as Trump. ANTIFA is not an organisation but antifacism movement.

My worry is that she filmed the act all through without confronting him. She should have confronted him instead of staying mum for two minutes.

The man is a pig!

You guys should quit spamming the section. It is fast looking ugly and unappealing.

You have the same thread created 20 different times. So not cool.

muykem:
Do you know maybe they are looking for soft landing for the governor? The governor that refuted all interference of party leaders including Tiunbu himself is now looking for reconciliation at eleven hours when permutation has been concluded.

It isn't because of soft landing but reality knocking at the door. I am sure Obaseki has closed his eyes for a minute and imagined life outside of office - he didn't like it.

Ambode did worse before sending his uncouth wife to Osun to beg the Tinubu. The same woman that stormed out of a Holy Communion because she was not recognized despite showing up late.

And Kabaka's house that Obaseki pulled down? The siege he laid at Oshiomole's estate, the power flex and brags about how he'll cut Oshiomole to size only to beg his fellow governors to go with him to beg Tinubu.

The scene is crazy familiar. Tinubu won't calm Oshiomole because it will send a very wrong message to his very own camp. A good leader is brutal and decisive and will deal ruthlessly with an erring subordinate. That is how Tinubu has managed to remain powerful.

He is benevolent but also brutal when he wants to be. Obaseki should carry his black face away from our site and retire already.

yanabasee1:
Lol.... I'm actually using the gym.... I need to train to fight back....

Lol! I'd like to believe you're clowning at this point.

yanabasee1:
I've been raped by a girl before....The devil that was in her, had muscles.....

Sorry. I understand it is a sensitive issue. I just couldn't help it.

Perhaps you could get a pepper spray...

yanabasee1:
Can a man use it against female rapist??

Not sure men need one, particularly against A female rapist. I doubt one female can overpower a male and have her way.

Ishilove:
Kubotan?

Kubotan (sometimes erroneously spelled as kubaton or kobutan) is a genericized trademark for a self-defense keychain weapon developed by Sōke Takayuki Kubota in the late 1960s. It is typically no more than 5.5 inches (14 centimetres) long and about half an inch (1.25 centimetres) in diameter, slightly thicker or the same size as a marker pen. The material is usually of a hard high-impact plastic (e.g. Lexan). The body of the Kubotan is lined with six round grooves with a screw eye or swivel and split ring attachment at one end for keys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubotan

It is actually recommended because an attacker doesn't even know you're carrying something.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWdeFd4xN3o


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjhE3McGS4E

Ẹ pẹ̀lẹ́. You both should report him in the link below. The account number paid to and the name.


https://www.nairaland.com/3430558/scam-alert-dont-victim-updates/109#90154329

The surge in rape cases in the past one year in Nigeria is alarming that we might overtake countries such as South Africa (over 50,000 rape cases per year), the UK (85,000 per year) and India (90 per day, and over 300,000 per year) and other coutries currently leading the chart.

Nigeria was declared by Straitimes as being the the 9th most dangerous countries for women in 2018, even though sexual harrasment wasn't the parameter used.

Worse still is the fact that some rape cases are covered even with the police involved.

Below are some self defence tips against this scourge:

1. Please protect yourselves and let someone in on your whereabout at all time. If you go out to see a friend of the opposite sex, call someone in his presence to tell the person you're with him. No one likes to be monitored but this is better than being raped, brutalised and possibly killed in the process.

2. IT IS ILLEGAL TO OWN A PEPPER SPRAY, according to the NPF, but please GET ONE. They are sold on Jiji and some other places online. Better still, order one from foreign shopping sites. It is better you are arrested and whisked to a station with the rapist in pain than have the world or police ask you what you were doing around the place you got raped.

3. Get a Kubotan if possible. This can be bought on foreign stores.

4. Learn some basic rape self defence moves. There are so many videos on YouTube that are not even up to 10 minutes.

God protect you all.


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ashiwaju11:
Never heard of this. I'll do it right away. Thanks a stack!

You're welcome.

ashiwaju11:
Thank you Greengeek. I'll plan it for June.

You need not plan it for June. You can always get a free SSL.

Try "SSL for free" or just use Cloudfare to get free SSL for 10 years.

WPVault:
1. Elementor Page Builder

Elementor is as good as WPBakery. As a matter of fact, WPBakery is much robust than Elementor. Plus, this shouldn't even be on this list because not every blog require heavy modifications. At best, websites built on WP need page builders more than blogs.

So, except you're building a website using WordPress, you're not likely to need pagebuilders.

Plus, there's a limit to the level of customization you can make with pagebuilders, particularly if you're using the freemium version, and that includes the Elementor you referenced.

2. Yoast SEO

Yoast is good and one of the best SEO plugins as well as the most popular but AIOSEOP is a 100 times better than Yoast. The only area Yoast trumps AIOSEOP is with its add ons which are pricy.

There's always the option to choose between SEO plugins depending on what your niche is. Plus, Yoast is largely unstable no thanks to its everyday update.

For Publishers who want total SEO control, AIOSEOP is the choice SEO plugin between both.

However, for newbie publishers who are only starting out, Yoast is preferred.

3. WP Rocket

This is a premium-only plugin and I'm wondering why it is listed when there are free plugins to speed up your website.

Here, I'll recommend WP-Optimize over WP Rocket as it has a free version that does incredibly well and caches perfectly.

Relying on a plugin alone to cache your website is unwise. For publishers who value user experience, they know better than to serve their contents over a CDN.

A free CDN to use is Cloudflare. Not only will it allow you cache your website but also speed it up using Brotli, which is better than Gzip. Interestingly, Gzip is what WP Rocket uses in compressing files. So it is a win-win for anyone who uses Cloudflare and WP-Optimize as they will not only have to use it for free but also get the best out of them, performance-wise.

4. WordFence Security

The security of every site is crucial, particularly those built on WP. The premium version of Wordfence is more expensive compared to iThemes' but its free version works well tool. This is a go.

5. WP Smush

Smush has been known to harm websites than help them. Plus, the free version is greatly limited to a few things one can do.

It is notorious for making images disappear at some point. For bigger blogs with many contents, this can be a nightmare.

I'll recommend everyone to stay away from it, as much as possible. Upload or use images that will not stress your bandwidth, set their sizes appropriately and cache them.

This plugin is not essential, particularly when one sets up Cloudflare and WP-Optimize.

6. WP Schema

Schema is one of the thousand and one reasons why AIOSEOP is better than Yoast. It is integrated in the plugin. Of course, structured data and schema markups are becoming more and more necessary for SEO.

For those who aren't using AIOSEOP, you'll need either WP Schema, which is a premium plugin or Schema (free and can be downloaded in the plugin repository)

7. Easy Table of Contents

This is not an essential plugin.

8. WPForms Lite

There are so many forms plugin. The lite version of WPForms is limited. There are freemium contact forms and one of them is "Contact Forms by WPForms" and it is totally free.

9. MonsterInsights

Why use a plugin that only shows you a few things about your site's analytics when you can open a new tab and see all the limitless options on Google Analytics? This is not recommended.

10. UpdraftPlus

RECOMMENDED.

11. All 404 to HomePage

A good SEO plugin, particularly its pro version. Yoast SEO premium has a redirect feature when one deletes a post or a page.

12. Pretty Links Pro

This is not needed, particularly if you are not into affiliate marketing.

13. WP Mail SMTP

Needed when there are issues with sending mails from WordPress.

Most of the plugins are not essential plugins.

SarkinYarki:
Did he have guards with him on that day ?

Six NAF personnel with 79 rounds 5.56mm of live ammo. They fled like regular policemen and disposed their weapons illegally, possibly to claim they were not armed. Classic esprit de corps.

Below is what a 5.56mm looks like.

mamaafrik:
Stolen under or stolen by Abacha himself.
Oloshi,talk true

Buhari is a saint and Abacha is a bigger one. He was busy fixing Nigeria while the corrupt people within his regime stole and bled the nation as Abacha wasn't looking. Abacha is too godly to steal.

“These included their failure to perform military duties, by absconding from the convoy of the deceased former CDS, while it came under attack, as well as conduct to the prejudice of service discipline, for giving false statements.

“The charges against the accused also included other civil offences of criminal conspiracy and miscellaneous offences relating to property, for illegally disposing of 79 rounds of 5.56mm live ammunition issued for the protection of the late CDS, among others.

First the fled from the scene when they were attacked then illegally disposed of 79 rounds of live ammo. 79 rounds would have been more than enough to resist the attack and prevent the former Chief of Defence Staff from being killed but first they fled and then disposed of their weapons illegally.

The NAF have not told us the truth yet and are yet to reveal the person who called the hit on the former CoDS. They know what we don't.

A General Court Martial sitting in Abuja has jailed six Nigerian Air Force personnel, who were aides to the former Chief of Defence Staff, Late Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh.

The PUNCH reports that Badeh was shot dead in December 2018 by gunmen while on his way back from his farm.

The six air force personnel were on Friday awarded various sentences by the GCM which sat at the NAF Base, Bill Clinton Drive, Abuja.

According to the NAF in a release on Saturday morning by the Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, the convicted personnel are; Squadron Leader Tom Gwani, Flight Sergeant Amu David, Flight Sergeant Philemon Degema, Flight Sergeant Sabo Simon, Sergeant Mukhtar Abdullahi and Sergeant Alfred Alexander.

The NAF did not specify their jail terms but said four of the personnel were detailed to provide armed escort for the late CDS while the two others were detailed for guard duty at his house.

The PUNCH reports that on December 18, 2018, the former CDS was ambushed and killed by some gunmen on his way back from his farm along Gitata-Keffi Highway in Nasarawa State.

The Nigerian Police Force, operatives of the Department of State Services and the military had thereafter arrested about 14 suspects in connection with the murder, who confessed that they were on a robbery and kidnapping operation.

Daramola, in a release, on Friday, said, “Six NAF personnel, who were aides to the former CDS were awarded various sentences by the GCM sitting at the NAF Base, Bill Clinton Drive, Abuja.

“The personnel were standing trial for various offences. Delivering his judgment, the President of the GCM, Air Commodore David Aluku, pronounced the six accused personnel guilty of various charges.

“These included their failure to perform military duties, by absconding from the convoy of the deceased former CDS, while it came under attack, as well as conduct to the prejudice of service discipline, for giving false statements.

“The charges against the accused also included other civil offences of criminal conspiracy and miscellaneous offences relating to property, for illegally disposing of 79 rounds of 5.56mm live ammunition issued for the protection of the late CDS, among others.

“While pleading in mitigation, the Defence Counsels urged the court to show leniency, describing the accused persons as first time offenders. The sentences were announced as being subject to confirmation by the Appropriate Superior Authority.”

https://punchng.com/breaking-murder-court-jails-six-naf-personnel-attached-to-ex-cds-badeh/



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