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Programming › Re: Java Programming For Dummies by sbucareer(f): 12:57pm On Jul 09, 2006

Let start by defining what is web application?
Web application is a mixture of several technologies. In java web application includes but not limited to

1. HTML
2. CSS
3. Javascript
4. Script Language (In this particular instance Java)
5. Database (We will be using MySQL)
6. Graphics
7. Movies (Flash/Fireworks/Photoshop)

Web applications are accessed by users through various means, but the primary method is the web browser. Many web applications can be accessed through mobile phones, and users with impaired vision can use screen-readers which interpret text as sounds.

Like many programs you need a compiler to compile the source code and run the bytecode. In web application there are two ways this is done.

1. If the page has a dynamic content, i.e. some programming language in the page, it is compiled at the server side, that is why we need a web container. Java converts the Java code into HTML and send it across the network to the user browser. The browser on the second hand compiles the HTML to what we see as visual presentation of website pages.

Web application is the same as desktop application in terms of what they offer. But there are some glittering differences. Both solves problems for end users. You can use web application to solve lots of business solutions, ranging from simple tax return calculation to complex Enterprise Resource Planning. Either one you will need to understand business roles and complex data structure of a programming language.

Java offers this rare unique opportunity by providing well known standardized API and simple Classes to aid with development of Java related application.

Programming › Re: Java Programming For Dummies by sbucareer(f): 12:01pm On Jul 09, 2006

h4rdc0d3d, with your algorithm I can tell you are fairly good Java programmer thanks for the contribution. You know the law of supply and demand. It would be waste of resource if supply is greater to demand.

Besides, since people here are generally web application developers, I'd say to digress to web application development. It will still be Java thread but focusing mainly on web application using Jakarta tomcat as our web container.

Then we will start learning JSP, Servlet, JSF, Javabean, CSS, HTML and JDBC. I have realize that people, particularly in Nairaland do not like desktop application development.

I used Swing as my early tutorial to acquaint newbie to Java programming. Now I want to try web app.

Politics › Re: Major Gideon Orkar`s Coup Speech by sbucareer(f): 3:14am On Jul 09, 2006

May his soul rest in peace. May God almighty forgive him all of his sins and give him everlasting rest. I never knew that Major Gideon Orkar had a focal view for Nigerians during the COUP D'ETAT in 1990.

I remembered then, because we had to leave school, and travelled back to the village. This is the first time I am reading his speech. He saw the vision that I am seeing now, he wanted to correct Nigeria but Nigeria killed him.

After 16 years, what he wanted to fight for still curse us today. All Nigerians are cold prik including me. We can never progress untill we all stand up and fight for our country, for us and our children and our un-born children.

Like Gideon said, we need to excise some people from the face of the earth for Nigeria to move on. We need law and order, strategic thinkers, good political structure and give power to the press.

Computers › Re: Ntldr Missing? by sbucareer(f): 1:31am On Jul 09, 2006

NTLDR, Short for NT Loader, a program loaded from the hard drive boot sector that displays the Microsoft Windows NT startup menu and helps Windows NT load.

The cause of the problem may be one of these:

1. New hard disk drive being added.
2. Corrupt boot sector / master boot record.
3. Seriously corrupted version of Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
4. Corrupt NTLDR and/or NTDETECT.COM file.
5. Misconfiguration with the boot.ini file.
6. Attempting to upgrade from a Windows 95, 98, or ME computer that is using FAT32.
7. Loose or Faulty IDE/EIDE hard disk drive cable.
8. Computer is booting from a non-bootable source.
9. Computer hard disk drive is not properly setup in BIOS.

Solutions

Your computer is booting from a non-bootable source. This error has also been known to occur when a memory stick is in a card reader and the computer is attempting to boot from it. If you have any type of card reader or flash reader make sure that no memory stick is inside the computer.

Computer hard disk drive is not properly setup in BIOS. Verify that your computer hard disk drive is properly setup in the BIOS / CMOS setup. Improper settings can cause this error

Corrupt NTLDR and/or NTDETECT.COM file

Windows 2000 users
Windows XP users

Windows 2000 users

If your computer is using Microsoft Windows 2000 and you are encountering the NTLDR error. Create the below boot.ini file on the floppy diskette drive.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microso ft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

Copy the NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM files from another computer using the same Operating System. Both of these files are located in the root directory of the primary hard disk drive. For example C:\NTLDR and C:\NTDETECT.COM should be the locations of these files on many computers.

Please keep in mind that these files are hidden system files. Once these files have been copied to a floppy diskette reboot the computer and copy the NTLDR and NTDETECT.COM files to the root directory of the primary hard disk drive. Below is an example of what commonly should be performed from the A:\> drive.

copy ntldr c:
copy ntdetect.com c:

After the above two files have been copied, remove the floppy diskette and reboot the computer.

Windows XP users

Insert the Windows XP bootable CD into the computer.
When prompted to press any key to boot from the CD, press any key.
Once in the Windows XP setup menu press the "R" key to repair Windows.
Log into your Windows installation by pressing the "1" key and pressing enter.
You will then be prompted for your administrator password, enter that password.
Copy the below two files to the root directory of the primary hard disk. In the below example we are copying these files from the CD-ROM drive letter "E". This letter may be different on your computer.

copy e:\i386\ntldr c:\
copy e:\i386\ntdetect.com c:\

Once both of these files have been successfully copied, remove the CD from the computer and reboot.
Misconfiguration with the boot.ini file

Edit the boot.ini on the root directory of the hard disk drive and verify that it is pointing to the correct location of your Windows Operating System and that the partitions are properly defined.

Corrupt boot sector / master boot record.

It's possible your computer's hard disk drive may have a corrupt boot sector and/or master boot record. These can be repaired through the Microsoft Windows Recovery console by running the fixboot and fixmbr commands.

Loose or Faulty IDE/EIDE hard disk drive cable

This issue has been known to be caused by a loose or fault IDE/EIDE cable. If the above recommendation does not resolve your issue and your computer hard disk drive is using a IDE or EIDE interface. Verify the computer hard disk drive cable is firmly connected by disconnected and reconnecting the cable.

If the issue continues it is also a possibility that the computer has a faulty cable, try replacing the hard disk drive cable with another cable and/or a new cable."

Finally, if all failed, buy a new PC.

Programming › Re: Any Nigerian Women In Programming? by sbucareer(f): 1:11am On Jul 09, 2006

Most of the women I know and work with don't really like Programming not that they can't program but find it very hard to keep cracking their brain, which is what programming is.

Most women I know works in QA (Quality Assurance) department. These are the testers, we the programmers create the bugs, they find it and fix it before software goes life deployment, incase you do not know what QA was.

In the UK, I will say half of the women in IT are QA's and Oracle DBA. Most of them are Nigerians. But many of them were born British. Anyway, I'd like to see a serious Nigeria female in corelation to IT in the IT forum of Nairaland living and working in Nigeria.

Programming › Re: Java Programming For Dummies by sbucareer(f): 11:16am On Jul 08, 2006

Use this Java site.

Technology Market › Re: Where Can I Get A Free Laptop? by sbucareer(f): 10:21am On Jul 07, 2006

Talkman, I have a laptop that I bought in 1998, windows 98 with original CDs. All is working perfectly. I do not use it anymore because I use a newer Intel Centrino running XP Pro.

I can send it to you if you send me your address. If the package is more that £20 you will have to meet me half way with finance.

The specs

Intel Celeron 800MB
HD: 5GB
Memory: 128MB
OS: Windows 98
Charger: 1
Car Charger: 1
USB Port: 1 X 2
Infrared: Yes
Serial/Parallel Port: Yes
Make: Trident

I think at the moment I have Ubuntu OS installed in it. But I will send you the original backup CD. Also I have an old Nokia phone, Model: 3100. The problem with the Nokia phone is where you put the SIM card, the clip is broken I know you can fix it in Nigeria.

If you want them let me know. But like I said I can only afford £20 shippment to Nigeria if it will cost more I will let you know you can send me a western union for the remaining cost. Like people told you nothing in life is free, but I felt sorry for you and these equipment are just here doing nothing, you might as well put it in good use.

God bless you. People I do not have anymore so don't even ask.

Programming › Re: Help On C# by sbucareer(f): 9:50am On Jul 07, 2006

Wasn't that a little hashcode, Cactus?

Webmasters › Re: Which Website Can I Get Good Tutorials On Web Design? by sbucareer(f): 9:38am On Jul 07, 2006

Finally, to learn web application development using java, start with tomcat container, don't jump into any complicated containers like JBoss, BEA etc.

Download Jakarta tomcat from here. Choose your development platform, I used Unix because my platform is Fedora but you can choose Windows for your platform.

Install it on your machine or host, open up a web browser i.e. Internet Explorer or Firefox then type this http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 Note, during installation change the port number to 80 from either 8080 or 8181.

The more you know computer the more you would understand what is port. Port is a particular route to an application. Beacause Internet application is vast i.e. email, web app, ftp, http, imap, smtp, htomail chat and yahoo chat etc. all these application uses the same IP to route message to one computer on the Internet/Intranet. If a packet arrived to a host with

Source address: 87.2.13.9.231
Destination address 192.32.1.3.98
Message Header: CF:88:S9:00:FF:55:11

Without port information the destination host would not be able to identify the requesting application but imagine the packet arrived with this info

Source address: 87.2.13.9.231
Source Port: 8081
Destination address 192.32.1.3.98
Message Header: CF:88:S9:00:FF:55:11
Destination Port: 80

Immediately the OS (Operating System) knows that the packet is destined to a web server engine and the packet is transfered.

Port is very important in networking. As a web developer you need to understand a little bit of networking, not necessary Network guru but enough to allow you develop a network related web application.

Google definition of Port

1) A system or network access point for data entry or exit. (2) A connector on a device to which cables for other devices such as display stations and printers are attached. (3) The representation of a physical connection to the link hardware. A port is sometimes referred to as an adapter; however, there can be more than one port on an adapter. One or more ports are controlled by a single data link control (DLC) process. ,
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Webmasters › Re: Which Website Can I Get Good Tutorials On Web Design? by sbucareer(f): 8:27am On Jul 07, 2006

Web development for Java. Java has many technologies, the ones you should be interested in regarding web application development would be:

1. JSP (Java Server Page)
2. Servlet
3. Javabeans
4. Java Web container (Apache Tomcat)

Java Server Page (JSP) is a technology for controlling the content or appearance of Web pages through the use of servlets, small programs that are specified in the Web page and run on the Web server to modify the Web page before it is sent to the user who requested it. Sun Microsystems, the developer of Java, also refers to the JSP technology as the Servlet application program interface (APO). JSP is comparable to Microsoft's Active Server Page (ASP ) technology.

The Java Servlet APO allows a software developer to add dynamic content to a web server using the Java platform. The generated content is commonly HTML, but may be other data such as XML. Serviles are the Java counterpart to dynamic web content technologies such as CG or ASP. It has the ability to maintain state after many server transactions. This is done using HTTP Cookies, session variables or URL rewriting.

A reusable component that can be used in any Java application development environment. JavaBeans are dropped into an application container, such as a form, and can perform functions ranging from a simple animation to complex calculations.

Tomcat, the first reference container for hosting Java dynamic contents that runs on Sun MicroSystems technologies, for example Java. It comes with a HTTP/HTTPS server and could be used to deploy a real life web application. You can use Tomcat to design and run Enterprise Resource Management (ERM/ERP)

See tutorials for JSP here
See tutorials for Servlet here
See tutorials for Javabean here
See tutorials for Tomcat here

There are other containers now that you can use to develop and design java web application. i.e. JBoss, Sun Application Server, BEA, WebLogic, IBM web Sphere, Oracle 10g, Resin etc. Remember that these are powerful application servers that is built to handle J2EE framework using Java

Programming › Re: Oracle Vs Sql Server by sbucareer(f): 9:18pm On Jul 06, 2006

It be interesting to know where you got that knowledge from that JAMB and MTN uses Access and sequel server respectively smartsoft, but sometimes you can find out the database engine an organization use if their developers had developed a sloppy code that do not have a generic fault page.

Some sites, when their database server is down you will see an error message like could not connect to mysql server etc.

Smartsoft, when you said SQL Server do you really mean sequel server? Access by no means have the transaction capability and online capability like pooling manager and thread management. It is really for a very small application that two or three clients are going to use.

If you use Access for web app development, you will suffer these issues:

1. Deadlock
2. Synchronization problem
3. Poor Pool Management
4. Poor DML/DDL Management
5. Poor SQL

These are very serious issues with Access database, deadlock is an inter-blocking that occurs when two processes want to access a shared variables mutually locked by other processes.

Synchronization in database is the mechanism that controls how shared variables enter the critical region.

POOL Management, coordinates how the database engine manage multiple users by creating a pool of database object.

DML, Data Manipulation Language, believe Access do not have a every strong DML, i.e. triggers, besides the conceptual layer is kept secret from users due to its proprietary nature, so no one can really ascertain the nature of their Algorithm.

Like many serious database engines, they have their own SQL, like Oracle uses PL/SQL, Sequel server use Transact-SQL. However, all of these variations are based upon the industry standard ANSI SQL.

The reason MS invented sequel server was Access inability to cope with these issues above.

Finally, Access do not have rich DDL, which could be the main basis a database engine could be popular to the rest.

Programming › Re: Oracle Vs Sql Server by sbucareer(f): 9:07am On Jul 06, 2006

In case you were wondering what is Oracle 10g. It is Oracle new software suite that encompasses database server 10.x, oracle application server/http server and web server engine that leverage time taken to setup these environments for web/enterprise application deployment.

In summary, it is only a big software that when downloaded and installed on any supported platform, you have all the necessary software and engine needed to develop and deploy web/enterprise application. The new 10.5g comes with jdeveloper, which is a powerfull integrated IDE for developing application and web application including database query or PL/SQL and UML etc

See Oracle site

Programming › Re: B2b Web-based Fulfilment Service by sbucareer(op): 2:14pm On Jul 05, 2006

Clocky, read the requirement specification above. It is the acquisition of web market. The software will address issues like transport, warehousing, payment and delivery.

Imagine you want a Mercedes Benz C180 2006 Model, our web market will address buying, payment and delivery to your house anywhere in the world.

Programming › Re: Oracle Vs Sql Server by sbucareer(f): 1:29am On Jul 05, 2006

smartsoft, I don't particularly use SQL Server and wouldn't know much about its engine. I know that MS is not sleeping and must have provided some powerful features with their new SQL Server.

But oracle has done tremendous changes to their SQL Server. They have introduced new SQL language called PL/SQL that helps DBA to write efficient DML and automate processes with the Database engine.

Oracle has combined their database engine with Client/Server Application Server called Oracle 10g. Enterprise Web applications or ERP infrastructure comes in combination of:

1. Application server
2. Web Server/HTTP server
3. Database Server

Oracle is the most popular solution to this end. It is also recommended by FSA (Financial Services Authority) that controls the use and policies governing public funds and Banks in the UK.

Beside that it employs open source because it uses Java as their middleware solution and employ J2EE/JEE for their Enterprise application architecture.

SQL Server is and always a proprietary software like every other MS products. Their licence is very expensive but their benefit comes from the support MS renders its user i.e. patches and other bug/virus related issues. Bug and virus also makes MS very unpopular in commercial sector.

Remember that MS only build soft wares for Win32 API only, because of it proprietary policy. Oracle 10g has got every version of the 10g on different platform.

I am not an anti MS just that, I and millions of people out there believe that information should be available free of charge.

Career › Re: My IT Career Is Dying. Save Me Now! by sbucareer(f): 1:30am On Jul 04, 2006

Bossman thanks, that is what I was suppose to say Harvard University not Haword. Thanks for pointing this out. Also note that Paul Allen is the co-founder of MicroSoft and he studied Computer Science at Harvard University.

Programming › Re: Software Development On Java by sbucareer(f): 8:20pm On Jul 01, 2006

Gridlock, also there is a software called JexePack it can help you to convert your java files into a native executable WIN32 32bits application.

But why do you want to do that? How much would it cost a user to install a JRE on their machine? Mind you, you don't need the JSDK. You only need the Java Runtime Environment.

When you finish developing your application, package them in .jar by issuing the following command. Here is a tutorial

java -cp whatever.jar -Dsome.property MyApp

When you have successfully created a jar file and make sure your provide the class with the main method to execute it thread upon double click, there you have it.

Double click your jar file your program will startup. You can create a shortcut to desktop and assign the jar file an icon.

Remember, to run a desktop apps, you ONLY need the JRE. If you are a developer you will need the JSDK. Some clever application will try to connect to internet and download a JRE for you if it cannot find a local JRE. So, for novice they do not need to do any thing.

If it was a software that need installing, the JRE will be installed automatically if it cannot find any local JRE or the proper version.

Career › Re: My IT Career Is Dying. Save Me Now! by sbucareer(f): 7:50pm On Jul 01, 2006

basin4u, don't be offended by parosky comment. But quite frankly Parosky is very right. When I was reading the thread I thought it was something to do with French or Spanish typo.

I know English is not our first language, but to be competitive in life you'd sand out from the crowd. It will not do any harm if English Language isn't your first language and you are struggling, to take extra classes to improve in our written and spoken English Language.

People always refer to Mr Bill Gates when it comes to computer, Mr Gate was a Geek and still is today. He studied Mathematics at Howard University when he came second and decided that someone else was better than him in Mathematics. He always believe that in whatever he does that he wanted to be the best, he did not want to settle for second.

He pulled out of Math school and meet Paul Allen who was going to change his life forever. In retrospect Mr Gate was highly intelligent guy. He score 800/800 in his SAT Test.

In the UK intelligent is measured in correlation to your command of England Language. To be honest the way you speak is the way you think. Because everything you speak MUST be processed by your thinking faculty. That is why mad people talk rubbish. Their thinking faculty is damaged.

If you speak and write very good English the possibility that you would be very clever is there.

Programming › Re: Ccna Certification by sbucareer(f): 6:55pm On Jun 30, 2006

[s]Send me your email address to [email=valentine.obih@gmail.com?sbuject=CCNA]gmail[/email]. I will need to upload the file to your email. Make sure you have available 9MB space on your email host.[/s]

Programming › Re: Web Based Software Vs Standalone Solution by sbucareer(f): 9:34am On Jun 30, 2006

A web-based application should be one that runs over the world wide web, which is built on the Internet.

Your definition is flawed. Here is a definition from google search. In software engineering, a web application is an application delivered to users from a web server over a network such as the World Wide Web or an intranet. Web applications are popular due to the ubiquity of the web browser as a client, sometimes called a thin client. The ability to update and maintain web applications without distributing and installing software on potentially thousands of client computers is a key reason for their popularity [url=http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+web+application&meta=]1[/url]

I have already said this and your concept of delivering web application over the world wide web was just one medium. Web application MUST not only be delivered over the web.

We can use:

1. Internet
2. Intranet
3. Extranet
4. SMS
5. WAP
6. JINI
7. ATM
8. P2P
9. CHAP
10. etc

Computers › Re: Technology Services by sbucareer(f): 10:57pm On Jun 29, 2006

Your first task is to find a friend from Nairaland that live near you or other part of the world, decided upon yourselfs to do this by trying to login into one other computer without using a third party software. Use windows Net use and IP address. Don't try and hack each other IP, just exchange IP's and create a shared folder you can hack.

If you can do that you are on your way up. Now try to learn how to physically connect two PC to talk to each other. Don't use DHCP. Use static IP and always provide the gateway and subnet mask.

If you do not know these things do google search. Don't let people spoon feed you. I might be lying to you, how would you know? So always do your own research.

Finally, try to bridge one network into two different network. Try and find how many PC is allowed on a single network segment?

Man, read and read and ask questions here that is why this forum exists.

Computers › Re: Technology Services by sbucareer(f): 10:46pm On Jun 29, 2006

Bolaji4349 is right but for those of you who do not have that financial luxury of having 10 - 15 Pc and couple of network devices i.e. router, switch, repeater, modem etc.

All you have to do is to hack windows 95. If you can hack windows 95, you are half way already. You cannot just wake up one morning and become a Network Engineer just by listening to Bolaji4349. He has said it all, you need some serious network at home, and that is the bottom line.

To learn Network Engineer, you should be able to:

1. Build a PC (Not only building a PC, know the different chipsets i.e. the difference between DIMM and SIMM, FSB, MHz, Transistor, insulator, capacitor, Hard drive what is RPM when we talk about hard drive, controllers, PSU etc.

2. Physically over clock your CPU and tell us the difference. Can you access the CPU cache memory? Can you access the main memory, RAM?

3. When you delete a hard drive (empty). and pop in an installation disk or floppy why do the PC automatically execute installation wizard?

4. What is POST in computer and CMOS, not just their meaning but their purpose in computer

These are the little but important things you should know. How does OS (Operatring System) seats on top of PC? What is conventional, high and extended memory?

5. File partition, FAT, FAT32, NTFS, etc. what are these, can I write my own FAT

Now, try and hack window 95, I keep saying window 95 because that is the OS that brought about networking.

Ask yourself if i want to call someone on the phone, how do I do that? First you need that person phone number, this is networking already but you do not know.

To communicate with another computer is like placing a call, you'd need that persons phone number. In computer phone number is replaced by IP (Internet Protocol)

This is not the only communication channel in computer, just that it is very popular and supported by large application and software.

Also try and read disadvantages of IP. We have others like

1. UDP
2. IPX
3. Netbeui
4. NetBOLLIX
5. NetBIOS
6. AppleTalk
7. TCP

And lot of other protocol. Why some Network Engineers make money to others is that they know how to configure lots of these protocol to communicate with each other on the same network or disperse network.

You only need to know how they work, the code and program is embedded in the network device so you rarely see these things. But you must know how to program there interface.

Look at Internet for example it is a one big network that is controlled by nobody. Every protocol must talk to each other and yet maintain security and accommodate new ones.

When you buy a PC and connect to the Internet you are simply joining the network. So if you can do that you can do the work Bolaji4349 is doing.

All those technologies he said he knew MUST communicate with the network or internet in some form and MUST use some communication protocol. I am impressed with his achievements at the age of 24 but you can do better.

So start hacking windows 95 and good luck. Nobody can EVER teach you, your profession. Is either you know it or you don't, and knowing it requires hard work and enthusiasm.

Romance › Re: [poll] Would You Prefer to Marry a Virgin? by sbucareer(f): 11:11am On Jun 29, 2006

whats this world coming to?

It is coming to shait!!!

Programming › Re: Web Based Software Vs Standalone Solution by sbucareer(f): 3:50pm On Jun 28, 2006

Seun, how much does a CAL for Window XP ofiice Pro for 20 users cost? Also, while at it how much does Volume License for Window XP Pro deployed on say 20 PC's cost?

Don't wast time to answer this question. Because as a network admin you should know. Please Niraland people when you visit any internet cafee, do me a favour and ask these questions to their network admin.

I will finish this post later

Programming › Re: Software Development On Java by sbucareer(f): 3:35pm On Jun 28, 2006

Gridlock, coming to standalone apps, it is equally important to grasp and understand swings. If I am developing web application for generally public comsuption, I'd use web apps. If the admin need to administer the web apps like view all orders, inventory, cancel order, process payments etc. I will not design a web apps version of it, if the customer is security conscience.

Why? The web apps would use request protocol via http protocol and making use of or calling the Remote beans object. Whilst the desktop for admin will use RMI/RPC protocol via COBRA making use of Local bean objects.

Remember you can NEVER access a Local bean object from remote location, this is one of the JVM security. That way either someone break into the company and hack the PC and desktop app password to cancel order or approve credit card process.

You see the use is quite disperse. The bottom line is that you could be in a greater opportunity to learn web app and desktop app together using Java technologies

Programming › Re: Software Development On Java by sbucareer(f): 3:25pm On Jun 28, 2006

Sorry Gridlock, I am just seeing your post now. Java/C/C++ are very good language for embedded systems. The best is C/C++ because of its nature of being closest to machine interface i.e. binary and electrical impulses.

Saying that, Java always need an interpreter, the JVM (Java Virtual Marchine), which is just isn't anything complicated. If you are planning of using Java as an embedded system, we have java for SDN and a little tutorial on java embedded systems.

Why java was built to need an interpreter was to solve portability and other issues faced by C/C++. When you develop a C/C++ embedded system, to modify them would involve reserve engineering, which is very costly.

Embedded systems are signal oriented, all the application running inside the systems needs is, the signal like TV remote control. Embedded system is quite different because you have to work with the initial design of the hardware, providing all the input/outputs ports for integration.

You can use Java to build you or web server, save it on a CD-ROM/DVD-ROM and develop all your fanstatic web pages and deploy them with a Read only media. The read only media i.e. DVD-ROM is the system all you do is embed (burn) your application and server into it.

Java could be used for virtually any application I can think on earth, but it might not fully solve that particular problem effectively, but submit your issues with Java forum some guru will develop all the API you need for your apps, is that not fantastic.

Romance › Re: [poll] Would You Prefer to Marry a Virgin? by sbucareer(f): 2:39pm On Jun 28, 2006

dayopaul, well said!!! I back your argument

Programming › Re: Web Based Software Vs Standalone Solution by sbucareer(f): 12:39pm On Jun 28, 2006

So to send a request to another server even in Mars could not have take all your bandwidth, I know that distance plays important role in data/voice communication, the distance issues are been dealt with by the use of satellite high fiber optic cables buried in the sea and gigantic repeater as big as a car for attenuation problems.

Data communication is very fast and cheap these days, I know the case maybe different in Nigeria. Someone told me that Nigeria IT companies have start rolling out fibres and broadband and baseband service very soon in Nigeria bandwidth will be the story of this early millennium.

Even credit cards that was issued in America or UK, when using them in Nigeria it only takes few seconds for authorization and yet it uses data communication to connect to the central server.

Programming › Re: Web Based Software Vs Standalone Solution by sbucareer(f): 12:25pm On Jun 28, 2006

The IP packet header consists of 20 bytes of data. An option exists within the header that allows further optional bytes to be added, but this is not normally used, with the occasional exception of something called "Router Alert". The full header is shown below:

You see the http IP-based packet only weight 20bytes, and splits all the large messages into series of IP-based packet to the host destination. Remember that IT/ICT is Telecommunication. When you call someone from Nigeria to say America how long does it take you to hear that person say hello? Yet, the same technology is used to transmite voice-data. Voice data is even more larger than IP-based packets. That is why you must have a dedicated phone number, to open a dedicated connection to the other person.

Why do you think that IP-based telephone is cheaper? Because they use IP-based technology. Packets from one host is scattered all over the internet and miraculously assembles itself back at the destination host machine/device.

Programming › Re: Collection Of Nigerian Programming Gurus by sbucareer(f): 11:27pm On Jun 27, 2006

SMS gateway is generally not free. But the fantastic news is that you can develop your SMS gateway. but would cost you some money.

There are many fantastic SMS tariffs out there but could not give you one on top of my head at the moment. Re-education me of your project idea again, I might come up with alternate way for you. In the UK SMS gateway for internet business seem to be very uneffective due to late payment and processing time.

Programming › Re: Collection Of Nigerian Programming Gurus by sbucareer(f): 11:07pm On Jun 27, 2006

ROSCODADDY, how are you? Hope fine. I was really busy and still busy, just that I have got three weeks off from work, which I have spend one week already.

How is your project? I am online till 1am today, I have a dentis appointment tomorrow.

Programming › Re: Collection Of Nigerian Programming Gurus by sbucareer(f): 10:51pm On Jun 27, 2006

Also if you are interested in these sort of films, see below

1. Hackers 1995

Synopsis
In this high-tech thriller, Dade Murphy (Jonny Lee Miller) has been fascinated with computers all his life; at the age of 11, he was able to break into the computer network of several top Wall Street investment and banking firms, and he nearly caused a major stock market crash in the process. As punishment, Dade was forbidden to use a computer until his 18th birthday, but now that he's of age, he's diving back into his PC head first. Dade meets up with a group of fellow hackers: tough-talking cyber gamer Kate, aka Acid Burn (Angelina Jolie), junior hacker Jesse Bradford, born prankster Cereal Killer (Matthew Lillard), Nikon (Lawrence Mason), named for his photographic memory, and telephone expert Phantom Phreak (Renoly Santiago). Dade and his pals aren't out to destroy systems or do cybercrime for profit; they simply want to know more about the systems they encounter, and they like raising some good-natured havoc. But in their travels through cyberspace, they discover The Plague (Fisher Stevens), a former hacker turned computer security expert with a huge multinational corporation. The Plague has not only done the unthinkable and gone into anti-hacker enforcement, he's secretly allied himself with a group of criminals and is using his expertise to drain funds from corporate bank accounts and transfer them to himself and his mistress, Margo (Lorraine Bracco). The Plague is also smart enough to leave clues that would lead investigators to someone else -- in this case, Dade and his friends -- and has a secret weapon at his disposal, a computer virus that could wipe out the entire world wide web in a matter of minutes. Several sequences for Hackers were shot at New York City's Stuyvesant High School, where coincidentally several months after filming, several students were arrested by F.B.I. agents for their involvement in computer hacking. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

2. Sneaker 1992

Synopsis
In this tech-thriller from director Phil Alden Robinson, a group of five renegade computer hackers, led by Martin Bishop (Robert Redford), are hired by the government to steal a black box, containing a code-breaking machine, from the mathematician who invented the device. The government is able to persuade Martin to take the job by convincing him that they will drop a decades-old federal warrant for his involvement in computer fraud. Martin agrees and he takes his team on the mission, eventually taking the box. Shortly after the hackers have stolen the device, the mathematician turns up dead. Before long, the quintet realize that they've gotten themselves into more than they'd originally bargained for, as Bishop's old rival Cosmo (Ben Kingsley) enters into the fold. The eclectic ensemble also includes River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, Dan Aykroyd, David Strathairn, Mary McDonnell, and James Earl Jones. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide

3. Johnny Mnemonic 1995

Synopsis
In a near-future world in which the fast-paced digital lifestyle has given rise to a worldwide plague called Nerve Attenuation Syndrome, Johnny (Keanu Reeves), a data courier, accepts an assignment that he hopes will allow him to pay for the restoration of the childhood memories he dumped in order to outfit his brain with the microchip necessary for him to carry out his profession. Narrowly escaping a Yakuza ambush in which his employers are killed and the mnemonic trigger capable of unlocking the data in his brain is partially destroyed, Johnny travels from Beijing to New Jersey, where he hopes to recover the data before "neural seepage" destroys his mind. Teaming up with would-be bodyguard Jane (Dina Meyer) and a rebel group known as the LoTeks who live in an abandoned bridge, he tries to outrun the assassins of mysterious businessman Takahashi (Beat Takeshi Kitano) -- and the Street Preacher (Dolph Lundgren), a bionic madman. Along the way, he meets a mysterious electronic entity, a sentient dolphin, and Spider (Henry Rollins), a cybernetics expert, all of whom attempt, with various degrees of success, to learn why the data in Johnny's head is so important. Science fiction author William Gibson's original short story Johnny Mnemonic helped usher in the age of cyberpunk when it appeared in Omni magazine in 1981; it later appeared in the collection Burning Chrome (alongside the story that provided the basis for Abel Ferrara's New Rose Hotel). Although Gibson himself wrote the screenplay for Johnny Mnemonic, the film diverges considerably from the story. Molly Mirrors, a recurring character in Gibson's fiction, was replaced by the figure of Jane to fend off licensing conflicts with any future film version of Neuromancer, the author's most celebrated novel. Other plot elements -- most notably the LoTeks' bridge habitat -- were borrowed from later Gibson fiction such as the novel Virtual Light. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide

4. WarGames 1983

Synopsis
Once more, a wise-guy teenager tries to prove he's smarter than any adult-and nearly destroys the whole world in the process-in WarGames. Computer-game aficionado Matthew Broderick inadverently taps into a hush-hush Pentagon computer, then proceeds to inaugurate his favorite game, "Global Thermonuclear War". What we know, but Broderick doesn't, is that the Pentagon, hoping to eliminate the chancy "human element" in the event of an actual war, has given its computer total, irreversable control over the launching of nuclear weaponry. Broderick and government official Dabney Coleman race against time to reverse the computer's resolve to send bombers to Russia. WarGames scored a hit, especially with teenage filmgoers. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

5. Swordfish 2001

Synopsis
Director Dominic Sena follows up his stylish action film Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) with this high-tech thriller. John Travolta stars as Gabriel Shear, a charismatic spy who plots to steal a multi-billion-dollar fortune in illegal government funds. In order to make his scheme work, however, Gabriel needs some help from a computer hacker, which is where Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman) comes in. Stanley has been paroled from prison after serving a lengthy sentence for penetrating the FBI's cyber-surveillance operations. Issued a restraining order that keeps him away from computers and living penniless in a trailer park, Stanley wants only to be reunited with his daughter Holly, who's in the custody of his ex-wife, now remarried to a pornographer. Gabriel and his partner Ginger (Halle Berry) offer Stanley the chance to get his child back in exchange for his help, but the hacker soon realizes he's a pawn in a larger operation than the high-tech bank heist he thought he was perpetrating. In the meantime, a dedicated federal agent (Don Cheadle), the same man who once arrested Stanley, is trying to expose Gabriel's operation. Swordfish also stars Sam Shepard and Zach Grenier. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

Programming › Re: Collection Of Nigerian Programming Gurus by sbucareer(f): 11:44pm On Jun 26, 2006

When you find that Milla person what are you doing to do with him? I have seen that film about two or three years ago.

The film is intriguing, the power of open source. Synopsis was the programming node that controls a big giant software company, and Milla brought the firm down after they killed his university friend and offer him a job at the giant software company, little did the CEO know that Milla was a big time hacker with the digital underworld menace.

My friend, it seems like you believe whatever you see and watch on TV. Milla is based on a movie ANTITRUST. Be realistic and find someone with php or asp skill and get on with your life

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